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I think Samus would look better in a more subtle/less overt scheme (perhaps more blue-purple than bright red?).

Shame the command squad is so expensive, priced like the DK or Elysian CCS I'd be seriously, seriously tempted!

 Ashiraya wrote:
They look like ideal Rogue Trader models, in my opinion.

Indeed! In fact, the whole Solar Auxilia looks like a good 40k Rogue trader army!

I think what really kills me about Samus is the dog nose. It looks very very humanoid in the torso with a dog head slapped on top. Each of the individual parts looks good in its sculpting, but overall it looks like a silly kitbash of FW components.

 Stormwall wrote:
Hm... Samus sucks.

This guy would be a good base for a Inquistor though. I wonder how I can nab one?

He reminds me of this guy:

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

Spoiler:

The Devil's buttocks!

Doesn't beat the Daemon Prince of Khorne's rear, though.

Especially amusing after seeing its front, which is entirely armoured by what turns out to be a metal apron.

thong and a butt brand. someone's been to Oz.

YES you made us look, now we are all mentally scared

 bubber wrote:

 Stormwall wrote:
Hm... Samus sucks.

This guy would be a good base for a Inquistor though. I wonder how I can nab one?

He reminds me of this guy:

Yeah, I can see that. I'm actually not in love with this mini, it's gotten worse the more I look at it. I only like the collar region, the rest sucks.

Samus in Horus Rising is described as being wolf like around the face, this is about the only bone I can throw to this model.

I'd like to see more of Jubal or the other space marine he possessed present in the model. Even after he turned Loken still recognised him as Jubal, even described him as the Jubal-thing.

This guy isn't a terrible model and makes an ok alternate demon prince but I don't think it cuts the mustard as a Samus.

 Ugly Green Trog wrote:
Samus in Horus Rising is described as being wolf like around the face, this is about the only bone I can throw to this model.

I'd like to see more of Jubal or the other space marine he possessed present in the model. Even after he turned Loken still recognised him as Jubal, even described him as the Jubal-thing.

This guy isn't a terrible model and makes an ok alternate demon prince but I don't think it cuts the mustard as a Samus.

He shows up in Know No Fear without possessing anyone. I'm guessing this is from then as its in the Calth/Shadow Crusade stuff from FW so he's not Samus possessing Jubal, he's just Samus.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_58.html

So, Warhammer World May 16-17 is going to have something big and painted on display...

Those guns are huge, and that is definitely a Laser Destroyer for the carapace mount. Can anyone with a Reaver and a Space Marine do a quick size comparison to see if the Laser Destroyer is roughly the same size as the Reaver version?

Reaver and a Warhound

 BrookM wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_58.html

Judging from the new Eldar and Knight codex releases, that looks like a troops choice weapon upgrade for the new Admech codex coming Summer 2016. I'm sure it'll forge some balanced narratives in 1000pt unbound 8th edition games played at that time.

Those Sons of Horus in the bulletin look amazing also!

That big gun is amazingly... well... big!!

Thanks Looky Likey
The Laser Destroyer looks to about the same size as the Reaver one then, but with more spacing between the barrels. The arm mount cannon is just massive. I'm not sure if a Volcano cannon that size is really represented well by simply increasing the blast radius over a Reaver Volcano cannon.

The main gun is just huge, and likely to be a pain to paint well.

It should really just remove the models under it, no rolling on the D table, and it would leave a permanent area affect.

 BrookM wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/News/FORGE_WORLD_BULLETIN_58.html

Hmm.. I'm thinking, why not make a gun that shoots tactically inserts Marines at high velocities? With all their modifications, they could sit days or weeks in the clip waiting to be fired. They could even have small gun ports on the gun, so they can shoot any nearby enemies while they are waiting for deployment.

I think about buying one of these guns. They will make a great piece of LOS blocking terrain. A good objective that's worth fighting for.

It should really just remove the models under it, no rolling on the D table, and it would leave a permanent area affect.

That is what D weapons used to do. You know, the Reaver sized ones that are the same size as the ones pictured. You should have heard all the whining. So D got the nerf bat.

Justyn wrote:

It should really just remove the models under it, no rolling on the D table, and it would leave a permanent area affect.

That is what D weapons used to do. You know, the Reaver sized ones that are the same size as the ones pictured. You should have heard all the whining. So D got the nerf bat.

Oh I remember that now; I think the biggest problem I had with the old D rules was how widespread D Weapons became, and this was before every other Eldar unit got given a D Weapon.

As long as they keep it only on the truly massive models (Warlord, Phantom, etc.) that only come out once in a blue moon it could work but I would expect that power creep would happen over time and it'd be on normal models in a handful of years.

Nah. The "new D" are known as "G" weapons (for "gone", "gw" or some other g starting word. ) - they have the "old" d rules, but come with MOAR skullz and are only on imperial (not chaos) models. Cause sphezz mehreenz! The new warlord has 6 of these guns. All with custom blast templates that can be made whatever size you want because they are marine guns and don't care about other lesser armies or main rule book rules. Pssshh!

As i said earlier, it is clear that GW is adopting the bra sizing scale for their weapons after str10. Therefore, the next step up would be double DD. You just put the range before the letters though so an apocalyptic eldar starcannon (likely the next guardian standard weapon for the 8th edition codex in 2016) would be 36DD.

On an off note I am very dissapointed that they put those two Consul models as event-exclusives, I really wanted those two (especially the Alpha Legion one with the axe) but going on the FW weekender just to buy two models is kind of silly.
yes, yes.. I know about Ebay but those things got expensive quick and I am not willing to part with twice the sale price (or more).

Why oh why FW? there's a distinct lack of generic HQs and you make 2 of them event models? *cries*

Those models are not just available at the FW weekender but at all shows they attend. So Salute, Comicon, Adepticon etc.

May not be any help in Sweden but if you have a chum attending any such shows (on the FW event diary) then they could pick one up for you or FW will post one to you if they don't have stock.

Ultramarines!!! More interesting stuff for me ...

ULTRAMARINES INVICTARII HEADS & TORSOS




ULTRAMARINES MK IV PRAETORIAN HEADS & TORSOS




ULTRAMARINES LEGION TRANSFER SHEET




http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff

And for this week's "we can't show you the titan yet" release we get some ultrasmurfs stuff! *yawn*

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTRAMARINES_LEGION_TRANSFER_SHEET.html



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTRAMARINES_PRAETORIAN_HEADS_TORSOS.html



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/ULTRAMARINES_INVICTARII_HEADS_TORSOS.html

 Peregrine wrote:
And for this week's "we can't show you the titan yet" release we get some ultrasmurfs stuff! *yawn*

Well, I was a little faster ;-)

And I find that stuff way more interesting than Titans ...

Oooh shiny! Actually like the Ultramarine legion stuff a lot! Also- who are the Invictarii please?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Oooh shiny! Actually like the Ultramarine legion stuff a lot! Also- who are the Invictarii please?

Probably a legion-specific unit we'll see in the next 30k book when ultrasmurfs get their special rules.