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 Snord wrote:


Maybe they are going to be relics of an earlier design aesthetic (which is also what they are in reality). The problem for me is that the Terminators look like they belong to a different race. They're as different to Marines as Necrons are. The Praetor looks pretty good though.

The saturnine armor with double plasma does remind me more of old titan concept art, but I do see how it started as a big exo suit and was later refined down into smaller and more mobile terminator variants. And the Dread looks like it easily split into the leviathan and telemon chassis later on.

I'm in for 2 of this box.

What interests me is that it’s still using the Age of Darkness tagline. That was the “big name” for 2e so it’s possible this isn’t a huge revision after all.

Also, I don’t see how terminators carrying two heavy weapons each could be anything other than heavy support, assuming such things as “slots” continue to exist.

Dread looks great to me

Interesting how close the terminators are to some 3rd party interpretations of Saturnine armour. Some sculptors will just have to adjust weapon loadouts to fit the codex and they're good to go with "copies" that came before the real model.


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"No deliberate leaks" people looking kinda funny right now tho. This box pic came at the most perfect time possible.

I admit I doubted the rumors were true and it seems like everything in the box is exactly as stated.

Out of all of it I'll probably only try to get my hands on the IW praetor and the turret. The saturnine armor is ugly and I have way too many MK VI marines to mix in other armor marks.

 Gert wrote:
When this supposed 3rd edition of HH comes out that he's been touting for a year.

We have a winner!

Wishing Gert steadfastness and serenity in Crashing Out About Wargames Valhalla. Give our best to Kanluwen and Daedalus81, trooper.

The new terminators and dreadnought look neat, but I am genuinely thrilled we are getting MkII armor in plastic. It's my favorite power armor variant and I love seeing it.

Dudeface wrote:
]We have a winner!

Box yes, edition not as of yet.

Also the fact that this got leaked to Valrak when a teaser goes up the same day is pretty good evidence that this isn't some secret plan to give Valrak info on everything.

It looks to say "Third Edition Hardback Rulebook" in the top right corner of the box rear.

 Gert wrote:

Dudeface wrote:
]We have a winner!

Box yes, edition not as of yet.

Also the fact that this got leaked to Valrak when a teaser goes up the same day is pretty good evidence that this isn't some secret plan to give Valrak info on everything.

It says 3rd edition on the box.

Besides the whole point was you didn't consider his rumours accurate.

He got the factions, models, count and loadout correct.

 Altruizine wrote:
It looks to say "Third Edition Hardback Rulebook" in the top right corner of the box rear.

Yes, my eyesight isn't up to deciphering it with 100% certainty, but I think that's what it says. While I share Gert's apprehension about what a new edition might bring, it seems pretty clear that this is what we are getting.

Finally, HH gets ugly 40k Toy Designs!

Sorry, these Terminators are so ugly....

RazorEdge wrote:
Finally, HH gets ugly 40k Toy Designs!

Sorry, these Terminators are so ugly....

The Deredeo already looks like a lost Exo-Squad toy.

Yessir I like it.

And, dare I say my speculation was right, and this isn’t a new edition but a new boxed set with an updated rulebook?

Box looks cool to me. Static defence turret is kinda lame though, compared to having… any other thing really. Breachers for example. Or another dread, or a couple of rhinos even.

I dig the designs overall. Mk2 - just awesome, new dread - cool, termies - still not as good as the tartaros termies, but pretty nonetheless.

And I wasn’t aware of the timberland-GW collab, haha
I just have to point out the hilarious way the leak is shot as well. As if someone was told to make it look natural for the camera and someone had to lend a pair of different random shoes, an old horrible car seat, a bunch of boxes.
Box set shot at an angle, out of focus if barely in.
So either it’s a “””leak””” or someone is really truly so lazy he couldn’t spend 2 seconds to put the object of interest on the floor without gak in the background, or he is just utterly clueless.

Wait, just saw the chat about “Third Edition Hardback Rulebook” and I’m pretty sure that’s the right of it.

Oh well.

Yes Please, Santa, I’ll Have Two.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
Box looks cool to me. Static defence turret is kinda lame though, compared to having… any other thing really. Breachers for example. Or another dread, or a couple of rhinos even.

Agreed. An uninspired inclusion.

I dig the designs overall. Mk2 - just awesome, new dread - cool, termies - still not as good as the tartaros termies, but pretty nonetheless.

I can't make out the details on the Mk2 well enough to come to a view on how good they are. But then I've never really understood why Mk2 seems to be so popular. I'd have preferred Mk5 - although that probably wouldn't pair as well the Saturnine stuff (which I'm assuming is meant to be more arcane).

And I wasn’t aware of the timberland-GW collab, haha
I just have to point out the hilarious way the leak is shot as well. As if someone was told to make it look natural for the camera and someone had to lend a pair of different random shoes, an old horrible car seat, a bunch of boxes.
Box set shot at an angle, out of focus if barely in.
So either it’s a “””leak””” or someone is really truly so lazy he couldn’t spend 2 seconds to put the object of interest on the floor without gak in the background, or he is just utterly clueless.

I don't buy the theory this this is a deliberate GW leak. I think they would have leaked something more blurry or incomplete - these images are too clear, and cut across their rumour-based promotional campaign. A more likely scenario is that these photos were taken by an opportunistic person who spotted the open box in someone's car.

Looks like one squad in the box will be Mk2 Veterans. Wonder what weapon options will be in there?

Maybe it's a Mk2 chaplain? Guessing due to the weapon.

Disintegrator weapons. AP2 + Instant death to counter the big terminators.

No idea on the boom boom turret other than this might be the "White Scar" hint was about. White Scars = fast so something to do with "accelerators" or "rapid fire gun name".

I wonder what today’s Horus Hearsay update will be. Closing the site or claiming the box images are an elaborate hoax?

 Mr_Rose wrote:
I wonder what today’s Horus Hearsay update will be. Closing the site or claiming the box images are an elaborate hoax?

Can be speculation about further releases.


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I’ll need to dig out my spare Special and Heavy Weapons you know.

 Snord wrote:

 Altruizine wrote:
It looks to say "Third Edition Hardback Rulebook" in the top right corner of the box rear.

Yes, my eyesight isn't up to deciphering it with 100% certainty, but I think that's what it says. While I share Gert's apprehension about what a new edition might bring, it seems pretty clear that this is what we are getting.

I love how much value you get out of each edition rulebook. So cheap, so much value! /s

Agree the immobile gun is the weak point of the box. Saturnines are an acquired taste but no more so than Contemptors and Doritos. The Saturnine dread is straight up cooler than those two, it looks like someone wrapped a Leviathan in an OG beetleback Warlord titan. Pwrfect blend of old and new HH visual design.

Mk2, as everyone knows by now, I love the previous version with overlapping plates alot more than this one.

Wondering what the big gun on the Dread and Termies is.

Kinda looks Plasma, but also not?

 Moopy wrote:
Looks like one squad in the box will be Mk2 Veterans. Wonder what weapon options will be in there?

Maybe it's a Mk2 chaplain? Guessing due to the weapon.

I see he also has a servo-skull. Is that a first for a HH model? I thought combining technology with religious iconography came later.

 Albertorius wrote:
I love how much value you get out of each edition rulebook. So cheap, so much value! /s

That's why I quit playing WH40k when 10th Edition came out (I didn't like the rules either). I simply wasn't prepared to go through it all again.

Don’t think the turret thing is immobile you know. Looks floaty.

 Altruizine wrote:
It looks to say "Third Edition Hardback Rulebook" in the top right corner of the box rear.

Disappointing then.

Depends on whether it’s akin to 3rd/4th Ed 40K. Different editions, yes. But the changes were relatively minimal.

Nvm

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Don’t think the turret thing is immobile you know. Looks floaty.

It looks a lot like a Tarantula - the legs appear to be very similar to the new plastic version, although the image is too indistinct to be sure.

 Snord wrote:

 Moopy wrote:
Looks like one squad in the box will be Mk2 Veterans. Wonder what weapon options will be in there?

Maybe it's a Mk2 chaplain? Guessing due to the weapon.

I see he also has a servo-skull. Is that a first for a HH model? I thought combining technology with religious iconography came later.

Maybe a Praevian?