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 Alpharius wrote:
Is Roboute Guilliman really that hard to type?

A dakka autocorrect may be in order...

 zedmeister wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Is Roboute Guilliman really that hard to type?

A dakka autocorrect may be in order...

It might take a few dozen autocorrects given how varied the incorrect spellings are. It's not a simple case like the vaunted geometric warriors of the emperor, the Blood Angles and Dark Angles, or the gutteral stomach noise sounding forces of Choas that each have dozens to hundeds of tagged pics in the gallery.

Alph, in a world where the same gamers you're talking to are too lazy to type out 40,000 and abbreviate it to 40k despite just having to tap the same number their finger is already on a few more times, you really expect them to spell out (correctly) a nonsensical french sounding name?

Warboss - good call.

But I like to set the bar high - after all...

THIS. IS. DAKKA-DAKKA!

 Alpharius wrote:
Warboss - good call.

But I like to set the bar high - after all...

THIS. IS. DAKKA-DAKKA!

Which is very easy to spell. Coincidence? I think not!

I prefer just to call it Dakka.

We know that's Guilliman? Could just as easily be one of the named marines from the Calth books, imo.

 Bull0 wrote:
We know that's Guilliman? Could just as easily be one of the named marines from the Calth books, imo.

Well, those are the two main figures of the battle. Guilliman was present (and badass) and Kor Phaeron, I am guessing. Not sure why it would be anyone else.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
We know that's Guilliman? Could just as easily be one of the named marines from the Calth books, imo.

Well, those are the two main figures of the battle. Guilliman was present (and badass) and Kor Phaeron, I am guessing. Not sure why it would be anyone else.

From the novels pretty much an equal amount of time is spent following Guilliman as following one of the ultramarine captains (I want to say Ventanus?). The other figure in the trailer is definitely Phaeron.

I mean, it probably is Guilliman, I was just asking if it was confirmed - like we'd seen that portrait labelled at a HH weekender or something.

Fingers crossed for Aeonid Thiel
in the list now

Will be interesting to see what the Militia and Chaos rabble lists add to the Solar Auxilia list.

This is gonna be a great book.

Even better if Daemon Prince Angron makes an appearance, although I'm guessing that's in the next book (they are spending two books on Calth and the Shadow Crusade, right?).

Yeah, two books on this, the next one will be Prospero.

What is the shadow crusade? DAs vs Nightlords?

Fun fact- Our spiritual drill sergeant was always middle-aged. Blond hair? What's that?

No, that was the Thramas Crusade. The Shadow Crusade was the Word Bearers and World Eaters keeping the Ultramarines occupied in their own pocket of the Imperium so they couldn't reinforce Terra.

Ah yes gotcha.

We may yet see a book dedicated to that as well though.

I just hope FW dont go down the BL route and take the series around the houses into Stagnation. Book 4 was enjoyable but I felt it wasnt as juicy as the first 3. Hopefully this gets things back on track.

Conquest was IMHO a much-needed diversion from the constant power armour masturbation going on in the previous three books.

Thats true. I did enjoy the admech stuff in it. Just felt a little disjointed for me. Almost like 3 mini campaigns in one. Which realistically it was.

I really hope we get to see the new plastic knight and ad mec units get the 30k treatment.

 Bull0 wrote:
We know that's Guilliman? Could just as easily be one of the named marines from the Calth books, imo.

Well he looks almost exactly like the Guilliman model WIP we saw a while ago and Guilliman and Kor Phaeron had a bit of a tiff in KNF. I'd put money on that drawing being him.

Thing which has me concerned is -

1 - Are the Ultramarines just getting upgrade kits? Seems a tad unfair considering the number of unique kits given to other legions such as the Emperors Children and Death Guard.

2 - They better not split the rules for the Ultramarines legion across Book V and book six which will cover the rest of the Shadow Crusade. Only a few months between each book. Only one legion getting new rules, I really don't see any justification to not have all the rules for fielding a legion Ultramarines army. I don't like the idea of having to fork out more money for a product tailored for the Word Bearers and World Eaters.

They've only got upgrades so far but I don't think either are for their specific units so they should still get full kits for them. Although the IF just got upgrades for their specific units.

 Totalwar1402 wrote:


2 - They better not split the rules for the Ultramarines legion across Book V and book six which will cover the rest of the Shadow Crusade. Only a few months between each book. Only one legion getting new rules, I really don't see any justification to not have all the rules for fielding a legion Ultramarines army. I don't like the idea of having to fork out more money for a product tailored for the Word Bearers and World Eaters.

If the others are any indication, you will have the core rules for UM in this book with additional special units in the next just like with the Istvaan series. Fw could always deviate from that though but that seems to be their pattern with the HH.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Bull0 wrote:
We know that's Guilliman? Could just as easily be one of the named marines from the Calth books, imo.

Well he looks almost exactly like the Guilliman model WIP we saw a while ago and Guilliman and Kor Phaeron had a bit of a tiff in KNF. I'd put money on that drawing being him.

You're right, I must've missed that pic leak but I've just googled it and yeah, it's basically identical. It's definitely Guilliman in the trailer. Ignore Doubting Bull0, voice of unfounded skepticism, nothing to see here

Please don't be a £70 advertisement for the Warlord!
Please don't be a £70 advertisement for the Warlord!
Please don't be a £70 advertisement for the Warlord!

For some completely non-lucid reason, i thought the sketch opposite RG was Perturabo rather than Kor Phaeron. Man i want him to get at least a leaked WIP sculpt :(

When I spoke to FW a couple of weeks ago to put in my order for the Open Day they said that this Friday's FW email would contain all of the new models that are available this weekend, so far we have:

The Warlord
Roboute Guilliman
Both UM Upgrade kits & transfers
HH Book V

what are the bets we get anything else? The trailer focused on the guy below, do we think we will also get these guys as well? They look different from the already shown upgrade kits?

 Looky Likey wrote:
When I spoke to FW a couple of weeks ago to put in my order for the Open Day they said that this Friday's FW email would contain all of the new models that are available this weekend, so far we have:

The Warlord
Roboute Guilliman
Both UM Upgrade kits & transfers
HH Book V

what are the bets we get anything else? The trailer focused on the guy below, do we think we will also get these guys as well? They look different from the already shown upgrade kits?

lets just wait until tomorrow ... FW indicated that the UM would get more than 2 special units and a type of Honor Guard would be amongst them. The upgrade kits released so far are nice, but a little more bling as shown in these pictures would be appreciated ...