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2017/10/07 15:56:24
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Arbitrator wrote: Plague Brethren went Last Chance to Buy because of course.
Not like since day one has this tag been on there:
Available while stocks last.
I'll be interested to see whether they become available by themselves without the art stuff or if they just get left to (no pun intended) rot in terms of the mold.
Actually, the tag was never there until today.
I know because when they first went up I scoured to check at any hint it was a, at least in the short term, limited release.
I knew right from the beginning they were a limited release. I don't remember where I read it, but GW must have it clear somewhere because I snatched a box right away even though I won't have time (or money) to do a Death Guard army for a long time to come.
Want to know how the new Death Guard were made? Just fancy some awesome miniatures? The Plague Brethren is a special collector’s set, available only while stocks last, designed to commemorate this radically reinvented army. As well as three beautifully detailed Death Guard Plague Marines to add to your squads (perfect for rounding out your unit from Dark Imperium to an even 10!), this set features exclusive art cards featuring concepts by John Blanche as well as a 20-page booklet looking at how we designed the new Death Guard, offering some fascinating insights. The Plague Brethren is only available while stocks last, so don’t miss your chance to get your hands on these models.
Yeah, that must have been it.
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2017/10/08 15:17:37
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Elbows wrote: I'll admit...I'm honestly dumbfounded that people want a multi-part kit for something like poxwalkers.
16 unique sculpts is good enough, but a separated box with the 20 poxwalkers from DI could be good. But I doubt that we are gonna have it. We have the 6 poxwalker easy to build one, like the 5 mono pose cultists from DV.
if i need more poxwalkers I just mix cadians+zombies kits. Or just Mantic Zombies do the trick fine enough.
Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.
ERJAK wrote: Forcing a 40k player to keep playing 7th is basically a hate crime.
I think I've finally put my finger on exactly what's wrong with the new Typhus. I thought about it, what is it about an overweight guy, slightly off-balance, awkwardly swinging a hafted weapon around that bothers me so? Then I realized. He's Star Wars Kid.
2017/10/08 15:52:24
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Elbows wrote: I'll admit...I'm honestly dumbfounded that people want a multi-part kit for something like poxwalkers.
Yup same, they're cannon fodder, plus you can easily get 10 for about £8 on eBay, or less, they are also bit hard to swap out weapons on most of them or mix heads, then use different paint schemes to vary appearance. TBH it seems to me like GW is heading towards a situation where they do the posed, limited option, models, and specialist games do the "however you want it" models.
The new plague crawler kit is a good example, there are no generic vehicle sprues, limited variation BUT it's got to be one of the easiest vehicle kits to assemble ever of that type (hate trying to get rhino/raider variants classic together) and you'd struggle to add much customisation.
Pricing on stuff like the marines doesn't bother me, I'm buying the new releases at 25% off retail plus a measly .5% cash back, I'll no doubt be able to sell the spare parts from the marines like I did with the blightlords (£12 for 2 boxes of leftovers) and I doubted up on dark imperium and first strike, again at 25% off, then resold the primaris and rulebook, plus bulked out my blight walkers via eBay once the hype died down £18 for £30 from a seller in Poland).
You can make an army you want without spending a fortune, just have to be creative and play the market a little in terms of reselling, getting best discounts etc
Not overly convinced we are going to see new daemons, I think we're going to see a focus on shadespirethen Necromunda before the Xmas value boxes/hobby stuff for end of year. Should get a hint today if the daemon engine things are coming for preorder next weekend if warhammer community follows usual pattern.
2017/10/08 16:58:41
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
if i need more poxwalkers I just mix cadians+zombies kits. Or just Mantic Zombies do the trick fine enough.
I finally found a use for the 90-odd Mantic Plague Zombies I had in the cupboard
Seriously, I bought 80 of the darn things on the Kickstarter b/c they were so blasted cheap ($45 USD for 80 hard plastic zombies). 80 Poxwalkers is what, 480 points?
Alternatively, GW ghouls. And now that I look at Grand Alliance Death units, Morghasts would make pretty spiff Daemon Princes of Nurgle
Pricing on stuff like the marines doesn't bother me, I'm buying the new releases at 25% off retail plus a measly .5% cash back, I'll no doubt be able to sell the spare parts from the marines like I did with the blightlords (£12 for 2 boxes of leftovers) and I doubted up on dark imperium and first strike, again at 25% off, then resold the primaris and rulebook, plus bulked out my blight walkers via eBay once the hype died down £18 for £30 from a seller in Poland).
Sorry for the odd-topic byt where do you get gw stuff at 25% off?
i think im going to get a blightlord box 2-3 plaguburst crawlers and maybe 2 of the PM box sets. love the stuff (including DI so far
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I'm not going to re-read the lunacy that is the last few pages of this thread, but I'd be very surprised if anyone actually said that. Even that one guy banging on about how relatively difficult it might be for an Inquisitor to acquire power armour, I don't think even that guy said that.
2017/10/08 19:08:18
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Pricing on stuff like the marines doesn't bother me, I'm buying the new releases at 25% off retail plus a measly .5% cash back, I'll no doubt be able to sell the spare parts from the marines like I did with the blightlords (£12 for 2 boxes of leftovers) and I doubted up on dark imperium and first strike, again at 25% off, then resold the primaris and rulebook, plus bulked out my blight walkers via eBay once the hype died down £18 for £30 from a seller in Poland).
Sorry for the odd-topic byt where do you get gw stuff at 25% off?
i think im going to get a blightlord box 2-3 plaguburst crawlers and maybe 2 of the PM box sets. love the stuff (including DI so far
Just Google online retailers and you'll find some offering discounts.
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
2017/10/08 19:45:45
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Yeah that is pretty strange, isn't the 'Next Week' article usually up by now?
You have to wait till tomorrow.
As for the pox walkers: like other users already commented, there are a ton of kits and modells to make your own. I even butchered my Black Reach orks and made them into some. You have old models you wouldn´t use otherwise? Just cut a little here and there, let their bellies pop and paint them up like the rest of your horde.
And for chaos cultists there is a box from northstar and a sci-fi weapons sprue which get really close to the look of the GW cultists.
2017/10/08 20:06:13
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
Alright, now that the new Plague Marines are out I must say that they are a nice kit. Overpriced for sure but nice. If they ever stick them in a Start Collecting! box I might add them to my unpainted pile of plastic.
Thought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
30k Ultramarines: 2000 pts
Bolt Action Germans: ~1200 pts
AOS Stormcast: Just starting.
The Empire : ~60-70 models.
1500 pts
: My Salamanders painting blog 16 Infantry and 2 Vehicles done so far!
2017/10/08 21:53:33
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
broxus wrote: How many plasma-guns are in the box? Is it one plasma gun and one plasma pistol per box? Meaning only 1/3 of the ones I need for my basic 5 man unit?
It's akin to other troop boxes and doesn't have that many. The good news is that the 3 man plastic kit comes with a plasma gun backpack, so I'm planning to snip those off of there and fir them into the hands of my PM squad. Combine this with the DI plasma guy and it's easier to get plasma guns than to get any other special weapon. Not ideal, but at least the option exists.
2017/10/08 22:19:50
Subject: Death Guard + Nurgle Daemons [Preorder Oct 7th: Plague Marines, Biologus Putrifier - 1st post]
broxus wrote: How many plasma-guns are in the box? Is it one plasma gun and one plasma pistol per box? Meaning only 1/3 of the ones I need for my basic 5 man unit?
Yeah, welcome to GW sales strategy.
One Plasma Gun in the multipart box. One in Dark Imperium, and one Power Fist + Plasma Gun in Easy To Paint.
OTOH, the blight launcher seems decent, so I'm thinking some squads with Plasma, some with Blight Launchers.
To this day I do not understand why GW doesn't just make plastic weapon upgrade sprues. Reasonably priced they'd sell like hotcakes.
Thought for the day: Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
30k Ultramarines: 2000 pts
Bolt Action Germans: ~1200 pts
AOS Stormcast: Just starting.
The Empire : ~60-70 models.
1500 pts
: My Salamanders painting blog 16 Infantry and 2 Vehicles done so far!
TheCustomLime wrote: To this day I do not understand why GW doesn't just make plastic weapon upgrade sprues. Reasonably priced they'd sell like hotcakes.
I remember when you could order any bit you wanted by mail, and later directly from the web store. Those were the days.
TheCustomLime wrote: To this day I do not understand why GW doesn't just make plastic weapon upgrade sprues. Reasonably priced they'd sell like hotcakes.
More profitable to make people buy entire box sets to get a few bits, I guess? OTOH, it makes Forge World more money, because they do sell a lot of weapons for Space Marines.
<Dynasty> 
War Coven of the Coruscating Gaze 
~3000pts
Thrice-Damned Plague Corps 
~3250pts
Admech (TBN) 
The Empire 
1500 pts
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