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 Talizvar wrote:

 mattyrm wrote:
Hey I hated those gakky centurions as well, but cincy is right, dakka is one big pity party at the moment, 75% of the site seems to be impotent rage and fury against GW.

I do not have impotent rage and fury!!!! It is quite potent and I thought I was being so responsible in this forum... oh, not me specifically, carry on then.

I love made up statistics! They give so much legitimacy to online e-peen arguments.

I'd rather buy Contemptors and knockem down 4mms with some cuts here and there or get some Tartaros pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor and kit it out raise the base level to height and throw it on the right base size. If the rules are solid then I’ll make proxies for them.

Thinking about getting some Mk V Armor and Phobos Pattern Bolters and building a new 2000 point force… I already have 15+ Mk IV sets and a tons of rare heads… hmmmm
Sternguard!
Hey who made Sternguard scoring units?

Am I the only one who feels they need to have a word with the designer who insists on making these static poses and stocky figures with all the bling?

We saw it with all the deathwing releases, now these centurions...

I just hope they kept him away from the vet sculpts....

 5deadly wrote:
I'd rather buy Contemptors and knockem down 4mms with some cuts here and there or get some Tartaros pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor and kit it out raise the base level to height and throw it on the right base size. If the rules are solid then I’ll make proxies for them.

Thinking about getting some Mk V Armor and Phobos Pattern Bolters and building a new 2000 point force… I already have 15+ Mk IV sets and a tons of rare heads… hmmmm
Sternguard!
Hey who made Sternguard scoring units?

Do you mean Pedro?
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_Master_Pedro_Kantor

 pities2004 wrote:
You don't go to a Ford dealer to try and buy a Chevy

Please tell me your talking about proxies so I can clown you...

I really want to like them, the centaurions, but I cant

 c0j1r0 wrote:

 5deadly wrote:
I'd rather buy Contemptors and knockem down 4mms with some cuts here and there or get some Tartaros pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor and kit it out raise the base level to height and throw it on the right base size. If the rules are solid then I’ll make proxies for them.

Thinking about getting some Mk V Armor and Phobos Pattern Bolters and building a new 2000 point force… I already have 15+ Mk IV sets and a tons of rare heads… hmmmm
Sternguard!
Hey who made Sternguard scoring units?

Do you mean Pedro?
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_Master_Pedro_Kantor

Pedro?

 thenoobbomb wrote:

In the end, you'll buy them anyways.

Wrong.

Maybe use FW terminators for them and get the bits somewhere

 MWHistorian wrote:
No one's ever watched Votoms?

Yes, some opf the original tapes in Japanise with subtitals.
I was one of the 1st to make the Votoms Referance.
I use a bunch of them for IG Sentinals.

Wait for slew of 3rd party versions?

 schadenfreude wrote:
I like the new centurian models because they have a lot of potential. Paint them black and white, replace the head with a 3rd party stargate looking bird head and then you have the galaxy's most heavily armed penguins waddling across the battlefield to purge the heritics and xenos.

Someone who is familiar with his Gwar and/or Lovecraft might really like this idea.

 5deadly wrote:

 c0j1r0 wrote:

 5deadly wrote:
I'd rather buy Contemptors and knockem down 4mms with some cuts here and there or get some Tartaros pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor and kit it out raise the base level to height and throw it on the right base size. If the rules are solid then I’ll make proxies for them.

Thinking about getting some Mk V Armor and Phobos Pattern Bolters and building a new 2000 point force… I already have 15+ Mk IV sets and a tons of rare heads… hmmmm
Sternguard!
Hey who made Sternguard scoring units?

Do you mean Pedro?
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_Master_Pedro_Kantor

Pedro?

Pedro Kantor makes Sternguard scoring in the current Codex. No telling if he still will in the new one though.

 mattyrm wrote:
Hey I hated those gakky centurions as well, but cincy is right, dakka is one big pity party at the moment, 75% of the site seems to be impotent rage and fury against GW.

Perhaps I need to add a disclaimer to my complaints that require them to be read out loud in a flat Ben Stein monotone. I'm getting sick and tired of being accused of "raging" or "fury" just for dispassionately stating my opinion. If I'm angry, rest assured I will spell it out for you geniuses in no uncertain terms.

For a second there I thought squats were back. They do look kinda like I would imagine demiurg. At least they'll make good meganobs.

I'm pretty sure the Centurions will look better when we can get a look at the 360 images - not to mention when we see them in the flesh.

Also, I don't see them being fixed in these poses. Remember this thread? It says in there that at a recent event at WHW GW designers stated that their aim for all big models from the Riptide onwards is full poseability.

SSo we are not getting a giant mechanical walker? :( We better have some bad ass gear to make up for it.

After seeing those three monstrosities, I think I have been cured of buying anymore GW stuff. They are without doubt the worst models I've seen from GW; terrible poses on all three, ridiculous amount of weapons to the point of silliness. The designer should have been flogged. Cancel that, the person that gave the go ahead for them to go into production should have been flogged.

the biggest issue i see with the centurions is that the waist to knee area seems to be one piece. That will hamper any attempts at repositioning the legs and their current stance is the biggest offender.

In the end, if the legs are too hard to reposition without major resculpting, I might just kitbash those with a Tartaros set and get something like this.

I'm far more interested in the troop kits. These were a bad idea conceptually, and the design process did them no favors. SMs will live and die on the quality of their PA and TA models. I'm still very excited to see those. And hopeful that they will be worth the wait.

I can't express how much I dislike those assault centurians Wow!

Having said that I think it just a problem with the dual kit nature of the box. I expect the heavy weapons will look much better.

And since shooting is king they'll be the ones you want.

I have seen those chest bolters before:

Yeah, baby

Anyway: Termitubbies indeed look like they stand on 60mm bases whatever the rumours say.
Only way they might be assaulting fast, is with Ork heads and red paint.
And the new AA tank looks much broader than a Rhino.

Centurions are crap, but who cares? Show me the new tacticals and Veterans already!!!

 Kroothawk wrote:
I have seen those chest bolters before:

Yeah, baby

Anyway: Termitubbies indeed look like they stand on 60mm bases whatever the rumours say.
Only way they might be assaulting fast, is with Ork heads and red paint.
And the new AA tank looks much broader than a Rhino.

New Sisters of Battle unit spotted

I'm not as repulsed by these as I thought i'd be when I heard about them. I want to see the kit/sprues on GW's before passing judgement, learning from past experience.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

This looks epic. I hope the kits fit together well.

I do like the look of the AA tank, the more stable support system to keep it from falling over was a good idea too.

The Centurions though... When I first heard rumors of 'something between a Termie and a Dread' my reaction was 'Why?'. It seemed like a solution looking for a non-existent problem. But I figured since they were new they would be pretty cool models.
Now that I've seen them they have graduated from a pointless 'solution', to a bad idea, poorly executed, that is just plain ugly. Maybe they'll look slightly better as we see more, but they would practically have to be different models altogether to get me to buy any.

Hopefully the PA models are good though, I prefer good looking smaller models over the bigger stuff anyway.

I have enough tactical squads and 15 sternguard, I dont need more. But I want more.

At this point they might as well just start putting guns on pillar and start selling those.

I'm liking the sound of a couple of the bitss in the new tac squad, the changing a mag on the bolter set and the smaller power fist.

I wonder if part of it might be the painting, To me yellow always looks ugly