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 bubber wrote:
Worth mentioning that the new Space Marine force (£140) contains £176 worth of minis - ie an actual saving of money!

The boxed sets like that have been having built in savings. It is only the "one-click bundles" that don't have savings.

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
I think that would depend very much on how easy it is to leave off/remove the character figures without spoiling the area of the beast that they're attached to.

Well if that's the case I can resculpt the top part if needed. It takes some practice but Green Stuff is the way to go.

Hard to really see, but it looks like it may not be too hard to build Ghurk sans Ethrac and Otto.

While I'm not as blown away by the Glotkin as some others are (frankly I'd rather it was just a GUO rather than a not-GUO to make sure people by the new unit, rather than choose to buy it because it's awesome looking) I have to say kudos to whoever painted the GW display model, painting large organic shapes like that is not easy.

I'm liking the YouTube painting tutorials for the Maggoth Lords. Really helpful for doing large monsters like those.

 bubber wrote:
Worth mentioning that the new Space Marine force (£140) contains £176 worth of minis - ie an actual saving of money!

Almost $300USD for 20 miniatures (okay, three are larger things). Savings or not, that's beyond ridiculous. That comes to (looking at generic options) 785 points, roughly half of a normal sized army, which would be almost $600 for a regular force, so just shy of $750 with the rules and a codex for a normal sized army.



If that was half the price it's listed for, it's be a great buy and I might actually have bought it. Although that's offtopic for this particular thread...

It says there's rules for Chaos Legions in the book, I'm guessing that's combining Warriors, Beasts and Daemons?

If there's an elf book dyou think they'll do Wood, High and Dark elves combined? I'd love to do a huge monster army with dragons, Hydras, Treemen, Karibdyss, etc

WayneTheGame wrote:

 bubber wrote:
Worth mentioning that the new Space Marine force (£140) contains £176 worth of minis - ie an actual saving of money!

Almost $300USD for 20 miniatures (okay, three are larger things). Savings or not, that's beyond ridiculous. That comes to (looking at generic options) 785 points, roughly half of a normal sized army, which would be almost $600 for a regular force, so just shy of $750 with the rules and a codex for a normal sized army.



If that was half the price it's listed for, it's be a great buy and I might actually have bought it. Although that's offtopic for this particular thread...

You might want to check you nation flag on the site.

The new SM strikeforce looks nice, but I’m not sure how well it stacks up vs. the old one. Hopefully they will keep both in print, so people can choose. The price is just $5 different, so I’m not sure why they made it.

With both you get:
Drop pod
Razorback
Tactical squad
Dread (Venerable in the old box, normal in the new)

With the old you also got:
Another Tac squad
Sniper scouts
Assault marines
Command Squad
Multi-part captain

With the new box you get:
Stormtalon
Sternguard
Mono-pose captain w/c-grav

While the new kit has a better quality of minis (sternguard being very good, talon being a solid fighter) the captain is stuck with a kinda meh wargear load. And you are looking at a vehicle plus 6 minis, vs. 26 minis in the old set. I think the overpriced nature of the sternguard and plastic captain ($50 and $30) detract from the playability of the box. They fill the same role as the older, but more resonably priced command squad and multi-captain ($35 and $22)

That said, both the old and new boxes complement each other, and would make a nice army together.

 silent25 wrote:

WayneTheGame wrote:

 bubber wrote:
Worth mentioning that the new Space Marine force (£140) contains £176 worth of minis - ie an actual saving of money!

Almost $300USD for 20 miniatures (okay, three are larger things). Savings or not, that's beyond ridiculous. That comes to (looking at generic options) 785 points, roughly half of a normal sized army, which would be almost $600 for a regular force, so just shy of $750 with the rules and a codex for a normal sized army.



If that was half the price it's listed for, it's be a great buy and I might actually have bought it. Although that's offtopic for this particular thread...

You might want to check you nation flag on the site.

$230 then, not $280. What I said still applies. Would buy it without much thought at half that, even at $150, but $230 for an entry-level force is still way too much.

The book and model are up for order guys just got mine.

Book is cheaper than Nagash. I like that

Ordering one thru my FLGS. Love these books.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Book is cheaper than Nagash. I like that

Ordering one thru my FLGS. Love these books.

Well it better be since its alot smaller lol Nagash was a super sized book tho 296+96 and then Glotkin is 128+64

Still waiting for the Skaven one

This model seems like it is way too big to be a GUO anyway.
The endless wait for GW to make new Greater Daemon models continues.

Warhammer: Glottkin already sold out on the US site!?

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
I must admit, those models are a bit so-so, and their names are like something out of a 1980s British heavy metal band.

Which is good, maybe GW are realizing they take themselves too seriously...

I for one hope I can make a Slayer army once again in this end times thing... would make sense!
Bunch of giant monsters running around the world? Who I wonder would decide "hey we can meet our doom fighting those" or "That Nagash is a huge guy! A worthy death indeed!"

 nels1031 wrote:
Warhammer: Glottkin already sold out on the US site!?

Wow that was fast....

Do the FLGS stores still get certain stock of these though?

EDIT: Sold out in Canada too

Just getting caught up on this end times stuff and while I can understand whfb players being happy, that the death spiral that was 8th appears to have been reversed slightly.
The whole story itself seems to be influenced by tolkien and the scraped warhammer forge storyline. Nagash sending out his nazgul, dwarves retreating to there holds humans losing a great city, most powerfull wizard turns out to be evil etc etc all we need is a macguffin for both sides to chase that can vanquish Nagash. Oh and the whole nurgle running rampant thing that was the plan for turmankhan or whatever he was called.

If you're referring to the LE Glotkin, there's only 500 in the first place. Divide that over the various regional sales areas and take out a few for other channels/uses and they're not likely to hang around long, even with only mild interest.

 chiefbigredman wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Warhammer: Glottkin already sold out on the US site!?

Wow that was fast....

Do the FLGS stores still get certain stock of these though?

The Webstore has a separate allocation to what FLGS and GW shops themselves get.

 Azreal13 wrote:
If you're referring to the LE Glotkin, there's only 500 in the first place. Divide that over the various regional sales areas and take out a few for other channels/uses and they're not likely to hang around long, even with only mild interest.

No we are talking about the regular edition...they are making these end times things all a limited run.

Also @kanluwen that's good to know thanks? Just for when the skaven release end times (third book maybe) then I'll order from my local store!

Well, in which case it's gone in the UK as well!

Can still order the LE one though, if someone wants to paypal me the cash plus shipping!

So can we tell if the big 'un can be built without his two little hangers-on?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So can we tell if the big 'un can be built without his two little hangers-on?

They can look at the spru above /\

Had the reg. edition in my cart earlier today, but had some crap to finish first at work today, and didn't get back to it till later. SOLD OUT! Now I'm going to be the proud owner of an overpriced limited ed!

Wait, are these end time regular books only limited? Or is just the initial run sold out?

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
From BoLS, the 4 'hidden' phrases from the GW website about this Endtimes releases

(there were 4 leading up the the Nagash book too)



Across the Sea of Claws they will come, aboard rotten ships on foetid tides.
(thats nurgle and mr spume no doubt)


Three there will be: three armies, three lords, three brothers. Three cities will fall, three heroes will die.
(the Glotkin and more)


Beneath the greatest city of men the Gardener sows the seeds of despair.
(Altdorf but who's the Gardener?)

The twin-tailed comet blazes in the sky. A sign of hope, or a portent of despair, the augurs cannot say.
(I vote hope as GW is not going to can the setting entirely even if it is shaken up)

Twin Tailed Comet probably = Skaven.

 Moopy wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
From BoLS, the 4 'hidden' phrases from the GW website about this Endtimes releases

(there were 4 leading up the the Nagash book too)



Across the Sea of Claws they will come, aboard rotten ships on foetid tides.
(thats nurgle and mr spume no doubt)


Three there will be: three armies, three lords, three brothers. Three cities will fall, three heroes will die.
(the Glotkin and more)


Beneath the greatest city of men the Gardener sows the seeds of despair.
(Altdorf but who's the Gardener?)

The twin-tailed comet blazes in the sky. A sign of hope, or a portent of despair, the augurs cannot say.
(I vote hope as GW is not going to can the setting entirely even if it is shaken up)

Twin Tailed Comet probably = Skaven.

The Twin Tailed Comet is the sign of Sigmar, and the Empire..

And the lizardmen the serpent god sotek
and the skaven horned rat
and the beasts of chaos

Interesting to note that the interactive edition price on the GW website is wrong. When you get through to the Apple store, it jumps from £34.99 to £39.99. The sample version is also up on iBooks now.

 endtransmission wrote:
Interesting to note that the interactive edition price on the GW website is wrong. When you get through to the Apple store, it jumps from £34.99 to £39.99. The sample version is also up on iBooks now.

I expect that part of that will be Apple's mark up.