Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Bad Form? Where to get your Reaper Chaincannons
There is some grief going on in the community alongside the release of the new Havoc and Terminator kits. The problems arise when you don't have enough parts to fully fill out your squads in the boxsets and the new kits are prime examples of this.
Ive been in this community for a super long time and this is the norm, but does it really have to be? The new Reaper Chaincannon is a prime example of this with only a single Chaincannon in the box. This means youll need to buy several boxsets to get enough, convert, or start looking at third part companies to get enough to outfit your squads with weapons like this.
While the other heavy weapons like lascannons get 2 to a box.... the new Reaper Chaincannon that the Warhammer Community proudly proclaims as an excellent choice only has 1 to a box.
(Not looking at the Terminators, but my understanding is that boxset has issues as well).
Now I understand you literally cannot fit everything on the sprues.... but when you spend the money for a boxset like this (they are not cheap) you think you would be able to field it in a manner suggested to you. At the very least 2 box sets to fill out all the misc squad combinations, but only 1 Chaincannon to a squad is just poor form.
How to get your fix? Currently it's either Convert, buy lots of boxes (a little ridiculous), or go third party.
Here are some links to get your Reaper Chaincannons from 3rd party bits.
Kromlech
https://bitsofwar.com/home/495-legionary-mini-gun-.html
Puppets War
https://puppetswar.eu/models-and-bits-46/all-bits/infantry-weapons/gatling-cannon-
Max Mini
tips.htmlhttps://maxmini.eu/conversion-bits/ballistic-weapons/minigun-bits
Of course you can covert as well.
Note to Games Workshop........
If you get the chance to listen to the community on this one...... please sell weapon upgrade sprues. We would like to buy them from you. Most of us will not be buying 4 boxes of Havocs to get 4 Reaper Chaincannons.