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kodos wrote: why?
almost all of those boxes are meant to bought at least 2 times and shared
this is why you get 2 armies in there
if you just buy it once, you get 2 times half an army
If you buy 2, share 1 side of models guess there's no issue with 2nd rulebook eh? So then 2nd rulebook isn't limiting value of box
if you buy and share, both will end with 1 rulebook and 1 army
but I guess people forgot what "sharing" means and you rather buy 2 yourself, sell of the models and don't know what to do with the 2nd rulebook because you don't play anyway and therefore don't have an opponent who would like to have one too
Speak for yourself. I'm buying multiple copies because I want all the models in the box for myself and my armies. Not everyone is a single army kind of player who will want to "share" half the box with a friend, I'm certainly not. Thus, rulebooks, dice, templates, tokens, etc. are useless to me. There is no advantage in me splitting the box with a friend.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
CorwinB wrote: Tell me they are not doing a limited BL book at the same time as LI's release ? Don't they ever learn ?
Urgh. They really want people to hate them, I'm sure of it. That website is going to be on fire that day.
I'll stick to my plan, join the GW store queue. Buy from local stores, then if I ever get let in the GW store order from there.
If my local store confirm they are getting enough stock, then I'll cancel the GW order.
The most annoying bit is that the GW queue system kicks you out after paying. So no splitting orders in hopes of not holding up one big order when they go out of stock of one item.
Glad to see the game is getting a lot of releases from the go. And thankfully a lot of them are AI or AT rebundles, so no need to rush to buy everything. Would have like to have seen the land raiders as part of the wave. But honestly, this is probably better as that means I can grab a lot more when they do get their release.
I'm still very disappointed that this is HH only release, but still its nice to see the range of epic minis expanding!
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Gert wrote: I'll probs jump in if/when Knights get a standalone list.
I want to do a full House but 28mm is to expensive and I'm not particularly interested in anything else for LI.
Rules for building a knight household already exist in AT. So the organization is already confirmed. And this game does include knights as attached formations. So it shouldn't be that hard to figure out a Knight Household core for an army. You won't be able to take it to a tournament. But I suspect most FLGS groups will allow it as long as you're not flagrantly taking liberties with it. Of course, since this is a combined arms game, you're going to want more than just knights. Otherwise you're going to lose nearly every game to more balanced formations. But that'll be an issue even after the official Knight Household lists are released.
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Souleater wrote: Regarding the swapping of box halves - are the Marine and SA portions roughly equivalent now?
We won't know until prices are available.
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While splitting a box with someone else is definitely an option I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most people are more interested in the Space Marines than the Solar Auxilia. Getting rid of the Solar Auxilia may not be that easy.
A bit like the Leviathan box, I saw a lot more Tyranid models (at a discounted price) for sale than the Space Marines.
I'll get the epub, one set of SM infantry and the rhinos to start me off.. hoping the combined price wont be the same as the whole box by then
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
So happy to see the game finally releasing. I also noticed the rule book will have an epub, which is very attractive.
I can’t wait to see exactly what sets come out, because I feel that some things may be coming out that were not mentioned. But we will see. I want to see the army rules before I buy too much stuff.
I must say, given my love for strong artillery and tanks, maybe I will focus more of SA. Sounds like there should be a glut on eBay after launch.
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40K, SW:Armada, Bolt Action, Legions Imperialis(maybe…)
Tread heads will have a field day on ebay for sure
"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
"Those 4 kratos accidentally snuck into the"... absolute dead center of a shot with the rest of the starter box content with the rulebook and box in the background, they're quite stealthy for heavy tanks
Either WarCom missed a memo on their addition to the box, OR the early product prototype for the launch box included Kratos tanks which were later cut for either gameplay, cost, or packaging reasons, and they accidentally used the prototype photo instead of the production photo.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
vadersson wrote: So happy to see the game finally releasing. I also noticed the rule book will have an epub, which is very attractive.
I can’t wait to see exactly what sets come out, because I feel that some things may be coming out that were not mentioned. But we will see. I want to see the army rules before I buy too much stuff.
I must say, given my love for strong artillery and tanks, maybe I will focus more of SA. Sounds like there should be a glut on eBay after launch.
All that are preorder now were mentioned. Others get announced later.
Oh good, I'll probably see if I can afford 4 boxes or so at launch, and get another 7 or 8 or more over time unless the cost curve favors buying the individual boxes instead, etc.
And because I know people will ask wtf I want so many boxes for - I'd like to do forces representing at least 11 legions worth of marines, as one of the big headaches for me in 28mm scale has been "which legion should I play", and I've never really satisfactorily been able to answer that. At a small scale its more feasible to do a number of legions than it is on the large scale, so I'm taking advantage of the opportunity. (In case anyone is curious, thats Dark Angels, Emperors Children, Iron Warriors, White Scars, Death Guard, Thousand Sons, Imperial Fists, World Eaters, Raven Guard, Alpha Legion, Word Bearers, and then I'm on the fence about Sons of Horus, Night Lords, Blood Angels, and Salamanders).
The fact that this will result in an incomprehensibly large collection of Solar Auxilia is just gravy and enough extra titans to allow me to start a second another legion (so I can have both a traitor legio and a loyalist legio) is just gravy.
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CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
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