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I feel something stirring in my cold, dead heart. It's almost... no, it's can't be... genuine amusement?

Ahriman and now Kharn in a top-trumps play-off. Wulfmar approves.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

Cephalobeard wrote:
Angrons Axe? No Gorechild?

New Rules?

GW Posting leaks?

I can't contain my joy.

Angron had 2 axes. Gorefather and Gorechild. The latter he gave to Khârn.

Actually, Khârn took it after Angron discarded it.

I'm going to repeat my reply from the BoLS article:

You call that a Khornate model? I only count seven skull from this angle!

Seriously, though, I hope his rules are as good as that sculpt.

How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?
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Are marines not ambidextrous?

He probably just fancied a change after 10,000 years.

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?

Chaos does that to people...

So the Ahriman made me think 30k B@C-style box... now we get a 40k Kharn and... I am confused.

Le plot twist: GW actually placed those Ahriman leaks in the first place and this was all but a set up for this PR campaign

Coincidentally these are both the two Terran born champions as well.

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:
So the Ahriman made me think 30k B@C-style box... now we get a 40k Kharn and... I am confused.

You understand that GW has been doing weekly releases for a long time, yeah?

A 30k B@C style box does not mean that there will not be any 40k Chaos releases.

I like to imagine Kharn beheading someone, taking a second to calm down, taking off his helmet and fastidiously going

"And now I'll just store this little puppy for later. And they laughed at my idea for skull-compartments!"

Oldmike wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Add me to the group hoping for generic troops. One box to add to my 30k Ultras and one to mash up with BaC leftovers to make a small 1ksons or Wolves force. Also hoping that GW will have Magnus loyalists in 40k still wearing the red and gold when the next part of warzone Fenris comes around.

40k thousand son loyalists wear red and white

As long as it give me a brake from painting blue and gold Unless your talking about Blood ravens, in which case I meant loyal to Magnus

 CragHack wrote:
Le plot twist: GW actually placed those Ahriman leaks in the first place and this was all but a set up for this PR campaign

Yeah, this is looking suspiciously like some viral marketing.. in which case - it's about goddamn time!

Nice response to the leak. It's nice to see them doing this kind of thing. Even if it is a set up. They've needed to get out there and do this kind of marketing for quite some time. It's good to see them engaging with the community again. I'm sure the usual suspects will scoff at it, but hey ho. I think it's a good sign.

Plus dayum those models look good.

 Formerly Wu wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?
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Are marines not ambidextrous?

Probably, but swapping one's chains around and keeping a spare sleeve of armour just in case must get tiresome!

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:
So the Ahriman made me think 30k B@C-style box... now we get a 40k Kharn and... I am confused.

They're separate, unrelated releases.

Surprised nobody posted this link. This is from Natfka don't know how to post the video. Had a good chuckle. You might like it.

http://natfka.blogspot.ca/2016/08/thousand-sons-rumors-answered-by-gw-and.html

Sorry if I posted in the wrong place and it was posted else where.

 rollawaythestone wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Le plot twist: GW actually placed those Ahriman leaks in the first place and this was all but a set up for this PR campaign

Yeah, this is looking suspiciously like some viral marketing.. in which case - it's about goddamn time!

Indeed - sending unreleased miniatures to the South Korean Navy so they'd find their way to ebay is too obvious. Doesn't look like mere coincidence or a mistake at all.

 BrookM wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

Cephalobeard wrote:
Angrons Axe? No Gorechild?

New Rules?

GW Posting leaks?

I can't contain my joy.

Angron had 2 axes. Gorefather and Gorechild. The latter he gave to Khârn.

Actually, Khârn took it after Angron discarded it.

Well. More like. Angron Discarded it after breaking it, and then Kharn took it and repaired it for himself to use.

It's also important to the narrative to know that in the World Eaters it was considered bad luck to take/use discarded weapons, let alone ones that someone discarded because they broke. A supersition Angron brought to the legion from his days as a gladiator. I think it was a illusion to how in the future Kharn would pick up a discarded flamer and use it agiest his comrades earning the title "the betrayer".

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Formerly Wu wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?
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Are marines not ambidextrous?

Probably, but swapping one's chains around and keeping a spare sleeve of armour just in case must get tiresome!

Looks like it was actually Forge World who got it wrong if you're basing it on the age of the model.

The answer is that his first plasma pistol exploded and scorched off his armor. So now he uses the other hand to wield the pistol so that when it explodes again he won't ruin his fancy nails.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:

 Formerly Wu wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?
[/img]

Are marines not ambidextrous?

Probably, but swapping one's chains around and keeping a spare sleeve of armour just in case must get tiresome!

Looks like it was actually Forge World who got it wrong if you're basing it on the age of the model.

I was more basing it off of a lighthearted observation, but, er, thanks?

very disappointed in the new kharn, looking at the 30k version (which I own) and this new one, frankly, the sculpt is not good enough, I'm happy we got a new sculpt finally, its just no where near the level it should have been.

Davor wrote:
Surprised nobody posted this link. This is from Natfka

You have your answer!

Exactly!

I'm not saying this isnt genuine, but didn't someone do a conversion of kharn a while back that looked exactly like this?
As in the exact same pose and angle? I guess someone at GW thought it was inspiring.

 Uriels_Flame wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
How come his dominant hand has changed since the Heresy?

Chaos does that to people...

The killing was just to easy that's why!

Joyboozer wrote:
I'm not saying this isnt genuine, but didn't someone do a conversion of kharn a while back that looked exactly like this?
As in the exact same pose and angle? I guess someone at GW thought it was inspiring.

I vaguely remember someone converting the Heresy-era Kharn into a 40k version.

Since the Heresy-Kharn has a near identical, but mirrored, pose, I can see that this is probably where they got the inspiration.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 rollawaythestone wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Le plot twist: GW actually placed those Ahriman leaks in the first place and this was all but a set up for this PR campaign

Yeah, this is looking suspiciously like some viral marketing.. in which case - it's about goddamn time!

Indeed - sending unreleased miniatures to the South Korean Navy so they'd find their way to ebay is too obvious. Doesn't look like mere coincidence or a mistake at all.

BWAHAHAHA!