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Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London UK

yeah,
So i read the WDonline email, and the new drop pods are gong to be £18. I think that's a fair price???

and from the GW website
'This large 89-piece kit includes components to arm the Drop Pod with either a storm bolter or a Deathwind launcher, and includes a variety of Chapter symbols for the Blood Angels, the Dark Angels, the Ultramarines, the Space wolves, the Black Templars and the Imperial and Crimson Fists.'

No mention for chaos getting them though... which makes me sad
If they give me the rules to use it; I'll buy 5-6 of them.

PaniC...

   
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I would to... but just one drop pod... Maybe GW wants to do something closer to FW design in the future?
The kit looks awesome.

   
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Ancient Chaos Terminator




South Pasadena

The GW rules clearly state that loyalist Space Marines get cool toys like landspeeders, whirlwinds, drop pods and assault cannons. Chaos Space Marines get spikes and skulls. It's in the rules.

 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut




It has been pretty much accepted rumour for a while this would cost the same as a Rhino.

Difference being I'll get my Rhinos from BWB for £8 instead.

As for Chaos, we get the best range of Troops units in the game. And spikes and skulls. But no spiky skulls, that's coming in 6e.

"Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! Slayer of worlds! Felt the power throb in his weapon. He clutched it tightly in his hand and turned towards his foe letting it build in the twin energy spheres and then finally! RELEASE! The throbbing weapon ejaculated burning white fluid over them as Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! laughed manfully!" - From the epic novel, Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! Obliterates! the! Universe! coming in 2010 from the Black Library [Kid Kyoto] 
   
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I wish they were making a dreadnought version. I don't want to shell out for the forgeworld one

NaZ
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





New Zealand

has it been confirmed that it won't also fit (or have optional bits for) dreads? If I was GW and designing such a kit, that would have definitely been one of my top requirements
   
Made in us
Boosting Space Marine Biker






Sidney (Home of Nothing), OH. USA

The FW Dread' drop pod only has 3 sides. The troop pod has 5, which would make it a bit difficult to put both options in one kit (one is based on a triangular base and the other on a pentagonal or 5 sided base).

Personally, I'd probably have to get a little irate if I wanted to use one of the GW drop pods for a dread' and someone said something about it.

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Outraged Witness



Greater Toronto Area Canada

Something tells me there won't be a dred pod.

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(But account got wiped)

 
   
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Horrific Hive Tyrant





London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

interesting, so that will cost me £18 per tac squad.
£108 sub total
then i have to buy iron hands icons since there are none supplied :K

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
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Foul Dwimmerlaik






Minneapolis, MN

The little advertising press release GW handed out said that these are to be used for dreads as well.


   
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Horrific Hive Tyrant





London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

i just hate it that GW will focus on the main chapters, the rest get left in the dark :K
since when has iron hands had a special character?
even LOTD have one!
(ok, he's a bit outdated)

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
Made in au
2nd Lieutenant





Australia

is there a salamanders model for vulkan, or is it going to be another 'make your own master of deathwing' (witch i personally prefer, unless its a supa sexeh model)

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Horrific Hive Tyrant





London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

i think GW should make everything that has a written set of rules in each codex
but then, sometimes it is fun.

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London UK

Yeah,
the poster says it works for dreads
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/6397.page

But i don't see how exactly.. maybe if you leave out all the innards... and he side steps out

JD i know what you mean...
I can't believe that Chaos's old codex had droppods in it for soooo long but no model
and now theres a model but it's not in the codex

PAnic...

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Panic wrote:Yeah,
the poster says it works for dreads
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/downloadAttach/6397.page

But i don't see how exactly.. maybe if you leave out all the innards... and he side steps out

PAnic...


Use your imagination SM collectors have been doing that for years... 10 SM inside a rhino anyone?


   
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London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

it would solve all problems
im a SM player, but even i think its unfair on chaos :K
they should get pretty much the same tec.
the vindicator was SM only for ages, then finally came out for chaos, they deserve a whirlwind or atleast some type of flyer / landspeeder of thier own.

on a side note, chaos do get to travel through the warp

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
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South Pasadena

The Imperium travels through the warp too.

 
   
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Horrific Hive Tyrant





London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

i know, but chaos pick up daemons aswell

oh, wait, no they dont anymore :K
another thing GW have stopped.

Edit: Spelling

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Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
Made in gb
Longtime Dakkanaut






London UK

yeah,
If the don't get added Via WD, maybe they will get some via Planet Strike ?
anyone heard any more on that?

Panic...

   
Made in de
Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander






germany,bavaria

JD21290 wrote:it would solve all problems
im a SM player, but even i think its unfair on chaos :K
they should get pretty much the same tec.
the vindicator was SM only for ages, then finally came out for chaos, they deserve a whirlwind or atleast some type of flyer / landspeeder of thier own.

chaos deserves to get .. nothing.They left the crusade and as far as i know,Horus even sold a STC to the Ad mech =>
and to which effort? Sorry, no united fight = no united tech.

Why should CSM get newer tech when "time means nothing" was always their excuse for beeing 10k at the same (lost) war?
The difference makes sense and if only to have more than C: smurf !
Does anyone miss the landspeeder/whirlwind/razorback/trike/scouts/baalPred/crusader/redeemer in C: CSM?

Did they use droppods? No thunderhawk/stormbird as in BL-books?

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London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

1hadhq, orks loot vehicles, so why wouldnt chaos do the same to thier old brothers?
all it would take is 1 stolen one, have it re-created and modded for thier own use, fluff wise its easily possible.

i think chaod should get another transport, all they have for the standard marine is a rhino, they need something with a little firepower.
and something with speed, im forever using 3 landspeeders to steal objectives and win games in the last turn

Edit: i was doing that, until 5th ed came out and only troops could capture objectives :K

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Chaos includes many more-recent renegade Marines that have undoubtedly brought their tech with them.

In fact, I'm looking forward to starting an Alpha Legion army with the loyalist rules after Codex:SM comes out. You know the Alphas have been snagging Imperial tech whenever it comes out.

Infinity: Way, way better than 40K and more affordable to boot!

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London (work) / Pompey (live, from time to time)

see hadhq
the possibilities are endless, tech isnt exclusive to an army

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor.  
   
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germany,bavaria

Why ignore the balance and the style difference?

Oblits and defilers for the loyalists? no?
Squads of 5-20? elite moved to troops? no? land raider at 240? no?
but all the vehicles for chaos,looks like greedy little traitor scum doesn't get the prize they imagined to have in their hands.

Maybe a droppod variant (with absolutely no assault,hehe) may be added.
Then the squads-size had to be dealt with,probably recut to 10.No teleport homers = allways scatter.

Imagine that every gift from GW has a price-tag.You may lose something to get your wishes.


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We were wrong. It's not the 40k End Times. It's the Trademarkening.
 
   
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1hadhq wrote:Why ignore the balance and the style difference?




I dont ignore style... chaos already has a drop pod http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/dreadclaw.htm
And i would love to see one like that in plastic.

   
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Happy Imperial Citizen




Welwyn Garden City, UK

Chaos Get the Dreadclaw in Apoc games.... or you could use the Drop pod under house rules i guess, maybe next time round, GW will make the smart move of making a plastic Dreadclaw & put it in the codex

Vlâdvar "The Destroyer", Exalted Warsmith, Commander of the 25th Iron Warrior Grand Company

 
   
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OT Vladvar, where is the illustration in your sig from?

"Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! Slayer of worlds! Felt the power throb in his weapon. He clutched it tightly in his hand and turned towards his foe letting it build in the twin energy spheres and then finally! RELEASE! The throbbing weapon ejaculated burning white fluid over them as Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! laughed manfully!" - From the epic novel, Bloodstorm! Ravenblade! Obliterates! the! Universe! coming in 2010 from the Black Library [Kid Kyoto] 
   
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander






germany,bavaria

A dreadclaw had to be a new plastic sprue,some additional parts won't do.
I just can't see GW making droppod variants.You'll stay with FW,if there is a codex entry or even a new codex before 2010.

@ tribune: Vladvar uses the actual cover from the "storm of iron"

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Made in ca
Buttons Should Be Brass, Not Gold!






Soviet Kanukistan

1hadhq is completely correct. Chaos has plenty of stuff going for them.

20 man squads! Being able to take CSM 20 strong is so awesome. In fact, it is so awesome, that you see it all the time!

Also, the Kult troops are all r0x0rz! That's why you see them all the time too, but not as often as 20 man squads!

They also get awesome cheap terminators! They are traitors, so they never did figure out the secret behind putting an assault cannon on their suits, or strapping on some missile launchers. They rely on their trusty "has 2x the barrels but the same rate of fire" autocannons. These things REAP baby. They also leave the second heavy weapon at home, because they like to be sporting towards their opponents.

Instead of the machine spirit, Chaos get posession. Posession is so good that when you buy it, it lowers the BS of the tank... otherwise it would be unfair.

Chaos has been fighting in the warp for so long that all their boys are geriatric old men, that's why all the new Marienz characters and elites should be better, because young men are better than old men! Also, Ahrriman may be the most awesome sorceror ever, but he's going senile, that's why the new Librarians have to be AT LEAST as good.

The Defiler is awesome as well, size of a house, with TOUGH AV12. This thing is so sweet, everything will want to fire at it, and that TOUGH AV12 will shake off all but the most deadly blows! HURR!

They also have awesome DAEMONS. These guys are so wicked that they were taken out of the book (so that the book wouldn't explode with awesomeness). They left the DAEMONS OF CHAOS GLORY in the book so that players would have something to "counts as". These are still awesome, and you see them fielded all the time.

SPAWN are the coolest models ever. They take no brains to use, cuz you can't control them. They have random speed. This makes them great. The fact that they give up easy KP in missions is to balance the fact that this is a great choice.

Possessed are great too. They hit like a ton of bricks. RANDOM bricks. (But this was for balance reasons too). You see these guys taken all the time. They were so good that when GW redid the battleforce, they put a squad of these bad boys in there so that everyone could have more possessed. r0x0r!

Chaos also gets OBLITERATORS. These guys are super awesome, because they get every weapon, except for weapons that have dakka. These are modeled on the figure, but they are only for decoration. They are also super tough, with 2 wounds. Anything with 2 wounds has a lot going for it. To stop their awesomeness from making the Chaos codex go kabbloie, they are balanced by being slow, prone to intant killed and and are 75 points! A steal!

So, in summary, Chaos gets these awesome advantages over normal marines!

AWESOME DEMONZ and GR8TER DEMONZ
Cult troops!
Crazy Dreads!
Possessed!
Spawn!
20 man squads!
Obliterators!
Defilers!

Anyone who says that Chaos is not as good as Marienz is just a hater. HURR.

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lol we do get some cool stuff,but im buying a drop putting spiky bits on it and use it.Il use the rules from the new space marine codex for it (space marines wouldnt use defilers, cause they got a trapped soul in them) and obliterators are crazy tech-priests.

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A casual gamer writes a list to win a game and then pretends he didn't.


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