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 Mr_Rose wrote:
Just noticed that the instructions for the tech-thralls say to make two of each one (10 total) instead of four so I suspect the separate kit will be sold as boxes of ten* (two sprues per) which will make the pricing critical.

The come in units of 10-30 models, so 10 per box makes sense. Though without a boost they'll not sell that much of them and you'll get the models much cheaper online.

Twenty per box according to next week's pre-orders.

One darkfire cannon per box of castellax, I'm a bit disappointed.

Looking forward to the plastic thanatar though, that's an awesome looking mini that I've wanted for a while now.

Mmmm.....Thallax come in squads of six. Prices! We need prices!!

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Mmmm.....Thallax come in squads of six. Prices! We need prices!!

No surprise there since there's 6 sets of bits per sprue?

Thanatar and the Mechanicum dice look great, but is that HQ model the same one that was revealed alongside the mechanicum plastic releases? It looks worse somehow..

 tauist wrote:
Thanatar and the Mechanicum dice look great, but is that HQ model the same one that was revealed alongside the mechanicum plastic releases? It looks worse somehow..

It's even the same image.

 ScarletRose wrote:
One darkfire cannon per box of castellax, I'm a bit disappointed.

Looking forward to the plastic thanatar though, that's an awesome looking mini that I've wanted for a while now.

That was already known from the army box, no?

I guess folks were hoping they might throw an extra sprue into the individual release boxes. I haven’t seen the sprues myself, so no idea if that was a reasonable hope.

What do people think the odds are for the Krios (and Krios Venator) getting plastic kits? Because I really don’t want to try and assemble another resin one.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 ScarletRose wrote:
One darkfire cannon per box of castellax, I'm a bit disappointed.

Looking forward to the plastic thanatar though, that's an awesome looking mini that I've wanted for a while now.

That was already known from the army box, no?

I was holding out hope - the same way the battlebox contemptor didn't have all the weapon options compared to the retail release.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
What do people think the odds are for the Krios (and Krios Venator) getting plastic kits? Because I really don’t want to try and assemble another resin one.

Depends on how much sprue overlap there is with the triaros I guess.

 ScarletRose wrote:

Depends on how much sprue overlap there is with the triaros I guess.

Basically none. The Triaros is 50% longer and a bit wider too.

The Krios is a different chassis entirely, the Karacnos does however share the Triaros chassis and someone has made an alternate upgrade print to convert the new plastic kit.

I would assume that at some point Mechanicum will get wave 2.

Oh the Karaknos is basically inevitable I think; literally just change the top deck sprue a little. Maybe add a half-sprue of missiles.

Yeah the Triaros sprues are made with the Karacnos in mind so that is inevitable.
The Krios would need a completely different kit but its the only other tank Mechanicum could get so I would say its very likely we'll get it since SA also got 3 different tank chassis split into 5 kits.
And if they split the normal one and the Venator into two kits that share most of the sprues it would be another case of two kits for the work of one so good value for GW.

Now all the other robots Mechanicum have is another case entirely. Ursarax are also basically confirmed via the sprue layout for Thallax but after that we have Myrmidons, Vorax, Vultarax, Domitars and Scyllax and none of those can really share any sprues

 tauist wrote:
Thanatar and the Mechanicum dice look great, but is that HQ model the same one that was revealed alongside the mechanicum plastic releases? It looks worse somehow..

It never looked very good, unfortunately. The cloak is particularly bad, as though it was designed on a low-res computer. I plan to convert some of the WH40k AM characters.

In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

From the Next Week Sunday Preview email.

This 168-page hardback features a selection of background information spanning the length of this unique conflict, and rules for bringing it to life on your tabletop. There are new core missions, apex missions, relic hunt missions, an Onslaught campaign to use them in, plus additional units and Techno-heresy rules to determine the fate of the Red Planet yourself, alongside additional content from previously published Exemplary Battles in the Age of Darkness. This will be available to pre-order next week in hardback and ePub formats.

Sound like there's new stuff that we haven't seen from Exemplary Battles!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

In this case at least I assume handedness is not considered much when manufacturing cyberzombies.

I do agree, however, that in general some lefties mixed in would be a positive.

 Matrindur wrote:
Yeah the Triaros sprues are made with the Karacnos in mind so that is inevitable.
The Krios would need a completely different kit but its the only other tank Mechanicum could get so I would say its very likely we'll get it since SA also got 3 different tank chassis split into 5 kits.
And if they split the normal one and the Venator into two kits that share most of the sprues it would be another case of two kits for the work of one so good value for GW.

Now all the other robots Mechanicum have is another case entirely. Ursarax are also basically confirmed via the sprue layout for Thallax but after that we have Myrmidons, Vorax, Vultarax, Domitars and Scyllax and none of those can really share any sprues

They could also bring back the macrocarid explorator/mechanicum land Raider as the better armed and armored but smaller transport.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

I'm right-handed myself, but aren't lefties supposed to be more intelligent / creative? Perhaps the lefties are reserved for a better fate than being mere cannon fodder.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

Isn't that literally the whole premise of this satirical setting some 80s metalheads came up with in their garage?

Prices for stuff:
Everything pretty much what I expected.

Either/Or wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

In this case at least I assume handedness is not considered much when manufacturing cyberzombies.

I do agree, however, that in general some lefties mixed in would be a positive.

Maybe the STC for programming the left side to operate as the right has not yet been recovered. Or it's more efficient to churn out 'right-handed' equipment in two facilities than one of each.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

With BS2 I would guess they're in fact all lefties!

Why would you pander to the weakness of flesh when the sacred schematics leave no uncertainty that the gun goes on the right? That's heresy!

 Snord wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no lefties.

I'm right-handed myself, but aren't lefties supposed to be more intelligent / creative? Perhaps the lefties are reserved for a better fate than being mere cannon fodder.

I’ve a feeling that’s long since been debunked as a thing. And was probably invented to make us lefties feel better about struggling to use simple items like scissors and tin openers 🤣🤣

Left handed people are more likely to be criminals, among other things...

Then why isn’t the Imperium full of them, clever trousers! 🤣

To be fair, I don't know that it's not