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Sons Of Horus, Woo!

I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Game Days outside of UK usually are pretty crummy in terms of new releases/sneak previews.

The Gamesday in the U.K. are pretty rubbish as well.

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

Good to hear! Here's hoping it gets the green light...

 Pwn'd You wrote:
I also spoke to Jeremy vetock and he said he wants and is pushin for a fallen angels supplement as well as other dark angels supplements

That'd be neat, but if it's still just being "pushed" then it would probably be over a year away.

I love the direction their taking the son of horus armour/kits now, makes them much more unique. Also I'm VERY intrigued by the thing to the right of the robot...

Gamesday was pretty underwhelming.

I had fun but it definitely did not live up to the standard I'd hold the biggest gaming company's flagship convention to.

The swag bag was weak, a few buttons, a cup, a cheap water bottle and a pretty well done purity seal patch. The bag wasn't too bad itself, was useful to carry things throughout the day. I don't imagine they spent more than a whopping 5$ per bag.

The make and takes were really sparse, splitting 2-3 sprue sets among 4-5 people. It was nice to get free stuff, for sure, but with a 50$ ticket and no free mini it'd be nice to get something of decent value.

There was NO model painting.

There was a station to get your realm of battle board painted which was cool, but was only for people who were willing to buy or already had one.

There were some tables where you could play whatever scenario they had going, and GW provided 500 pt forces for people without armies to play. There wasn't any completely free play tables that I saw, I could be wrong though. I was told GW employees wouldn't allow you to play anywhere but at the designated places with designated forces.

The store had no discount at all.

Forgeworld offered the usual free shipping and ordering things without free shipping was great.

Fantasy Flight Games had demos of Relic and Blood Bowl card game, which was cool. The volunteers running it weren't very knowledgeable on the rules, but they were enthusiastic and cool which was fun.

The Space Hulk game was up to demo. Looked cool, but a bit clunky and not intuitive. I dunno if it's worth the 30 bucks or so, but the people there were pretty awesome and it looked cool.

I don't think they sold more than a dozen of those exclusive minis, and EVERYONE I heard talking about it were pissed about it.

Dan Abnett was awesome and hung around at the tables signing for longer than scheduled.

Vettock was super enthusiastic talking to people who approached him.

So, for a 7 hour event, there were THREE make and take events (Ork Biker, Empitre pegasus knight, terrain) which were about an hour each, some pretty weak 40k directed gaming, FFG demos, and models to look at.

I would NOT go again unless the event was extremely close, as I traveled by car from Connecticut. The real thing that kept me from being unhappy was meeting up with friends from all over the country.

What does the exclusive mini look like? Was it really colombo again?

Nevermind, found it. Huh, not as good as his last one in my opinion (but maybe because I actually have that one). I know the pictures aren't quite a fair comparison but eh




edit: goddamn I can't get this to work. Either the new one is working or the old one is working, not both
reedit: thanks Ouze, missed that /. I blame the fact I'm doing my tax at the moment...

Here's that FB image hosted in Picasa



You're missing a / in the last tag there, should be [/img].

 Ouze wrote:
That Castellax is pretty cool, always nice to see more units for Khador.

I don't even play Warmachine but that is the first thing I thought too (well, more "Wait, has someone's warmachine model been put in the wrong cabinet by mistake?").

Some sneak peeks from Games Day US.




Sons of Horus Command Set.


Iron Hands Contemptor.


Assault Squad with power weapons.


Sicaran Battle Tank

Whoa, those last 2 pics- nice!

Interesting name for a tank, not the proto-Russ that some of us thought it was.

Honestly I have to agree that this was under par even for games workshop. I bought the mini as I can use it but I don't see why others would. Even the demon minis were misshandled by the judges( they broke mine and several other people). Not the Volunteers but the judges they even pulled out several pieces and handed them to people in line so they could take pics. So much unprofessional mishandling and horrible judging couple with no other comps like costumes etc. GW promised this would be the best yet and after 7 games days for me this was the worst hands down. The only good part was the convention food as those BBQ nachos were outstanding.

Btw I have tons of pics but they are on my phone and if I attach them then they will be in Dallas database so until I can get home and transfer them sorry all.

That Iron Hand dready is unfortunately lacking in iconography. Especially when compared to the Sons of Horus, Minotaurs and Emperors Children Contemptor dreads.

One of the lesser loved chapters getting a look in at last and even then it's still not as good as the others. Thats not to say that it isn't still nice looking, because it is.

I like the look of that tank but dislike the price tag and probably will dislike the model if i ever had one in my hands.

Really kicking myself for getting an assault ram a few years ago. Low quality, low detail tiny model. Shame it was my last gw putchase

Excited about that Iron Hands Contemptor! I like the new tank as well, but I hope the treads are easier to put on than they were for the Proteus!

Those MkII Lightning claws

 SilverMK2 wrote:
Really kicking myself for getting an assault ram a few years ago. Low quality, low detail tiny model. Shame it was my last gw putchase

Whoa, really? I would've thought the assault ram was a good kit! Nice to know, though...

Agreed about FW prices, of course... they're Significant

agreed the MKII lightning claws are amazing. The sicaras looks great (and nicely fits into the land raider/predator missing link category)

and is it just me or does the sons of horus commander/captain remind you guys of the dark vengeance chaos marines?

Liking the sicaran tank, looks like a pre-land raider type

Also should have mentioned the spiky Mk IV legs with the SOH command set, it's a shame bodies will likely be one piece casts like a number of recent FW models (Space Marine Captain and Standard Bearer, Destroyers, Recon)

How much are the Games day figures.Wondering if its worth me grabbing one in september in the uk.

So there was no 40k mini?

I have a bunch of pictures from Games Day here. These include pics of the Armies on Parade, terrain, some Golden Demon entries, etc.

I also have a sort of funny story from Games Day. I was looking through the program at who all from the Design Studio was in attendance. I saw Chris Peach listed, and it said he was the "Studio's master of army painting." So I went over to ask him a question about a painting technique. He is in a conversation with another guy so while I wait for them to finish their conversation, I pull out my pen and program and start circling the sessions that I want to try to get in for the rest of the day. As they finish up their conversation and the other guy walks off, he sees me standing there with pen and program in hand. He immediately pulls out his pen and says all excitedly "Let me guess: you want me to sign your program?" I'm like, "No, i was just planning out the rest of my day, but I do have a painting question." He looked sort of deflated when he realized I didn't want his autograph. Who do the GW guys think they are, rock stars or something? lol

He was a nice fellow though, and I did get some good painting tips. I just thought the whole "autograph" thing was a bit comical.

 Lord_Mortis wrote:
I have a bunch of pictures from Games Day here. These include pics of the Armies on Parade, terrain, some Golden Demon entries, etc.

Are all those from Gamesday?

That place looks abandoned.

any news on black fire pass or any other warhammer forge stuff?

No, it was a huge crowd. The place it was held at was huge and provided more than enough space for everyone. 1000+ people were there, but because there was plenty of room for everyone to move around and get from one session to another without having to walk through people, the place didn't have that "packed" look.

The place was huge but here was so little happening that the event areas often had massive queues.

1k people is not a big convention. At all.

 Malika2 wrote:


Sicaran Battle Tank

Hey baby, come here often? I like this, I like this a bunch.