6th Edition Box Set Discussion - preorder info Aug 24

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**Deadshot**

BrassScorpion wrote:
Deadshot wrote:
So standard edition going out this saturday, to clarify? And looking at about £60?
Prices on starter sets thankfully are not being notched up at this time with Dark Vengeance, the standard set will cost the same as Assault On Black Reach. That's $99 in the US.

Fantastic! £61.50, which if I split with my friend I'll spend £30.75. And if we spend another 25p each we can a large "Bag for life*" to carry it!

*A bag for life is just a plastic bag except they are ultradurable (I tried break it and couldn't) and completely recycable and compostable, and if it gets damaged you can bring it in and get a free replacement.

**lord_blackfang**

scarletsquig wrote:
Wow, they didn't bother to make box art for their game?

Weak.

Are you accusing GW of copying Mantic? Mantic didn't invent the concept of low production values you know!

Sorry, I just wanted to reverse that argument just once. All in good fun.

**A Town Called Malus**

lord_blackfang wrote:
scarletsquig wrote:
Wow, they didn't bother to make box art for their game?

Weak.

Are you accusing GW of copying Mantic? Mantic didn't invent the concept of low production values you know!

Sorry, I just wanted to reverse that argument just once. All in good fun.

Nah, they're copying Metallica who copied Spinal Tap.

**alphaecho**

scarletsquig wrote:
Wow, they didn't bother to make box art for their game?

Weak.

Perhaps the box is Limited Edition with art to follow on the mainstream version.

**ShatteredBlade**

Sometimes not having box art is a good idea. I mean..remember this gem?

**RyanA**

It's...it's beautiful

**Eiríkr**

Sprue pics available...

Check here.

**lord_blackfang**

Eiríkr wrote:
Sprue pics available...

Check here.

That's a bit of a stretch.

**Motograter**

Deadshot wrote:
So standard edition going out this saturday, to clarify? And looking at about £60?

No. The limited edition set is out this saturday. The non limited standard set is to follow when the ltd sells out

**Lockark**

I can Imagen I'm not the only Chaos player waiting for the cheaper Non-Limited Edition set to come out. =U

**Deadshot**

Motograter wrote:
Deadshot wrote:
So standard edition going out this saturday, to clarify? And looking at about £60?

No. The limited edition set is out this saturday. The non limited standard set is to follow when the ltd sells out

So I have to wait untill 40,000 copies have sold untill I can buy one? I reckon there is 40,000 LE copies.

**Symbio Joe**

Oookay maybe not as conversion friendly as I suspected...

**pretre**

Image tags are not rocket science, people!

**Howard A Treesong**

ceorron wrote:

So for those out of the loop, or too young. What were choas cultists (and Sob) like back in the day?

Would be good to contrast how GW has changed over the many years it has been growing into the omnipresent super power of today.

They didn't as such, Sisters only came in towards the end of 2nd edition and are the same models produced now. There was no range of Sororitas before that, I think they did a figure or two but they were just slim looking Space Marines and nothing like the current lot. Chaos cultists had a set of figures for 2nd edition but the range seemed fairly short lived, they mostly had bare chests and wore robes from the waist down from what I recall. Before that non-marine Chaos stuff was a range of various mutant type characters, they didn't have a uniform range of cultists that I remember.

**pretre**

**Nevelon**

pretre wrote:
Image tags are not rocket science, people!

Looks like a very easy head swap for people who think the winged helm is over the top.

**Grey Templar**

With a helmet like that on a nameless captain model, I wonder what Azrael's resculpt will look like

I must say again how impressive the detail on these models is, especially considering they are all snap together.

**haroon**

Grey Templar wrote:
With a helmet like that on a nameless captain model, I wonder what Azrael's resculpt will look like

I must say again how impressive the detail on these models is, especially considering they are all snap together.

Nameless captain? How dare you sir! He is Company Master Balthasar

**Deadshot**

Grey Templar wrote:
With a helmet like that on a nameless captain model, I wonder what Azrael's resculpt will look like

I must say again how impressive the detail on these models is, especially considering they are all snap together.

Easy. Pretty much badass but still has the bloke with the helmet for saftey precautions. Even his mighty neck cannot hold wingcrests bigger than himself!

**MightyGodzilla**

haroon wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
With a helmet like that on a nameless captain model, I wonder what Azrael's resculpt will look like

I must say again how impressive the detail on these models is, especially considering they are all snap together.

Nameless captain? How dare you sir! He is Company Master Balthasar

Which company is Balthasar in charge of? 4th or 5th?

**Destrado**

I think it's the 5th, based on the knees.

**Kroothawk**

alphaecho wrote:
scarletsquig wrote:
Wow, they didn't bother to make box art for their game?
Weak.

Perhaps the box is Limited Edition with art to follow on the mainstream version.

That assumption is correct.

**Platuan4th**

Deadshot wrote:
Motograter wrote:
Deadshot wrote:
So standard edition going out this saturday, to clarify? And looking at about £60?

No. The limited edition set is out this saturday. The non limited standard set is to follow when the ltd sells out

So I have to wait untill 40,000 copies have sold untill I can buy one? I reckon there is 40,000 LE copies.

No, you just have to wait a week. Unlimited is supposedly released August 8th.

**Deadshot**

Don't you mean September? Well that annoys me because I need to get the CSM (Lord Chosen and Hellbrute) done by the end of September and having only 3 weeks to do so pisses me off, and I don't want to drop an extra £1.75 so my friend can MAYBE get a Chaplain.

When I say MAYBE its because I think some people are going to preorder and be let down as with 6th ed Gamers and Collector edition.

**EYEofTERROR**

It seems the Limited Edition is SOLD OUT

**d-usa**

Artificial scarcity FTW!

**Nicorex**

Did anyone else notice in this months WD, that the forces of Chaos did not win a single encounter(not including first one since its a play aginst yourself)? If I was a brand new to 40K player that had chosen the chaos army, I think I would feel pretty put out that it seems like the force I picked never stands a chance aginst the opposing DA player. I think it would have been better for this starter set if the Chaos forces had recived the limited edition model and that it had been a Sorcerer or a pair of Obliterators.

**Brometheus**

Oh I noticed.

Enjoy your new book, DA.

**d-usa**

Wait, we are judging the performance of a new army based on batt-reps in a magazine that despite being owned by GW manages to get the rules wrong and fields illegal armies on a regular basis?

**Brometheus**

Gotta love WD batreps with demon princes who have Molten Beam and Bolt of Change.