Interrogator Stobz

Yep, I can't remember all the exact details but once I got it at WHW and sent home for free it was about half the cost of the contents. I remember everyone being concerned about the huge price tag for one box; but for those of us fortunate enough to have hobby funds on hand it was a bargain... and being on holiday it was easier to convince the woman-thing

I'm happy to wait a few weeks due to the shipping route issue; but the lack of announcements of stock arrival and miniscule amount available usually sees me missing out.

Lolz, mee too, but only as a list. Still cannot for the life of me get anything I want in stock here in NZ.

It wasn't here, tbf everything is overpriced in NZ, so I didn't really notice. Also, I got the GM box from WHW on a holiday, free postage made it cheap as chips in comparison. And for its contents is actually a good deal, just a big entry fee. It's HH, not sure why anyone expected xenos. So in comparison with LI that's the same metric and moot. Yeah, they didn't get the Supplimental books perfect, but at least we had a fully functional game out the door, and they were available, even on this side of the world. Hell, it's been what, about six months (?) since the game dropped, and literally the only SM things available are Rhinos, Spartans and Landraiders, even the starter box has been unavailable for months now. Infantry and Support were available for about 20 minutes a few weeks after launch and haven't come back. Drop pods still aren't available here at all. We don't need any more transportation units, we need access to all the things that go in them first. It that's not a valid criticism I'm not sure what is.

I agree with the Apologist. These are totally different beasts. One was handled excellently, and the other is an embarrassment to GW. In the beginning, AT18 got an entire, playable, and fairly balanced game, and access to all the minis needed. Then it got expansions with new minis to make it even better. Now, it looks like it's mostly concluded with the awesome compendiums. LI23 began poorly; delays aside, it has a fraction of what should have been available at launch, both minis and rules in the BrB. And it has so many balance issues. It's just not as good a game by far. unfortunately, with the datasheets locked into the books and cards, that is going to be awful to fix. Slaughter and the next few books aren't really going to be expansions per se, but actually core books for building armies. I'm not going to buy any of them moving forward; unlike the AT ones these seem like an unnecessary cash grab. The FOMO and stock issues with this release makes me mad; so I will wait, buy none of the new books, and use Battlescribe until compendiums come out in a few years. If they don't... well, meh. On top of that, the mini release schedule is awful; to keep this rant on topic, they keep releasing SM transports... as cool as they are, just wow. Many locations can't even buy core units, we don't need transportation for no troops.

My boy already chose to theme his Solar army on Tallarn; minimal infantry, in sealed transports, maximum tanks. Hopefully the expansion is Tallarn as you say.

Where were the super heavies mentioned? A previous article ?? EDIT: I was assuming SM Super Heavies, I saw the Solar one, you probably meant that...

Thanks for the list Brother. For completion, would it possible to add the things we have like Tacticals etc and normal TDA, etc as a tracking tool? As someone without the 28mm game itself I always feel in the dark a bit. And maybe the Solar stuff too?

Progress is good Brother! Don't tell the Inquisition.

We had a group of about 20 a few years ago, only the 2 who travel for comps still play 40k. Math is easy. We regularly play other games, just not 40k. We don't trust GW so we do other things.

Yeah, people keep saying that GW need to cull lines for the "health of the game' and similar; well here literally every non competitive player has quit the game. About 10% still play, and they have to travel out of town.

Cheers brother, the printed 'sculpts' are really similar, just the little round bits under their feet are a give away. And I trimmed those as much as possible and hid them under sand too. Luckily at this scale details are less important, makes the mental load less, just bung some paint on, wash, smidgen of blind, sorted.

Yeah, they're 100% a miniature company. The game is a part of the strategy to sell minis over time. The current FOMO is a tactic to sell minis fast. They don't give a toss about our collections.

I can only see trees

'Scuse the double post, got the other sprue done, yay. Now I have infantry to play with!