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Hmm... Emperor slumped on his chair. Big goblet in front of him...

He's drunk!!!!!!

Odds on how long before we see diaromas featuring a marine sat on the old toilet model--like in that BA motifake pic--, the old on the throne Lord Macragge model and then this then ?

"Space Marines through the ages".

Maybe Genestealers ignore you if you are already wasted on The Emporer's Finest Single Malt (TM)?

Models are nice, those tiles look crappy in comparison to the first edition ones.

I'll pass.

Are the Terminators and Genestealers the same scale as 40K or are they larger?? The pics make it hard to tell.

Got mine on order. Whether or not it remains my brothers Birthday present (that's in November....) is looking increasingly doubtful!

Someone said they are the same scale

He might actually just be disappointed. There's a big cup of suposed alcohol, but no Space Wolves. Therefore it was filled with water by the more polite Space Wolves who had emptied it before the battle.

Looking at the other 'setup' promotional pic at the GW website, the dice appear to be the right size for 'normal' GW models - and the Termies are all red plastic, the 'Stealers are blue.

The broodlord bashes them to death with their own skull?

Please tell me these are normal scale
If so ill take 5 boxes


Models look amazing, why couldnt they put this effort into normal models?
May play the game, but ill possibly just buy it for the models like i did AoBR, price is steep, but models are amazing.

Kilkrazy wrote:If only there was a range of 3D space hulk style corridor scenery made by some third party company!

You mean liek dwarven forge?

http://www.dwarvenforge.com/store/home.php?cat=270

Sgt Deadmeat wrote:Maybe Genestealers ignore you if you are already wasted on The Emporer's Finest Single Malt (TM)?

Nissed as a Pewt.

Just because I fell like playing the devils advocate. The quality of the painted figures is great but what if GW is making another planet strike crater snafu and the webpage is showing the master models?

M.

Those stealers are righteous.

carmachu wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:If only there was a range of 3D space hulk style corridor scenery made by some third party company!

You mean liek dwarven forge?

http://www.dwarvenforge.com/store/home.php?cat=270

Yeah those are the best in the market I have seen.. pricy but already painted.

warpcrafter wrote:After a second look at the entire contents laid out, I predict the purchase of many little zip-lock bags to keep those cardboard counters in order.

Correct. Thats what we did back with the first edition box of counters....

Models look great but then why wouldn't they? If I had the spare cash I'd pick it up, but right now I just don't. Maybe if it's still available around xmas time I'll look into it.

Im just pissed that i wont get paid till the end of the month :(
If they run out before i can order a set then i think ill be hunting them down on ebay (and no doubt having o pay 20% more)

MAJOR disappointment for no plastic corridors - MAJOR YEAYYY!! for everything else, particularly I love the gene-stealer design.

Obviously I ordered one.

I went down to my local GW (The Plaza, Oxford Street W1) to have a look at the game.

It's not in stock and they didn't have any publicity out.

They didn't have anything out for Planetary Empires either, though that was in stock.

The stores aren't supposed to get tehir copies until tail end of this week.

I can't believe people would not buy this because they think the tiles are not good enough? Absolutely ludicrous!!

I'd challenge you to find better printed card floor plans/tiles. Plus consider this; 95% of all wargames are played on flocked battle mats, bed sheets over books or painted chipboard! Hardly realistic or inspired or whatever else has been thrown.

In retrospect plastic boards would be too expensive/bulky when you consider the amount of plastic already in the box, disappointing but for a "stand alone" game fully supportable, especially to keep the game down to the price tag (I’m sure it was £40 the last time it was released, so I’m not phased by +£18).

It looks like GW has done what their detractors have complained they don't a re-introduce a classic game, which lets face it most old scrots like myself have been badgering them for years!

Well done GW, this time GW = win (on this issue only, I reserve the right to amend this if any vacu-forming takes place between now and receipt of Spulk!).

Also there was an ad in the GW site when I logged on (starfield, black shape growing bigger, SH box, termies, genes, loud noise AD), anyone else getting this this morning?

notprop wrote:I can't believe people would not buy this because they think the tiles are not good enough? Absolutely ludicrous!!

Listen whippersnapper, when I played this game back in the early 90's they had cardboard tiles. And its now 20 years later and they havent come up with something a touch better, especially with their CAD and injection moulding from china?

Looking at these, and the old ones, I prefer the old ones. I'd prefer something different after 20 years to be honest. I have no desire to go back to this. Hell, I could open some old WD's and reprint some of the old tiles on cardboard or foam now, like they toild you to do in the old days.

Cardboard is more eco friendly.

I remember when they did rules for Marines in Power Armour for SH.

Kilkrazy wrote:Cardboard is more eco friendly.

Not when it ends up in the same landfill

Miss Dee wrote:I remember when they did rules for Marines in Power Armour for SH.

Yup, that was fun. And tratior marines, and eventually there was somewhere variant rules for eldar warriors(the non-guardian ones) IG and orks....

Cant waite for my copy, In the past hour reading this thead I have basecoated my Iron Warrior Chosen.

I absolutely love the look of this set. Gotta have it. I still think it would be more economically viable to have it stay a part of GW's catalogue for longer than this "limited release" crap, but overall I'm totally excited about this.