@Hudson Adams Hi! I just see the Valkir sprue, and thats fantastic. I also see that there is just one sword, so the guy with the sword its a kind of Oficial, not a Valkir support unit. Does it mean that "more valkir" means could have support a heavy ones in the future?
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Likely in the same box, but who know.
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each sprue looks to have:
3 standard rifles
2 antimaterial rifles
1 flamer
1 grenade launcher
1 sword
1 pistol
which means for a 4 sprue, 12 figure box, you could build some combination of up to the following:
12 Standard riflemen
8 Antimaterial riflemen
4 flamer men
4 grenade launcher men
4 melee men
honestly, not too bad a mix.
i could see a follow on box with the other heavy weapons, and the sword+shield option. perhaps with the swords+shields as three to a sprue plus one each fo the heavy weapons.alternately, and this is the route i'd take.. put out a sprue of just sword, pistol, and shield arms as an upgrade sprue (which should easily allow for 6 of each minimum?), then do the support box with just the heavy weapons. this means if you want to make your dedicated melee force you just need one box of the troopers, and an upgrade sprue to suppliment the options from the box.
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Dreamforge Games posted T1 sprue shots on Facebook
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@Andreas Mayrhofer exactly! But there is no shielda and the helmets are not the Assault ones. So, we can expect a box with Assault Valkir and for me much needed Heavy support?
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These dudes from Sneak peek almost make me to cancel a pre-order XD I'm torn.*
I'm not sure if they had spears before? I really love the choice and the hefty CQB handgun!
Anything about timeline? Should it be soonish, or more than a few months?*Just joking. I have enough parts to make everything I want with these guys and I need the heavy rifles C:
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@Mithril2098 "only 12 figures per box?" you make it sound like that's not a lot. :P
I saw a comparison to GW in some article comments, and apparently people who couldn't physically have the product decided to leave reviews on the shop for some reason, so I thought I'd run some numbers.
I think the current Tactical squad makes a good point of comparison. It launched in 2013 and retailed for £25 at the time. Approximately £2.50 per model.
This kit is priced at £30 for 12, making it £2.50 per model too, but that being in 2024 money it's actually a lot cheaper. The tactical squad costs £37 today, or £3.70 per model.
To GW's credit, that kit is made up of three unique sprues, with plenty of customisation and variety of poses, but if that's worth the extra £1.20 per model when you're building an army, is debatable.
We could also compare them to the more modern Horus Heresy kits, which are approximately £2.63 per model, which is a lot closer to the value proposition of the Valkir, but they lack the bulk discounts available from WGA, where you could pick up 120 models for approximately £1.88 each. This is definitely closer, but that smaller difference will still add-up when you're looking at larger numbers.
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@Stephen Sutton the comparision would be with the the old Valkir set which I think was $40 for 20 figures back when Dreamforge was working with WGF, if your space armor knight prices are the same or higher than GW's, than your probably not worth buying normally given the market for power armor minis is still domenated by 40k players looking for less pricey proxy troops.
The Valkir as they are do stand on thier own quite well though even at that price.
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@Brian Van De Walker this. of course, those old sets had far less customization per box. and my original post was done before we'd seen the sprue and see just how many build options WGA had cramemd into the set.
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