Marshal Mittens

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.

WS/BS 4 in dreads is not ideal in my opinion. They do not get many attacks, and giving all of their melee attacks a 50% chance of missing in CC against marines, or 65% chance of missing against elite marines, is a large nerf to their strength. A contemptor with 3 attacks will now kill 1, maybe 2 marines in close combat a round. Not great, honestly. Leviathan's, for their points, are likely to be in a worse spot.

There are some suggestions, like red for Sword Brethren (Veterans), and black for mostly everyone else. But as others have said, the codex is not something the Twmplars even consider following, paint your squads however they dreamed that Space God wants them to look.

That's fair, and it does seem like maybe lethality, except for meltas, is being turned down. Plasma might be horrid now across the board. But still, these do not look great. Don't get me wrong, I will build and paint mine, and probably use them, but they seem....not great. Disentigrator + Particle Shredder will probably be my go to loadout. Which is sad because I love plasma, but those bombards are rough, rules wise.

Not trying to be a power gamer but these seem kinda terriable.

Honestly the plasma bombards kinda suck (3" template hits nothing), and the disentigrators seem like :cuss:ty multimeltas that can hurt the user. I do like the particle shredder, actually, but for 60/80pts these are getting bodied in CC by other units. The fears of over powered saturnine seem overblown.