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 Pacific wrote:
Wow... in that photo, it looks like they are tiny. You can almost imagine them being very small (lets just say 6mm tall as way of example) and surrounded by tanks, titans and that kind of stuff? You could even make up rules that worked well at that kind of scale, and with that level of abstraction..

I wonder why they never thought of such a thing?

Well played

That's what Dropzone Commander is for now

 Ouze wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Unlike a sports car, though, it won't help you get girls.

I don't know what FLGS you attend, but pretty much the only reason I got into wargaming was the women. It's a little tiresome after a while though; you're all OK, "lets do 1500 points of Ultramarines"; and who shows up tipsy and looking to score? Emma Watson, again. Come on, Hermione, I'm trying to get my warhams on.

I've been to Iowa.

I know this is a lie.

I spent the last 20 minutes doing the math.

Retail price of the Chapter = $13,182.25
One-Click Savings = $1,492.25

Warstore price assuming 20% without shipping and sales tax = $10,545

This doesn't include the signed codex and the other goodies.

 Gabbi wrote:
WTF ROTFL!
I suppose there's no economical crisis in Nottingham...
this, or they're plain trolling us. they can't be serious...

Well clearly there is a crisis, look how desperate for money GW is.

How much does this cost if i get it from the warstore?

 AlexHolker wrote:

 Alkasyn wrote:
This is exactly like the 1 million USD Saints Row IV deal where you had 2 cars and a trip overseas and a mansion stay included.

They don't intend you to buy this.

They want you to talk about it.

The difference is that the Saints Row IV deal was ridiculously expensive because they were just throwing in a ton of crazy gak like cars, week-long international holidays and a trip into space. The Ultramarines deal is ridiculously expensive because individual miniatures are ridiculously expensive.

Agreed, but hte basic premise remains the same. This offer is more an advertisement than a product designed to make money.

Oh look, it's real. Just like was reported a month ago. Soooooo.... anyone from that thread wanna man up and apologise to the OP?

 Grimtuff wrote:
Oh look, it's real. Just like was reported a month ago. Soooooo.... anyone from that thread wanna man up and apologise to the OP?

Good luck with that.

Alpharius might, nkelsch definitely won't.

 marv335 wrote:
It's a nice idea.
After all it' not costing GW anything, and it's certainly got people talking about it.

I worked out the points of a chapter (using the old codex/army builder) and coincidentally it comes in at around 40.000pts.
I wonder if that's intentional.

Exactly this. I do backend e-commerce sites. This would take no time to make. You create one item that has all the other items as a child. Very easy to do. I am surprised they dont do more of this stuff. I mean the this one is just insane price-wise but small stuff in the 100-1000 price range people would by.

I agree with the guy that said it was done like an office bet or simply lets do it and see who buys it.

steve

I have some faint recollection of GW offering a similar sort of large bundle "deal" some years back... I think I heard of a group who coordinated a group buy where they split the contents. Probably the most reasonable thing to do short of realizing you should buy an army other than marines.

YakManDoo wrote:
I spent the last 20 minutes doing the math.

Retail price of the Chapter = $13,182.25
One-Click Savings = $1,492.25

Warstore price assuming 20% without shipping and sales tax = $10,545

This doesn't include the signed codex and the other goodies.

Warstore gives you free shipping on orders above $75, doesn't it? Buying an entire chapter at once would definitely qualify.... and I imagine you'd probably make Neal cry. That many miniatures can't be cheap to ship.

YakManDoo wrote:
I spent the last 20 minutes doing the math.

You could have just looked at my post on page three and used that twenty minutes to help out humanity instead.

I could have, but I'm a nihilist.

I noticed something really wonky about the company organization. So, one would expect GW to shovel in Centurions and Chibi-hawks, but that's no excuse for the 9th Company. See, after the recruits in the 10th Scout Company get promoted, they're supposed to move up to the 9th Devastator Company; the idea being a lascannon's range will keep the newbies safe. Scroll down to the 9th Company, lo and behold, not a single Devastator squad. Apparently the new doctrine is that you graduate straight from carapace armor to Centurion armor.

 DarkHound wrote:
I noticed something really wonky about the company organization. So, one would expect GW to shovel in Centurions and Chibi-hawks, but that's no excuse for the 9th Company. See, after the recruits in the 10th Scout Company get promoted, they're supposed to move up to the 9th Devastator Company; the idea being a lascannon's range will keep the newbies safe. Scroll down to the 9th Company, lo and behold, not a single Devastator squad. Apparently the new doctrine is that you graduate straight from carapace armor to Centurion armor.

Centurion Armour (which doesn't interface with the Carapace) is worn by a Devastator in Power-Armour. It's really just a fancy way of carrying a Heavy Bolter (or 2).

Not a single devastator squad aside from the... 7 devastator squads?

Although I thought that new bit of background about the marines becoming devasators first makes no sense, in the context of them being scouts before-hand and doing the most dangerous, special-forces type actions..

Although presumably after wearing the Centurion armour they might be a bit less fashion-conscious in their future roles. Kind of like having a crappy jalopy as your first car when you are a teenager, anything you get after that feels like an improvement.

Whoops, never mind me.

 DarkHound wrote:
I noticed something really wonky about the company organization. So, one would expect GW to shovel in Centurions and Chibi-hawks, but that's no excuse for the 9th Company. See, after the recruits in the 10th Scout Company get promoted, they're supposed to move up to the 9th Devastator Company; the idea being a lascannon's range will keep the newbies safe. Scroll down to the 9th Company, lo and behold, not a single Devastator squad. Apparently the new doctrine is that you graduate straight from carapace armor to Centurion armor.

This make so much sens! You got +1 from me!

tempted to order it on my card then ,send it back the next day just to get there hopes up lol

 Qcbob wrote:
This make so much sens! You got +1 from me!

There's very clearly 7 Devastator Squads in the 9th company.

Honestly if someone has the cash to buy this they have the cash to pay someone to assemble and paint it.

I wonder how much the shipping charge would be for that....LOL is it still 50 dollars express if you pay over 100 dollars lol

Required army transportation not included

 StyleXHobby wrote:
Required army transportation not included

Ahhhhh...

Now it makes sense. GW is planning on releasing a series of branded trucks designed to carry Armegeddon forces. Armegeddon will be the next step up from Apocalypse. It also gives them the chance to get into real estate with their branded gaming halls for playing Armegeddon battles.
It's all about diversifying.




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 Palindrome wrote:

 bu11etmagn3tt wrote:
Chapters have thunderhawks. Where are the thunderhawks?

You're thinking too small, Chapters have a fleet. I want a 28mm scale Battlebarge before I even consider this 'generous' offer.

Now imagine if a commercial airliner was converted to look like a battle barge

 Pacific wrote:
Although I thought that new bit of background about the marines becoming devasators first makes no sense, in the context of them being scouts before-hand and doing the most dangerous, special-forces type actions..

Although presumably after wearing the Centurion armour they might be a bit less fashion-conscious in their future roles. Kind of like having a crappy jalopy as your first car when you are a teenager, anything you get after that feels like an improvement.

I just ignore whichever bits of new (or old) fluff they add on that seem particularly stupid.

anyone have 12k to offer to a broke college student?

Where's the Space Wolf version??

really dont get this one (even less than their other one click "deals").

People who have $10k+ to drop on one purchase for gaming will not be doing this. They will maybe look at a few hundred vanilla plastic figures and than add in some Forge World figures, bits and pieces from 3rd party companies and maybe even have a character or two custom sculpted. With discounts and what not, you would likely be paying about the same and not just getting a couple hundred boxes of vanilla marines.

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:

 Qcbob wrote:
This make so much sens! You got +1 from me!

There's very clearly 7 Devastator Squads in the 9th company.

The problem is there isn't 100 Space Marines. There's 12 Centurions taking the place of 30 normal Marines (2 squads of 3 and one of 6). Whenever they've swapped out a Devastator or Assault squad for Centurions, they've left it at 3 or 6 Marines, when it should still be 10 going by squad and company numbers. So wherever they swap in Centurions they really should be swapping in 10, not 3 or 6, regardless of how the squad works in game, since they're meant to be selling a full chapter. They're quite frankly not doing that.