urbanknight
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Re:anyone been to games day? - 2006/03/20 09:14
OK.. (Takes deep breath)
Games day.. whew... 6 1/2 hour drive,
good times had by all anyways although my ears are a bit bloody from all the WAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH! ing... Don't have all my pictures organized yet but will post em when I get the time so for now, text only I guess...
The tables were absolutely BEAUTIFUL. that said, I got a few games in and participated in the Big Battle this year using the new cityfight terrain.. damn. those models are awesome.
Also got a little 1 on 1 conversation in with Graham McNeil a Developer who gave me a bit of info on whats happening with the unforgiven. Apparently its early next year when any of the releases are coming, He said it was a major screw up in 2nd edition when they published the codex and said "The dark angels are keeping secrets" and then spelling out in detail exactly what all of those secrets are. The new codex is going to be like the black templars, don't need the space marine codex anymore and there will be an upgrade sprue box like the templars. He confirmed that they are definately downplaying the Native american theme, and going with the more monkish theme. The Deathwing short story is going to be a legend of the chapter that may or may not have happened, from what I gathered in our 15-20 min conversation basically the new codex is mainly going to add a lot more mystique to the DA while really not going into too much detail as to what ACTUALLY happened. New Character models are planned of course along with a bunch of new rules, according to Graham that there were going to be more defined roles for the Deathwing and the Ravenwing, but he wouldn't go into detail on them. Thats about all I could drag out of him but at leat there is a timeframe, I had to bug the guy for 10 min to get a ballpark figure there... so Early 2007
Golden demon models were awesome, lost of detailed work there, will post pictures when I'm not supposed to be working.
Conversion contest was pretty fun, although if you ever go, be sure to be there for the last session basically you got to keep as many sprues as you wanted after the session ends. (I personally have like 3 unsorted bags of them at home right now. ..)
I spent way too much money at forgeworld, and the lines there were CRAZY... you moved about 10 feet in 20 min. so go early.
I'll go into detail later as well but that should keep you in for the moment, feel free to ask whatever as well...
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