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Wow, if Dark Mechanicus is down the line, my wallet may be in trouble!

 Kanluwen wrote:

fireangel wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Ehhhhhhhhh...we know there's Slaanesh stuff due at some point, but I can't see this being the spot for EC.

Did you notice that one of the Renegade Guardsmen has a Slaanesh symbol on his chest? It's only partly visible and is intentionally obscured, and they challenge you to find it in the description of the video.

Do you mean this quote?

The Imperium is not alone in seeking to stake a claim on the Blackstone Fortress – in its dark halls and vaulting caverns, the rot of Chaos permeates the stifling atmosphere. See which sinister foes you can spot in our latest teaser…

Nothing points to Slaanesh. Also worth mentioning that the "Slaanesh symbol" is purportedly on the torso for the middle figure in this group:

Spoiler:

It honestly doesn't look like the Slaanesh symbol. It looks like it's a clasp/buckle for some kind of ragged cloth the guy has attached to his chest
plate.

I just zoomed in on the pic in your link and man, I’m not saying it’s for certain, but it sure looks like a Slaanesh symbol.
It could just as well be a hook.... lol.

It actually looks Tzeentch to me.

Well, other than missing the spar and lower crescent yeah it looks like it has some part of the Slaanesh symbol...


It seriously just looks like it's something holding a ragged piece of cloth to the torso. I don't think they'd release 'marked' Renegades right off the bat.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
GW community on Facebook implying that the halo figure is a space marine but I'm not buying it :

I think they’re more saying that Stormcast and SoB aren’t the only things who wear halos like that.

Yeah but the illustrations look like a Stormcast or a SoB because of the shape of the shoulderpads mostly, not because of the halo.

Dread Master wrote:
So one of the criticisms of Silver Tower was that the two sprues for the minions was really just one and a copy. Do we think that perhaps the sprues for this games baddies are completely unique?

And also, for my money, the chaos marines are Emperor’s Children.

Recent GW boxes have followed a similar pattern. Soul wars, Dark imperium, death watch overkill, silver tower and space hulk all have one large sprue of minis that is duplicated in the box.
I think we will see the drones, the Renegade guard, the dark mech guys, the beasts, and maybe the urghul duplicated.

I would expect the final figure count to be around 50.
So
4 drones
8 Renegade guard
6 dark mechanicus
6 beasts
2 urghul
1 Renegade priest
3 marines
1 Abaddon (or alternative leader)
9 adventures
And a few more surprises.
I will be shocked if the price is not £95

 Daedalus81 wrote:
It actually looks Tzeentch to me.

Looks like a Fyreslayer rune to me.

Prove me wrong!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Daedalus81 wrote:
It actually looks Tzeentch to me.

Looks like a Fyreslayer rune to me.

Prove me wrong!

Squats confirmed?

Looking at the latest video, it was interesting to see Traitor Guardsmen and the 3 Chaos Space marines surrounded by what looked like some sort of demons or mutants. I know it isn't this, but it reminded me of the old Lost and the Damned army.

Hrm, passed on Titanicus and Rogue Trader, will this be the one to break me?

Not my photo

There are some seriously dynamic poses in that boxed set. This looks like money well spent to me if you are a collector of amazing miniatures.

Easily 150 USD plus worth of models in that boxed set if they were sold separately.

Can't tell if the tiles are really small or if it's just the quality of the picture.

But there are some nice looking vaguely blobish blurs in there.

Saw that same pic, appears to be:

+4x Ghoul thingies (minimum)
+2x Drones (minimum)
+Approximtately 30 other figures (just at a glance)
+D6, D8, D12, and D20
+An initiative or encounter track
+A large beam template
+Five or six separate decks of cards

One figure appears to be a Chaos sorcerer --- unless it's a victim tied to a pole as an objective marker or something. Can only make out one Negavolt Cultist (off the board)

Yeah it's a pretty vague picture but at least its something. I cant even spot the chaos marines. The board does seem small and combat focused. And less so exploration focused...not sure how I feel about it. Looks like a game where you clear rooms but I hope its more than that. I'm sure we'll see a lot more tomorrow though.

 Elbows wrote:
Saw that same pic, appears to be:

+4x Ghoul thingies (minimum)
+2x Drones (minimum)
+Approximtately 30 other figures (just at a glance)
+D6, D8, D12, and D20
+An initiative or encounter track
+A large beam template
+Five or six separate decks of cards

One figure appears to be a Chaos sorcerer --- unless it's a victim tied to a pole as an objective marker or something. Can only make out one Negavolt Cultist (off the board)

It's an icon bearer. You can see that there is one in the video.

Oh, that tile set is disappointing. I really wanted more like the ones in Space Hulk/Silver Tower.

Hmm. Looking at it, I think that set up above the red thing is how the encounters are ordered. You lay down cards along the length of the long marker to... determine encounter order probably. It looks like there is a white line along the length of the marker... suggesting the hallway you're following into the fortress, perhaps.
Not sure of the significance of the numeric cards, or why the order is 2, 1, 3, 4, however.

I can't decide if the stacks at the end are the decks the encounters are drawn from or the final encounters. Or what the decks on the opposite side do. Foes, treasures, modifiers, perhaps.


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The 'iron giant' seems to be there on his lonesome by the d20 and the pile of chits. Looks big but not overly so. Nothing in the box like the Dread from the HH game or the Ogre wizard from Silver Tower.

Why are leak images ALWAYS unreadably blurry? It's insane to me that every single person who leaks images has an early 2000's brick phone.

Looks like there's a heap of cool looking blobs in this game though, and wasn't expecting the tiles to be hexagons. I'm keen to see the proper reveal.

Yeah the hexes are a little underwhelming - reminds me of Betrayal at Calth.

Definitely looks a bit different from the Fantasy Warhammer Quest. I'm not super stoked on the hexes, but just by looking at the game components it looks like might have a bit more depth than the other two, which would be pretty cool.

I'm guessing GW is probably not too worried about the leak. They are probably showing the game off tomorrow at Blood and Glory anyways.

Also on a side note, how cool would it be if GW released Kill Team rules for the Traitor Guard and Beastmen to join your Chaos Space Marines warband.

There are some tiles apparently left out between the game area and the box of the game ... wondering if the players build the area during the game ... kind of like Carcassone

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Why are leak images ALWAYS unreadably blurry? It's insane to me that every single person who leaks images has an early 2000's brick phone.

Looks like there's a heap of cool looking blobs in this game though, and wasn't expecting the tiles to be hexagons. I'm keen to see the proper reveal.

I think it’s an enlarged and zoomed in photo from the full page/poster.

(Or as some would say - it’s all GW wanted you to see)

That would fit the exploration vibe. I’d be really pleased if they’ve used/developed the Betrayal at Calth mechanics; I really liked that as a game system.

The more I look at it the most concerning thing that stands out to me is the extra slim rules book. Looks a bit too slim if you ask me.

Well the reveal was meant to be at the weekend, but I wonder if this will change it.

Danny76 wrote:
Well the reveal was meant to be at the weekend, but I wonder if this will change it.

It'll be treated like codex squads from now on. Every mention pushes it back a day. Oh and gw will send the inquisition eradicating all already shown previews from each and everyone's memory!

But to be serious, I don't think it will change anything, as the seminar is today evening. They will stick to that plan, everything else would be really rushed and take away some of the hype in the seminar

Danny76 wrote:
Well the reveal was meant to be at the weekend, but I wonder if this will change it.

The blood and glory seminar is less than 24 hours from now and the only new thing you can make out from that picture is the hexagonal tiles. It won't change anything.

 Thargrim wrote:
The more I look at it the most concerning thing that stands out to me is the extra slim rules book. Looks a bit too slim if you ask me.

That does look pretty thin if you ask me also. Hopefully it's just the adventure book or something. Or it would be kind of cool if there was a variety of missions and you could roll/choose which to play and it had a progression system like the older Warhammer Quest games. That way they wouldn't have to cram in 20 different adventures, maybe just 8 or so with different variables/bosses and what not. I'm trying to be optimistic about this one, but I guess we'll have to wait for some game play info.

Photato division strikes again?