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Where the fur connects to the Inquisitors shoulder pad has a noticeable gap

both the inquisitor and assassin are fantastic models. absolutely need to pick those up

the weapon loadout for the inquisitor is interesting, tho. not sure they can take inferno pistols this edition

Special edition models sometimes get unique rules.

Not sure which I want for “free”. I mean, I’m in for both like.


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Though the Shouty Wannabe Xenomorph is particularly ace.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Special edition models sometimes get unique rules.

Not sure which I want for “free”. I mean, I’m in for both like.


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Though the Shouty Wannabe Xenomorph is particularly ace.

Yeah, it's gone full-Giger. Just needs a better colour scheme.

The Marshall has a helmet option

That Inquisitor is really cool, much cooler than the new model supplied with the Codex. The Imperial Xenomorph is also interesting

Love both of these. Makes me wish they were normal releases, honestly. I just can't rationalize paying for W+ for a year.

The Tithes: Sacrifice

Honestly really awesome; no issues with audio, animation, framerates or anything! Good solid Marine VS Necron story!

 BrookM wrote:

Something I am really missing is both voxcast and stormcast, they were great podcasts and it's a shame that Wade moved over to the studio, as I felt he was a great host who nudged his guests into the right direction with minimal intervention.

Yeah I really enjoyed those- great insight into the studio and the designers, particularly enjoyed anytime Jes would be interviewed ...


On the models - I like the Cities Marshall model , I think the inquisitor model would rock with a grim dark scheme though, definitely a bit of Blanche madness on his sidekick..

W+ still totally sucks but I'll sub for another stupid year for those models.

What a massive L.

This is the first time I'm going to pay for the second model
I love the marshall and especially his attendant and I have a cities army. The inquisitior is the best one they've done since Eisenhorn and his companion is exactly the kind of madness I was hoping to see more of in the imperial agents book.

Same, with are excellent sculpts, I dint usually bother with more than 1 but this year will be different.

Definitely going to get that Inquisitor, and I'm seriously thinking about the Marshall even though I have no intention of starting a Cities army.

I also really like both sets of figures. The details are cool and I don't even play either force they belong to. I like they each get an extra figure as well so there must be rules included?

Currently looking up how much a subscription is but for the whole year up front it says you only pay for 9 months and get your mini early which is nice.

I notice the servo skull gets his own little tactical rock, guess someone had to.

Shame online trolls were saying just recently there'd be a Skaven doom-flayer version for Warhammer Plus. What a joke.

I'm collecting a small Cites of Sigmar army (basically one of each model) so this is great for me. I'll probably trade the Inquisitor/Assassin for something.

Trying to figure out the scale of Freeguild Marshal Ashfield and Squire Udo.

On the GW site there's a Freeguild Marshal and Relic Envoy which have a 32mm and 28mm base.

Anyone know how Cities of Sigmar minis would compare scale wise to Blood Bowl figures? I'm guessing Blood Bowl minis would be slightly bigger. Just had a thought for my gunners theme team the Marshal might make a nice coach with Squire as Apothecary, or something.

Also that Sigmar 'S' on the back of his cape would be sculpted on? Or transfer?

lost_lilliputian wrote:
Trying to figure out the scale of Freeguild Marshal Ashfield and Squire Udo.

On the GW site there's a Freeguild Marshal and Relic Envoy which have a 32mm and 28mm base.

Anyone know how Cities of Sigmar minis would compare scale wise to Blood Bowl figures? I'm guessing Blood Bowl minis would be slightly bigger. Just had a thought for my gunners theme team the Marshal might make a nice coach with Squire as Apothecary, or something.

Also that Sigmar 'S' on the back of his cape would be sculpted on? Or transfer?

BB primarily uses 32mm, so imagine that the marshal will be the same size, and the envoy will be a little smaller than that. with all the dynamic poses that BB has, tho, envoy probably won't stand out

I could see myself throw some money at GW for the Inquisitor and pals. Far more to my liking than last year's offerings.

Since we once again see how hit and miss the allure of the free model and chance to buy a second model is to subscribers (The obvious move for this year would have been to make a miniature version of the Karl Kopinski artwork of Inquisitor Tyrus from the Inq cover, the 54mm model never did him justice either but maybe they are planning to release him as a normal model but if the pose or sculpt is at all different from that artwork you could justify it.) might I suggest something that would have a more consistent appeal in a similar vein to go alongside. Have votes or polls of subscribers for Made for Order runs of OOP metal (That they've already done like the Juan Diaz Daemon Prince) or even plastic models or even unreleased plastics from the past, like the unreleased Slaanesh CSM terminator sprue or the old Chaos mutations sprue or the zombie kit that had a lot of conversion and diorama uses beyond the current one. I'm sure there are a lot more unreleased or never intended to release stuff they have that we don't even know about. Or the same thing for old rules publications, want a new copy of a 3rd edition codex, you can have the chance to buy with 1 year of Warhammer plus! They already sell new versions of the Realms of Chaos books and Rogue Trader as WH World Exclusives. Pay GW model just to have access to buy things! Best of all you can also continue to make money from general release Made to Order, this service could focus on either things you've already done a run for or things too niche to ever bother as a general release.

This all might be more expense but it's crucially all stuff GW is already doing and doesn't seem like it's all that much more of an expense since it's not using new sculpts or much use of plastic mold machines or separate packaging, it'd all use the generic boxes they use for web only stuff. And you're going with models with known and understood appeal you didn't spend time making without knowing the appeal. The point of this subscription service is to make predictable consistent money but if almost everyone is really just paying for the models the big fluctuations in their appeal that take a year to change is a bad model that threatens the whole service and looks more not less swingy than normal GW releases. Plus a lot of these models should be general release so even when you make a good model it's bittersweet since you'd have made more money even selling it normally at ~40-60% the cost of the Warhammer plus sub and without having to support the costs of the infrastructure of Warhammer Plus or whatever the animations cost. See the Noise Marine as an example of something that would have driven a lot of Warhammer Plus subs but probably made them a lot more money. That World Eater lord from the old 2nd edition artwork would have sold in epic numbers as a normal release. The botched attempt at making that Karl Kopinski artwork of the Kasrkin wouldn't really have made much money as a character price release and likely hurt Warhammer Plus too.

Warhammer Plus started as a way for GW to expand their profits into the entertainment line seeing how well the short and one man and unpaid production of Astartes did they thought this short format worked well for the Warhammer universe since it's a setting nor a narrative you drop in for a few short episodes with characters but even this effort seems to utterly rely on exclusive models to sell the service. This may be a moot point now that there is a new animated series on Amazon. This may be the last year for GW plus. Far easier to make these series like video games, farm out the licence to others to take the risks but more of the profits but also be seen by a larger audience to serve as adverts for their main business, miniatures but also to the video games.

Im feeling the Inquisitor - this model shall be mine, its whats missing from my KT21 Inquisitorial retinue. Shame its locked behind a subscription tho, would gladly pick this up direct

They're both Fantasy Men with Guns which feels like a bit of a retrograde step.

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
the weapon loadout for the inquisitor is interesting, tho. not sure they can take inferno pistols this edition

They can't, which is funny seeing inq with combi-weapon was sold on multiple MtO with the inferno pistol one and giving rules to one but not the other is just silly. Hell, there are more inq with inferno pistol than a combi-weapon, actually, including the really nice lady model, making it even more baffling...

 Overread wrote:
They also stopped updating the backissues which I think is cause the person handling that left and GW just never replaced them.

Yeah, it's sad how terribly ran the WC is. It feels like a collection of pet projects of whatever intern is assigned there at the moment, not professional outfit of a huge company. I loved Regimental Standard and its AoS equivalent, both not only dropped without a word, but deleted from website for no reason despite being excellent ad for the setting. Close to 20+ comics started then abruptly stopped midway - which is especially puzzling with big budget, high quality ones like the Rogue Trader comedy strip - did GW forgot to pay artist or whatever dude was uploading these left and no one remembers WC is sitting on the trove of forgotten issues?

lost_lilliputian wrote:
I notice the servo skull gets his own little tactical rock, guess someone had to.

You'd prefer gluing that tiny wire to the base instead? Really?

 The Phazer wrote:
From Valrak - one of the Warhammer+ models is a Ratling sniper team cooking some food (which would fit a few rumour engine images).

Oh look, V utterly wrong again when he can't steal from actual reliable source, episode 576783? Gee, color me surprised

Out of curiosity, I looked at his BA "rumors" and he was laughably wrong even with that lowest hanging of fruits - not only he "predicted" primaris Tycho (for a few hours, until someone with a clue reminded V he is dead, then the "rumor" was hastily deleted), but he got the order of releases of BA characters wrong, at first claiming Sanguinor will be in BA army box, until again, he saw actually reliable people calling that BS then he changed his tune right quick. But yeah, he """predicted""" GW will replace BA finecast models with plastic. Something they only were doing, of, whole of last decade, and only accelerated now with recent SM releases. Such prediction, much wow.

Meanwhile, we have actual accurate, reliable sources like the AoS dude who gave us name of Skaventide box, its contents, and the contents of Skaven second wave, down to the names of individual characters - and yet, none of them attracts such brown-nosing cult despite vastly better record. Go figure

But alas, eventually GW will release some sort of ratling model with chicken (a terribly difficult 'guess' to make seeing we have RE pic of chicken in very IG like environment) and the clownrak brigade will go back to licking his boots claiming he is 348590% """accurate""" with his """predictions""" - hey, guys, when GW will release that plastic Warhound Titan he keeps babbling on and off about since 2012?

damn dude, did Valrak kill your dog or something?

 Irbis wrote:


But alas, eventually GW will release some sort of ratling model with chicken (a terribly difficult 'guess' to make seeing we have RE pic of chicken in very IG like environment) and the clownrak brigade will go back to licking his boots claiming he is 348590% """accurate""" with his """predictions""" - hey, guys, when GW will release that plastic Warhound Titan he keeps babbling on and off about since 2012?

Excuse me, but even I have enjoyed plastic warhounds since late 2018!

...I'll show myself out...

Did you notice the trolling in the latest WHC video? There was a whiteboard in the shot for a brief time close to the end of the video, where they had a pict of an epic scale Thunderhawk with a post it next to it saying "MAKE BIGGER"

First the squat making a comeback was the meme, now its a 28mil plastic Thunderhawk it seems..

GW has been trolling about the Thunderhawk in plastic for aaaaages.

It's right up there with Edoxites and their now annual mention of Codex Zoats

 Overread wrote:
GW has been trolling about the Thunderhawk in plastic for aaaaages.

It's right up there with Edoxites and their now annual mention of Codex Zoats

I occasionally still wonder if the Idoneth Deepkin didn't actually come about because an intern didn't realize the plan to make "Fishmen" wasn't a joke...

Rouge Trader... sounds make upped. Wombat Patrol - maybe a new dice line? Warhammer: Romance. Well... GW is all about pleasure and pain, though you can't have the first without the latter (but vice versa).

Billicus wrote:
They're both Fantasy Men with Guns which feels like a bit of a retrograde step.

And all BALD.