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Yeah I approve, sir.

Anyone else not really like the over exaggerated wings on the DA model? I think it's the helmet that's putting me off. Do we know who he is?

Love them all, DA and chaos, look to be fantastic quality. Although i was hoping the cultists would be clad in tattered robes, not sure if the bodysuit works for me.

edit: Great to finally have some plastic autoguns though.

For completeness heres all the pics:

Well looks like all the marines are definitely DA

Still, delicious

kenshin620 wrote:Well looks like all the marines are definitely DA

Still, delicious

At least the characters are. Aw who am I kidding, I better give myself over to planning on cutting those guys apart to hell and back.

Chaos looks gorgeous though.

Without sounding spoiled and ungrateful for the images we are graced with- If CSM comes out Sept 8, wouldn't they be fully featured in the WD?

Come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn more chaos pics!

Alright...as much as I've been bitching about geneal GW crap lately...


I LOVE those chaos models. Nice poses, great level of detail and concepts.

Ohh, I like what I'm seeing!

I bet Word Bearers are happy....

I can't wait to see pics of the Dragon, if its real, that is

No pictures of the powered suit thing however. =(

Hey at least GW's taken this as an opportunity to create some characterful models. I mean they may not be the easiest for a beginner to paint, but it does give veteran gamers more of a reason to buy the box (ie the old one was full of single piece models that differed little from the stuff in the normal boxes, these do). ^^

Brometheus wrote:I bet Word Bearers are happy....

Yeah, GW is really pushing us up. last codex they barely acknowledged our existance, in the new rule book and now this. They seem to becoming the Chaotic poster boys. This I do not mind.

I always want to do word bearers but I cant get away from my love of khorne to a point were everything must have red and bronze or a close combat weapon. Its the preacher side of the WB's that stops me from doing them despite looking forward to the dark apostle model. :(

Hopefully more picture will hit us soon although I dont mind not seeing them since the wait would be even more painful.

OH SNAP, those new chosen look awesome. I wasn't planning on having any of them in my army, but with them looking that cool... I might have to. Cultists look lame though.

I know this is for CSM, but figure I should post the starter set models to clarify things like cultists, Hellbrute, and a possible direction for new CSM models:

The Cultists look so awesome!
Also, Looking at this, that Hellbrute is point heavy as hell. The point value of the Cultists, Chosen, and Lord aren't near enough to match a Librarian, Chaplain, Chapter master, Spacemarines, Terminators, and Bikes.

kenzosan wrote:The Cultists look so awesome!
Also, Looking at this, that Hellbrute is point heavy as hell. The point value of the Cultists, Chosen, and Lord aren't near enough to match a Librarian, Chaplain, Chapter master, Spacemarines, Terminators, and Bikes.

the non imperials are always outclassed in these starter sets.

Word Bearers are not a bad choice for the Chaos poster legion. They were the first to fall after all. Maybe Erebus would make a decent warmaster if Abbadon fell ...

They're actually Crimson Slaughter, if the mention of "Dark Vengeance" in the rulebook is anything to go by.

Brother SRM wrote:I know this is for CSM, but figure I should post the starter set models to clarify things like cultists, Hellbrute, and a possible direction for new CSM models:

Any chance of getting those images hosted somewhere else for the work-blocked?
Thanks.

Eric

I'LL TAKE SEVENTEEN!

Does anybody know whether there are going to be plastic kits of this stuff, or whether what we see here is 'exclusive' to the box set?

Sunoccard wrote:

kenzosan wrote:The Cultists look so awesome!
Also, Looking at this, that Hellbrute is point heavy as hell. The point value of the Cultists, Chosen, and Lord aren't near enough to match a Librarian, Chaplain, Chapter master, Spacemarines, Terminators, and Bikes.

the non imperials are always outclassed in these starter sets.

No, I meant that as an observation of the Hellbrute. I mean damn, his point value makes up for so much. Cultists are stat line Guardsman and Chosen are like Vets. That's a lot of points to make up for and clearly he does it.
I know what you mean though. The way the last box was the Orks were super poorly set up. But jeez, an MC. Yea, it doesn't make up for the melee built Cultists versus a squad of Termies for a troop choice, but I'm sure that Hellbrute can walk through most of that box with not much trouble.


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Medium of Death wrote:I'LL TAKE SEVENTEEN!

Does anybody know whether there are going to be plastic kits of this stuff, or whether what we see here is 'exclusive' to the box set?

I'm sure they will when they launch the Chaos dex. But that's a couple weeks after this is released.

The chaos models look absolutely stunning with the exception of the cultists. Not a fan at all, but if they get a real multi-part plastic kit they're going to have a billion pieces in that set.

The Dark Angels look so subpar in comparison lol. Chaplain and Librarian are amazing though. And the terminators don't look dreadful I suppose.

Someone on Faeit212 posted a pic (from somewhere else) showing the last page of the WD with a giant Dark Angel on it.

He also said the person on reddit or whatever says he didn't see anything about CSM codex in the WD.

Interesting.

I feel that our leg has been pulled.

Last page of WD. No chaos for you!

There it is. Thanks pretre (i guess?)

Sad. But let's look at what we know... A tiny finecrap run is going for advance order on the 8th, which means release on the 15th. That means a whole half a month for the rest of September. Yea, it's possible we're all screwed and Chaos Marines don't come out till October, but I'm remaining optimistic. There's no way they'll have the starter set alone with some finecrap for the whole month.

Who knows. The codex could come out. Hell, all the advertising for 6th edition and the Starter have all shown off the Dark Angels. Unless you've been up on rumors and only gone by GW you might as well expect a DA codex and not a starter or Chaos anytime soon.

... ...
Damnit.

Now things got harder again... I had almost decided to start up my deathguard again, and now this kicks in... Back to the drawing board again, as ALL legions got viable for me again, including a half of the DA legion in the form of Fallen...

*shivers* this is going to get expensive... Gah! Top 4 for me are still Deathguard (whoo zombie cultists), World eaters(can't help but love their fluff, so tragic!), Word bearers(dark apostles are back, cultists are cheap and I can bring REAL daemons again) and iron warriors(chaos techmarines are back, there's new CC oblits, 3 new daemon engines, a siege type landraider and I can ally with IG... Yes please)... Closely followed by nightlords, depending on if I can figure out how to play on their terror tactics on the tabletop.

Gah! I'll just have to wait and see what other new models are coming, and how the 'dex treats nightlords.

I KNEW IT. Didn't I say a while ago that Dark Angels would probably come before CSM just because they're loyalists and GW wouldn't put out two books in a row that weren't Marines? And people were like "Nuh-uh, everything we've been told so far says Chaos are first! You're just dumb!"