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Post by nexus6 on Apr 2, 2022 19:44:45 GMT
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Post by nexus6 on Apr 2, 2022 19:46:59 GMT
And that new squat looks amazing!
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Post by Danno on Apr 2, 2022 19:53:43 GMT
And that new squat looks amazing! I'm half tempted on that mini alone, but my pile of grey is fucking obscene as it is. Also World Eaters first.
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Post by zephro on Apr 2, 2022 23:46:30 GMT
Holy fuck the dream! Less Space Marines more Squats! Chaos Squats surely, Zepphers? Got to get a land train first, worry about it falling to chaos later.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 3, 2022 0:25:46 GMT
They are actually bringing back Squats?!
End times indeed.
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Post by zephro on Apr 3, 2022 0:51:34 GMT
Land Train baby!
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Post by rawshark on Apr 3, 2022 3:03:48 GMT
Hey. Genuine question. Is this a uniquely UK thing or are there overseas followings? I just ask as Warhammer/Games Workshops seem to be recession proof stalwarts of the UK high streets and I want to know if it travels.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 3, 2022 3:26:22 GMT
There's a GW store down the street from my office in Tokyo. Never actually popped in there though, because it would probably lead to either price shock or spending too much money.
It's not a big thing here though, very niche I'd guess.
The video games seem pretty well known in the US, but I have no idea about the models.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Apr 3, 2022 3:30:07 GMT
Judging by my old 40k forum users, big across Europe (mainly Dutch/German), and huge numbers of US, lots of military guys involved too with lots of basetime and wanting something constructive to do.
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Post by Danno on Apr 3, 2022 11:18:35 GMT
As olschool says, very big in the US and parts of Europe.
It's growing in Japan (they like Tau, who'd have guessed), big in Russia and Aus
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Apr 3, 2022 11:34:11 GMT
Hey Danno, never mind WE when you could have WE/Khorne Knights ! Actually tempted to sell these now with the new codex, but nah. Made them years ago, still some of my faves.
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Post by Danno on Apr 3, 2022 11:38:27 GMT
Glorious!
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Post by zephro on Apr 12, 2022 8:41:46 GMT
Not strictly Warhammer but it's Rick Priestly rules for the game: Also not quite finished, basing the wee fuckers is harder than anticipated. They also need a flag and all their pom poms painted in.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Apr 12, 2022 11:07:54 GMT
From one extreme to the other ! Just looking at those makes my eyes hurt. Really nice job zeph.
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Post by zephro on Apr 12, 2022 12:38:02 GMT
Thanks. They just need a tiny 13mm Sharpe to ruin their day.
Also that's battalion 1 of 10.... as I got a starter army kit. Then there's all the cavalry, artillery, officers and skirmishing voltiguers to do.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 12, 2022 12:44:07 GMT
This actually confuses me, because while I know that beakies are among the most popular of marine model types, lore-wise you'd expect them to be a lot less common during the Heresy, with the Mark VI armour being relatively new at the time?
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Apr 12, 2022 15:22:37 GMT
But, but, but NOSTALGIA !
That and something more iconic for a relaunch. Figure they're aiming at the run-up to Terra itself, having covered (and lost the mass interest) of everything up to now in the early Heresy. Combine that with heresy timelines, and I wager there'll be a soft retcon that yeah, almost everyone was running Mk6 by the endgame, and that the daemon-infested "traitors" weren't so tainted, bar 10k years of historical Imperium revision.
Makes the Mk3/4 plastics of a few years ago a tad redundant, but by god, I'd love some Mk5 for the expected WE lauch soon. Mk5 just works for me.
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Post by π on Apr 12, 2022 15:52:42 GMT
Not strictly Warhammer but it's Rick Priestly rules for the game: Also not quite finished, basing the wee fuckers is harder than anticipated. They also need a flag and all their pom poms painted in. Is that Black Powder? I have the starter set and the Chosen Men in my to-paint pile, looking forward to it.
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Post by zephro on Apr 12, 2022 16:14:54 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 12, 2022 17:31:20 GMT
But, but, but NOSTALGIA ! That and something more iconic for a relaunch. Figure they're aiming at the run-up to Terra itself, having covered (and lost the mass interest) of everything up to now in the early Heresy. Combine that with heresy timelines, and I wager there'll be a soft retcon that yeah, almost everyone was running Mk6 by the endgame, and that the daemon-infested "traitors" weren't so tainted, bar 10k years of historical Imperium revision. Makes the Mk3/4 plastics of a few years ago a tad redundant, but by god, I'd love some Mk5 for the expected WE lauch soon. Mk5 just works for me. I've just done some reading up on the subject, and it does seem like they did a bit of retconning in the Horus Heresy novels and then sort of retconned it back again.
Mk 1 - Thunder armour, not sealed, used during Unification Wars on Terra.
Mk 2 - Crusade armour, used during the early years of the Great Crusade.
Mk 3 - Iron armour, basically a reinforced version of the Mk 2 for use specifically against harder targets (Squat homeworlds!).
Mk 4 - Maximus armour, designed as a replacement for the Mk 2, became the most widespread pattern of armour in use before and during the Heresy.
Mk 5 - Heresy armour, designed as a stopgap measure mostly by Loyalist legions who couldn't get resupplied and had to make do with suits of substandard parts and materials.
Mk 6 - Corvus armour, lighter and stealthier than the patterns that came before it.
Mk 7 - Aquila armour, got rid of the beaky helmet and basically became the most widespread armour type for the next ten thousand years.
Mk 8 - Errant armour, basically the Mk 7 with a raised collar because someone finally noticed marines kept getting shot in the throat.
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The official history of the Mark VI at the moment seems to be that prototype versions of it were used by several Legions in a testing phase for a few years before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, some liking it and some not so much (Perturabo apparently hated it). The Raven Guard in particular liked it and recommended several improvements and modifications, which is why when it was later given the proper launch as a full fledged new type, it was named the Corvus pattern in honour of Corvus Corax, and they were given the first major shipments of it to help start to replace what they'd lost at the Dropsite Massacre.
By the time of the Siege Of Terra, Mars was controlled by the Dark Mechanicum allied to Horus, so the Traitor Legions got their hands on it from there, although prior to this it seems Alpharius, naughty bastard that he was, had the Alpha Legion nick the specifications for Mark 6 because he didn't trust Horus to give it to anyone other than the Sons Of Horus. So it managed to find its way to Loyalists and Traitors pretty readily, even if Games Workshop has done a bit of backpedalling on the subject over the last few years.
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Post by oldschoolsavant on Apr 12, 2022 20:03:56 GMT
Yeah, remember Mk6 as being a prototype, given out to recon squads, hunter-killers (forgot the term) etc, but being shunned for general duty "on the line" as it were. New shit reserved for the elites.
But hey, we've got BEAKIES. Everyone gets BEAKIES. BEAKIES for days, all the rage by Terra ! Buy them all !
Combined with the rumour of the largest box having a measly print run of 100k. I'll stick with the Mk2/5 I got from Tortuga before the Ukraine bullshit. Make a couple of killteams outta those...some day.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 12, 2022 22:47:25 GMT
I mean, they're retconned it so many times I've lost track. But the Beakies were the original space marines, right? * They were the ones from Rogue Trader, which was theoretically set in the 'current' of 40k. It was only later that they decided to redesign the marine helmets and get rid of the beaks, and then start saying that the beakie armour was some historical version.
*unless there was some even earlier version of 40k that I missed.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 13, 2022 1:15:26 GMT
I mean, they're retconned it so many times I've lost track. But the Beakies were the original space marines, right? * They were the ones from Rogue Trader, which was theoretically set in the 'current' of 40k. It was only later that they decided to redesign the marine helmets and get rid of the beaks, and then start saying that the beakie armour was some historical version. *unless there was some even earlier version of 40k that I missed. Correct. There's a prototype space marine in the Siege Of Terra books called Leetu, who is described as being a template from which all other space marines were based, and his name is based on the fact that LE2 was the production code for the original beaky space marine model.
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The Horus Heresy and Siege Of Terra boks have done an awful lot of retconning over the last few years. Only two books left to go in SoT now, and given the foreshadowing they've been doing, I'm convinced at this point they're going to change the battle at the Eternity Gate so Sanguinius ends up fighting Angron rather than a bloodthirster as they'd always said in the past.
Considering the duel between Dorn and Fulgrim that had never, ever been mentioned before, nothing would surprise me at this point. Maybe when Dan Abnett writes the last book, the battle between the Emperor and Horus will have some incredible new twist that divides fans for years.
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Post by zephro on Apr 13, 2022 10:40:48 GMT
I've never terribly worried myself with 40K having canon in any meaningful sense as its dull. Beakies forever! If they retconned them to be rare in the past just smash undo and go back to all their beakie glory. RTB01!
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 13, 2022 11:38:10 GMT
As long as my Beakie and ineffective Mentor Legion squad can be on the same team as my Grey Knights Terminators and my Harlequins, I don't care. When in doubt, a Rogue Trader made them play nice
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Post by ForkHandles on Apr 13, 2022 15:46:08 GMT
Just got my shipping notice that my copy of Cursed City is on the way - more plastic kits for my pile of opportunity!
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Post by zephro on Apr 15, 2022 22:28:07 GMT
Done the banners, pom poms and bases properly now
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Apr 16, 2022 17:12:00 GMT
WIP, needs basing finishing, but really happy with how my latest additions to my Necrons are coming along.
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Apr 20, 2022 15:47:11 GMT
And finished shots of my latest batch of Necrons.
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Post by Danno on Apr 20, 2022 16:00:28 GMT
Great scheme, the bases really give them an atmosphere
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