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 Agamemnon2 wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:
So, looks like the Spartan sprues are mainly labelled Land Raider with only a single sprue labelled Spartan. E, C, B and L sprues are all Land Raider with the Spartan being sprue C. Wonder if we’ll see the Typhon or Cerberus in plastic

Photos of a new Land Raider Proteus have already leaked.

The Land Raider in the ultramarines model gallery is the new plastic kit if you have Liber Astartes

I don't think the more niche units like Typhon or Cerberus are likely to be released in the short term. The return on investment would probably be better with the Sicaran and Rhino chassis variants.

My stuff just arrived. Blimey, given it was less expensive I wasn't expecting the map to be as nice as the SoT ones, but this is the most cheaply made piece of crap I remember GW putting out in a long while.

It's the same level of quality as a "local attractions" fold out map you find in a B&B in the middle of nowhere.

I'm amazed even GW had the gall to charge more than a fiver for it.

Well, got my box. It's an absolute unit of a box (I think same thickness as the Shadow War: Armageddon box).

The only real nitpick is, once again, the mark VI sprue. One medium sized + one small sized sprue instead of three medium sized ones makes for a lot of compromises.

Man, still waiting here in my grotto :(

I wanna get building the Spartan!

So turns out the Missile and HB weapon set comes with arms for both weapon options.

It's been more than a year since the last time my FLGS got their new releases on time for the release day so I won't expect my copy to arrive for another D6 weeks :(

Luckily I have some MK3 and MK4 marines to shave from my backlog while waiting for new stuff to hit the shelves.

 Agamemnon2 wrote:
I don't think the more niche units like Typhon or Cerberus are likely to be released in the short term. The return on investment would probably be better with the Sicaran and Rhino chassis variants.

One of the sprues marked Land Raider is clearly Spartan specific, as it has the center sides, extra tracks, and spacer plates to make the hull larger.

Typhon and cerberus would only need a single sprue swap from the Spartan, replacing the front ramp sprue with a gun mount which could possibly fit both gun options.

Another potential swap over would be a whirlwind scorpius turret that could bundle with a sicaran hull to make the arcus design.

Daft question...I am not seeing many Contemptors without the power fist...are there any rules reasons why taking 2 ranged weapons would be a disadvantage? I remember in past editions of 40k you could not always fire all ranged weapons on a model...is that the case in the Heresy ruleset? Thanks in advance, and apologies for my ineptitude.

You're just seeing people using what's in the kit. Double weapons are still perfectly valid, just usually not two different weapons.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
One of the sprues marked Land Raider is clearly Spartan specific, as it has the center sides, extra tracks, and spacer plates to make the hull larger.

That kind of sounds like it could enable you to make a retro version of the current plastic Land Raider. No idea if that's actually possible. I'm going entirely off of your description here. I don't have the kit myself.

 Gert wrote:
You're just seeing people using what's in the kit. Double weapons are still perfectly valid, just usually not two different weapons.

Cheers, I am not really a player but do not want to build an illegal loadout. A Gravis bolter cannon and gravis melta sounds good to me, no matter how inefficient it may be in game.

I really like that the Spartan has SoH and Imperial Fist moulded iconography on the sprue, transfers are great but you cannot beat moulded detail IMO.

Best GW can do for me is send me a notice that 1 of my 2 orders shipped today. Oddly, the second of the 2....

Good old GW US.

 Geifer wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
One of the sprues marked Land Raider is clearly Spartan specific, as it has the center sides, extra tracks, and spacer plates to make the hull larger.

That kind of sounds like it could enable you to make a retro version of the current plastic Land Raider. No idea if that's actually possible. I'm going entirely off of your description here. I don't have the kit myself.

Two sprues will be swapped out of the Spartan kit with alternate versions to make the Proteus explorator/carrier Land Raider.

 Nicky J wrote:
Apologies if this has been covered already, but does anyone know if GW have confirmed whether the FW Deimos doors are fully compatible with the new plastic rhino?

From just eyeballing the sprue shots, it looks like it should be fine, but knowing my luck if I order some, it will turn out they are slightly smaller diameter or something…

Just in case anyone else was interested, it looks like they are completely the same:

(Source: https://twitter.com/jackdaw_willow/status/1538111133294395399?s=21&t=-NhqTZoNoFQlh64VblQGPQ)

 TalonZahn wrote:
Best GW can do for me is send me a notice that 1 of my 2 orders shipped today. Oddly, the second of the 2....

Good old GW US.

if you ordered to store it's proably in at the local store. I know I got a "shipped" message last night but it's actually already at the store.

Still waiting for postie. Not got alot of faith now...

Finally got a shipping estimate, delivery by 28th of June... #flockmylife

BrianDavion wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
Best GW can do for me is send me a notice that 1 of my 2 orders shipped today. Oddly, the second of the 2....

Good old GW US.

if you ordered to store it's proably in at the local store. I know I got a "shipped" message last night but it's actually already at the store.

Sadly I live in The Sticks, so the closest store is at least 2 hours away.

The inability for GW to send stuff to receive on release date, hell even 1 day before, is astounding. It's not like there aren't thousands of copies already in the wild as of yesterday. Hell, I could buy the box off someone on Facebook and get it before I would from GW.....

They don't even ship until release date.

Ah well, such is life.

Spartan is pretty fun to build. Not entirely convinced one should follow the instructions religiously. When you’re attaching the front and rear of the central bit, it’s a lot easier to glue the rear top to the front top, then glue in the base plate. From there, get it glued to one of the track assemblies fairly quickly, as that will ensure everything is lined up properly.

Other than that everything is perfectly good. Perhaps a smidge of a gap here and there, but I can’t rule out that’s as result of slight misalignments on my behalf. Certainly nothing the base cost won’t cover, or just a dod of green stuff.

Why in the world would you order from GW's website, which will guarantee all of the above shipping problems, and not a discounted online store?

caladancid wrote:
Why in the world would you order from GW's website, which will guarantee all of the above shipping problems, and not a discounted online store?

Yeah, I can't see any reason to order these type of boxes from GW direct.

I ordered from my FLGS (Mythicos) and my HH stuff is already out for delivery.

caladancid wrote:
Why in the world would you order from GW's website, which will guarantee all of the above shipping problems, and not a discounted online store?

My 2 go to online stores, Gamenerdz and MM, didn't have them up when GW did and when MM did have them up, they were gone instantly.

So feel free to make your recomendations.

caladancid wrote:
Why in the world would you order from GW's website, which will guarantee all of the above shipping problems, and not a discounted online store?

I ordered direct from GW because of the limited reaction tokens and stuff. Ordering direct was the only way to get those.

I know right, kinda stupid to miss out on -25% off retail just to get a bunch of tokens.. But I reckon these tokens will be very valuable when actually playing the game. I well enough financially that I can afford the higher price - the box was great value even at full retail.

I also ordered Kill Team: Octarius direct from GW, as well as ordered a spare metal gauge from ebay so as to have doubles in metal. I'm weird like that, I love metal accesories!

Picked up mine today. Very rare to have things on release day since the Elves left Middle Earth.

Whilst I’ve not built it yet, anyone else finding the Contemptor a bit, well, overly bitsy? As I’m what looks to be a lot of fiddliness where it’s perhaps unnecessary?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Whilst I’ve not built it yet, anyone else finding the Contemptor a bit, well, overly bitsy? As I’m what looks to be a lot of fiddliness where it’s perhaps unnecessary?

From just looking at the instruction sheet, I feel like most of the bity-ness is either to accomodate it being as poseable as possible, or future-proofing it for any possible future upgrade kits with new weapons or legion-specific armour decorations (hence why so many of the armour plates are separate).

But yes, there is a lot to the kit.

Quite possibly. My opinion might change once I’ve actually built it.

I was expecting this to be sold out, but it seems like it's still available on the GW store and also from independent stockists.

So it seems like they expected it to sell well and made loads of them.

 Nicky J wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:
Apologies if this has been covered already, but does anyone know if GW have confirmed whether the FW Deimos doors are fully compatible with the new plastic rhino?

From just eyeballing the sprue shots, it looks like it should be fine, but knowing my luck if I order some, it will turn out they are slightly smaller diameter or something…

Just in case anyone else was interested, it looks like they are completely the same:

(Source: https://twitter.com/jackdaw_willow/status/1538111133294395399?s=21&t=-NhqTZoNoFQlh64VblQGPQ)

Thanks, that's very helpful.

I'd been waiting for confirmation that the FW doors were compatible