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Remind me where the model is for the cover art of Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus?

So now that Beast Snaggas are out... When is the rest of it coming?

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
So now that Beast Snaggas are out... When is the rest of it coming?

No sooner than end of August, probably split into multiple releases like they did for sisters and necrons.

 Jidmah wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
So now that Beast Snaggas are out... When is the rest of it coming?

No sooner than end of August, probably split into multiple releases like they did for sisters and necrons.

We still have two AoS battletomes (Stormcast Eternals and Orruk Warclans) confirmed for pre-order in August, so I would say sometime in September may be the more likely pre-order date.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 xttz wrote:
NGL, that Combat Patrol box is a good enough deal that if it were on sale right now I'd be starting a new Ork army from scratch.

It it was on sale I'd have one too. I love the new Warboss mini (even if GW was boneheadedly stupid to not give it a Klaw option), 20 Boyz I can turn into slightly-bigger-Boyz (ie. Skarboyz) is a good thing, the Deffkoptas are nice, and Dreads are literally my fav unit type in 40k - any flavour, Marine, Chaos, Eldar, Ork, etc. - so another one of those is great.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Sure, my point was more ‘no model no art’ doesn’t really apply anyway, as there currently is a model.

GW wouldn't bother doing new art for a mini that is mostly unavailable. Them in art gives us a better than good chance that we'll see a plastic kit.

No mode/no art is a thing. Sadly.

I don’t disagree that it’s likely there’s a plastic kit coming, but I’m sticking by the statement that no model no art isn’t the hard and fast rule it was a few years ago. There’s been plenty of examples, such as the above mentioned AdMech codex cover. Chaos termie with a big mace springs to mind too.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Who knows. Could just be “sell the new things as hard as we can”.

Certainly just as No Model No Rules is a thing, so is No Models No Art.

I’m not spotting anything else in the same art - but the Codex May throw something up.

Sod it. This needs to a thread of its own.

No Models No Art isn’t a hard and fast rule these days like it was at one point. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get plastic death riders, but the art doesn’t necessarily indicate it, and there are death rider models already (resin ones).

Yup. If No Models No Art was a real rule, we'd have Renegades still since they were on one of the Chaos Knights art pieces.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
So now that Beast Snaggas are out... When is the rest of it coming?

No sooner than end of August, probably split into multiple releases like they did for sisters and necrons.

We still have two AoS battletomes (Stormcast Eternals and Orruk Warclans) confirmed for pre-order in August, so I would say sometime in September may be the more likely pre-order date.

Yeah AOS plus Kill Team were both confirmed for this month, so they're likely the next two previews.

There was about six weeks between the Sisters boxed set and separate codex release so I'd expect at least the same wait for Orks.

We've already seen articles on Warhammer Community for the new Stormcast Eternals and Orruk Warclans battletomes last week.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Remind me where the model is for the cover art of Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus?

That wasn't supposed to be Cawl?

 Overlord Thraka wrote:
So now that Beast Snaggas are out... When is the rest of it coming?

I mean, look at how like it took for the rest of Sisters to drop.
And the rest of the Kruleboyz and Stormcast are still waiting to be released


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 Platuan4th wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Who knows. Could just be “sell the new things as hard as we can”.

Certainly just as No Model No Rules is a thing, so is No Models No Art.

I’m not spotting anything else in the same art - but the Codex May throw something up.

Sod it. This needs to a thread of its own.

No Models No Art isn’t a hard and fast rule these days like it was at one point. I wouldn’t be surprised if we get plastic death riders, but the art doesn’t necessarily indicate it, and there are death rider models already (resin ones).

Yup. If No Models No Art was a real rule, we'd have Renegades still since they were on one of the Chaos Knights art pieces.

I'm not disagreeing; its obvious they haven't been No Art=No Model for quite some time, but could the Renegades be the traitor guard from Blackston? It's not like GW hasn't released art showing OOP models before. I haven't seen the pic in question

 KidCthulhu wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Remind me where the model is for the cover art of Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus?

That wasn't supposed to be Cawl?

Clearly not, no

 GaroRobe wrote:
I haven't seen the pic in question

With the banner. It's kind of a weird Vraksian/Cultist mix.

Those cultists are close enough to the GW/FW cultists that I wouldn't read into it too much. In general, the vast majority of the artwork is covered by a model from GW or FW, theres only a few pieces that aren't and most of those ae "close enough" to an actual model that the IP risks that led GW towards that policy aren't really applicable.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/08/29/sunday-preview-green-is-good/

Codex at last, alongside Combat Patrol, beast snagga stuff released separately, and a couple of other bits

And they repackage battlewagon with its upgrade sprue.

Good because the upgrade sprue can be hard to come by but bad because it probably means battlewagon going up in price.

Do we think those boys are monopose with the odd option for heavy weapons and different Nob loadoouts? I cannot decide as the 8 duplicates in the picture are identically armed and identically painted so not sure if it is photoshop laziness or just indicating the limitations of the kit.

Why is the scale so wrong for the dreadnought on the codex cover?
Or are all of the orks actually tiny..?

I dread the price of the "new" Battlewagon.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Do we think those boys are monopose with the odd option for heavy weapons and different Nob loadoouts? I cannot decide as the 8 duplicates in the picture are identically armed and identically painted so not sure if it is photoshop laziness or just indicating the limitations of the kit.

The kit will be able to build all the codex options at least. They showed shoota boyz in the studio preview.

Most recent kits have a single build for each body but then have several swappable options for arms / head / accessories so not every model is identical. I expect these to be just like Skitarii.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Do we think those boys are monopose with the odd option for heavy weapons and different Nob loadoouts? I cannot decide as the 8 duplicates in the picture are identically armed and identically painted so not sure if it is photoshop laziness or just indicating the limitations of the kit.

Gw hasn't done non-monopope kit for ages.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
Do we think those boys are monopose with the odd option for heavy weapons and different Nob loadoouts? I cannot decide as the 8 duplicates in the picture are identically armed and identically painted so not sure if it is photoshop laziness or just indicating the limitations of the kit.

It sure looks like it's a limitation of the kit, sadly. 9 Boyz with the head, pose, and armament entirely locked in except an alternative heavy weapon, and a Nob with a head option and two sets of arms. This is exactly how the Beast Snagga Boyz looked in the previews and any hope of further customisability there was quickly dashed when we saw the sprue.

I have 60 of the existing Ork Boyz so I was just considering getting 10 or 20 of these to build a unit of Skarboyz. If the monopose is correct, I definitely won't be doing that.

Very disappointing.

It's highly doubtful you can even swap arms between models in the same box. Zero chance of compatibility with any other box.

Hope is first step to dissapointment. As gw has been doing only monoposes for years with very few exceptions(sister of battle repentia is dual pose for one) so safe bet orks would be. Thus i wasn't dissapointea as i had expected it for looong time.

Especially with gw expect worst and you won't be dissapointed. They say now first 3rd ed aos battle tomes preorder september. I'm running now on assumption they come on 25th to preorder. Thus every sunday can't be dissapointed.

Next week ork wave 2, then something, then battletomes.

GW's approach here really makes no sense to me. It's one thing when elite units you're probably only going to buy one box of are locked in to a single pose and loadout, but who's going to want to have a horde of orkz where it's the same 9 guys and a Nob spammed multiple times?

I get that in reality even the older kits didn't have exactly infinite posability, because there are still only so many angles you can pose the waist and arms at, but it was enough (especially with alternate heads available as well) to create an illusion of variety.

Edit to add: And to be clear, I'm no GW hater. The quality of the new figures is consistently amazing. I just wish they'd see that a small amount of adaptability - even just two builds per figure - goes a long way.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's highly doubtful you can even swap arms between models in the same box. Zero chance of compatibility with any other box.

At this point i'd be suprised if you could as much as swap the heads between them

soviet13 wrote:
GW's approach here really makes no sense to me. It's one thing when elite units you're probably only going to buy one box of are locked in to a single pose and loadout, but who's going to want to have a horde of orkz where it's the same 9 guys and a Nob spammed multiple times?

I get that in reality even the older kits didn't have exactly infinite posability, because there are still only so many angles you can pose the waist and arms at, but it was enough (especially with alternate heads available as well) to create an illusion of variety.

Edit to add: And to be clear, I'm no GW hater. The quality of the new figures is consistently amazing. I just wish they'd see that a small amount of adaptability - even just two builds per figure - goes a long way.

People wanted cool "dynamic" poses.

Be vary of what you wish for.

I guess the demand for Kromlech and Spellcrow Boyz will increase. Until now you wanted them because of a better looking upright pose, now you want them for variety and more interesting poses.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
I guess the demand for Kromlech and Spellcrow Boyz will increase. Until now you wanted them because of a better looking upright pose, now you want them for variety and more interesting poses.

Given how the new Boyz seem to be exclusive to the Start Collecting kit, and the old ones are still on sale, unlike for example, the Battlewagon or the Deffkopta, i assume the old Boyz kit is here to stay, just like the old Chaos Warrios after the relase of the new ones.

Shoutout to the Rockgut Troggoths box, 3 fixed pairs of legs but 12 arms, 9 heads, everything fits with everything else, and each arm comes with its whole half of the shoulders and back, so the musculature even looks natural in all combinations too.

There were a lot of people myself included who warned of the lack of customisation, increased cost etc. and yet people were largely in favour of "old boyz are old, gimme new ones". This is sadly the price to be paid for that.

Same away anyone wanting other core horde infantry refreshes, brace yourselves. 12 termagants won't be £20, they'll be 10 for £28.50. Guard saw this happen loosely with the shock trooper variety sprue, but there's no way that krieg kit is coming in under £30 as a guess.