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How 'bout we don't quite count our chickens until they've hatched. We don't know how conversion friendly the Cultists are going to be.

Kroothawk wrote:Okay, I take the Xenos

Silly Kroot.

MEQ v MEQ is the future. It's more cinematic!

As a Night Lords player, I hope the hellbrute isn't too gribbly, but the bikes will provide me with a unit or two, that depending on the next chaos codex should be pretty good.

aka_mythos wrote:The rumor was guard stats except for having only a 6+ save at 4pts a model... Auto guns or auto pistols and close combat weapons.... 1 in 10 may have flamer or heavy stubber...

sounds right on to me. I will take 40 please.
I wonder how big a squad they can form. Maybe i need 60 to for two large blobs.

IIRC the squad size is supposed to be10-30.

I want picturehurehureeesss D: Nice find though...I might end up reconsidering selling all my warhammer and get one of these box sets, maybe xD

sennacherib wrote:

aka_mythos wrote:The rumor was guard stats except for having only a 6+ save at 4pts a model... Auto guns or auto pistols and close combat weapons.... 1 in 10 may have flamer or heavy stubber...

sounds right on to me. I will take 40 please.
I wonder how big a squad they can form. Maybe i need 60 to for two large blobs.

love to see an all cultist army led by a DA Fallen lord and like 5 DA Fallen termies
it'd make sense

So... a box of marines vs marines.

So lazy and boring....

That's a bit of an over exaggeration...

There's a grand total of 7 chaos marine models on the baddies side...

Melissia wrote:So... a box of marines vs marines.

So lazy and boring....

Did you read the OP?

Melissia wrote:So... a box of marines vs marines.

So lazy and boring....

I guess they can take solace in the gobs of money that it will sell compared to a Nids vs Dark Eldar box. I'm sorry but there isn't anything lazy or boring about Chaos versus Dark Angels just because you personally don't like them. Just as much time and effort go into designing the figs and molds of them as would most other armies and both have interesting backgrounds to accompany them. They also happen to be two armies that haven't gotten much attention since mid 4th edition model-wise. I applaud their decision as more people buying the intro likely means a larger player base in this shrinking hobby.

Melissia wrote:So... a box of marines vs marines.

So lazy and boring....

I bash GW loads for their obsession with MEQ's, but Chaos Space Marines are an utterly unique-feeling army and this box comes with things like cultists and daemon engines. It's hardly Blood Angels vs Black Templars, which I'd agree would be "Marines vs Marines".

These starter sets are always Marines vs. Marine enemy. Before it was Orks, before that it was Dark Eldar (I think...). Makes sense it'd be Chaos' turn eventually.

If it was LatD or Chas daemons, I might agree, but it's CSMs.

and thats bad?

The release date of the starter set is the 25th of August according to this invitation I got at my local GW in Vienna today.

Melissia wrote:If it was LatD or Chas daemons, I might agree, but it's CSMs.

An army of 20 cultists with a mere handful of Chaos Marines is pretty damn close to LatD. Read the actual contents of the box (and therefore the OP) before you excrete such lazy, tired complaints.

Brother SRM wrote:

Melissia wrote:If it was LatD or Chas daemons, I might agree, but it's CSMs.

An army of 20 cultists with a mere handful of Chaos Marines is pretty damn close to LatD. Read the actual contents of the box (and therefore the OP) before you excrete such lazy, tired complaints.

Well gak...


I agree though

I don't know if I'm going to convert the DA stuff to chaos or trade it day one. Decisions decisions...

uh...

You'd have thought they would have translated Games-Workshop-Hobbycentre to a full German word.

So I guess that picture confirms the cat is pretty much on its way out of the bag.

Mathieu Raymond wrote:uh...

You'd have thought they would have translated Games-Workshop-Hobbycentre to a full German word.

So I guess that picture confirms the cat is pretty much on its way out of the bag.

That would be "Spielewerkstatt-Freizeitaktivitätszentrum". ^^
On a serious note... Hobby is a pretty common anglicism in the german language.

Is it common for advertisments in german to use the informal "du"? Our teacher in high school always stressed how formal the language is so that part suprised me.

warboss wrote:Is it common for advertisments in german to use the informal "du"? Our teacher in high school always stressed how formal the language is so that part suprised me.

No... It's not really common, but that's part of GWs "Let's all be friends" mentality.
At least around here.

warboss wrote:Is it common for advertisments in german to use the informal "du"? Our teacher in high school always stressed how formal the language is so that part suprised me.

It is common if you expect to talk to 10-15 year old customers

Melissia wrote:If it was LatD or Chas daemons, I might agree, but it's CSMs.

With 20 cultists, 7 Marines as support, and a Hellbrute/chaos armored giant thing, it's pretty dang close to Lost and the Damned as far as armies go. And you keep whining about stuff that people have said over and over isn't true. It's not just Marines v Marines.
Now Melissia, what I want you to do is look at your post. Back to mine. Back to yours NOW BACK TO MINE. Sadly, it isn't mine. But if you stopped trolling and started posting legitimate crap it could LOOK like mine. Look down, back up, where are you? You're scrolling through the thread, finding the ones that your post could look like. Back at mine, what is it? It's an interesting counter-point. Look again; my post is now exalted.

Anything is possible when you stay on topic and don't troll. I'm in a car.

Vladsimpaler wrote:Anything is possible when you stay on topic and don't troll. I'm in a car.

And thus we see the price of hubris...

She's branching out. Good times. I'm afraid this starter may start a new army for me. Last thing I need. Lol

Not for me. I'm torn.

I don't want any Dark Angels... but I want Cultists more than anything!

God damn it, I can't afford this! I wonder how long it will take for those cultists to go up on eBay, given that there were many people in this thread (even just above me!) who seem to want them too.

Also when was the next WD slated for release? Depending on that, it might lend credence to that "25th of August" note someone just posted.

With any luck the loyalist sculpts can be awakened to their true destiny as Chaos Marines, I'm ambivalent on the cultists as it looks like only Nurgle (which I avoid) can do fun things with them.

25.8.2072?

2012. Geeze. Common sense?