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I wonder what happens if they fall down, it must require a squad of tacticals to try to get it to stand up again.

 Alfndrate wrote:

Centurions look stupid, and if what I heard from Kanluwen is right, then the fluff is just as stupid.

Could you elaborate on the fluff?

My Mrs reckons they look like Tellytubbies:..

I expect the tacticals and veterans will look boss however. Stabilised up armoured Rhino chassis is pretty cool too

 proditorcappela wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Marthike wrote:
The ones with the helmets looks much better, They look epic

They do look better with a helmet, but now I just noticed that one variant of the new helmets suffers from Extreme Frowny Face.

So, they'll look better with a helmet, certainly, just not... that helmet!

With that helmet, they make awesome Angry Marines.

Oh dear... massive quantities of bits will be needed. Those heads must be used with tactical marines ANGRY MARINES!

 RandyMcStab wrote:
My Mrs reckons they look like Tellytubbies:..

I expect the tacticals and veterans to look boss however. Stabilised up armoured Rhino chassis is pretty cool too

They were being called Termitubbies (on some other sites at least) before the pics even went up!

 ashikenshin wrote:
I wonder what happens if they fall down, it must require a squad of tacticals to try to get it to stand up again.

To be fair, the same applies to Terminators and Dreadnoughts anyhow. And there're long and painful discussions on this forum somewhere on how 40K Tanks just don't work. Can't drive over obstacles, etc.., etc..

 Daba wrote:

 RandyMcStab wrote:
My Mrs reckons they look like Tellytubbies:..

I expect the tacticals and veterans to look boss however. Stabilised up armoured Rhino chassis is pretty cool too

They were being called Termitubbies (on some other sites at least) before the pics even went up!

Termitubbies!!!

That made us both laugh

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 proditorcappela wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Marthike wrote:
The ones with the helmets looks much better, They look epic

They do look better with a helmet, but now I just noticed that one variant of the new helmets suffers from Extreme Frowny Face.

So, they'll look better with a helmet, certainly, just not... that helmet!

With that helmet, they make awesome Angry Marines.

Oh dear... massive quantities of bits will be needed. Those heads must be used with tactical marines ANGRY MARINES!

The drill needs to be replaced with spiky doorknobs covered in spikes. As in, spikes on the spikes.

 Ouze wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Oh wait, so you're saying there could potentially be a very vocal minority on Dakka?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

That can't be true.

No, I'm simply saying no matter how you can say "the opinion is 50/50", I'm showing that is not true. With math.

If you wish to now move the goalposts as is your wont, be my guest.

I put up a poll on Capture and Control about this.

http://www.captureandcontrol.com/2013/08/poll-what-do-you-think-of-new-centurion.html

Not really scientific either but C&C does pull from a slightly different audience base than just this thread on Dakka.

Since people are tallying votes, I'll say I kinda like them. And will also point out that people with strong objections are more likely to post that people who think they look good or better. I didn't feel the need to proclaim my feelings about them initially, but some of you sure did. That can skew a poll result as well, when the respondents are not randomly selected.

I have to say, I don't *dislike* the Centurions as models in their own right. The chunky aesthetic is cool in its rightful place (in fact, the shoulders in particular kinda remind me of Khador) and I can see them being fun to put together and paint.

HOWEVER - they do not fit the Space Marine aesthetic at all. Whoever created/approved this particular design really dropped the ball.

milo wrote:
Since people are tallying votes, I'll say I kinda like them. And will also point out that people with strong objections are more likely to post that people who think they look good or better. I didn't feel the need to proclaim my feelings about them initially, but some of you sure did. That can skew a poll result as well, when the respondents are not randomly selected.

That's why I called my poll "highly scientific"

They just look too, uh fat? hence the name termitubbies, but I think in comparison to obliterators ( because that is probably the best equivalent) the look a little packed together and static. If you ask me though, as a space marine player, I would not buy them for their look. Im with converting them.

I usually don't mind if models are not absolutely perfect, as I like converting anyway. However, with these I'm not sure if it is worth the trouble. Might be easier to just start from the scratch.

So basically, GW started making minis, with static, boring poses. Over the years, they became much more dynamic. Then that leveled out a bit, and we were stuck with bald, screaming, pointing men. And now the slope is going back down to boring and static and WAY too much gak on there.



Chalk me up for a big fat "NO" on the Centuritubbies. I rather like the Rhino though. a Little tweeking and itd look pretty boss

 Alpharius wrote:

 Marthike wrote:
The ones with the helmets looks much better, They look epic

They do look better with a helmet, but now I just noticed that one variant of the new helmets suffers from Extreme Frowny Face.

So, they'll look better with a helmet, certainly, just not... that helmet!

Yeah, my feeling is that if you absolutely must have these, they could be improved by making the shoulders and the helmet one big piece, like the Puppetswar models or a EOD suit. .

sigh… those are ugly..

Ooze, youre the shizz my friend

Good to know. It was the general consensus of my friends that it was a fake, but not do to "dropping to that level", but more to the fact that GW hasn't posed anything that dynamic before. That thing actually looks like it is moving.

Moving ugly, but moving.

 Ouze wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Oh wait, so you're saying there could potentially be a very vocal minority on Dakka?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

That can't be true.

No, I'm simply saying no matter how you can say "the opinion is 50/50", I'm showing that is not true. With math.

If you wish to now move the goalposts as is your wont, be my guest.

Hey I hated those gakky centurions as well, but cincy is right, dakka is one big pity party at the moment, 75% of the site seems to be impotent rage and fury against GW.

Man, and here I thought the chaos mutilators looked bad! At least they were apparently a last minute rush job to fill a model gap left in the release when aplastic oblit/muti dual kit hit some snag or other. These guys are a fancy new plastic kit - what's their excuse?

Maybe they'll look less off in person, but... Honestly, adding obliterators to the loyalist marine book was a dumb idea to begin with.

Those are gak.

They can't feth up the Sternguard kit right?

...right?

GW's attempt at heresy era terminators stinks!!!! leave it to forge world GW… Leave it to forge world!!!

Those are just horrible.. I just cant see ever liking them..

I imagine we will see A LOT of homemade variants of those if they are worth taking rules wise..

No the Sternguard will look awesome Id bet. The only thing to complain there Id say would be how many combiweapons will be in the kit? Because Im seeing them do the age old 1 of each so you need to buy 5 kits to get 5 combimeltas and so on

 Crimson wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

Centurions look stupid, and if what I heard from Kanluwen is right, then the fluff is just as stupid.

Could you elaborate on the fluff?

It has been lost in the thread but around page 28 or so, someone mentioned that "wounded Marines are placed inside the Centurion suits until they are fully healed".

 Plokoone wrote:
Those are gak.

They can't feth up the Sternguard kit right?

...right?

Those that have seen it have been effusive about it, so there's little chance of it thankfully.

Warsmith262 wrote:
GW's attempt at heresy era terminators stinks!!!! leave it to forge world GW… Leave it to forge world!!!

Those are not supposed to be Heresy-era Terminators.

They are supposed to be something else entirely.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It has been lost in the thread but around page 28 or so, someone mentioned that "wounded Marines are placed inside the Centurion suits until they are fully healed".

That's all good and well, but they're still going to have to deal with Loki, their mixed feelings about Ms. Potts, and their rampant alcoholism.

It's interesting to see the very different opinions on the centurions,as far as im concerned I might take these over finecast oblits. In other news the stalker tank looks pretty cool though.

 Ouze wrote:

Shotgun wrote:
Anyone have any info on this image?

http://imgur.com/MzhTAtG

I'm not sure if we want to be calling "ugliest model ever" just yet.

it's been discussed at some length in the last 10 pages, it is a fake.

I've seen a lot of people posting that it is fake, but no actual evidence.

I remember this exact same discussion when the first pics of the pumbagore were out, everyone cried fake but it wasn't!.