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I doubt GW views or tracks it this quite this way - they're probably not that concerned with 'Suppressors' as a concept so much as the production logic involved. They have a big production bottleneck right now, and one part of handling that seems to be trying to scale down the frankly absurd amount of Marine SKUs that are available in one way or another. With those kinds of limitations, they're choosing what stays and what goes, and of the things that live in the weird limbo of "were in a big box, never got their own separate release," Suppressors are one of the easiest things to dump. Unlike Outriders, they don't have existing synergies with character boxes, and they compete with Inceptors, Assault Intercessors and now Vanguard Veterans for the "flying Space Marines" niche. Bad luck for Suppressors, but I doubt it's a case of GW looking at something that's never been released on its own anyway and saying "well, they didn't sell." Gonna engage in Extreme Pedant Mode here and note that the just-retired Bryan Nelson Ork Boyz, which defined the look of Orks 'till recently, were released in early 3rd, less than a year into the edition. ;)

I tend to buy themed dice for my armies, though it’s typically been big blocks of Chessex 12mms with a matching color scheme. It’s great for chucking big handfuls of 20+ attacks, but they do feel kinda piddly and difficult to tumble properly on single die rolls. More recently, I’ve been getting larger 16mm ones with faction symbols on them (finally managed to find some great Evil Sunz ones!), but mostly haven’t bought GW’s. Whenever I’ve looked for one of my factions, the color schemes just feel weird, and their readability is a bit questionable. Plus they’re ‘spensive. Just usually a better option out there.

Maybe. It's interesting to note that both Space Marines and Orks are seeing significant shifts upwards in points costs, necessitating smaller armies overall. One bit of info from GW's most recent financial report is that they're making long-term changes in their business to account for the current US tariff situation. I wonder if they foresee the costs of a full army alienating some newer customers, and are adjusting the size of the game accordingly.

Disappointed that Intercessors aren’t getting Special/Heavy Weapons to fully emulate old Tac Squads. Really thought they might go there this time around.

I appreciate how they're handling Kombi-Weapons on MegaNobz, where they're just different weapon profiles that you choose from when the unit shoots. No worrying about which model has which weapons, but truer to the purpose/use of the weapons than the generalized 10th Ed version. I imagine we'll see this same approach with Sternguard and Chaos Terminators.

Lootas/Burnas being out of the Codex is kind of sad, but now that Legends is in the App, no reason not to play them anyhow.

Curious how the amalgamated 'Warbuggies' entry ends up working. Genericized weaponry like the Kans? Maybe just several upgrades living within a single entry? Guess we'll find out. Odd to see the Squigbuggy living out there on its own, maybe they just wanted to keep an Indirect Fire buggy option open?

Eesh, that Mek price. Thought I'd get one for funsies, but at that price I'l just stick with some easy conversion. Same with the Trukk. It's an amazing model, and I really wanted to get a few for this little detachment of new Boyz I'm putting together. At that price, tho, well...I did just find an STL set that recreates and expands on the chassis of the old Gorkamorka Trukk, which I've always had a soft spot for. Guess that's our answer.

Huh, the system of top head part/bottom head part is interesting. Imaginably the new Warboss’ head swaps will work similarly.

Huh. We’re probably all very aware of how GW works at least three-ish years ahead of release, but it’s pretty of surprising to see finished sprues from at least a year out. Didn’t think they started to cast and put stock together that early, tho I suppose it’s possible that this is just a test. …or it’s AI, and the rumors/leaks situation for the foreseeable future just got a lot weirder.

I would conquer whole nations, build mighty armies and fight wars untold just to have this miniature.

Marking that bionic arm for future Ork conversion ideas...

If it does happen (hoping not, but…), I think it’ll likely be due to production logic. Lots of Ork SKUs out there, and it probably *really* doesn’t help that they have the Beast Snaggas out there as a sort of mini-army that duplicates the functionality of other units.

I am starting to feel some pangs of dread for Lootas and/or Burnas. We'll see when the Codex hits (or before, with previews), but I'm getting the feeling that they might've been entirely rotated out to make room for new things.

WarOrgan’s pretty solid, and I’ve ended up choosing it over New Recruit for 40K, just due to the way its purpose-built for the task. Did have issues using it in my first 2K game the other day when the iPad swapped over to night mode and suddenly half the entries weren’t readable, but it’s very impressive for a free app.