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So - apparently if you buy two reavers you can 'double fist' one of them.

Are they not left/right hand specific??

Or are geederps being derpy again?

If they've taken the 28mm Reaver fist as inspiration, it could be reversible left/right.

zerosignal wrote:
So - apparently if you buy two reavers you can 'double fist' one of them.

Folks are calling that loadout "Fister Roboto."

...

I'll get my coat.

No sure of the reference but I get the fist of it.

If lots of people want to give their Reavers that loadout, GW will be making money hand over Fist.....

I'll see myself out. In more related news, this game also has me looking at 28mm Titans again... Anyone else feeling a renewed draw from the big beasties of Forgeworld?

 Yodhrin wrote:
and we've not worked out what new AT is yet because I built my Warlord in a fancy pose and nobody else who has calipers wants to build theirs in the utterly neutral stance seen in the spec-plates in the book.

Word of the designers of models not good enough?

 Xanthos wrote:
If lots of people want to give their Reavers that loadout, GW will be making money hand over Fist.....

I'll see myself out. In more related news, this game also has me looking at 28mm Titans again... Anyone else feeling a renewed draw from the big beasties of Forgeworld?

To work on mine, yes. To buy more, not until FW ends it's stupid price hike

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Xanthos wrote:
If lots of people want to give their Reavers that loadout, GW will be making money hand over Fist.....

I'll see myself out. In more related news, this game also has me looking at 28mm Titans again... Anyone else feeling a renewed draw from the big beasties of Forgeworld?

To work on mine, yes. To buy more, not until FW ends it's stupid price hike

So never, then.

zerosignal wrote:
So - apparently if you buy two reavers you can 'double fist' one of them.

Are they not left/right hand specific??

Or are geederps being derpy again?

The thumb is equidistant from the fingers so it can be reversed easily and put on either side.

Pre order is up on the NZ site, the reaver looks even better when you look at the 360 spin. Truly an awesome model and for 60 bucks it's a no brainer for me.

Choice of carapace with or without embossed detail and the head's constructed like the IK kit, so you can paint the eye details then attach the mask. Noice.

Those wires make reposing look much more difficult than the warlord though. Going to be tricky to magnetise those arms with ball sockets and connecting wires.

That Reaver is a beautiful model, much better than the Warlord in my opinion. I may never pick up AT, but I may very well pick up a Reaver just to paint.

changemod wrote:
Those wires make reposing look much more difficult than the warlord though. Going to be tricky to magnetise those arms with ball sockets and connecting wires.

I think the magnetising point is above the ball and socket, and if you look carefully the Titan end of the cables aren't attached to the body, merely positioned so it appears they are.

Remember, they've explicitly said the kits are designed with magnetization in mind.

 Azreal13 wrote:

changemod wrote:
Those wires make reposing look much more difficult than the warlord though. Going to be tricky to magnetise those arms with ball sockets and connecting wires.

I think the magnetising point is above the ball and socket, and if you look carefully the Titan end of the cables aren't attached to the body, merely positioned so it appears they are.

Remember, they've explicitly said the kits are designed with magnetization in mind.

At the FW open day I went to, the guy at the Titanicus stall said the Reaver’s arms aren’t pre-prepped for magnets.

Well that's spectacularly poor forward planning.

"Shall we make the Warlord magnet ready?"
"What a good idea! What about the Reaver while we're at it?"
"Nah."

 Azreal13 wrote:
Well that's spectacularly poor forward planning.

"Shall we make the Warlord magnet ready?"
"What a good idea! What about the Reaver while we're at it?"
"Nah."

yeah I'll be annoyed if thats the case.

tneva82 wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
and we've not worked out what new AT is yet because I built my Warlord in a fancy pose and nobody else who has calipers wants to build theirs in the utterly neutral stance seen in the spec-plates in the book.

Word of the designers of models not good enough?

Well, no, because the words of the designers weren't clear, and as it turns out the interpretation of those words people chose to accept was wrong. They're 1:270 scale, which is well shy of the vague, nebulous range of actual scales encompassed by "8mm". They remain within the vague, nebulous range of actual scales instead encompassed by "6mm".

Received wisdom is always inferior to direct observation when the latter is possible.

They said in one of the videos that the pipes are in the kit and posed as they are like in the original FW model; however because this is plastic not resin the reposing of legs and arms means that the pipes might not fit. In resin you basically heated the pipes up and gently bent them to fit a new pose, with the plastic that can't quite work so you're left either with the stock pose; leaving them off or adjusting them with a bit of greenstuff and clippers.

One bonus is that as the Reaver comes with optional weapons you can at least get an idea of where you need to fit magnets and how to magnetize it.

 Overread wrote:
They said in one of the videos that the pipes are in the kit and posed as they are like in the original FW model; however because this is plastic not resin the reposing of legs and arms means that the pipes might not fit. In resin you basically heated the pipes up and gently bent them to fit a new pose, with the plastic that can't quite work so you're left either with the stock pose; leaving them off or adjusting them with a bit of greenstuff and clippers.

Umm, guitar wire? Or would that be out of scale?

 Lurker wrote:

 Overread wrote:
They said in one of the videos that the pipes are in the kit and posed as they are like in the original FW model; however because this is plastic not resin the reposing of legs and arms means that the pipes might not fit. In resin you basically heated the pipes up and gently bent them to fit a new pose, with the plastic that can't quite work so you're left either with the stock pose; leaving them off or adjusting them with a bit of greenstuff and clippers.

Umm, guitar wire? Or would that be out of scale?

Might well work - it might just be thin enough and has all the ridges that the tubes have!

Zinge Industries flexible resin power cables may work too

https://www.zinge.co.uk/collections/flexible-resin/products/flexible-power-cables-sprue-of-6-various



https://www.zinge.co.uk/collections/flexible-resin/products/flexible-extra-large-ribbed-power-cables-sprue-of-2





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or their wrapped wire

https://www.zinge.co.uk/collections/poseable-wrapped-wire

Or the Green Stuff World tubes and tentacles machine.

Dropped by the GW US website to check out the Reaver. It's up. Cool. Reaver pack with two reavers and a set of reaver command cards (but not rules). Cool. Maniple with three warlords, two reavers, and the necessary command cards. Um...

On the one hand, cool. On the other hand, lots of local places are apparently screaming for more stock. And it may be a while before those local places are able to get their warlords restocked from GW. So I'm feeling just a bit irritable at the suggestion that GW might be holding stock back to put into a giant bundle (which, it should be noted, does not appear to save you any money, or include the rules).

I admit that GW will probably sell only limited numbers of those bundles (which retail for just under $500US). But still...

It’s not a “bundle” - it’s a one-click time-saver. They are pulled from exactly the same pool of stock as every other order involving warlords, reavers or the Maniple terminal set.

I don't get why they haven't provided the command and weapon cards in the kit with the model. I mean I get why they didn't, so you have to buy them separately, but still....why not just throw in the bare minimum to provide for whats in the box?!

 FrothingMuppet wrote:
I don't get why they haven't provided the command and weapon cards in the kit with the model. I mean I get why they didn't, so you have to buy them separately, but still....why not just throw in the bare minimum to provide for whats in the box?!

proably the cut down on the cost of the cuts since they do give you some terminals and cards with the rules IIRC

I think it's so that the rules and models are kept separate. That gives them the option later of revising rules or even using the titan kits for a new set of Epic rules without expensive repackaging. Think about all the 40k kits that went to 'temporarily unavailable' while they were recalled to replace assembly instructions with ones that had 8E rules.

However the price & availability of the weapon cards & command terminals is probably the most frustrating aspect of this new range. I ordered 3 Reavers so I'm one terminal short, but the only way to fix that is to spend £15 on carboard most of which I'll never use. There's only 1 of each weapon card in the rules set so that's another £7.50 for the ~6 cards I need. Of course it's all only available direct from GW, so no discounts. Finally as far as I can see there's no way to get additional Knight banner terminals currently aside from buying a full rules pack.

Unfortunately no one on ebay has been splitting up their rules sets to sell off spare command terminals & weapon cards so far. Guess it's time to break out the photocopier 90's style.

 xttz wrote:
However the price & availability of the weapon cards & command terminals is probably the most frustrating aspect of this new range. I ordered 3 Reavers so I'm one terminal short, but the only way to fix that is to spend £15 on carboard most of which I'll never use. There's only 1 of each weapon card in the rules set so that's another £7.50 for the ~6 cards I need. Of course it's all only available direct from GW, so no discounts. Finally as far as I can see there's no way to get additional Knight banner terminals currently aside from buying a full rules pack.

For a few bucks more you can get a rules pack, which currently seems like the best way to acquire more terminals and cards. You get a spare rulebook and gubbinz as a bonus!

 xttz wrote:
I think it's so that the rules and models are kept separate. That gives them the option later of revising rules or even using the titan kits for a new set of Epic rules without expensive repackaging. Think about all the 40k kits that went to 'temporarily unavailable' while they were recalled to replace assembly instructions with ones that had 8E rules.

However the price & availability of the weapon cards & command terminals is probably the most frustrating aspect of this new range. I ordered 3 Reavers so I'm one terminal short, but the only way to fix that is to spend £15 on carboard most of which I'll never use. There's only 1 of each weapon card in the rules set so that's another £7.50 for the ~6 cards I need. Of course it's all only available direct from GW, so no discounts. Finally as far as I can see there's no way to get additional Knight banner terminals currently aside from buying a full rules pack.

Unfortunately no one on ebay has been splitting up their rules sets to sell off spare command terminals & weapon cards so far. Guess it's time to break out the photocopier 90's style.

I'm halfway toying with scanning in a command terminal so I can alter the background colour in GIMP to make both sides distinct for demos.