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harbringer883 said:
Is horusgalaxy any good?
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I just looked at it. This was worth a chuckle.
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p1138 said:
Does that mean GW would be more successful if they just doubled the cost because morons will happily pay triple from a scalper anyway? Probably not, because then the initial interest wouldn't be there to begin with. The scalper market is entirely driven by customers willing to fork out the cash.
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No. For a couple of reasons.

The one you mentioned requires getting into the weeds of economics, but as short as possible, people want to buy at the lowest price available, but will pay what they thing is worth to them. A starving man will pay £150 for a slice of bread, but he wont if the loaf is £1. GW would sell more models at half, or quarter of the price, but is that enough to make up for the loss from people who walk away vs those who pay up?

Second, scalpers don't win as often as people think. Some do, but in many cases (like retro games) it has been found that it's scalpers selling to other scalpers to keep the price up. In other cases, scalpers end up out of pocket like covid toilet paper hoarders or Wii hoarders. Once the supply returns or the demand goes away, they are stuck with stock they can't move. eg. I remember a new story post covid where someone was demanding that shops have a legal obligation to accept refunds when they had a house full of toilet roll and no one would buy it.

p1138 said:
As far as the FOMO stuff, you're spot on. There's a reason GW had a fucking cargo container of free skaventide boxes to give away at adepticon, leaving them sitting around is a liability. There's still AoS 3.0 dominion boxes sitting on retail shelves for fucks sake(I've also seen some of the 2.0 launch boxes not too long ago as well, but I've seen that once while dominion is still all over the place).
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And it's not as if everything is forever anyway. See all the people (like me) who wouldn't mind a first born space marine army.

Second Missing Primarch said:
This. GW store guys have never outright lied to me, but they will also do everything they can to dodge around giving a straight answer to a question about upcoming releases or changes. It's interesting that he said flat-out that HH 3.0 isn't in the cards for now, because that's way more definitive than they usually get in my experience.
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I think it was because adapticon just happened.

Bonesjones said:
It happens a lot in shitty media, like Worf in Star Trek. You have someone who is supposed to be very strong and good at fighting but then there's no tension in the plot, so they always end up losing, making them look like complete buffoons.
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As a one off it could work, but it happens so often it becomes comical.

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The GamerGate forums went through this until the admin who was literally a tranny pedophile (seriously he ran for office on a "let me fuck kids" platform in the UK, and moderated hundreds of child targeted subreddits) was pulling shit like "this violates the rules but I won't say what rule or how" and nuking random posts, posters, and even moderators. They finally just banned all mention of transsexuals AT ALL, negative or positive, which pissed the admin off but the whole "proud and out pedophile" got out and he got yeeted before he could do anything but sneed.
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Was it an anti GG sub like GamerGahzi? It sounds on par for those groups.
 
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This Fulgrim paint job looks amazing. Way better than what GW put out
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I read the interview where the designer, wanted a “monsterous” Fulgrim and casually states that he didn’t want to do the “cliche” handsome face, ugly face and helmeted face approach, going instead for the multiple expressions. He also goes on to explain why 40k Fulgrim is more sea monster/siren than snake.

So going by that logic, if you must take the character who is most known for being beautiful and make him ugly, there is literally nothing more fitting than to just make him Frank Cotton, a character that is undoubtedly the origin of Fulgrim.

I’m still thinking up what I’m gonna do for my Fulgrim.
 
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Sigbro's tell me about your experience if any at all of playing spearhead. From what I've seen it's basically what combat patrol should have been but the terrain is somewhat limited. The Kharadron Overlords box looks rather fun with good movement but a small number of units might make it harder to grab objectives.
 
You guys like drop pods?
Here's new space marine drop pods! and they're in a 2 pack!
But what about the weapons it has causing it to allow some weird movement blocking and shit?
The storm bolter and deathwind launcher normally mounted above the passengers – which, let’s face it, was a colossal safety hazard – has been removed
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It's just gone, so it'll probably be getting a new datasheet making it a dedicated transport
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while the endlessly fiddly doors that spawned a thousand arguments about vehicle footprints are now fastened firmly in their open position.
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So now they're just permanently down, so good fucking luck ever dropping your new pair of foot wide drop pods anywhere on the battlefield for anything other than pre-existing static terrain.
 
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p1138 said:
You guys like drop pods?
Here's new space marine drop pods! and they're in a 2 pack!
But what about the weapons it has causing it to allow some weird movement blocking and shit?

It's just gone, so it'll probably be getting a new datasheet making it a dedicated transport
What else could they have improved?

So now they're just permanently down, so good fucking luck ever dropping your new pair of foot wide drop pods anywhere on the battlefield for anything other than pre-existing static terrain.
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General transportation of the model will also be a nightmare. It was large enough without the doors being permanently open so I'm gonna grab a couple more before the current kit leaves the shelves for good.
 
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p1138 said:
So now they're just permanently down, so good fucking luck ever dropping your new pair of foot wide drop pods anywhere on the battlefield for anything other than pre-existing static terrain.
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Are they just trying to make everyone play Horus Heresy by making space marines so bland and horrible?
 
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Inquisitor_BadAss said:
General transportation of the model will also be a nightmare. It was large enough without the doors being permanently open so I'm gonna grab a couple more before the current kit leaves the shelves for good.
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What? You mean you don't want to somehow pack up two 12" wide, 6" tall drop pods to take to a game that you probably won't even be able to deploy?

Also, deploying them is more absurd than I initially realized. Not only do you need a place where you can put the damned foot wide thing to begin with. It also needs a 9 inch bubble around that of no enemy models, that's damn near 30" for just one. Two next to eachother assuming your table is fucking barren and your own models aren't in the way, that's a 42" wide area?
 
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Drop pods are cool that's the only reason. They can deploy on turn 1 though so if you really want to play hyper aggressive you could drop into No Man's land, assuming your opponent doesn't infiltrate or scout too far. My buddy tried them out and realized that Drop Pods have OC, which means they can capture points. So why not drop a giant brick on the point that blocks movement and soaks up a ton of damage if you want to clear it? Having it also shoot back at you makes it an even more annoying target since you can't just let it eat at your scouts. There was also some debate over how much space you actually need to deploy. Deep Strike rules requires a model be more than 9" away, but the drop pod doesn't need to use Deep Strike to set up on the battlefield, it can use Drop Pod Assault which does not have any range requirement for the drop pod itself only that the units disembarking be more than 9" away. This makes deploying the damn thing just a bit easier.

Ruleswise I guess wait and see if the new datasheet makes any significant changes. Removal of the weapons I think is bad for the game and the model. It's classic 40k to not only drop in and come out shooting but the pod itself is indiscriminately shooting bolters and rockets as well to clear the landing zone. Having it on a fixed base doesn't help clarify where you measure from, especially not if you have optional rubble. You'll still need an FAQ to tell people whether to measure to the fins or the hull, which could have been done a long time ago with the old model. This just makes it a huge bitch to transport, as people have said already, and is far less interesting from a modeling standpoint. Do I want the drop pod that is only a big brick or do I want the one with movable parts and guns attached to it? The choice is easy.
 
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