The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[stone-cold-lead]

I wonder if they'll fuck it all up and upscale everything else too! One of my frustrations with AoS is that the Khorne marauder guys are huge, much taller than 40k humans in fact much taller than "old marines".

The elves from the Spire of Dawn set (originally the Island of Blood set) are the same size as the AoS Khorne Blood Reavers and they pre-date AoS by 5 years I think. And everything is bigger than 'old' marines  

[Sbloom141]

I'm not sold. My biggest army for 40k is a Nurgle marine army. It took a lot of conversion work to get right and I don't think these will mix well. Might try and get hold of a blight drone though.

Plus I'm not a fan of these models with the built in effects e.g. The billowing smoke et cetera. It makes computer aided sculpting really obvious IMO.

[Chico]

I'm not sold on the new Uber-Marines but I do really like the Death Guard .

When I played 40k many moons ago I was never a Nurgle fan but I'm tempted to get a few sprues of these when the re-sellers start splitting boxes on Ebay.

Though I was a Slannesh fan so I wonder if Noise Marines will get the plastic treatment at sometime.. then I'll be drawn back in for good hehe 

[beefcake]

Plus I'm not a fan of these models with the built in effects e.g. The billowing smoke et cetera. It makes computer aided sculpting really obvious IMO.

Agreed.
Having a bunch of them with identical smoke looks really wrong for something that should be highly random. Mini poses, not too bad if you have a few duplicates but smoke etc...

[Andrew May]

The elves from the Spire of Dawn set (originally the Island of Blood set) are the same size as the AoS Khorne Blood Reavers and they pre-date AoS by 5 years I think. And everything is bigger than 'old' marines  

Interesting, that long ago I was pretty much out of the miniature hobby, maybe just getting back into it via Frothers and alternate mini producers. When I looked at a lot of GW minis I was pretty nonplussed back then and certainly didn't buy any to compare. In fact I've only just st started buying again (a little) seeing as GW are really excelling these days.

Oh btw, I mean the old marines as in the current incarnation before Primaris turned up. The Khorne mateys are a head taller!

[Predatorpt]

The new dreadnought looks great (albeit with some Tau inspired bits  )

[Vladimir Raukov]

Would you say that its greater size makes it...good? 

[beefcake]

Definitely looks more mobile. Are those anti infantry things facing downwards.

[Westfalia Chris]

Definitely looks more mobile. Are those anti infantry things facing downwards.

On the right-arm weapon system? I rather suspect these to be power cell thingies for what is probably a melter or plasma cannon.

That dread is looking quite nice and animated in a good way.

[nic-e]

That dread looks a little like the original dreadnought. The knees and hip going inti the body have a similar figure 8 style. I wonder if you can remove some bulk from the body to bring it even closer?

[YPU]

I will echo the sentiment, that is one nice looking mech! It has potential as a generic 28mm mech I'd say.

[Predatorpt]

And someone else noticed the similarity:

[FramFramson]

I was planning on making truescale marines using Sigmarites when I got round to a 40k skirmish proiject. I guess this makes things easier?

[Storm Wolf]

Well what can I say shadow wars armageddon is the first GW rulesbook that I have brought since 4th edition 40k (which I hated) and it seems rather good too,

GW surprising me at the moment in a good way

[Andrew May]

The size of that new dread! ££££?

Edit: I can't help but feel like this stuff is sort of shitting on players "old" collections a bit. I don't know though, give it 6 months and I'll change my mind.