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Now all we need is Bastonne to make a glorious comeback and a new Veteran kit with Grenadier options to make Kasrkin and we're set to the Glory Days of Old.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Now all we need is Bastonne to make a glorious comeback and a new Veteran kit with Grenadier options to make Kasrkin and we're set to the Glory Days of Old.

Atilla, Al'Rahem, Chenkov, Bastone, Shaefer, Shaefers 12, Marcharius, Gaunt... Guard has lost a lot of awesome characters over the past 15 years so I am pretty happy we got one of the more ionic ones back at least, but heres to the ones we lost!

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Now all we need is Bastonne to make a glorious comeback and a new Veteran kit with Grenadier options to make Kasrkin and we're set to the Glory Days of Old.

Atilla, Al'Rahem, Chenkov, Bastone, Shaefer, Shaefers 12, Marcharius, Gaunt... Guard has lost a lot of awesome characters over the past 15 years so I am pretty happy we got one of the more ionic ones back at least, but heres to the ones we lost!

The Last Chancers are still sold, just no rules.

Macharius we don't need back, he's been long dead same with Gaunt.
Al'Rahem would be welcome back if we get a plastic Tallarn kit, and Chenkov for Valhallans.
"Meh" on the Rough Riders and Mogul Khamir.

So many 80's film references in one mini?

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic!

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Now all we need is Bastonne to make a glorious comeback and a new Veteran kit with Grenadier options to make Kasrkin and we're set to the Glory Days of Old.

Atilla, Al'Rahem, Chenkov, Bastone, Shaefer, Shaefers 12, Marcharius, Gaunt... Guard has lost a lot of awesome characters over the past 15 years so I am pretty happy we got one of the more ionic ones back at least, but heres to the ones we lost!

The Last Chancers are still sold, just no rules.

Macharius we don't need back, he's been long dead same with Gaunt.
Al'Rahem would be welcome back if we get a plastic Tallarn kit, and Chenkov for Valhallans.
"Meh" on the Rough Riders and Mogul Khamir.

Well the same argument can be made for Bastone lol

My point was more about how many named characters have been culled from the Guard over the years, I'd challenge anyone to find as many from any other faction. Next closest is the dark eldar and even they haven't lost as many.... yet

40k always had "historic characters" - even sometimes different versions of them.

Bring back the Cain min

Not sure anyone's linked to the post on warhammer community with him, and a bunch of other stuff, in it.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/11/23/revealed-new-warhammer-holiday-season/

 Red Corsair wrote:

Well the same argument can be made for Bastone lol

My point was more about how many named characters have been culled from the Guard over the years, I'd challenge anyone to find as many from any other faction. Next closest is the dark eldar and even they haven't lost as many.... yet

Yeah, but I like Bastonne!

I was just having some light-hearted fun with you, putting forth my own "review" on the characters in question.


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 Mr Morden wrote:
40k always had "historic characters" - even sometimes different versions of them.

Bring back the Cain min

40k might have "always had historic characters", but they've purged them out with the fact they've advanced the timeline.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Now all we need is Bastonne to make a glorious comeback and a new Veteran kit with Grenadier options to make Kasrkin and we're set to the Glory Days of Old.

Atilla, Al'Rahem, Chenkov, Bastone, Shaefer, Shaefers 12, Marcharius, Gaunt... Guard has lost a lot of awesome characters over the past 15 years so I am pretty happy we got one of the more ionic ones back at least, but heres to the ones we lost!

The Last Chancers are still sold, just no rules.

Macharius we don't need back, he's been long dead same with Gaunt.
Al'Rahem would be welcome back if we get a plastic Tallarn kit, and Chenkov for Valhallans.
"Meh" on the Rough Riders and Mogul Khamir.

They still sell the Gaunt Miniatures. Would be nice to have rules for them and the last chancers.

Damn - now you have me hoping for a Deathwatch Overkill style boxed set with the Last Chancers.

And great news for Marbo showing up again. Such a good figure. Can't wait to buy it and not paint him for 5/6 years......

I love the 'Snake' Mac 10. Really nice touch:

 stompygitz wrote:
And!

This will be my second Finecast mini after Slambo. Little shop of horrors plant looks ace too. It would be perfect, if GW would sell mature Audrey plants for Deathworld aficionados like myself. The phrase "Jungle comes to life" would get a whole new meaning.

I would be very surprised if the new Marbo was finecast. Seems like a plastic character release just like all recent character kits. I think the resin Marbo rumor originated here:

 stompygitz wrote:
So, I talked to my local GW manager about this. He said they got an email stating a rerelease of Marbo in resin (with PDF rules), with its preorder being December 9.

Sounds to me like that's about a rerelease of the old Marbo model in resin (which would make sense if they'd release the old model), but this is clearly a completely new version.

If he is indeed plastic, I think I'll have to get him even if I normally don't want to buy single models for 20 Euros - Marbo's the best. I think the "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA" meme may have to die here though - his new face isn't as shouty...

 Strg Alt wrote:

 stompygitz wrote:
And!

This will be my second Finecast mini after Slambo. Little shop of horrors plant looks ace too. It would be perfect, if GW would sell mature Audrey plants for Deathworld aficionados like myself. The phrase "Jungle comes to life" would get a whole new meaning.

Tell em on facebook - thye may well do so

It is a nice touch.

 Insane Ivan wrote:
I would be very surprised if the new Marbo was finecast. Seems like a plastic character release just like all recent character kits. I think the resin Marbo rumor originated here:

 stompygitz wrote:
So, I talked to my local GW manager about this. He said they got an email stating a rerelease of Marbo in resin (with PDF rules), with its preorder being December 9.

Sounds to me like that's about a rerelease of the old Marbo model in resin (which would make sense if they'd release the old model), but this is clearly a completely new version.

If he is indeed plastic, I think I'll have to get him even if I normally don't want to buy single models for 20 Euros - Marbo's the best. I think the "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA" meme may have to die here though - his new face isn't as shouty...

Cannoness Veridyan was a finecast original last year. Marbo seems more likely to be a limited release like Veridyan than something like "Primaris Chaplain".

 Asmodai wrote:

 Insane Ivan wrote:
I would be very surprised if the new Marbo was finecast. Seems like a plastic character release just like all recent character kits. I think the resin Marbo rumor originated here:

 stompygitz wrote:
So, I talked to my local GW manager about this. He said they got an email stating a rerelease of Marbo in resin (with PDF rules), with its preorder being December 9.

Sounds to me like that's about a rerelease of the old Marbo model in resin (which would make sense if they'd release the old model), but this is clearly a completely new version.

If he is indeed plastic, I think I'll have to get him even if I normally don't want to buy single models for 20 Euros - Marbo's the best. I think the "AAAAAAAAAAAAAA" meme may have to die here though - his new face isn't as shouty...

Cannoness Veridyan was a finecast original last year. Marbo seems more likely to be a limited release like Veridyan than something like "Primaris Chaplain".

Guess that's true. Still, the Warhammer-Community post made no mention of him being limited, so I'm hoping he isnt! (And that he's plastic!)

 Mr Morden wrote:
Tell em on facebook - thye may well do so

Fake I told them to do plastic sisters many time there they never did any.

 Dr. Mills wrote:
So many 80's film references in one mini?

Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic!

I like it but I'd still love to see a Catachan character based on the Marc Gibbons kneeling Captain from the 2nd Ed Codex, one of my favourite pieces of 40K art.

Definitely going to snatch him up once he drops. I'll probably be painting him up with snow white hair, grey stubble and mud smeared on his arms and maybe face. I really like the idea of old man Marbo.

On the rule side, i think it would be safe to say he'll probably have his posioned bullets and knife, probably deepstrike like the cadillus, MAYBE have himself a demo charge?

 Ir0njack wrote:
Definitely going to snatch him up once he drops. I'll probably be painting him up with snow white hair, grey stubble and mud smeared on his arms and maybe face. I really like the idea of old man Marbo.

On the rule side, i think it would be safe to say he'll probably have his posioned bullets and knife, probably deepstrike like the cadillus, MAYBE have himself a demo charge?

He'll be up for preorder on the 16th of December. Release date said December 23rd, so that should be correct unless they do a 2 week preorder period.

 Ir0njack wrote:
Definitely going to snatch him up once he drops. I'll probably be painting him up with snow white hair, grey stubble and mud smeared on his arms and maybe face. I really like the idea of old man Marbo.

On the rule side, i think it would be safe to say he'll probably have his posioned bullets and knife, probably deepstrike like the cadillus, MAYBE have himself a demo charge?

If you look behind him it looks like there is a plunger sticking out of a box, but no idea if he will have a demo charge or if he will do mortal wounds via traps in terrain like the Catachan stratagem. Thats my personal guess, that he causes mortal wounds on units in terrain near him.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Ir0njack wrote:
Definitely going to snatch him up once he drops. I'll probably be painting him up with snow white hair, grey stubble and mud smeared on his arms and maybe face. I really like the idea of old man Marbo.

On the rule side, i think it would be safe to say he'll probably have his posioned bullets and knife, probably deepstrike like the cadillus, MAYBE have himself a demo charge?

If you look behind him it looks like there is a plunger sticking out of a box, but no idea if he will have a demo charge or if he will do mortal wounds via traps in terrain like the Catachan stratagem. Thats my personal guess, that he causes mortal wounds on units in terrain near him.

I'm going with "Improvised Explosives". He comes with rules in the set it says, so he can totally be rocking a demo charge if they want him to.

I know the rules are supposed to be "balanced", however if there is one model out there that deserves to be broken beyond belief, it's this guy.

I want a Marbo that will pop up 6 inches from an enemy warlord, cripple him, and still be enough of a threat that the enemy must devote a turn to killing him.......all for a discount price of well under 100 points.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I know the rules are supposed to be "balanced", however if there is one model out there that deserves to be broken beyond belief, it's this guy.

I want a Marbo that will pop up 6 inches from an enemy warlord, cripple him, and still be enough of a threat that the enemy must devote a turn to killing him.......all for a discount price of well under 100 points.

His 5e rules were awesome. Throw a 5” blast with a max range of 6” after teleporting behind them.

When it worked it was glorious.

I want this guy to do nothing less than dish out mortal wounds with whatever he attacks the enemy with.

Tentative profile.
Sly Marbo
M WS BS S T A HP SV
8 2+ 2+ 4 4 8 15 6+

His blade is just normal CCW with no special rules.
His gun is assault 2.

- Not ready to die: ignore wounds on a roll of 4+
- Always deals mortal wounds on hitting.
- Any enemy walking in a terrain when Marbo is on the table roll a dice, on 6 they take 3D3 mortal wounds.

Would that be good enough for Marbo?

To be honest I'll love for the
"Any enemy walking in a terrain when Marbo is on the table roll a dice, on 6 they take 3D3 mortal wounds. "
Rule to be actually in his datasheet (Obviously more balanced, maybe just 1 MW )

Hell no, no restraint must be shown! When Marbo opens up a can of whoop ass, asses. WILL. BE. WHOOPED.

Adding a rule:

They Drew First Blood, Not Me! - If a friendly unit is eliminated from the game, Marbo gains +2 strength and +3 attacks for the rest of the game.

My recently redoned catachan version of Marbo, from 'Predator', Mr. Dutch
https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/909772-Guardsman%20Dutch.html

The new version looks awesome, still going to get it, every regiment needs a Marbo!