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katfude wrote:
Zoomed in, it actually does look like a Sister.

No, it doesn't. It's a space marine in power armour with a power fist. The other hand appears to be supporting a storm bolter, but it's hard to tell.

I dunno man, those are slender legs and arms, and that looks like a small little petite cutesy helmet.

I'm holding Occam's Razor in my hand, and I'm going use it to cut anyone who thinks its a plastic Sister.

 Kosake wrote:
Maybe its one of the 12415 SM snowflakes..? There are more than enough special characters, librarians, champions, chapter masters, company commanders, Terminator sergeants, veteran swordbrotherwolflordfathers and whatnot...

1. Launch new website.
2. Offer special promo-miniature based upon the army that outsells everything else (combined probably).
3. Profit.

I don't see how anyone can criticise this, even putting aside the 4Chan-esque Internet Hyperbole Marine hate.

It looks like there is an iron halo at the top of the backpack.

The head looks like it has no helmet.

The leg on the torso part and the leg below the power fist are clearly SM legs.

My money is on a Chapter Master, there's a fancy shield and power sword on the sprue to be used as the relics. Looks pretty nice as far as one can tell from the small picture. Except the skull cape, I guess this particular Chapter Master is a secret admirer of Skulltaker's style.

Wow, Imperial technology is really advancing, they can weave skulls tight into the cloth now.

I wonder how long it will be until we see a commisar with a coat made of skulls or something.

This just in, the more you spend at gw.com, the more fantastic minis you can get! You can unlock a bunch of limited release minis. Spend just USD 1000, and you can unlock this awesome mono-pose chapter master. Only 24.99!

katfude wrote:
Zoomed in, it actually does look like a Sister.

I disagree, looks like regular SM power armour, not the power corsetts of the sisters. Also, sisters don't even have power fists...

Pehaps they will? I agree that it doesn't really look like a sister though, unless they now have access to heavier suits of powered armor (terminator analogue).

I actually thought it might be a chaos model; sword looks funky.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
sword looks funky.

Because it's sheathed.

The only thing about this sprue that strikes me as unusual is the storm bolter. Why is there no hand attached, like in all new SM sprues?

 Barksdale wrote:
This just in, the more you spend at gw.com, the more fantastic minis you can get! You can unlock a bunch of limited release minis. Spend just USD 1000, and you can unlock this awesome mono-pose chapter master. Only 24.99!

Let's hope not. The last special Webstore figure was the Title Belt Marine, and you just got him for spending $100.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kosake wrote:
Maybe its one of the 12415 SM snowflakes..? There are more than enough special characters, librarians, champions, chapter masters, company commanders, Terminator sergeants, veteran swordbrotherwolflordfathers and whatnot...

1. Launch new website.
2. Offer special promo-miniature based upon the army that outsells everything else (combined probably).
3. Profit.

I don't see how anyone can criticise this, even putting aside the 4Chan-esque Internet Hyperbole Marine hate.

That's actually quite simple. Marines make up for about 25% of all GW Profits, fantasy and everything else included. If you make more Marine stuff, more people will buy it, thus the revenue from space marines increases. If the space marines gain an even higher percentage, according to the laws of conservation, other percentages must drop. There are currently 9 non-space marine factions out there (excluding knights, scions, inquisition, lotd and whatever else 1-unit army may or may not appear). IF SM (DA, BA, SW) make up for 50% of 40k revenue, that leaves 5.5 % per other faction, assuming an equal distribution. Since the distribution is not equal, I guess that some armies are pretty close to the 1% or less threshold (looking at you, sisters...). So if you want armies squatted because maintenance and new models are just too much hassle for less than 1% revenue while a new space marines inside space marines modell will earn you the attention of 70% of your customer base, then more SM modells are just the way to go.

 Breotan wrote:
Are you confusing it with the new plastic "not-Sicarius"?

I'm not familiar with the model to which you are referring. And, of course since the site's down, I can't look for it. Which model do you mean?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
2. Offer special promo-miniature based upon the army that outsells everything else (combined probably).

This is probably right, I think.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Let's hope not. The last special Webstore figure was the Title Belt Marine, and you just got him for spending $100.

I believe that you also got him when GW opened a site in your country, like I think Poland had one for example, right?

I really like that guy, by the way. I did wind up getting him eventually but from, uh, somewhere else. So I'm sorta-kinda excited about getting one from GW. I'm not really big on Spreens but it might be cool.

Unless they make it "with a $500 order" or something grubby like that. In which case I'd wait until I found it... somewhere else.

 Kosake wrote:
That's actually quite simple. Marines make up for about 25% of all GW Profits

I'm pretty sure they are up to 50% or so these days, including things like paint, dice, books, ect. I mean hey, apparently some fantasy armies only make up 1%.

 Ouze wrote:
I really like that guy, by the way. I did wind up getting him eventually but from, uh, somewhere else. So I'm sorta-kinda excited about getting one from GW. I'm not really big on Spreens but it might be cool.

I'll probably order something so I can get him, because I like Ltd. Ed. collector's miniatures like that (I have most of the ones from the Army Boxes, the Skullz AdMech guys, and so on). I have the Title Belt Marine as well, thought that was kind of an accident. I was ordering from the US web store (before the dark times, before the embargo), when buying from the US to OZ was still a 50% discount for us. Was buying for myself and a friend to save on shipping, and spent enough to get him. Didn't even realise that's what you had to do until I saw him in my cart.

It's official... website being updated as we speak...

http://www.games-workshop.com/maint/gamesworkshopMaintenancePage.htm

Hanskrampf wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
sword looks funky.

Because it's sheathed.

The only thing about this sprue that strikes me as unusual is the storm bolter. Why is there no hand attached, like in all new SM sprues?

His hand isn't on the grip, looking at the picture it's under the barrel. I reckon he's like the AoBR Captain.

GW newsletter just confirmed that this is not a usual maintenance:

"Our webstoe will reopen soon and then there will be presents!"

(My translation)

Here a better picture of the sprue which came with a mail from GW.

The header of the mail says "our webstore will soon open again, then there will be gifts"

I'm interested to see how they will interpret gift, probably something along the lines of the aforementioned marine for a purchase of X Dollars/Euros/etc.

 jonolikespie wrote:

I'm pretty sure they are up to 50% or so these days, including things like paint, dice, books, ect. I mean hey, apparently some fantasy armies only make up 1%.

It's 50% because no other faction has so many opportunities for Limited Editions and Dataslates

 Malthor wrote:

The head is actually in the bottom row above the sword; the two things next to the torso are shoulderpads. Now, unless the Sisters have gone bald lately..

Now we shall see who was telling the truth, and who was feeding us sweet lies

I think I count no less than 20 skulls on that model. I'd estimate as many as 30 once having seen a full 360 view. I think there is no other option than for this model to be a chapter master with a statline of mostly 8s and 9s.

He just has that many skulls

1.) GW announced their plan to relaunch their website in April in their latest annual report, so this fact is not rumour.
2.) FW websiite is running normally ATM.

 jonolikespie wrote:
I think there is no other option than for this model to be a chapter master with a statline of mostly 8s and 9s.

Well, only the finest of the space marines Adeptus Astartes are worthy of so rich a bounty of the Imperium's most treasured natural resource, Skulldanium - best to give it to someone who can best harness it into producing even more Skulldanium.

It was as I typed it that I realized that, in a way, all the characters in the 40k universe are essentially playing the world's most grimdark MMO, grinding out skulls and faction.

Anyway kids, remember: you want ctrl + F5, not f5.

 prowla wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

I'm pretty sure they are up to 50% or so these days, including things like paint, dice, books, ect. I mean hey, apparently some fantasy armies only make up 1%.

It's 50% because no other faction has so many opportunities for Limited Editions and Dataslates

 Malthor wrote:

The head is actually in the bottom row above the sword; the two things next to the torso are shoulderpads. Now, unless the Sisters have gone bald lately..

Heh, well that would be one way of fixing the hair problem.
I personally believe they should have just abandoned the hair and just give all of the grunts helmets.

Just stumbled on to the end of this post... really? Guys you need to get out more, you're having a discussion over the image and who / what it is? You're even discussing how "accurate" it is!! It's an interesting idea, similar to the Anakin / Darth Vader poster. It's simple and works well, especially as all it is is a "coming soon" holding page.

 jonolikespie wrote:
I think I count no less than 20 skulls on that model. I'd estimate as many as 30 once having seen a full 360 view. I think there is no other option than for this model to be a chapter master with a statline of mostly 8s and 9s.

He just has that many skulls

Did you count the skull inside his head?

You know, for the +1.

Looks to be just a SM captain/Chapter Master in PA. Iron Halo, Power Fist, Storm Bolter, cape. Probably priced the same as the current SM plastic monopose HQs. ie. Too Much Money...

I can definitely see something ridiculous like free gift if you spend over £250 in the new webstore (not available via any other means) happening.

It'll be like the GW version of a Kickstarter exclusive.