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More space marines. Yay!

I was planning on visiting Warhammer World for the first time this year and was wondering wether to hold my forgeworld order for now and do it all at Nottingham. It would be a good space to save up, but is going to an open day a good idea for a first time? Would it be too crowded to be able to enjoy everything such as the dioramas and stuff? Do they clear any of the normal space for ForgeWorld, for example do they clear some of the cabinets or will the experience stay the same?

Custodes aren't Space Marines Perry.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Custodes aren't Space Marines Perry.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
I was planning on visiting Warhammer World for the first time this year and was wondering wether to hold my forgeworld order for now and do it all at Nottingham. It would be a good space to save up, but is going to an open day a good idea for a first time? Would it be too crowded to be able to enjoy everything such as the dioramas and stuff? Do they clear any of the normal space for ForgeWorld, for example do they clear some of the cabinets or will the experience stay the same?

It's been a few years since I've been, but they use the gaming hall; the display areas are totally separate and should be open as usual (although you can email the events team to check).

 zedmeister wrote:

Perry ain't joking.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

Perry ain't joking.

Course he is. I submit for evidence...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

Perry ain't joking.

Oh I was, that was a little poke at you. And you walked right into it.

 Peregrine wrote:
More space marines. Yay!

Yeah I saw that. I get notifications on my email from Forgeworld on new releases & I am about to unsubscribe. Years of back to back to back to back to back space marine releases.

Its too much. I wrote them a letter & apparently custodes are all the rage right now and are selling like hotcakes. I don't know how. They are the elite of the elite. How many would any one person honestly need of them? They are extremely expensive to deploy so by default you will only need a handful of them.

Meanwhile armies like orks, nids, IG etc which require literally hundreds of bodies haven't seen an update in emperor knows how many years. I guess all we can hope for is maybe they will start releasing cool terrain pieces again someday like they use to. Many of the OOP terrain pieces sell for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. No idea why they stopped producing them.

 Commissar Benny wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
More space marines. Yay!

Yeah I saw that. I get notifications on my email from Forgeworld on new releases & I am about to unsubscribe. Years of back to back to back to back to back space marine releases.

Its too much. I wrote them a letter & apparently custodes are all the rage right now and are selling like hotcakes. I don't know how. They are the elite of the elite. How many would any one person honestly need of them? They are extremely expensive to deploy so by default you will only need a handful of them.

Meanwhile armies like orks, nids, IG etc which require literally hundreds of bodies haven't seen an update in emperor knows how many years. I guess all we can hope for is maybe they will start releasing cool terrain pieces again someday like they use to. Many of the OOP terrain pieces sell for hundreds of dollars on Ebay. No idea why they stopped producing them.

Then again owning army of custodes is much more feasible for most than army of hordes. Just check how much army of HH militia costs from FW and weep.

Resin is pretty bad material for horde armies. Too expensive. Not surprising elite models sells like hot cake though as you need less of them to constitute significant force.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

mortar_crew wrote:
A great third of my ork FW collection begs to differ...

Of those Orks, which ones are still being made?

Well since technically, most of the line has been axed, you may have a point but still:

-Mega Dread

-All Gun trukk variants (FW trukks and guns still sold)

are missing.

As said before there are trukkload of oop models in the imperial book alone.
Why so few for the orks?
Ok they are green, and do not sell as much as space marines...

And do not get me started with the fact that they annouced 19 datasheets on the site,
and we got 14 in the book...

mortar_crew wrote:
Ok they are green, and do not sell as much as space marines...

This right there.

People want space marines, they get space marines. FW doesn't sell mostly SM just for fun but because they think it's most profitable for them.

tneva82 wrote:

mortar_crew wrote:
Ok they are green, and do not sell as much as space marines...

This right there.

People want space marines, they get space marines. FW doesn't sell mostly SM just for fun but because they think it's most profitable for them.

There, we agree on something.
Thus FW is not getting any money from me for some times now...

Did anybody else see the new dreadnought model, think "awesome!" and then look at its rules and think "meh"? 300 points.

Thank goodness I'm gone for most of July. Can't wait for August 13th, the amount of Space Marines shown off on that day shall be truly magnificent.

We will rip out their extraneous organs and use them to grease the joints of our automata.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
I was planning on visiting Warhammer World for the first time this year and was wondering wether to hold my forgeworld order for now and do it all at Nottingham. It would be a good space to save up, but is going to an open day a good idea for a first time? Would it be too crowded to be able to enjoy everything such as the dioramas and stuff? Do they clear any of the normal space for ForgeWorld, for example do they clear some of the cabinets or will the experience stay the same?

It's been a few years since I've been, but they use the gaming hall; the display areas are totally separate and should be open as usual (although you can email the events team to check).

Thanks. Oh that's good, I wont be needing the gaming hall.

Got my Open Day ticket, and my Lootin' Boots are being polished.

Wonder what pre-release toys there'll be this time? I'm still hoping Cyraxus.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my Open Day ticket, and my Lootin' Boots are being polished.

Wonder what pre-release toys there'll be this time? I'm still hoping Cyraxus.

I think we all know what I am hoping for.

I don't understand how theres people that still is pissed about FW making 95% HH marines.

Is like... they did made "Bolter-Porn 2: The Wargame: Historical Edition" and everybody and his mother jumped to play it. Is like asking McDonald to stop doing hamburguers

spankers gotta be spankers, eh? Ehhhhhhh?

And here I am waiting for them to cover the War in Heaven, so I can finally, maybe, get a necron super weapon.

At least give me an Aeonic orb! It doesn't have to be a big one, just one that's knight sized.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
And here I am waiting for them to cover the War in Heaven, so I can finally, maybe, get a necron super weapon.

At least give me an Aeonic orb! It doesn't have to be a big one, just one that's knight sized.

That would arrive sometime around 2045, so you have plenty of time to save up for it.

And I agree that the marines must flow.

Ugh - ENOUGH ALREADY!

There's a topic here - stick to it.

By all means, go create a thread in Dakka Discussions to moan and wail about FW selling too many (X).

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my Open Day ticket, and my Lootin' Boots are being polished.

Wonder what pre-release toys there'll be this time? I'm still hoping Cyraxus.

If I knew Cyraxus would be there I wouldn't need any more or any other incentive to go.

Do we ever get news of what's up for grabs before the open days or is it always a surprise?

 unmercifulconker wrote:


Do we ever get news of what's up for grabs before the open days or is it always a surprise?

Typically a weekly drip feed of info on stuff without pricing, usually at least one item is not shown and w I'll be on the leaflet you get whilst queuing. The last thing I went to, New Years open day, they'd finally employed common sense and limited mass purchases of early releases to stop scalping and sell outs early on. 1-2 of stuff was the limit, anything more and you had to nail order it with free postage.

For open days the back open room is accessible usually with previews, talk to designers etc plus you've still got the exhibition to go around and golden demon entries.

I expect the updated Tigershark to be there for sale, but this isn't the fist time I've said this. Hopefully it is on sale. Also if there are any new models for Tau coming out like they implied all those months ago then this is probably one of the last major events of the year to show them at. As usual ask about Fires of Cyraxus if you can folks and see if they have even started it yet. Honestly I am beginning to doubt any more xenos models for the rest of the year from both GW and FW.

 unmercifulconker wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Got my Open Day ticket, and my Lootin' Boots are being polished.

Wonder what pre-release toys there'll be this time? I'm still hoping Cyraxus.

If I knew Cyraxus would be there I wouldn't need any more or any other incentive to go.

Do we ever get news of what's up for grabs before the open days or is it always a surprise?

Whew. Almost went a day without hearing "Cryxass"

 TwilightSparkles wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:


Do we ever get news of what's up for grabs before the open days or is it always a surprise?

Typically a weekly drip feed of info on stuff without pricing, usually at least one item is not shown and w I'll be on the leaflet you get whilst queuing. The last thing I went to, New Years open day, they'd finally employed common sense and limited mass purchases of early releases to stop scalping and sell outs early on. 1-2 of stuff was the limit, anything more and you had to nail order it with free postage.

For open days the back open room is accessible usually with previews, talk to designers etc plus you've still got the exhibition to go around and golden demon entries.

Time to glue my eyes to the computer again.

I shall do the same. Interested in more info on the Custodes Orion Dropship, the Arlatax Automata, and Fires Of Cyraxus as a book in general.

Ooh, I wonder what they'll show off this time. Proabably not to many new minis, they still have all those ones from the HH weekender left to release, but they might show of a new Primarch or some other character. Blood angels?