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You can see the missiles here. On the underside just in front of the flight stand.

Man, just flip the wings around and you have a pretty darn good Galactica Viper lookalike. I love it.

Man, that dreadnought is ugly.

Interceptor is pretty cool. But it's continuing the annoying trend of both GW and FW to strap more and more weapons on smaller and smaller models. We have Dreadnoughts and 2 HP flyers outgunning Land Raiders now on a regular basis, and that's stupid.

So, do we think the BSG franchise is likely to sue GW for intellectual property theft of some sort, seeing as they have blatantly copied the mkII Colonial Viper?

That Alpha Legion character is nice but...

£31.00 nice?

Ouch!

The flyer looks cool, and the rules are probably balanced for it’s points. It’s over 200 points for a 2HP av11 flyer. It is such an eggshell armed with sledgehammers though. The multi-missile death launcher does seem a little over the top. I’m not a fan of “perfect” weapons, and it seems to be one. It blows things up real good.

 Fifty wrote:
So, do we think the BSG franchise is likely to sue GW for intellectual property theft of some sort, seeing as they have blatantly copied the mkII Colonial Viper?

How could they?

GW lost most of the claims therefore being inspired by somebody else's IP can't be theft.

 Alpharius wrote:
That Alpha Legion character is nice but...

£31.00 nice?

Ouch!

Eh. All the characters are that price. And it's nicer than some.

 Fifty wrote:
So, do we think the BSG franchise is likely to sue GW for intellectual property theft of some sort, seeing as they have blatantly copied the mkII Colonial Viper?

Well, for starters, they haven't. Secondly, I doubt they'd care.

That Harrowmaster... Sold! He'll go nicely in my Alpha Legion force as a generic Praetor and as himself.

Lovely model

The flier looks meh, but better than some other fliers.

The Alpha Legion dude is a winner.

$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

 Alpharius wrote:
$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

Again though, they all have been since the heresy stuff started, like 3 years ago nearly.

 Alpharius wrote:
$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

I hear ya.

I did just drop that on ALEXIS POLUX 405TH CAPTAIN OF THE IMPERIAL FISTS at Adpeticon last weekend.

*Stuffs hands in pockets and kicks a rock*

 Alairan wrote:
Man, just flip the wings around and you have a pretty darn good Galactica Viper lookalike. I love it.

If I get one for my World Eaters, I have every excuse to paint it up in a white scheme with some red stripes (with a touch of blue here or there).

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Interceptor is pretty cool. But it's continuing the annoying trend of both GW and FW to strap more and more weapons on smaller and smaller models. We have Dreadnoughts and 2 HP flyers outgunning Land Raiders now on a regular basis, and that's stupid.

Seems to be a pretty common real-life trend for fighters/fighter-bombers to outgun contemporary armoured vehicles, especially when missile systems are involved. The capabilities of a Tornado armed with Brimstone missiles compared to a Challenger II, or a Spitfire compared to a Matilda I illustrate this I think. There is only one Dreadnought variant that outguns a standard Land Raider, and that is intended as a fire support unit, which the Land Raider is not.

 Alpharius wrote:
$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

Yeah, but it's an Alpha Legion model. You know you want it.

 kronk wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

I hear ya.

I did just drop that on ALEXIS POLUX 405TH CAPTAIN OF THE IMPERIAL FISTS at Adpeticon last weekend.

*Stuffs hands in pockets and kicks a rock*

Since they started on the HH, it seems FW values the sculpting and casting of the decorative and unnecessary base as much as the figure itself. I can't imagine how something like Inquisitor Rex would be costed if made in the HH style on some 60mm decorative base of dead Vraks heretics.

For gaks and Giggles, could you use that Flesh Tearers detachment that has 6 FA slots and run 6 Xiphon Interceptors in those slots? Yes, they will be fragile, but you will wreck face.

40 € for a single space marine miniature? Yeah, nice try. However nice the model is, that's just a sick joke.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
$46 for a single character model...

It truly is a sign of the Endtimes!

Yeah, but it's an Alpha Legion model. You know you want it.

Well...


But...

...

...yes, of course I do!

It would be simple enough to convert him up though...maybe...

 Kosake wrote:
40 € for a single space marine miniature? Yeah, nice try. However nice the model is, that's just a sick joke.

It's 31 British Pound Moneys. I don't know what that is in Euros.

I'm not defending FW at all, mind you. I think they are a bit steep. But these prices are what they are charging for the non-Primarch single models in the HH Character Series.

Linkage to HH Character Series

Plus its more of a collector piece look at some of the marvel, DC or star wars figures/models and then revise your thoughts. Hell I was lookingbat a 1:36 scale model of a Mazda rx7 (like the one I own) and that was £189

And they're only ~$10 more than the GW plastic characters.

If you're already paying a lot, may as well get something that doesn't look like hot garbage.

And the cost includes that ginormous scenic base. Which does kinda suck if you don't like the base. For example, I really want to put Fulgrim on Horus's base.

Daston wrote:
Plus its more of a collector piece look at some of the marvel, DC or star wars figures/models and then revise your thoughts. Hell I was lookingbat a 1:36 scale model of a Mazda rx7 (like the one I own) and that was £189

I had a marketing professor in college that said "If you have a customers heart and their mind you have their wallet". I cant get that quote out of my head when the price of models comes up. I bought Alexis Pollux and never even bothered do the conversion to see how much it was in USD. I think GW/FW has us all on this one and only more recently are they losing our "minds" by some of the price increases / quality issues / ect...

I hope that 2hp gets retconned because yes you could argue fire power over armour but this is space marines tone the weapons down add av and hp.

I love the look of that flier, and such a reasonable price for a FW flier!!! Experiemental 40k rules don't seem bad, can do alot of damage the turn it comes on at least.

The missile pod reminds me of the old style whirlwind launcher.