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Exciting! Personally hope it's EC for obvious reasons, but I'm keen to see what it is regardless Wrong Red Corsairs Apothecary - Variel left them for the Night Lords, Garreon is still loyal to Huron.

Lots of flavour on display, looks great

Wish there were far more helmets in the set - would have made it the kind of kit I'd buy multiples of to use a bunch of Mark VII/Mark VI/snazzy Mark X across a force.

I turned away from Vallejo after their mass formula change, but we'll see how this pans out - their Metal Colour range is fantastic but these are evidently a different formula. Would be nice to have some interesting high quality metallics to offer an alternative to some of the more unique Scale 75 metallics. Never understood why they didn't add at least a little more to that line. Real pity

Overall I'm happy, this is largely great stuff. Some legions made out like bandits compared to others though. The Inductii still have all their weird legion-specific flavour, but don't feel like "tacticals +1" now. E.g. Inductii tacticals have line (1) instead of line (2), most don't have Sergeants, can never have a prime advantage, and often have reduced stats so they'll be more vulnerable to statuses than their experienced brethren. I really love all of this. The exception to this, somewhat, are those variants based on the despoiler (rather than tactical) template. They still have some disadvantages compared to their non-Inductii despoiler counterparts but trade line (2) for vanguard (2), which is just way better on a melee template. I'd have preferred to see despoilers move to vanguard (2) and Inductii despoilers to vanguard (1) as a mirror for their tactical brethren, but conscious that (at least in my 3.0 games to date) vanguard feels pretty weak compared to line anyway. The Butcher-Surgeon Prime Advantage for the World Eaters helps fix their awful Hereticus trait, which felt really lackluster compared to their early Heresy trait and when compared to the Hereticus EC trait. It still makes absolutely no sense that late heresy World Eaters have to jump through a bunch of hoops to become 'lost to the nails', which will often not happen throughout the course of the game (???), but at least this will make the Sons of Bodt detachment a desirable commodity. EDIT: They have 'Ravening Madmen' and so can only join Red Butchers and Inductii. Booooooo. In terms of my favourite legions, EC Inductii kept their charnabal sabres (yay), so I'm pleased. Their trait isn't super useful if you're using the Hereticus rite but it's still great overall and feels really thematic. The Word Bearers one is absolutely terrible, which is a pity given how cool the theme is. I can understand them not wanting to hand malefic out like candy, but I'm still puzzled how the writers thought this one was worth its salt compared to what other legions get. Hope everybody is happy with their particular legion's brand of Inductii.

Another faithful update, looks fantastic

I'm sure this will be released alongside Sanguinius Reborn, Horus Reborn, and Fulgrim's Clone. This is basically textbook 'how to fake a rumour' image editing. Pretty obvious fake

Very cool, solid array of options. The Anointed are utterly lethal. Bit of a bizarre decision not to put a single WHC article out advertising the journal though.

Really keen to put a double fist Saturnine Command squad together. I like that the unit starts at two as well. Very curious to see the WB Anointed rules as I've wanted to see the XVII receive a Terminator unit for ages.

Much prefer him in Terminator armour to the Gravis sculpt, looks great.

Delayed in Australia... Hopefully it sells well, I want to see the Falchion in plastic

It's hard to tell how well the game is doing. Anecdotally, some in my area are sticking with 2.0 and others have moved to 3.0, though plenty of people seem to be be working on Saturnine kits. Previously I'd have expected everybody to migrate to the new shiny and I'm a little concerned about the game's long-term future locally. Any responses you get to 'how well is 3.0 doing' online will vary based on where you ask the question, but 3.0 is clearly a polarising edition one way or the other. GW badly bungled the launch. I don't think counting battle reports is a good measure of how well the game is doing. There have never been many HH 'content creators' and HH battle reports have never hauled in masses of views. 40k is an anomaly in that regard among GW's games. Personally I really like 3.0. The core rules generally feel like an improvement over 2.0 and I have thoroughly enjoyed the few games I've played so far. That being said I absolutely hate the army building/detachment system, it's awful, and most factions feel like they've lost a fair amount of flavour.

Looks really cool, though if true I'm not sure I'd have chosen this as a priority to transition into plastic when we already have the Scorpius as a full kit and the Hyperios as a journal add-on.

Wonderful news, keen to get my hands on more heresy from French. Praetorian of Dorn, Slaves to Darkness and Solar War are three of my all-time favourites in the setting. edit: Just noticed: I thought the second journal tactica was Saturnine themed, so perhaps this is a reference to a second dropsite massacre journal (part II) coming around the same time.

Hmm. Pre-coffee takes: Can't say I'm pleased to see no Eldar or CSM, and Mech wouldn't have been my choice for a second Imperial faction. As somebody who's basically played DOW1 and its expansions since release (with a period spent on DOW2, and memory loss where DOW3 should be), it's strange to see e.g. Primaris and Newcrons drag the franchise into the present. Trailer was fine, bit early to judge gameplay but it didn't pump me up. In the pantheon of DOW trailers/cinematics it falls behind 1, 2 & 3 without question in my mind. Happy to see John French behind the story. I've got pretty low expectations for this based on the developer, but it's still exciting to have this and (hopefully) Total War 40k on the horizon. We'll see how things play out.