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 AlexHolker wrote:

timd wrote:
A mildly aggressive IP lawyer would say the similarities between stormtrooper and storm trooper would cause "confusion in the marketplace"...

Maybe, but any lawyer who did should be hung, drawn, quartered, boiled and fed to the pigs. Germany's use of "Sturmtruppen" predates either usage by decades, which should put its use for armoured infantry specialising in close assault firmly in the public domain.

Perhaps, but Lucasfilm decided it was a good idea to trademark it anyway...
Have not checked IG codexes to see if GW also trademarked the word/s.

T

Plastic stormtroopers have been around for years.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/german-stormtrooper

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Plastic-Toy-Soldiers-WWII-German-Stormtroopers-Infantry-1-32-Scale-11-Figures-/400676112837

timd wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:

timd wrote:
A mildly aggressive IP lawyer would say the similarities between stormtrooper and storm trooper would cause "confusion in the marketplace"...

Maybe, but any lawyer who did should be hung, drawn, quartered, boiled and fed to the pigs. Germany's use of "Sturmtruppen" predates either usage by decades, which should put its use for armoured infantry specialising in close assault firmly in the public domain.

Perhaps, but Lucasfilm decided it was a good idea to trademark it anyway...
Have not checked IG codexes to see if GW also trademarked the word/s.

T

It's easy to trademark most anything, but it doesn't protect it from the arguement that there was prior use and thus improperly issued. It happens. A company like Lucasfilms/Disney may have created confusion by using such a product trade name invalidating a prior existing claim but that doesn't guarantee it exclusive use.

Ogryn sighted along with FW's Horus figure. At least that is what this blog claims:

http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.com/2014/03/con-de-o-ogrete-y-hde-horus.html?spref=fb

alphaecho wrote:

 prowla wrote:

Bödeln wrote:

It can even cross water!
I have spent many hours in bandvagnar

I'll drink to that. We did a 2-week 'camping trip' in Lapland during winter.. 16 guys, two Bandies and -15 degrees outside.. Artillery firing to targets less than 1000m away from our tents.. good times

Do you still have tents that can take woodburners with a hole in the lining for a chimney? That was a novelty to me when I was up there in '91 having an outing with the Finnish army.

In Sweden we still have them! The temprature outside dosent matter as long as you shove more wood in the burner

 JHall wrote:
Ogryn sighted along with FW's Horus figure. At least that is what this blog claims:

http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.com/2014/03/con-de-o-ogrete-y-hde-horus.html?spref=fb

HORUS!!!

Reposted so people actually see them skimming the thread. Not impressed with the Ogryns at all.

Looks to me like that guys behind the Commisar on the cover look like regular cadian style helmets. Not sure what this will imply, or if there are any rumors about the basic infantry squad box being re-done.

And i thing the new truck needs either the tracks to be shorter, or have the tracks be twice as wide (preferably both, similar to the NOD light tank from).

Edit: and the Cadians in the Hydra picture don't look different to me.

Plastic Hydra is long overdue.

And awesome!

Hail Hydra!!!!(couldn't resist )

 Brother SRM wrote:

Wilfred Brimley the Ogryn! Love it.

And those look like the best Ogryn GW have produced. First one is spot on, looks like the other two are a 'bullgryn' and a bone 'ead.

Awesome! Ogryns that look like humans from a high gravity planet instead of big dumb ogres! Excellent.

I say, those are nice Ogryns. Well, #1 and #3 are, the shield guy's tank tread breastplate is a bit goofy. I guess they come 3 to a box. I see all three have the same lower half.

Also, I love the electronic commissar on the Bone 'ead's shoulder.

Love these!

Still hate the IG tank!

But these I love.

Also, HORUS!!!

Honestly I'm in love with the IG release. I like the previous vehicle and love the storm troopers. And now these ogryns and the hydra. Oh my!

hmm not sure about the ogryns. It seems like they tried too much with theyr heads

 JHall wrote:
Ogryn sighted along with FW's Horus figure. At least that is what this blog claims:

http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.com/2014/03/con-de-o-ogrete-y-hde-horus.html?spref=fb

Cool...

Ogryn that nobody will buy because they suck, and a Hydra that nobody will buy because it doesn't have Interceptor (if the last FAQ is any indication).



Those ogryn are hideous...the new aesthetic for guard sucks. Not a fan.

I'm surprised how many people are liking the Ogryn, but then, my abiding, and favorite, memory of them is this guy..



Not playing Guard, having gone through Google images to find the pic I was surprised how bad the various incarnations have been, so I guess these new guys are an improvement.

Won't be convincing me to start Guard though.

Aside from the weedy blade on the Ripper gun, fething awesome!


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Also digging that Nork is carrying around Aaron Blest's cap.

Hydra was predictable.

Ogryns are laughably bad. Who is designing all of this single piece torso armor for the new IG releases? And what's with the Play-Doh faces? And the bright colors?

Why couldn't we have had something like this:



They're taking the grim-dark out of 40k....

~iPaint

these last two are waayyyy better than the prevgious ones

If the rules have improved sufficiently, I predict a golden age for third party producers of sci if ogres.

Tank tread crotch guards? Do we really want them to reproduce? Let them get shot in the Jimmy.

BANE!



"And when it is done...when the heretics are in ashes...you will have my permission to die."

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:


"And when it is done...when the heretics are in ashes...you will have my permission to die."

I like the bottom of the shield how it has "teeth" to be jab into the ground as a makeshift Pavais.

Interestingly it looks like the bull ogryns are armed with ranged weapons and not mauls like people were saying. I'm looking forward to seeing their codex entry. But then again I LOVE Ogryns. Less so in 6th than I did in 5th.

I like the Hydra and the Ogryns (though they need a better paint job and some green stuff).

The Scions are growing on me but I still don't like the new vehicle. HOWEVER, if it has awesome rules I will probably jump on the bandwagon.