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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Then where are all the shaky, out of focus, badly lit, cellphone camera pictures?

Who knows--it might be that GW only sent sets to independents they felt they could trust?

After all, the Age of Sigmar leaks came from independents.

Don't be silly Kan, GW don't trust anyone.

Looking forward to these!
The world's supply of humans in power armor miniatures was starting to reach cryptically low levels.

Here some news from LoW gaming facebook


Lords of War Gaming Oh, you think it's going to be Battle of Phall? How cute...

Devon Martinez Well? What WILL it be then? And will it be using different rules?

Lords of War Gaming It will have it's own rules created by GW, but everyone will use for FW and they should. 30k is vastly better than 40k.

It will be two legions that hate each other. Any guesses?

Devon Martinez Word Bearers and Ultras are a classic duo.

Lords of War Gaming Looks like we have a winner!

As long as they are pretty bland and can easily be converted I will be happy. Shame they did do Thousand Sons and Space wolves considering the hype surrounding the HH book for those two.

 RedFox wrote:
Word Bearers and Ultras are a classic duo.

Ah yes the ancient struggle between Pepsi and Coke.

I hope there are cultists and Gal Vorbak (sp?) and crashed space ship debris.

I rather hope they keep it simple and power armoured myself, without too much clutter.

Words bearers in "normal" mkiv armors is not too exciting for me, will have to heavily modify

 kronk wrote:
I hope there are cultists and Gal Vorbak (sp?) and crashed space ship debris.

the crashed ship is actually really nice terrain. I'm glad I kept mine!

 Azreal13 wrote:
Don't be silly Kan, GW don't trust anyone.

Including Games Workshop.
But really though, more Smurfs?
Don't really have anything particularly against them like some do but this is really pushing it. Overexposure much?

I wonder if they will release it in September, as they tend to release the "other" games around then. I am not surprised that it will feature Ultras, the posterchild for Marines. At least they're generic enough for use as other legions. I am curious/frightened to see the price tag if it will contain all that is rumored.

Looking at those sprues again - man they're packed with stuff.

Can't wait to see this starter set. So excited.

I just want some meaningful update already! I'm tired of checking out the AoS thread for bits that I could use for 40k!

This must be what fantasy players felt like :(

So, rumor mill got a release date for this?

October maybe? Warhammer World open house on October 18-17, with promise to unvail something:

We’re happy to announce that we will be releasing +++DELETED BY THE INQUISITION+++, which is really exciting!

http://warhammerworld.games-workshop.com/warhammer-40000-open-days/

One of these days they're going to have to come up with something different than +DELETED BY...+ for everything they're trying to keep secret!

It's sort of like mad libs:

We’re happy to announce that we will be releasing ____, which is really exciting!

- Age of Horus
- a pair of white doves
- the hostages

It seems like they are finally taking the next logical step after making sure every starter set is at least 50% Space Marine.

An all-SM AoS-style game is frankly the best idea GW has ever had, just in terms of sales. Assuming that's the idea

I'm leaning towards Word Bearers for my Traitor Legion of choice so it'd be nice if they were in the starter. And if rumors of a Space Hulk boarding type game are true it could still work with WB and UM as there was plenty of void warfare when the Word Bearers invaded Ultramar.

I am a bit suspicious of this, and here's why.

The Age of Sigmar was leaked seven ways from Sunday. This is arguably a bigger deal than AoS. And all we have is a handful of sprue pictures. No WD leaks, nothing...

 Olgerth Istaarn wrote:
The Age of Sigmar was leaked seven ways from Sunday.

Could you gives some examples? I recall there being a rumor (as there is here) and some speculation based on round bases.

If the IF/UM?IW etc iconography on these are too pronounced for me to remove, these are useless to me.

General Hobbs wrote:


If the IF/UM?IW etc iconography on these are too pronounced for me to remove, these are useless to me.

It would be pretty silly to have molded iconography (or indeed anything too legion-specific) on the marines in this set. If they're plain, then they'll be bought by more or less every Heresy collector out there and since FW has loads of conversion kits it won't be any problem to make them into whatever legion.

GW has been making rather... say questionable, decisions lately but I'm tentatively hoping for plain and non-denominational legionaries
The shoulderpads in the pictures on p1 is clearly without legion markings

Pretty sure we already have pictures of the basic marines in the first post. No iconography is present.

Huh. UM and WB are another pair that fit the bill of massive grudge and neither changed their colors after the heresy.

Plus it plays to GW's obsession with Ultramarines.

If it's just a big box of 30K SM without Legion-specific heraldry then the absolute best idea is to just throw a bunch of transfers in the box for various Legions and call it the Betrayal at Isstvan V set.

 Manchu wrote:
If it's just a big box of 30K SM without Legion-specific heraldry then the absolute best idea is to just throw a bunch of transfers in the box for various Legions and call it the Betrayal at Isstvan V set.

We've already seen the shoulderpads (and they are blanks), remember:



I am so in on this set. I love the mod potential of that cape.

I remember and I hope those are for real but it worries me that there is no Citadel tradmark or copyright info like on the AoS starter sprues.