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Just saying, if they release Doomrider T-Posing on the handles of his Daemon bike doing a wheelie, it will sell so fast the system would crash. Not even armed, just T-posing menacingly.

Thats genuinely sad, the pickaxes are cool and the power swords on that unit arent even especially fun-looking power swords. Also have a power club for some reason. I am also the guy that typically despises upgrade kits to represent entire units though. EDIT: squints, wait a minute, acronyms constitute cursing now?

Winged helmets, winged bike heads (I am not a biker and I think I might have just killed one with that descriptor), tabards, emblazoned armour and sick pickaxes (swords are just an option for the dead inside, much like DWK swords)? Thats arguably how alot of units in most ranges are when you get down to it. A Deathwing Knight is arguably a Terminator but with a sick helment, tabard and weapon. A Dire Avenger is also a guardian with a bigger helmet and technologically inflicted multiple personality disorder. Not saying you are wrong mind you about what might happen, but pretending they dont have alot of uniqueness other than the simple fact of riding a bike isn't really fair. I genuinely care very little about the plasma guns, they are fun and powerful but aren't really what makes or breaks it identity by any means to me.

On one hand... yeah... Marines are just getting slaughtered this edition. On the other hand, Sergeant has a sick mustache and can have an axe, so hey! There is something. My insanely uninspired wager is Death Company treatment for Ravenwing and sick bespoke models for Ravenwing Knights (so... Deathwing all over again and that's not a complaint). It'd be nice to be excited about an SM unit this release tbh, and I still have hope for the multi-part Vanguards, but these ain't it.

There is something innately distasteful about someone whose job is to create things just going on endlessly about the past. I don't have a horse in the icky main debate, I would have just rather have seen something fun and interesting. Bladeguard are probably the golden example of 'new and creative' but also 'true to the heart of it'. Shouting about decades past does as little for me as being Kylo Ren about it. I don't know why but my heart can't stop mourning the idea of Gravis marines with Eviscerators or something new and creative period. Instead of the nth iteration of the same baseline unit with the added flair of a desperate call to our honoured ancients which they werent going to like anyway more often than not.

Gonna go ahead and call the Ork win now, these things tend to run predictable. More curious what the detachment will be, Weirdboy on could be fun.

So... some of those are specifically for FW units... The Telemon being called out by a main preview is really interesting because of the baited breath around what is happening with their 30k updated stuff in the coming year. Mentioning it in the edition preview and having stuff specific to it is either a massive bait and switch or an indicator of a surprising shift towards integration.

The copium surged a bit when they were reviewing the termi detachment and said 'we don't quite call them Red Butchers yet'.

First SM preview for the box I feel positive about, GW seems to have a pretty comfortable time putting out good looking Chapies. A bit twitchy about it all relying on the thin smoke column though...

Looking at the Goonhammer model review makes me kind of happy. I recall the announcement thread where everyone thought I was mad in noting two bodytypes in the kit for the different sexes. Low and behold I was correct. Looking forward to digging into these. Mighty concerned with the capes though... I usually hate working on cloth primed metallic whenever I can avoid it but I am not seeing much in the way of choice without risking the fit.

Eh... Space Marines like him and we have more than enough books where a bored apothecary breaks all limitations on biological augmentations on a whim. The Mechanicus also probably see his value and they laugh at mortality. Also the Inquisition's merry trove of nonesense. Or he is feeding off of Ork belief he can't die for peak irony. He is also a theatre level asset at this point between propaganda value and Arm being a lynchpin, so he can afford what I like to call 'congratz on being relevant' tier of Imperial tech. Money matters but BL has beat us over the head that power/relevance is a currency in the Imperium that outstrips any notion of noble wealth after a certain point. And the Old Man seems to be that.

That was an awesome trailer! Kinda agree on the action against the governor lol, that is not exactly what you say to troops mid-combat, especially when the enemy has aerial and void assets (so if they broke, they are dead meat if they make a transport since the fleet would be entirely too confused/fleeing to cover them). Not to mention the Orks would just spill out into the rest of the segementum without the sink that is Armageddon, raising the question of where you would run to exactly... Guy probably broke but Yarrik unironically saved alot of lives with that one lol.

So its not just the legions but related campaigns... If they plan to drip feed us all the BB Lore... that is absolutely fantastic and a very smart move.

They could have given us more SoS, I want them to give us more SoS. And thats not even to do with them, I just really like their one vehicle and want more with that weird :cuss: look.

Hmm... I think I see where our difference of perspective is and I think the point might be missed on your side as well, or we are just diametrically opposed, because you seem to not really be engaging with my original point and my response. Functional strength and endurance are themselves ultimately broken down into a philosophical debate, what is perfect and what is the definition you are ultimately going down (sidenote, highly recommend the Physical series for some fun television that is obsessed with this question but retains lovely sportsmanship, especially the Physical:Asia season). You seem to be arguing for a very narrow band of perfection whereas I am viewing this from the standpoint that perfection is ultimately down to such a degree of variance that someone like the Emperor (a literal shapeshifter) would not be satisfied with a single expression or approach to perfection. You'd also have to understand how many secondary and tertiary genetic factors go into something as seemingly simple as a single body-dimension and situation. Put differently, you are really fixated on physical perfection being just a fighter... fighting builds kind of suck for alot of things beyond fighting whereas someone like a high-end cross fitter will both have a different build in some respects and be more generally capable, because specialization is a thing and the entire point of crossfit is sort of to avoid that like the plague with predictable results (even if you will never be terribly likely to beat one at their sport, but then you have to factor for things like rules and what would change without them, it gets messy). But I am not sure I am going to be able to convince you so we might have to be disagree. I will however quote my favorite Custodian and the least punchable of their number (my hot take is that if I got to push one down a staircase that could kill them, it would easily be Valdor): "We were never soldiers"