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drbored wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Like I said, that image is from the Kill-Team Core book. It's on page 20.

They even gave away a promo art card with KT: Octarius' release.

Something I hadn't considered is this might be the intro of a reworked "Elites" and "Commanders" setup. The Warlock would make sense in that context...and there's a Technoarchaeologist model still needing release for AdMech.

Is there? I thought the technoarchaeologist model was part of a Barnes n Nobles box "Combat Arena"

As mentioned, also part of Blackstone Fortress: Escalation. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...the model is on a shared sprue that can't be released individually.

Spoiler:

Still available as far as I can see.

Not according to B&N employees. It says temporarily unavailable on the website, but when I had 'em check the stock said discontinued in their system.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Apologies if this leak has already been posted:

Cool. Nothing like a jetbike sniper who wants to drive closer to spot for everyone else.

Where is the Eldar reveal?! I need me some plastic crack!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/10/the-new-autarch-always-has-the-right-tool-for-the-job/

... next week’s Path of the Preview, where we’ll be showing off an updated Aspect Warrior.

What a time to be alive.

But why didn't they everything but the third helmet

 xttz wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/10/the-new-autarch-always-has-the-right-tool-for-the-job/

... next week’s Path of the Preview, where we’ll be showing off an updated Aspect Warrior.

Can we talk about why this is casually just the best character kit GW has released in fething eons?

Are we gonna get this mini and find "2015" printed on the sprue or something? This thing seems like they made it from a lost fething STC labeled "Kits with Options" that was paid for with the blood of 10,000 skitarii. WTF?

Huh, they remembered non-Saim-Hann schemes exist...

What a great looking model. Like the canoness, it's absolutely loaded with options and even with the tactical ruin, you can make two or three that looks almost entirely different.

Shame that they used an already revealed model for the weekly preview, but it's cool to see all the options now. (except the banshee helmet)

The Banshee helmet is the one with the feathers, it has a Banshee style voice grill. The unrevealed helmet is the generic one.

 the_scotsman wrote:

Can we talk about why this is casually just the best character kit GW has released in fething eons?

Are we gonna get this mini and find "2015" printed on the sprue or something? This thing seems like they made it from a lost fething STC labeled "Kits with Options" that was paid for with the blood of 10,000 skitarii. WTF?

Right?!

Like, I'm happy to have gotten a Skitarii HQ finally...but man does this make me feel like they missed a beat with how restricted the Marshall is. Dude doesn't even get to take the power sword he's got strapped to his hip while Aeldari are like frigging Doomguy over here lol.

If this kit is as cross compatible with the other autoach, are we missing any options?

Seems like a pretty comprehensive spread.

Great kit, but was pretty much already previewed

 GaroRobe wrote:
What a great looking model. Like the canoness, it's absolutely loaded with options and even with the tactical ruin, you can make two or three that looks almost entirely different.

Honestly, the ruin is the only bad part about the model. It feels like someone sculpted it to be flat on the ground but they had to add a ruin so they just basically copypasted the Autarch onto the ruin.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 the_scotsman wrote:

Can we talk about why this is casually just the best character kit GW has released in fething eons?

Are we gonna get this mini and find "2015" printed on the sprue or something? This thing seems like they made it from a lost fething STC labeled "Kits with Options" that was paid for with the blood of 10,000 skitarii. WTF?

Right?!

Like, I'm happy to have gotten a Skitarii HQ finally...but man does this make me feel like they missed a beat with how restricted the Marshall is. Dude doesn't even get to take the power sword he's got strapped to his hip while Aeldari are like frigging Doomguy over here lol.

I'd be so sad if it was revealed to be an older kit. I've been looking over the sprue prices of the 2012-2014 eldar on the GW site, and the plastic looks pretty iffy. It could be just poor picture quality, but the models look like they're covered in splotches.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
What a great looking model. Like the canoness, it's absolutely loaded with options and even with the tactical ruin, you can make two or three that looks almost entirely different.

Honestly, the ruin is the only bad part about the model. It feels like someone sculpted it to be flat on the ground but they had to add a ruin so they just basically copypasted the Autarch onto the ruin.

Tactical see-saw!

I've seen Marvel films... I know they are a thing!

 Kanluwen wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
What a great looking model. Like the canoness, it's absolutely loaded with options and even with the tactical ruin, you can make two or three that looks almost entirely different.

Honestly, the ruin is the only bad part about the model. It feels like someone sculpted it to be flat on the ground but they had to add a ruin so they just basically copypasted the Autarch onto the ruin.

I mean he is standing flat just at like a 10 degree angle. You can just cut him off the thing.

A good- nay, great character kit, in the vein of the Canoness, for a Xenos faction. What a time to be alive

 GaroRobe wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 the_scotsman wrote:

Can we talk about why this is casually just the best character kit GW has released in fething eons?

Are we gonna get this mini and find "2015" printed on the sprue or something? This thing seems like they made it from a lost fething STC labeled "Kits with Options" that was paid for with the blood of 10,000 skitarii. WTF?

Right?!

Like, I'm happy to have gotten a Skitarii HQ finally...but man does this make me feel like they missed a beat with how restricted the Marshall is. Dude doesn't even get to take the power sword he's got strapped to his hip while Aeldari are like frigging Doomguy over here lol.

I'd be so sad if it was revealed to be an older kit. I've been looking over the sprue prices of the 2012-2014 eldar on the GW site, and the plastic looks pretty iffy. It could be just poor picture quality, but the models look like they're covered in splotches.

it is the same plastic - theyre just running it thru older molds. Don't worry, GW plastic from 2012-2016 is going to be infinitely better quality than GW plastic now....because GW plastic from that time period just used simple ball joins and stuff like shoulderpads to hide seams instead of now, where they purposefully key it together so it only goes one way and you end up with super long stupid gigantic seams on the model that you have to fill in with greenstuff.

Like this Gloomspite Gitz model I just painted, which has a big, long, giant, crooked series of seams running the entire length of the entire fething model, from cape to helmet to down the middle of his fething face.

It's so endlessly hilarious to me that people will see kits like this and make BS claims like "ohhh the new monoposes are so cunningly put together to make the seams hidden! LOL no dawg the purpose is to reduce compatibility with third party bits, don't be an idiot.

Pictured below: "Boutique Luxury Quality, Such Glorious Attention To Detail That It Costs 3x As Much As Every Other Model Company And 100x As Much As 3d Printing"

is me or are they really milking these previews. I was hoping for more previews not preview of more options of miniature they already previewed. What next week we are going to get previews of rest of the options for this miniatures.

Vaccines cause Autarchs confirmed.

 GaroRobe wrote:


I'd be so sad if it was revealed to be an older kit. I've been looking over the sprue prices of the 2012-2014 eldar on the GW site, and the plastic looks pretty iffy. It could be just poor picture quality, but the models look like they're covered in splotches.

Just a bad pic - I am working on the plastic Autarch currently and it is just fine - smooth and perfect. Comparing it to an older Finecast Autarch I was marveling just how much better the plastic was - its night and day....

The left foot looks like it's separate, but the right foot looks like it was sculpted onto the base. It won't be impossible to remove, but it's annoying.

Still better than the underworld models with half a foot already sculpted onto the base itself...

 clodax66 wrote:
is me or are they really milking these previews. I was hoping for more previews not preview of more options of miniature they already previewed. What next week we are going to get previews of rest of the options for this miniatures.

Next week will be full preview of Shroud Runners. Then Reapers, then Maugan, and lastly the Avatar and that will be all we get this decade

But jokes aside, GW drip feeds those previews at such a rate, that I gave up hope for a Necron scale update, as such would take half a year of weekly Paths of the Previews.

And this Autarch looks like it was designed at the same time as the previous one, they just saved it for later, just as they did with Jetbikes.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
What a great looking model. Like the canoness, it's absolutely loaded with options and even with the tactical ruin, you can make two or three that looks almost entirely different.

Honestly, the ruin is the only bad part about the model. It feels like someone sculpted it to be flat on the ground but they had to add a ruin so they just basically copypasted the Autarch onto the ruin.

Honestly I think it’d look better if the stone was turned 180° - that way the various cloth bits would be hanging down. Or yeah just remove it.
Stupid thing is that it’s probably got one boot moulded onto it or something else like that.

This looks really nice, and the backwards compatibility is a nice touch. For whatever reason, I wasn't expecting the Warp Spider Jump-pack upgrade.

The interesting bit of the video is at the end. While the box is 'Aeldari Autarch,' the ending text is 'Asuryani War Leaders' which, at least to me, implies more to come.

nou wrote:

 clodax66 wrote:
is me or are they really milking these previews. I was hoping for more previews not preview of more options of miniature they already previewed. What next week we are going to get previews of rest of the options for this miniatures.

Next week will be full preview of Shroud Runners. Then Reapers, then Maugan, and lastly the Avatar and that will be all we get this decade

But jokes aside, GW drip feeds those previews at such a rate, that I gave up hope for a Necron scale update, as such would take half a year of weekly Paths of the Previews.

And this Autarch looks like it was designed at the same time as the previous one, they just saved it for later, just as they did with Jetbikes.

They gave a more in depth preview of the autarch which they had no need to do and yes they will drag it out. If they show all the centrepieces and most requested units now, people will probably just get bored while the book comes out, which I dare say is likely 3 months away.

A Xeno HQ with a range of options *and* backwards compatibility.

GW, are you... feeling okay?

Not that I'm complaining it's just so weird to see them actually doing this, given their prior policies and recent track record.

 the_scotsman wrote:
Are we gonna get this mini and find "2015" printed on the sprue or something? This thing seems like they made it from a lost fething STC labeled "Kits with Options" that was paid for with the blood of 10,000 skitarii. WTF?

Kit with options that work with the old kit!

 clodax66 wrote:
is me or are they really milking these previews. I was hoping for more previews not preview of more options of miniature they already previewed. What next week we are going to get previews of rest of the options for this miniatures.

"next week’s Path of the Preview, where we’ll be showing off an updated Aspect Warrior."

Imagine reading an article.

 vipoid wrote:
A Xeno HQ with a range of options *and* backwards compatibility.

GW, are you... feeling okay?

Not that I'm complaining it's just so weird to see them actually doing this, given their prior policies and recent track record.

It feels really alien. When they releaesed the ork megaboss separately I looked at that sprue and just....
Both the big choppa and the grot shoota are non-optional, which seems ridiculous.

I'm trying to figure out who's getting a character model next (beyond the warpsmith hammer/axe and the primaris whatevers with swords). But we're at the point that even space marine characters with options is an upcoming novelty.