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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings  Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:50 pm |
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Yes, it didn't actually say they were plastic, but the may well be.
I think they are pictured in the core rules in the photo of examples of different blast markers. (between the Epc40K blasts and the tiny green Epic40K dice)
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:55 pm |
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Well I'll be standing by for further updated intell ... 
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:04 pm |
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I am also intrigued by the 'gen stones'.
What was the ratio of Tactical/Heavy/Assault on the E40K sprues? I bet that this will be the same.
Also, what the hell happened to May? My birthday and no releases at all that month. Its a conspiracy, a conspiracy I tell you!
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Chris
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:05 pm |
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The guys at my GW use bottle caps for blast markers. I think they use it as an excuse to drink lots of beer!
And with the plastic battleforce boxes, unless Jervis releases info on what is in them, I think we will have to wait till them come out!
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:36 pm |
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| Quote (CyberShadow @ 13 2003 Nov.,17:04) | | What was the ratio of Tactical/Heavy/Assault on the E40K sprues? I bet that this will be the same. |
Fairly close to 2x of the Epic 40K sprues I think (minus the terminators\bikes\scouts + most characters).
The epic 40K SM sprue had:
29 marines
8 missile launchers
4 Sergents (I assume thats what they are)
10 assault marines
+ 6 characters, 5 scouts, 5 terminators + 4 bikes
Conviently enough, all the tactical\assault\devastator marines are on one half of the sprue (aprart from the missle launchers).
Take all the above except the last line, add 1 more marine and 2 more missle launchers and you have the pefect combo for 6 tactical stands, 2 devastator stands and 2 assault stands. Now put 2 of those sprues in a box and you have your 32 stands (4 tactical formations, 1 dev formation + 1 assault formation. And hopefully a couple of characters).
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CyberShadow
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 1:23 am |
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That is what I thought. Second edition just had the 'basic' halves of the sprues, and the colourful halves were added later. So, this represents a move back. I would not be surprised if we see the basic plastic sprues released initially, and these then updated later.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 2:53 am |
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Hi!
The original sprues (which were basically 1st edition sprues repackaged) were of two types. A "basic" sprue in a boxed set were all you'd get were tactical marines, guardians or ork boys, depending on the army.
Each army also had a separate boxed set where more specialized troops were found, like termies, assault troops and such for marines, aspect warriors, warlocks and such for eldar, buggies, nobz and such for orks. Only those three armies had such setup. Other armies like chaos, squats, IG and later tyanids had just one sprue type which combined basic and specialized troops.
That selection was changed with epic 40k when the "half sprue" was introduced and "basic" sprues for all except SM disappeared.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:57 am |
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I dont think I'll be using gems as blast markers. I'll carry on using my old epic40K blast markers and BFG ones when they run out. At least until I make my own.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:27 pm |
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Hi all,
I'm making the presumptious suggestion that new Epic stuff sighted on the pic of the day corner on the Specialist Games website are indicated here for all and sundry.
And to start things off - there's the new Eldar Avatar up, as green as an Ork as yet, but looking quite nice. 
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:47 pm |
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Looking very nice. I think I'll finally replace my SM2 era "jumping jack" style Avatar. I do wish they would put some form of scale marker on these pics though, even if they are only prototypes.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:56 pm |
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Now that is finally an Avatar that I like! Fantastic, and I will certainly get one of those, although I may change the Spear for a Sword or double-handed hammer.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:09 pm |
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It does look to be a nice sculpt. I am certainly looking forward to getting my hands on a couple with the next painting batch for the studio  
As for scale, I believe the little disc at the Avatar's feet is a standard infantry base. The large base he is on appears to be a deafult scenic base - if you look it has a number of slots available for mounting infantry.
That would put him on a scale comprabale to the original model as was planned.
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:28 pm |
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Looks good ... I just hope all the Epic we saw on S/G is separate from the bases. I like the bases, but don't like one piece models ... for a number of reasons.
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nkunicki
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:01 pm |
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| Quote (TuffSkull @ 03 2004 April,15:09) | | The large base he is on appears to be a deafult scenic base - if you look it has a number of slots available for mounting infantry. |
You mean to say there are Epic scenic bases for infantry?!
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Post subject: Specialist Pic of the day sightings Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:04 pm |
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