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Nothing to excited but this just showed up on my Facebook feed from the local GW store.

Is it my imagination, or do the shoulder pads look bigger on this version? Also thighs a bit shorter?

T

 Slayer le boucher wrote:


Box confirmed to be 95Pounds so 150$-ish, that make a 125euros.

I suspect it looks a bit different because the legs have been cast as a full piece instead of in several bits like the resin ones.

The lower legs look very different from the FW kit. The kneepads are much more recessed, the knee joint is a lot smaller and the torso seems to be bigger.

Basically, it looks like the plastic Contemptor skipped on leg day.

Looks a little on the derpy side

Here is a picture of my FW contemptor dread for comparison who is actually in a similar, derpy pose. I swear these guys ripped me off! I assembled him like half a year ago.

I will be getting a box or two. It looks like they will be Night Lords, since I could get Batman Knight for not very much in the Kabuki sale, along with some batwing-skull shoulderpads.

So, Contemptors. What is the consensus on weaponry -- get a couple of boxes and use both Kheres cannons on one dread, if that's easy enough to do, to make a Contemptor Mortis? How to arm the other? Pick up extra weapons from FW? Missile launchers on both, too, presumably?

Can my necrons get in on this betrayal at Calth or is marines only, no xenos allowed?

Eldar, Dark Eldar and Orks are the only playable Xenos around during the HH. The rest came onto the scene around 10,000 years afterwards.

Nothing stopping you from playing a 30k army in a what if scenario, though.

Contemptor armaments - I've already got a dual kheres (he's awesome!) I'll get two from calth, one with two fists, one with two twin volkites I've picked up from fw. That's me

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Eldar, Dark Eldar and Orks are the only playable Xenos around during the HH. The rest came onto the scene around 10,000 years afterwards.

Nothing stopping you from playing a 30k army in a what if scenario, though.

I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to have a 30k Imperial force unwittingly stumble across a Tomb World and trigger its wakeup a tad early (seeing as they've been sleeping for 65 million years, 10,000 years is the Necron equivalent of your alarm going off a couple of minutes early!). Obviously they wouldn't know what Necrons were, but being Xenos they'd almost certainly attempt to eradicate them by any means necessary.

The only 40k Xenos that don't really make sense in 30k are the Tau and Nids, since neither show up until much later.

Maybe we will see 30k Squats

That's exactly what I'm thinking.

There were other, minor xenos during the Heresy (such as those weird Slaanesh worshiping worms), but I doubt we'll ever see models for them as they are very minor players in the story.

I see so much conversion potential for the Contemptor kit! Magnetizing the arms (under the shoulder), converting lascannon arms, etc.

I could have sworn I saw a Contemptor with two assault cannon per arm (don't remember if it was a conversion or not), can't seem to find it online though.

It'll be significantly more then two boxes... ;-)

 Sword Of Caliban wrote:
That's exactly what I'm thinking.

I think if the squats existed we would have heard about them in one of the 117 Horus Heresy novels..

Cotton Hill pattern Contemptor?

I never got into 30k so I only need two MkIV guys and two or three Cataphractii Terminators to mix into my existing stuff. I already have three Contemptors magnetized for mix & match gearing up when I make my lists.

timd wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do the shoulder pads look bigger on this version? Also thighs a bit shorter?

T

 Slayer le boucher wrote:


Box confirmed to be 95Pounds so 150$-ish, that make a 125euros.

I think it's the photo, the model is leaning forward a bit, so it gives an illusion of larger top smaller bottom.

 aka_mythos wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:
I love mk.4 but hate Craptemptor dreadnoughts and Crapcraptii termies. Not sure what to do, I stopped buying 40k after AoS and this might be not worth breaking this wonderful GW free spell.

I'd love me another boardgame with good minis though, even in boring HH times (which I ofc hate). On the other hand the price seems a bit high. Sure it's good vs FW but quite bad vs other GW boxed games/ expansions/ starters. Will wait for reviews and then see I guess.

Well worse comes to worse, you buy the game and sell off what you don't like. A lot of people have plenty marines but might like some of the other models.

Yes good advice but it's a decision of loosely defined morality now lol. I don't really like them Greed Wealthstock and don't want to support them but hey it's shiny. Also I want to try converting contemptor legs with standard boxy dread top for something that could walk, not to mention catphractii (?) legs with standard termies. It's the price so the wife really that keeps me from buying the most tbh. Lol I'm drunk.

 krazynadechukr wrote:

timd wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do the shoulder pads look bigger on this version? Also thighs a bit shorter?

T

 Slayer le boucher wrote:


Box confirmed to be 95Pounds so 150$-ish, that make a 125euros.

I think it's the photo, the model is leaning forward a bit, so it gives an illusion of larger top smaller bottom.

It's the missing knee caps & the cut on the front of the exhausts. As I've got 2 DG ones already will either sell these or harvest the weapons.

So, is this going to be a Limited Edition box set?

Still not 100% confirmed, but no, this will be a general release.

 bubber wrote:

 krazynadechukr wrote:

timd wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do the shoulder pads look bigger on this version? Also thighs a bit shorter?

T

 Slayer le boucher wrote:


Box confirmed to be 95Pounds so 150$-ish, that make a 125euros.

I think it's the photo, the model is leaning forward a bit, so it gives an illusion of larger top smaller bottom.

It's the missing knee caps & the cut on the front of the exhausts. As I've got 2 DG ones already will either sell these or harvest the weapons.

Thanks for making the box contemptor look like garbage GW. I know you dont wanna canabalize your own sales, but that is not good quality. Those skinny legs absolutley kill it for me.

The frame we saw for the contemptor is only 1 frame isn't it? Because it *really* shows when you put it up next to the FW contemptor.

Man, Games ar never happy, we finally get a Plastic Contemptor, and people complain about it. Yes, ofcourse the FW one is better. but it is also more effing expensive. This is a cheaper alternative.

I don't know. I would recommend someone to spring for the FW one just on the grounds on being better proportioned and detailed. I think the extra cost is worth it.

Then again, I'm about to drop $120 for Rowboat Girlyman so what do I know? I could buy a nice Khador army for that.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Man, Games ar never happy, we finally get a Plastic Contemptor, and people complain about it. Yes, ofcourse the FW one is better. but it is also more effing expensive. This is a cheaper alternative.

Of course we're going to complain, because it's a lower-quality product whose only advantage is that it's cheaper. GW could have done a proper kit with full posing options but they decided to do a monopose one with some awkward design choices included. So why shouldn't we criticize this?

 Orock wrote:

 bubber wrote:

 krazynadechukr wrote:

timd wrote:
Is it my imagination, or do the shoulder pads look bigger on this version? Also thighs a bit shorter?

T

 Slayer le boucher wrote:


Box confirmed to be 95Pounds so 150$-ish, that make a 125euros.

I think it's the photo, the model is leaning forward a bit, so it gives an illusion of larger top smaller bottom.

It's the missing knee caps & the cut on the front of the exhausts. As I've got 2 DG ones already will either sell these or harvest the weapons.

Thanks for making the box contemptor look like garbage GW. I know you dont wanna canabalize your own sales, but that is not good quality. Those skinny legs absolutley kill it for me.

Are you being for real? They look exactly the same- Why are you being so critical & complaining?

Too many cups half empty in here, you lot should lighten up , enjoy the game & stop knit picking at everything.

 Peregrine wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Man, Games ar never happy, we finally get a Plastic Contemptor, and people complain about it. Yes, ofcourse the FW one is better. but it is also more effing expensive. This is a cheaper alternative.

Of course we're going to complain, because it's a lower-quality product whose only advantage is that it's cheaper. GW could have done a proper kit with full posing options but they decided to do a monopose one with some awkward design choices included. So why shouldn't we criticize this?

How do you know there isn't a proper Contemptor kit in the pipeline for $50+? Or did you rage at the DV monopose Helbrute as well?

Folks interested in the HH and willing to shell out a $100 for a Contemptor have already done it. This release *is* a more affordable alternative for those who wouldn't pay so much for a shoddily cast miniature from FW. Is the quality less? Of course it is, you pay a sixth of the price for it! You'd have to be mentally impaired to demand the same quality for a kit this much cheaper. Is it acceptable quality for the general public? I'd say it is. It certainly is for me. And if I find myself in need of more Contemptors, I'll either wait for the full kit or convert the starter one.