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Everyone around me is freaking out about this release and I'm just sitting here waiting for MKIII armor. Iron Hands for life.

 ultimentra wrote:
Everyone around me is freaking out about this release and I'm just sitting here waiting for MKIII armor. Iron Hands for life.

You know they had MkIV too right?

I'm mostly excited for cheap MkIv for my Red Scorpions. Going to have to start a 30k force now too.

 Red Marine wrote:
Thanks for the reply, but i saw those already. Blurry & poorly lit. I was hoping for something a little better. Im on the fence about buying some boxes. I really like the HH books but the models in the box, especially the ones in power armor look rather meh.

I hear ya.... I have been searching all over the net for newer pics too... I need to figure out some things for the conversions I have planned.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 ultimentra wrote:
Everyone around me is freaking out about this release and I'm just sitting here waiting for MKIII armor. Iron Hands for life.

You know they had MkIV too right?

Well yeah but MkIII is just sooo much more fitting to their aesthetic
Eventually going to pick up their dudes with the boarding shields, the Gorgon Terminators, and their command squad from FW. All of the PA in those is MkIII, gotta look uniform man haha.

I keep getting this strange urge to get an army of smurfs, deffo looking forward to this one.

bound for glory wrote:
whats that smell? is it bs?

Nope, check your pants.

 mikhaila wrote:
But i can't post picturees, GW would have me on a rack in about 5 minutes

Of course. I mean, how dare any retailer preview an upcoming release to generate buzz, increase awareness, and foster good will and more pre-orders.

I mean, that'd just be ludicrous.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.......

Mikhaila can you at least give us your impression/thoughts on the games itself?

So... think Post-heresy loyalist Word Bearers (original scheme,) could work with this armor mark timeline wise?

 Stormwall wrote:
So... think Post-heresy loyalist Word Bearers (original scheme,) could work with this armor mark timeline wise?

It's a Chapter of Word Bearers who kept the old colours.

The Word Bearers have a huge list of alt color scheme in the HH books due to all the sub cults and chapters they have.

bound for glory wrote:
whats that smell? is it bs?

It's the smell of a retailer, with his picture next to his posts, and his storename in his bio, who is well known by GW US for 25 years. GW sent me the copies ahead of time because i agreed to order 70 copies. I agreed not to do things like post pictures, or utube, or anything similar until the "Go Loud" date. Breaking that rules probably would cost me something, like getting advanced copies ever again. If i were going to break a rule i woudn't do it with my name and picture attatched

I'll take a good look at the game tomorrow, was swamped today at the shop. I'll say that the amount of sprues was impressive. There was enough in there to fill the box by almost 4 layers. We'll be cleaning and assembling our demo copies tomorrow and trying to see what all is on the sprues, and how they fit together. And try to play a game.

In some ways, it's a strange game. No board gamer would want to put together all of these models to play. Too many parts, they want one piece. Seems like they really committed to making HH plastics, and sort of wrapped a game around them. These sprues are first and foremost for using in 30k/40k. They aren't snap fit or easy put together models for a boardgame.

Looks very solid, from the point of view of someone wanting to work on their 30k models.

mikhaila, I know I'm kind of a broken record here, but what are the tiles like?

bound for glory wrote:
whats that smell? is it bs?

You must be new here, go read the forum rules and

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
mikhaila, I know I'm kind of a broken record here, but what are the tiles like?

H.B.M.C. - "Tiles for the tiles God!"

Seriously, I'm really looking forward to this release; might try the game but mainly looking to bolster both my UM and nascent Alpha legion forces.

 mikhaila wrote:

In some ways, it's a strange game. No board gamer would want to put together all of these models to play. Too many parts, they want one piece. Seems like they really committed to making HH plastics, and sort of wrapped a game around them. These sprues are first and foremost for using in 30k/40k. They aren't snap fit or easy put together models for a boardgame.

Looks very solid, from the point of view of someone wanting to work on their 30k models.

I figured it was a way to force folks jumping into the HH model pool instead of just dipping their toes into it. The value compared with buying just two squads of FW resin marines is there and it makes the minimum buyin $150 US retail instead of $50 for a squad or somesuch. I considered the Assassin boardgame the same thing; folks might just one the celuxus or vindicaire but they were forced (for a few months) to get all of them (plus some chaos guys) at a much higher price instead if they wanted any new assassin figs. Either way, folks finally get their plastic HH minis and I fully expect them to sell well given the value despite the bundling.

 mikhaila wrote:


Looks very solid, from the point of view of someone wanting to work on their 30k models.

Thank you for the review, Mike!

Got this this morning. Didn't see it posted yet.

Yup already in FW thread.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 ultimentra wrote:
Everyone around me is freaking out about this release and I'm just sitting here waiting for MKIII armor. Iron Hands for life.

You know they had MkIV too right?

Yes but MkIII is cooler and MKIV is sort of boring...

I would have bought multiples if it was MKIII. I'm not motivated to buy a single box as is.

@ angelofvengance, where is the FW thread? And anyone know what FW is going to put out tomorrow?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/900/660641.page

not clear whether the announcement is just the HH boardgame or whether FW is doing something of their own (eg add ons, info on what happens to their HH range etc)

 Tagony wrote:
@ angelofvengance, where is the FW thread? And anyone know what FW is going to put out tomorrow?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/660641.page


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ah ok, thanks! I have finally been going through the FW site these last few days and I really wish the box was MKIII. Four just looks bland comparatively. Plus the DA bits look III. Do you guys think the III's will come out in a box from GW, so a pack of 10 won't be $80?

From what I've read elsewhere, it's more challenging to produce the earlier marks in plastic thanks to the overlapping plates and such. It was easier to produce Mk.4 in plastic to a quality level reasonably close to the FW version.

I think GW did Mk IV instead of Mk3 because of the setting - Betrayal at Calth gives them a fairly self-contained sector to set the board game in, with two known forces. Ultramarines have kind of always been the "iconic" space marine, and I think Word Bearers are very much the "iconic bad guy" of the Heresy(and the red armor is a great contrast to Ultramarines blue).

As long as it wasn't mk2 I'm fine...

Agreed, MK 2 is meh. OK, I can agree that 4 would be easier from a printing standpoint. Whenever DA comes out in force with FW my wallet is going to take a nasty hit.

Which mark had the really dorky horsetail plumes? They look good on Knights. Not on space Knights.

 SargentWhiskey wrote:
could i paint these up in all world eater colors?

have a look at the WE in the HH book one. It's a much different color scheme.

 Tagony wrote:
ah ok, thanks! I have finally been going through the FW site these last few days and I really wish the box was MKIII. Four just looks bland comparatively. Plus the DA bits look III. Do you guys think the III's will come out in a box from GW, so a pack of 10 won't be $80?

The DA parts are MkII.


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 timetowaste85 wrote:
Which mark had the really dorky horsetail plumes? They look good on Knights. Not on space Knights.

None of them have plumes built in so it could be any of them.