Rumour Blood Angel Boxset

[Jolemai]

1 minute ago, Alternis said:

Brother, report to the nearest chaplain, the flaw takes you. 

 

Nah. Firstborn are for life, not just for Sanguinala 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

9 hours ago, Scribe said:

 

A Death Company Character noted for his self control, calmly taking a shot instead of assuming the aggro pose of other Death Company isnt distinct?

 

But the Wolverine pose is?

It literally is.

there’s no other space marine model in the whole range of all space marines with a similar pose, that by definition makes it distinct.

 

meanwhile there’s tons of models that have a chaplain calmly holding a crozius in one hand and generically holding another weapon in the other, and even more of a marine pointing/aiming a pistol while holding a melee weapon in the other.

 

Edit 

I think there might be 1 wulfen sculpt that’s kinda sorta similar but not really.

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[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

1 hour ago, DemonGSides said:

 

His feet being on different levels kinda throws that away.  You wouldn't land like that if you were landing while going down slope.

 

He's quite literally doing this;

 

You also wouldn’t land on a tiny rock with straight legs like so many seem to have interpreted the last iteration of his model.

[Alternis]

I think we should all stop stressing about whether Lemartes is landing, or standing, cracked rock, his previous model pose etc etc. 

 

when did something so minuscule turn into such a huge issue? 
 

it’s a great model, it looks good, everyone is entitled to having their own personal “OPINION” what their head canon lore is in regards to what he’s doing in that stance and leave it at that. 
 

just because 1 person doesn’t agree with your opinion on it, doesn’t make it wrong

and just because 1 person thinks their opinion is right, doesn’t make everyone else wrong. 
 

so let’s put the debate into the sarcophagus, and leave it alone. 
 

I want to talk box contents, rumours, enjoy the conversation and have fun. 
 

thank you all. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

14 minutes ago, Blindhamster said:

Right, standing straight legged on a tiny rock somehow represents landing gracefully or something, but bent knees crouching some how doesn’t represent landing.

 

good catch on the cracks I never looked that closely at it, and now you bring it up, it does look kinda similar to the stormcast doing the super hero landing.

 

by the way, is there any depictions or representations of marines with jump packs landing softly that would allow a straight legged landing? All of the depictions I’ve seen they seem to come down pretty hard because jump packs aren’t jet packs.

[DemonGSides]

22 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

there’s no other space marine model in the whole range of all space marines with a similar pose, that by definition makes it distinct

 

It's literally the same pose as the BA terminator with lightning claws from Space Hulk but whatever dude, I'm not interested in discussing this with you.

 

20 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

You also wouldn’t land on a tiny rock with straight legs like so many seem to have interpreted the last iteration of his model.

 

Lol, lmao, rofl even.

 

 

[NovemberIX]

20 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

It literally is.

there’s no other space marine model in the whole range of all space marines with a similar pose, that by definition makes it distinct.

 

meanwhile there’s tons of models that have a chaplain calmly holding a crozius in one hand and generically holding another weapon in the other, and even more of a marine pointing/aiming a pistol while holding a melee weapon in the other.

Well Akshullly....

An Argument could be made about the ultramarine being multiple parts, but the termi is a monopose from spacehulk and has been around quite a while.

[DemonGSides]

Nevermind

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I was wrong

[Blindhamster]

25 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Right, standing straight legged on a tiny rock somehow represents landing gracefully or somethin

This is also a thing, my own Dante conversion was modelled with this in mind. If you search for leogante: wings of redemption by Andrea miniatures you’ll see the idea. I don’t think the old lemartes really encapsulated that look personally, but it’s definitely a thing to show grace.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

21 minutes ago, DemonGSides said:

 

It's literally the same pose as the BA terminator with lightning claws from Space Hulk but whatever dude, I'm not interested in discussing this with you.

 

 

Lol, lmao, rofl even.

 

 

It’s not literally the same, but I’m, so the new one has 2 models that are sorta similar, vs the old one that has dozens of models that are similar…

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

22 minutes ago, NovemberIX said:

Well Akshullly....

An Argument could be made about the ultramarine being multiple parts, but the termi is a monopose from spacehulk and has been around quite a while.

The ultramarine is also fully upright, making the poses significantly different with hands directly at his sides rather than either going back behind him.

 

so we’re looking at 1-2 similar sculpts compared to many, many, similar sculpts.

[NovemberIX]

I don’t have a dog in this fight, there was a statement of absolutes about no wolverine poses in the marine range, and well, that’s not quite true. I mean I agree there are already sculpts of marine standing or striding with a crozius, but that’s neither here nor there.

[Alternis]

Someone summon the inquisition. 
 

this post has fallen to heresy 

[Jolemai]

Keep the discussion constructive and respectful please folks.

 

[jaxom]

4 hours ago, VanDutch said:

Quite. I wonder if they plan on bringing back death company upgrades for Lieutenants and Captains. At least I hope they do, I’ve got three or four painted up from last edition! 

That would make a lot of sense as one of a DC detachment’s enhancements.

[Sky Potato]

4 hours ago, VanDutch said:

Quite. I wonder if they plan on bringing back death company upgrades for Lieutenants and Captains. At least I hope they do, I’ve got three or four painted up from last edition! 

Interesting thought. You could have a Captain called Tycho, and have alternate rules for Captain Tycho falling to the Black Rage, for example.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

16 minutes ago, jaxom said:

That would make a lot of sense as one of a DC detachment’s enhancements.

We really don’t need a DC detachment. It makes no sense, more than a few brothers falling at any given time rarely happens let alone a whole task force or army.

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[Scribe]

24 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

We really don’t need a DC detachment. It makes no sense, more than a few brothers falling at any given time rarely happens let alone a whole task force or army.

 

Old White Dwarf, I think it may have even made it into a Chapter Approved compilation, 3rd Edition?

[DemonGSides]

32 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

We really don’t need a DC detachment. It makes no sense, more than a few brothers falling at any given time rarely happens let alone a whole task force or army.

 

Even a casual perusal of any Wikipedia entry of Death Company will talk about HUNDREDS of them taking to the field at once in multiple situations.

[El_Dicko]

I find a whole army of Death Company rather boring, but I am pondering this box, perhaps as a Flesh Tearers force, although it seems a bit of a waste of all the chapter symbol gubbins, maybe Angels of absolution and just source tiny skulls?

[Special Officer Doofy]

I know absolutely nothing about blood angels, but I think this black rage or red thirst has taken a few of you in this thread.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

6 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

Old White Dwarf, I think it may have even made it into a Chapter Approved compilation, 3rd Edition?

And? 
it’s literally a stupid concept.

Aside from a narrative where warp magic somehow sends all sons of sanguinius in a given radius into the rage, it’s an idea of stupidity.

 

”Oh LeTs jUsT hAvE a WhOlE aRmY oF dEaTh CoMpAnY!”

 

[Nephaston]

"An army" as we play them on the regular is almost always just a snapshot pf a larger conflict anyway. The other element of that deployment are just out of frame.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

5 minutes ago, DemonGSides said:

 

Even a casual perusal of any Wikipedia entry of Death Company will talk about HUNDREDS of them taking to the field at once in multiple situations.

Over how many thousands of years? Over the course of 10 thousand years there’s maybe a dozen occurances?

1 minute ago, Nephaston said:

"An army" as we play them on the regular is almost always just a snapshot pf a larger conflict anyway. The other element of that deployment are just out of frame.

Maybe for other factions, but a two dozen marines is typically the entirety of most task forces that get sent out. Most space marine deployments are typically a squad or two, maybe 3.

[Nephaston]

8 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

Maybe for other factions, but a two dozen marines is typically the entirety of most task forces that get sent out. Most space marine deployments are typically a squad or two, maybe 3.

Most marine deployments also don't contain the characters that every player seems to bring. In general I'd argue that the games we play are non-canon anyway, so why not have fun with the "what-if" of a full Death Company deployment.

Sure it might be stupid in-fluff, bit so is a good chunk of the fluff at baseline.