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The Catachans just look more off the wall the more I look at them. The muscles are mind-boggling, but the shirtless chest is really what does it.

Seriously though, are those muscle bound Catachan parts (arms particularly) big enough to be slapped on an Ork boys body?

I'm really curious.

Well, Catachans do fit the background description "mini ogryn" with those designs.

Lagduf wrote:Seriously though, are those muscle bound Catachan parts (arms particularly) big enough to be slapped on an Ork boys body?

I'm really curious.

No, ork is still bigger compare to catachan standards.

It'll have the same ratio look like catachan arms on cadian body

( i know this cuz i have some unfortunate victims lol )

So I guess the rumour that said the 10 man boxes would contain a heavy weapon team was wrong then? I feel incredibly cheated by this development. A guard army consists largely of infantry squads,at least mine does, and it looks to me like GW fixed the rules so that basic guardsmen cost fewer points,and are now being fielded in larger numbers, and at the same time jacked the actual money cost per soldier way up! Dirty,if you ask me. I would be willing to pay maybe a 5 or 10 cent per figure hike, but 50 cents per is criminal! This is the sort of thing that realy makes me ask myself whether I want to continue collecting, or just sell my minis and take up knitting.

Yep its cheated compared to the previoud 20men box.

However, people argued that the 20men was too cheap to start with. Now they claimed it to be balanced.


-_- .....

"...people argued that the 20men was too cheap to start with. Now they claimed it to be balanced."
who ever said that must be punished at once! i think it was priced correctly before the "new" reboxing.

Who the hell said 20 man boxes were too cheap?!? I pay $35 american for 20 men, thats $1.75 per figure, whitch I feel to be too high to begin with. Takeing it above $2.00 a figure, for plastics, is lunacy. If you weighed the contents of these boxes, I think you'de find that gram for gram, cocaine probably costs less!

This cost of troop is why I'll never get to moving past my veteran/storm trooper/vehicle heavy army. *sigh* The most valuable asset for the IG is just too expensive. A pretty minimal platoon costs over $100 USD... well $95 if you get the battle force and ends up being worth 200pts, that's $1 for every two points. Should I be excited by the prospect of a $1000 army (FW aside)?

*snort* trust me Gil, it does *snort*
(and for the love of God, yes, i'm kidding!!!)
and seriously, you should shop around. you should be able to find them cheaper than that. i can get them from the U.K. cheaper than that, shipped. and that's not even using Maelstrom Games.

The price hike on the troops is outragious! I think GW is hoping to cash in on the the appeal of the new codex but they may get bitten. I would have happilly shelled out te money they wanted for some cool looking trenchcoated figs, but not for the same old junk. I just can't get excited into paying 36% more per fig for the same thing.

alarmingrick wrote:*snort* trust me Gil, it does *snort*
(and for the love of God, yes, i'm kidding!!!)
and seriously, you should shop around. you should be able to find them cheaper than that. i can get them from the U.K. cheaper than that, shipped. and that's not even using Maelstrom Games.

I understand that the discount stores makes our purchase price more tolerable.

But that still doesnt excuse what the MSRP GW have the audacity to come up with.

I think they would like get to the point where we pay a dollar per point, so an 1800 point army would cost $1800. Lets hope they dont decide to base points on the British pound, it exchanges at almost 2 dollars!

Polonius wrote:I'd complain, and then I remembered I have over 200 painted metal Praetorians, plus another 100 catachans and tallarn already.

I do feel bad for anybody building an IG army now... it was pricey 5 years ago but it's stupid expensive now.

Yeah, who has two thumbs and bought a ton of 20 man boxes 2 months ago like it was going out of style (...cause it was)....

THIS GUY

818.37 O_o

alarmingrick wrote:*snort* trust me Gil, it does *snort*
(and for the love of God, yes, i'm kidding!!!)
and seriously, you should shop around. you should be able to find them cheaper than that. i can get them from the U.K. cheaper than that, shipped. and that's not even using Maelstrom Games.

Maybe when I quit gameing, I could take up drug dealing. I'm sure its as glamoures as it looks on tv and in rap videos; and, hey!, If I deal drugs I will be able to afford minis again! So I won't have to quit playing after all! Thanks for the idea rick! (when the cops kick down my door I will be sure to tell them whose idea it was). All kidding aside, I appreciate the tip on mealstrom, I just checked them out, and you were right, much better prices!

LunaHound wrote:

Lagduf wrote:Seriously though, are those muscle bound Catachan parts (arms particularly) big enough to be slapped on an Ork boys body?

I'm really curious.

No, ork is still bigger compare to catachan standards.

It'll have the same ratio look like catachan arms on cadian body

( i know this cuz i have some unfortunate victims lol )

Cool, thanks.

I wasn't sure. I have no IG stuff and only know one guy who plays IG and he doesn't use Catachans.

Ok i'll take photo of it.... dont laugh as i said its failed lol

It wouldn't have been so bad if they threw in some plasma/meltaguns

Pretty awful right?

gil gerard wrote:I feel incredibly cheated by this development. A guard army consists largely of infantry squads,at least mine does, and it looks to me like GW fixed the rules so that basic guardsmen cost fewer points,and are now being fielded in larger numbers, and at the same time jacked the actual money cost per soldier way up! Dirty,if you ask me.

Welcome to economics in an economic decline.

So, I'm guessing the "personalize your squad" part refers to the canteens, knives, and ammo pouches?

ph34r wrote:So, I'm guessing the "personalize your squad" part refers to the canteens, knives, and ammo pouches?

Don't forget the grenades.

and 1 of 7 head variants to chose from!! Wee!

So after reading this whole thread and looking at the website, I can see absolutely nothing different about the cadian boxed set. Am I missing something?

I'd have to say that I do love the new sentinel. All the weapon options and still basically the same price, right?

There's a reason you can take 9 Leman Russ tanks now.

Polonius wrote:I'd complain, and then I remembered I have over 200 painted metal Praetorians, plus another 100 catachans and tallarn already.

I do feel bad for anybody building an IG army now... it was pricey 5 years ago but it's stupid expensive now.

Tell that to the guy who collects a Krieg army. ^______________^

Grunt_For_Christ wrote:So after reading this whole thread and looking at the website, I can see absolutely nothing different about the cadian boxed set. Am I missing something?

The only thing to get is that it now costs $22 instead of $35, and has 10 models instead of 20. A 25% increase in cost per model.

Anyone got pics of the supposed gas-mask heads in the box yet?

There are a few gas mask attachments on the command squad sprue, but nothing suggesting that they are adding them to the "new" cadian trooper box.