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 Sabotage! wrote:
This all leaves me wondering if we will get another preview before the years over. I imagine they will want to show off the new AoS stuff that seems likely to be arriving in January and the new Kill Team (whatever it is) that will likely be releasing in January or February.

Huh? AOS stuff in january? Has there been much of hints of it? As far as I know there's not been hinting much of beyond the morathi book.

tneva82 wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
This all leaves me wondering if we will get another preview before the years over. I imagine they will want to show off the new AoS stuff that seems likely to be arriving in January and the new Kill Team (whatever it is) that will likely be releasing in January or February.

Huh? AOS stuff in january? Has there been much of hints of it? As far as I know there's not been hinting much of beyond the morathi book.

Well, it’s all speculation on my part, so it could be irresponsible. That said GW has been leaning really heavy into a certain “theme” with their rumor mill hints, and the zombie/cursed dryad/scarecrow thing they showed on Halloween. I’m suspecting we are going to get a January release of whatever they are like we got with Gloomspite Gitz.

But bear in mind they could easily be in April/May, or whenever.
As part of book 3/4 of the new campaign, or whichever.
Rumour engines can take ages to come to fruition..

Danny76 wrote:
But bear in mind they could easily be in April/May, or whenever.
As part of book 3/4 of the new campaign, or whichever.
Rumour engines can take ages to come to fruition..

This is very well a possibility, I feel like Lumineth were meant to come out in Spring, Sons were meant for Summer (though they aren’t really a new army, just one new horrendously overpriced kit), and these guys were meant to be late Fall with their spooky vibes. I’m just speculating and all, but I think AoS is probably due for another decent release soon and I could see them doing something like they did for the Gitz, especially after getting that silhouette - which leads me to believe we will get a full reveal of that model in a month/month and a half or so.

Something else to consider is that if 3rd ed comes next summer, GW may not want to release the new army and whatever the feature armies for the new edition are back to back so as not to cannibalize sales off each other. It's easier to make a case for a new army release sooner rather than later, in my opinion.

Doesn't GW still stick with a three month limit on information about the next release, by and large? We did get the Halloween teaser picture, so it stands to reason that the associated model won't be further out than February.

Also it seems to me that Kill Team should have been a November release and Underworlds the usual October release instead of December. I'd take that to mean that any delays we can put down on Corona won't draw out releases further than two months.

As for the next preview, we got something for or just after Christmas in the last couple of years, so there's a good chance that we'll get at least one more preview this year, even if it's at the very end of it,

 Geifer wrote:
Something else to consider is that if 3rd ed comes next summer, GW may not want to release the new army and whatever the feature armies for the new edition are back to back so as not to cannibalize sales off each other. It's easier to make a case for a new army release sooner rather than later, in my opinion.

Doesn't GW still stick with a three month limit on information about the next release, by and large? We did get the Halloween teaser picture, so it stands to reason that the associated model won't be further out than February.

Also it seems to me that Kill Team should have been a November release and Underworlds the usual October release instead of December. I'd take that to mean that any delays we can put down on Corona won't draw out releases further than two months.

As for the next preview, we got something for or just after Christmas in the last couple of years, so there's a good chance that we'll get at least one more preview this year, even if it's at the very end of it,

that one is ussualy the first weekend of the year as lookback at last year and a short glimp of the coming year

We got that, too, but that's not what I mean. We also had actual previews on Christmas and the days leading up to New Year's, respectively.

Speaking of the wonderful multi-national spectacular that was Warhammer Day, I just got notice that Terminator Chaplain Tarentus has shipped.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Speaking of the wonderful multi-national spectacular that was Warhammer Day, I just got notice that Terminator Chaplain Tarentus has shipped.

My local had one. Not sure how I feel about him being SMH style sprued and snap-fit.

 Platuan4th wrote:
Not sure how I feel about him being SMH style sprued and snap-fit.

Does it really matter, though?

I'm not saying "How dare you! You're wrong!". I'm just curious as why you think that makes a difference. When the model's build and painted, does it matter how it went together?

Yes. They don’t perform as well on the table

Personally, I guessed that it was ETB before we had seen the sprue, so it makes a difference to my eye at least.

Danny76 wrote:
Yes. They don’t perform as well on the table

Lol. Good luck trying to find justification for that claim

tneva82 wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
Yes. They don’t perform as well on the table

Lol. Good luck trying to find justification for that claim

Explaining the joke.

My only gripes with the model are around the dual-Crux shoulders. Ideally, the sprue should've been done with both pads separate to the arms, and with a plain - or, at least, non-Crux - pad included.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
Personally, I guessed that it was ETB before we had seen the sprue, so it makes a difference to my eye at least.

Agreed, it did look somewhat "flat", not quite as multi-layered as typical character figures made from more parts.

If, based on the pictures, you liked the figure anyway, it shouldn't make a difference of course, beyond perhaps some specific conversions that may require a bit more effort based on the way figures go together.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:
Not sure how I feel about him being SMH style sprued and snap-fit.

I'm just curious as why you think that makes a difference. When the model's build and painted, does it matter how it went together?

Hence the "I'm not sure" part. The only thing that makes a difference is that if I wanted to swap the right pad for a Chapter specific one, there's no shoulder to actually attach the pad to, only a hollow space with a post.

Ball of green stuff.
Tweaking SM shoulders is very simple, since the shoulder pad naturally tends to overlap and obscure adjustments.

 Geifer wrote:
Something else to consider is that if 3rd ed comes next summer, GW may not want to release the new army and whatever the feature armies for the new edition are back to back so as not to cannibalize sales off each other. It's easier to make a case for a new army release sooner rather than later, in my opinion.

Idoneth only released a couple of months before 2.0.

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
Personally, I guessed that it was ETB before we had seen the sprue, so it makes a difference to my eye at least.

Agreed, it did look somewhat "flat", not quite as multi-layered as typical character figures made from more parts.

If, based on the pictures, you liked the figure anyway, it shouldn't make a difference of course, beyond perhaps some specific conversions that may require a bit more effort based on the way figures go together.

It's the right arm. It's at an unnatural angle that accentuates a terminator's unfeasible anatomy, and it can't be moved because the handle of the crozius is embedded in the cloak.