Blindhamster

they'll be 5-10 for sure, like sternguard and sword brethren.

I wouldn’t want the HH approach, it means you have the same 5, maaaybe 10 bodies across an entire army. HH it sort of works because you buy different armour mk sets.

see, I was thinking to modelling custom units and using them as warp spiders (shade runners), rangers (fate dealers) and howling banshees (blade swords) model wise, use voidscarred as a base, but convey to fit the loadouts of other units

any theories on when this will be released? I am so tempted, and did get a voucher for my birthday I could put toward it

Don’t know about everyone else, but I’m hopeful that we see a new, not sucky version of valdor out of this. Never liked his current sculpt

Tbf, if you were here, viewing the imperium, wouldn’t you?

That last line in the post made me laugh. I think these are actually closer to a lot of the art for them where they weren’t just golden space marines - which is more or less what the current range look like. The slightly slimmer build really sets them apart, but they’re still massive. I’d have liked to see them by a marine though, the heresy range is generally a bit smaller and more “true” scale than 40K in terms of proportions. I think this is fair though, a unit that looked like they were charging might have been real nice

I really like the new custodes, the sleaker look suits custodes much better. In the lore they are less affected by the gigantism astartes have, they have more human proportions and features just larger, where space marines look like the have WAY too much human growth hormone going on. Details are very nice, poses are fairly good. I like all the bare heads too, nice variety there. Also, its the first show I've seen in a while thats had not one... not two... but THREE different things I've thought "huh... i might actually get that" (Eldar Corsairs, High Elves for blood bowl and Custodes for HH... I dont even play Eldar, Blood Bowl or HH lol)

these make me legitimately hype. I've toyed with the idea of corsairs ever since the kill team came out. And now it feels like theres enough there to make a fun themed force

the elite unit is very very nice. Not overly fussed for most of the characters. Apothecary is best

Back on the topic of company heroes - I’ve found them to be a fun unit to run with a captain, they’re still relatively cheap, they’re relatively sturdy, have enough OC to be relevant and don’t entirely suck at either shooting or melee, even if they aren’t standouts at either. Champion in melee has precision which is handy. I actually run mine with a lieutenant too. I tend to run both the captain and lieutenant with both master crafted sword and bolter. Helps round out the units melee and shooting and gives lethal hits and fallback and charge/shoot. Had a lot of fun with them personally

wait.. we're getting high elves??

Actually, a 3 man victrix squad had precisely 1 model that can shoot assuming you take the actual characters in it, a 6 man unit still has 2 models that don’t shoot. And both cost more points than company heroes. dont get me wrong, the victrix are absolutely better, but actually their issue really is just that they are overtuned which is why they have seen point increases.

i find it quite amusing that theres multiple both shoot and charge after fallback or advance strats in the new detachments, where usually those things are all broken into separate strats lol

Personally prefer the vampire