6th Edition Box Set Discussion - preorder info Aug 24

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**wolfeman**

Set looks awesome! already preordered.

**almostreal**

iproxtaco wrote:
They must being pulling some kind of joke with that price.

It's at least £15 less than I expected it to be.

This was the biggest suprise to me. I thought it'd be $120, The price is a great surprise and although I don't play either army, got me to order one today. The hellbrute looks cool as do the special characters. I think the cultists look a little bland, but whatever....for the rulebook and the Brute the price is ok and I'll probably end up painting all of it and maybe starting a Chaos army down the line after the codex drops.

Well done GW, best starter set since I've been in the hobby (5 years) and keeping the price low was a brilliant move.

**danant**

Can anyone comment on "snap-fit plastic models"?

I'm returning to the hobby after few years break and construcing minis without a glue seems a little bit "different"... Has any other set had anything like that in the past?

What I'm afraid of is a situation where due to no-glue building phylosophy we get minis that are difficult to convert or even adjust a little...

**Skinless2**

danant wrote:
Can anyone comment on "snap-fit plastic models"?

I'm returning to the hobby after few years break and construcing minis without a glue seems a little bit "different"... Has any other set had anything like that in the past?

What I'm afraid of is a situation where due to no-glue building phylosophy we get minis that are difficult to convert or even adjust a little...

They only do this with the starter set's. AOBR was the same way, glue is not necessary but I will be gluing them first thing

**notprop**

No glue just makes it easier for new starters, you literally need nothing esle to at a game so no biggie.

As for converting it will be no harder than any other plastic model. Obviously it will not be in the usual components that a SM or IG model might have so kit bashing becomes a bit harder.

**prototype_X**

A little green-stuff, a head swap and some cloaks... Viola cultist into an instant Delaque....

**Bloodwin**

-Loki- wrote:
That would be a Fortress of Redemption.

If you read the description of it in the rulebook, they're trying to turn it into a general Imperial fortification. Dark Angels are mentioned as using them during the crusade, but now it's just a general Imperial thing, even the dark angels iconography just being 'images of angels of death'.

**H.B.M.C.**

almostreal wrote:
iproxtaco wrote:
It's at least £15 less than I expected it to be.

This was the biggest suprise to me. I thought it'd be $120

Oh good for you! (/Christian Bale)

**monkeyh**

OK so I haven't read through every page of this thread so apologies if I'm repeating stuff. But this set looks great. At last chaos space marines that really look the business and that chaos lord....awesome. I don't really need any of this stuff but the models have got me really tempted. And also, at last some non FW chaos cultists. I may have a few beers tonight, think 'what the hell' and order it! Hopefully this is the beginning of the new CSM range that everybody's been banging on about for so long.

**Praxiss**

The Hellbrute model gives me hope for the other daemon engines that are supposed to be coming out with the new 'Dex.

I just hope the starter kit model is typical of the range and just just a one-off, coz it looks awesome!

**KalashnikovMarine**

Excellent, excellent. Have my pre-order ready, hopefully will be getting a trade arranged shortly and my Venerable Dreadnought and Dark Angels upgrade sprue came the other day, so I have five DA veterans, a custom Belial and of course aforementioned Venerable Dreadnought. Add two sets of the starter set and that's a pretty decent Sphess Mehreen force.

**CT GAMER**

nolzur wrote:
CT GAMER wrote:
...or some kind of Dark Angels bunker?

That would be a Fortress of Redemption.

Thanks you captain obvious.

The point was for NEW terrain pieces to be included regardless of what they are. We have a fortress, a bastion and a defrense line kit currently, but no true bunker (similar to the bottom/base of the bastion witout the tower segment, etc.)

**BlapBlapBlap**

Made a review of what I thought of the models at first site on the Penthouse. Hope you enjoy.

ILikeTrains wrote:OK, here we go. I've advance ordered the Limited Edition of Dark Vengeance, and just wanted to share my thoughts on some of the models.

First of all:

DARK ANGELS

Interrogator-Chaplain

Badass to the extreme. Brilliant pose, imposing features, grimdark. Almost perfect in every way, only problem is the exceptionally Chaos-y incense burners on his back pack. I would have prefered something more like exhausts, perhaps? Plus, Limited Edition, so...

Company Master

Again, pretty nice, although it seems to be a rip of the current Finecast Dark Angels Company Master, down to the sword. Not necessarily bad though, just a bit too static. Loving the Combi-Plasma though, really sticks to the theme and makes it a ton easier to get one into your army.

Librarian

OK, this guy is disappointing. He's moving very slowly, lacks the ostentatious aura of the other characters, and looks rather stupid, particularly with the completely upright grip of the sword. Really is quite disappointing with the standards of other models in the set.

Deathwing Terminators

Just plain embarrassing. Really. The sculpts of the 2 normal guys are the same, the Assault Cannon holds one of the most ridiculous poses I have seen, equivalent to some of the 2nd and 3rd Ed sculpts. The wings on the back of the Sergeant look plain derpy, and the pose doesn't lend itself to intelligence either. The chainfist is really the only decent model. This is a real shame, as I am an avid Deathwing player.

Tactical Squad

I really do like these over the horrible, monopose AoBR models. Really. Dynamic poses aplenty, but some sculpts are redone. Still, It's another easy way to get a Plasma Cannon into your squad, and the sergeant does look like a leader, with good posing involved. Looking forward to these.

Ravenwing Bikers

Awesomesauce. Individual models, good poses, plenty of detail. One complaint would be the way the sergeant holds his sword, but that's really quite petty.

CHAOS

Chaos Lord

Absolutely stunning. This mini is at the quality that you would expect from regular blisters, and would do incredibly well as one. Everything about it, from the detail to the pose to the weapons is absolutely brilliant. This bodes well for the rest of the Chaos range.

Chosen

Just as amazing as the Lord. there's one repeated sculpt, sure, but that doesn't matter. These are dynamic, detailed and best of all, not just spiky skull marines. They've really managed to get the sense of Chaos with these.

Hellbrute

Again, amazing. The pose is good, it's detailed. My one gripe is the bare head in the middle of the torso, as it just looks out of place. Spiky, yes, but it isn't mindlessly so, and it is amazing.

Cultists

2 squads of Cultists. Very, very nice. Not ridiculous people in skirts or anything, these are ready to fight a war and win. Of course, there are repeated sculpts, but thanks to the individuality of the models you can paint them distinguishably. I also like the fact that GW has given some thought to weapons. These do uphold the high standard of the rest of the Chaos models very well.

**Brometheus**

"We..................Disagree."

**end**

pre-ordered my box. Love the models in this starter box, have been playing around with the idea of a chaos army or an DA army, now i can have both

. My first box of miniatures was the battle of macragge starter box years back, this seems so much better.

**bubber**

re terrain - they could have included something to repressent the hellfire stone (the central objective to the whole box set).
Wouldn't have to be that big either.
Will have to make one from scratch, something like this but without the elf on top -

**Spectral Dragon**

Now, I have read quite a bit of this thread but won't be reading it all......GW is stating there are a limited number of these boxes but that this is special edition, is there going to be a non-special edition version of this box?

**BlapBlapBlap**

I assume so, as it's called Limited Edition at this point. That would be a blunder, even by GW standards.

"Y'know what'd really sell? SELLING EVEN LESS PRODUCT FOR THE SAME PRICE!"

**Astroman**

The Chosen and that Chaos champion are amazing. The variant poses on the Termies are more than welcome as well. The Hellbrute made me crap my pants a little.

**d-usa**

Have you guys read the thread or the OP?

Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

But feel free to go on and keep on posting "HerpDerp GW"

**Grey Templar**

Yes, there is a limited edition box and a normal box. The limited edition is being released for advance order first and will sell till supplies run out, the regular box will be released later and will last for the duration of this edition.

**Deadshot**

I actually like the Assault Cannon guy but only if he is turned around so you.look him in the eye. The Librarian looks really good, kinda like a PA version of the FC TDA model when armed with the hand.

**A Town Called Malus**

Yeah I like the Librarian, too.

He's got the pose of walking forwards slowly with psychic lightning flashing out of his hand into whoever stands before him.

From now on I shall call him Palpatine

**Spectral Dragon**

d-usa wrote:
Have you guys read the thread or the OP?

Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

But feel free to go on and keep on posting "HerpDerp GW"

Yes, I cannot find mention of the unlimited box in there after reading it twice, perhaps I missed it but prices aren't mentioned there either, only the fact that they don't know the price as of yet.

(Which btw is 107 USD as mentioned a few times on the previous page)

I wish GW listed how many they had left on their website......

**Vespa**

d-usa wrote:
Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

My LGS told me when the LE runs out it will be replaced by the standard edition at the same price. But then we do pay twice as much as the rest of the world down here so maybe they decided to give us a "free" mini with our LE??

**CT GAMER**

A Town Called Malus wrote:
Yeah I like the Librarian, too.

He's got the pose of walking forwards slowly with psychic lightning flashing out of his hand into whoever stands before him.

From now on I shall call him Palpatine

I love the Librarian. Best model in the bunch imho.

The chaos lord is rather static looking...

**Platuan4th**

Spectral Dragon wrote:
d-usa wrote:
Have you guys read the thread or the OP?

Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

But feel free to go on and keep on posting "HerpDerp GW"

Yes, I cannot find mention of the unlimited box in there after reading it twice, perhaps I missed it but prices aren't mentioned there either, only the fact that they don't know the price as of yet.

(Which btw is 107 USD as mentioned a few times on the previous page)

I wish GW listed how many they had left on their website......

We spent an entire page discussing the standard edition. It'll be released the week after the LE is(so, Sept. 8th) and will be $99 USD.

**Spectral Dragon**

Platuan4th wrote:
Spectral Dragon wrote:
d-usa wrote:
Have you guys read the thread or the OP?

Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

But feel free to go on and keep on posting "HerpDerp GW"

Yes, I cannot find mention of the unlimited box in there after reading it twice, perhaps I missed it but prices aren't mentioned there either, only the fact that they don't know the price as of yet.

(Which btw is 107 USD as mentioned a few times on the previous page)

I wish GW listed how many they had left on their website......

We spent an entire page discussing the standard edition. It'll be released the week after the LE is(so, Sept. 8th) and will be $99 USD.

As I have already stated, I did not and will not read this entire thread simply for that information, however big thanks for forwarding that info in this post!

**d-usa**

Spectral Dragon wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
Spectral Dragon wrote:
d-usa wrote:
Have you guys read the thread or the OP?

Makes it pretty clear what the LE box is and that there is a price difference.

But feel free to go on and keep on posting "HerpDerp GW"

Yes, I cannot find mention of the unlimited box in there after reading it twice, perhaps I missed it but prices aren't mentioned there either, only the fact that they don't know the price as of yet.

(Which btw is 107 USD as mentioned a few times on the previous page)

I wish GW listed how many they had left on their website......

We spent an entire page discussing the standard edition. It'll be released the week after the LE is(so, Sept. 8th) and will be $99 USD.

As I have already stated, ~~I did not and will not read this entire thread simply for that information~~ I want information but I don't actually want to do the work to find it, however big thanks for forwarding that info in this post!

Fixed that for you. Sorry, but it is a giant pet peeve of mine to have people pop in every few pages and basically post "I know the information is in here, but I don't want to actually look for it, so could somebody please spoonfeed it to me...". Don't take it personal.

Back to actual on-topic discussion though, sorry for the rant.

**insaniak**

BlapBlapBlap wrote:
OK, this guy is disappointing. He's moving very slowly, lacks the ostentatious aura of the other characters, and looks rather stupid, particularly with the completely upright grip of the sword. Really is quite disappointing with the standards of other models in the set.

I would completely disagree there... Personally, I think this guy is right up there with the current Terminator Librarian and Njall as one of the best Librarian models GW has ever produced. He's badass.

I really do like these over the horrible, monopose AoBR models.

Which is interesting, given that they're all in pretty much the same poses... The only difference is that the plasma cannon guy and the beakies have their heads turned sideways. Which admittedly does break it up a bit visually, but there's really not that great a disconnect between these and the AoBR guys.

Again, amazing. The pose is good, it's detailed. My one gripe is the bare head in the middle of the torso, as it just looks out of place. Spiky, yes, but it isn't mindlessly so, and it is amazing.

Given what a Dreadnought is supposed to be, and that this guy is essentially just a slightly more psycho chaotic dreadnought, I think the head works. Although I do have an idea or two to tinker with it a little...