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That's news to me, when I play Planetstrike I attack the "stronghold". After all, the Bastions and such are also not coincidentally the game objectives. Plus, it's fun trying to take them down.

Imagine Warhammer Siege, but you can ignore their castle and just have your troops appear inside it. That's what Planetstrike is like.

Planetstrike would be a lot more fun if there were indeed areas of denial. Like 12" around each bastion at least, to make movement more critical. Then it's be more than deepstrike, survive, lose/win, there goes 2 hours.

Back on-topic, I really wonder what the flyer rules could consist of. They've gotta be more detailed than the current flyer rules, that's for sure.

George Spiggott had some decent dogfighting rules up some time ago, and my group wanted to develop them but then ran into real life and dropped the project. The rules he had were sort of comparable to 40K's close combat (possible combat vs. other flyers each round including opponent's, but ground attack only on your own turn). They certainly made air combat fast and furious. Let's hope GW can do the same.

A plastic Titan would be a great move forward.

I hope it comes as two seperate kits,one for Chaos and another for Loyalists. Both with plenty of options so that no two are the same.

My friend would get one the minute it comes out,he loves Titans.

I would really like to see plastic titans. However I have the warhound and the reaver and there’s a lot of large rounded parts. Can’t see them converted into plastic without a lot of changes. Like to be wrong.

That's my problem too, as noted earlier.

All that means is that my favorite pattern of Warhound (Mars) is OUT for plastic, maybe, and we'll be stuck with the box-o-rific Lucius pattern one...

As for the Reaver... who knows?

But I think that class of Titan is far away from being available in plastic!

Really don’t like the Lucius pattern one, does anyone buy it? Think the thunder hawk is more likely but even that’s a bit of a stretch.

I'd love the return of epic in some form with plastic titans at current quality.

I also want a pony, and a BB gun and world peace.

I think I'll get those before Epic...

Alpharius wrote:That's my problem too, as noted earlier.

All that means is that my favorite pattern of Warhound (Mars) is OUT for plastic, maybe, and we'll be stuck with the box-o-rific Lucius pattern one...

As for the Reaver... who knows?

But I think that class of Titan is far away from being available in plastic!

Can we get a comparison shot between the Mars pattern and the Lucius pattern? For reference.

Happygrunt wrote:Can we get a comparison shot between the Mars pattern and the Lucius pattern? For reference.

Lucius Pattern

Mars Pattern

Actually i like the Boxlucius better.

I like the Lucius better myself as well.

There's one (or two) in every crowd...

I'll take the Jackal over the Wolf any time. At least that one has teeth and eyes.

Lucius for me as well. Either of those kits would be awesome though. Plastic is much easier to paint than metal, my arm got sore last night, just trying to paint some fiends.

Interesting - the math nerd in me would like to see a plot of the people who like the Lucius vs. the Mars by the year they started playing Warhammer. I'd postulate that folks that prefer the Lucius Pattern are generally newer players compared to those that prefer the Mars Pattern (which is more akin to old skool Epic styling). Again, I say generally - but I'd bet that'd be the trend we'd see.

You're probably right - good catch!

Yes my newness might have to do with why i relate boxy to IG.

I would like a plastic Tau Orca if it had rules like a Vendetta.

I would like a plastic Tau Orca whatever the rules or even without rules

Kroothawk wrote:I would like a plastic Tau Orca whatever the rules or even without rules

i'm surprised there is all this love for the orca which is basically a school bus in spaaaccee! unless they come out with a gunboat version, the standard "not meant to be a combat vehicle" would be a poor choice for the next big kit.

Kroothawk wrote:I would like a plastic Tau Orca whatever the rules or even without rules

Only if it comes with the parts to make "crashed" Orca piece too!

warboss wrote:i'm surprised there is all this love for the orca which is basically a school bus in spaaaccee! unless they come out with a gunboat version, the standard "not meant to be a combat vehicle" would be a poor choice for the next big kit.

They are kind of cool in Dawn of War, when they bring in new units. And as said, there is a command and a gunship variant of it, although both have not very impressive rules.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAj7sNnLVo4&feature=related

I'd like one for future Dark Heresy purposes, just like with Scourge the Heretic.

The Forge World Orca kit costs nearly £300. How much would a good polystyrene kit cost from GW?

Same as a Baneblade no doubt.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Interesting - the math nerd in me would like to see a plot of the people who like the Lucius vs. the Mars by the year they started playing Warhammer. I'd postulate that folks that prefer the Lucius Pattern are generally newer players compared to those that prefer the Mars Pattern (which is more akin to old skool Epic styling). Again, I say generally - but I'd bet that'd be the trend we'd see.

I prefer the Lucius, and I started back in 2nd edition. But one of the main things that got me into 40K was I was given a deck of cards with pictures of old Epic war machines for some card game. And I loved most of the designs, but I always thought the old round warhound with a literal dog head looked silly. The first time I saw a Lucius pattern I thought, "finally, the warhound design makes sense!"

Kanluwen wrote:Only if it comes with the parts to make "crashed" Orca piece too!

I'm not interested in an actual Orca model, but I would love a low-price Orca wreck piece.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Same as a Baneblade no doubt.

That sounds realistic.

The Orca is probably about the same size.

Kilkrazy wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:Same as a Baneblade no doubt.

That sounds realistic.

The Orca is probably about the same size.

But with a lot less pieces, unless they include options for at least the gunship version.
And they can make the mobile HQ as an upgrade kit, eventually.

The Gunship version should be included in the kit.

They could include interior detail -- the crew and passengers -- though that is irrelevant in game terms.