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The Battlefield In A Box Craters are discontinued, but you can still find them around. I just bought a set for $29. Good fit for urban gothic setups. https://www.gf9.com/Default.aspx?tabid=348&art_id=4302

Not true at all. Most recent example - they shipped me the Sigmar Dominion box Tuesday before release, I got it Thursday. Two days BEFORE the official release. And this was just a bit ago. They could have done better here.

Nope. Not a hint of my direct mail order shipping, either. Do better, GW. You had two weeks to prepare, and I can walk into a store and buy it today, while my order is still ‘pending’? At least have it in the mail already…

One of my 'local' stores has a full Turbodork rack. I used 'Redrum' metallic red on a Dreadball project a couple years ago, and was satisfied with the results. Alas, no pics at hand, but the paint covered well, but it was kind of thick straight out of the bottle. One of the good things with Turbodork is that you frequently have several options in shade within a color; there are like 3-4 different reds, for example.

I sprayed my Necron Kill Team with Leadbelcher, and am now waiting for them to try so I can get on with painting tomorrow. I also splurged and gave my arm a break and ordered a Typhoon paint mixer and a wooden paint rack. Almost by default, this thing will have to do a better job than my shaking does.

It's certainly been a tougher year for me to find stuff to vote for. 2016 had a couple of personal standouts for me that were obvious, Primogenitor and Shadowsword. Clonelord was a 2017 hardcover release missing from your Reynolds list; I think it was a decent, but nowhere near as impressive book as Primogenitor. I guess I'll do a top 3. And I've missed some releases. I have ADB's Black Legion here, but have not gotten to reading it. I'm sorry, but I'm not a fanboy of his. I'll get to it, but it's not a personal priority. Similar for Warmaster; I got burned out on this series long ago. 1.Dante - gave a lot of insight and added to Blood Angels lore; when you think about it, not a lot had been written about what is reputed to be the oldest non dreadnought Marine out there. 2. Red Tithe - Felt it was a little weak on the character/story side of things, but positively oozed with great atmosphere. 3. Carrion Throne - I agree with others it had some hard to swallow bits, but was still a good look at a different part of the 40K universe. Special award for most important, if not the best to Dark Imperium. It was a decent novel, and like it or not, it will be important going forward as a jumping off point for future of 40K post Great Rift/8th edition.

My personal opinion - you'd get more out of reading the Dark Imperium novel than any of the 8th rule books or codexes.

I think the fluff has been reduced some compared to prior editions. Consider the newest Marine codex - in a 6/7th codex, each unit got its own fluff page and picture or art at least. But for example, in the new Marine book, all five types of dreadnought available are covered in just two pages, And a fair amount of that is taken up by art. Other units got a similar treatment this edition. And things have gotten looser date wise for the fluff, too. In the past, GW frequently gave a specific date for an event in the timelines. Now stuff is in the new 'it sort of happened around then, maybe' Dark Imperium style. Makes it tougher to compare.

Do not use anything metal. It will rust and contaminate the paint. I even avoid stainless steel. Glass is your best bet. The current Citadel pots will accommodate up to a normal sized glass marble just fine. I had a Badger mixer. I found it spun too fast and made a mess using it in the average paint jar. Then there was the cleanup. Not worth it. In general, once something has gone solid in a paint pot, it's pretty much garbage at that point.

Don't get too excited over it. It was nothing, and covered here and other places on 8ths release. https://spikeybits.com/2017/06/emperor-not-dead-8th-edition-fluff.html

Haley has continually portrayed the Orks well. They were the main antagonist in Baneblade, and they portrayed as dangerous, scary foes. This continues in the Gorkanaut shorts, and although heretical to say here, his portrayal of life in that other greenskin race from the Old World was excellent in Skarsnik.

Haley probably had a brief about the new Marines and Vehicles so he could write the novel, and things changed by the time the game and novel got published. Not uncommon. The book has a major disagreement on Cato Sicarius' fate with the Marine codex, which has him MIA, while Haley apparently had free reign to use the character when he was writing the novel. So in Dark Imperium, Sicarius is serving with Guilliman.

Strange how different we all can see good/bad stuff. I agree with b1soul I find it odd that HeritorA finds it strange that people have different opinions. Good/bad stuff is not 'strange that people have different opinion'. Again you see something where there is nothing, geeze. Ooh, agreed. I liked many elements of Pharos, but wasn't too fussed about it in general. (Damning with faint praise!) The "Novamarine" guy in it was my fav. bit by far, though there was lots to enjoy. If I'd thought about it before, that element should have illuminated for me how good having Guy do the DI story would be! --- Have picked up "Baneblade" on the strength of folks recommendation too. I'm excited to get to it! Corvo was fantastic and Haley made a nice easter egg for Dishonored. Baneblade is good - but 'Shadowsword' is amazing. In Baneblade Haley checked the earth under his feats. In Shadowsword he is a master One thing I found especially well written in Shadowsword was the sense of fear the regular Guardsmen had when they knew they were going to have to face Chaos Marines, without any real backup, or heavy support. I know I'd find that a scary proposition, and Haley conveyed it well in that part of the book.

I think a lot of has to do with the 8th launch going pretty well. They have only so much molding capacity, and to get some things done,something else has to wait until there is an opportunity. The way they chose to release multiple starters has hurt, too. While great for gamers having a choice, the Dark Imperium and Know No Fear starters share sprues, but the Know No Fear ones are molded in blue...so you can't just run 20000 copies, and stuff whatever into what box. Even though the sprues you got were the same, the ones for Know No Fear starters had to be run separately from the other Dark Imperium work.

One of the plot threads running through Dan Abnett's Titanicus is what happens to a husband and wife when she's called up into the defense forces, and he stays behind in their hive.