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Monopose Contemptor is disappointing, but at least it's plastic.

Looks cool otherwise.

jimkurtjimmy wrote:
So what are the major deferences between mark 4 and 7 other than the helmet. I need a little more motivation to buy it. Just wish it was mark 3 for my iron warriors

Back pack, leggings and chest plate are noticeably different. The shoulder pads have a thinner trim.

 infinite_array wrote:
I'm curious - how many of us are going to toss the board game part of this box right into the trash as soon as we open it?

If they're Space Hulk-esq tiles then I'll gladly take them off your hands.

If they're more of that Assassination Force abomination, then yeah, throw 'em out.

 infinite_array wrote:
I'm curious - how many of us are going to toss the board game part of this box right into the trash as soon as we open it?

That is pretty much what I will be doing. They will all join the Ranks of my Death Guard... or I could get 2 and start a new legion...hmm

Excited but wish the legion armor was Mark III instead of Mark IV well at least now I should be able to find Mark IV helmet bits for my legion army.

Seriously, anyone who doesn't want their tiles (should the tiles be proper tiles and not bull gak tiles), I will take them off your hands!

I guess the chest didn't look very different to me because of assault marines. And I can't really see the back pack. What pattern bolter is that? I can't really see it

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Seriously, anyone who doesn't want their tiles (should the tiles be proper tiles and not bull gak tiles), I will take them off your hands!

if i cant use them for any of my RPG games, you are welcome to them.

 infinite_array wrote:
I'm curious - how many of us are going to toss the board game part of this box right into the trash as soon as we open it?

I woudl probably be inclined to take the time to determine whether or not the game is good, first.

I love how that the guy who took the photos couldn't manage just a single one of the contents of the box. Guess there was another earthquake.

Man if this were released like 2 years ago I'd have been drooling all over it. Now I just feel like FW has been doing nothing but HH stuff for years and BL ran the series into the ground. I kinda just can't care, even if they are plastic. I think the worst part is the contemptor on top there with the utterly static legs, if I was to get a contemptor it will still have to be a FW one, no way do I want to get stuck with a static pose like that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how that the guy who took the photos couldn't manage just a single one of the contents of the box. Guess there was another earthquake.

its some marketing guy somewhere, patting himself on the back.

I reckon those legs'll be convertable with just a tad work to make them less static

ZOMG. I'm pumped. The only question is, "how many?" O.O

jimkurtjimmy wrote:
So what are the major deferences between mark 4 and 7 other than the helmet. I need a little more motivation to buy it. Just wish it was mark 3 for my iron warriors

Quite a few differences...

- The Mk4 legs have the squared off "tabs" on the knees instead of the rounded ones on Mk7
- Mk4 has X-shaped cables across the chest that connects in a harness (much like Mk6, or the Rogue Trader beakie armor), whereas Mk7 has an aquilla on the chest
- Mk4 helmet looks like a cut-off beak with vents in it, while Mk7 has the flat respirator
- The backpack exhausts (the things off the round parts on the top) look a little different for Mk4. They're longer and more conical looking -- though this doesn't appear to be the case with the ones that come in plastic from the set.

Not sure if this has been posted allready
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/10/breaking-horus-heresy-game-first-pics-emerge.html

Yes, multiple times, and the title said "leaked pics"...

Those legs are easily convertable, come on Dakka, it's called a knife and greenstuff!!!

that dread most certainly is not mono pose, at least not to anyone with even a slight bit of skill at conversions.

Well, I'll be getting a box day one and probably another one down the line. My only gripe is the marines being on 32mm bases. It's not a surprise, just annoyed as all my current marines are on the old bases.

Good to see they pretty much took the age of Sigmar box art and 40ked it up a bit, close to same posed, and of course blue/gold vs red

Terminators look kinda 'samey' from the pick. The earlier leaked sprues at least show the marines have some variety in stance, but even they look very 'samey'. Almost like the old 3rd edition guys.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how that the guy who took the photos couldn't manage just a single one of the contents of the box.

Or the card text.

Maybe his camera just couldn't focus on those parts. You know, the camera that can only take pictures at resolutions of 401x411, or 216x380...

- H8

 Formosa wrote:
that dread most certainly is not mono pose, at least not to anyone with even a slight bit of skill at conversions.

It certainly is compared to the resin kit, where literally every joint on the "real" dread is an actual joint on the model that can be glued anywhere in its full range of motion. Maybe it's worth doing a lot of conversion work if the plastic dread is cheap, but it's a huge step back in quality.

 Peregrine wrote:

 Formosa wrote:
that dread most certainly is not mono pose, at least not to anyone with even a slight bit of skill at conversions.

It certainly is compared to the resin kit, where literally every joint on the "real" dread is an actual joint on the model that can be glued anywhere in its full range of motion. Maybe it's worth doing a lot of conversion work if the plastic dread is cheap, but it's a huge step back in quality.

Playing devils advocate here, but there is a reason as to why the dreadnought is so static posed. With the different casting practices made with plastic versus resin it would have taken more sprue space to have every joint be seperate and that could result also in seams showing more obviously. Not that it should matter much anyways, it looks like it'll be easy as hell to convert, thats definitely what im doing

 Blitza da warboy wrote:
Playing devils advocate here, but there is a reason as to why the dreadnought is so static posed. With the different casting practices made with plastic versus resin it would have taken more sprue space to have every joint be seperate and that could result also in seams showing more obviously. Not that it should matter much anyways, it looks like it'll be easy as hell to convert, thats definitely what im doing

Well yeah, I'm sure there were reasons for making a static pose. But those reasons don't matter to me as a customer, all that matters is the final product and its price. And the final product is much lower in quality than the resin version. So unless it's significantly cheaper (and I mean 50% of the price or less) it's just not going to be appealing at all.

Cut em up, pose em up!

For 150... might as well get two sets and be setting pretty in both 40k and 30k.

I have been without internet for a few weeks and on lunch break at work. These guys don't have any icons like the Dark Vengeance set right?

(I'm trying to see if these sets will be good for a Pre-heresy word bearers force.)

No iconography on them. They're factory fresh mk IVs, bling not included

 Peregrine wrote:

 Blitza da warboy wrote:
Playing devils advocate here, but there is a reason as to why the dreadnought is so static posed. With the different casting practices made with plastic versus resin it would have taken more sprue space to have every joint be seperate and that could result also in seams showing more obviously. Not that it should matter much anyways, it looks like it'll be easy as hell to convert, thats definitely what im doing

Well yeah, I'm sure there were reasons for making a static pose. But those reasons don't matter to me as a customer, all that matters is the final product and its price. And the final product is much lower in quality than the resin version. So unless it's significantly cheaper (and I mean 50% of the price or less) it's just not going to be appealing at all.

Well they marketing it as a board-game, static poses in board-games was the norm before all the stuff hit kickstarter.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Well they marketing it as a board-game, static poses in board-games was the norm before all the stuff hit kickstarter.

They can market it as whatever they want, but 95% of their purchases are going to be people buying plastic 30k marines without the slightest bit of concern for whatever board game rules happen to be in the box. And it's clearly not a traditional board game when you get a box full of sprues and have to spend huge amounts of time assembling all of the pieces. So they've just hit an awkward middle ground where the game has very little appeal to the "normal" board game market but the mono-pose models limit its appeal to the people who might otherwise want to buy it.

Honestly, I doubt that the monopose legs on the dreadnought are going to hurt sales all that significantly.

GW have always had monopose legs on their dreadnoughts. It's disappointing that they keep doing it, but not really that unexpected.