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We've posted our review of the AT-43 Operation Damocles starter box at TGN

There is a main review which looks at the game itself and there is also a discussion of the miniatures in the set as well.

Grant Hill wrote the main review and both of us wrote about the miniatures in the second article.

While I love the review, the portion about the miniatures seems a little lacking in my eyes. The only thing the authors keep talking about is the painting, painting, painting. While I agree that its par for the course for pre-painted figs, I think we seem to be missing the whole point of miniatures in the first place. Do they look cool?

As for the therians, They look sort of uninspired if you ask me. They really just look like necrons with claws and arm blasters. They aren't even in any interesting poses. People have been bashing GW for putting out static models, but thats all these are and I haven't heard a single peep about it. Sure they're painted, yay, they are boring. The Big Wraith on the other hand looks awesome, but its a shame they couldn't find a better way to mount it to the base then with a big peg.

As for the White Stars, they suffer the same problem as the therions. Their poses are just sort of flat. Plus not a single one of them is sighting with their rifle. They would look ten times cooler if at least one of them had his gun shouldered blasting away. The GW Kasrkin are an immediate example of cool armored humans blasting away with lazer gunz that comes to mind. The fire toad's camo looks awesome though, and for pose, there isn't really much more you can get out of it, so its fine.

But seriously, the Therian and White Star infantry are just sort of bland, static poses, with uninteresting weapons that don't really do it for me, painted or not.

That big peg comes out from underneath the Golgoth. There is a little screw on the bottom of the base. The peg is there for shipping.
Otherwise, many of your points are vaild. There are troops being sculpted with the shouldered firing pose comming. But yes, things are a little bland to start.

Posted By whitedragon on 01/08/2007 12:10 AM
While I love the review, the portion about the miniatures seems a little lacking in my eyes. 

There isn't a lot that you can say about them really. At least not a lot that is unique.  The figs have been talked about a lot and there is only so much you can say about them especially when you are discussing them as a whole and not as a single miniature release.

We'll have some more in-depth comments on the minis as they start to release them individually.

A really good review, thanks!