EC Rumours

[Nephaston]

I guess there's a lot of choice in codex variants; Regular, Limited army set edition, Collectors edition, and limitedest collectorest edition.

 

Prepare to not get any of them before they get scalped.

[crimsondave]

No combat patrol this week?  To they usually come later?

[01RTB01]

25 minutes ago, crimsondave said:

No combat patrol this week?  To they usually come later?

They said when they did the video that the CP would be "later in the year".

 

I've already got two of the army boxes, already had rhinos and land raiders. I picked up a daemon prince and 2 maulerfiends. As such I'll wait for the CP for flawless blades. I'll grab Fulgrim, Lucius and a lord Kakophonist for the meantime.

[Marshal Loss]

This is going to be a punishingly expensive weekend for me. Praise Slaanesh 

[Fire Golem]

Hopefully the last couple of heads are helmets so all 3 can have those sick lids

[Fire Golem]

UK prices 

[skylerboodie]

thanks @Fire Golem great to see these price lists in GBP again, no  guessing on conversion rates using comparable items for a change!

[LSM]

6 hours ago, Fire Golem said:

Hopefully the last couple of heads are helmets so all 3 can have those sick lids

 

(In the Codex there are a couple shots of the Flawless Blades from different angles, which shows that head actually is a mask and not a helmet.)

 

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Also: WarCom article (1 of 3) on designing the range.

 

A couple quibbles:

• "This sword is the Blade of Laer, which gave us an opportunity to come up with a unique design..." Not sure that follows. His sword being The Blade of the Laer would mean that it had an established look (since 2013), lessening the inherent opportunity.
• "...although he’s thoroughly depraved, he still takes pride in how he treats his weapon." Lucius previously was notable for treating his weapons with callousness, which was why before being handed down The Blade of the Laer he was armed merely with "Nineteen".

I'm very interested in what they'll say about Fulgrim (who strikes me as dissociated from the rest of the range).

 

Edited 11 hours ago by LSM

[Fire Golem]

10 minutes ago, LSM said:

 

(In the Codex there are a couple shots of the Flawless Blades from different angles, which shows that head actually is a mask and not a helmet.)

Either way, I hope there’s 3. 

[01RTB01]

1 hour ago, LSM said:

 

(In the Codex there are a couple shots of the Flawless Blades from different angles, which shows that head actually is a mask and not a helmet.)

 

//

 

Also: WarCom article (1 of 3) on designing the range.

 

A couple quibbles:

• "This sword is the Blade of Laer, which gave us an opportunity to come up with a unique design..." Not sure that follows. His sword being The Blade of the Laer would mean that it had an established look (since 2013), lessening the inherent opportunity.
• "...although he’s thoroughly depraved, he still takes pride in how he treats his weapon." Lucius previously was notable for treating his weapons with callousness, which was why before being handed down The Blade of the Laer he was armed merely with "Nineteen".

I'm very interested in what they'll say about Fulgrim (who strikes me as dissociated from the rest of the range).

 

 

Not only does the blade have a pre established look, we also have a heresy mini of Lucius WITH the blade of the Laer... Do they not realise we're not dumb? That's a bizarre statement for them to make other than the ludicrous compartmentalization they're trying to push. 

 

As for fulgrim himself, from looking at the WD511 pages it looks like the word mermaid was in there. Guess I've found my new favourite Disney princess then. I'd like to read the whole article but mermaid feels a very peculiar choice.

[Nephaston]

7 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

Not only does the blade have a pre established look, we also have a heresy mini of Lucius WITH the blade of the Laer... Do they not realise we're not dumb? That's a bizarre statement for them to make other than the ludicrous compartmentalization they're trying to push. 

Funnily, 30k Lucius' Blade of the Laer, is also not consistent with Fulgrims Blade of the Laer, so if anything they're being consistently inconsistent. Or they angling it in a "first time the blade of the laer had a design in 40k" as lucius previously was only listed with a "duellists blade"

 

We can probably handwave it to the blade itself being as fickle as it's masters, and just changing shape.

[LSM]

44 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

As for fulgrim himself, from looking at the WD511 pages it looks like the word mermaid was in there. Guess I've found my new favourite Disney princess then. I'd like to read the whole article but mermaid feels a very peculiar choice.

 

His serpent bits being more aquatic (referencing past associations between Slaanesh and water, similar to Steeds of Slaanesh having fins and the Daemonettes' original "lust lobster" look) is my favourite part of the new model.

 

I was more curious about how he doesn't have: studs, leathers, straps, chains, drug lines, superfluous voxes, sonic juice canisters, etc. A lot of the classic EC aesthetic that the new range is flush with, but Fulgrim is lacking.

 

31 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

Funnily, 30k Lucius' Blade of the Laer, is also not consistent with Fulgrims Blade of the Laer, so if anything they're being consistently inconsistent. Or they angling it in a "first time the blade of the laer had a design in 40k" as lucius previously was only listed with a "duellists blade"

 

We can probably handwave it to the blade itself being as fickle as it's masters, and just changing shape.

 

 

Yeah, they're definitively not 100% consistent, but they both have that distinctive "zig-zag" kink in the blade.

 

Basically, if I were sculpting a "Blade of the Laer", that would be the one thing that I felt I had to include.

 

(And I was wrong - the zig-zag predates the 2013 Fulgrim model, going back to the cover art of 2007's Fulgrim.)

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by LSM

[Gree]

32 minutes ago, LSM said:

I was more curious about how he doesn't have: studs, leathers, straps, chains, drug lines, superfluous voxes, sonic juice canisters, etc. A lot of the classic EC aesthetic that the new range is flush with, but Fulgrim is lacking.

 

 

I would not be surprised if all the Daemon Primarchs had been designed at the same time way back in 2015-ish.

[Rain]

6 hours ago, LSM said:

 

His serpent bits being more aquatic (referencing past associations between Slaanesh and water, similar to Steeds of Slaanesh having fins and the Daemonettes' original "lust lobster" look) is my favourite part of the new model.

It also relates to Laer being an ocean world. The idea that Fulgrim remained possessed by the Laer demon, and that his demon prince form is the possessing demon taking on a form more familiar to itself has always appealed to me.

 

The Reflection Crack’d was just a double bluff by the demon in my personal headcanon.