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New Assassinorum Execution Force Set Now On Pre-Order From GW!
April 25, 2015 by brennon
The new boxed set that we've been seeing some amazing pictures of over the last week is now available from Games Workshop for Warhammer 40,000 giving you an alternative way to play in this grim dark universe. See what you think of Assassinorum Execution Force which is the new board game from GW below...
The Set!
Inside the set it looks like you're getting one hell of a cool out of the box experience where four assassins are taking on a Chaos cult led by a Sorcerer in Terminator Armour...
...and hopefully this could be a good avenue for Games Workshop going forward where they bring out board games like these where you can play scenarios.
The Assassins
As well as the actual boxed set there's the new Assassins that are of course the focal point of it all. They are here as part of the Execution Force boxed set and then most likely out as separate clamp packs later down the line.
I think of the lot of them the new Vindicare continues to look the coolest with his bad ass sniper rifle. Next to him I think I'm in the camp of the Culexus Assassin who will be frying your mind.
All of the models actually don't look too bad although it might have been nice to see them without the scenic bases just to allow them to fit into a range of different settings.
Will you be picking this up?
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Currently not playing 40K but as a fan of the setting and scenario-based games i’ll definitely pick it up and the novel to boot!
Aw damn, Im like an old addict. I wanna get away from GW but then they do something like this… and then slap a $210 price tag on it… aw maybe I can. .. if I just … if I buy this…
I hate you GW.
I try to make a distinction between the narrative and the admin.
For example my love for alien remains unaffected by the latest collectors box of the year.
Are you in Australia cause its looking like it will be $124usd when it goes up in the US. Atleast thats what the retailer I use is showing its msrp as tho hes got it for just under$100 with free shipping. If you are then sorry, they seem to really screw you. Not that $124 is cheap but its alot cheaper than $210.
Where is this $210 taken from? It sounds like some nonsense
From the GW website
Its the Australian price, US is $125.
Seeing they still have Space hulk in store for sale for $190 I don’t think they’ll be selling out any time soon.
I was talking myself into spending $120 or so for the game. Then I got the email saying $210 (AUD) — it was the easiest “no” to something I really wanted ever!
$210 for a board game? That hasn’t been reviewed by Dice Tower or anyone so I have no idea whether it plays well or not (ahem Dreadfleet)? It is a little ridiculous, especially when I think I could get two other premium quality board games for the same total price. Not to mention what I could get for Dropzone for the money …
GW, I love your work and I don’t mind paying a premium price for a premium product, but this is offensive.
Actually tempted by this. I wish it’d hurry up and sell out so I can keep my money 😉
$210? … *chokes*
I guess no one will be buying up four or five of these games, just to get the cheap mini’s that were inside, like that Warhammer game a long time ago. Can’t remember what it was called, but I still have a few of those figures in my bits drawers.
I would love it if GW returns to making these sort of games but They need to keep supporting them which like with the re-release Space Hulk I don’t think they plan on doing for this game.
210$. Nope.
Where it this $210 taken from??? It’s £75 in UK so if dollar to pound rate is not 3:1 (almost) then why would it be so much more expensive in US? Unless that is the exchange rate but then I’m going to do big shopping ASAP!
It is $210 Aus
Which is £108 at current conversion rates.
Aside from the callidus assassin I like the mini’s, although I personally don’t think they are better than the old minis. The lack of interesting opposition minis and basic board components are the factors that mean I won’t be buying this one. The rules I am not fussed about as it was likely to be fodder for 28 mm inquisition project.
Another close but no cigar from GW for me
I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. It looks amazing and sounds amazing. It appears games workshop is going back to its roots and releasing games and diversifying the 40K universe. What a pity they are still showing gamers such contempt by ripping the ar53 out of it by charging a ridiculous price. I.e. I will not now be buying this as it is about 25 quid over what it should be. As with most of their products, GW have way overpriced, which is why I stopped playing 40K some 15 years ago and have never got back into it, despite the beautiful stuff they have released since. I had hoped that because of the change of regieme lately, the Money Men who have run the company for the last 20 years would be given a back seat and the company would focus more on games and less on greed, but alas that is not the case. Ah well. Plenty more games out there now GW – you don’t have a monoply any more so myself and my wallet will look to the companys who do actually focus on games and who charge reasonable prices for what they provide.
God damn it GW. The idea is you sell things like this on a slim profit margin, to entice new and returning players into playing 40K. Not price shock every potential customer away.
I find $210 a fairly insulting price if Im honest, especially compared to the value of Space Hulk.
I pre-ordered with a 25% discount through LGS but I cant understand how GW think this price is okay?
Why did I ore-order it?
Sadly too expensive for me, but if they sell the assassins seperately I’d probably pick the Culexus up and convert it into a “fallen” assassin to join my Necrons. Shame they got rid of Pariahs really, he’d look good leading a squad.
I was looking at this and thinking, this is looks like a great way to get back into 40k. Seen the price and just wiped that smile right off my face. Shadows of brimstone was way less than this, and I’ve received about 2 twenty pound boxes and about 100 more little add-ons coming soon. Hell, even Kingdom Death’s Monster was much cheaper than this and there’s a hell of a lot more in that box with high(er) quality minis. I don’t get this, they are out of their mind.
I would had actually picked this one up if GW had attempted to sell the poduct without calling me an idiot in the process. Not many customers would under those circiumstances i think.
Low box content for price asked, no 3d doors, mediocre assassins stuck to huge terrain peices, no mention of future expansions, price again is a joke. This is why its hard to have any high thoughts about GW these days.
I have taken distance from GW for a long time, but this concept interested even me in the beginning.
This costs £75 in the UK, that’s more like $110.
and thats still grossly overpriced
Oh thats right karma doesnt matter to you 😛 haha .. thx for the downvote
100 Euro for “THAT!”, nope not a hope
Way over-priced. GW doesn’t seem aware of what other companies now offer for that sort of money. Sigh…
Have to agree £5 more would get you the Spartan Halo fleet battle starter, £15 less the Dropzone starter, or for about the same the two player warmachine/hordes starters. Or to match up against board games – Anything from FFG including the big beasts or potentially 2 games or game and expansion. Which is why I was expecting new adversary models and some spacehulk level components.
The other way to look at it is these would probably £15-16 in blisters if released separately – so if your comfortable with that price then this is probably not a bad deal.
I should clarify and even apologise. $210 Australian, approx £108 based on current exchange rates. Of which approx $94AU mostly existing chaos miniatures. I agree with @brennon the new Vindicare is great. I prefer this Culexus to the old one. The Eversor is ok, don’t like the Callidus. I already have an old metal Vinicare and Callidus. I’d buy the other ywo on their own. I’m sure the boards will be great, I love that stuff. I can’t see how much replay value this game could have. I doubt it will integrate with Space Hulk or 40k proper. What new players are they hoping to catch? One for the collectors I think.
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This is another limited edition board game from GW that is meant to make people buy it with it’s limited edition status alone. Least with Space Hulk is was about re-releasing beloved game.
I guess this game is made in very, very small numbers. The price tag points toward GW aiming at an absolute hardcore enthusiast consumer circle.
I doubt this will ever see a 2nd print run. Space Hulk is a legend they wont deliver a second time, surley not with games like this one.
Looking at what competitors offer, GWs offer looks pretty poor. That price might be ok if every single mini would be a special scuplt, but this way ? Never.
I wonder if GWs buisness is still declining. With products sold like this it must be.
Limited edition.
Yup, the edition is limited in what you get for your buck
Apart from being a great sniper the Vindicare is also famous for being able to finger tap his own kneecaps while standing up straight.The others have a habit of calling him “monkeyboy” wich is why he mostly likes to hang in the background, leaning against a huge portable stone pillar.
Just posting some leaked fluff !
I’ve no interest in this type of game, regardless of who makes it or how much it costs. However, the new assassins look interesting. A bit of a mixed bag, but they always were. Some of the design and ideas behind Imperial assassins are far more interesting an distinctive than others.
Pick of the bunch for me is the Culexus. A brilliant, Giger inspired design and a lovely new sculpt. Hopefully, the new minis will be available in individual packs soon.
I hate to be a nay sayer but the vindicare’s legs look slightly stumpy and his left arm longer than his right. Will it be a hit I hope so for a lot of reasons. I have more than a soft spot after all for GW.But today I just watched the Salute Vlog and played gizzit with the better half and there was far too much incredible stuff on there to be worried about this box game.
Yeah u right !
The sculpt sucks ! Looks at his giant fingers on the gun oO the other Asses are nice though.
Also look at his clown shoes.
He is so badly sculpted it is funny.
I’ve kept and will continue to keep an open mind on this until the gameplay reviews come in, but catching up with the box contents now my feeling is very much the same. There was so much stuff at Salute which was more appealing than this, and that’s without getting into the price.
200 dollars for 10 plastic model. Thanks but no thanks.
4 Assassins, 15 Chaos Cultists, 3 Space Marines, a Chaos Familiar and a Chaos Space Marine Terminator Sorcerer… 10 models indeed. Nakamura Tower give you 21 for £66. Huge difference it is not.
Sold, preordered 🙂
I’m glad to see (the still probably evil) Games Workshop get back into box games, but $125 for 23 minis and a theme I’m not particularly sold on is a no go for me. One wonders if they haven’t priced themselves out of the regular game market a little here, where one can compare the value more easily to other games at that price point.
Since when were GW ever concerned whether or not they price themselves out of the regular game market?
They continue to hold themselves aloof of the industry. They know that they will sell the limited number of copies regardless of what is in the box.
Does anyone know what the mechanics of the game are? Does anyone even care?
I wholly agree with your comment about making comparisons more easily.
But again, the customers willing to buy may not have a wider interest in board games
IMHO GW would be better off letting the likes of FFG do the boxed games.
it would be awesome if FFG could license a 40k game like that 😉
… dreams of Space Crusade remake 😀
could be good, but where’s the gameplay video ? (O ,o)
I like the idea of 4 player co-op, but it would be nice to see how the game works first 🙂
for 210 UAD I can’t justify it. Instead I’m gonna preorder the Halo game from Spartan, about 80 bucks cheaper too!
I did notice the price snafu, and itis 125 in the US. Ordered it. They update the U.S. site last apparently.
Cannot justify spending $210 Australian on this! GW pricing is the main reason why I have not followed 40K or fantasy for nearly 10 years. But I must admit I always did like the smaller box games GW used to bring out……….except dread fleet!
750kr in dk, works out around £70 at current exchange rate.. buy your game in Denmark 🙂
Thats around 950 sek .. just about the price for two good boardgames
I’d love to buy this but even with a discount of 25% that my usual supplier gives on GW stuff, I just cannot justify it. Shame I do like the assassin sculpts, but i’d be buying the whole box just for four minis – I might be mad, but not that mad!
£75!….. yes please Mr games workshop fella 😉
Worth it on the mini’s alone me thinks.
jay188 is factually right btw. The full cost of the miniatures alone, on GW’s prices, exceed £75.
Seriously people, I don’t get it anymore. I’d pay £50 max and this on a good day!
But as always GW will get away with murder..
For £75 one would get 186 (!) of Victrix’s new Carthaginians/ Romans or 90 of the new Bolt Action German Grenadiers..!
Having seen the rediculously long queue at the Forgeworld stall yesterday at Salute tho, where people of all ages where waiting for ages just to throw bundles of cash at FW I would not be surprised if this will be flying of the shelves like hot cakes. This is *cheap* in comparison..
GW has created a cult over the decades and will keep reaping.
Comparing apples to bananas there. Those items you mentioned are just for plastic models and not an entire game, also historical have always been a fraction of the cost of SciFi/fantasy models, try comparing with infinity or something including rules and terrain.
Dear god that vindicare is poorly sculpted. His proportions are out of whack and his muscles are just piss poor sculpting.
The only one of these assassins that i like is the Eversor.
Yeah, my dilemma with the vindicare is that he’s the worst sculpt, but has the coolest base.
Ease to replicate that base @erastus
…bullseye!
Not worth the price even through discount retailers. its easily £25 off the mark for what I’d pay for it.
The eversor and psychic assassin(forgot what they are called) and I’ll likley pick them up after they are released separately (or when someone splits the box on eBay)
Agreed the Vindicare is pritty poor (have you noticed the feet) still though i think its ok and i’ll be buying it, as for value i look at it like this …..its all toy soldiers and really not worth the price no matter what manufacturers is making them, take my FW character mini 30+ quid for one miniature!! i must be mad but i like it and its worth it to me, The Warmachine all in one set I’ve got on order……they cant be arsed to make ten individual miniatures in one set it’s got repeats but i like it so its worth it to me.
So if its all just toy soldiers and one company repeatedly price theirs higher than everyone else whilst underperforming in the sculpting department, theres still no difference? ;p
Oh fella you misunderstand me I’m not after a row it’s just the way i see it bud 😉
was just trying to understand your “logic”, bud
Are not most of the figures in this box taken straight off the shelves from existing Chaos Marines?
I stand to be corrected as there may or may not be a couple of special Chaos dudes that are new, but the point remains that it looks like only a handful of figures are specific to this boxed game.
When other boxed games include minis, they are usually producing them all from scratch, often with more content in the box for a comparable price if not less.
The biggest fault of over pricing/under producing by GW is the customers who continue to believe the fallacy about GW’s “Premium” quality.
The Assassin sculpts are a mixed bag at best. If GW are to be seen as a premier company, and charge premium prices, they really ought to start living up to their own and their fans’ hype.
If you want to be the best, there is no margin for error. Every component needs to be exuding excellence, and that Vindicare is far from being good, let alone excellent.
“The biggest fault of over pricing/under producing by GW is the customers who continue to believe the fallacy about GW’s “Premium” quality.” You are totally right. I always hear that as a defence to any/every wacoshop criticism. A few years ago you might have been able to argue that, but not now. There are heaps of companies that produce minis 100% better than the average gamers compound release. In fact, that is what they are becoming – average.D.x
@jay188, you like it and that’s great, your not wrong for liking it. Buy it and enjoy it
However trying the negatively compare warmachine to it is rather laughable – that all in one army box at rrp is about £20 more than this – for a starter army and rulebook for a tabletop game. I get that limited sculpts is an issue for some, however I wouldn’t bet all those cultists are unique. However, your getting an army for a game where you books will have a lifespan of over 12-24 months and be supported by a company who actually communicates with their customers.
Your not wrong to like it but understand where this sits in the overall gaming market.
I’d love to go crazy over this but it seems at least £20 more expensive then the content deserves, compared to the increasing host of alternate game universes. I also fear that this will be another limited edition which means no long term support and very little opportunity for a good community to develop.
As so often GW produced so much good stuff just wish they’d look back and say ‘you know what we were good at this.’. PRICE won’t drive me away from 40K or even the re vamped Fantasy just disappointed at lack of leadership GW shows considering its pedigree. It would be like apple never moving beyond the iPod!
GW we love your universes so sort it out give us something which can galvanise our passion and energy. Just one example warzan pointed out the possibilities of Warhammer Quest!
But, sadly, and technically, it’ isn’t “more expensive” as GW have proven in the past.
They have only made X amount of boxes (say 10,000) – it’s limited edition.
I think they know full well each box will be bought. So they’ve costed each box to yield a fixed profit (say, £15,000 or such). It’s very short sighed imo and a bad way of making profit in the long run.
…limited edition my gm!
GW would charge you AT LEAST £16 each for the new assassins in clam pack – no options – plastic (seriously GW, give us weapon options ffs if you’re gonna do plastic).
That’s £64 alone for the 4. So when someone says it’s worth it for the miniatures alone they’re probably right…. by GW standards.
That said the card etc is VERY expensive to produce, don’t think otherwise. Especially the quality.
But these boxed sets are LOL Limited Edition. I bought two up. If they game reviews well I’ll keep one. I really like the models though not as actual gaming pieces.
Those assassins will be being punted out of split boxes on ebay for £15-£20 a pop, no joke.
If people think the game is overpriced and GW are crazy, just look at what gamers do to each other in the secondary market.
Are they actually being sold?
There is a difference between asking £20 for a mini, and actually getting it.
It would not surprise me if they were being sold at those prices
You know what they say about the birth rate of suckers. lol
Someone seems to have been offended by my comment.
I apologise
You really aren’t a sucker for spending £20 on a single plastic mini
I mean, these assassins are of such outstanding merit that they are worth every penny.
LOL
Once upon a time GW would charge about £9 for a mono-pose plastic (with maybe a single option actually). GW basically doubled the price…
So let me get this straight, all the Chaos stuff is pre existing and most are from the Dark Vengeance box set that almost everyone has had. For the love of God if you’re going to have a hefty price tag at least make it look like you work hard for it. 15 of the 19 Chaos models are worth nothing at best even if used in a 40k game!
I will personally buy the guns and bullets for team manager that thought this was a good assembly of models for a board game. They can shoot themselves and end this poorly run company.
Yeah the game’s a bag of shite, but we’re actually encouraging suicide now! That’s a new effing low for this community @manpug !
It’s a metaphor of the end of sanity, that the company should just give up. But you are right, that was rather low of me to use such a idea. It was callous of me as some people, let alone the staff at GW could be susceptible to such an idea and follow through. My sincere apologies for using such a bad analogy and staining our fine community. I have no excuse.
Is there now way for me to edit or revoke my comment as it is of poor taste?
I wouldn’t worry about it @manpug
Most of us realise that you weren’t seriously advocating violence.
Especially those of us that know you to be anything other than aggressive
Although someone at GW could do with a slap in the face with a piece of reality wrapped around a rod of reason. lol
You don’t need to apologize, @manpug . It’s good to see a bit of frothing frustration in others on here every now and again. And if the team manager is human, I’m sure he’s already considered eating a bottle of pills, so… no need to spend money on bullets :-).
Of course it is possible that the eating of pills explains a great deal about some of the decisions made at fortress GW
Oh yeah, suicide’s f*cking hilarious isn’t it @cpauls1 ! Let’s all have a laugh about it.
And @chibi that’s pathetic even by your standards.
So a reference to 70s psychedelic drug taking influencing managerial decision making is really low.
“Even by my standards”
Given some of the crazy shit that comes out of the Citadel, I stand by my remark.
If you want low, an extra 75% on the domestic price to customers in New Zealand.
That is so low GW have limbod under their own arses!
Don’t try and squirm out of it @chibi . @cpauls1 was making reference to suicide and you know it.
Ain’t I a stinker?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
“I do however think you are insensitive enough to think it’s funny to make flippant comments about suicide”
In which case you owe me an apology Erastus.
Hugs are good.
As long as you promise to wear some clothes this time @manpug.
It was so very awkward hugging you in your mankini.
or should that be manpugkini? lol
I think @erastus you need to step away from the keyboard and take a minute to calm down
I’ll take your advice @solar but it would be nice if the people giving these vile comments the thumbs up considered this; if somebody’s getting upset by a joke about suicide, maybe there’s a reason why they are so upset? I’ll leave it at that.
@erastus I can understand that totally, but I still think take a few mins and come back clear headed as you do yourself a disservice mate 🙂
Thanks @solar . This is a subject far too personal and raw for me. Calm and objective thinking went out the window there for a while.
It’s more about cpauls1 and myself than manpug’s comment now.
Manpug offered an apology and a retraction, which erastus has so graciously failed to acknowledge, preferring to attack my character.
It has to be said that the internet and its cyberdog thinks I’m an arse, but only erastus thinks I am hate filled enough as to wish someone dead.
The rest of the internet thinks I’m an arse for being an over sensitive, treehugging liberal do gooder. You can’t fracking win! lol
No one in their right mind wishes for anyone to die over a game of toy soldiers.
Anyone who knows manpug from this forum would grasp the statement for what it was, a throwaway figure of speech that was out of character.
Which is why I said that there was no need to apologise
There is zero threat of harm nor an iota of serious ill will to persons employed by GW except in the imagination of erastus.
That the apology was ignored in favour of an attack on myself and cpauls1 suggests the grievance is more about our opinions regarding GW
Personally, I find that life is too short for holding a grudge and a waste of emotional energy
But each to their own.
@chibi Manpug sent me a pm offering an apology and I accepted it by the same means. I didn’t feel the need to also publicly acknowledge it here too. If that caused confusion then I’m sorry.
I certainly don’t think you’re hate filled enough to wish somebody dead. I do however think you are insensitive enough to think it’s funny to make flippant comments about suicide.
This is certainly nothing to do with your, or anyone else’s, opinions of GW. I’m not going to explain my reaction here, but I’ll pm you. Up to you if you read it or not.
Thank you for your PM @erastus
Since things have been said publicly, it is only fair to acknowledge on the forum that you have contacted me in confidence, and in goodwill and it is greatly appreciated.
Glad to have cleared the air @chibi . I reacted badly to throw away comments, but I still don’t understand why such comments have to be made in the first place. Not everyone is dealt the same hand in life and some people have to live through the worst kind of sh*t you can imagine. Some of them don’t live through it. Some of us have had to pick up the pieces when someone we love has fallen apart.
However, it’s my sh*t, my baggage. I can’t expect the world to pussyfoot around me. Sorry to everyone for dumping my sh*t here.
Now I need a long break from BoW, or perhaps BoW needs a long break from me 😉
Can I give you all a big hug! Every one of you! I think we all need it.
Nah @erastus, you just need to update your painting thread more often is all 😉
As someone who stopped playing 40k 15 years ago but was looking for a nice entry point back in I thought when this story broke that this might be a way back in. I was expecting a midlevel priced minigame, not a extremely high end boutique price, that is still for a minigame. What a letdown. Games Workshop didn’t lose a customer, but it definitely did not gain one back.
I also tried to get back in a few years ago because I enjoyed the first few Heresy novels so much, but I can’t afford those prices either for the FW Heresy stuff. Good for them that their customer base is so strong that there is a market for them to sell to. I’m sticking to the more reasonably priced model ranges.
Way too expensive for a game like that.
For £50 I might have been tempted, simply for the assassins, but at £75? No way!
If it’s like the last Space Hulk release I can probably pick it up at half price a year from now anyway so…
The name sounds like the handle of some 9 year-old on CoD and the minis are horrible. Ever since those shitty Khorne ‘bikers’ the minis have just got worse. As for “picking it up”, maybe after the DLs in the park!
Someone needs to spill the beans as to which land-fill they use – flood ebay with the minis, but just for a giggle.
Without knowing about the game mechanics and how it plays, I will say it’s great that GW is trying something ‘new’ again. I remember a time when you would get stuff like this coming out several times a year, and the moniker ‘Games Workshop’ really was appropriate.
It’s just a shame that the price is going to place it out of reach of most people, and it’s too much as a game to get people hooked in. But, I guess if money was a concern, you have probably stopped playing for some time by now anyway.
@pacfic my issue is they don’t need to do something new they need to go back to something old – side games with depth and longevity. All the answers for GW’s problems are in the past, they just need to do that without the mistakes.
I have no problem with Games Workshop making actual GAMES.
But this game says “get while stocks last”
SERIOUSLY!?
“Get while stocks last”
That’s part of the game mechanics, which have just been described on BGG, aka
“push your luck” with some, “You have to be joking” and a bit of “Fool me once”.
So pretty much the same as any other GW offering.
“Something new”! Where? I can afford their crap, but there is way better stuff to spend your money on out there.
Wacoshop lovers need to wake-up and realise your being taken up the rear! Maybe a rename. Games Makoshark – where the buyer is our chum! (sorry Simpsons)
That’s just a bit too expensive for me.
Yeah I appreciate that the quantity of models versus the general price tag isn’t too good on the face of it whether you’re talking Australian Dollars , US Dollars , English Pounds Sterling , Tanzanian Shillingi or Danish Krona. I think whatever currency you’re paying it’s gonna feel like a SERIOUS slap in the face once again, but all logic and reason aside – these are pretty sexy minis.
I mean of course I would take the original metal sculpts of the Imperial assassins over these plaggy or resin or whatever they’re made out of one’s. Heck I’d bite your bleeding arm off to get me some of those beauties but at least the new sculpts of the assassins are pretty faithful to the classic originals that were so GOSH DARNED cool and sexiful and I would hazard a guess that the almost dead certainty that they’re either plastic or resin models; (I could check above and find out for sure but I’m lazy; lolz) means it isn’t going to be such a headache of nightmare proportions to get the head of …..I think it’s the Culexus Assassin… to stick to his body; (I’m by no means certain but he looks like he might have suffered from classic metal Vermin Lord syndrome , in that it was virtually impossible to get the head to stay stuck to his body; which has been kinda solved by the plastic re sculpt of his Grotesque rattyness . All I’m saying is , credit where credit’s due. There was potential here for a major cock up, like when some FOOOOOL thought it was a good idea to re design the classic versions of The Eldar Aspect Warriors, and they completely ruined them! I think this was the period when GW got a bit trigger happy with the red paint and was painting every thing, its Mother and its dog red.
Fortunately with the more recent re designs of the current Aspect warriors they got Jes Goodwin or Jervis Johnson back on the job, the guy that designed the original aspect warriors and made them so ultra cool and perfect that Eldar are my favourite 40K Army. Forgive me for not being sure of thedesigner in question. I have been in th hobby for nearly 30 or 40 years so there isn’t much of my brain that hasn’t rotted away from too many nights trying to add that last spot of paint to my minis.
” these are pretty sexy minis. ”
The ability to tie one’s shoelaces whilst standing to attention is a neat party trick, but I have never thought of it as being particularly sexy.
But then I am not an orang-utan. lol
Youre right he could probably reach beyond the kneecaps all down to the laces if he stretched those nosferatu fingers to the max .. Im starting to think the upper and lower body were made by different sculptors who dont work together at all. Looking at the hands of the other assassins they actually look more normal sized than ive seen on a GW mini in a long time. Perhaps his hands were just engineered to handle “big equipment”
One of the lads at the homework group I helped out at was given a whole load of stuff, including the 4 metal assassins. We used them in our games of Necromunda and had a great deal of fun.
As chief fixer of broken minis however, I can tell you that they were a pain in the assassine and broke a darn sight more easily than they were to put back together again! ! lol
I realize that the mini’s are plastic, but I think the assassins overall look is far less detailed. Previously, each of the assassin houses, had their agents clad in synth skin armor body suites (think Skins compression clothing). This saw the metal mini’s sculpted to look elite athletes with corded muscles, giving the impression of “barely contained explosive energy” in the form of martial prowess.
I gather that it is far harder to capture that sort of detail in plastic, however the smoothed sections over the minis arms and legs, in my opinion, detract from the athletic look of the model. I don’t think that the muscles look like muscles.
Maybe I’m being overly critical, I just feel that the “hero” models should have had more attention to the extent where they were collector item quality.
If the price was a bit lower (being one of the AU buyers), yeah this looks like fun.
Though weighing this against expanding an army, or buying a different dungeon crawler board game, you’d have to be very keen for the new assassin models I would think. They do look gorgeous though!
The models are a huge letdown after the rather nice 40k techpriest army they released. And the price is laughable. Compared to that I can get the Deadzone starter set with rules, terrain and two armies AND a third army starter box, and still save money.
In my book, GW have just reconfirmed that they’re not industry leading anymore.
Sorry for joining in the tedious chorus of price hate, but for you Aussies who (justifiably) think you’re getting ripped off with your local price versus the actual exchange rate, trying being in New Zealand. The official GW price here is NZ$248 – which currently equates to A$241, US$189 or £124. Thanks, but no thanks.
There is no need to apologise for joining the chorus.
Would love to hear GW justify an extra £50 on top of the domestic price.
100 euros !!! What a joke ! It’s insane.