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Krinsath wrote: Just trying to calibrate if Rountree is really understanding what GW was doing wrong under Kirby and taking measures to correct it, or if this was already the direction they were moving in and he's more likely just not done anything to gum up the works (which is still better than Kirby would have managed, IMO).
Rountree is a company vet. It's likely that some of the policies have been in the making before he took the current spot, but it's equally likely that he had a hand in forming them as Chief Operating Officer.
Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Nothing. I'm into GW stuff for the background & aesthetic and they trashed both when they blew up Fantasy. If they put out an AoS model that fits with the Realhammer aesthetic and isn't too over-scaled/-priced and I see a use for it, I'll buy it, but AoS as a system or the fluff basis for another game has nothing I want.
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godardc wrote: I just noticed that Jensus Natorian, the librarian, is officially a Blood Raven.
Is this the first Blood Raven miniature in 40k ?
Possibly the first one with sculpted Blood Raven iconography but hardly the first time the Ravens have been acknowledged in main studio output.
Forge World even used to do one of their A4 transfer sheets for them.
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godardc wrote: I just noticed that Jensus Natorian, the librarian, is officially a Blood Raven.
Is this the first Blood Raven miniature in 40k ?
There was a Gabriel Angelos-esque model in PA with a two handed Thunder Hammer that never made it into full production. It was featured in the Chapter Traits book.
Ok, I was unaware of those previous Blood Raven elements.
Anyone else here would have been happier with a GSC vs Arbitrators box ?^^
I'm a fan of Deathwatch: overkill, but now I can't stop thinking about GSC vs Arbitrators.
ImAGeek wrote: Is there a fluff explanation for the cultists nose pipe things? Or are they just a design thing with no relevance?
Since they're wearing repurposed mining gear, I'd assume it's related to that.
The old models had them too though, I noticed when I was looking at them earlier.
Yeah, and the fluff(new and old) has made mention of the Hybrids/Cultists trying to look and emulate their Patriarch by using cobbled together armor plates and the like to give themselves a "carapace".
godardc wrote: I just noticed that Jensus Natorian, the librarian, is officially a Blood Raven.
Is this the first Blood Raven miniature in 40k ?
There was a Gabriel Angelos-esque model in PA with a two handed Thunder Hammer that never made it into full production. It was featured in the Chapter Traits book.
I think some guy did some test figures but they never made it into circulation.
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godardc wrote: I just noticed that Jensus Natorian, the librarian, is officially a Blood Raven.
Is this the first Blood Raven miniature in 40k ?
There was a Gabriel Angelos-esque model in PA with a two handed Thunder Hammer that never made it into full production. It was featured in the Chapter Traits book.
Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Please No leave my memories of quest alone.
It's fine to object, although I don't understand your reasons. WHQ was not really a game intrinsically attached to its location like Mordheim. More just a generic dungeon crawler - almost everything in WHQ still exists inside the AoS universe and so it makes it an easy port imo
I'm hoping the game Sad Panda mentioned for AoS very much resembles WHQ.
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Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Please No leave my memories of quest alone.
It's fine to object, although I don't understand your reasons. WHQ was not really a game intrinsically attached to its location like Mordheim. More just a generic dungeon crawler - almost everything in WHQ still exists inside the AoS universe and so it makes it an easy port imo
I'm hoping the game Sad Panda mentioned for AoS very much resembles WHQ.
I don't trust GW with anything fantasy related after AoS
Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Please No leave my memories of quest alone.
It's fine to object, although I don't understand your reasons. WHQ was not really a game intrinsically attached to its location like Mordheim. More just a generic dungeon crawler - almost everything in WHQ still exists inside the AoS universe and so it makes it an easy port imo
I'm hoping the game Sad Panda mentioned for AoS very much resembles WHQ.
Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Please No leave my memories of quest alone.
It's fine to object, although I don't understand your reasons. WHQ was not really a game intrinsically attached to its location like Mordheim. More just a generic dungeon crawler - almost everything in WHQ still exists inside the AoS universe and so it makes it an easy port imo
I'm hoping the game Sad Panda mentioned for AoS very much resembles WHQ.
I don't trust GW with anything fantasy related after AoS
I think with the upcoming remakes of the Genestealer cult stuff, I'm willing to give GW the benefit with the doubt with further projects.
THAT being said, I'd much prefer them going back to the Old World and leaving the AOS stuff in...AOS.
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Yodhrin wrote: Among the five people still playing AoS by that point, I'm sure it will be
Haha, well the plus side of these board games is you don't need to play the main game. I don't play 40k currently but will be getting this one.
What could tempt you to get a AoS branded board game? An updated version of Warhammer Quest, even if one character is a Sigmarine? :-p
Please No leave my memories of quest alone.
It's fine to object, although I don't understand your reasons. WHQ was not really a game intrinsically attached to its location like Mordheim. More just a generic dungeon crawler - almost everything in WHQ still exists inside the AoS universe and so it makes it an easy port imo
I'm hoping the game Sad Panda mentioned for AoS very much resembles WHQ.
I don't trust GW with anything fantasy related after AoS
I think with the upcoming remakes of the Genestealer cult stuff, I'm willing to give GW the benefit with the doubt with further projects.
THAT being said, I'd much prefer them going back to the Old World and leaving the AOS stuff in...AOS.
Figures fine... Ill give you that, but from the 3 up I saw last year to the release of the slayer remakes was remarkably different. Unless GW does something remarkable with fantasy its gone . But we haven't seen the rules for the game ( deathwatch verkill) or their 40k counterparts, but needle pistol that's some old school stuff
So how do these work? I've skipped space hulk, assassins, and calth, but genesteer cult has my interest piqued. Am I gonna have to order it from GW? Are we expecting 100 or 200 monies? Sorry if this has been addressed but I haven't got time to sift or search 37 pages.
Between mixed chapter marines and those neat hybrid/cult guys...they may actually get me with this one..
GrimDork wrote: So how do these work? I've skipped space hulk, assassins, and calth, but genesteer cult has my interest piqued. Am I gonna have to order it from GW? Are we expecting 100 or 200 monies? Sorry if this has been addressed but I haven't got time to sift or search 37 pages.
Between mixed chapter marines and those neat hybrid/cult guys...they may actually get me with this one..
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I took some flak a few pages ago for criticising the marines and I stand by those comments,
but I must admit those hybrids and cultists are first class, very nice models. It appears GW can do a really good model once in a blue moon.
The patriarch is way to similar to the space hulk brood lord for my liking, and the marines are still meh,
but first class hybrids and cultists.
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
I would be in for just getting the cult and dump the rest.
I will wait for when these come for a start collecting force and there are a couple boxes and blisters available... By then maybe just maybe my tyranid biodiversity project will reboot.
Cassius is like Admiral Benson in the first hot shots film
He lost his hair during the first Tyrannic war.
His bowels were torpedoed by an Ork waagh and replaced by hemp.
His tongue was cut off by Abaddon during a black crusade, and replaced with a copy of the imperial guard lasgun manual.
His inner ear tube was shot out by Tau and replaced by soup tins.
He lost his kidneys to an Eldar ranger on Craftworld X or something
His eye, stolen by a Chaos Titan, was replaced by a marble.
And so it goes on
"Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky. But is it true?" - Tom Kirby, CEO, Games Workshop Ltd
migooo wrote: Unless GW does something remarkable with fantasy its gone .
I'd still say that the remarkable thing they needed to do had little to do with minis or background, but prices and rules. Like what they did with the marauder box, but keeping them in Norsca and points north. (And keeping other kinds of points too... )
These stealer cultists look great, and the background's all there. Prices on them, as portions of the box set, are decent. (Splitting a discounted box with a marine player, nearly 40 minis for about £40, hopefully £35? Nice.) Rulewise I'm looking at this box in the same way most looked at BaC, I assume - for wargames rules rather than the board game. But while I've got other rules in mind, at least GW ain't banjaxing their big, established sci-fi game in favour of this smaller sci-fi game.
Time to bust out the greenstuff and crack that Sternguard kit wide open, I have some converting t'do.
Also, if you're seconded to the Deathwatch, doesn't that mean you keep the shoulderpad on return to your parent chapter?
In the fluff, Astartes only serve for a short while. Most of the time, it is for a single mission or series of linked missions against a specific threat. When they return to their Chapter, they leave behind what they have done with the Deathwatch, and never speak of it.
Some, however, are so good at their job, or are renowned specialists, that they return to their Chapter with their Deathwatch colors and equipment. This way, they can return to the Deathwatch in a moment's notice.
I can still remember when a box of 30 Space Marines was $30.00. Now THAT'S old school! In fact, I started playing in the Rogue Trader days...yes, I am that old. Played Warhammer Fantasy for years before Rogue Trader even came out...
6,800 Pts. Ultramarines, 1,500 Pts. Deathwatch, 1,000 Pts. Black Templars, 1,000 Pts. Blood Ravens, 1,000 Pts. Emperors Children, 2,000 Pts. Word Bearers, 3,500 Pts. Eldar (Alaitoc or Biel-tan), 2,000 Pts. Tau, 2,000 Pts. Sisters of Battle, 999 Pts. of Thousand Sons, 1,000 Points Dark Eldar, 1,000 Points Adeptus Arbites, 1,000 Points Freebooters, 1,000 Points "Last Chancers", 1,000 Points Tyranids, 1,000 Points Necrons
2,500 Pts. Brotherhood, 2,000 Pts. Undead, 2,000 Pts. Sylvan Kin Elves, 2,000 Pts. Empire of Dust, 3,000 Pts. Orcs with Goblin Allies
5 Necromunda Gangs, 10 Mordheim Warbands, and 5 Frostgrave warbands
verkill) or their 
and I stand by those comments,
- 535pts
40K - 2000pts
HH - 3000pts
- 40 Wounds 
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