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nagash42 wrote:
I fear with tzaangors no one will take thousand sons cause the gors will be the cheaper choice.

It's like cultists versus CSM, they're cheaper but fulfill a different purpose.

TomWB wrote:
Re: 40k Tzaangors, there are bird-like skulls on that 40K base sprue after all...

I thought they were for the Tau bird guys to go with the Tau skulls. Forget their names. I think all Tau players forgot their names.

*edit*

Just hit me, Vespids. Still does anyone field them? Maybe that is why they have skulls, they all died of for not being used.

The skulls look neither Kroot nor Vespid.

Raven Guard who have worn their Mk VI helmets too long.

If they'd listened to their mothers, they'd have known that their faces would stick like that.

Is magnus forgeworld? He was in a GW box when first leaked...

NivlacSupreme wrote:
Is magnus forgeworld? He was in a GW box when first leaked...

GW, I believe.

How bad are the rules for tzaangors? Not even out yet and their skulls already litter the universe....

Lol, right? Their skulls already litter the battlefield.

Actually I am excited to see if 1k sons gets tzaangor as a troops choice in place of or in addition to cultists though I hope they are close combat wielding, rag wearing savages similar to the Silver Tower minis.

The pic I see of them on 40k wiki is more of a laser pistol, light piece mail.armor wearing variety though.

 Skerr wrote:
Lol, right? Their skulls already litter the battlefield.

Actually I am excited to see if 1k sons gets tzaangor as a troops choice in place of or in addition to cultists though I hope they are close combat wielding, rag wearing savages similar to the Silver Tower minis.

The pic I see of them on 40k wiki is more of a laser pistol, light piece mail.armor wearing variety though.

If Rubricae are slow, tough, shooty, Tzangors could be cheap, fast CC to balance them out.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Sonoftherubric21 over at B&C
"So a Gentlemen on Facebook (I wont post the name out of respect) Who had some reliable information in the past posted a supposed "Release list" for December.

Daemon Primarch Magnus
Plastic 40k Ahriman
Plastic Rubric marines
Plastic Rubric terminators
40k Tzaangors (bizarre but asked twice regarding this)
Sorcerer Cabal (Not sure if new models or re-packaging)
and at the end of december; Plastic Canoness for Sisters of Battle.....

The books are supposedly War Zone Fenris 2
Traitor Legions (not known if a rules book, an art book)
supposedly 8 mega force bundles in december between 40k and AOS (even split)

- Take with salt I suppose, but the guy has been fairly open regarding stuff in the past - "



Pretty much a perfect christmas release for me.

If the mega force bundles are right than I had a perfect prediction for once! Also do you think they have a limit to the number of Canonesses you can pre-order because Imma hit it.

Yup, i hope so.

I did read a rumor on another site that rubric marines will have a sword option which I could see them doing for versitile killing of elite units. Can't remember the site though and could be wishlisting.

I read on lexicon that sorcerers on the demon world treat the tzangoor well as they are loyal guardians of their towers so they might get decent wargear.

Really wish we could just get December releases up for pre-order now, wanna know how much Im spending at Christmas . I need multiples of everything, one Canoness to lead the Sisters and another for an Inquisitor with SoS bits. I might aswell walk up to the CEO and be like....



Please GW, drop da bombs.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Really wish we could just get December releases up for pre-order now, wanna know how much Im spending at Christmas . I need multiples of everything, one Canoness to lead the Sisters and another for an Inquisitor with SoS bits. I might aswell walk up to the CEO and be like....



Please GW, drop da bombs.

i just happen to have a Christmas deadline for a few commissions, so i know where that money is going...
an Inquisitor from the Canoness is a great idea, mate

i've got plenty of Tzaangors. thanks to two extra Silver Tower sprues that Customer Service had to send, but all that Tzeentch Rubric stuff in plastic will be a must buy if they look as good as i hope they will...
it's about time!!!
i'm cool with Nurgle, and a big Khorne fan, but they have been very well served over the years...
it's about time we get some Tzeentch love

cheers
jah

I'm going to laugh if Dorn comes back interred within a super Contemptor.

 jah-joshua wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Really wish we could just get December releases up for pre-order now, wanna know how much Im spending at Christmas . I need multiples of everything, one Canoness to lead the Sisters and another for an Inquisitor with SoS bits. I might aswell walk up to the CEO and be like....



Please GW, drop da bombs.

i just happen to have a Christmas deadline for a few commissions, so i know where that money is going...
an Inquisitor from the Canoness is a great idea, mate

i've got plenty of Tzaangors. thanks to two extra Silver Tower sprues that Customer Service had to send, but all that Tzeentch Rubric stuff in plastic will be a must buy if they look as good as i hope they will...
it's about time!!!
i'm cool with Nurgle, and a big Khorne fan, but they have been very well served over the years...
it's about time we get some Tzeentch love

cheers
jah

I completely agree. For too long Nurgle and Kborne have been in the spotlight for 40k and AOS, now it's time for Tzeentch to shine.
We've already seen what heavily armored servants of Nurgle and Khomeini look like, so I can't wait to see what's in store for the acolytes of Tzeentch.

As a Sisters of Battle player I picked up almost all other armies to have something to do whilst waiting for Sisters plastic... Slaanesh ranking high on my list of armies I like. Sisters and Slaanesh, 2 armies that are neglected across all of GWs IP. Do I just have bad luck or am I a glutton for punishment?

ERJAK wrote:
If the mega force bundles are right than I had a perfect prediction for once! Also do you think they have a limit to the number of Canonesses you can pre-order because Imma hit it.

Oh really? I'm going to force GW into makeing a whole new production run just to fulfill my pre-order of the whole new sisters range!

 jah-joshua wrote:
i just happen to have a Christmas deadline for a few commissions, so i know where that money is going...
an Inquisitor from the Canoness is a great idea, mate

i've got plenty of Tzaangors. thanks to two extra Silver Tower sprues that Customer Service had to send, but all that Tzeentch Rubric stuff in plastic will be a must buy if they look as good as i hope they will...
it's about time!!!
i'm cool with Nurgle, and a big Khorne fan, but they have been very well served over the years...
it's about time we get some Tzeentch love

cheers
jah

I only got one box for Tzaangors mainly cas I don't like looking too much at the same pose of different models but since they fit nicely into my renegades backstory, definitely getting a bunch of 40kified Tzaangors.
And yeah Nurgle and Khorne are always cool but damn its gonna feel good to see blue.

Today's GW blog post features a reader's tank conversion (which came with homebrew rules). The GW web team liked the idea so much they made a downloadable rules datasheet for it. And so the Razorback Rikarius was born

MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2016

The Razorback Rikarius - Free Rules

Shawn O’Leary was inspired by Rik’s conversion and so decided to send us a datasheet he’d made up for it. We thought it was cool (and so did Techpriest Rik) so we made a datasheet for Rik to use in his games. This is entirely unofficial and just for fun, but we wanted to share it with you anyway.

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Blog/Razorback_Rikarius_ENG.pdf

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Webstore-Blog/2016/11/07/The-Razorback-Rikarius-Free-Rules

-"Sacrifices all of its transport capacity"
-Transport capacity - 5.

Really?
Love the model though, and it's cool that GW would make custom rules just for that.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Today's GW blog post features a reader's tank conversion (which came with homebrew rules). The GW web team liked the idea so much they made a downloadable rules datasheet for it. And so the Razorback Rikarius was born

MONDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2016

The Razorback Rikarius - Free Rules

Shawn O’Leary was inspired by Rik’s conversion and so decided to send us a datasheet he’d made up for it. We thought it was cool (and so did Techpriest Rik) so we made a datasheet for Rik to use in his games. This is entirely unofficial and just for fun, but we wanted to share it with you anyway.

https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Blog/Razorback_Rikarius_ENG.pdf

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Webstore-Blog/2016/11/07/The-Razorback-Rikarius-Free-Rules

Yeah, from the fluff, I'm surprised it does have any transport capacity (I think it should).

Why does it only have a Front armor of 11 with the siege shield - seems like it should be 13 (unless Siege Shield has its own special USR's....).

Siege shield let's you auto-pass all difficult terrain checks. It's also an option for the Vindicator.
IMHO it should grant a 4+ cover from the front

It's very cool that they're doing stuff like this; all the community projects, conversion tutorials, and house rules were what made the old GW websites great. It's just a shame the new webstore design is so pish that all such efforts are hidden away in a one-per-page-no-scrolling blog.

 Yodhrin wrote:
It's very cool that they're doing stuff like this; all the community projects, conversion tutorials, and house rules were what made the old GW websites great. It's just a shame the new webstore design is so pish that all such efforts are hidden away in a one-per-page-no-scrolling blog.

the calendar on the left side of the blog clicks to each day's entry...
it's dead easy to use the new webstore, as long as you go in without preconceived notions of what they should have done

cheers
jah

 jah-joshua wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
It's very cool that they're doing stuff like this; all the community projects, conversion tutorials, and house rules were what made the old GW websites great. It's just a shame the new webstore design is so pish that all such efforts are hidden away in a one-per-page-no-scrolling blog.

1.the calendar on the left side of the blog clicks to each day's entry...
2.it's dead easy to use the new webstore, as long as you go in without preconceived notions of what they should have done

cheers
jah

1. Those sorts of widgets are supposed to be a supplementary method of browsing for people who already know what they want to find and when it was posted, not the sole method of interacting with the content, and double-triple-quadrupal-especially not when the basic design only shows one article at a time rather than having an endless scroll or multiple articles displayed at once with a "previous/back" link at the bottom and doesn't even provide a search function.

2. Look man, I get that you have this whole positive vibes it's all good brah thing going on, but this kind of absolute relativism is just silly. Web design has industry standards for usability and discoverability for a reason - they work and they work well, and the GW website is objectively badly designed - completely illogical page reloads, jumping back to the title screen if you reselect your country, having to manually deselect options rather than having the normal system where clicking a tickbox saves your selection while clicking the link moves from one selection to the next, and of course the blog system that lacks functionality that was available on random internet blogging platforms for teenagers 15 years ago.

You're right though, the problem is my "preconceived notions" of what the website should be - I have the mad "preconceived notion" that it be designed competently

EDIT: To illustrate what I mean, a little thought experiment:

The year is 2022, a person you're introducing to the hobby elects to play Space Marines and you vaguely recall a really cool fan vehicle conversion that the GW web team gave rules too years ago you'd like to show them, but don't remember its name, subfaction, or when it was posted: how do you find the rules for the Razorback Rikarius? There's no searchable archive of content, no listing of content by faction or type, and you don't have enough information to parse a general internet search successfully, so, what; ask around and hope someone else remembers or has a copy saved? Manually browse back through thousands of blog posts, one at a time, using the calendar widget?

Yeah, exactly - bad design.

Yeah, maybe fire that at GW instead of a corner of the internet?

You can use the tags at the left as well. Again, it shouldn't replace other navigation but it does allow you to explore.

Turret, Side pontoons, no transport capacity.. doens't that make it a Predator Variant, instead of a Razorback ?

So.......yall got any more of dem december leaks???

I'm getting goosebumps waiting for this release.

I honestly can't wait to start a Thousand Sons army with official rules that may finally be competitive again like 3.5 was. If the Tzaangors are nothing more than Tzeentch themed cultists I'll be happy if the rest of the stuff comes true.

Please just let the rules be competitive too!

 adamsouza wrote:
Turret, Side pontoons, no transport capacity.. doens't that make it a Predator Variant, instead of a Razorback ?

Lack of AV13 front plate pushes it closer to Razor then Pred IMHO, but it’s definitely in a gray zone.

Nvs wrote:
I'm getting goosebumps waiting for this release.

I honestly can't wait to start a Thousand Sons army with official rules that may finally be competitive again like 3.5 was. If the Tzaangors are nothing more than Tzeentch themed cultists I'll be happy if the rest of the stuff comes true.

Please just let the rules be competitive too!

#Preach