Brother Caedrius Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Well, after receiving email notification of the upcoming WFB Skaven release I decided to see if there were any W40K releases. And what should I find..... This Seems GW have realised they were giving away a bargain with the 2 sprues for £12 and so are intending to "rerelease" it as a single sprue for £8 and still no bases! I'm sure glad I've got all the DA I need! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master of fact Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Damn they cottoned on. In only just got into DA and bought the vets and an upgrade sprue the only diff was the command sprue (melta gun ect?). And thought this is good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Ignis Domus Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Shoot, and I need to convert Azrael for that competition. Now what do I do? And it's online only. This should be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puck Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Just a note you can still get the 20$ (US) upgrade sprues if you go through this link http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/...dId=prod1060242 I picked up a couple of sprues for myself. The rumor is that GW is about to discontinue the "2 sprue" pack and go to a "1 sprue" because the 2 sprue is too good a deal. Make of that what you will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Captain Sharp Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 :P That's annoying. Who told 'em? Eh? Who's responsible for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bloodhowl Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Can I just ask what the difference between the 2 kits is (apart from cost). Looking at the picture they both seem to contain exactly the same items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Just bought 10! Looks like I have 60 Dark Angels bodies en route..... as well as teh spare Terminatr legs etc tec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caedrius Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Can I just ask what the difference between the 2 kits is (apart from cost). Looking at the picture they both seem to contain exactly the same items. The old kit was 2 of that sprue so you could build 10 marines. the new kit is only 1 sprue. so it is almost the same as the Veterans boxset now, minus the bases :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LardO'Blood Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Just bought 10! Looks like I have 60 Dark Angels bodies en route..... as well as teh spare Terminatr legs etc tec Do you mean 100 bodies? Or did you buy the new version? Can I just ask what the difference between the 2 kits is (apart from cost). Looking at the picture they both seem to contain exactly the same items. The old kit was literally this kit, but two of them in one package for 20 USD. The new kit has exactly half this kit for 13.25 USD. It's annoying...To bad the veteran kit got a price hike also! 22 USD - 24.75 USD Thinking about it, with the new veteran kit prices it isn't much of a loss relatively. 2 of the new upgrades are 26.50 USD and the veteran kit is still the same for 24.75 USD. 1.75 USD difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayward Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Maybe they had a surplus of those sprues until now... Im sure nobody "adviced" them, too much company sized (100+) buys in this forum alone of those sprues in the past and they kept that price until now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSturrock Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 That's a 33% price rise in the UK (two sprues previously cost £12, and now cost £16). I *think* I have enough Vets right now anyway, but I'm still a little grumpy about it. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabbadoo Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 Same price increase here in the US too. Okay, it is really only a 32.5% price increase here in the US, but who's counting? ;) If you have extra bases around, it is still not a bad deal though. They go really well with all of those extra heavy weapons included in the Devastators Boxed set too. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caedrius Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 and us UK dudes also have the added fortune of looking forward to a 2.5% VAT increase on all GW prices on Tuesday! Joygasm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freman Bloodglaive Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here in New Zealand the single sprue is $25.60, and the dual sprue is $64.40. (following the links above) The Veteran box is 48.00. Buying two upgrade sprues is still better value than buying the Veteran box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingin Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 I looked in sprue and it only contained 3 legs! which SUCK! cause gotta waste so much more to get 20 fully robed guys agh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrotherZaah Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Isnt this just a frame for the 'bitz' section? like the vehicle weapon sprue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caedrius Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 I looked in sprue and it only contained 3 legs! which SUCK! cause gotta waste so much more to get 20 fully robed guys agh The picture of the sprue on GW site just shows you 1 of every item you get on the sprue. There are 3 different leg types, but on the sprue you get 5 in total, 2 running, 3 standing ;) edited to improve understanding ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSturrock Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 All right, I caved, and bought one more £12 pack. Figure I will actually magnetise this set of vets, and ensure almost all my options are open, rather than just modelling them to look cool like the last set! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingin Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Thanks I was worried about that, and didn't know if it was true or not. Thanks, I wonder if I should make all my Dark Angel Marines Robed, only 20 or just the Sargent and Vets? what do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Just bought 10! Looks like I have 60 Dark Angels bodies en route..... as well as teh spare Terminatr legs etc tec Erm.. yeah. Well I now have a company of Dark ANgels to paint up.. Now what to do with all those spare Terminator legs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanSturrock Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hemal, you can often get Terminator torsos and arms from bits suppliers for not very much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellios Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Just bought 10! Looks like I have 60 Dark Angels bodies en route..... as well as teh spare Terminatr legs etc tec Erm.. yeah. Well I now have a company of Dark ANgels to paint up.. Now what to do with all those spare Terminator legs? Make the entire Deathwing company go! I'll race you :tu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemal Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Hemal, you can often get Terminator torsos and arms from bits suppliers for not very much... That is a very good point. One which I might capitalise on. This is all rather embarrasing. An irrational purchase of £120 of sprues which is going to leave me with 100+ new models waiting to be painted :-( ANd an army that I like a lot but didn't collect.. ah well, it'll give Azrael something to back him up, and I have tonnes of assault squads unassembled, so I think I may be combining with these kits. Not to mention that the bits like the phylactories and scrolls look greta on other marines as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Caedrius Posted January 5, 2011 Author Share Posted January 5, 2011 Thanks I was worried about that, and didn't know if it was true or not. Thanks, I wonder if I should make all my Dark Angel Marines Robed, only 20 or just the Sargent and Vets? what do you guys think? Well, that's a toughie...personally I think robes should be reserved for the higher ranking members of the Company/Chapter, so i would only dress Sergeants/Veteran Squads/Company Masters/Chaplains/Librarians/Command Squads and such like in robes. In my opinion this will look awesome, really defines who's in command, and will cost you a lot less than having to buy a lot of those upgrade sprues, but then the choice is yours. I didn't use any at all for my 3rd Co., but that was due to bad planning, bad financing, and a general dislike for "bling!" at the time! hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LardO'Blood Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Hemal, you can often get Terminator torsos and arms from bits suppliers for not very much... He can just make them Loganwing so all the upgrade kit storm bolters and power swords don't go to waste! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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