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Hi all,

please dont shoot me for coming here,i came here hoping to get an answer to a question about some of your marines.Can anyone tell me whats different from the DA upgrade sprue and the DA squad?

 

any help is appreciated

The upgrade sprue has massive amounts of DA specific iconography useful for personalization, with five robed PA figures, and one TDA to work with, they would be useful as Veteran/Command Sqd troops.

 

As far as the DA Sqd (circa 2004/5), if I recall it only had the DA Robed Sgt w/PP, CS (he is sold as the individual DA Tactical Sgt on GW now) and a Plasma Cannon as a HW, didn't even have a Special Weapon in the kit, the DA Marines were indistinguishable from SM centric models, PA only.

Hi all,

please dont shoot me for coming here,i came here hoping to get an answer to a question about some of your marines.Can anyone tell me whats different from the DA upgrade sprue and the DA squad?

 

any help is appreciated

 

 

Now, I have to admit that the first thing that crossed my mind was to shoot at you.... but then I actually read your post lol

 

As our battle-brother said up above the Upgrade Sprue comes with a TON of bits (I bought two of them to make some Company Veteran Squads and was blown away by all the cool stuff that came with them) while the DA squad is OOP and really not worth the money.

 

Now here's a question for you- why are you interested in obtaining these items? Maybe you could fill us in a little more and we'd be able to help assist you better... unless of course, you're a Space Wolf spy sent to search out our weaknesses and report back to your commanding officers in the hopes of despoiling the honor of our chapter? HMMMM :)

There is the Dark Angels Veteran sprue that has the bodies for 5 robed figures plus a number of pieces to perasonalise your standard marines and Termies (shoulder pads with the appropriate iconography, hands with bolters with DA stuff engraved on them, back banners, etc). For a brief period of time there was a boxed set that combined this sprue along with the generic Command squad sprue - just for marketing purposes and is no longer available.

 

There is also the Ravenwing upgrade sprue that focuses more on vechicles i.e. there are pieces to make RW style bikes, Sammael's land speeder, pieces that go on dreadnoughts (sarcophagii (sp?) and leg pieces), large DA iconograhy intended for vechicles as well as general stuff like sensers and small accessories again in a scale more appropriate for vechicles. You can get the RW upgrade from GW site individually without having to buy the entire RW box.

 

Oh, and excuse Mercy, he's from Texas so he's a bit trigger happy :) ;) :D

Yes the only DA squad you can get now is the veterans squad which is more or less the same as the upgrade sprue, I thnk you just get some extra bases from the vet squad.

 

There's definitely a thread round here that has more conclusive answers

alright thanks for all the answers.so if i wanted to do a conversion with the 5 robed marines should i get the vet squad or upgrade sprue?guess i should of said that in the OP :)

 

@Mercy: here have a fenrisian ale and when you wake up i should be gone ;).but as for your question:i had an idea for a conversion and needed the robed bodies and robed heads,i asked the manager at my local GW store and he couldn't remember what exactly the vet quad had that the upgrade sprue didn't,im not a spy since im a BloodClaw,now if a Grey hunter came here you should be worried more :D

 

 

now normally i would give an ale to those that helped me,whats your tradition around here for thanking people who helped?

alright thanks for all the answers.so if i wanted to do a conversion with the 5 robed marines should i get the vet squad or upgrade sprue?guess i should of said that in the OP :)

 

@Mercy: here have a fenrisian ale and when you wake up i should be gone ;).but as for your question:i had an idea for a conversion and needed the robed bodies and robed heads,i asked the manager at my local GW store and he couldn't remember what exactly the vet quad had that the upgrade sprue didn't,im not a spy since im a BloodClaw,now if a Grey hunter came here you should be worried more :D

 

 

now normally i would give an ale to those that helped me,whats your tradition around here for thanking people who helped?

 

Get the vet squad, I was told by a GW staff member that you can only get the upgrade sprue online, I don't know if that's true for you. The only difference between the boxes, IIRC, is bases, so just get the cheapest ;D

 

And to correct you slightly, were a grey hunter to come here, he should be worried! I joke, I welcome all our wolf brothers with open arms, not that the same can be said for all my brothers here!

 

Like captain Semper said, there's no better way to celebrate or give thanks than a good ol' spot of self-chastisement and reflection, but that being said, I'll take the Ale!

Get the vet squad, I was told by a GW staff member that you can only get the upgrade sprue online, I don't know if that's true for you. The only difference between the boxes, IIRC, is bases, so just get the cheapest ;D

 

And to correct you slightly, were a grey hunter to come here, he should be worried! I joke, I welcome all our wolf brothers with open arms, not that the same can be said for all my brothers here!

 

Like captain Semper said, there's no better way to celebrate or give thanks than a good ol' spot of self-chastisement and reflection, but that being said, I'll take the Ale!

Ok thanks,and i think i can only get the upgrade sprue online but i can just send it to my local GW store for free shipping :)

 

*takes out my drinking horn and pours some in a stein for Tengo and hands him some* who else wants some? :D

*takes out my drinking horn and pours some in a stein for Tengo and hands him some* who else wants some? :D

 

 

I do... I've got this stubborn stain in my best robe....

 

 

 

...no, you misunderstand, after drinking the ale, I won't be able to see the stain, let alone care about it!

*takes out my drinking horn and pours some in a stein for Tengo and hands him some* who else wants some? :D

 

 

I do... I've got this stubborn stain in my best robe....

 

 

 

...no, you misunderstand, after drinking the ale, I won't be able to see the stain, let alone care about it!

 

That reminds me, I have this terrible stain on my honour... something about the treachery of my brothers or something...

 

I wonder if I could drink enough to forget that?

 

not likely it seems, regardless, another round Wolf Brother Arez!

Hic..You told me you needed some trophies... more meade

Get the vet squad, I was told by a GW staff member that you can only get the upgrade sprue online, I don't know if that's true for you. The only difference between the boxes, IIRC, is bases, so just get the cheapest ;D

 

And to correct you slightly, were a grey hunter to come here, he should be worried! I joke, I welcome all our wolf brothers with open arms, not that the same can be said for all my brothers here!

 

Like captain Semper said, there's no better way to celebrate or give thanks than a good ol' spot of self-chastisement and reflection, but that being said, I'll take the Ale!

Ok thanks,and i think i can only get the upgrade sprue online but i can just send it to my local GW store for free shipping ;)

 

*takes out my drinking horn and pours some in a stein for Tengo and hands him some* who else wants some? :)

Oh great... It starts with a pint of ale... then next you know the Deathwing, Interrogator-Chaplains and our Supreme Grandmaster are all drunk and bawling in chamber 42 over the things they had to do to keep the Chapter's secrets secret... Darn Space Wolves...

About that... Brother Ramiel is currently on a ban for drink driving, the guy just can't say no to a good party.

 

Silly Space Wolves, plying us with drink so we would give up the chapter's secrets, you won't get far with those secrets with the Ravenwing hot on your tail.

The whole thing was just an elaborate ploy just to get some free drinks, if you guys got the rounds in more often, none of this would have happened!

 

Also anyone got a bucket? Brothers Syphax and Mendias don't hold their drink very well, and Chaplain Sacerdotes has locked himself in chamber 42, crying his eyes out about how his robes make him look 'fat'

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