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That's what I thought at first but more likely it'll just be the next MtO torsos etc (imo).

Honestly would be a bit of a bummer if despoilers/assault marines were an upgrade sprue because I'd have so many useless bolters from the mk6 kit left over.

 judgedoug wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:We’ve also got loads to show you right here on the Warhammer Community website, including this year’s Christmas battleforces, new miniatures for Necromunda, and the next set of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy upgrade sets.

Assault marines finally comin'?

Upgrade set? Man I would hope melee marines aren't another add-on sprue for bolter marine bodies.

Yeah, that's probably just the next group(s) of MKVI heads-n-torsos...

 judgedoug wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:We’ve also got loads to show you right here on the Warhammer Community website, including this year’s Christmas battleforces, new miniatures for Necromunda, and the next set of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy upgrade sets.

Assault marines finally comin'?

Possibly, but more than likly it's the missing chapter helms and shoulders.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:We’ve also got loads to show you right here on the Warhammer Community website, including this year’s Christmas battleforces, new miniatures for Necromunda, and the next set of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy upgrade sets.

Assault marines finally comin'?

Upgrade set? Man I would hope melee marines aren't another add-on sprue for bolter marine bodies.

How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

 Togusa wrote:
How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

Actually a box of dudes might be cheaper than a box of dudes plus a box of arms.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

Actually a box of dudes might be cheaper than a box of dudes plus a box of arms.

Okay that's fair. I hadn't thought about that issue. Also, the compatibility issues with MK3 and 4. I wish they'd just eat it and upscale the 3's and 4's to match Mk6.

 Togusa wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

Actually a box of dudes might be cheaper than a box of dudes plus a box of arms.

Okay that's fair. I hadn't thought about that issue. Also, the compatibility issues with MK3 and 4. I wish they'd just eat it and upscale the 3's and 4's to match Mk6.

Amen to that!

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Togusa wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

Actually a box of dudes might be cheaper than a box of dudes plus a box of arms.

Okay that's fair. I hadn't thought about that issue. Also, the compatibility issues with MK3 and 4. I wish they'd just eat it and upscale the 3's and 4's to match Mk6.

Amen to that!

Yeah, I'm glad we're getting all these tanks. And the greed-monster in me hopes we see the Fellblade/Glaive in plastic soon. But I would also like to see some infantry, Assault, Breachers, Despoilers, etc. What I would really like to see is a generic praetor/Consul kit with literally dozens of options and poses.

cody.d. wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Does Kharn not have Master of The Legion? I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Maybe, but he's a named character, not a praetor in the sense that the other legions have praetors.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

cody.d. wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Does Kharn not have Master of The Legion? I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Maybe, but he's a named character, not a praetor in the sense that the other legions have praetors.

Oh, do you mean a special Centurion? Like how the 3rd legion can get a special Pheonix warden tarterous character?

 judgedoug wrote:

Warhammer Community wrote:We’ve also got loads to show you right here on the Warhammer Community website, including this year’s Christmas battleforces, new miniatures for Necromunda, and the next set of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy upgrade sets.

Assault marines finally comin'?

Probably more tanks and shoulderpads

Probably just the shoulder pads. And maybe some heads to go with them.

cody.d. wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

cody.d. wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
World eaters have no legion specific praetors.

Does Kharn not have Master of The Legion? I'd be shocked if he didn't.

Maybe, but he's a named character, not a praetor in the sense that the other legions have praetors.

Oh, do you mean a special Centurion? Like how the 3rd legion can get a special Pheonix warden tarterous character?

No, we’re just talking about the legion specific Praetor models, not special characters or anything in the rules.

 Togusa wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

Upgrade set? Man I would hope melee marines aren't another add-on sprue for bolter marine bodies.

How come? I'd actually like that, it would make them a lot cheaper than just adding in another 20 man 80$ kit.

It would mean carrying over the same leg poses for most of the army, plus potentially giving up on the classic jump pack straps over the torso design aesthetic which has been a constant for jump troops for decades now.

Yeah there’s already only 5 poses for Tactical marines, support and heavy squads. I’d be disappointed if we didn’t get more legs/bodies for melee troops.

The way they say the next set of upgrade sets I would guess that could just be shoulder pads and heads for another legion

Just a quick question from a lover of 40k since launch....

How is 30k doing in general? Not followed it at all..but have a general interested due to the link to 40k obviously.

Dont honestly think ill invest in it....I would...but just another set of rules to learn.

Just genuinely interested if its doing well/taken off.



Was always disappointed 40k Epic didnt survive (officially)...loved the game.

VAYASEN wrote:
How is 30k doing in general?

I think it's doing OK. Dreadnoughts & Armigers need some rebalancing, and we need more plastic infantry kits but locally there's always games happening and people are happy with it.

ImAGeek wrote:Yeah there’s already only 5 poses for Tactical marines, support and heavy squads. I’d be disappointed if we didn’t get more legs/bodies for melee troops.

I originally though it was a big issue with primaris, but with the poses from various boxes you can get a pretty good variety of poses for tacticus armoured troops.

So hopefully we will get more variety for mkvi, GW will probably take their sweet-ass time tho.(3yrs for Primaris).

Jetbikes and speeders are relatively low-hanging fruit and would not require a ton of sprues and any of the remaining deimos vehicles should be sooner rather than later.

VAYASEN wrote:
Just a quick question from a lover of 40k since launch....

How is 30k doing in general? Not followed it at all..but have a general interested due to the link to 40k obviously.

Dont honestly think ill invest in it....I would...but just another set of rules to learn.

Just genuinely interested if its doing well/taken off.



Was always disappointed 40k Epic didnt survive (officially)...loved the game.

HH is good. I'd check with your local group, but where I am it's doing very well with both sales and play.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
It would mean carrying over the same leg poses for most of the army, plus potentially giving up on the classic jump pack straps over the torso design aesthetic which has been a constant for jump troops for decades now.

You mean, the ""constant"" ""classic"" design aesthetic HH peed all over, forgotten, shot and dumped in shallow grave ages ago?

Ashen Circle look great though, don't they?

 Irbis wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
It would mean carrying over the same leg poses for most of the army, plus potentially giving up on the classic jump pack straps over the torso design aesthetic which has been a constant for jump troops for decades now.

You mean, the ""constant"" ""classic"" design aesthetic HH peed all over, forgotten, shot and dumped in shallow grave ages ago?

Spoiler:

In most of those cases you have some kind of torso plate which serves the same purpose as the straps. But it is an issue in some cases (also with the Death Company marines).

Maybe by "upgrade sets" they mean upgrading your assault army to "playable".

 Irbis wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
It would mean carrying over the same leg poses for most of the army, plus potentially giving up on the classic jump pack straps over the torso design aesthetic which has been a constant for jump troops for decades now.

You mean, the ""constant"" ""classic"" design aesthetic HH peed all over, forgotten, shot and dumped in shallow grave ages ago?

You are right, I was thinking more along the lines of Mk II and Mk V assault marines and the metal-with-plastic-arms ones in my collection.

EviscerationPlague wrote:
Ashen Circle look great though, don't they?

Oh, they do. I like both them and the Destroyers (wish they had better anatomy, though). That doesn't change HH designers either forgot or decided to retcon HH jump pack for looks (see also changing Mk II from riveted helmet to mobile and removing most ridiculous bits of the armour). Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but now I find HH gatekeepers from other forums obsessing over tiny bits of knee or backpack really ridiculous, because not only FW changes designs on a whim, but also all SM armour marks had hundreds of sub-patterns differing in details making the obsession of 'accuracy' even dumber.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
You are right, I was thinking more along the lines of Mk II and Mk V assault marines and the metal-with-plastic-arms ones in my collection.

Yup, most other marks do sport the straps making the omission even weirder. I do like the look (though I am puzzled why some strap sets seem to include what looks like ventilation grill at the center) so I wish FW was a bit more consistent in this. To make this even funnier, Primaris Techmarine has completely new variant of jump pack straps just to support his (slightly heavier but otherwise normal) backpack suggesting FW packs would tear themselves free at first push of the button

What? The Primaris Techmarine has power cabling that calls back to the design of the 2nd and 3rd edition Techmarine aesthetics. Those aren't backpack straps.

VAYASEN wrote:
Just a quick question from a lover of 40k since launch....

How is 30k doing in general? Not followed it at all..but have a general interested due to the link to 40k obviously.

Dont honestly think ill invest in it....I would...but just another set of rules to learn.

Just genuinely interested if its doing well/taken off.



Was always disappointed 40k Epic didnt survive (officially)...loved the game.

Seems to depend on your area. In some it's thriving and doing better than other systems, especially AoS. In some it rose like a phoenix then dropped just as quickly. Overall it seems to be doing pretty damn well. The true test will be when the new 40k edition arrives.

 Platuan4th wrote:
What? The Primaris Techmarine has power cabling that calls back to the design of the 2nd and 3rd edition Techmarine aesthetics. Those aren't backpack straps.

Except for the fact vehicle techmarines lack it, it's only the ones with heavy backpack that have them (and funnily enough, FW techmarines lack them too making straps parallels even more obvious):


Also if you think about it, four "power" cables that don't even connect to power source and meet on chest powering absolutely nothing (except for the thing that looks suspiciously similar to backpack strap lock) don't make any sense, sooo...