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This is the French Games Day right? So where is the Golden Demon coverage? I mean...these are the French we're talking about, probably some of the best mini painters in the world!

Some of that stuff looks so awesome! Can't wait. I have 6 dread but now that I have seen the new Ironclad Painted, I may have to get another!

The terrain is fantastic.

And there were a lot of people there, I don't think I have ever seen that many for the LA games day.

And does anyone know if there will be an LA games day this year?

Yeah, the one thing those Frenchie's do well is the Golden Daemon. Some of the best painting creations ever have come out of that place, including that Dire Avenger Exarch from last year or the year before that is easily the best painted model I have ever seen. I've only seen one so far, the converted Howling Banshee Wraithlord (yes, you read that right) walking over some ruins to fight a Commissar!!!

Anyway, Planet Strike just looks amazing. Looking over the 'Indominatable Fortresses' page just makes me salivate, and not just because of that terrain piece (*crosses fingers* please be real and not a scratch build please be real and not a scratch build *crosses fingers*). The rules look like fun and the ideas for combining it with Apoc and Campaigns is just great!!! The new Guard Codex is a wash - another bland Codex from a company who seems to alternate between awesome and boring - but this Planet Strike looks to be the next great thing!!!

The khorne model looks like something from Privateer Press (Cryx).

nikeforever22 wrote:The khorne model looks like something from Privateer Press (Cryx).

Yes but its usually hushed or only talked about in secrecy ( gw fandom ) i guess.

LunaHound wrote:

nikeforever22 wrote:The khorne model looks like something from Privateer Press (Cryx).

Yes but its usually hushed or only talked about in secrecy ( gw fandom ) i guess.

We have already had this discussion in the first thread where the new model was revealed. I for one don't think that they look similar apart from the very general "lots of legs/carapace" look that they owe to the original source that they are based on... I don't think that the FW model is closer to the WM model than the WM model is to the inspiration.
Personally I think the cryx model looks terrible, while this new FW one looks great.

LunaHound wrote:

nikeforever22 wrote:The khorne model looks like something from Privateer Press (Cryx).

Yes but its usually hushed or only talked about in secrecy ( gw fandom ) i guess.

I said it looked like a cryx warjack on the first page of the first topic the thing showed up in. I think it may have even been my first post there. GW fandom my left foot. They are very similar, but the differences are large enough to ignore the similarities. Besides both of the cryx jacks that followed that design looked kind of clunky and silly.

ShumaGorath wrote:
I said it looked like a cryx warjack on the first page of the first topic the thing showed up in. I think it may have even been my first post there. GW fandom my left foot. They are very similar, but the differences are large enough to ignore the similarities. Besides both of the cryx jacks that followed that design looked kind of clunky and silly.

Yeah well in 1983 I said that someday GW would make a blood slaughterer of Khorne that loks just a cryx warjack, so you're behind the times man, behind the times.

Lots of hydra batteries in those shots. And it's in the new codex. COuld it be coming out in plastic sooner than we think? I've heard no rumors one way or the other.

Anung Un Rama wrote:HOLY CRAP!!! Have you seen that Space Hulk table?

What do we think, any chance that's the new Space Hulk? If that's the terrain... put me down for 10 boxes.

If the Ironclad is plastic, consider it chaosified.

warpcrafter wrote:If the Ironclad is plastic, consider it chaosified.

If the Jarheads get 2 (3 if you count black reach) plastic dreads before Chaos gets 1... I will be highly miffed!

Panic wrote:yeah reading the book.
the landing platform is held aloft by four struts, each has a ladder on the inside which may be used to move up onto the platform, on a difficult terrain test roll of 3 or more....

no stairs

plus reading more the trim/edges of the platform can move up and down, to make a sheilded platform or a unfurled(unsheilded) platform as in the picture.
sheilded gives a 4+ save.
unfurled allows disembarking at speed.
you can switch between modes at the start of the movement phase, as long as you have a non-vehicle model in contact and no enemy are nearby.

With all this detail for a platform with petals... why didn't they do the same for the drop pod...

Panic...

Terrain that can be modified during the game? That's pretty damn cool. From there it's only a small step to bridges and stuff
What do you mean with "disembarking at speed"?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah, the one thing those Frenchie's do well is the Golden Daemon. Some of the best painting creations ever have come out of that place, including that Dire Avenger Exarch from last year or the year before that is easily the best painted model I have ever seen. I've only seen one so far, the converted Howling Banshee Wraithlord (yes, you read that right) walking over some ruins to fight a Commissar!!!

People who can't hold their tounge sometimes say that there are so many great painters in France because so few of them actually have a job. That would of course be a very mean assumption

warpcrafter wrote:If the Ironclad is plastic, consider it chaosified.

Why, Chaos Dreads still SUUUUUUUCK!!!!

Malika2 wrote:This is the French Games Day right? So where is the Golden Demon coverage? I mean...these are the French we're talking about, probably some of the best mini painters in the world!

It usually takes a week to 10 days for the GW people to post that up.. They might have been doing a draconian no camera zone around the Golden Demon entrys..

Looks lie some cool stuff. I like the new terrain and the options it will add to the table!!

Must agree on the dreadnaught looking alittle skinny/underwhelming....

Anung Un Rama said:What do you mean with "disembarking at speed"?

Isn't that where the guys basically jump out the back of the Valk as It flys by.

two_heads_talking wrote:

Malika2 wrote:This is the French Games Day right? So where is the Golden Demon coverage? I mean...these are the French we're talking about, probably some of the best mini painters in the world!

It usually takes a week to 10 days for the GW people to post that up.. They might have been doing a draconian no camera zone around the Golden Demon entrys..

How lame is that! Especially with the GW site being reduced to only "online store buy me zone" without that much else...

QFT!!!

H.B.M.C. wrote:New fortress terrain. Must own now!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:

Anung Un Rama said:What do you mean with "disembarking at speed"?

Isn't that where the guys basically jump out the back of the Valk as It flys by.

No, can't be. They can do that everywhere.

Ghaz = right again. According to the promo, Planetstrike attackers have up to 6 elites AND 6 fast attack.

EDIT: oops wrong thread.

i like the Space Hulk table. it give me a enomous feeling if imaginating yourself as a model that fighting in a giant piece of ancient wreck interior.

Malika2 wrote:

two_heads_talking wrote:

Malika2 wrote:This is the French Games Day right? So where is the Golden Demon coverage? I mean...these are the French we're talking about, probably some of the best mini painters in the world!

It usually takes a week to 10 days for the GW people to post that up.. They might have been doing a draconian no camera zone around the Golden Demon entrys..

How lame is that! Especially with the GW site being reduced to only "online store buy me zone" without that much else...

I agree completely..

Back in the mid-'90s, there was a guy who had a similar Space Hulk table that he'd bring to cons and such. It wasn't quite as nice as this, but it was huge, 3-D with multiple levels and still very nice work. It's pretty wild playing on something that big with say, 6 teams of Terminators working together. I wonder whatever happened to him and that table?

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Lots of hydra batteries in those shots. And it's in the new codex. COuld it be coming out in plastic sooner than we think? I've heard no rumors one way or the other.

Those aren't Hydra batteries, they're just the "Imperial Quad-guns" that are in the Planetstrike book. Way too small for Hydras anyway... although I guess people could use them in a pinch.

Malika2 wrote:This is the French Games Day right? So where is the Golden Demon coverage? I mean...these are the French we're talking about, probably some of the best mini painters in the world!

H.B.M.C. wrote:Yeah, the one thing those Frenchie's do well is the Golden Daemon. Some of the best painting creations ever have come out of that place, including that Dire Avenger Exarch from last year or the year before that is easily the best painted model I have ever seen. I've only seen one so far, the converted Howling Banshee Wraithlord (yes, you read that right) walking over some ruins to fight a Commissar!!!

Winners list for you below, care of green stuff over at the CoolMiniOrNot forums... slightly cleaned up and Anglicised by me.

Some pics and info (en français bien sûr) here - http://minicreateurs.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?7121.60 - although some of the pics aren't terribly big or good. I've seen many different shots from many different people all around the place. If I can be bothered I'll try and see if I can't go back and collate a list or at least some links for you... but don't hold your breath.

Slayer Sword : Ben Komets (Lord Mazdamundi on Stegadon)

Forge World Best of Show : Milan Jespers (Krieg Officer)

Warhammer Single
Gold : Jérôme Otremba (Orc Shaman)
Silver : Axel De Mohrenschield (Slaanesh Champion (Sigvald) on foot)
Bronze : Georg Damm (High Elf)

WH40K Single
Gold : Diego Esteban Perez (Space Wolf Terminator)
Silver : Nicholas Ferrière (Kroot)
Bronze : David Petit (Winged Slaanesh Champion with a dead Autarch at its feet)

LotR
Gold : Bruno Levalee (Aragorn)
Silver : Jérôme Otremba (Arwen)
Bronze : Vivien Chesnel (Legolas on horseback)

Monster or Cavalry
Gold : Ben Komets (Lord Mazdamundi on Stegadon)
Silver : Rémy Tremblay (Scottish Giant)
Bronze : Frédéric Duclos (Khorne Champion on Juggernaut)

Warhammer/WH40K Machine or Vehicle
Gold : Steve Party (Black Coach)
Silver : Guillaume Hémery (Ork Battlewagon)
Bronze : Xavier Payet (FW Macharius Vulcan Heavy Tank)

Warhammer Regiment
Gold : Denis Bouvet (Marauder Dwarves)
Silver : Georg Damm (Dark Elves)
Bronze : Julien Casses (Dark Elf Knights on Cold Ones)

WH40K Squad
Gold : Guillaume Hémery (Bad Moon Orks)
Silver : Pablo Lopez-Jimeno (Khorne Berzerkers)
Bronze : Jorge Valdes-Alvarez (Imperial Fists Space Marines)

Diorama
Gold : Matt Cexwish (The Puppet Show)
Silver : Bruno Lavallée (LotR : Defeat of the Witch King)
Bronze : Mickaël Denis (Tyranid Malanthrope in Imperial holding cell)

Open
Gold : Jose Manuel Palomes Nunez (Sigmar Priest vs Chaos Warrior)
Silver : Alfonso Giraldes-Borbon Bermejo (Catachan Ogre)
Bronze : Rémy Tremblay (High Elf)

Young Blood
Gold : Sylvain Rousseau (Eldar Dire Avenger)
Silver : Grégoire De Bernouis (Space Marine with Thunder Hammer)
Bronze : Théo Lamury (Slaanesh Champion Sigvald on foot)

My Summary

Sentinel Spurue: IDK what the current sprue is like, so I can't comment

Planetstrike: Looks Promising

Ironclad: I feel slightly disappointed by how the seem in those pics, but maybe it's the smurf colour scheme

Fortress: Very nice, I don't think it will be put on sale as it isn't as 'generic' as standard GW terrain (Too much DA-ness), but then again, maybe t's customised

Blood Slaughterer: Not very impressive at all, IMO it's just ugly

Valk conversion parts: Conversion kits are usually welcome by me

The Space Hulk table made me pee a little, it may be the new box as the terrain seems to be split up into smaller squares, if that is the case, I'm getting this box!

here is the slayer sword pic:



by Ben Komets (3 time sword winner now)

regards,

Sanjay

Wish the photos were less blurry, this ones incredible.

Wow, that Space Hulk is pure awesome!

Are there more GD pics?

My fav by far is the Banshee Wraithlord.



I own two Wraithlords both set up with BL and EML. Never thought the loss of a Heavy weapon was worth the Re-roll that the sword gives...until now. That is just too freakin cool. Can see what my next Eldar Purchase will be...with a batch of greenstuff.