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The titan is being teased out and will not be unveiled until a week or two from now when Warhammer World reopens. So patience child, patience.

The Ultramarine torsos look great by the way, not completely sold on the Invictarii heads, the Praetorians on the other hand look amazing.

Good! They finally did the Ultra helmets from the artbooks, the ones with the mostly smooth face-plates that will likely be gold when painted.

Sweet.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Good! They finally did the Ultra helmets from the artbooks, the ones with the mostly smooth face-plates that will likely be gold when painted.

Sweet.

My thoughts exactly. Not to mention that the iconography isn't too egregious on those torsos; with a very small amount of trimming they would make some nice generic variants.

Also, a rundown of the decals found on the sheet: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/U/ULTRAMARINES_Transfer_Sheet_Detail.pdf

And painted Praetorians:

First FW Marines on 32mm bases?

I know its just another bald SM head but that one looks like it has real character. Cue an army with nothing but those heads.

Just got the newsletter myself. The reopening of Warhammer World is next weekend, so the Titan will be unveiled then. Hopefully Tempest will also go on sale!

I'm hoping that the Invictarii are the proto vanguard and the Praetorian are the proto sternguard, we'll know when book 5 launches a week on Saturday.

I'm not so keen on the Praetorian, that looks a little over done on some of them, but the Invictarii look great. I've already done all my 30k UM company with that style head from maximini.

Those UM kits look awesome.

I'm not actually that impressed with the UM parts, some of the sculpting, especially on the torsos looks a little sloppy. Also the fact that it is sold as an upgrade set means that to build a 10-man squad costs over 80 pounds!

 Fireball wrote:

 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 ...

More usefull at any rate. Judging by their usual prices, that thing will probably cost around 1500 GBP, fully blinged out. Who in his right mind pays that much money for two kilograms of resin?

 Commander Cain wrote:
I'm not actually that impressed with the UM parts, some of the sculpting, especially on the torsos looks a little sloppy. Also the fact that it is sold as an upgrade set means that to build a 10-man squad costs over 80 pounds!

That's not new though. Terror Squads and the two IF special squads are the same. The IF one is the worst because you get everything in it except legs and one arm IIRC so you have to buy a whole set just for those parts.

 Commander Cain wrote:
I'm not actually that impressed with the UM parts, some of the sculpting, especially on the torsos looks a little sloppy. Also the fact that it is sold as an upgrade set means that to build a 10-man squad costs over 80 pounds!

I noticed the same thing about the price and I can't figure out how they arrived at it. These UM upgrade kits that include a head and torso are more (24) than the IF Phalanx upgrade that is head, torso, shield, etc (22)...

SpyderG6 wrote:

 Commander Cain wrote:
I'm not actually that impressed with the UM parts, some of the sculpting, especially on the torsos looks a little sloppy. Also the fact that it is sold as an upgrade set means that to build a 10-man squad costs over 80 pounds!

I noticed the same thing about the price and I can't figure out how they arrived at it. These UM upgrade kits that include a head and torso are more (24) than the IF Phalanx upgrade that is head, torso, shield, etc (22)...

It's about the same as a head and body set from they other legions, and you get double the bodies. And the IF set is just 5 people.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
First FW Marines on 32mm bases?

Looks that way. Time to rebase all my armies I guess.

I plan to buy the Warlord as it comes out, but I am fine with this UM release. I need the extra paychecks between now and when it goes up for sale. So 16th is OK with me (or even the 30th, so I could squeak in a few Cult Mechanicus models to run at the feet of their God-Engine)

Feels good when your chosen legion is up to bat. I like seeing all the Horus Heresy stuff come out, but being able to participate now is pretty cool. I'm excited for everyone whose legions have yet to be done. Your time is coming!

Dark Angels and Blood Angels will probably have the best stuff in the entire range. Space Wolves and Thousand Sons will probably be incredible too. I'm excited to see white scars get some interesting, distinguishing details besides "white marines on bikes."

Invictarii helmets look like they've got facehuggers of their faces. Must be the Ultra thing.

As an Ultramarine player, I should be more excited about this. They look fine, but just that. I’m not being blown away by how awesome they are.

Hopefully there will be some jaw-dropping stuff over the horizon.

I think the new UM stuff looks great!
The ultramarines may actually be kinda cool in 30k.

Yaraton wrote:
Invictarii helmets look like they've got facehuggers of their faces. Must be the Ultra thing.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Is there some Roman or Classical Greek armor reference I'm not getting? Maybe they'll look better when painted.

Yaraton wrote:
Invictarii helmets look like they've got facehuggers of their faces. Must be the Ultra thing.

It took me awhile, but I think the helmets are supposed to look like they have a phoenix/eagle on them.

Look at the chestplate here and you'll see what I mean:

I like them! Like, a lot!

I won't start an Ultramarine army, but that looks fun to paint.

If they wanted to do the eagle faceplate thing (like in the HG kit) they need the full wings on the side. This might do it with the right paint job, but I’m not seeing it.

What about those Eagles on some of the INVICTARII chests? Weren't those reserved for the emperor's children? They only have one head i guess, so it doesen't count as imperial Eagles perhaps ?

The Imperial Aquila is two-headed, these have only one.

Those are supposed to be eagles on their faces? Ugh. I thought maybe it was some sort of lamellar detail or had some obscure historical reference. Like I said, maybe paint will help.

BTW, for those of you with HH armies: do you prefer upgrade kits like this? Seems like a ridiculously expensive way to to build an army. £61 for 10 men in Mark armor with heresy bolters plus £24 for the torsos. Yikes.

Zywus wrote:
What about those Eagles on some of the INVICTARII chests? Weren't those reserved for the emperor's children? They only have one head i guess, so it doesen't count as imperial Eagles perhaps ?

Basically, the Paletine Aquila, the Emperors personal symbol, was reserved for the EC, but the normal Aquila was still used for veterans and stuff.

 the_Armyman wrote:

BTW, for those of you with HH armies: do you prefer upgrade kits like this? Seems like a ridiculously expensive way to to build an army. £61 for 10 men in Mark armor with heresy bolters plus £24 for the torsos. Yikes.

I prefer the chapter specific stuff, yes. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? To me, yes. I want my HH army to look sweet, so I spent the money to do it.

Rar!

The Ultramarines, I think those helmets give them all angry eyes.