Doghouse

For me it's a value thing. I stopped buying because I no longer feel that I am getting value for my money or investment in time with the newer kits, whether it's expense or the shear amount of time I have to spend making a model only to be heavily steered to making them how GW want me to. I've shifted more into the 3d printing world and expanded my horizons beyond what GW currently offer so I've outgrown their products I guess which further makes their prices seem distasteful to me. Instead I am quite happily sat creating my own little game system and miniatures from scratch which has been very rewarding and allowed me to get back to what I consider to be the true roots of wargaming as a hobby over what has become an overly priced competitive tabletop game to me. I think that you can get some decent deals from box splitting as some have mentioned but I really do not want to become a reseller in order to make back money that I feel I should not be paying in the first place. I'd much rather feed my imagination than fill their coffers.

Finding content on Youtube is frustratingly almost non existent beyond a few that cover it exclusively and those are often trying to make money off their channels so I am not sure I trust their opinions. I'm seeing people say they enjoy it but it's hard to measure whether I want to spend money on the rule book and Libers again because it feels glossed over as an edition. As someone on the cusp it's very frustrating and feels like the moment I do take the plunge GW will pull the rug on the edition again.

Looks like the original that was made from slotta bases back in the eighties.

For me at the moment it's fine, I can currently get two 8k 1000g bottles for about the same as a box of Primaris marines currently and even if it went up to £40 a bottle I could still make maybe four times the number of models I'd get from a GW box of models. I personally prefer the freedom and choice it gives me over modern GW minis.

I'm glad I invested in a printer is all I can say. Price increases never really bothered me too much in the past but of late I think it's surpassed what even I am willing to pay. It's my personal opinion, but I feel it's such a shame it went from a hobby to a product conveyor belt fomo machine.

I love that model and would dearly like to buy one but no way I am paying £130 for a transport. On the whole I really like the PDF and it's got me tempted to dip my toe into 3rd from a modelling perspective.

I really like these lists. The introduction of a lot of Necromunda models is nice and useful for conversions and I like how you can lean into doing something like a squat army. I'm not sure I would do an entire army because it's such a financial investment these days but an allied attachment could be extremely characterful. I think that it works very well as a sandbox.

I personally am really glad that this happened for me. It broke me from the FOMO cycle and showed me that there are so many opportunities to explore the hobby beyond 40k. I have far more enjoyment making my own models from scratch than I ever did with GW conversions and if I create something I really enjoy making I can share it with others for free. For me personally it makes it a hobby again rather than the conveyor belt of product pushing it has become.

Overall it's a very odd design, I think had they said these are advanced mini dreadnoughts I'd be perfectly fine with that. I'd even be happy with the foetus position pilot from the original Contemptor design from Rogue Trader. It looks even more surreal with a bare head. The ball joints on the hips don't really make much sense to me either because it suggests they have no legs, I'd genuinely love a lore description of how they work.

This looks really good.

I'm thinking combi-bolter with disintegrator, not sure yet but do think combi-weapons are the way to go and drop podding onto a target or defending a rear objective from deep strikers. I may pair them with a Land Raider Explorator.

I think the Leviathan would prevent me buying multiples of this set because I couldn't see myself using multiples of it, something like a predator would have have been good. Other two look ok.

That's the thing about printing, I've got a company of mk ii, a company of mk iv and a company of mk iv I never touched. It's addictive once you get into it and the pile of shame grows to insane levels if left unchecked.

I'm magnetising mine for that reason, I think I am waiting till the next journal comes out because it focuses on them giving options for centurions I believe.

In all honesty I'd ignore whatever tidbits there are and just make one of the lost legions if that is what you want to do. I'm currently doing the 11th personally, the records of both are expunged so to be fair you can do what you want regardless. Anything any of us do isn't going to become canon so why worry? Put together an awesome Legion idea and go for it I say! As for your other idea, that's perfectly fine. One aspect of war that is massively overlooked when it comes to 30k is experimental warfare like the SOE in the second world war. Cawl probably wasn't the only one playing around with Primaris concepts and it's incredibly plausible that others were trying weird experiments on either side to give them the edge. The trick is not to tie this stuff to known characters in 40k like Malcador or the Emperor and instead create your own mad scientist type.