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Post by CyberShadow on Oct 1, 2002 10:54:16 GMT -5
I thought that I would open up a thread to chat about the Games Day pictures. It seems that a lot of sites have pictures up, but this place is getting a reputation for getting the edge on the Fanatic stuff - well done to both Tim and Blacksnotling.
Anyway, I was not sure what this thread would cover exactly, and this board needs some modern posts, so it is here.
Personally, there seems very little at the Games Day that we did not already know.
I am not entirely pleased to hear that there will be Epic commanders in bit parts. The point of Epic is not about the characters. I also wish that Forge Wolrd would give up on the 'Chimera with a stub gun turret'. There are other things that are more needed for Epic.
As for Gothic, it all looks pretty good. Although I am not so sure about the Tau ship. I will have to see it. My first thoughts were that it certainly looks like the Tau, but it is also very similar to the Epic tanks.
Other things, the obvious Marine vehicle with the Rainbow Warrior doors! Moving on... Blood Bowl seems to be doing well, and more stuff for that. The Man O War with Warmaster has been rumoured for a while, but it is good to hear that it will be going ahead, I am looking forward to that and it might persuade me to get Wasrmaster.
So, what do you all think? Any comments?
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Post by Shadow_Hunter on Oct 2, 2002 4:15:48 GMT -5
Well I have to agree with you on the Tau ships, a bit disappointing (from what I can tell). I'm not saying tis bad, just not interesting either.
As I didn't play Epic in its original format, what kind of vehicle was a fire storm? I knew it was an anti aircraft tank, but what sort of weapons didn't it have? I'm not bothering what it used to look like as they will make it inline with the current range (IIRC it was the tempest chasis, with four barrells pointing up) I wonder what its weapons will be, and whether they will able to engage ground targets. At the moment the Fire Prism Isn't too hot (and cant shoot at flyers, despite its role in epic) So this tank is very interesting to me.
I'm struggling to imagine an Eldar space station. It doesn't really seem right to me. Okay they have pirate hideouts in asteroid fields, but I dont see them having actual stations. All I can imagine them doing is a asteroid hide out, or something along those lines.
Necromunda is something I've considered before. I'm not particularly bothered by the current choice of models though, so never took it up. I'll be interested how this progresses.
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Post by Blacksnotling on Oct 2, 2002 7:32:50 GMT -5
The future for Gothic certinly appears to be a good one. My impresion was that the Tau ship shown was just a smaller cruser although no indication was given as to wether there would be large crusers, or even if the Tau would get a full fleet or just get a small fleet at first and then expanded apon at a later date.
The Eldar space stations were oly in the planning stages. the Imperial ones and the Space maries ones where almost finished and work was being done on the Orbital platforms (no pictures were shown of any of them). The Eldar were simply listed as the next race to get space stations, although I agree that maybe a Pirate base would suit them better, or even a craft world ;D
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