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Is it weird that as someone who loves Land Raiders I just can't get excited about all these PH ones?

These bundles are for the LEGION mk armour, and the only ones that have LEGION marine kits are mk 2, 3 and 4's.

Still waiting for the other armour Legion kits, the new assault legion kit for the mk 2 looks really good, hope they do the other assault versions too.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Compel wrote:
Are there any plans to release a MK5 bundle soon-ish?

Mk.V appears to be the red-headed step-child of the Power Armour world. Never gets any love.

I wish!

That title is held by my favorite, the MKVIII Errant armor!

MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

I know I am - it will have to wait until next year, but hell yeah!

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

Yes?

But probably just a small contingent of Heresy Era Ultramarines and Roboute... Something to ride around in my old school rhino

I'm planning on doing a loyalist Emperor's Children force, though it will be a slow project. So far have the Boarding Captain from last year, a half painted Contemptor and a half painted Storm Eagle.

I'm still pretty iffy on it. I have my 1000 points True Scale Raven Guard, but I would love to do a regular scale Heresy Era Raven Guard army as well.

But I have way to much unpainted stuff from way to many systems on my shelf already, so I am trying to talk myself out of it.

Legion? Doubt it. Ad Mech? Release some minis, already!!

I'll be doing a Space Wolves Legion army, but as we won't know the legion specific rules for at least a year or more, I'm starting with the army basics.

For Infantry I've got two mixed MkII and MkIV armoured 10-man squads, as well as a 10-man destroyer squad. All helmetless, of course

For Armour right now I have an Assault Ram and a LR Achilles, and a full Contempor Talon in terms of FW pieces.

Until the Space Wolves rules hit, I'll probably run them as World Eaters.

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

I am considering it, I sorted out parts to make 135 marines with armour from Mk II - MK VI. At least half of these come from my old Astral Claws Project.

That or I could sell them, 135 marines worth of parts including pre-heresy weapons, boarding shields etc.. might go for a good bit of $$$!

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

I was thinking about that, but the prices are awfully high. I also have problems finding a Legion I'd really dig - so far, only Iron Hands caught my attention, and I did read 10+ HH books.

Im waiting for the wolves of Fenris me, hoping on a Skarssen Skarssensson.

I want to get lots of the HH stuff, but actually really looking forward to seeing some Imperial Army stuff that can then be used in my post-heresy Guard as well...

For me, it's gonna be waiting until night Lord's and dark angels bits are out then I will snap this likeit's going out of style

In the end, though I am most interested in Alpha Legion and Raven Guard, I'll probably get all the Primarchs and a good bit of Imperial Army and Ad Mech too...

I will ditto most of what Alpharius says.

I am not interested in the current book as much as the one that will discuss the Alpha Legion or the Thousand Sons.

I would love to make a full Legion force at some point, but I am hesitant to go crazy on purchases until I know what flavors to focus on.

I'm trying to design my Chaos Army with FW MKIII armor so that I can field units as either Sons of Horus (HH army) or my Disciples of Horus (Chaos Army).

It's isn't easy, but I'm having fun with it, just the same.

 kronk wrote:
I'm trying to design my Chaos Army with FW MKIII armor so that I can field units as either Sons of Horus (HH army) or my Disciples of Horus (Chaos Army).

It's isn't easy, but I'm having fun with it, just the same.

You're a madman!

Of course, I'll be joining you there right around Tax Refund time...

 Alkasyn wrote:

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

I was thinking about that, but the prices are awfully high. I also have problems finding a Legion I'd really dig - so far, only Iron Hands caught my attention, and I did read 10+ HH books.

Iron Hands are for the Bitter and twisted who reject everyone else, as inferior. Welcome to the Clan.

 Alpharius wrote:

 kronk wrote:
I'm trying to design my Chaos Army with FW MKIII armor so that I can field units as either Sons of Horus (HH army) or my Disciples of Horus (Chaos Army).

It's isn't easy, but I'm having fun with it, just the same.

You're a madman!

Of course, I'll be joining you there right around Tax Refund time...

Don't get me wrong, though. My chaos army will have chaos models, too. This is going to be a lengthy project, though...

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

Almost bought that 20 Terminator thing.

I just wish the bundles had options. Do I want 40 Mk.III guys? No. But I'll take a bundle that allows me to get 10 Mk.II, 10 Mk. III, 10 Mk.VI and 10 Mk.V.

My turn-off was the Umbra guns and the vox upgrades. However, I'd totally jump on a 30-man MKIII squad if I could select the Phobos pattern and not have the vox upgrade.

I like the idea of a bundle with options...at a discount.

As it is, I'll just wait and buy them at 10 at a go.

 mwnciboo wrote:

 Alkasyn wrote:

 kronk wrote:
MKIII is the best!

Speaking of HH, is anyone planning a Legion army using the FW HH book?

I was thinking about that, but the prices are awfully high. I also have problems finding a Legion I'd really dig - so far, only Iron Hands caught my attention, and I did read 10+ HH books.

Iron Hands are for the Bitter and twisted who reject everyone else, as inferior. Welcome to the Clan.

Heh, it's that or Thousand Sons, I guess

My problem is price. I would love to do a real Pre-Heresy army, but the cost is astronomical.

I could buy nearly twice the number of Anvil Industries 'Steam Lords' for the same cost and have LOADS of options and variety.

I may pick up one of the books. But I doubt I will buy more than a few special FW models. (Loken will be very hard to resist, and I do want at least one Contemptor).

Yeah price kills it for me as well. I think the key is to start of small. A squad here, a squad there. Just don't look back to see how much you spent all together and you will be fine!

Hmm, heresy era Iron Hands. Might give that a try...

I can't imagine building an all FW army. I don't see why people are so averse to just mixing a few FW kits into regular 40K stuff. I'm going to use the Imperial Fists I bought before the embargo for a HH list. It's mostly GW with a few FW kits. The Imperial Fists definitely used MkVII armour during the Heresy, and even if they didn't I wouldn't feel the need to replace every marine with an expensive resin version. The 40k tank variants are almost all explicitly described as having been used in 30k. All variants of Terminator armour were in use. My mostly GW army has little to nothing that conflicts with the time period.

All FW is out of the reach of all but a tiny majority, but buying enough kits to make a 40k force Heresy compliant and give it a 30k flavour seems like the best bet for the majority. Surely most gamers aren't snooty enough to refuse to play a Heresy game because the distribution of armour marks is not realistic for the era? Is it so hard to imagine that your guys got a consignments of MkVII before Mars tore itself up?

It's not too hard to make a HH marine army, even with just plastics. Just hit up the bits sellers for the necessary MKVI armor parts (although that could still get a bit pricey).
Anyway, I'm planning on using my Red Scorpions, as they're almost all in MKIV armor, anyway. After all, their origins are said to be unknown, so maybe they're secretly one of the lost legions...

Spoke to FW today, not much of an update but
1. They said they would not be releasing any Sons of Horus vehicle doors, they did try some but didn't think they came out very well and thought people could do an equally good job with the etched brass.
2. The Legion packs are as is - I wanted the MKIII armour with Phobos bolters and they said they wouldn't swap one bolter pack for another (anyone want to swap 30 Umbra bolters for 30 Phobos ones ?)
3. There are no more HH planned releases before Xmas, we were talking about "parts" at the time but it was a no.

 Temujin wrote:
I can't imagine building an all FW army. I don't see why people are so averse to just mixing a few FW kits into regular 40K stuff. I'm going to use the Imperial Fists I bought before the embargo for a HH list. It's mostly GW with a few FW kits. The Imperial Fists definitely used MkVII armour during the Heresy, and even if they didn't I wouldn't feel the need to replace every marine with an expensive resin version. The 40k tank variants are almost all explicitly described as having been used in 30k. All variants of Terminator armour were in use. My mostly GW army has little to nothing that conflicts with the time period.

All FW is out of the reach of all but a tiny majority, but buying enough kits to make a 40k force Heresy compliant and give it a 30k flavour seems like the best bet for the majority. Surely most gamers aren't snooty enough to refuse to play a Heresy game because the distribution of armour marks is not realistic for the era? Is it so hard to imagine that your guys got a consignments of MkVII before Mars tore itself up?

I think it's more about how you explain it to yourself - some people (me included) would like to have properly equipped Marines. After all, the fact that some legions used one mark over the other was a defining feature. If you don't need that, better for you and your wallet