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Pretty.

That weapon, I must have it for my Terminator-Interrogator Chaplain.

Yeah I like that Chaplain.

I don't like that helmet mark :(
need to get me some different ones.

 bubber wrote:
I don't like that helmet mark :(
need to get me some different ones.

You're not gonna like this box then, it's all that mark of armour

Damn. Might get this for making some elite Dark Angels

Hmm, I wonder if there will be any follow up boxes to this one...

 jreilly89 wrote:
Damn. Might get this for making some elite Dark Angels

All I'm saying is that those Cataphractii will be wearing new wargear if I get my hands on them

I really can't afford this but I sooooooo wanna do Heresy Death Guard...

Love it

Really like that commander guy. Not that I need more captains, particularly ones on foot. But I think I might need that guy.

Nvs wrote:
For those who actually play the FW HH game, how does this box look? Do standard marines and terminators play a large role in your list building? Or do the things in this box take a back seat to units like Phoenix Terminators and the Palatine Blade squads?

You will want at least one Tactical squad. They form the core of many Legion builds. Depending on your legion tactics you may want a bunch. Ultramarines are a tac squad leaning Legion as infantry units gain bonuses if they shoot at a target shot at someone else.

Caraprachts are good but they need support to really shine. I stick my Cataphracts in a big killy unit with a Primis Medicae and a Praetor. Those guys beat face. I plan on sticking Guilliman and a chaplain in there at cost of the Praetor for a big Spartan assault tank of doom.

Contemptors are decent. A little weedy in CC due to their low number of attacks but put them against chaff units and it will kill. The Mortis with dual Kheres is better.

I hope that helps!

You could always have him count as a Sergeant...

 Lockark wrote:
Do the termies only come with heavy flamer? No reaper autocannon or plasma blaster?

That's a good question - anyone know?

 Alpharius wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
Do the termies only come with heavy flamer? No reaper autocannon or plasma blaster?

That's a good question - anyone know?

Just heavy Flamer by the looks of the sprue:

 bubber wrote:
I don't like that helmet mark :(
need to get me some different ones.

You can always just get the upgrade kits from FW of the respective legion to replace them. even though I stopped playing 40k or GW games in general I am sorely tempted by this. Especially since some of my gaming buddies still play HH games. Two boxes, along with the special units/characters from FW and some of their upgrade kits and it should be a decent sized Death Guard army for a reasonable price. Still al lot but a whole lot more doable than a pure FW force, which is what kept me in from starting so far.

I am excited for this! I even have a Guilly model for them!

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
Do the termies only come with heavy flamer? No reaper autocannon or plasma blaster?

That's a good question - anyone know?

Just heavy Flamer by the looks of the sprue:

Do the FW options for them look compatible?

 Alpharius wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
Do the termies only come with heavy flamer? No reaper autocannon or plasma blaster?

That's a good question - anyone know?

Just heavy Flamer by the looks of the sprue:

Do the FW options for them look compatible?

From the special weapon(which includes heavy weapons) pack it is.

And as a side note the power axes are not compatible.

So which legion are you all going for?

I am looking at with death guard or alpha legion myself

XIII. For Macragge!

 Motograter wrote:
So which legion are you all going for?

I am looking at with death guard or alpha legion myself

I don't know -.- my plan at the moment is to use the shattered legion rules to make some of every legion, but we don't have the rules for shattered legions yet so I can't really plan for it. Currently I'm into Blood Angels, especially after seeing the little bits of art for them at the 40k weekend.

Thousand Sons for me, but I could be waiting a long time :(

I'm just worried that since Thousand Sons are quite unique with all being psykers if they'll legitimately use so many tactical squads. Hopefully they just have a lot of IC mini librarians that join tactical squads or something along those lines. FW hasn't even released a HH librarian have they? I assume they exist in some capacity already in the rules for someone.

Everyone has access to Librarians, even World Eaters so long as they don't take their special Rite of War.

And it's almost guaranteed that tacticals will be useful for the XVth Legion. Everyone can find uses for them -- they're much more core to the 30K Legions than they are to 40K Chapters.

Nvs wrote:
I assume they exist in some capacity already in the rules for someone.

The rules are there (Centurion > Librarian) but where they're at in the timeline they're still banned (Edicts of Nikaea).


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Nvs wrote:
FW hasn't even released a HH librarian have they?

No, but there is Sevrin Loth in MkIV ‘Maximus’ Armour.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

shade1313 wrote:
It's odd that the decal sheet includes the decals to make the chaplain, dread, praetor, and terminators for either side, but it appears you only get enough UM tac markings for 10 guys, but enough for 20 WB tacticals.

I think it's not a bad idea. Gives plenty of options as to who gets the dread, praetor, chaplain and terminators.

No, it's a great idea to give the options on those, but it just strikes me as odd that they'd make the allegiance of the dread, characters, and termies flexible, but NOT the numbers of tacticals that can be made for each side.

It's a tough call for me. I've a small (as in skirmish sized) World Eaters 40k force that was very fun to paint, and they are one of my favourite Legions (Erebus is a brilliantly mischievous villain), but I'm not sure I can paint a whole force to a good quality these days so I'm also leaning towards the Shattered Legions, either the survivors of Istvaan III/IV (so RG, Sallies, Iron Hands and a few Loyalists from the that escaped the purges) or the force assembled at Macragge with UM, BA and DA along with a few others.... Or maybe the Defenders of Terra with the Scars, BA and Fists... decisions, decisions!

Maybe the assume everyone already has 27 million Ultramarine transfers that are the correct size for power armor?

 Motograter wrote:
So which legion are you all going for?

I am looking at with death guard or alpha legion myself

I'm already working on FW Salamanders, these guys in plastic will form the core of an Alpha Legion army, and I'll likely go back to resin when the Thousand Sons finally come out.

I'll be starting one of the "forgotten" legions, the Iron Hands. I'm already building some fortifications for them.