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 Krinsath wrote:
Just got the tracking this morning, to be here by the end of the week; jives the "we're going to be slow in shipping" announcement as they try to update their warehouse.

Got a UPS notification yesterday with expected delivery listed as Friday, Mar. 8, but as of this morning UPS only showing it as label created with delivery date to be updated and GW site still showing order being processed. I am getting a sinking feeling that either the cards or the book have been oversold and because orders placed directly with GW delivering to private addresses apparently get fulfilled last, I am somewhat expecting a message soon stating they had to cancel one of the items. This is assuming they wouldn't bother entering a shipment order into UPS if they didn't have at least one of the items.

As others have said, this supply fiasco is strangling this game and really weighing down my enthusiasm.

On the positive side, my order through an FLGS for Two Spartan boxes and Astartes support box arrived.

Suffice to say, the two week pre-order window was supposed to give GW more time to organize and execute fulfillment. Doesn't seem to be working with all the anecdotal accounts of incomplete, late, or outright cancelled orders.

Our group is just starting to get games in. I have yet to play but have about 2k painted. Couple of the guys in group have printed and painted some great terrain.
Really hoping stock flows better or I could see us moving to prints or a different system.

 bullyboy wrote:
Our group is just starting to get games in. I have yet to play but have about 2k painted. Couple of the guys in group have printed and painted some great terrain.
Really hoping stock flows better or I could see us moving to prints or a different system.

That is a great looking board! Are those GW road tiles or are they printed?

 Lord of Deeds wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:
Our group is just starting to get games in. I have yet to play but have about 2k painted. Couple of the guys in group have printed and painted some great terrain.
Really hoping stock flows better or I could see us moving to prints or a different system.

That is a great looking board! Are those GW road tiles or are they printed?

Looks like top is GW tiles or something very close. Second one is some kind of poster-map, looks like.

I did a quick look through the new book for any images that are the same format as boxarts so together with the ones from the core book any of these are likely to be the next plastic reveals:

Nice catches. But there's so much stuff waiting to come out right now just from the rules that we have that I'm hoping we don't see any of the vehicles in those pictures right away.

 Lord of Deeds wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:
Our group is just starting to get games in. I have yet to play but have about 2k painted. Couple of the guys in group have printed and painted some great terrain.
Really hoping stock flows better or I could see us moving to prints or a different system.

That is a great looking board! Are those GW road tiles or are they printed?

Top one is GW tiles, bottom is a drop ship commander mat I believe
Neither are mine btw

 bullyboy wrote:
Our group is just starting to get games in. I have yet to play but have about 2k painted. Couple of the guys in group have printed and painted some great terrain.
Really hoping stock flows better or I could see us moving to prints or a different system.

Looks great.

How did you/they paint the lines on the road...so straight (white n yellow)

Also the brow staining on the grey areas looks great, mine are a bit too clear grey atm.

guessing the lines are a mix of masking tape and sponging markings - at least thats how I'm planning it. makes straight lines easy and time to adjust before adding the paint

New reveal this week according to Warcom. I can only live in hope of plastic Armigers...

If you have a 3D printer, I can recommend doing stencils. I repurposed some stencils meant for model railways, and added a few of my own. It’s easy with rectilinear road tiles to make full-width masks that slot easily into place in the same way every time.





I got a little bleed through on this set, so notkk no perfect, it it was quick to do, and the gaps between markings are easy enough to trim down with a it more black paint.

Sunday Preview says that new models for LI will be revealed this week... I wonder what this will be ?
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/10/sunday-preview-the-kroot-are-on-the-prowl/

Hopefully Light Armour for Space Marines. There’s nothing units wise at all for that battlefield role, and we now have multiple Detachments which can take such.

CorwinB wrote:
Sunday Preview says that new models for LI will be revealed this week... I wonder what this will be ?
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/10/sunday-preview-the-kroot-are-on-the-prowl/

On the one hand, neat.

On the other hand, unless they have plans for a massive wave of LI models that will release nearly everything that's still currently missing from the game (but that we have rules for) in one go...

What's the point?

Given that any new units would need another expansion book and it seems too soon for that with so much of a backlog, I wonder if this reveal will be either terrain, or a plastic kit for existing units like armigers/fw knights.

 xttz wrote:
Given that any new units would need another expansion book and it seems too soon for that with so much of a backlog, I wonder if this reveal will be either terrain, or a plastic kit for existing units like armigers/fw knights.

Well the first unit from the current expansion book was revealed on August 24th and is still not available (SA artillery). Meanwhile the book itself was only officially revealed on January 4th and released on March 2nd.
So it doesn't seem too unlikely they are already starting with revealing the models for the next expansion.
But I still think plastic Knights/Titans stuff is more likely

 Matrindur wrote:

 xttz wrote:
Given that any new units would need another expansion book and it seems too soon for that with so much of a backlog, I wonder if this reveal will be either terrain, or a plastic kit for existing units like armigers/fw knights.

Well the first unit from the current expansion book was revealed on August 24th and is still not available (SA artillery). Meanwhile the book itself was only officially revealed on January 4th and released on March 2nd.
So it doesn't seem too unlikely they are already starting with revealing the models for the next expansion.

Which imo is fine if, and only if, they have a plan to get the missing stuff out in a hurry.

Eumerin wrote:

Which imo is fine if, and only if, they have a plan to get the missing stuff out in a hurry.

Since we are still missing stuff from the core book (Titanicus and Aeronautica rereleases) thats not a bet I would take

it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

 clodax66 wrote:
it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

I would like to differ

I mean, my first 40k army was the ork cutouts from the Rogue Trader book.... ^^

 clodax66 wrote:
it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

Not to get too OT based on this one comment, but I frequently "try before I buy" using bases as proxies to experiment with unit builds and tactics. Then I buy minis based on some play experience.

 Matrindur wrote:

Well the first unit from the current expansion book was revealed on August 24th and is still not available (SA artillery). Meanwhile the book itself was only officially revealed on January 4th and released on March 2nd.
So it doesn't seem too unlikely they are already starting with revealing the models for the next expansion.
But I still think plastic Knights/Titans stuff is more likely

Standard practice for GW marketing now is to gradually unveil a group of upcoming models, then finish that group by announcing the expansion book / codex / etc last. The release delay obviously caused a long pause in new reveals, so for TGS that reveal period was much longer than normal.

New knights would be cool (especially plastic armigers), but I would expect those closer to any future Mechanicum release. However new terrain makes sense earlier because we have a few older terrain kits pending re-release with the next large wave for epic scale, and something like a "Militas Imperialis" building could easily be slotted in with those without requiring any new rules.

 xttz wrote:
Given that any new units would need another expansion book and it seems too soon for that with so much of a backlog, I wonder if this reveal will be either terrain, or a plastic kit for existing units like armigers/fw knights.

Another option is a transfer of resin Titan weapons across to plastic. Warbringer could do with new heads and decoration as well as extra carapace weapons. Reavers have plenty of weapons that could be made in plastic

 zedmeister wrote:


Another option is a transfer of resin Titan weapons across to plastic. Warbringer could do with new heads and decoration as well as extra carapace weapons. Reavers have plenty of weapons that could be made in plastic

Warbringer could be the case since its the only Titan left with only one version. Reavers are unlikely to get another kit since they already have two and they all the resin weapons are just carapace weapons. They already have all their arm weapons in plastic

 Matrindur wrote:

 clodax66 wrote:
it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

I would like to differ

Well I stand corrected. You can play with pictures

 Matrindur wrote:

 clodax66 wrote:
it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

I would like to differ

Poser.

If you were a true 40k hobbyist, you would have hand colored every one of those yourself.

Finally, I recieved my LI box and started with building the tanks first. Looking at the instructions I realized that it says "build 8x" for Leman Russ, "4x" for Sicaran & Malcador and "6x" for the Predators. However, the picture on the back of the box shows only have of those numbers, included where also only half of the sprues. The Leman Russ also seems to be a little too small, shouldn't the PRedator be the smaller of the two tanks?
Sorry for the stupid question, but did I miss anything here?

 Matrindur wrote:

 clodax66 wrote:
it would be nice if they just released more of the models they revealed in the last 6 months before revealing more models. It's nice to see new models revealed , but you can't play with pictures.

I would like to differ

Suddenly I feel inspired...

 Rhakkachan wrote:
Finally, I recieved my LI box and started with building the tanks first. Looking at the instructions I realized that it says "build 8x" for Leman Russ, "4x" for Sicaran & Malcador and "6x" for the Predators. However, the picture on the back of the box shows only have of those numbers, included where also only half of the sprues. The Leman Russ also seems to be a little too small, shouldn't the PRedator be the smaller of the two tanks?
Sorry for the stupid question, but did I miss anything here?

I believe that's a mistake in the instructions, where they've just copied and pasted them from the instructions designed for the individual releases of the kits, which have twice the number of each vehicle as you get in the starter box.