New Necrons Spotted On The Horizon For Warhammer 40,000!
January 17, 2015 by brennon
Another White Dwarf leak has popped up on the internet showing off what's coming next for Warhammer 40,000 and to a lesser extent for The Hobbit range too! Necrons are coming to turn you into ash!
As well as a new Codex they're also getting themselves a Limited Edition Codex, the Tomb Awakened (we guess it's some kind of army box) and a new plastic Necron Overlord. Alongside that are the obligatory Data Cards that you'll need for your games.
On The Hobbit front there's a new Radagast Riding Giant Eagle AND a White Council box featuring them in their battle garb as they took on Sauron/The Necromancer at Dol Guldur.
Hopefully we'll see some close up images soon!
Are you excited for Necrons?
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Does “the Brown Wizard swoops in” mean the same as “dropping the kids off at the pool”?…
New Necron codex was expected considering they role in Shield of Baal and them having last 5th edition codex.
If you want a Necron army now might be the time to pick up a Battle Force box set
As GW’s recent trend is to get rid of those box sets and replace them with £100+ limited edition box sets and then not replace them once sold out…
Also if that’s another one of those plastic (i.e. less detail, lesser quality) plastic mono-kits you might want to pick up some of the older Necron Overlords / Lords.
GW are pretty pathetic and it doesn’t occur to them that people might want multiple HQ choices in their army …
£17 for a plastic necron over lord !! lol
Are they on ******* drugs!? Or are Necron Overlords now Monstrous Creatures !?
They’re an absolute joke.
o good limited additions just what nobody wanted.
£17 for a single plastic character is beyond a joke. Its got to be cheaper to buy Forgeworld.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Red_Scorpions/COMMANDER_CULLN_OF_THE_RED_SCORPIONS_.html
*random model = RESIN
I don’t know what’s going on in GW’s heads…
They think of their customers as being clowns, thats why they continue with the jokes
People keep buying the stuff… So therefore…
Hard to f*ck up the necron aesthetic at least. Curious about these, although I would never pay the price.
I thought having the minis in plastic would be cheaper than finecast yet you find it is the opposite.Quite a few of the old minis redone in fine cast are half the price of single pose minis??? go figure
Why would you think they’d be cheaper in plastic?
Because Finecast’s prices were so overly inflated maybe he assumed they couldn’t *get* more expensive :p
And keep in mind the original mon-pose plastic clam packs weren’t horrific. £8-9. Now £13.50 !
GW have been charging 40K £18 for plastic mono-pose models for a while now, mostly Marines seem to be getting it bad (at least the Necron is 50p cheaper?) But maybe @stew thinks they would be cheaper because GW produced a fantastic non-mono pose “Marine Commander” kit, full options and multiple heads, bits … and it costs £14 today….
I was genuinely curious to know. I didn’t want to presume as I’d wind up looking like a fool if I was wrong (as usual lol).
I think I understand what GW mean now by the End Times.
They have their head up their a55.
does anyone else remember when you could buy them for less than £1 each lol or am I showing my age.
You’re showing your age, but you’re in good company. When I first started buying Citadel minis they came in single blisters for 40p for a human sized miniature. Mind you, that was the early 80s.
I’m a little later. 60p each or five for £2.50.
Hehe. I remember the first 2 figures I bought. A single metal Genestealer and a Balgorg. 25p each from the bargain bucket.
1989 plastic skeleton horde 24 figure £3.95
Plastic Daleks and Cybermen 10 of each £4.95
I think regiments of reknown were 8.99 each for 10 or 12 metal figures
The 3rd ed Nightmare Legion was a tenner so I guess the other RoR were about the same. Adjusted for inflation you’d pay over £23 for them now. And before anyone puts the rose-tinted glasses on, it used to be the case that the RoR boxes (in 2nd ed IIRC) had one command model in them, and you had to buy three or four boxes of them to get the full set.
I got 2 boxes of Ulther’s dwarves, and one box of Bugman’s Rangers as a gift… so not sure what they cost. Looking to get rid of them, actually.
There worth nothing. I’ll cover the postage and you can send them to me 😉
That said, Ulther’s Dwarves are among the rarer sets now. I reckon you could easily get over £100 in total for the three.
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Didnt they re release Bugmans rangers?
They may have, but I like the look of the AoW dwarf rangers, and I also now use their other dwarven figures as my heavy infantry. Much better than the old Ulther’s, and not proportionally out of scale with the rest of my dwarves like the latest GW dwarf figures are.
I might pick up the codex cos I’m a Necron fanboy since 2ndEd Raiders, but damn the price of that Overlord D:
Necrons have been dead to me since they retconned the fluff for the c’tan. Tomb kings in space doesn’t float my boat.
I do like the new backround, but I liked the old backround too. For me a mix of the two with some tweaks here and there would be perfect. I can see how people would feel alienated by the new backround though. Hopefully the new one will get the balance right.
I am actually among those people that like new background even if it was written by Matt Ward. This is simply because it gave them some character. And yet it’s also reason why some people don’t like it.
Yup. I liked the old, emotionless, characterless, merciless advance of the machine feel about the Necrons – they felt like an unknowable, unstoppable, ancient entity.
Now they’re just a bunch of Tomb Lords with stupid names and stupid storylines. I sold my army after the new background, because they just didn’t feel like the army I’d spent so long collecting and building.
As odd as it may sound, on the whole I don’t find GW’s prices all that bad. Generally 10-12 troop miniatures for £18 (Termagants) – £26 (BA Tac Squad) which compared to a lot of other games is pretty good value. Some of the more elite troops are a bit pricey (eg £25 for 5 havocs) but £17 for 1 plastic infantry figure, even a HQ model, is frankly absurd. Should be half that price at most.
40Ks prices you mean* fantasy are farrrr more horrific.
http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Space-Marine-Commander
THIS is how you make a command HQ model GW. This £14 kit hits all the right spots. Also, why on earth am I gonna be content with just one of these kits? When I can buy another and make it look entirely different.
Does GW really think every single army should be led by the same duplicate model?
GW, as well as the greater whole of miniature “games” no longer look at the idea of this being a hobby. Miniatures gaming is now a lot like video games
Buy a bunch of ready to assemble, single pose models, air brush paint them and play games. End of story.
I fully feel your pain with how stagnant GW has become with their customization, and attitude towards hobbyist. It does extend I fear to the greater whole miniatures gaming now.
That makes me sad. Part of the joy of a good model is that you actually had a lot more input into it other than the painting side.
Looking at my Empire Militia units, fantastic kits, every single model i glued together in a pose that I saw fit. I have my favourites, and when they die in battle it’s sad 🙁
I agree. I sometimes buy multi-part kits just so I can decide how to put them together. One can feel like a sculptor when the pose turns out just right, and I always imagine I’m the only guy who ever put it together that way lol.
And then the there ‘s the value in bit-bashing the leftover stuff into something useful, or using it on other projects.
What is point in having them plastic if end result is one pose wonder like with metal or resin. They could just use either of those two materials and it would work better when making character model that is not multi-part kit.
Metal’s too expensive, that’s why they and a lot of other companies dumped it. Presumably once a certain number is reached for the proposed production run then it’s cheaper to do it in plastic than “Finecast”.