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Why, are they "cannibalising sales" already?

(April's fool?)

The delay is due to what was to have been principally a resin game showing such positive feedback and so much predicted sale that The Powers That Be first moved the startup titans to plastic and then, as interest continued and BB sales continued, authorized the shifting of the entire range to plastics and therefore only add ons and accessories will now be resin. This is a mixed bag of good and bad news as it means plastics (so gaming costs greatly lowered, much better modeling experience imo, better straight lines and so on) but it also means time to move the range over to that process, competes with Citadel's main production schedule etc hence the delays.




Or, at least, that's what I might guess.




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SeanDrake wrote:
Rumour I heard is that GW are changing direction again and part of that is specialist games is getting scaled back, so don't expect anything other than bloodbowl anytime soon (see the aborted release of Necromunda and Titanicus disapearing off the release schedule).

...pinch, punch...

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
No news at AdeptiCon, other than when I went up and asked and they said it's not coming this year. Bummer, but more time for plastics, so I'm looking on the bright side

NOOO!

Spoiler:

Wait another year?! hope BFG will come before that then [sadface]

I don't see BFG being released this year the market currently has 4 capital ship games that are all fairly popular and one of them was co-written by the guy who wrote the original BFG, while I am sure 40k purists will lap it up, right now the wider gaming community has enough giant space ship games to put money into next year would be a smarter way to go.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The delay is due to what was to have been principally a resin game showing such positive feedback and so much predicted sale that The Powers That Be first moved the startup titans to plastic and then, as interest continued and BB sales continued, authorized the shifting of the entire range to plastics and therefore only add ons and accessories will now be resin. This is a mixed bag of good and bad news as it means plastics (so gaming costs greatly lowered, much better modeling experience imo, better straight lines and so on) but it also means time to move the range over to that process, competes with Citadel's main production schedule etc hence the delays.




Or, at least, that's what I might guess.

The delay sucks, but I'll take it for plastics! Mostly for wider adoption of the game, but you're right that it should make building/converting/etc a lot better, too.

 Malika2 wrote:

 schoon wrote:
Anyone remember the (sadly) limited run of multi-pose 6mm Space Marines FW did?

Yeah, most of us remember that one:

Spoiler:

However, at £2.00 a pop it's rather expensive to have a whole army of them. It's just not a 'sustainable' (in the sense of up-scalable) business wise to release infantry like that.

I remember those; they also had multipart Grey Knights on their website, but those were much too expensive to buy in the numbers needed for building an army of Deamon Hunters.

Since Titanicus is moving to a slightly larger scale, I wonder how well my Epic FW warhounds will fit in with their newer Adeptis Titanicus counterparts?

 RiTides wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
The delay is due to what was to have been principally a resin game showing such positive feedback and so much predicted sale that The Powers That Be first moved the startup titans to plastic and then, as interest continued and BB sales continued, authorized the shifting of the entire range to plastics and therefore only add ons and accessories will now be resin. This is a mixed bag of good and bad news as it means plastics (so gaming costs greatly lowered, much better modeling experience imo, better straight lines and so on) but it also means time to move the range over to that process, competes with Citadel's main production schedule etc hence the delays.




Or, at least, that's what I might guess.

The delay sucks, but I'll take it for plastics! Mostly for wider adoption of the game, but you're right that it should make building/etc a lot better, too.

Unfortunately except as wishlisting in this thread I have not seen plastic titans mentioned as the cause of the delay, when asked at the last event they said plastic titans would be nice but that the only planned plastics would be the scenery. That was quoted in the first few pages of this thread and turned into omg plastic titans.

They hinted at plastic titans - it wasn't all wishlisting.

...the delay was attributed to fitting it into the release schedule.

...but they now have the time to consider this they didn't before.

SeanDrake, I think it's more than wishlisting but looks like we'll have to wait to find out! It would be nice if FW would give some more hints at the next weekender since they'd shown more previously, so make sure you ask if any of you can attend

Maybe...just maybe...going to plastic means that GW realise that there is enough demand for this to make a big enough initial print run not to run out within ten minutes?

This was a no go for me when it was resin....plastic pricing is a different story.

Possibly related, but Forgeworld are building a new Diorama. Something they could use for Adeptus Titanicus?

Gawd damn I want this game so freaking much!

That new diorama is looking awesome but it is in 40k scale so I would be surprised if it had anything to do with AT other than drumming up more interest.

Do wish they were a bit more forthcoming about what they have planned would be nice to hear even roughly when it will be out and what we can expect.

Great diorama, but as has been pointed out, it's 40K scale.

My shot-in-the-dark guess is that it's for a display at Warhammer World in May.

That said, it's very titan themed, and I'd be surprised if we didn't get at least some information tidbits of information from the event

And in the meantime.. download the rules and read up on how to play on Tactical Command http://www.taccmd.tacticalwargames.net/viewforum.php?f=138

Pick up some miniatures from Vanguard, or old GW stuff from Ebay, build up your terrain and force, play some games of what many consider to be one of GW's finest rule systems, and get the jump on the official releases

Maybe FW are going to make scaled down resin versions of the new 40k terrain kits?
Maybe they already did and this is a fake-out?

It's hiding the Imperator prototype behind the wall

Where do diorama makers get this cool terrain? Do they custom make it or do they custom order it?

It would be cool someday since I want to eventually make my own big diorama for my Tau army and whoever I decide to pit them against.

In my head I'm imagining a Tau vs Dark Eldar themed diorama as they fight off the raiders night attack, and then in a little small section of the battle while both forces are distracted a small DW kill team is being inserted via corvus to accomplish some clandestine objective.

 Gamgee wrote:
Where do diorama makers get this cool terrain? Do they custom make it or do they custom order it?

It would be cool someday since I want to eventually make my own big diorama for my Tau army and whoever I decide to pit them against.

In my head I'm imagining a Tau vs Dark Eldar themed diorama as they fight off the raiders night attack, and then in a little small section of the battle while both forces are distracted a small DW kill team is being inserted via corvus to accomplish some clandestine objective.

Stuff like that titan dock only get made by either GW themselves or by the stupendously rich - essentially everything on that image is part of a GW plastic terrain kit, they use up thousands of quid's worth at RRP on some of them. If you're doing it with a sane amount of money, you'll have to build most of it yourself using insulation foam, sheet styrene, and random bits of junk with a handful of the plastic kits for flavour.

TBH I am glad this will not launch in 2017. If 8e is suitably "AoSified" I will probably be spending too much on 40k this year.

Manchu, you changed your hair!

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Where do diorama makers get this cool terrain? Do they custom make it or do they custom order it?

It would be cool someday since I want to eventually make my own big diorama for my Tau army and whoever I decide to pit them against.

In my head I'm imagining a Tau vs Dark Eldar themed diorama as they fight off the raiders night attack, and then in a little small section of the battle while both forces are distracted a small DW kill team is being inserted via corvus to accomplish some clandestine objective.

Stuff like that titan dock only get made by either GW themselves or by the stupendously rich - essentially everything on that image is part of a GW plastic terrain kit, they use up thousands of quid's worth at RRP on some of them. If you're doing it with a sane amount of money, you'll have to build most of it yourself using insulation foam, sheet styrene, and random bits of junk with a handful of the plastic kits for flavour.

Yeah, the thing to remember is that to GW those kits effectively only cost as much as the plastic that goes in to them, so for them it's only like 2 quid worth of plastic

Given there's a lot seemingly up in the air at the moment, I'll do my level best at Warhammerfest to winkle out first hand info for sharing. And I'll include pics of me chatting with the guys as well, so people can be reasonably confident (certainly as confident as one can be on the interwebs) that the info I'm sharing is legit.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Where do diorama makers get this cool terrain? Do they custom make it or do they custom order it?

It would be cool someday since I want to eventually make my own big diorama for my Tau army and whoever I decide to pit them against.

In my head I'm imagining a Tau vs Dark Eldar themed diorama as they fight off the raiders night attack, and then in a little small section of the battle while both forces are distracted a small DW kill team is being inserted via corvus to accomplish some clandestine objective.

Stuff like that titan dock only get made by either GW themselves or by the stupendously rich - essentially everything on that image is part of a GW plastic terrain kit, they use up thousands of quid's worth at RRP on some of them. If you're doing it with a sane amount of money, you'll have to build most of it yourself using insulation foam, sheet styrene, and random bits of junk with a handful of the plastic kits for flavour.

Yeah, the thing to remember is that to GW those kits effectively only cost as much as the plastic that goes in to them, so for them it's only like 2 quid worth of plastic

Yeah that entire thing at rrp would be the deposit on a new car but at cost more like a coffe and a toastie at Costa

 zedmeister wrote:

Spoiler:

Possibly related, but Forgeworld are building a new Diorama. Something they could use for Adeptus Titanicus?

Whats that model in the window on the middle right hand side?

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Whats that model in the window on the middle right hand side?

Looks like potentially two Skitarii, the rightmost one with his rifle resting on his shoulder.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Given there's a lot seemingly up in the air at the moment, I'll do my level best at Warhammerfest to winkle out first hand info for sharing. And I'll include pics of me chatting with the guys as well, so people can be reasonably confident (certainly as confident as one can be on the interwebs) that the info I'm sharing is legit.

Much appreciated, MDG!

I'm just curious about what that superheavy tank is in front of the titan is.

At this point, we pretty much get to wait for each big GW event, and hope they're feeling close enough to "the date" that they'll run a demo, or let some more info out of the bag.

I've been patient this long, a little longer is not a big deal.

 mjl7atlas wrote:
I'm just curious about what that superheavy tank is in front of the titan is.

If you look at the Titan its on a movable platform sitting on 2 sets of rails. By the looks of it the Baneblade has been converted into a heavy tractor to tow said platform.

Looks like there's some interesting resin upgrade control centres to the shadow war terrain. To the left of the super heavy tractor.