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 Lockark wrote:

 dan2026 wrote:
Has anyone had their models from the last batch yet?
I sure haven't :(

mine haven't been shipped yet. Prob still too soon since it's up to 35 days before they ship.

still waiting till those lovely gals get shipped

I got them yesterday, shipped them last week.

Granted, I didn't order the Daemonettes, I ordered the Emperor's Children Champion, the Khornite lord and the Chaos Sorcerer.

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

Having experienced this from the other side of the table, no, it was not fun.

Not even a little bit.

You guys are lucky, my Lord Solar Macharius shipped on Monday... been waiting a while for it, and now that my Black Friday stuff has arrived the excitement is all but gone

Bluebeard wrote:
I got them yesterday, shipped them last week.

Granted, I didn't order the Daemonettes, I ordered the Emperor's Children Champion, the Khornite lord and the Chaos Sorcerer.

I wonder what those GW workers are thinking casting up to a million boobs out daemonetts for people around the world.

I ordered some Guard models from the first Made To Order release on the 16th of October, they shipped on the 11th of November.

 Koppo wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

Having experienced this from the other side of the table, no, it was not fun.

Not even a little bit.

Don't worry, it happened to me more times than I can recount as well. It's not like there were any less SM players back then, though, IG, Inquisition, and I think even squats could use the imperial assassins. It forced me to center strategies around not having any troops anywhere near valuable units.

The other OP unit I remember was the decked out eldar exarch. Once the 2nd Ed. Eldar codex came out you could create an eldar exarch with a brighlance, warp spider jump generator, and armor piercing ammo. That thing could crack any vehicle wide open. I played a game where one of these things took down an (armorcast) warhound titan, while the Phoenix lord Fugen took down an (armorcast) reiver with his 'fire ax'. Apocalypse games back then were quite unbalanced and time consuming to play, but always a good time.

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

I think you are misremembering

Polymorphine wargear card had restrictions on armour saves and no heavy weapons/vehicle crewmen, so no terminators. Also any equipment to model carried was dropped in favour of the assassins weapons.

 MangoMadness wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

I think you are misremembering

Polymorphine wargear card had restrictions on armour saves and no heavy weapons/vehicle crewmen, so no terminators. Also any equipment to model carried was dropped in favour of the assassins weapons.

That was after they Nerfed it

 commander dante wrote:

 MangoMadness wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

I think you are misremembering

Polymorphine wargear card had restrictions on armour saves and no heavy weapons/vehicle crewmen, so no terminators. Also any equipment to model carried was dropped in favour of the assassins weapons.

That was after they Nerfed it

Yup! I distinctly remember the issue of white dwarf where Andy Chambers did an FAQ (may have been the first one ever), and he slammed the nerf hammer on it. You definitely couldn't use vehicle crew, and I think the heavy weapon part is right also.

You were unable to remove a model with a heavy weapon, but not all terminators had heavy weapons. Back then all they had were assault cannons and Cyclone launchers, but you needed to have 5 terminators in a squad to use those. Later, either from the FAQ, or when the released the 2nd Ed. Assassin's codex, the Calidus assassin's card specifically stated the armor save had to be under a certain value to use plymorphine (which I have been mistakenly referring to as 'camoline'...).

 skullking wrote:
Apocalypse games back then were quite unbalanced and time consuming to play, but always a good time.

The more things change, the more they stay the same?

 MangoMadness wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I remember originally you could have the assassin appear from a squad of anything (terminators, etc.) using camoline, And they could be in full terminator Armor riding a bike with pretty much 'whatever' weapons you wanted them armed with. Total OP/Borken, I know, but it was fun.

I think you are misremembering

Polymorphine wargear card had restrictions on armour saves and no heavy weapons/vehicle crewmen, so no terminators. Also any equipment to model carried was dropped in favour of the assassins weapons.

Before the Temple assassins were introduced, there was just the Assassin from the Imperial Agents list in the Codex Imperialis booklet. That guy could take any wargear he liked - Terminator armour, a bike, Vortex grenades, combi-weapons, ...

You're right that when an Assassin using Polymorphine revealed himself, he discarded the wargear that the disguise had, but he usually had plenty of his own anyway.

There was one battle report - Space Wolves vs Eldar, IIRC - where an Assassin was used. Just the Space Wolves player looking at the Howling Banshees near to the Farseer was enough to get the Eldar player moving them away. Eventually, the Assassin revealed himself as a Warp Spider (causing the three remaining Eldar to fail a panic test!) and spent most of the rest of the game fighting an Eldar Dreadnought in close combat while hopped up on combat stimulants.

The Bunker Assault BatRep was a lot of fun. Bjorn ended up armless in combat with a Farseer and a Warlock!

The Assassin from those Battle Reports eventually became the basis for the Eversor Assassin (Combi-Weapon, Power Sword, Meltabombs, Combat Drugs).

I'm sorry if I missed this earlier in the thread but are these available through the US portal, or do they have to be ordered through the UK portal?

ANNNNDDDD...
RIP Celestine
Even your "Divine Intervention" Rule Cannot Save you from GW putting your model on "Last Chance to Buy"
Literally the Biggest Middle Finger GW could have Given to SoB Players

 commander dante wrote:
ANNNNDDDD...
RIP Celestine
Even your "Divine Intervention" Rule Cannot Save you from GW putting your model on "Last Chance to Buy"
Literally the Biggest Middle Finger GW could have Given to SoB Players

There's no way they're removing Celestine from the game, especially seeing as all the other Sister models are still in production. The only reason they would remove Celestine and no other Sister models is because they're either

a) retooling Celestine in finecast
b) doing a new Celestine in plastic

for an upcoming Codex.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
I'm sorry if I missed this earlier in the thread but are these available through the US portal, or do they have to be ordered through the UK portal?

they'll appear on the US site at some point today (they go live for the UK at 10am uk time, and for the Usa at 10am east or west (can't remember which) coast time)

skullking wrote:Apocalypse games back then were quite unbalanced and time consuming to play, but always a good time.

To be fair, Apocalypse games were never really intended to be balanced. They were the original "unbound" rules. Field what you want regardless of points and have fun. Anything beyond that was house rules. (Which we used several times!)

Mymearan wrote:There's no way they're removing Celestine from the game, especially seeing as all the other Sister models are still in production. The only reason they would remove Celestine and no other Sister models is because they're either

a) retooling Celestine in finecast
b) doing a new Celestine in plastic

for an upcoming Codex.

Yeah, because GW has never removed a model/rules from a game without replacing them with something else...

Also, I just noticed that Assassinorum Execution Force is in the "Last Chance to Buy" section!

 Mymearan wrote:
There's no way they're removing Celestine from the game, especially seeing as all the other Sister models are still in production. The only reason they would remove Celestine and no other Sister models is because they're either

a) retooling Celestine in finecast
b) doing a new Celestine in plastic

for an upcoming Codex.

a) "Finecast" Celestine is a given.

b) No way Celestine goes plastic, given that all of the armies that actually sell models got SCs in plastic, but the new Caness is resin.

No way Sisters get a separate Codex from Imperial Agents. C:IA is the new Sisters Codex.

 commander dante wrote:
ANNNNDDDD...
RIP Celestine
Even your "Divine Intervention" Rule Cannot Save you from GW putting your model on "Last Chance to Buy"
Literally the Biggest Middle Finger GW could have Given to SoB Players

Well, they did do that to the immolator and look what popped up again. Or maybe they're working on a resculpt for the plastic release.

 gobskrag 'eadbasha wrote:

 commander dante wrote:
ANNNNDDDD...
RIP Celestine
Even your "Divine Intervention" Rule Cannot Save you from GW putting your model on "Last Chance to Buy"
Literally the Biggest Middle Finger GW could have Given to SoB Players

Well, they did do that to the immolator and look what popped up again. Or maybe they're working on a resculpt for the plastic release.

I fully expect her back as a Lord of War.
Not like an oversized model or anything, just a clampack but a great new sculpt.

Who knows, maybe this time around she will have wings like nine out of ten conversions out there?

Ordered the 2 female Inquisitors, a battle sister and one of the 2003 Inquisitors I didn't have. Spent less than I would on ebay, more than I should have since I have about 40 pounds of unpainted metal.

Ah well. I'll stop in 2017, I SWEAR!

Can I order them tomorrow or do I have to let my sick GF got to bed alone and order more stuff for the pile of shame? I alread missed bidding on KD stuff today, d'oh.

Ordered one of everything before I found out the new codex is probably a waste of time.

I was going to order some stuff but after the news I am feeling a bit apathetic and may not order anything after all.

I was also going to buy a rhino and some scouts and cadians for a 30k project but now I think I will pass on that as well.

On the bright side the C:IA has saved me close to $200 CAD lol

Still lots to paint anyways so I can continue to clear off my shelf of shame

Loopstah wrote:
Ordered one of everything before I found out the new codex is probably a waste of time.

Cancel the order then.

https://www.facebook.com/GWWarhammerAgeofSigmar/posts/556290124567785:0

Our Made to Order service has already brought back dozens of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, and soon, Warhammer Age of Sigmar will get its turn.
So we want to know: what would you like to see?
We’re looking for suggestions for any older models for factions within the Grand Alliance: Order book - Aelfs, Free Peoples, Seraphon, Sylvaneth, Duardin - whatever. If there are any models for those armies that are out of production, but you would still like to add to your force, let us know, and we’ll see what we can do.

Bretonnians and Tomb Kings included, or just current forces?

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Bretonnians and Tomb Kings included, or just current forces?

Judging by the text accompanying the picture, Bretonnians aren't included!! And Tomb Kings, I assume, would fall under the Death category! However, I'm sure if enough people asked from some of the old Bret character models they'd drop a few of them!