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Some seriously ugly faces in that batch...

 Pouncey wrote:


http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a221/andreyis/Rangersbetter_zpsb64708c1.jpg

 pretre wrote:
So we don't have to click

Spoiler:

Great minds think alike. : D

I just spent the past 10-20 minutes putting image and spoiler tags into my post. : D

Is it just me or do some of those poses feel Infinity-ish/inspired?

These rangers look good enough for Warhammer Battle, in fact. Nice to use for wood elves or Avelorn high elves.

Tauriel and the Rangers look great. I'll be picking them up for sure. Barrels set looks cool but would only be useful for a diorama (or 1 scenario in the book).

From the look on Legolas's face, he's having a secret poo. Really should be squatting behind the log, not standing on top of it.

 warboss wrote:

Is it just me or do some of those poses feel Infinity-ish/inspired?

To me they look like someone at GW either can't into cad sculpting and is having trouble with poses or one of the suits that tells the studio what to do keeps using 'dynamic' as a buzzword without really knowing anything about anything.
This has to be more dynamic. Can I see this as.. more dynamic? Not dynamic enough. Etc
Of course the struggling sculptors in that scenario are forces to put out... those.

Joyboozer wrote:
From the look on Legolas's face, he's having a secret poo. Really should be squatting behind the log, not standing on top of it.

I thought he looked like Vladimir Putin, with the monobrow.

...doing a secret poo.

 Sarouan wrote:
These rangers look good enough for Warhammer Battle, in fact. Nice to use for wood elves or Avelorn high elves.

Yea, right up until you put them next to your WHFB models and notice the serious difference in scale.

I really like the Elves.

I like that the Ranger box has a nice mixture of male and female models. I also like that half of the models are firing their bows rather than waving swords around. There definitely are a few "Infinity poses" in there though.
The Ranger Captain models are a bit less exciting, but again I like the fact that there is a male and female model.

The Palace Guard are an interesting design. They look like Elves wearing Dwarven made gear. Wonder if that angle is from the film?

 Pouncey wrote:
I just spent the past 10-20 minutes putting image and spoiler tags into my post. : D

Highlight all links, paste in notepad.

Find http, replace with [img]http Find .jpg, replace with .jpg[/img]

Done.

Anyone know what the parting shot in the WD of November was about? ("Why should I fear the daemon, he has no power over me")

 aliusexalio wrote:
Anyone know what the parting shot in the WD of November was about? ("Why should I fear the daemon, he has no power over me")

They're releasing a new board game based on that movie with David Bowie?

Lol barrels out of bound is very nice!
Spiders on my list..

 Pouncey wrote:
For 40k, Escalation lets you use certain superheavies and gargantuan creatures in otherwise normal games of 40k, with every army getting at least one superheavy or gargantuan creature or similar biggun, with some getting access to more.

I assume they don't give more information, and it's therefore impossible to know if AS is counted as an actual army or not…

Regarding the Escalation expansion, this was said...

...every army getting at least one superheavy or gargantuan creature or similar biggun

I would like to know if this is really true (i.e. are tau, eldar and necrons getting something?) or is this more of the the "....or through allies..." crap they said for apoc.

(the new apoc expansion was touted as "every army will get something...." later a subnote "either a new model or a chance to ally with one...".).

 jonolikespie wrote:
To me they look like someone at GW either can't into cad sculpting and is having trouble with poses or one of the suits that tells the studio what to do keeps using 'dynamic' as a buzzword without really knowing anything about anything.
This has to be more dynamic. Can I see this as.. more dynamic? Not dynamic enough. Etc
Of course the struggling sculptors in that scenario are forces to put out... those.

Because only other companies can get way with putting out ridiculously posed miniatures.

davethepak wrote:
Regarding the Escalation expansion, this was said...

...every army getting at least one superheavy or gargantuan creature or similar biggun

I would like to know if this is really true (i.e. are tau, eldar and necrons getting something?) or is this more of the the "....or through allies..." crap they said for apoc.

(the new apoc expansion was touted as "every army will get something...." later a subnote "either a new model or a chance to ally with one...".).

I thought the Eldar had wraithknights and the Necrons that big pyramid thingy - how much bigger are you hoping for? Now Dark Eldar do have something to sulk about - not that I want a ridiculously large vehicle/contraption for them but that's just me.

Eldar Wraithknight is in the codex, isn't a superheavy. But yeah the Necrons got the Tesseract Vault thing, pretty sure that's apoc only.

 Bull0 wrote:
Eldar Wraithknight is in the codex, isn't a superheavy. But yeah the Necrons got the Tesseract Vault thing, pretty sure that's apoc only.

Did they get the Tesseract Vault, or did they get the Obelisk? Because the Obelisk is probably the worst super heavy ever, and could work just fine in regular games.

 Sasori wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
Eldar Wraithknight is in the codex, isn't a superheavy. But yeah the Necrons got the Tesseract Vault thing, pretty sure that's apoc only.

Did they get the Tesseract Vault, or did they get the Obelisk? Because the Obelisk is probably the worst super heavy ever, and could work just fine in regular games.

They got both. It's a dual kit.

To me, Kor Phaedron looks a lot like a terminator armoured Verne Troyer.

i was hoping the fortified manor/ watchtower/chapel/ walls & fences would make a return. no real reason why a popular set of kits that are pretty nice up and vanish when the 40k section still has some old terrain up.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:
To me they look like someone at GW either can't into cad sculpting and is having trouble with poses or one of the suits that tells the studio what to do keeps using 'dynamic' as a buzzword without really knowing anything about anything.
This has to be more dynamic. Can I see this as.. more dynamic? Not dynamic enough. Etc
Of course the struggling sculptors in that scenario are forces to put out... those.

Because only other companies can get way with putting out ridiculously posed miniatures.

I'm not sure who you're referring to there. Corvus Belli?
Their infinity models are done in that style but done WELL because that's the style their entire line uses, as opposed to random recent releases, and they know how to make it look good.

BRAH NID-UARY YOU GUYS for sure this time! *froth froth*

Maybe it is because as a Nid player I frequent the more Tyranid-centric forums, but it feels like Nids have been "getting their new codex next month for sure" for 2 years or a "Harpy in the summer of fliers" which was supposed to be... 2011?

Calm down Nid players; It'll happen when it happens! I don't really get the feeling that any other army is like this :/ I think everyone knew that December was going to be big "megaforce"esque bundles and Hobbit line stuff.

It seems all those images exploded. Photobucket has taken them down in violation of their terms.

Skimming through Faeit's titles for November is amusing:

Tyranid Rumours (2nd)
Tyranids Moved Up To December? (5th)
Tyranids Release Date Coming December 7th? (8th)
Tyranids Release Dec. 7th: Reports Coming In (8th)
December is Going to Be Crazy: Tyranids are Coming (9th)
Tyranids Getting Ready for Launch (13th)
Where are the Tyranids? (19th)
Confirmations for Tyranids in December (19th)
Tyranids Coming? (23rd)
Tyranids Getting Closer? (26th)


It seems there is a linear relationship between the length of the titles and the (baseless) optimism of the post it heads.

Yeah, I wish I could count each time he said a variation of the same thing.

 Breotan wrote:

 aliusexalio wrote:
Anyone know what the parting shot in the WD of November was about? ("Why should I fear the daemon, he has no power over me")

They're releasing a new board game based on that movie with David Bowie?

Thank you for being utterly useless.

Given how frequently he posts, it might actually be possible to make a statistical model to predict whether or not a release is actually happening, just based on Faeit. in this example, we see that there's a high number of long titles during the first half of the month, but few and short titles towards the end of it.