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| dethtron | May 11 2010, 02:35 PM Post #1 |
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Pyrophant Judge
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Spearhead Mini pre-orders just went up on GW's site earlier today. you can see them here the kits are as follows Eldar Fireprism/night spinner Eldar Support Platform IG Leman Russ IG Deathstrike/Manticore I'm not particuarly overwhelemed by the IG selection, but i know lauby is chuffed about the new fire prism kit. it looks pretty nice. since I'm short on time I will just say that I wish they had cut the kit as a manticore/hydra kit, and kept the designs the same as the FW versions of those kits. as they are now they look way too similar to the shitty epic 40k versions of these kits from years ago. this also means that i still can't field hydras for less than $80 each. that sucks since i'd like to own somewhere between 4 and 6 of them. I'm also pissed that there still is no sign of the artillery (Medusa, colossus) that we saw CAD maockups of at games day last year. New leman russ kit looks solid enough, but i'll be holding off on that since I already own 11 basic russes. the variants contained within the box are all garbage units, except for the eradicaor which is fun. case in point the LR annihilator?(the AC one) costs about the same as 2 hydras and has about the firepower of 1 hydra, just on a better armored platform....meh. |
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| DFM | May 11 2010, 07:12 PM Post #2 |
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I like the manticore version, not really loving the ruleset for it tho. deathstrike otoh, looks really lame to me. Squadron kit is vitrually worthless to me as well. |
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| dethtron | May 11 2010, 11:05 PM Post #3 |
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Pyrophant Judge
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dude the manticore is like the best thing to happen in the history of ever. well maybe not hte best thing, but it rocks my ass. Wound anybody on 2+, beat the hell out of vehicles, pin your targets, chew through anything short of power/terminator armor, drop up to 3 5" templates in one go, strike from anywhere in the material world, cost less than a LR demolisher....yes please. plus when it runs out of ammo you have either a) won the game or b) just gotten yourself a battering ram with a heavy flamer
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| Lauby | May 12 2010, 11:24 AM Post #4 |
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Inquisitor Lord
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Hmm, the Manticore - a nasty piece of equipment indeed. Its given me nothing but headaches whenever its on the table. Its the only thing in the IG book that actually scares me. The new kit looks like shit, i think. OK, well maybe not 'shit', exactly, The forgewold one is way better. The Deathstrike, however, I'm not sold on. I'd also like to see the Hydra and the Medusa kit one of these days. The colossus and the griffon, not so much since the rules are kinda garbage. Maybe next year. Hah! God, it has taken forever for the IG to have a complete range. The new Russ package seemed kinda lame - right up until the point I noticed it was also a regular russ. That's actually quite the little package. Good for the bitz box and keeps the the number of Russ Kits down. Well played. Lastly, we have Pask. AKA - a boring lump of metal. As far as the Eldar go, Lets get the downer out of the way - the support platforms. A pretty decent model... for a shitty, crappy unit. First off, they just aren't that good - a static firing platform in an army built for mobility? They're also as fragile as everything else in the codex. Add to that the main competition in the heavy support slots and there's no reason to take them over Fire Prisms, Falcons or even Wraithlords and warwalkers. I see the need for the kit since the old one was a solid chunk of metal - i just don't think that many are gonna sell. On to the main event - the new Fire Prism. This kit is boss. A vast improvement over the original. The more I look at it, the less unhappy I am about assembling my current Prisms as Falcons. Well worth the expense. Comes with a shuriken cannon upgrade and completely does away with the crappy metal bitz pack. Seriously, that pack is awful. The crystal is cut long ways and due to age and the tendency of large metal parts to warp, was going to require a ton of green stuff. As for the rest, it was going to require a monumental amount of pinning. This is all work I will gladly pay 40+ bucks a pop to avoid. Also... I have Falcons now. Did I mention how freaking awesome the turret is? Because its pretty amazing. Not gonna talk about the Night spinner much. As nice as the kit is, the rules will need to be drastically improved for me to even consider building one - let alone taking one in a list. The current rules have it at a 7 inch blast at str 6. Not too, too bad. But AP - kills it. Lastly, the command frame. I'm actually pretty happy to see this little guy available again. Haven't been able to get it since Apocalypse came out with all those formation boxes. Lots of cool little parts to use. [edit] forget clean about the Griffon. Edited by Lauby, May 12 2010, 12:23 PM.
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| TheKingElessar | May 16 2010, 05:36 PM Post #5 |
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Penitent
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The Command Sprue helps me (finally!) complete my Serpent conversions...now all I need is to replace all my existing Wave Serpents with converted versions...
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| dethtron | May 16 2010, 09:33 PM Post #6 |
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Pyrophant Judge
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I know you live across the pond and all, but I have 4 or 5 sprues worth of the eldar bts from those frames that I will never find a use for. If you are interested in some kind of a trade, I would be more than happy to mail them your way. Here are some things I am in want of currently: models suitable to be an IG priest IG psker battle squads (just need 3 more psykers) space marines bolt pistol and chainsword arms Heavy flamers from the IG superheavy kits midget porn PM me if you're interested... |
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