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 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Ridiculous good, or ridiculous bad? The way you young'uns express yourself, I never know.

Quiet you're making us sound old! Now if I can convince the wife and kids to get me this for chri..I mean..my hip and cool and pop'n'fresh friends.

 Grimtuff wrote:


Tis true. Both companies have gotten extremely lazy in their writing (WWE currently ripping off TNA's worst storyline of the year.), with various arse pulls all over the place. GW are just pumping out any old gak with SM's as they know they're a license to print money. I don't think they're understanding the lack of correlation between a codex author and a codex's popularity. Really GW? You thought no-one would buy the SM based codexes if Ward does not write them?

Actually it is funny because both GW and WWE seem to have mainly the exact same target audience, although WWE is shifting towards an edgier product.

About the bolded part, and yes that is off-topic, I don't know how up to date you are, but as of last sunday's PPV that storyline turned quite awesome, which appears to have been what they were working to all along, redeeming what seemed like an awful storyline

Is the Codex mentioned in the WD? Seems odd to release all the models one month, and then the Codex a month later. What will people do with their not-Aquila Fightings and Lazybash Speeders?

Assemble and paint them. /heresy

 pretre wrote:
Assemble and paint them.

See... I know what each of those words mean individually, but in that order... I dunno. It's not clear.

 plastictrees wrote:

Faceless GW Executive: You see this watch? You see this watch?
GW Sculptor: Yeah.
Faceless GW Executive: That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year. How much you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a gak. Good father? feth you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - sculpt an absurd flying barge with baroque crap all over it and covered in guns! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you ladies man? You can't sculpt this, how can you sculpt the giant floating skull covered in guns for the Ad Mech codex next year? You don't like it, leave.

A very appreciated Glengarry Glen Ross reference.

Seems as though the ending here may be the same as well..

I'm wondering what the main gun on the second flyer is... (the lower one)

Didn't the OP mention jan 5 as the pre-order date?

That is when I expect we will get the codex too as usual. He probably just forgot to mention it (yet).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is the Codex mentioned in the WD? Seems odd to release all the models one month, and then the Codex a month later. What will people do with their not-Aquila Fightings and Lazybash Speeders?

Most likely some things will suck, but you won't know until the codex comes out. They're hoping people buy the useless models first.

The lower gun is the gatling gun of darkness.... or something.

But what is the front weapon on the top flyer

Liking the new flyer, Belial and the knights, but the Land Speeder Escalade is butt-ugly.

Plasma Punisher?

That's also a good point... I didn't really look at the first one, to interested in the thunderfire cannon looking weapon.


Could the second one be a Vulcan Mega Bolter and the first be a beam type plasma cannon?

So many questions...

Something with plasma I think

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Plasma Punisher?

That's also a good point... I didn't really look at the first one, to interested in the thunderfire cannon looking weapon.


Could the second one be a Vulcan Mega Bolter and the first be a beam type plasma cannon?

So many questions...

Space Marine Death Ray!

Dark Ray!

Would make sense, seeming how unexciting the Chaos Space Marine codex was... hoping all Chaos Marine players would instead start a fallen army...


Damn it... now I'm getting too many ideas...


Mystery guns... grrr. Hope they are good and sound cool...



Hoping this codex doesn't turn into a Space Wolf/Blood Angles codex with Dark this and Dark that...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Assemble and paint them.

See... I know what each of those words mean individually, but in that order... I dunno. It's not clear.

I lol'd

The bottom main gun is the avenger bolt cannon. The top one has the reality ripping one.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dark Ray!

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ZombieDK wrote:

 ceorron wrote:
Any ideas what the guns are on the front of the Stormaquila?

The dark talons main gun is the rift cannon, an arcane weapon capable of tearing open the fabric of realspace

Nephilim Jetfighter has something called an Avenger mega bolter

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dark Ray!

So basically one is basically stolen necron tech and the other is the Vulcan Mega Bolter's smaller brother?

That landspeeder looks like something an ork would have built, rather than a marine. That or an imperial engineering trying to imitate a Tau Hammerhead.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
So basically one is basically stolen necron tech and the other is the Vulcan Mega Bolter's smaller brother?

Sounds more like stolen Eldar D cannon tech to me.

I imagine the first one is similar to the device ships use to form warp rifts for travel. Most artwork shows a beam shooting out of the prow right before entering the warp (crusade of fire shows a fleet of them). I imagine it would suck to be wherever that device is pointed when it is turned on. Some entrepreneurial adept decided to put one on a flyer.


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In other words... Tech that the imperium has has for 10-20k years.

Goresaw wrote:That landspeeder looks like something an ork would have built, rather than a marine. That or an imperial engineering trying to imitate a Tau Hammerhead.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
So basically one is basically stolen necron tech and the other is the Vulcan Mega Bolter's smaller brother?

Sounds more like stolen Eldar D cannon tech to me.

Between these 2 comments, I'm starting to think that Ward has turned the Dark Angles into the Dark Magpies...

Maybe that's what Ward imagines their dark secret as, being horders of alien tech...

I am a little sad that the 'unit of chaplains' isn't true. But I guess that's probably what the DW Knights kinda are.

 pretre wrote:

In other words... Tech that the imperium has has for 10-20k years.

But that they forgot how to make

Pretty sure they still make warp capable ships...

I want all of them!

Much of this stuff is going to look better in person. Some of the "stiffness" in the poses will go away when we see things in 3D instead of a 2D pic of a 2D magazine being held at an angle. The rest will stay because they're finecast or because they're Terminators.

On top of that...where are the loosey-goosey SM? SM are stiff. Power armor is stiff. The army has a stiff look to it. Since always.


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 TBD wrote:
The Ward hate is like the hate John Cena gets, for anyone who watches WWE.

The man only does the job his employer expects him to do, yet he gets blame & hate for it because people somehow are not able to make the distinction.

Do they blame Cena for storylines from the Hulkmania era? If so, the comparison would be complete.


Anyway, so it's looking like power mauls and storm shields as standard kit for the DW Knights? Interesting.