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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So we're decided then?

A sprue with all 8 established marks, plus artificer and a scout.

Anything less and we riot and burn down Nottingham.

How is Artificer Armor visually different from any other Power Armor. Looking at some of the characters that we know are in Artificer Armor (Commander Dante, Pedro Kantor, Helbrecht, and Emperor's Champion), the only one that has armor that is distinct from normal Power Armor is Commander Dante. Sanguinary Guard are also in Artificer Armor. But Pedro, Helbrecht, and the EC all look like they are in regular, albeit ornate, Power Armor. And plenty of models are in regular Power Armor that is just as ornate as Pedro or Helbrecht's Artificer Armor.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So we're decided then?

A sprue with all 8 established marks, plus artificer and a scout.

Anything less and we riot and burn down Nottingham.

I am ready to spend my frequent flier miles and purchase the required pitch and forks.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And all variants of Terminator Armour.

As long as it includes MK1 terminator armor (as in the one that's 50% pauldrons).

 Mr. Burning wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
No, the last one would be Stormcast armour, obviously...

Call the set 'The evolution of Power Armour' (Skipping Thunder Armour). No need to write up anything about it in WD or elsewhere other than the name and contents.

Skipping Thunder Armor? *SKIPPING* THUNDER ARMOR?

Oh...you mean because Thunder Warriors deserve and should get a full and proper release later. Okay. That's alright then. You get to stay.

 kitch102 wrote:
That'd be cool, one of the extras could be artificer armour (which I've often wondered if it'd be represented in plastic at some point). Maybe another consisting of bionic body parts than you can shake an iron hand at

Background-wise, isn't artificer armour any suit that's been customised by the Chapter artificers? Any of the specialist box sets - Sanguinary Guard are the best example, but to an extent any of the Chapter-specific sets and upgrades sets could be artificer armour. The more blingy bits you use on one model, the more artificer-y it is.

As for this special model, I hope it's the standard bearer from that Rogue Trader cover. Or a Marine in that really original style:

http://dylangould.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/rogue-trader-marine-update.html?m=1

(The Sternguard).

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 kitch102 wrote:
That'd be cool, one of the extras could be artificer armour (which I've often wondered if it'd be represented in plastic at some point). Maybe another consisting of bionic body parts than you can shake an iron hand at

Background-wise, isn't artificer armour any suit that's been customised by the Chapter artificers? Any of the specialist box sets - Sanguinary Guard are the best example, but to an extent any of the Chapter-specific sets and upgrades sets could be artificer armour. The more blingy bits you use on one model, the more artificer-y it is.

As for this special model, I hope it's the standard bearer from that Rogue Trader cover. Or a Marine in that really original style:

http://dylangould.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/rogue-trader-marine-update.html?m=1

(The Sternguard).

Very good point, I hadn't really considered that tbh. In my minds eye, artificer armour was "just like regular power armour, but with swirly bits on". Don't worry, I'll see myself out...

As for this release, I guess we'll see. I might get white dwarf downloads for the next few weeks just to see if I can spot any hints lol.

commander dante wrote:
But the real question is what MKIX will look like?
A variation on another set? (like MKVIII)
Cobbled together armour? (Lile MKV)
A completely new look?


As long as it has a MKIV helmet, Ill be happy

I feel like since the Errant is just an retooled version of the Aquilla, that a MK IX armor would have to have new look to make it fell like something other than an Errant variant.


A terrible thought just occured to me. Has GW made a model out of those two waltzing Ultramarines from that old Rogue Trader art? Because I'm banking on that coming sometime between now and the 50th anniversary.

Rainyday wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And all variants of Terminator Armour.

As long as it includes MK1 terminator armor (as in the one that's 50% pauldrons).

Love those very unusual

gorgon wrote:

 Mr. Burning wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
No, the last one would be Stormcast armour, obviously...

Call the set 'The evolution of Power Armour' (Skipping Thunder Armour). No need to write up anything about it in WD or elsewhere other than the name and contents.

Skipping Thunder Armor? *SKIPPING* THUNDER ARMOR?

Oh...you mean because Thunder Warriors deserve and should get a full and proper release later. Okay. That's alright then. You get to stay.

We need the mad max thunder warriors! Skipping leads to Heresy!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And all variants of Terminator Armour.

Don't forget centurion armor.

Have the Thunder Warriors been explored in any sort of depth in the fluff? I find the concept of more barbaric Marines with prototype tech quite appealing.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Beakie_has_a_soda.jpg

Clearly we should have a model of this 80s Hero
He deserves a Cold Drink

 Mymearan wrote:
Have the Thunder Warriors been explored in any sort of depth in the fluff? I find the concept of more barbaric Marines with prototype tech quite appealing.

You can piece together snippets in the heresy novels, outcast dead in particular, if I remember correctly in that novel it was found they had been engineered to die after a set amount of time, an almost inbuilt security measure. You get bits of battles etc in the books but little concrete info. Even the death built in thing is from the perspective of one person, it could just be a side effect of creation rather than on purpose.

I doubt any limited model will be plastic, the return on investment is too low for a one off model on sale for a day IMO. Finecast makes more sense OR the model is lifted from a future product, like how the assassins were exclusive until released in blisters.

Chaplain Seraphicus from DV and the two Captains from the web store relaunch beg to differ on your last point. Plus they're phasing out fail cast and no longer do metal, so what else would it be made out of?

They could make them out of birthday cake.

Or wishes

 Theophony wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And all variants of Terminator Armour.

Don't forget centurion armor.

POWER EXTREME!

Little article I swiped from god knows where a few years ago.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Chaplain Seraphicus from DV and the two Captains from the web store relaunch beg to differ on your last point. Plus they're phasing out fail cast and no longer do metal, so what else would it be made out of?

Seraphicus was in the starter for their biggest product they sell , for a long time. The Captains were more than one day of availability. One day for plastic seems excessive, but I guess we find out soon.

I believe that when it comes to HIPs moulding that there are options when it comes to producing the die, so if you're making a new SM Tac Sqd, for instance, you use a hard metal that takes a long time to machine but will last for hundreds of thousands of castings, equally at the other end there is softer stuff (like aluminum possibly?) that can be machined much more cheaply and quickly, but will only last for fewer casts.

It's quite possible it's cheap enough to do, especially if any losses can be offset against tax as promotional expenses rather than a loss on manufactured product.

Another example was the sprue of Terminator and Ork Nob that was included with every White Dwarf when Assault on Black Reach was released, or the Stormcast Eternal to tie in with Age of Sigmar. Unlike the other plastic miniatures I can think of that came free with White Dwarf (Space Marine for 2nd ed 40k, skinks for 5th ed Warhammer, a Khorne Berserker, a Wizard from the Talisman expansions and a Dark Eldar warrior for 3rd edition 40k) they weren't simply taken from an existing or upcoming proper release. I imagine whatever we get in April will be similar.

 TwilightSparkles wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Chaplain Seraphicus from DV and the two Captains from the web store relaunch beg to differ on your last point. Plus they're phasing out fail cast and no longer do metal, so what else would it be made out of?

Seraphicus was in the starter for their biggest product they sell , for a long time. The Captains were more than one day of availability. One day for plastic seems excessive, but I guess we find out soon.

Serpahicus was in a limited, finite number of DV boxes iirc.

The Captains may have been available for more than a day, but a month + having to buy a certain amouint through GW's webstore to get even access to them did have a certain limiting effect. I'd be surprised if they sold all of them.

 sockwithaticket wrote:

 TwilightSparkles wrote:

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Chaplain Seraphicus from DV and the two Captains from the web store relaunch beg to differ on your last point. Plus they're phasing out fail cast and no longer do metal, so what else would it be made out of?

Seraphicus was in the starter for their biggest product they sell , for a long time. The Captains were more than one day of availability. One day for plastic seems excessive, but I guess we find out soon.

Serpahicus was in a limited, finite number of DV boxes iirc.

The Captains may have been available for more than a day, but a month + having to buy a certain amouint through GW's webstore to get even access to them did have a certain limiting effect. I'd be surprised if they sold all of them.

The first Captain(static with the Storm Bolter) was available with orders over around $70 or so.

The second Captain had to be purchased, and you got a code/URL with the first Captain allowing you to purchase a few of them at a time with each code usage.

I've called in to my local GW, they say that there's going to be a painting competition (5 power armoured space marines, no terminator armour), and an apocalypse game. Anyone have any ideas if the events are on a store by store base?

 Nyoom wrote:
I've called in to my local GW, they say that there's going to be a painting competition (5 power armoured space marines, no terminator armour), and an apocalypse game. Anyone have any ideas if the events are on a store by store base?

From what i know, My local GW is having a couple of games and i believe a large game where it is only Marines (and to see how many Marines everyone brings on the day)

I'm catching up on so posts and forums so apologize if I missed this but did anyone post about the special model for the event being the first of SM box re- released? GW stores, this coming from reliable source so choose to disregard if you will, sell the boxes Saturday and Sunday only while FLGS really will just sell whatever stock they have. Just found out about this tonight but I may be behind the curve already

 VeteranNoob wrote:
I'm catching up on so posts and forums so apologize if I missed this but did anyone post about the special model for the event being the first of SM box re- released? GW stores, this coming from reliable source so choose to disregard if you will, sell the boxes Saturday and Sunday only while FLGS really will just sell whatever stock they have. Just found out about this tonight but I may be behind the curve already

I didn't know about that, what's the source? If that's true, I'll deffs be down for one.

 Nyoom wrote:
I've called in to my local GW, they say that there's going to be a painting competition (5 power armoured space marines, no terminator armour), and an apocalypse game. Anyone have any ideas if the events are on a store by store base?

Ours are doing a painting for a single marine model, a buy&build&then fight with tank game and a Death Watch game.

 Nyoom wrote:

 VeteranNoob wrote:
I'm catching up on so posts and forums so apologize if I missed this but did anyone post about the special model for the event being the first of SM box re- released? GW stores, this coming from reliable source so choose to disregard if you will, sell the boxes Saturday and Sunday only while FLGS really will just sell whatever stock they have. Just found out about this tonight but I may be behind the curve already

I didn't know about that, what's the source? If that's true, I'll deffs be down for one.

I'm not getting him in trouble (sorry, I not worth the risk) but certainly one who manages the place of selling these things we speak of I'm 100% confident his information from the direct source itself is true and understood correctly. Of course, only 3 weeks away, is is, until we see for sure? No idea what the price would be though. Thinking now on GW trend this year I can see this making sense. But disregard as you like, I understand and won't be offended

Sorry. What is 'the first of Sm box' exactly?

Chikout wrote:
Sorry. What is 'the first of Sm box' exactly?

The first box of plastic Space Marines released ' which makes sense with the art teasers, but we'll see. I need to be careful not to get anyone in trouble. Excited rumors is one thing and this group is mature enough to handle news. It may well be only part of the release. Or completely wrong , which would be odd...but it's possible.

I almost posted this over on Warseer and then quickly realized what a disaster that would be.

Surely not RTB01?