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GW has posted a sample list using the new Stormraven model that includes some nice looking shots of
the model. There are also some shots of the Librarian Dreadnought.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?aId=13700028a

work blocked assiting post..

It also confirms the contents of the BA Battleforce, unfortunately:

Two Blood Angels Battleforces form the basis of this army, providing two full Tactical Squads and their Rhino transports, ten Assault Marines and a large squad of the Death Company

Advance orders are up now:

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440160a&rootCatGameStyle=

You know, those Stormchickens are growing on me. They're still as ridiculous as heck, but somehow, they are developing a gawky sort of charm...

I can, in my head, imagine them flapping their wings and saying to their dsisgorged progeny "Go, my pretties, go cleanse the nasty heretics, fly, fly....cluck cluck cluck!"

Looking good to me. I like the relatively low profile on the hurricane bolters.

I'm looking forward to the years of _hilarious_ pelican/chicken/chibi jokes on Dakka, maybe punctuated by that laughing Ork head just so we know how hilarious they are being.

Prices are 41£, 66$ or 52 €, so about Land Raider/Valkyrie priced as many have predicted,

We don't need the dig, thanks. Here some new pics:

I'm reasonable sure that all 3 stormravens in that picture are actually the same model, composited together into a single image. I've seen them do that in WD a few times now, too, but unlike the WD cloning, at least this time they made the effort to photoshop the number on the side.

plastictrees wrote:I'm looking forward to the years of _hilarious_ pelican/chicken/chibi jokes on Dakka, maybe punctuated by that laughing Ork head just so we know how hilarious they are being.

Maybe all they need is some Industrial Corridors and Towers to show them off to their best advantage...

Anyone know where I can get me some?


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Advance Orders link

You know, I could handle the Marine-sized helmet on the Venerable Dread. It went against all previous Dread designs, but it wasn't the end of the world. I could even live with the 'skull' head of the Death Company Dread. Who's to say it's a real skull and not just a representation of one?

But this?



A bare head Dread? No... just a new level of Ward-ism.

Christ I hope the Dreadknight looks better than that...



As far as the Chibi-Hawk goes, it has some charm, I'll give it that, but to be hones the kit's greatest boon is the wealth of heavy weapons it comes with. That's a lot of guns. But for the love of all that is holy - will someone take a photo of it from the rear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


And I'm glad the Battleforce is as I suspected it would be, and not as I'd feared it'd be. 5 Assault, 5 DC, 10 Tac and a Rhino. No Scouts. *phew*

Look 4 posts above you.

What exactly is upsetting you about that? It's a death mask, which have become more prominent in the fluff recently. Seems pretty sound to me.

H.B.M.C. wrote:A bare head Dread? No... just a new level of Ward-ism.

Actually, I think that's a death mask right there. It looks more gold than flesh to me, not to mention the bright, glowing eyes. Anyway, a death mask would fit with BA aesthetics.

Also, how the hell is this Ward-ism? I'm not a fan of the guy, but he's a writer, not a sculptor, no?

Kroothawk wrote:Look 4 posts above you.

That's the front.

Unless you're talking about the post you quoted, in which case - are we at all surprised?

It really doesn't look any better then previous pictures, a shame.

It seems the bits composition in the librarian dread box doesn't include any Grey Knights bits...

So if the previous rumors are remotely right... Will there be new dread bits just for GK?

so is the S.S. KFC just a BA toy

H.B.M.C. wrote:You know, I could handle the Marine-sized helmet on the Venerable Dread. It went against all previous Dread designs, but it wasn't the end of the world. I could even live with the 'skull' head of the Death Company Dread. Who's to say it's a real skull and not just a representation of one?

But this?

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1620114a_99120101089_FuriosoDread02_873x627.jpg

A bare head Dread? No... just a new level of Ward-ism.

I always assumed it was just an in-built reliquary, holding the interred Space Marine's helmet in a niche above the sarcophagus. Actually having the Space Marine's head inside that helmet (as the Dreadnought Psychic Hood suggests) is just stupid.

Commander Endova wrote:Actually, I think that's a death mask right there. It looks more gold than flesh to me, not to mention the bright, glowing eyes. Anyway, a death mask would fit with BA aesthetics.

If it's a Deathmask, then ok. Just looks like flesh to me. And 'glowing eyes' isn't exactly unheard of when it comes to Librarians.

Commander Endova wrote:Also, how the hell is this Ward-ism? I'm not a fan of the guy, but he's a writer, not a sculptor, no?

Wardism
ward·ism
[wawrd-iz-uhm]
-noun

A type of style that can be applied to almost any object to signify a level of absurdism usually only possible when created via the hands of Matt Ward.

Examples:
"My army venerates Roboute Guilliman as their spiritual liege!"
"Derp! That is such a Ward-ism!"

—Related forms
Ward·esque, noun
Ward·is·tic, adjective

Word Origin & History

Wardism
2008, from GW. Said to have been coined at the after the 2008 release of Codex Space Marines. A vague term that later become more generally accpeted around the time of the Blood Angel Codex release.

I take it this is a frag cannon ?

Holy crap it's more expensive than a Land Raider.

Still doesn't do anything for me. The indignity to my PAGK leaving that vehicle would be too much.

The BA dreadnought however is an epic kit, for so little above the venerable kit, you get options for 3 different dead types and awesome blood talons and an awesome force weapon.

It might well balance out my dislike for the storm raven, and the death mask doesn't really bother me that much, I mean at least you get some awesome psychic hood action going on.

HudsonD wrote:I take it this is a frag cannon ?

Yes. I'm trying to figure out why it has an exposed ammunition link. I mean, even the Assault Cannon/Heavy Bolter ones don't have a chain of rounds hanging there. That's so... Orky.



Also, let's do a quick count:

I'd like a show of hands from those who use the Frag Cannon?

How 'bout the Magna-Grapple?

ok... 50 € for a Chibi-hawk.... excellent.

Now I'm going to buy some and make an army based on those birds.... the Chicken Marines!

EDIT

By the way those images are a proof that the leaking happened some months ago was right. Luckily they modified the horrible Eldar like turret on top.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

HudsonD wrote:I take it this is a frag cannon ?

Yes. I'm trying to figure out why it has an exposed ammunition link. I mean, even the Assault Cannon/Heavy Bolter ones don't have a chain of rounds hanging there. That's so... Orky.

Exposed cabling, fuel lines etc, what will one extra exposed vital component mean in the world of 40k?

It just looks like a Rhino and a Valkyrie had a baby w/ down syndrome -_-

I am quite happy with the dreadnought kit, i will definitely be getting one of those bad boys!

And like some of the rest of you, the flying bird thing is growing on me!

im not entirely sold on the chickenship, or the totally unprotected ammo feed.. i think somebody is getting a flank full of shrapnel when that gets shot up.



magna grapple looks awesome tho

abatha wrote:im not entirely sold on the chickenship, or the totally unprotected ammo feed.. i think somebody is getting a flank full of shrapnel when that gets shot up.



magna grapple looks awesome tho

Yes, yes it does look feething awesome!!! I can't wait!

Great.. Plastic furioso... Just as i finished my ven dread + forge world dread claws conversion.. Oh well..