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 ImAGeek wrote:

 Rayvon wrote:

Not sure where you got the information about the weekenders, I know people not able to get a ticket for the last one, and I was unable to get tickets for the Forge world open day at the last minute, they do sell out.

The money that went in for the warlord alone shows that there are people out there with plenty still to burn.
There aremany 30k fans that have not yet unleashed their wallets and are waiting for the right armies.

Yeah exactly. There's 5 legions still to be released, two being Space Wolves and Thousand Sons, that loads of people are waiting for. And I'm pretty sure the weekenders and open days do sell out still.

I'm interested in the Dark Angels - they were my first purchases in 40K. I love the fluff and their look. I just don't have the desire to spend the money to buy the power armor marines I want - same with my Word Bearers. Also, if I had people to game with, I would be more inclined to make the purchase. I'm probably going to buy several of these sets because I've always been a big fan of power armor and the HH setting. The fact that I can also use them in my normal 40K army is just the icing on the cake. If I only have a couple of extra purchases to bring them in line with 40K, then its a good deal for me.

 Theophony wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
They have a number of things that they could do in a break glass:

Plastic Warhound & Reaver
Plastic Thunderhawk
Release the two missing legions
Plastic 30k
Emp. reborn
etc.

All would sell like hot cakes done well, even done badly would sell like slightly warm cakes.

The only event I've seen struggle to sell out recently was the tank painting event @WHW, they sold one whole ticket by lunch time for it. Everything else has sold out, especially the weekenders.

You forgot plastic sisters of battle.

I believe he is referring to things that would sell, not just shut up a vocal few.

I have at least 10 Mk II/III sitting in my garage so I don't mind mark IV's being plastic.

I have a Ford cortina in mine, I do not mind either.

Posted a few minutes ago in Warseer's Horus Heresy Plastic-topic, I don't know how reliable it is

O.G-Palmer;7511583 wrote:Pre order next Saturday then another for the following week.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?411615-Horus-Heresy-Plastics-in-late-2015&p=7511583&viewfull=1#post7511583

That early would be quite a surprise

That would be really early. Is that poster on Pretre's rumourmonger tracker?

Not what I heard.

Should be another ~2 months AoS. Tau after that. It's still a while off.

You know.....unless AoS is not doing as good as they expected and they decided to bring the HH stuff out early.

I don't think they can be quite as reactive as that, since they have ads and features for the pre-orders in white dwarf so there's the lead time on printing, etc. On the other hand, we went from 1 unit and maybe 1 character per week to a unit, several terrain kits, and a book all in one week - so it's possible they've collapsed the release schedule. Either way though I think they'd have had to have made the decision a while ago.

Hey, I think it would be a good strategy on GW's part. This way they can bounce from selling marines in 40k to marines in Fantasy to marines in 30k, and then maybe dash in some repackaging of an old fantasy race, and you've got a cycle for the next few years!

Sad Panda, the rumors that it will be a boardgame are correct? Have you heard anything about its content?


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 -Shrike- wrote:
That would be really early. Is that poster on Pretre's rumourmonger tracker?

No, but he is well connected with some GW people according to his earlier posts. He posted some good hints scenery-wise afaik (see his other posts on Warseer). But with the Panda saying nope, it is not looking good for a Heresy preorder next week...

 warboss wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
They have a number of things that they could do in a break glass:

Plastic Warhound & Reaver
Plastic Thunderhawk
Release the two missing legions
Plastic 30k
Emp. reborn
etc.

All would sell like hot cakes done well, even done badly would sell like slightly warm cakes.

The only event I've seen struggle to sell out recently was the tank painting event @WHW, they sold one whole ticket by lunch time for it. Everything else has sold out, especially the weekenders.

You forgot plastic sisters of battle.

I believe he is referring to things that would sell, not just shut up a vocal few.

Awwwww everyone <3 plastic nuns with guns

*Sigh* More AoS and no HH yet according to Darnok

Darnok - Warseeer

Re: Horus Heresy Plastics in late 2015

There is still a lot of releases for AoS in line before the HH game is due.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?411615-Horus-Heresy-Plastics-in-late-2015&p=7511653&viewfull=1#post7511653

 warboss wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
They have a number of things that they could do in a break glass:

Plastic Warhound & Reaver
Plastic Thunderhawk
Release the two missing legions
Plastic 30k
Emp. reborn
etc.

All would sell like hot cakes done well, even done badly would sell like slightly warm cakes.

The only event I've seen struggle to sell out recently was the tank painting event @WHW, they sold one whole ticket by lunch time for it. Everything else has sold out, especially the weekenders.

You forgot plastic sisters of battle.

I believe he is referring to things that would sell, not just shut up a vocal few.

'Sisters of Battle' being the second most searched for item (the first being 'forgeworld') in the 40k section of ebay is not just a 'vocal few', they're sitting on a gold mine in their IP and don't know it, but w/e.

Now I can buy ten man beakie squads!!!

 Revarien wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
They have a number of things that they could do in a break glass:

Plastic Warhound & Reaver
Plastic Thunderhawk
Release the two missing legions
Plastic 30k
Emp. reborn
etc.

All would sell like hot cakes done well, even done badly would sell like slightly warm cakes.

The only event I've seen struggle to sell out recently was the tank painting event @WHW, they sold one whole ticket by lunch time for it. Everything else has sold out, especially the weekenders.

You forgot plastic sisters of battle.

I believe he is referring to things that would sell, not just shut up a vocal few.

'Sisters of Battle' being the second most searched for item (the first being 'forgeworld') in the 40k section of ebay is not just a 'vocal few', they're sitting on a gold mine in their IP and don't know it, but w/e.

It's just a running joke on here to antagonise SoB fans in this manner, don't take it seriously.

I feel like "most searched on EBay" does not equal "tons of SoB players." It probably has more to do with the bloated price points on SoB models and difficulty to obtain SoB heavy weapon squads.

I've played for 6 years now and met a grand total of 2 SoB players. Even on huge forums like this SoB players are few and far between.

Unless you can pull concrete information that SoB are some unexplored patch of pure gold with a massive player base I think it's safe to call the players a "vocal minority."

Then again it seems like that's mostly BECAUSE of all the pain with Sisters and many would play them if they had more support.

 CrashGordon94 wrote:
Then again it seems like that's mostly BECAUSE of all the pain with Sisters and many would play them if they had more support.

With how bloated modren GW plastics are priced at, I would say many people WOULD HAVE played sisters of battle had they had plastics 3 or 5 years ago.

That could be the case too, potentially.
Still, it does seem like it would be a fairly solid idea, particularly compared to some of their recent ideas.

Can we please not have another essentially unrelated thread devolve into the Lamentations of the Sisters Players?

 Azreal13 wrote:
Can we please not have another essentially unrelated thread devolve into the Lamentations of the Sisters Players?

Yeah. Besides, everyone knows that the Tau are in much greater need of plastics than sisters. We don't even have plastic Vespid for gods sake

*Twitch*

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
i squeek with exitement.
MUST BUY MOAR MUST WORK EXTRA HOURS!
SELLING KIDNEYS-CHECK
SELLING CAR-CHECK
SELLING-SUPER AWESOME MAGIC CARD COLLECTION-CHECK

i am all reacy for impulse buying 10 plastic HH starter kits-CHECK


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if this is true i will sh*t myself with rainbows and joy and tacos.

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
I feel like "most searched on EBay" does not equal "tons of SoB players." It probably has more to do with the bloated price points on SoB models and difficulty to obtain SoB heavy weapon squads.

I've played for 6 years now and met a grand total of 2 SoB players. Even on huge forums like this SoB players are few and far between.

Unless you can pull concrete information that SoB are some unexplored patch of pure gold with a massive player base I think it's safe to call the players a "vocal minority."

Yeah, but how many Assassin or Inquisition players have you met? A lot of people just like them for the models, and to mix them in with their other (complete) armies. I would never field (or model) a whole Sisters army, but I'd happily paint a few squads and vehicles, and play them together with other Imperium armies.

I've played for 25 years, by the way, and I've *never* met someone who plays Sisters in more than 50% of their games. Even the most devoted Sisters fans that I've met only sparingly play them, but I'd say that's a chicken and egg thing -- the models are ancient. If there were a full lineup of Sisters models, vehicles, and rules, at least to the degree of the Harlequins, I'm sure some people would play them as their favorite faction.

I still play them as my main faction. I however only play second ed modified.

I've been promised plastic SoB for about 10 years at least. I've given up waiting for them. I've now invested in RH to provide that.

it's that simple logic GW do not care about them so why should I care about GW?.

This plastic HH is GW pushing the emergency button and you will see more stuff like this simply because GW is running scared.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Posted a few minutes ago in Warseer's Horus Heresy Plastic-topic, I don't know how reliable it is

O.G-Palmer;7511583 wrote:Pre order next Saturday then another for the following week.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?411615-Horus-Heresy-Plastics-in-late-2015&p=7511583&viewfull=1#post7511583

That early would be quite a surprise

Guess I better set some money aside, not just for the plastics, but for Alpha Legion bits from FW to go with them.

Let's move on from sisters of battle and back to the topic, thanks.

I can't see the HH plastics coming out in the next week or so. GW is doing their best to ram AoS down our throats right now. Unless the AoS sales are just that bad*, I can't see GW moving up the HH releases so early.

*I expect the initial sales of the new shiny AoS models may be pretty good, but I can't see that momentum lasting for more than a month.

Would it be technically possible to adjust their schedule like that?

I suppose if the sprues are cast and packaged, it would just be a case of distributing stock to the various hubs and designing some new web pages and POS.

I'm not familiar with the print industry, would the lead time on WD be short enough now it's a smaller, weekly mag to allow for this?