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Interceptor City (working title of the Double Eagle sequel) is a novel he has mentioned really wanting to do, but first.. he needs to wrap up the Bequin trilogy.

Dan Abnett needs to put aside all his other concerns and make the story of his we all REALLY want to see....


Guardians of the Galaxy vs Eisenhorn.

BrianDavion wrote:
Dan Abnett needs to put aside all his other concerns and make the story of his we all REALLY want to see....


Guardians of the Galaxy vs Eisenhorn.

The time has come!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/30/games-workshop-and-marvel-comics-team-upgw-homepage-post-1/

The GW crimbo list is now been announced and all on the list, checked it twice lol

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/30/gifts-for-good-grotsgw-homepage-post-1/

Those 40k boxes are underwhelming.

AoS ones look significantly better, but depend a little on price. Disappointed a bit in the contents of the Gits box- it isn't bad, but not really

The Tyranid one is probably the only one that'll be worth the money...

If the CSM Start Collecting Box is the same price as the others but filled with the easy to build models it'll feel a little... underwhelming.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
If the CSM Start Collecting Box is the same price as the others but filled with the easy to build models it'll feel a little... underwhelming.

Why?

Besides, its clearly the Shadowspear stuff, exactly as is.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
If the CSM Start Collecting Box is the same price as the others but filled with the easy to build models it'll feel a little... underwhelming.

It's no different than the Vanguard Space Marines one shown next to it(which I might add: doesn't actually have either of the two separate sprue models, the Captain and Librarian in Phobos Armor), or the Blades of Khorne and Stormcast Eternals ones for AoS.

Some of the 40K ones look a bit plain, however at the same time when you look at the content whilst its not as "exciting" it is actually quite practical for the army. Both for expansion and for building a new army.

The Chaos one is a nice example. The Start Collecting set is far more "exciting" however the christmas box gives you terminators, havoks, marines, lord and a rhino. That's a nice bunch of start to kick off a brand new Chaos army with. Add that to the start collecting set and you've got a solid backbone of an army done and dusted with some nice discounts.

That said I do think the Tyranid box steals it as a very interesting box. A nice mix of monsters and swarm units that makes it ideal as a starting or expansion point. Shame they haven't put any of the middle-class models in (guard, thropes etc...) but otherwise a very nice solid set (and honestly one we've seen before in different forms from the tyranids)


Skaven box is neat and nice that they got a Verminlord in there. Though after Carrion Empire I was thinking a lord would have to appear as GW is ilkely running out of decent Skaven sculpts in plastic to put into discount boxes.

I like the dark eldar box, but probably don't have the budget for it. If it had a void raven in place of the razorwing, I would have made room.

Whelp.... I'm probably starting a Gloomspite army....

Uff this is all an easy pass for me. Saved some moneys then.

I was expecting a Primaris box like the two different ones the last year for my DA... and the two marines boxes are chapter specific... well. Thats money that I won't spend... (Because I have already spent it in FW custodes units ...)

 Overread wrote:
Some of the 40K ones look a bit plain, however at the same time when you look at the content whilst its not as "exciting" it is actually quite practical for the army. Both for expansion and for building a new army.

They're mostly good for new armies, I'd agree (except the marine ones). For expansion..eh?

The marines are highly specialized special snowflake junk plus random Primaris squad. The chaos marine box is just the basics, Dark eldar is half the start collecting box, plus some completely random stuff and 20 warriors, nids are exclusively baby's first Nid army (a good start though), and the Tau box is barely different from the Apocalypse box or any other random box of Tau you'd care to pick up.

I was expecting to be picking up two or three of the battleforce boxes but the Blood Angels and Space Wolves boxes are a let down. The Chaos Space Marines one is nice and I expect I'll pick that up combined with the CSM start collecting.

On the plus side, I don't see any that really grab me as being super-useful to bulk out any collections like last year with the AdMech and CWE. The Tyranid one will end up on the "maybe" pile, but only if somehow I figure out how I want to paint any of that army (which has not happened since the original plastic release so I wouldn't expect that to occur suddenly in two months). I'd use all the stuff in the Chaos one, but with nearly 70 of the new-style basic marines (plus the horde of old 3rd ed plastics) that feels like just "Stuff for the Stuff God" at that point even if the Terminators and Havocs would be nice. Assuming I finish the ones I have, I'll just pick up more of those specific ones later. Still a decent starting point for someone new though.

On the minus side, there's still the SoB box and Necromunda coming so that's likely a pummeling for the wallet by the end of the year.

Wow the drukhari one sucks, why put a talos as the only coven unit? you can't even play it with any obsession since the only way to add it to the rest is by an auxiliary support detachment for 1 CP.

Darn I was expecting to want the Chaos battleforce, but now I'm also really tempted by the Space Wolves. It's damn near perfect for me...I need one more flyer, those wulfen and the intercessors are useful for other armies.

Now I've got some decisions to make...

EDIT:
Contents of the Chaos battleforce total $260 CAD
Contents of Space Wolves battleforce total $275 CAD

Guess I'm leaning Wolves on this one.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
If the CSM Start Collecting Box is the same price as the others but filled with the easy to build models it'll feel a little... underwhelming.

It's no different than the Vanguard Space Marines one shown next to it(which I might add: doesn't actually have either of the two separate sprue models, the Captain and Librarian in Phobos Armor), or the Blades of Khorne and Stormcast Eternals ones for AoS.

From a "Start Collecting" perspective, I think this was absolutely the right move. If you were just looking for a "buy this to get a discount", I think you missed the point.
Being comprised of easy-build stuff is a really good way to encourage new players

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I'll probably be getting the Tau box, looks a good way to expand my currently small force. The Drukhari box is also pretty decent, it's a shame they keep dumping Reavers into everything and whilst you can't use the Talos straight off unless you're completely against using Coven units you'll end up wanting them, so a chance to get one at a discount is good.

Space Wolves went down from 28 miniatures in the previous Battleforce (two years ago?) to 17 this time. Yay for paying more and getting less!

 Imateria wrote:
I'll probably be getting the Tau box, looks a good way to expand my currently small force. The Drukhari box is also pretty decent, it's a shame they keep dumping Reavers into everything and whilst you can't use the Talos straight off unless you're completely against using Coven units you'll end up wanting them, so a chance to get one at a discount is good.

The problem is that these are supposed to be Entry-level boxsets to kickstart an army, you cant play 200pts in the box without losing obsessions or CPs. its idiotic. GW shouldve focused on one subfaction (preferably coven since its the one that never got a boxset). At least the bikes can be run with the rest if youre running an Ynnari detachment, the talos just feths it up.

 Sqorgar wrote:
Space Wolves went down from 28 miniatures in the previous Battleforce (two years ago?) to 17 this time. Yay for paying more and getting less!

Because pure model count is the metric we use for judging quality....

That Stormcast one is SUPER good... imo

Jacob29 wrote:
That Stormcast one is SUPER good... imo

It comes with 6 lizardcatdragons - what's not to love!

$170-200 or the box sets is a lil pricey. How much was the ones last year?

Does anyone know hat is the price for the boxes in EUR?

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

 Imateria wrote:
I'll probably be getting the Tau box, looks a good way to expand my currently small force. The Drukhari box is also pretty decent, it's a shame they keep dumping Reavers into everything and whilst you can't use the Talos straight off unless you're completely against using Coven units you'll end up wanting them, so a chance to get one at a discount is good.

The problem is that these are supposed to be Entry-level boxsets to kickstart an army, you cant play 200pts in the box without losing obsessions or CPs. its idiotic. GW shouldve focused on one subfaction (preferably coven since its the one that never got a boxset). At least the bikes can be run with the rest if youre running an Ynnari detachment, the talos just feths it up.

Coven is probably NOT a good idea for the single faction in the box, but I agree a single offshoot coven unit is a flawed design.
Drukari are an issue though, because the three mini-faction split makes it VERY hard to give them a varied and intresting boxset.

 BoomWolf wrote:

 VladimirHerzog wrote:

 Imateria wrote:
I'll probably be getting the Tau box, looks a good way to expand my currently small force. The Drukhari box is also pretty decent, it's a shame they keep dumping Reavers into everything and whilst you can't use the Talos straight off unless you're completely against using Coven units you'll end up wanting them, so a chance to get one at a discount is good.

The problem is that these are supposed to be Entry-level boxsets to kickstart an army, you cant play 200pts in the box without losing obsessions or CPs. its idiotic. GW shouldve focused on one subfaction (preferably coven since its the one that never got a boxset). At least the bikes can be run with the rest if youre running an Ynnari detachment, the talos just feths it up.

Coven is probably NOT a good idea for the single faction in the box, but I agree a single offshoot coven unit is a flawed design.
Drukari are an issue though, because the three mini-faction split makes it VERY hard to give them a varied and intresting boxset.

I'm curious as to why you feel it's not a good idea? its the only subfaction that never got a box. Honestly the content isn't bad, its just asd that these boxes are probably going to be the entry point into drukhari for many people and they can't even field all the units in it.