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think GW only have a pretty limited window for terrain to go with this, once people have a table or two full they won't shift much more so needs to be there on launch or the various "alternative STC pattern" stuff wins

 xttz wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Civitas Imperialis was the name of the AT terrain product line, so I expect Militas Imperialis to likewise be the name of a set of terrain kits for this.

If it was going by terrain product names I would have also expected to see the Manufactorum terrain in some way

Maybe it gets a re-release

Spoiler:

I meant this one


And it is getting released but there isn't anything in the shown off rules that specifically calls out manufactorum terrain in the same way it does civitas terrain so I wouldn't expect Militas Imperialis and Imperialis Grandus to be future terrain sets. Just bigger buildings made from the Civitas terrain

I was actually looking at that set for Battletech

 Matrindur wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Civitas Imperialis was the name of the AT terrain product line, so I expect Militas Imperialis to likewise be the name of a set of terrain kits for this.

If it was going by terrain product names I would have also expected to see the Manufactorum terrain in some way

True, though its possible it gets re-released under the "Civitas Imperialis" label?

Hey gang,

Just got back from a three week trip to the UK. Holy cow are GW products cheaper there. I was really hoping that LI would release while I was there but that did not happen. I managed to hold off spending money on lower cost 40K stuff however in hopes of LI.

That all said I did find two copies of Adeptus Titanicus at Warhammer stores in England. One of them came home with me. (the other one is at the Cardiff city center Warhammer shop if anyone is looking for one.) So at least I now have some titans and knight to play with. Hopefully LI will actually come out soon and I will get to actually play at some point.

BTW, did anyone see the WarCom article on Solar Auxiliary that was branded LI? They seem to indicate it may be coming soon, but still not holding my breath.

Thanks,
Duncan

Too late now, but as I understand it the GW store on Tottenham Court Road in London is supposedly uniquely set up to allow travelers to purchase GW products at UK prices but have the products shipped (for free) from a local GW distribution hub to your home instead of having to bring it back with you. At least as far as American travelers are concerned anyway, I have a friend who happened to visit and was going to pick some stuff up, the staff informed him that they could set him up with that arrangement and ship it to his home from the US warehouse at no additional charge.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Too late now, but as I understand it the GW store on Tottenham Court Road in London is supposedly uniquely set up to allow travelers to purchase GW products at UK prices but have the products shipped (for free) from a local GW distribution hub to your home instead of having to bring it back with you. At least as far as American travelers are concerned anyway, I have a friend who happened to visit and was going to pick some stuff up, the staff informed him that they could set him up with that arrangement and ship it to his home from the US warehouse at no additional charge.

Yes, thanks to this very thread, I had heard this and went there. I was so tempted to spend a ton of pounds there. But with saving up for LI I resisted. They were a really helpful store and will do exactly as you stated if you spend 100 pounds or more (not hard at a GW store.)

Thanks,
Duncan

Yeah - while I've no reasonable back up for it, I'm thinking sometime in October will be our day.

 vadersson wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Too late now, but as I understand it the GW store on Tottenham Court Road in London is supposedly uniquely set up to allow travelers to purchase GW products at UK prices but have the products shipped (for free) from a local GW distribution hub to your home instead of having to bring it back with you. At least as far as American travelers are concerned anyway, I have a friend who happened to visit and was going to pick some stuff up, the staff informed him that they could set him up with that arrangement and ship it to his home from the US warehouse at no additional charge.

Yes, thanks to this very thread, I had heard this and went there. I was so tempted to spend a ton of pounds there. But with saving up for LI I resisted. They were a really helpful store and will do exactly as you stated if you spend 100 pounds or more (not hard at a GW store.)

Thanks,
Duncan

If you are going to do a big order, split it into separate orders above the free shipping threshold. If you do it as one batch, there is a risk of an item being out of stock holding up the entire order for months without knowing what is going on.

 schoon wrote:
Yeah - while I've no reasonable back up for it, I'm thinking sometime in October will be our day.

Agreed. If I had to bet I'd say that Epic will get slotted in between the 40k space marine codex (likely the next preorder) and the new boxed set for full size HH (mid-late October).

That means a good 4-6 weeks for people to paint up their starter sets before GW release those limited knight & titan discount boxes ready for Xmas.

There’s the next Kill-Team season to factor in too… but every Sunday I take another first step on the road to disappointment.

 xttz wrote:

SU-152 wrote:


Much much better. Why are GW designers so bad? they could have come up with these ideas...

What makes you think they haven't? "Militas Imperialis" seems like a suitably trademarkable name for a future scenery product...

They haven't, same with the AP of Light, Light AT ,and Anti-Tank, like in a previous post.

Much better design from a Dakka poster.

SU-152 wrote:
Much better design from a Dakka poster.

Yes, but they're a forum poster who doesn't have to go through management to get it approved.

Not saying every employee is sharp as tacks, but we've all been there in our mundane day jobs and have had our suggestions shot down by management who just don't get it.

Not sure whats worse, management who don't understand, or management who do

leopard wrote:
Not sure whats worse, management who don't understand, or management who do

That certainly seems to be the case with 40K, with it's three year cycle to "improve" crap rules.

 vadersson wrote:
Hey gang,

Just got back from a three week trip to the UK. Holy cow are GW products cheaper there. I was really hoping that LI would release while I was there but that did not happen. I managed to hold off spending money on lower cost 40K stuff however in hopes of LI.

That all said I did find two copies of Adeptus Titanicus at Warhammer stores in England. One of them came home with me. (the other one is at the Cardiff city center Warhammer shop if anyone is looking for one.) So at least I now have some titans and knight to play with. Hopefully LI will actually come out soon and I will get to actually play at some point.

BTW, did anyone see the WarCom article on Solar Auxiliary that was branded LI? They seem to indicate it may be coming soon, but still not holding my breath.

Thanks,
Duncan

Unfortunate on the LI release! Hopefully whilst in Cardiff you got a chance to go to Firestorm Games, which is one of the biggest (possibly biggest?) and best wargaming stores in the UK.

 Pacific wrote:


Unfortunate on the LI release! Hopefully whilst in Cardiff you got a chance to go to Firestorm Games, which is one of the biggest (possibly biggest?) and best wargaming stores in the UK.

Darn, I did not even know! Still we were pretty limited in our time in Cardiff (like everywhere else on our whirlwind tour.) Next time I will get a list of game stores before I go!

So one of the images GW put out mixed with the leaks had me thinking. The picture is of some knights but in front of them is what looks like defense lines. In the leaks there's a formation for solar aux that the fluff is basically has them establishing forward operations/defenses and as part of that they have to take two bastions. The terrain warcom article had the chart with structures, where the strongest one holds a detachment, so I'm wondering if there are more terrain kits we haven't seen yet, basically a bastion/bunker/defense line set. If a bastion is literally something that costs points there muts be a model in the works, perhaps forge world?

 Crablezworth wrote:
So one of the images GW put out mixed with the leaks had me thinking. The picture is of some knights but in front of them is what looks like defense lines. In the leaks there's a formation for solar aux that the fluff is basically has them establishing forward operations/defenses and as part of that they have to take two bastions. The terrain warcom article had the chart with structures, where the strongest one holds a detachment, so I'm wondering if there are more terrain kits we haven't seen yet, basically a bastion/bunker/defense line set. If a bastion is literally something that costs points there muts be a model in the works, perhaps forge world?

The leak has Solar tarantulas & rapiers listed as bastion units, so they'd be the options here at least for now.

Nothing to stop them releasing more terrain options later though. I'm sure there's a reason the bastion icon is a building rather than a tarantula or rapier.

 Crablezworth wrote:
So one of the images GW put out mixed with the leaks had me thinking. The picture is of some knights but in front of them is what looks like defense lines. In the leaks there's a formation for solar aux that the fluff is basically has them establishing forward operations/defenses and as part of that they have to take two bastions. The terrain warcom article had the chart with structures, where the strongest one holds a detachment, so I'm wondering if there are more terrain kits we haven't seen yet, basically a bastion/bunker/defense line set. If a bastion is literally something that costs points there muts be a model in the works, perhaps forge world?

I can't imagine anything in a GW promo pic isn't a product they plan to sell. those barricades look ok, a bit basic, could see them as being part of another set though with "barricades and ruins"

I thought they already confirmed those barricades as being part of an upcoming release somewhere?

Could be a basic Barracades/tools sprue to go in starters like Kill Team got.

 xttz wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
So one of the images GW put out mixed with the leaks had me thinking. The picture is of some knights but in front of them is what looks like defense lines. In the leaks there's a formation for solar aux that the fluff is basically has them establishing forward operations/defenses and as part of that they have to take two bastions. The terrain warcom article had the chart with structures, where the strongest one holds a detachment, so I'm wondering if there are more terrain kits we haven't seen yet, basically a bastion/bunker/defense line set. If a bastion is literally something that costs points there muts be a model in the works, perhaps forge world?

The leak has Solar tarantulas & rapiers listed as bastion units, so they'd be the options here at least for now.

Nothing to stop them releasing more terrain options later though. I'm sure there's a reason the bastion icon is a building rather than a tarantula or rapier.

Ah good point, I didn't realize those the tarantulas/rapiers were bastion.


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chaos0xomega wrote:
I thought they already confirmed those barricades as being part of an upcoming release somewhere?

Maybe they're part of the ruined civitas sprues?

leopard wrote:

I can't imagine anything in a GW promo pic isn't a product they plan to sell. those barricades look ok, a bit basic, could see them as being part of another set though with "barricades and ruins"

There have been many times when terrain has just been scratch-built for the promo-shots. Biggest offender being the Ossiarch Bonereapers terrain shown in nearly all of their promo pics.

 Matrindur wrote:

leopard wrote:

I can't imagine anything in a GW promo pic isn't a product they plan to sell. those barricades look ok, a bit basic, could see them as being part of another set though with "barricades and ruins"

There have been many times when terrain has just been scratch-built for the promo-shots. Biggest offender being the Ossiarch Bonereapers terrain shown in nearly all of their promo pics.

Or the massive Tzeentchy tentacles.

Another big offender regarding terrain that never got sold was that Adeptus Titanicus train

 Malika2 wrote:
Another big offender regarding terrain that never got sold was that Adeptus Titanicus train

My gut tells me they knew it'd fail outside of a plastic release. In fw resin the train itself would be silly enough, but they probably knew even diehard fans wouldn't shell out the rails.

Could also be they had trouble casting the rails in resin.

It’s an inherently bendy material at the best of times. So trying to make teensy tiny rails just sounds like An Effing Nightmare.

I mean, even in plastic it’s a bit dicey, unless you bulk it up and make it a monorail?

When it comes to 40K its the big question of a Primarch returning, but for Titanicus its all about that train.

What they should (but never will) do is make the train in resin but make it fit an actual pre-existing scale track width, then partner with one of the established track manufacturers to sell track pieces. Maybe with custom sleepers stamped with the Aquila.