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Mmmm... shiny - except the eldar platform, that looks rubbish.

Did I see in another thread that all the tank parts come on a single kit now?

crap... that manticore is ridiculously awesome... crap...

Yeah still not a fan at all of the Fire Prism, and serious wtf for the heavy Platform?! When someone made the master why did no one smack the ever living crud out of the modeler? #1 It looks terrible... no seriously.. terrible. #2 it doesn't even work with 5th Edition rules. The unit is 2 guardians and the gun, so now if a blast lands on the gun you just took two hits instead of one. Grats on making a bad unit worse.

I think the platform looks pretty good myself.

GG

The Fire Prism looks like the cranky car outfitted with a uprooted lampost.

The Russ I like it...I always have liked the look of Imperial Guard tanks the Manticore/Deathstrike and Russ get a massive thumbs up and finally a Vanquisher but I would have swapped the Hellhammer/Eradicator design for a possible hull mounted "Tank Destroyer" design.

Not bad....but I do miss tanks at the £25.00 price tag...but thats GW price hike...

But I agree with Silverquine there are other things but tanks and Space Marines CSM get no love.....And we have been waiting for a Buggy/Scorcha for Orks and updated Rough Riders that dont involve castrating your wallet.

I like the Manticore, though the Deathstrike is Meh. A big thumbs down for GW changing the Deathstrike missile to incorporate the Manticore rockets (and presumably force you to buy another Manticore/Deathstrike instead of letting you magnetize the model to swap the payload out).

The re-cut LR looks good but again they appeared to take pains to make it so you can't swap out the main guns. Of course we will do that with magnets anyway.

HAHAHHA eldar cannon is the suck.


so now you get to remove a crewman when the gun blows up unless you have an extra model to replace it? since the crewman doesnt die with the gun sometimes...

Designer: "Great! I'm finally done with this model, and it can be built as either Manticore or Deathstrike. Go Me!"
Bean Counter: "Nope. Go redesign that rocket. Appearently our customers have figured out how to use little polarized stones to make parts interchangeable. They might only buy one kit instead of two."
Designer: "Gasp! No Ways! Oh Noez my job is in danger! Well I guess I could make the manticore rockets part of the big rocket so they could only build one or the other."
Bean counter: "Good idea. Just make sure it would look fugly if they left those rockets off."

Nothing for Tau so no money leaves my pocket = happy bank account.

I fething hate that Manticore. That is an idiotic design, and I hope whoever did it gets slapped with a carp.

The Deathstrike I'm ambivalent towards. I can see why it has the Manticore's rockets on the sides(rockets carrying rockets that carry rockets!)--but I'd really they rather just have done one gigantic ICBM styled rocket.

Pask is cool, but I'm doing an army where -everyone- is wearing respirators. So he gets left out in favor of FW's tank commanders. Sorry Pask.

Eldar I could care less about, since I don't play them--but I do like the new Fire Prism.

I like the support weapons, shame they won't sell though.

Hmmm that Manticore/Deathstrike model makes me want to make a Pulsa Rokkit

Kanluwen wrote:I fething hate that Manticore. That is an idiotic design, and I hope whoever did it gets slapped with a carp.

The Deathstrike I'm ambivalent towards. I can see why it has the Manticore's rockets on the sides(rockets carrying rockets that carry rockets!)--but I'd really they rather just have done one gigantic ICBM styled rocket.

Pask is cool, but I'm doing an army where -everyone- is wearing respirators. So he gets left out in favor of FW's tank commanders. Sorry Pask.

Eldar I could care less about, since I don't play them--but I do like the new Fire Prism.

That was amazing. I think you disagreed with every preceding opinion. Well, takes all sorts, I suppose.

I just dislike the Manticore. The rockets riding on a rack is dumb to me. I much prefer them being mounted on a turret ala Forge World's design.

And just think--if they'd done Forge World's design in plastic we'd also have the fething Hydras

I quite like all the new plastic tank kits and the Eldar support platform too. I may use a plastic stand-in for Pask though and save about $10 on that one.

Check out the What's New Today about Spearhead with design notes and sketches from Jes Goodwin. Always cool to see a bit of Goodwin's sketches and design process.

This just screams for Orkish Know-How and modifications.

I'm more impressed with the Manticore than I expected to be from the White Dwarf cover pic a while back. I think the Deathstrike looks goofy, but considering I'd never use one, I won't complain about it too much.

I think the LRBT looks fine - without doing a major redesign of the model, I just don't know how much they could do to improve it. While I prefer FW's Ryza pattern Vanquisher turret, I prefer this Vanquisher turret to whatever the other pattern is - it's not completely over the top. Good stuff.

I don't get it. How can they call this a game supplement if it's only for 2 armies? Not exactly game changing if you ask me.

I know, I know; there's going to be some new rule or something for everyone like in the missions books but how about a little model love for everbody?

That deathstrike missile looks a bit too small for my taste...

These are the "Spearhead" releases.

Not the rules.

Kronk = I'm thinking either Pulsa rokkit or grot bomb launcher.

So Spearhead is only for IG and Eldar? Seems like a dumb marketing move to leave out 85% of their market. Even apocalyse had command sprues for the different armies.

I want a new toy to buy but if they won't give it to me, I'll just keep my money.

agnosto wrote:So Spearhead is only for IG and Eldar? Seems like a dumb marketing move to leave out 85% of their market. Even apocalyse had command sprues for the different armies.

I want a new toy to buy but if they won't give it to me, I'll just keep my money.

No no no.
The releases are only IG and Eldar ones. They're releasing new tanks--of which pretty much every other army already has theirs filled out.

The Ork Deff Dreds and Killa Kans were also part of the Spearhead releases, as was the Basilisk.

However, the rules themselves that are coming out in White Dwarf will incorporate all armies.

And just to be nitpicky:
Apocalypse didn't have "command sprues for the different armies".

Everything is on the sprue they're rereleasing now.

I doubt it's written anywhere that you HAVE to put the side rockets on the deathstrike. Just do it without them and add a little bit of plasticard to make wings and there yar.

Not a fan of the Eldar riding the support weapon AT ALL. But the new guns look cool. And I do have Eldar Support weapons in my army, and I have used them at many tournaments over the years in which I have taken best general or best overall.

The cost is currently the same as you pay for the metal so I might get some, depends on how the D Cannon looks. I have 6 Deathspinners and 3 Vibrocannons already.

death strike = imperial shokk attack gun. I'll be picking up one of the new Leman Russes too.

A mixed bag for sure. I really do wish that they'd given the Leman Russ some suspension.

The four rocket one is nice, apart from the dumb searchlight position.

Kanluwen wrote:
The releases are only IG and Eldar ones. They're releasing new tanks--of which pretty much every other army already has theirs filled out.

The Ork Deff Dreds and Killa Kans were also part of the Spearhead releases, as was the Basilisk.

However, the rules themselves that are coming out in White Dwarf will incorporate all armies.

And just to be nitpicky:
Apocalypse didn't have "command sprues for the different armies".

Everything is on the sprue they're rereleasing now.

And I'm telling you that I want a new toy.

If it wasn't apoc; where'd the command sprues come from? Ya know, this thing: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1130001&prodId=prod770023a that says "Apocalypse" in the description.

I'm not interested in fielding 10 hammerheads. I want more variety; why do IG, Orks and Eldar get the love?

agnosto wrote:So Spearhead is only for IG and Eldar? Seems like a dumb marketing move to leave out 85% of their market. Even apocalyse had command sprues for the different armies.

I want a new toy to buy but if they won't give it to me, I'll just keep my money.

I weep. Models up for preorder do not an expansion make.

UltraPrime wrote:

agnosto wrote:So Spearhead is only for IG and Eldar? Seems like a dumb marketing move to leave out 85% of their market. Even apocalyse had command sprues for the different armies.

I want a new toy to buy but if they won't give it to me, I'll just keep my money.

I weep. Models up for preorder do not an expansion make.

Yeah, they expanded two armies....woop woop.