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[Majkhel]

Generally the furioso sprue allows for building any of the 3 dreads. The front plates are all on one sprue. I'd say that it's the full furioso in there with all options. Pictures would also confirm this.

[Charlo]

Yeah you'll be able to make a Furioso, DC or Libby Dread with loads of spares for whatever else you do.

[Xenith]

I finally made it back to the forums to update my ETL Vow and the Feast of Blades.

 

Now England is out, things will be less frantic, so there is a silver lining. 

[Jolemai]

 

 

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ETL VI - WEEK 10 UPDATE

 

 

 

 

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+++ETL VI - WEEK 10 UPDATE+++

 

 

Week 10 was not as productive as Week 9 but still delivered 14k pts worth of completions. Total completed points rose to 127k while total points pledged surpassed the 400k mark reaching 408k. That in turn implies an overall completion rate of 31%. 

 

On a Faction level, we had two surprises: 1) the Adeptus Astartes moderate performance with a completion rate below 30% and total score of 12.6k and 2) the stellar performance of the AoD Faction that is now leading the ETL with a completion rate of 43.8% and a score of 13.3k! Chaos is still very strong with a score of almost 8k pts but with a lot of firepower still and the IFOR with a completion rate of just 23.2% (the lowest among the 5 Factions) and a score of 4.2k. Last is the Xenos but with a completion rate of 32.8% vs. and a score of 3.4k.

 

I will now further analyse Week 10 results:

 

E TENEBRAE LUX VI – Week 10

Faction/ForumParticipantsVowsPoints pledgedAvg. Vow Completions CRSCRAdeptus Astartes 185 255 163,078 64045,434 27.9% 12,658 Space Marines 6793 50,871 547 11,719 23.0% 2,700 Blood Angels 44 6643,953 666 15,162 34.5% 5,230 Dark Angels 45 56 38,203 682 10,718 28.1% 3,007 Space Wolves 29 40 30,051 751 7,83526.1% 2,043 IFOR 67 91 77,429 851 17,99523.2% 4,182 Adepta Sororitas 6 7 4,303 615 519 12.1% 63 AdMech 13 20 11,564 578 3,679 31.8% 1,170Astra Militarum 21 31 22,362 721 9,112 40.7% 3,713 Imperial Agents 12 13 21,676 1,667 894 4.1% 37 Grey Knights 2 2 2,658 1,329 0 0% 0 Deathwatch 13 18 14,866 826 3,791 25.5% 967 Realm of Chaos 67 100 66,438 664 23,014 34.6% 7,972 Chaos Space Marines 55 84 51,638 615 20,131 39.0% 7,848 Chaos Daemons 4 5 4,145 829 738 17.8% 131 LatD 8 11 10,655 969 2,145 20.1% 432 Xenos 41 50 31,356 627 10,274 32.8% 3,366 Aeldari 10 11 3,492 317 718 20.6% 148 Necrons 10 12 7,507 626 3,960 52.8% 2,089 Orks 4 5 3,600 720 1,307 36.3% 475 T’au Empire 13 17 13,641 802 4,031 29.6% 1,191 Tyranids 4 5 3,116 623 258 8.3% 21 AoD 47 73 69,345 950 30,357 43.8% 13,289 AoD-L 26 38 34,863 917 12,420 35.6% 4,425 AoD-T 21 35 34,482 985 17,937 52.0% 9,331 Total ETL VI 407 569 407,646 716 127,074 31.2% 39,612

 

BLOOD ANGELS:

The BAs continue to lead the Astartes Faction in terms of score, at 5.2k and have a significant distance from the second (the DAs) of 2.2k pts. Truth is that despite having the lowest average vow (which is not that low anyway) they have more than made up for it with the highest re-vowing rate of 50% and also have the highest completion rate of the Faction! Congratulations for the fighting spirit and methodical work – you’ve been productive and focused, even during the difficult month of June and early July. Keep it up and you stand a good chance of becoming Primus Inter Pares of the Astartes Faction and why not getting the top position all forums in the ETL (you’re currently in third place behind Chaos Marines and AoD-T)! 

 

 

Three weeks to go and we find ourselves sitting comfortably in the lead of the Adeptus Astartes mega-Faction, and in third place overall. Whilst it should be noted that CSM and AoD-T have pulled ahead in score, this is based on their completions so far. If you look at the points pledged, we have committed to more than AoD-T (so a higher completion rate will see us clear of them), we are behind CSM so we need to beat their rate. If this was a long distance race, CSM have the reputation for the sprint finish so we need to go into overdrive now and try to hang on.

 

What is important too is to encourage the SM, DA, and SW as without them we will miss out on one of the three titles. Whilst we have our own goals, we are still battle brothers in blocking the inroads of the heretic, mutant, traitor, and xenos. Go now, extend some encouragement and support to our fellow brethen and cajole them into finishing strongly too.

 

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[dread05]

Started working on the DC box last night, I got to say, I was very impressed. Dont know why I've been avoiding them for the last 1 and a half year :|

[Charlo]

We got a power armoured Preator today to go with the Tartaros one from the stream a little while ago:

 

[dread05]

Did they mention a release date?

[Charlo]

Not that I know of, but it'll be within about 2 months (assuming the two Preators come as a double pack?) As they only preview things 3 months away or less and the TDA one was about a month ago

[Majkhel]

We got a power armoured Preator today to go with the Tartaros one from the stream a little while ago:

 

Our very own Jamie Lannister :D

[Jolemai]

Current BA Unit of the Week:

• Intercessor Squads

[Xenith]

We got a power armoured Preator today to go with the Tartaros one from the stream a little while ago:

 

Nooooo! Why sculpt all that gorgeous detail then have a hands across the chest pose?

 

Edit: FW BA are going to be intimidating to paint with all that filligree.

Edited July 16, 2018 by Xenith

[dread05]

TBH, im just looking for a good reason to buy these models for 40k :P The terminator could be a terminator sergeant, and the power armored praetor? Another captain? 

[Spagunk]

Today, the sanguinor tanked a squad of 6 harlies and wipe them out after some great saves and the nearby standard of Sacrifice. He then ran off and charged another harlie squad and wiped 5 of them.

[Panzer]

 

Edit: FW BA are going to be intimidating to paint with all that filligree.

 

 

I know right! I really really hope BA specific Primaris will get detail on a similar level eventually!

[DemonGSides]

TBH, im just looking for a good reason to buy these models for 40k The terminator could be a terminator sergeant, and the power armored praetor? Another captain? 

 

Captain, or an Ancient.  Got a great pose for having a banner that he could be holding while looking off into the distance.

[Xenith]

 

 

 

Edit: FW BA are going to be intimidating to paint with all that filligree.

 

I know right! I really really hope BA specific Primaris will get detail on a similar level eventually!

I hope for exactly the opposite! Special unit,perhaps, but I feel the BA tactical squad is *too* drenched in detail. I already hate painting the trim on chaos marines, I don't want to have to do it with the BA also! Give me plain power armour any day.

[Panzer]

Aww don't be like that. Painting all those details is a good pain! :P

[Blindhamster]

I agree with xenith, I would rather they keep most troops reasonably simple, just throw in the occasional blood drop or chalice device here and there. I'd rather they made more exciting transfers to add ostentatious details however often and where we want them.

[Charlo]

*Glances at the 5 DC that took him weeks*

 

Yeah... Let's leave all that detail off the normal guys please...!

 

Less is more. Sculpted shoulder pad chapter symbols and a few drops here and there is fine.

[Kaese]

I agree. Especially as all the decorations of the skilled artisans seems to have only little variation. Surely there has to be something else they could use rather that endless waves of skulls, blood drops, vials, purity seals and ropes.

[dread05]

If the normal guys didnt have so many decorations, they'd simply be red marines. And when a tactical sergeant looks like a captain, what should a captain (or a praetor) look like? :P

[Panzer]

If the normal guys didnt have so many decorations, they'd simply be red marines. And when a tactical sergeant looks like a captain, what should a captain (or a praetor) look like?

 

Like a special character obviously ... and special characters well ... who needs those if you have fancy captains. 

[Jolemai]

Two weeks to go in the ETL folks, how are you getting on with finishing those vows?

[dread05]

 

If the normal guys didnt have so many decorations, they'd simply be red marines. And when a tactical sergeant looks like a captain, what should a captain (or a praetor) look like?

 

Like a special character obviously ... and special characters well ... who needs those if you have fancy captains. 

 

 

I think the same guy will sculpt our gene father. Just imagine that detail :P

[Panzer]

Two weeks to go in the ETL folks, how are you getting on with finishing those vows?

 

What vow 

 

No seriously, I've planned to finish it this weekend (this time for real!  ).