Sunday, March 17, 2013

Or I can just buy a Gundam instead

So there's been some leaks with pics of the new tau kits.  The flyer is one of the ugliest kits GW has ever released, but they've been failing pretty hard at fliers so that's no surprise.  Seriously, is there a contract that says only Forge World gets to make cool looking flying stuff?


What't really got me going is the $85 dollar price tag on the super suit.  Yeah it looks cool, but if I have to pay Master Grade Gundam model prices, I'll just buy a freaking Master Grade Gundam Model.

That's multi-color injection molded, posable, internal detail.  Oh, and only $58.67 retail(minus cost of shipping from Japan).  That's if I treated myself to one of the nicer kits.  I could buy just a measly High Grade kit for $30-40, and it would easily match whatever GW puts out in terms of quality.

Given that I have about a dozen kits in my closet, you can guess how I'll be fielding my Riptide suits when the new codex comes out.  I'll have to figure something out about that flyer as well, defiantly not paying real money for that fugly thing. 

Can we get the big GT TOs(Nova, Adepticon, ext) to just go ahead and say that non-GW models are OK for their tournaments.  We need GW to feel the pain for releasing crap that we have to buy so that we can still keep playing with the $800 of crap we already have.

Man...now I really want to buy that Gundam kit I linked to,


4 comments:

  1. See I really like the fliers. They look like some kind of alien ship that would be flying over a city. Sure it isn't a jetfight, but it's alien tech, so why not. Reminds me of Halo's covenant ships.

    What I'm really disappointing about is that the crisis suits are the exact same, just repackaged. I think that is the largest pile of crap ever. They are ugly as sin, the kit doesn't even fit together well, and they are so poorly designed that they break and are incredibly static in pose. I don't realy like the whole gundam look (for tau, love gundams though) and probably why I don't like the new rifle look of the broadside.

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    1. It's like a lot of their other stuff. It comes, so close, but just isn't there in the end. Like they needed a few more weeks of design work to get it just right. This is a company that has had some grand slam model designs. Remember how awesome just about every release in 6th edition was with a few exceptions(Dread knight, Stormraven). It just feels like they've been phoning it in with all of the six edition releases.

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  2. I don't think NOVA or Adepticon require GW models for tournaments. I could be wrong, though.

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    1. I couldn't find Nova's policy, but Adepticon only allows you to "supplement" your army with figures from other ranges. Even that is discouraged in the policy wording.

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