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 MajorWesJanson wrote:
 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s a pity the “modern” one doesn’t have the missile rack anymore.


Tempting to take the missile rack off a manticore and mount it on the side of a modern storm blade.


You should 100% do this!
   
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 MajorWesJanson wrote:
 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s a pity the “modern” one doesn’t have the missile rack anymore.


Tempting to take the missile rack off a manticore and mount it on the side of a modern storm blade.


It's probably fairly trivial to kitbash something with the spare missiles from Aeronautica flyers too
   
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Sprue pics are up:

Interesting bits are that the "flight stands" for the Jet bikes and Proteus Land Speeders are already molded to the body, only the Javelin one has to be glued on. Also it looks like you might be able to switch the Bike and Jetbike riders around for more visual variation?
Dracosans and Javelins seem to have enough bits to choose which weapons you want, Proteus have the bottom gun molded to the body and only one of each of the top one so no choice.

Fast attack:


Stormhammer:


Dreadnought Drop pods:


Dracosan:

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Cheers for sharing the pics

Bit disappointed the Proteus Speeders have set loadouts, but I can live with that.

Going on my experience building Spartans, I think for the Jetbikes, I’ll clip the hull free first, leaving the base bit to last.

   
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Flight stands being part of the model isn't a surprise to me - that's how they were in the old game as well.

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Proteus not coming with options is disappointing, particularly given the way its upgrade option is configured in the rules.

It is hard to understand how inconsistent they are with this (on the same sprue in this case!); some kits have not just come with options but with the spare turrets to be able to build all of them rather than choose (which is awesome) and then others don't even give you any of the options at all.

Some of these Legion sprues also really highlight how much of what you're paying for is just their super chunky sprue runners too.

Maybe it just comes from having been outside the GW ecosystem for a while, but I really want to like this game and they keep making that hard to do!

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 xttz wrote:
 MajorWesJanson wrote:
 Mr_Rose wrote:
It’s a pity the “modern” one doesn’t have the missile rack anymore.


Tempting to take the missile rack off a manticore and mount it on the side of a modern storm blade.


It's probably fairly trivial to kitbash something with the spare missiles from Aeronautica flyers too


Imperial Armour did some handwaving about how the missile racks were removed because of cases of the missiles being hit and causing the destruction of the entire tank. However, since when did the Imperium care about such things if it meant more firepower? I mean they are the ones issuing hand held plasma weapons that have a reasonable chance of blowing up and killing the operator.
   
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Well, when it’s a rare super heavy chassis which is resource intensive to repair at the best of times, and presumably only a relative handful of Enginseers are allowed to conduct extensive repairs/rebuilding on

   
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It's one thing for a plasma gun wielding marine to not throw his gun away before it blows him up; its another for your Super Heavy Tank to blow its whole rack of missiles and suddenly you've a massive hole in your defence line.


Or worse a ripple effect and suddenly all those super heavies are gone, as is a good chunk of your battleline and army!

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Looks like maybe the hype has worn off a bit for LI? One of the largest Australian online sellers (TCC) put up 200 kits of the new LI stuff an hour ago, and so far they've only shifted a handful of boxes. Normally for the popular releases somewhere between half and all of the boxes would be gone by now.

Similar story at Gap, not a lot of product moving, but it seems TCC maybe overestimated popularity, Gap has put up far less stock.

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So I may get some of the kits I want! Nice.
   
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Apple fox wrote:
So I may get some of the kits I want! Nice.
Ha, probably, the last release seemed to have good availability (or poor sales depending on how you look at it ).

Most kits haven't been too hard to find out here other than the initial launch IF you're prepared to pay full retail, they sell out fast at discounters though. This release isn't even selling out fast at the discounters.
   
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Many UK 3rd-party retailers are listing the dreadnought drop pods with a delayed shipping date of some kind, including EG, Dark Sphere, Wayland, and Alchemists. Looks like there's been a stock issue with that specific kit.
   
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 xttz wrote:
Many UK 3rd-party retailers are listing the dreadnought drop pods with a delayed shipping date of some kind, including EG, Dark Sphere, Wayland, and Alchemists. Looks like there's been a stock issue with that specific kit.


Interesting, the dread drops are available in Oz, but in addition to that the regular drops got a ninja launch this week because they never came out back when they were originally supposed to.
   
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Well I managed to grab myself a box of speeders and drop pods easily enough.

 
   
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Just waiting for my plastic crack slinger to confirm he can get the quantities I’m after, and I’ll get him paid.

3 sets of Fast Attack, one of Sicarans.

Getting very close to being able to field a maximum size Demi-Company!

   
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Got a fast attack box preordered from my regular discounter one hour after preorders were announced. Most of the LI kits seem to be in stock as well, so the inventory problems seem to be over for now, at least in the EU

A pity regarding the Land Speeders, I will be swapping out the fixed flight stands for some proper translucent ones for sure, same for the jetbikes

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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" 
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Just waiting for my plastic crack slinger to confirm he can get the quantities I’m after, and I’ll get him paid.

3 sets of Fast Attack, one of Sicarans.

Getting very close to being able to field a maximum size Demi-Company!


What role do you have in mind for all the fast attack stuff?

 
   
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Max size unit of bikes to the Demi-Company, everything else to the Sky Hunter Detachment.

   
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Lets discuss LI meta at lenght, shall we?

Here's an interview with the winner of the last Warhammer World LI tourney. He didnt bring any vehicles to the games besides Rhinos and a Warmaster, and a lot of the talk in this video revolves around the thought that in LI, if you want to play competitively, vehicles are trash and Dreads and walkers are king




Thoughts?

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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" 
   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Max size unit of bikes to the Demi-Company, everything else to the Sky Hunter Detachment.


I meant how you intended on using them on the table. Lol.

 
   
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Mostly being a nuisance. Flex that high speed and keep my opponent on their toes.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Mostly being a nuisance. Flex that high speed and keep my opponent on their toes.


Nice.

 
   
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 tauist wrote:
Lets discuss LI meta at lenght, shall we?

Here's an interview with the winner of the last Warhammer World LI tourney. He didnt bring any vehicles to the games besides Rhinos and a Warmaster, and a lot of the talk in this video revolves around the thought that in LI, if you want to play competitively, vehicles are trash and Dreads and walkers are king




Thoughts?



Sounds like hh really.
   
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nice to see there is nothing in any way broken or in the least bit overpowered about marine heavy support detachments and integrated heavy weapons teams in tactical units.

I mean no way twin shot ignores cover gaks would cause any issue or the massed single shot AT krak missiles would cause problems is there?

if only oneone had point this out shortly after the book was released

oh.. wait..
   
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Everett, WA

Am I missing something? Malcadors and Sicarans weren't available for pre-order in the US. RoW seem to have them. Shipping problem? Or problem with the US warehouse?

 
   
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They caught a case of the HamCon Asteriskitis so no soup for you.

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 Breotan wrote:
Am I missing something? Malcadors and Sicarans weren't available for pre-order in the US. RoW seem to have them. Shipping problem? Or problem with the US warehouse?


Not sure if that was already in the preorder article last Sunday or if it was edited later but at least now it says Malcadors and Sicarans are delayed in US and Canada

   
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Everett, WA

I'm not sure what the reason is, but GW's supply and distribution system has really taken a hit in the past couple of years.

 
   
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It probably all comes back to this ERP (?) system they decided to change.

I'm given to understand that such things are problematic, at best.

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
 
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