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Dudeface wrote: Time for any wild predictions and the like for the reveal? I know we know what to expect roughly, but any specifics to take a punt on?
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Squat
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Chaos Marine
An hour of pointless filler talk
A trailer for a proper reveal later down the line.
Such nonsense! Where are the Warhammer+ ads?
But more seriously, I'm going to guess that to everyone's surprise the new cooltists will actually have a choice of autoguns and melee options for the whole squad. None of that Boyz nonsense we saw earlier.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Dudeface wrote: Time for any wild predictions and the like for the reveal? I know we know what to expect roughly, but any specifics to take a punt on?
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Squat
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Chaos Marine
An hour of pointless filler talk
A trailer for a proper reveal later down the line.
Such nonsense! Where are the Warhammer+ ads?
But more seriously, I'm going to guess that to everyone's surprise the new cooltists will actually have a choice of autoguns and melee options for the whole squad. None of that Boyz nonsense we saw earlier.
I'm loosely ready to be confused/annoyed at mortal possessed being big mutated blobs like spawn, but aren't spawn, but are the same size/bigger than the possessed marines but randomly are better despite being mortals or worse wondering what their purpose is.... but they aren't spawns oddly.
At least then your modelling isn't artificially restricted via rules.
It's weird that the Accursed Weapon is more preferred, huh? That's what happens with the NMNR and building strictly from the box though!
We spent all of 3rd, 4th, and 5th with Power Weapons just being Power Weapons regardless of what was modeled and it worked fine. This is honestly no different(with the exception of the stupid multiple types of Lightning Claws thing going on throughout the book).
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Dudeface wrote: Time for any wild predictions and the like for the reveal? I know we know what to expect roughly, but any specifics to take a punt on?
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Squat
An hour of pointless filler talk
A single Chaos Marine
An hour of pointless filler talk
A trailer for a proper reveal later down the line.
Such nonsense! Where are the Warhammer+ ads?
But more seriously, I'm going to guess that to everyone's surprise the new cooltists will actually have a choice of autoguns and melee options for the whole squad. None of that Boyz nonsense we saw earlier.
I'm loosely ready to be confused/annoyed at mortal possessed being big mutated blobs like spawn, but aren't spawn, but are the same size/bigger than the possessed marines but randomly are better despite being mortals or worse wondering what their purpose is.... but they aren't spawns oddly.
Who knows, maybe non-Marine Possessed are just going to have less toughness and lack power armor, but come cheaper. Then get some synergy with cooltist HQs while Marine Possessed get synergy with Marine HQs and call it day. GW doesn't always try to figure out a unique role for things that are just a different flavor from something that already exists and are content for the models and theme to be the deciding factor for picking a unit. When they do, it oftentimes seems artificial to me.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Yeah, like it's fine to have the granularity of multiple types and it's kind of neat that those modeling decisions matter, but I certainly wouldn't shed a tear if 10th consolidated a lot of weapon profiles.
Though yes, the lightning claw thing is just bizarre if that stays around.
On the 2 sprues HBMC linked can anyone tell me what a weapon is? On the first link its in the bottom corner of the top left quadrant. In the second one it's the one just below the 2 arms in the upper left quadrant. It looks like it's a 2 handed ranged weapon but I can't tell.
Leo_the_Rat wrote: On the 2 sprues HBMC linked can anyone tell me what a weapon is? On the first link its in the bottom corner of the top left quadrant. In the second one it's the one just below the 2 arms in the upper left quadrant. It looks like it's a 2 handed ranged weapon but I can't tell.
Leo_the_Rat wrote: On the 2 sprues HBMC linked can anyone tell me what a weapon is? On the first link its in the bottom corner of the top left quadrant. In the second one it's the one just below the 2 arms in the upper left quadrant. It looks like it's a 2 handed ranged weapon but I can't tell.
Yeah, I wasn't sold on the fantasy sneak-peak version, but the 40k version is pretty amazing. And lots of options for the options gods.
Not much variation in stance or posture, so 6 seems like overkill.
ArcaneHorror wrote: Anyone here have all the pictures of the new daemon prince?
The heads are nice, and it's certainly an improvement over the current plastic mess, but I'm happy I have my old metal 3.5 one stripped and ready to repaint, rather than this thing. It looks like somewhere between an attempt to capture that one and the codex cover.
(Not saying the 3.5 is perfect, but IDK I'm not a huge fan of the thick and high-relief ornamentation that I feel like we've been seeing since 8th and the new Death Guard)
The new Daemon Prince is interesting, wondering about scale.
When Codex: CSM is released I will be updating my current army. This will probably include Daemon Princes. Anything Belakor sized would be a non-starter, anything much bigger than the current sculpt is something I'd have to think about.
The new possessed would be a great kit even if it wasn't replacing some of the borkiest sculpts in the entire range, really like the new Cultists and Mutants too.
On the fence about the Commune, but I have to say I'm really not keen on the new Prince, and while I see what they're shooting for with the Torments, I'm not blown away by the execution.
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The new Daemon Prince is interesting, wondering about scale.
When Codex: CSM is released I will be updating my current army. This will probably include Daemon Princes. Anything Belakor sized would be a non-starter, anything much bigger than the current sculpt is something I'd have to think about.
They were guessing that the DP is on a 60mm base, and Big Bel is on a 100mm.
Given the skulls around the obligatory rock, that seems about right. So a fair bit smaller than Big B. Probably bigger than the current sculpt, but not much (if at all) bigger than the old metal sculpt.
It’s funny how long we have to wait for a few new chaos sculpts but there’s already so many amazing 3rd party STLs of every chaos model that are better than GW models. GW should just have a library of STLs to download like iTunes music except for models. 3D printing is gonna steal so many sales away. Either get with the Revolution or lose out.
Eh, the hobby is riddled with plastic weenies, until 3d printers work like microwaves, there's going the be space for pre made kits.
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warpedpig wrote: It’s funny how long we have to wait for a few new chaos sculpts but there’s already so many amazing 3rd party STLs of every chaos model that are better than GW models. GW should just have a library of STLs to download like iTunes music except for models. 3D printing is gonna steal so many sales away. Either get with the Revolution or lose out.
Or just buy literally any human scale model GW already makes. Much easier.
Not sure why we needed not-Spawns, but as someone who has 30+ messed up cultist conversions for my redone Word Bearers (which I never painted unlike my 3.5 WBs they were supposed to represent in a bigger, prettier shape ) I can really appreciate "Mutants" as a unit. The cultist I remain split on, I guess as a replacement to the "we worship the Dark Gods and put a lot of effort into showing this" Paul Muller sculpts they work nicely, but nog for the shaggy, filthy, downtrodden cultists WBs would probably hers into battle as fodder. The Prince is nice, the Undivided heads are both meh, but the cult ones I like - and I never set aside the 25€ or whatever for the old metal DP because my early teen self hated pinning (still do, actually).
Looking for a Skaven Doomwheel banner to repair my Nurgle knights.
Looking at the models I like all of them, even the kind of goofy "big mutants". The prince and new CSM possessed are sick, and I will probably end up getting a squad and a prince (even though I have like 4 already) just because of how great the model looks. Not sure if I will end up getting the cultist stuff however.
My only concern is something GW has been doing lately which is who was asking for mutant/possessed cultists in the CSM book. I mean I think the are cool, but I would much rather have had new bikes, bike sorcerer/lord combo kit, and a lord kit with all of the options over the cultist stuff. It was kind of the same with Eldar with the scout bikes, which are awesome looking, but who was demanding these when there are still several squads of aspects that would be old enough to rent a car. Just a thought.
) I can really appreciate "Mutants" as a unit. The cultist I remain split on, I guess as a replacement to the "we worship the Dark Gods and put a lot of effort into showing this" Paul Muller sculpts they work nicely, but nog for the shaggy, filthy, downtrodden cultists