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-Loki- wrote:Something to consider is, while battleforces generally have 4 units, the only other army with a plastic swarm integrated into another units sprue - Tyranids - doesn't count the Ripper swarms as part of the 4 units. So expect 4 + the scarab bases.

They could include 20 warriors, 5 Immortals and a Ghost Ark and charge Tyranid battleforce price for it (though it wouldn't be quite as good a value).

Hmm ... well assuming I can beat other people to my FLGS, maybe pick 1 or 2 battle forces up ... any of the rumored battle forces.

I'm going to buy at least $100 worth or wraiths right off, for my escalation league army. After that? It'll depend on what's in the Battleforce.

I'm in the process of converting the Dark Eldar Jetbikes into Tomb Blades. Would you guys say both kits would cost about the same and have the same amount of models? I'd hate to think I've been buying more expensive stuff the whole time...

SoulGazer wrote:I'm in the process of converting the Dark Eldar Jetbikes into Tomb Blades. Would you guys say both kits would cost about the same and have the same amount of models? I'd hate to think I've been buying more expensive stuff the whole time...

I don't know... I could see Tomb Blades going individual plastic boxes for $20 (like destroyers).

Anpu-adom wrote:

SoulGazer wrote:I'm in the process of converting the Dark Eldar Jetbikes into Tomb Blades. Would you guys say both kits would cost about the same and have the same amount of models? I'd hate to think I've been buying more expensive stuff the whole time...

I don't know... I could see Tomb Blades going individual plastic boxes for $20 (like destroyers).

I don't think they are that big though. I could see 40-45 for a box of 3.

Swara wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:

SoulGazer wrote:I'm in the process of converting the Dark Eldar Jetbikes into Tomb Blades. Would you guys say both kits would cost about the same and have the same amount of models? I'd hate to think I've been buying more expensive stuff the whole time...

I don't know... I could see Tomb Blades going individual plastic boxes for $20 (like destroyers).

I don't think they are that big though. I could see 40-45 for a box of 3.

Basic Tomb Blade, plus the three weapons, plus the three upgrades... there's plenty there to model and fill out destroyer sized sprues. I hope that they aren't! I hope that 3 or even 5 of them come in a box for less than $50. I could see them going the 1 for $20 way, though.

I'm wondering when Forgeworld will get around to releasing some more Necron goodness.

Tomb Stalker makes me drool and the Pylon is... interesting. What else would you like to see Forgeworld make?

Anpu-adom wrote:What else would you like to see Forgeworld make?

C'tan Shards.

Anpu-adom wrote:I'm wondering when Forgeworld will get around to releasing some more Necron goodness.

Tomb Stalker makes me drool and the Pylon is... interesting. What else would you like to see Forgeworld make?

The Flayed Lord with a rule set.

Megalith!

Megalith is mentioned in the codex so i could see it happening

I'd love to see the flayed lord and him give a boost to flayed ones on the field... maybe they'd sell some flayed ones models then

i would love to see more necron goodness from forgeworld, and some updated Apoc rules from GW for the necrons.

Cryage wrote:Megalith is mentioned in the codex so i could see it happening

I'd love to see the flayed lord and him give a boost to flayed ones on the field... maybe they'd sell some flayed ones models then

Besides being mentioned in codex, they're in the every box cover:

Anpu-adom wrote:What else would you like to see Forgeworld make?

With the fluff shift, the door is WIDE open for unlimited creation of special characters and special royal courts. There is certainly room for them to make some cool Cryptek models too as we have very little variance in this area currently.

I'd personally like to see something worth while to take in the elite slot, all our most useful units are heavy or fast. Maybe a combat variant of the Triarch Stalker, like a baby Tomb Stalker.

True. I'm converting 5 different Crypteks myself (one for each conclave) but would love to see 5 custom models with full WYSIWYG made by Forge World.

A creepy, shrouded Harbinger of Despair with replaceable cloth representing shroud and veil... Harbinger of Destruction with Solar Pulse in hand etc...
Would be sooo cool Beside that - I'd love to see other C'tan Shard models (matching the ones we already have in style and feeling) and some more WYSWIG Lords and Overlords.

Nothing FW offers has really tempted me in the past...if they made Crypteks, Lords, and C'tan, I would likely send my paycheck over directly.

Really, you could convert most of their monsters into C'tan. But yeah, I'm hoping against hope that IA:12 is The Fall of Damnos....it'll be a cold day in hell, but I'm hoping anyway.

Okay, looking at Illuminator Seras, I would have suggested make his delicate pointed legs out of plastic, finecast so far has proven a tad delicate for such a model, I feel he will get less use for fear of snapping off the legs, unless a rod is set from base to his body to help- support him. I have had to repair, pin and or replace parts of warscythes on my lords with plastic warscythe staves as the fisncast is fragile at smaller diameters as the legs of the illuminator happen to be.

Maelstrom808 wrote:Really, you could convert most of their monsters into C'tan. But yeah, I'm hoping against hope that IA:12 is The Fall of Damnos....it'll be a cold day in hell, but I'm hoping anyway.

Maybe not 12, but depending on how popular the Release was, I can totally see them doing an IA book someday.

Cyrax wrote:

Cryage wrote:Megalith is mentioned in the codex so i could see it happening

I'd love to see the flayed lord and him give a boost to flayed ones on the field... maybe they'd sell some flayed ones models then

Besides being mentioned in codex, they're in the every box cover:

I didnt even notice that! Good eye!

Sasori wrote:

Maelstrom808 wrote:Really, you could convert most of their monsters into C'tan. But yeah, I'm hoping against hope that IA:12 is The Fall of Damnos....it'll be a cold day in hell, but I'm hoping anyway.

Maybe not 12, but depending on how popular the Release was, I can totally see them doing an IA book someday.

I don't think a Necron based book is out of the question, but I doubt it would be Damnos. I just have a feeling they wouldn't do a book where the Ultramarines are the primary Imperial force. I'd like to see it as the novel really only goes into the first part of the battle, and the rest is left to a few bits out of the BRB and the imagination. I want to see how it played out.

NecronLord3 wrote:

Anpu-adom wrote:I'm wondering when Forgeworld will get around to releasing some more Necron goodness.

Tomb Stalker makes me drool and the Pylon is... interesting. What else would you like to see Forgeworld make?

The Flayed Lord with a rule set.

I never really thought about that before, but that sounds awesome.

Flayed Ones as troops and creepy special powers.

I think that it would be fun to have a 'Scarab Lord' who would mess with the FOC. It would be a very different army if scarabs could be taken as troop choice (still wouldn't be scoring, however). Maybe allow Wraiths or Spyders to be elites as well.

Can you imagine an army made up of only spiders, scarabs, and wraiths? What more could you want?

One Lord
60 Scarabs
18 Wraiths
9 Spyders...
What an army!

Granted, he'd need to be like the contest winner from Beasts Of War, a total BA in combat.

Anpu-adom wrote:I think that it would be fun to have a 'Scarab Lord' who would mess with the FOC. It would be a very different army if scarabs could be taken as troop choice (still wouldn't be scoring, however). Maybe allow Wraiths or Spyders to be elites as well.

Can you imagine an army made up of only spiders, scarabs, and wraiths? What more could you want?

Lore wise it would be cool. The scarabs, wraths, spyders, and pretorians(sp?) were the only ones that weren't alseep as they maintained the tomb worlds. It could be a defensive, first response kind of army.

Call the 'Lord' a Canoptek Overmind or something- it'd be a use for the Tomb Stalker model.

If it comes from the Fall of Damnos, Ankh would fit beautifully in that role.

I would love a necron imperial armour book, but Damn, with the Smurfs..... maybe not.

Blackhoof wrote:I would love a necron imperial armour book, but Damn, with the Smurfs..... maybe not.

Yeah.. but you get to kill smurfs and win. : D

So White Dwarf comes out the last Friday of the month, doesn't it? Should we be expecting a leak of the pages any day now?