Marshal Mittens

The Admech kit had almost everything I like, and it has nothing I don't. 3 of them seem like a great basis for an army.

I don't think you can get it in the UK, but it probably only costs 2 pence and a cup of tea with your local store manager over there, where as in the USA this is usually like a weeks wages.

Few suprises. I wonder if they inversion beamer kit comes with 1 or 2 inversion beamers, as that's likely to be the most popular.

Those look cool.

I am seeing 10 MK II for $25 on ebay. I think a lot of people like MKII but have all the bolter pigs they need. I like the Saturnine, but its a bit marmite, and while the gun platform looks neat it seems more like terrain. Getting a Spartan and a good multipart contemptor and all those marines in the 2.0 box set was awesome. The mid 2.0 MK III with a new Dorito Dread and land raider was also awesome. Now most people have 90+ marine bodies, several dreads, and leaders for their armies. If you like this kit, it's a fun buy, but its not better or different than what came before. The last two big boxes made a lot of sense to buy several of at the time, and i know I bought a few of each, but this box has less of that draw. And while heresy isn't a WAAC type game, in theory, nothing in the box is very good. The dread is, with inversion beamers, but the rest is meh. I think it will be a bit of a dominion release. Which isn't horrid. I think if the MK II had options to be Dispoilers in the box it would have sold much better as well.

Red Hand Destroyers are jump troops with chain axes and Bolt Pistols for World Eaters. And they look cool. There is even a cool Red Hand Destroyer Captain in Skane who has some cool lore and would be easy to convert. Him and most of his destroyers were ok turning traitor, but tried to leave once all the weird Deamon stuff started, as they were not down with the ruinious powers, they just hated Khorne, even if they were the consumate Bezerkers. Hes killed by Lotara when him and his Destroyers try and flee the conqueror.

You can have as many turns as you like, 4 is a suggestion your group may ignore if you like.

Its a very "Meh" release, and I am sad they didnt lean into models with a lot more character. Personally this one is a pass for me, even as a dark angels player.

I've been playing since the tail end of 2nd/Beginning of 3rd. Nothing wrong with being happy with a move from mono build models. To many have no options, and I love that this dread has a bunch of options.

I will say, one thing from the leaks that I am loving is how with some of these new kits, they are giving you so many options. 4 Chest pieces, and essentially 4 heads for the dread? Options for the Preator too. I feel like GW had been going away from that for so long, so to see them going back to it is really exciting.

I hope its not the 3 year treadmill either, however I suspect that's what it's going to be. Maybe if The Old World becomes popular enough, they will switch to a 4 year cycle with a big summer release rotating between 40k, Horus Heresy, AoS and the Old World. However I suspect the edition launches are big product movers for them, and worry they like the 3 year cycle.

Ooof. Sorry Grey Knight players. This is rough.

Love it. Pose could be different, but love the model.

Outside of maybe some special characters for a BL release or the like, I think we are unlikely to see plastic legion specific stuff this edition. I think we will get another MK of Armor, new Cataphractii and the new assault fellows, maybe with some new kits for existing units, amd of course breachers. We will probably get Admech wave 2, Dark Mech, and a lot of plastic for Custodes. This will leave us in a pretty good spot going into 4E in 2028 when they will likely start to release legion specific books and release plastics for the legions, if it's still selling well.

It feels like they Inverter is by far the strongest weapon for the dread, with Disentigrators behind that, and the plasma mortar and drav weapons in the distant back. The particle shredder is the clear winner fornipple weapons. Ultimately though, while I will 100% build and paint a couple of these for narrative reasons, I am not overly excited about their stats to points, and still like leviathan and contemptors more, looks wise.