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GW News: Battleshock GONE! and more! AoS 4

Discussion in 'General Hobby/Tabletop Chat' started by Cristhian MLR, Jan 23, 2016.

  1. Warden
    Slann

    Warden Tenth Spawning

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    I also prefer the old lore where the Necrons were the unliving machine servants/slaves of the remaining Star Gods. If the C'tan had to go to sleep because all live was drained from the galaxy, why did the Necrons have to hibernate too?


    I always imagined the Void Dragon more as a "green-eyes-white-dragon" metallic creatures versus a "digitized-fallen-angel" metallic creature. BUT that model looks really cool.
     
  2. Captaniser
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  3. pendrake
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    What’s in an Indomitus box?

    #notpayingattentionatall

    Is it the one with 3 bikes, not quite 20 foot-marines and a heap of Necron-things?

    if there was a better inventory up thread please link.
     
  4. Killer Angel
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    Killer Angel Prophet of the Stars Staff Member

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    Here you are.
    It's a pretty big box
     
  5. Canas
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    a possible 120 day delivery time, that's rather long.

    At least it's a good way to deal with scalpers.

    I think it's exactly 20 marines on foot, but yes that's the box :p
     
  6. Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
    Slann

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    New Monolith model!

    [​IMG]

    A great rework of the original, with additional weapon options and the nice vignette of a Canoptek Wraith adjusting its parameters at the back.

    Also new Codices (the artwork for the Necron one teased by @Captaniser was correct, and the Space Marines needlessly get yet another one), and other new releases planned for Sisters of Battle (again :wtf:), Dark Eldar, Admech, Chaos Marines (I think) and Orks at the very least. Couldn’t see any Tyranids there :(
     
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  7. Killer Angel
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    Killer Angel Prophet of the Stars Staff Member

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    Gorgeous!

    "All the old materials will remain valid"
    ...except for the SM codex, which you all took a few months ago and now is good for collection and dust holder. :meh:
     
  8. NIGHTBRINGER
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    GW gotta make some more of that sweet Space Marine money :greedy::greedy::greedy:
     
  9. Canas
    Slann

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    With the way their 40k app seems to work it seems like they also want a part of that Sweet recurring revenue stream that is "<some bullshit> as a service" alongside all those Sweet little hooks it given to vendorlock customers..
     
  10. Warden
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    Dang that thing looks like a great update!

    I am not collecting Space Marines anymore... so I will be looking forward to more orks!
     
  11. Tk'ya'pyk
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    Tk'ya'pyk Well-Known Member

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    Same. For the greater WAAAAAAGH!!!
     
  12. Karnus
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    I don’t get the obsession with space marines, they are so boring.
     
  13. Killer Angel
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    Killer Angel Prophet of the Stars Staff Member

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    they are continously updated (so, it's an army that never falls behind)
    they may not be always in a top-tier position, but SM armies are always solid ones
    the market is flooded by them, so it's relatively easy to build a force
    SMs are pushed hard by GW; every new release includes them, so all those boxes means more SM armies floating around
    given these reasons, many players own a SM army (me included), even if they don't particularly like SM.
     
  14. ChapterAquila92
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    Clean slate to work off of, I guess? Given their meta role as "my first Warhammer army" from a hobbyist perspective, they don't require a lot of work or models to build and paint a decent army for tabletop use.

    That is, unless you play Horus Heresy, but that's a whole other game to worry about.
     
  15. NIGHTBRINGER
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    My thoughts exactly. Their over representation was one of the key factors finally driving me away from 40k. I wouldn't be opposed to them if they were limited to a fair share of the releases.

    Then again, I can't blame GW, they only release them because people keep buying them.
     
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    Nope. Chaos Marines for me. ... wait, those are technically space marines... um... I reject your reality and substitute my own!
     
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    now i will try to do a brief empyrical analysis, based on the players (that i remember ATM) in our gaming area

    P1) Khorne daemons + CSM
    2) Guards; Tyranids
    3) SM; Nurgle daemons + DG
    4) SM
    5) Tyranids
    6) Thousand sons
    7) SM; DG; Tyranids
    8) Orcs
    9) SM; Orcs; DG
    10) Eldar
    11) Dark Eldar
    12) Guards, SM, Custodes
    13) DG; Sisters of Battle
    14) Grey Knights + buildingTau
    15) Necrons (new guy that took Indomitus)
    16) SM, guards
    17) space wolves
    18) IK
    me) SM, AdMech, Grey Knights, Tau, Necrons

    on 19 players and 34 armies:
    8 SM (around 40% of players, 25% of armies)
    4 DG
    3 guards, 3 Nids
    all the rest: 2 or 1
     
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  18. Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
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    Great to see three Tyranid players there, despite Cruddace’s best attempts to nerf us we still have devoted followers!
     
  19. Killer Angel
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    Cruddace wasn't exactly brilliant neither with Tomb Kings.
    But yeah, cannot be compared to what he did to 'nids.
     
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    Slann

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    They should have got the message the first time round when he nerfed existing Tyranid units and buffed Guard in 5th, but no, they get him to write another one. At least with Tomb Kings he didn’t completely nerf them - in early 8th I hear they weren’t too bad and it was only that they were powercreeped when later books came out.

    I’m actually one of the people who complains less about the 6th Edition Tyranid Codex than most, because it gave us the first piece of lore where we actually win (Shadowbrink) rather than being pipped at the post (Macragge) or being beaten at our own game by a race whose troops suck in any form of melee (Hive Fleet Gorgon campaign), and it gave us some units that helped us beat some of the real problems we’ve had in the past (Exocrine was a good thing to bring against Terminators and Hive Crone is good against Dark Eldar), but it certainly wasn’t buffs all round like Phil Kelly’s damned 6th Edition Craftworld Eldar Codex (f*cking Wraithknight, worst thing to ever happen to 40K). Why couldn’t we have had Kelly instead like with our 4th Edition Codex given he was a Tyranid fan?
     
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