mechana2015 wrote:
Cool to hear nids are working out and that the battleslate (DLC) are actually providing benefit. I've had an interest in several of their digital products but nothing has panned out for them, and I've bought none of them. Legion of the D, was outright disappointing, offering practically nothing new other than 'Run lots more'. I was really hoping to find something in that to use them more, like a dreadnought. Sisters and inquisition both failed by having no associated models available to buy. Would it have killed them to release ONE plastic for each? A multi part build your own inquisitor set and plastic battle sisters could have gotten me quite on board with each. I'd love to build the female inquisitor that's in the art in the book, and build her a retinue, but there's practically nowhere to easily start that project.
(For reference, Farsight enclaves was never happening for me, I run a Shadowsun tau army)
Any thoughts on the deep strike tunnel + termigaunts strategy?
Yeah they need to release a build your own Inquisitor model at some point or at least inquisitor models with options for each group. It wouldn't hurt them to release a warrior acolyte kit as well but you can sort of use guard for that anyway. Most of the other models are around though not in boxes that are large enough to quickly build an army.
On the Deep Strike Tunnel Termigaunts strategy. I've heard about it and think it could be very good for termagants only. You can't assault out of the tunnels so Hormagants will just get mowed down again. You can, however, shoot the turn you arrive so having a bunch of Termagants with devourers showing up and mowing you down could be pretty nasty. The issue will be getting people to shoot at the Termagants and not the Hormagants or Warrior brood. Overall Skyslasher Swarm and Living Artillery are both better though I wouldn't call Endless swarm bad either.
mechana2015 wrote:
Edit:
Oh and regarding the Knights... Big thumbs down. Cool idea, strongly dislike the model. It's small for the price, and the shoulder pads... Even coming from warmachine where the shoulder pads are king, they look off. Codex of one model also wasn't cool. Maybe I'm spoiled by warmachine but it irks me to pay 50 dollars for the rules to a 100 dollar or more model.
As for getting my giant robot jones, I've got the better looking new broadside and if I felt like throwing a lot of money at a model, a Riptide is pretty good sized and looks better. But... More likely than not I'll be getting one of these before a riptide:
http://privateerpress.com/files/product ... eonWEB.jpg
Harpoon tridents on pirate robots are fun... And that model is cast resin and pewter.
There's always
http://privateerpress.com/files/product ... om_WEB.jpg
and
http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/ga ... rthbreaker
as well as 5 other pretty awesome giant robots for armies I don't currently play if I felt like going on a painting/assembly mania.
I personally like the Knight codex entirely because it costs about 4.99 and an internet connection to actually play them (though given how much that issue of White Dwarf got wrong maybe I shouldn't trust it). Also, now that the size is known it should be pretty easy to find things that can stand in, allowing anyone who wants to get into 40k and happens to have something like some Gundam models sitting around to enter it cheaply with a somewhat broken army. In all seriousness, I like the models though as soon as I saw them my first thought was "huh, so GW is ripping off Warmachine now." And I don't think they are showing up Privateer press with these models either. So really this entire thing has looks like a major marketing failure.
Statistics: Posted by Peanut — Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:07 pm