Valkyrion

The lack of updates is also poor considering the main thing is already out. By that I mean, there's no Codex Sons of Horus or Codex Imperial Fists to change the balance of legion lists, there's just a smattering of new characters here and there, so LA and LH and everything therein is, more or less, immutable. If you have X (the Legions) that is set in stone, it should be easy to create Y (the other factions) in balance with it, because X isn't changing 18 times with new codex releases, which is part of the problem 40k has always had. There is no power creep in 30k if 18 factions are finished at the beginning, there's only deliberate choices to make the other factions over or underpowered compared to the legions.

I don't think folk are concerned about the reusing of old art, more surprised that they use old art of old minis when there is an abundance of newness to support. It's very much GW's MO that once something has gone, you don't tend to see it again in later publications. It's not a complaint, rather an observation.

Wait until the Thousand Sons or Space Wolves campaign book comes out and see if you can spot the modern era tourists that are pictured in Inferno. Then you'll know if anyone is paying attention. p44, if you've not seen it before. Dude casually watching on as the space wolves tear Tizca apart.

The planets of the horus heresy are littered with skeletons ripe for reanimation, but you might be right. Space Skaven was another possibility, but I don't like the models as much and that is a sure fire way for me to lose interest.

Just spitballing an idea about using ossiarchs for a daemon army, instead of the traditional daemons. I think the ossiarch models are cool, have a almost sci-fi vibe, and all their smiling faces are pretty creepy - like, I dunno, the silent, smiling dead coming to carry your soul to the warp kinda thing. They also cover most of the daemon army list - mortek guard for lesser daemons, stalkers for brutes, spirit hosts for swarms, harvesters for behemoths, nighthaunt harridans for harriers, nagash for a greater daemon etc. But I feel I'd need to do *something* to them to stop them simply being Ossiarch Bonereapers - but what? Anyone got any examples of traditional fantasy models used in a similar 30k or 40k setting?

I'll sometimes pay more than RRP for already built models. It might seem odd, but if I'm in two minds about starting a new army and want to see if I enjoy painting them first, I'll look around for 20 termagants, or guardsmen, or orks or whatever. It saves me having to find X amount more money to meet free carriage from retailers and saves time having to build them.

I don't know if they are or not, it's just a feeling because I've never seen a White Scars player in real life, and a quick look around this forum shows only 2 pages in 2 years in 30k tactica, there's only 7 pages of topics in White Scar sub forum (and only 1 topic so far this year), no white scars overtly on the front pages of PCA, the last White Scars painting tutorial was 5 years ago - there are 23 pages of topics given over to Salamanders, White Scars and Iron Hands on this forum combined; the middle group of Imperial Fists, Ultramarines and Raven Guard have 86 pages of content, and the Dark Angels, Space Wolves and Blood Angels have 1026 between them. Only Chaos Knights, World Eaters, and Leagues of Votann have fewer pages of content than White Scars and one of those has only been out 2 years. This isn't exactly conclusive proof of their popularity, but this website is primarily a space marine one and there is no regular White Scars content here.

I think the Khan is the least likely of the loyalist primarchs to return, mainly because the White Scars are amongst the least popular of all the original legions, maybe even the most least popular, if you excuse the terrible English! I honestly believe GW would sooner shoehorn in a Sanguinius reincarnation or resurrection story, alongside Russ, than give us 40k Corax, Vulkan, Khan, Dorn or Manus. I don't disagree with your reasoning, just the likelihood.

GW's cynical money grab started long before the release of the big toys by halving the points cost of everything between 2nd and 3rd edition, and has been going on ever since. We all know it's going on, they won't admit it informs their gaming decisions, nothing will change. Complaining about it is just tilting at windmills. I think some perspective from players wouldn't go amiss though. No one is going to take anyone's toys away and stop them being used in games. That will simply never happen, so arguments based on that impossible premise are just circular and unhelpful. Similarly, arguing that primarchs, titans and flyers have changed nothing is also fallacious as their inclusion forces the games designers to account for them. I do think there's fair debate to be had as to their initial inclusion, and the good or ill that has come from those decisions, but they are here to stay and will be part of the game for the immediate and foreseeable future. IMO, for what it's worth, 30k should have been the exclusive domain of super heavies, knights, titans and primarchs. So HH doesn't cover xenos - so what, not everyone can have everything. I'd also have limited Custodes to 30k. This means no knights or stompas or primarchs etc in 40k. The rules were/are already there for full vehicle armies, and the game was/is designed to 3000 points and 4-6 hours play. I'd also have properly supported Apocalypse at 40k level, to allow GW to make a big toy and for players to use it in the appropriate setting. If 40k is a 3 year cycle, I'd have made Apocalypse a 6 year cycle using it's own set of rules and expansions. I remember being dead excited to see a Stompa and Baneblade, and stood agog at my first Warhound Titan. Imagine the Tesseract Vault and Lord of Skulls doesn't exist, two wonderful models that never get used, and are released in a Necrons vs World Eaters apocalypse expansion where you have daemon Angron and the Silent King fighting alongside their super-heavies - I'm 40 and I'd still find that exciting even if I played neither faction. But if I did play either faction, I'd buy the new toys and be excited to put together a full days massive gaming with friends, with properly supported rules and glorious campaign book to pour over. To be clear, I'm not advocating for the removal of anything; I'm arguing against stuff happening in the first place. Now you have a Knight army I want you to be able to use it, but it is my belief that 40k as a game would be better had they never been introduced into mainstream play. GW can't even fudge their own game to give either Knight faction a combat patrol, a brand new unique way of playing 10th edition that cannot be used by knight players. And I've just completed my own circular argument. QED.

I never knew that existed, what a handy little resource that is!

Thinking of picking her up to use in a <not safe for bolter and chainsword> project, but also to double up as a Dark Eldar themed Yncarne or Avatar. I know her overall profile will be huge because of the wings, but my gaming group is very much rule of cool and will be willing to ignore the wings when playing, providing the overall profile is somewhere near - I know she's tall, but forgetting the wings, is she considerably bigger than either the Yncarne and/or Avatar? 20mm base difference isn't much, but I'd put her on an 80mm anyway to fit the other avatars footprints.

It's exactly like colonel in real life. Only a few countries call them colonels, otherwise its Oberst, Taisa, Polkovnik etc. In single language military parlance then you'd use Colonel even when referring to german, turkish, chinese military ranks because the rank is the same, but the name is different. Just like Praetor - it conveys meaning of high level commander, without the unit entry reading 'Chapter Master/Wolf Lord/First Captain/Lord Commander/Tetrarch/Noyan-Khan/Iron Father/Warsmith' etc.

Remus, Remus, wherefore art thou, Remus? https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/remus-ventanus-saviour-of-calth-2021?queryID=a6a10872bbead0cdfd7fc6fc2b611cc1 I don't think he's been available all year.

They are custodes. You have big gold focusing the attention on the right, with small black in the background; you have big black focusing the attention on the left, with small gold in the foreground (Sanguinius). Having the custodes in gold would just turn the entire right side into a golden blob at first glance.

Yeah, I wasn't so much as meaning Valhallans should get a 3+ save, rather trying poorly to illustrate the point that different capabilities between similar units can be utilised by the unit profiles in place of special rules.