Horus Heresy MkII Assault Marines (ft. Chainaxes)

[Scribe]

13 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

30k is the 40k setting...

 

Yeah no, you miss a huge part of the appeal of early HH (v1) and honestly much of what FW was doing back in the day.

[Cloud Runner]

Could the seemingly large axe just be a case of forced perspective?

 

It's the closest part of the model in the picture, and the angle could just be making it look oversized - a full 360 and other :cuss:s will really help.

 

Either way, I'll still go with swords as a true Knight of Caliban

Edited May 27 by Cloud Runner
Weird copy paste multiple typing

[infyrana]

49 minutes ago, Cloud Runner said:

Could the seemingly large axe just be a case of forced perspective?

 

It's the closest part of the model in the picture, and the angle could just be making it look oversized - a full 360 and other :cuss:s will really help.

 

 

Could be, worse it could be a Sgt axe and therefore a larger one-off (I hope this is not the case, I'd really appreciate seeing 1 chainaxe per marine, they really don't need to be gatekeeping them at this point).

[Matcap86]

10 hours ago, Cloud Runner said:

Could the seemingly large axe just be a case of forced perspective?

 

It's the closest part of the model in the picture, and the angle could just be making it look oversized - a full 360 and other :cuss:s will really help.

 

Either way, I'll still go with swords as a true Knight of Caliban

 

They were making a point in the article and during the preview about how huge the axe was, so I don't think it's accidental.

[Marshal Mittens]

34 minutes ago, Matcap86 said:

 

They were making a point in the article and during the preview about how huge the axe was, so I don't think it's accidental.

I thought, with how much they were talking about it, it might be a shot across the bow at a specific 30k youtuber who has frequently criticized the overly large size of more recent releases melee weapons.

 

Anyway I personally like these, even if the axe is a bit big, and I think they will be great for SoH Reavers, WE Red Hand Destroyers, etc.

[Lord Marshal]

Fully revealed.

 

Edited Friday at 07:11 PM by Lord Marshal

[Matcap86]

The minis themselves are great but those absurd weapons absolutely ruin them for me.

 

Like they're using toy weapons. Completely ruin the silhouette.

[No Foes Remain]

All chainaxes is a nope from me, where are my chainswords GW? Include a few chainaxes sure, WE players would love them, but I can't understand why chainswords wouldn't be included.

[Nephaston]

All chainaxes does mean the melee upgrade kit has another use beyond tuning tacticals into despoilers. This also explains why chainaxes are now free

[Cleon]

No Chainswords in the kit at all? Well that puts a massive damper on any enthusiasm to buy the box or to get my Blood Angels up to speed.

[Sky Potato]

Still no right handed pistols… 

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

46 minutes ago, Matcap86 said:

The minis themselves are great but those absurd weapons absolutely ruin them for me.

 

Like they're using toy weapons. Completely ruin the silhouette.

 

Axes in general seem to be oversized on new HH minis. Shame.

[ggergnayr]

6 minutes ago, Sky Potato said:

Still no right handed pistols… 

As a left handed shooter in real life, I approve of their design choice. 

[Robbienw]

These are very nice, very heavy looking, but the chainaxes will have to go.

[Dezron]

Who cares about melee weapons, look at the torsos. Remove jumpacks and you have armor that looks like early MK.III.

[Xirix]

Just to mirror a lot of you, I absolutely love these except the chain axes. It's nice that the MKVI chainswords fit, but that's still a lot to spend just to specifically put chainswords on these ones.

[Nephaston]

1 minute ago, Dezron said:

Who cares about melee weapons, look at the torsos. Remove jumpacks and you have armor that looks like early MK.III.

From what I can recall the connective nubs should be near identical with regular power packs, so you can just use these as footsloggers and use the jump packs elsewhere.

[Dezron]

Also about chainswords, didn't we have a Plastic Melee Weapon Pack with Chainswords in them?

Edited Friday at 08:45 PM by Dezron

[Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla]

10 minutes ago, Dezron said:

Also about chainswords, didn't we have a Plastic Melee Weapon Pack with Chainswords in them?

 

We did, but who wants to spend another 37EUR just to get the most basic cc weapons to make 1 squad look right?

[Cleon]

16 minutes ago, Dezron said:

Also about chainswords, didn't we have a Plastic Melee Weapon Pack with Chainswords in them?

Yeah, for an extra £30 per 10 (well it'll probably stretch once you add the specials in) you can get the chainswords back. That's a nope from me, I was mainly looking at them as I've already wasted one edition waiting for non beakie assault marines, but I'm going to hate these as soon as MKIV with chainswords come out, so I guess I'm waiting to hope the game lives long enough to get the models I actually want.

[lokkorex]

11 minutes ago, Ayatollah_of_Rock_n_Rolla said:

 

We did, but who wants to spend another 37EUR just to get the most basic cc weapons to make 1 squad look right?

I mean, GW wants you too...

[Lupercals chosen]

I feel like GW are not showing the WE version of these just to trigger me - you've finally put chainaxes on HH marines and painted them as.... Iron Warriors! They've even continued the trolling by using Salamanders as the alternative scheme/build! Damn you GW!!! 

 

(I know they're purposely using the Saturnine boxed set factions BTW!)

[Jings]

I seem to be an outlier but I'm a pretty big fan of the big axes. Could they be smaller? Sure. But I kinda like how big and goofy they are. 

[Mr Farson]

They're fine

 

Lackluster showing for 30k however

 

I was expecting a special character a piece or praetor each for Sallies and IW

[Khulu]

Can't wait to grab some of these! The axes don't bother me.