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Ok, just found this in Dakka and had to post it:
ok guys i atended eye of terror preview night in uk last night for the winners of a league held in my local store. Some very interesting stuff, got to see all the eye of terror models
-cadians are so sweet, helmets look perfect when you actually see them, special weapons and sarge look fantastic, reckon these could easily turn out to be games workshops best selling plastics ever
- defiler is smaller than i thought, looks good but manager warned that its very fragile, i.e dont bother trying to use posable ball sockets for arms, just glue them.
-Codex looks great as well, cant wait to start my slannesh lost and the dammned with loads of the new cadians
- plaque marines are nice but nothing spectacular, 7 in a box all metal
-seer council, again nothing special
-wulfen are probably an aquired taste but i think they look sweet
However the main thing is that we got was a speech on how the campaign is going to work
-all special characters can be killed depending on "triggers" i.e for example if the world eaters fight certain battles on certain planets and lose then no more Kharn the betrayer!, apparently these triggers have all been arranged by the studio staff before hand, but only they know
- conquering planets will,. depend greatly on capturing the planets around them. i.e every planet in cadian system is fortified and so wont be an easy nut to crack. so players will have to slowly work there way from system to system.
-if imperial win golden age blah blah, chaos win then after cadia, fenris, armageddon, terra!
- manager also told us that armagedon campaign was to all intents and purposes rigged and that guys at mail order who were supoosed to do data entry for all the results couldnt be arsed and just made up what they wanted.
-whatever the result people will not be happy as it will have a major implication for example if imperial forces loses will have to rely more on tau etc as allies but if they win "tau will always be a marginilised race" quote, and imperial forces will head out into eastern frindges. Another example is that ulthwe craftworld could be destroyed and survivors turn into a pirate style force
- all in all there is going to be a winner and more importantly a loser
- also at events(grand tournaments etc) winners will be given sopme kind of special card(voucher) that effectivley wins one planet(or weakens one planet something like that, knows that each one worth its weight in gold in terms of impact)
-runs all summer final game is at uk gamesday with twenty forgeworld warhound titans!
-strategy will be important with forums being used to decide where to focus attacks upon with calls being made for reinforcemnets etc
dont know about you guys but i really like this russian roulete system for geting rid of special charaters gives it a definite edge, all in all i cant wait, whay about you guys?
All I can say is I'm glad GW admitted to fixing Armageddon.
Also I hope a few special characters die - [crosses fingers] bye bye Abbadon
Lastly, I was undecieded about going to Games Day, but hell yeah now I am! 20 Warhounds!!! Massive battle to finish the campaign!!! Yes!! (wait - just had a thought - what if they are Epic scale Warhounds?)
Cheers
Chris
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. I've had a good look at a lot of the models from the new ranges for IG and am actually contemplating scrapping my (oh-so-hard-to-collect) codex grey IG in their favour. 
...hard to convert, and they will be ?20 each (EDIT: each boxed set...) .. 
....Guess I will just make my own from plastic marines.
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(Joke.....)