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^ I'm not supposed to encourage this kind of stuff, but eff it that was a perfect score gif deployment lol!

MetalOxide wrote:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440160a&prodId=prod1710081a

You gotta be joking... £30 for the codex?! Stuff that! I'd rather play with the old codex and fork out £30!

DON'T LOOK AT THE LIMITED EDITION!!

The B/W codex is pretty cool, but completely impractical. You'd need to buy the £30 quid one to avoid ruining the other.

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Looking at the clear pictures, the helldrake is actually the best of the large kits. Remove the head, excess spikes and claws and you'll get a nice looking flying demon engine. Maybe add a mechanical lamprey mouth in the neck socket for extra effect, but even plugging it with a round shield with a chaos symbol would be enough. Add chains and presto, you've got a welded "insertion" hatch.

The maluers require a new set of non fleshy legs and doing something with the awful head. Probably just skipping it would be enough.

You've sold me on the Drake. Could look great with your suggested conversion. Kind of like a giant mechanical Screamer.

 Exergy wrote:
Another Dark Apostle



back of the dark apostle

Wow, will any of these not need to be returned?. I've heard people saying Finecast has been improving of late. I hope for the sake of anyone who buys this guy that it's true.

 JOHIRA wrote:
Wow.

Looking at those pics, I can only say that Chaos has gotten very, very silly. I mean, to be fair, it was always silly. But now it's just... lol.

Unless they re-release doomrider in finecast chaos will never be as silly as it once was.

I reckon the dragon would look ace if it did have a tail/bottom half, I hope to see these types of conversions

 winterman wrote:

 JOHIRA wrote:
Wow.

Looking at those pics, I can only say that Chaos has gotten very, very silly. I mean, to be fair, it was always silly. But now it's just... lol.

Unless they re-release doomrider in finecast chaos will never be as silly as it once was.

First Edition Daemonettes, or even second edition.

Rogue Trader - 2nd edition had some absolute Horrible Models.

Look at how stubby it looks! This is definitely not even worth £10 let alone £40!

The more I look at that Dark Apostle the more it seems like a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.

Seriously, how many rolls of toilet paper?

I never thought I'd see the day where they did a limited edition Codex.

I'm befuddled.

You must have missed the Space Marine codex from 4th edition iirc.

I should have clarified a bit better...

I never thought I would see them do it again.

I'm going to go airbrush now. At least things will make somewhat more sense then...

Cult troops are Elites... if no one noticed yet. Wonder how that will sort out in the Codex? People with 4-6 squads of cult troops might be a bit upset...

 BladeWalker wrote:
Cult troops are Elites... if no one noticed yet. Wonder how that will sort out in the Codex? People with 4-6 squads of cult troops might be a bit upset...

iirc taking a specific hq makes them troops

What the hell... this has to be a mistake:
The Heldrake is listed at $89 in Canada, but only $81 in Australia! It's the only one listed cheaper too so there's no way that that's the real deal.

My Plague Marines are now elites?

Cyvash wrote:

 BladeWalker wrote:
Cult troops are Elites... if no one noticed yet. Wonder how that will sort out in the Codex? People with 4-6 squads of cult troops might be a bit upset...

iirc taking a specific hq makes them troops

indeed if you take a mark of a god on your Chaos lord the appropriate cult troop becomes troops

 Vladsimpaler wrote:


Not gonna lie, I saw this and this was my face as I saw the price

I saw the book and knew I must have it and then I saw the price and was like:





aaand just realized I got ninja'ed on the gif choice.

Everything's up for preorder now.

I've been checking the 360º views and, while not as excited as with the Necron and Dark Eldar, I must say Chaos got a nice and well deserved upgrade.

- Dinoriders my fat shiny a**. The fiends look rightfully impressive, and will stack up nicely amongst the new and existing Chaos miniatures. I can't wait to see a Khorne-y Maulerfiend.

- The Dragon. Not exactly toylike, but still somewhat silly. Seen from the side it resembles an angry iron chicken. Seen from the rear... well. Is it just me or that exhaust port looks like an enormous...errrr... donkey-cave?

- The raptors/warp talons are beautiful, as expected.

- The Mutilators look slightly better on the GW site. More like a terminator suffering an excruciating mutation, less like a slowed gorilla on steriods.

- The Aspiring Champion is frankly cool. And plastic. Yay!

- Both the Warpsmith and the Dark Apostle are impressively baroque exercises in sculpting. I thought it would be easy to convert those adding a couple mechadendrites/purity seals to a Space Marine here and there... but matching their convoluted style is going to take more effort and skill.

- The upgrade packs look just plain fugly and I'd advise anyone willing to go the Night Lords/Iron Warriors/Thousand Sons/Emperor's Children route to grab some forgeworld pre-heresy armor bits and some greenstuff instead. Back to the drawing board, GW. Those may work as a stopgap measure but are far from satisfactory.

In all, a mildly exciting release.

Anyone else think goatse when they spun the Heldrake around? cmon GW...that's just wrong...

 kronk wrote:

 Cyrax wrote:
Launch bundle?!


http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440206a&prodId=prod1740031a

Just did the math. Zero discount on that bundle.

$243 for $243 worth of product.

At least they didn't try to insult our intelligence by putting a "limited quantity only" hourglass on it, too.

 Amaya wrote:
Anyone else think goatse when they spun the Heldrake around? cmon GW...that's just wrong...

No I was just looking up that hole, to see if there was an egg coming out.

Were did you see the information about cult troop being elite? If this is real im fuc&(?&?* piss off...

$50 for a full color hardcover codex... worth it.

Cult troops are listed under 'elites' on GW's site, hence...

GOD DAMNIT! I was really happy to heard about the new chaos codex, but since stuffs are getting out i'm starting to get pissed off. Hope the codex won't be a dissapointment....

Meh, you all need to get your mind out of the gutter. So the dragon has an engine port. It's got a whole bunch of other ones all around the main one


Now we know why it doesn't have a longer tail though =)

Worst photo-shopping ever! I bet the lightning claws were so miscast that they had to crop em out!

I think they'd notice the miscast while painting and simply pick another model to paint.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
Cult troops are listed under 'elites' on GW's site, hence...

Cult Troops as elites would ruin this codex.

I really hope it's a goof, but I doubt it.

Unless Orks gets some love, I'm done with GW.