Horus Heresy Siege Assault Force (Plastic Breachers + Cataprachtii)

[Fire Golem]

1 minute ago, TheArtilleryman said:

You’re kidding. Tell me you’re kidding… I literally built and painted a squad a few months ago… well there’s another reason not to get sucked into buying new rules and codexes.

There’s a Veteran Breacher squad in the legacies that has those options

[Pacific81]

My main criticism of the Cataphractii is that.. really I didn't have one of the last set? They already had a good plastic kit which is only a few years old.

 

Meanwhile you have a number of resin kits still waiting for plastic: Recon marines, outrider bikes, speeders etc.

 

Destroyers, who have simultaneously one of the most bad-ass descriptions in all of 30k/40k lore (nuke grenade launchers, forbidden chem launchers & rad weapons, so awful in aspect that it needs the Primarchs to authorise their use against only the most terrible of foes) - then the models themselves are armed with... pistols! 

The designers could absolutely go to town with that description and produce something mind-bendingly awesome. I can't be the only person to think this?

[Fire Golem]

3 minutes ago, Pacific81 said:

My main criticism of the Cataphractii is that.. really I didn't have one of the last set? They already had a good plastic kit which is only a few years old.

 

Meanwhile you have a number of resin kits still waiting for plastic: Recon marines, outrider bikes, speeders etc.

 

Destroyers, who have simultaneously one of the most bad-ass descriptions in all of 30k/40k lore (nuke grenade launchers, forbidden chem launchers & rad weapons, so awful in aspect that it needs the Primarchs to authorise their use against only the most terrible of foes) - then the models themselves are armed with... pistols! 

The designers could absolutely go to town with that description and produce something mind-bendingly awesome. I can't be the only person to think this?

I disagree about how good the existing plastic set is tbh. I never particularly loved it because it was quite a detail downgrade from the resin when it first came out, and I don’t think it’s aged that well. They’ve seemed pretty small and under detailed since the MkVI kit came out. It’s also 10 years old now, it’s no spring chicken. 

[TheArtilleryman]

Just now, Fire Golem said:

I disagree about how good the existing plastic set is tbh. I never particularly loved it because it was quite a detail downgrade from the resin when it first came out, and I don’t think it’s aged that well. They’ve seemed pretty small and under detailed since the MkVI kit came out. It’s also 10 years old now, it’s no spring chicken. 

Agreed. The cataphractii in the Age of Darkness box are smaller than the MKVI marines, which always looked odd.

[Pacific81]

Oh I hadn't appreciated they were that old.

Although would you still say that they look worse than something like, say the recon marines? Or SoH reavers, by comparison? The former at least I would say are very poor, you still get a lot of people coming out in defence of the existing Cataphractii.

[Fire Golem]

10 minutes ago, Pacific81 said:

Oh I hadn't appreciated they were that old.

Although would you still say that they look worse than something like, say the recon marines? Or SoH reavers, by comparison? The former at least I would say are very poor, you still get a lot of people coming out in defence of the existing Cataphractii.

People have also been asking for rescaled terminators since 2nd edition though. Whatever order they do stuff in is never gonna make everyone happy. 

Edited 13 hours ago by Fire Golem