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Post subject: Rough Riders  Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:20 pm |
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:52 pm |
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Hi!
The second is the release schedule in the FAQ (nice to see much of my gripes are printed in there! ) that I'll have to wait till 2006 to see Chaos. Guys, I have lost a alot of interest in Epic now, and I doubt I'll really care by 2006. Chances are, I will have moved on to a completely different hobby (as of right now it is hiking and camping. . .).
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Imagine what a complete newbie to epic would say when he asks when his favorite army is out (in the case of chaos) and the answer is 2006.....
I feel for chaos players, they got hosed with epic 40k and now a release AT LEAST 2 years away, if ever.
Welcome to the epic hobby..... 
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:04 am |
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It seems a shame that once Chaos comes, then it will be 2007 Necrons, then 2008 Tau. 5 years till mass produced Epic Tau! No thanks! What happened to every 6 months like we have been told for ages? It seemed like we were going to have a decently running system once again! And now there is talk of AT2/3 being full printed and a new "air combat" (Read "Bombers Over Da Sulphur River"2) game.
Simple route to sucess - Get the models back into production, get the army lists done, fill in any gaps, then Necrons, then Tau, then all the other games. Simple strategy, could be done easily in the next 3 years, not 5 or however many it takes as currently predicted
Perhaps we should be running fanatic?
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:17 am |
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:13 am |
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I beg to differ - he told the EPICentre that a Beetleback was being seriously considered, as a different pattern for the Warlord. Mars pattern perhaps?
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:36 am |
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Yeah it would be the Mars pattern, to fit with the Mars pattern Reaver and Warhound being released. Then we have Lucious pattern Warlords, Reavers and Warhounds.
I seriously doubt that some moulds could just be "lost" Surely they will be in a dark dingy corner in the GW underground vault?
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:51 am |
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Most of them were smashed to make way for new 40k and WFB molds. Oh and now LOTR...
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:02 am |
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The Orks section shows the new wartruks and guntrukks. I think I prefer the FW guntrukks, but the wartrukks dont look too bad.
The Battlefortress looks very nice still. Not sure about the killa kanz. Shame there's no new Warboss figure. I'll just have to keep on making my own.
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:45 pm |
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...The moulds could be worn out- after so many thousand uses, anything will start to degrade due to wear and tear. However, I ould have thought that it wouldn't be all that difficult to just cast up the individual plastic parts of an old Warlord in metal would it? 
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:16 pm |
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| Quote (netepic @ 11 2003 Nov.,08:13) | | I beg to differ - he told the EPICentre that a Beetleback was being seriously considered, as a different pattern for the Warlord. Mars pattern perhaps? |
Perhaps he meant getting a new model sculpted in the same style?
I'm sure I read a post within within the last week or 2 where Jervis said the molds for the plastic warlord had been lost and they couldn't make a metal version of it.
Edit: I found the post, its the 1st post by Jervis on this page: http://forums.specialist-games.com/epic40k....hpage=3
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:52 pm |
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It's entirely possible that their old molds used a different, cheaper system than their current injection mold system and they're not compatible. Based on the level of detail coming out of their plastic molds these days compared to the ca1991 beetlebacks, I think it's likely. I would also guess that "lost" probably means "melted down and used for something else" if that is the case.
It should, in theory, be fairly easy to make a mold for metal using the old plastic bitz. The problem I see is that the old model was pretty sparse on the gothic detailing and if they decided to do it, it would be very close to an entirely new sculpt in order to come up to current model standards.
Of course, my days of polymer chemistry and chemE classes are long gone, so take that into account when weighing my guesses.
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:48 pm |
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I would guess the old moulds would be worn out. At a guess, how many Plastic Warlords do you think were made? It's gotta be close to 500,000, perhaps even more.
But a Warlord in the style of the new Warhound....it just makes me sick....
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:17 pm |
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...As long as there are no hooves or gun heads in sight, and slightly fewer purity seals then it'd be acceptable for me... 
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Post subject: Rough Riders Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:25 pm |
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A Beetle-Warlord anno 2003 (uh, well more likely 2004) remains the stuff of my dreams! 
I wouldn't mind if the model was closer to the original pre-mk1 metal Warlord on the pics from AT either! It does seem logical that in time we will see a new Mars Pattern Warlord to replace the Battletech Thing. However I still think that we will have to wait until after a new Reaver has been produced (not that I don't like the current one; -It's just that it is an older model than the Warlord mk3 and thus more likely to be replaced first).
...of course all of this is assuming that Epic will continue to be supported by GW for that long... 
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