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... from the 'White Dwarf Online' newsletter:

So any Dakkaites in the UK or Northern Europe, stop by and pick up a copy and give the rest of us poor schmucks the details.

Will try tomorrow.  Unless someone else beats me to it...

Dude, just got that email myself. I'm psyched. Sounds like it'll be up with the oens they took down though. So not much longer to wait regardless. I figure the following friday we'll all have them, plus the ones taken down, and maybe a few more.

Sorry guys.  The local GW store here said they aren't allowed to even talk about the Bblade Sqdn datafax until Nov 12 ...  He did say that the stores in the UK were allowed to give them out though.

I have no idea what this policy accomplishes, but there it is...

off of Warseer

Not sure if posting a copy of the stats from a freely distributed document posted on Warseer is ok, but here goes.

Sounds like something my Krieg would like.

How many more of the bloody things do I have to buy? 2 more?!?!?

And here is a silly Fat-Man thinking that with 2 Titans and 1 Baneblade, I would kick @ss.

As always, just kidding myself.

On topic though........WTF are they thinking? If these Data-faxes are going to be 'held up' due to some promo BS, who is it going to hurt if they release it sooner?
Seriously, after all of the hoop-la surrounding Apoc. I would do my darndest to release as many as I could, with as many Armies as possible...

It might seem a little churlish of me, but this WAS a tactic by GW to recover after the abortion that was LOTR? How is it benificial to GW or the player for that matter to hold sh*t up?

PS the datafaxes on the GW site are getting a bit old aren't they????

As I said in another thread, they should strike while the iron is hot. They should have had weekly datasheet releases since the book came out. Instead, they released a bunch, then released some by accident, then took those datasheets away, and now we're waiting longer for even new ones.

They must have monkey's managing them over there.

BYE

did anyone post this up yet?

Ripped from ANotherFarseer on warseer:


Oddly enough only baneblades can use it. No hellhammers or other super heavies that use the baneblade chassis .

And still we have no datafax releases.

GW really have dropped the ball here.

BYE

Dropped the ball and missed the boat.

Apocalypse has the potential to be a massive cash cow for GW and I can't believe that within 1 month of its release its been buried in WD by a mass of High Elf stuff. (And I'm a WHFB player and love the new HEs)

If someone other than a shaved monkey was running the show at GW you should be seeing.
2 complete months of WD dedicated to apocalypse.
Datafexes released each week. Each race should have a new datafex each fortnight (minimum 1).
Datafexes in PDF form batched together in one file for each race. Add a new one by tacking it on. And date the file so that if mods are made to the previously released datafex then you know you've got the most up to date version.
Instore events (at least this is happening)
FW tie in with an apocalypse book (should have been ready for the apocalype release and released this month)
A portion of the GW website allocated to people sending in pics with one line descriptions. Best/biggest battles/ pics could be shown.

Just a few ideas to get the kiddies spending.

If someone other than a shaved monkey was running the show at GW you should be seeing.

There used to be a company that knew how to do that stuff. It was called GW. But now it's called Flames of War.

The lack of weekly PDFs is just dumb. Every time a new one leaks I have to fight the temptation to drop more cash on stuff I'll never use. After the last batch of PDFs I ended up with three Vindicare assassins and 15 more Bersekers before the fog lifted.

Waaagh and HBMC. Spot on. I think it is disgraceful how GW have backed up thier latest 40k expansion.

Released/rescinded datafaxes(if and when)

WD mags still missing the point.

I reaaaaallly want to get intothis version of 40k. GW are actually making one of the BIGGEST events in thier history turn into nothing more than a passing fad.

COD anyone?

As far as missing the boat is concerned, I'd say Apocalypse is well on the waning side already. By the time GW releases more datasheets, no-one will care.

It's up now at GW France: http://fr.games-workshop.com/telechargement/warhammer40000/apocalypse/cie_baneblade.pdf

Pretty nifty.

Glad to know all those years of french did sink in somewhat... I could read about half of that. Now... bring on the english one.

Fallen668 wrote:Now... bring on the english one.

You mean like THIS?

Ok... so I'm guessing we'll have to wait 'til December to get the next batch.

GW: Keeping the Momentum Going.

BYE

"Ununpentia Gorge." Heh.

whoopdedidu....

now I have all the datasheets back they put out a month ago....wait, I did save them om my PC when I first saw them. so I got only one new thing.....and I need 3 fraggin Baneblades for it????

Ja Ja , Pariah beat me to the punch, after I made some waffle about no apocalypse support.

But in all honesty, I have to buy another 2 now. After building the 1st, the others should be a lot easier for me to build.

Sometimes having 6 fingers on each hand can be good.......

I wonder how many will bite.

I've passed on the Baneblade so far because I can't see that I'd use it more than once. I'd rather buy a Battleforce for the price.

3 seems even further into the 'generally useless' category.

Well I happen to have 3 Baneblades (four if you count the Stormblade, but that isn't built yet), and I used this formation last weekend. The ignoring shaken weapons is nice, but worth 150? I don't think so. The combined fire thing is useless (who's firing Baneblades at enemy Super-Heavies?), and the ground shakes rule would be nice if Morale wasn't so utterly useless in 40K.

So, not worth 150 points, and not worth the wait we'll have to endure for next month's slow-but-steady Apoc release.

Who knows, maybe they'll leak 'em by accident again.

BYE