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 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Haighus wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
We could have it completely wrong and it actually should say “melamine” referring to the (sensibly) long-forbidden practice of covering useful surfaces in tacky synthetic veneer. Just another mark of the true depths of depravity the Dark Mechanicum is prepared to sink to.

The horror! Those hereteks should stick to skulls and brasswork!

Now I'm imaging a Dark Mechanicum ship, but the interior is all 80's decor with veneers and dado rails... *Shudder*

Can you hear the piped-in elevator music in all corridors too?

It's deliberately tinny and loops endlessly, but the loop is a bit jarring and poorly synchronised...

Could be worse, could be post Mark & Lard Radio One, specifically Friday Radio One, once again declaring the forthcoming weekend “a big one” and playing endless “can anyone tell when one track ends and another begins?” dunce music.

 Haighus wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Haighus wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
We could have it completely wrong and it actually should say “melamine” referring to the (sensibly) long-forbidden practice of covering useful surfaces in tacky synthetic veneer. Just another mark of the true depths of depravity the Dark Mechanicum is prepared to sink to.

The horror! Those hereteks should stick to skulls and brasswork!

Now I'm imaging a Dark Mechanicum ship, but the interior is all 80's decor with veneers and dado rails... *Shudder*

Can you hear the piped-in elevator music in all corridors too?

It's deliberately tinny and loops endlessly, but the loop is a bit jarring and poorly synchronised...

That'll be the theme music from "Hong Kong '97" then...

Lots of resin kits now showing as sold out, including:

All Marine Rapiers
Sicaran Variants
All Arquitors

New plastics inbound, maybe?

We can certainly hope.

Seems weird that they are doing the Arquitor before the Sabre. I mean I'm not complaining, I already have two Sabres but no Morbus, but still

Just….gimme!

Keen for the plastic rapiers.

If they’re doing plastic rapiers, I hope the laser destroyer sprue has an adapter to fit Spartan sponsons.

Those all sound nice but can we see the melee weapons first?

Yeah nah, the way things are going I am willing to bet we'll be seeing Solar Auxilia super-heavies before that set of melee weapons. 😄

i just want to know if the new book has the same quality controll as the last one.... e.g. NONE AT ALL because dear lord blackshields still don't work-

We have a Blackshield player in our group and their stuff works just fine. Ripped me 15-0 in our latest game.

Wait, black shields? What’s wrong with them?
If you’d said shattered legions I’d have sort of agreed but the black shield rules are fine.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Wait, black shields? What’s wrong with them?
If you’d said shattered legions I’d have sort of agreed but the black shield rules are fine.

if you read the oaths f.e.: "Panoply of old is rather" infamous due to a lack of definition, making it basically unusuable.

So, one example that can be solved with the old adage of "Don't be a tryhard".

The Shattered Legion rules are way more of a pain in the butt.

 Gert wrote:
So, one example that can be solved with the old adage of "Don't be a tryhard".

The Shattered Legion rules are way more of a pain in the butt.

ohh nooo it goes on and on with the oaths. The Panoply is just so badly written and often kind of necessary for blackshields that it is my go to exemple, but the shattered ones i agree are worse.

 Gert wrote:
So, one example that can be solved with the old adage of "Don't be a tryhard".

The Shattered Legion rules are way more of a pain in the butt.

In either case, the original point that the book could have done with a few additional rounds of playtesting and proofreading is well proven I think. I wouldn't hold out too much hope of the next one being an improvement tbh except insofar as it probably won't include army building rules that deviate so much from the standard template and so will have less to rooster up - and I'm not being negative incidentally, just encouraging realism, we already know that SGS are obviously either strained for resources, prefer "here you go, sort it out for yourselves" as a publishing strategy, or both based on Nucromunda, AT etc. It just is what it is.

 Matrindur wrote:
Those all sound nice but can we see the melee weapons first?

Emperor please yes. HTH armies need this more than we need YET MORE TANKS. asdfasdfasdrfajhpioreapoerfjap[esoir

Or maybe some breachers?

 Moopy wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
Those all sound nice but can we see the melee weapons first?

Emperor please yes. HTH armies need this more than we need YET MORE TANKS. asdfasdfasdrfajhpioreapoerfjap[esoir

What's that, you want more tanks? Good man!

 zedmeister wrote:
Lots of resin kits now showing as sold out, including:

All Marine Rapiers
Sicaran Variants
All Arquitors

New plastics inbound, maybe?

Well, there're several Mechanicum kits (others than those we know will get plastic kits) sold out, too:

-Ordinati (only Aktaeus in US, both in Europe)
-Vultarax
-Krios (Venator in Europe, Battle tank in US)
-Ursarax (only in Europe)

And Solar Auxilia:

-Ogryns
-Valdor
-Infernus
-Aurox (only US)

I suppose those still available in one region or the other are only remainders of stock.

Honestly I don't believe much (or any) of them will get a plastic kit any time soon.

Would quite like to see more Sicarans and the Arquitors in plastic, but if the melee weapons aren't shown soon I might go mad. Utterly baffling

Sunday Preview – Devastation Comes to Tallarn

Mechanicum Battle Group box and a load of LI stuff.

Glorious! The LI stuff is pretty thin on the Astartes dept, once we have the Tallarn book we'll know what else is coming..

Given the requirement to field a Knight, would it not have been better to have had a Knight and two Armigers? Its pretty cool mind, but just odd.

 tauist wrote:
Glorious! The LI stuff is pretty thin on the Astartes dept, once we have the Tallarn book we'll know what else is coming..

They’ve previously previewed Termites and Sabres (Neutron Laser and Anvilus Autocannon)

It feels like they just barely keep missing the mark with these non-Astartes releases for HH.

No HQ in the battlegroup is a miss. No separate Castellax is a miss.

 Kanluwen wrote:

No HQ in the battlegroup is a miss.

Um... no. I can live without a character model when buying such a box.

 Kanluwen wrote:

No separate Castellax is a miss.

Why?

I can see people moaning about the thralls, but maybe they get some better rules or other models get better rules to use them.

SamusDrake wrote:
Given the requirement to field a Knight, would it not have been better to have had a Knight and two Armigers? Its pretty cool mind, but just odd.

Oddly it's the same configuration for the LI box for that pair as well. I guess they must share some parts of sprues?