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Funny, the opposite happened to me. TITHI saw a squad of Kasrkins still available for the old price so I pulled the trigger before they went out of stock and re-boxed

So I've just seen this here in NZ. Space Marine Scouts were I believe $130 but you could get them third party for $114. I still consider that an eye-watering price for 10 models, but I was considering getting them. But now, they've been jacked up to $160 ($140 third party) for the exact same models, but with some cardboard I'm never gonna use? That's ludicrous. I'm a painter, I have no interest in Kill Team. I know part of GW's pricing strategy has pretty much always involved the game rules (e.g. character/leader models being more expensive because you're only going to need one or two), but these are baseline troops in 40k, it's insane. No cardboard is worth an extra $26-30.

Had a fun mission just now where me and two randoms turned up in Badab war colours - me as Exorcists, a Carcharadon and a Minotaur

Played through the campaign and loved it, just wish it could've been a tad longer. No major bugs or anything either, just some slight graphical issues but that could've been just due to my aging pc. I've also done a few operations, primarily as Heavy and Assault, and looking forward to doing more when I have time. Assault's jump pack functions differently than the campaign one though, that's gonna take some getting used to. Only real complaint is other players taking all the med-stimms when I'm Assault, have none and at low health.... Haven't touched pvp yet, but I'll probably give it a go at some point.

As someone who collects Exorcists, I have to agree with this. I'm only a third of the way through the book so far and while the bits about how possession affects the marines, and the inner workings of the chapter (e.g. the Orison cults) are interesting, nothing about the story or characters has grabbed me. It's taking me a while to get through the book as a result.

It might be silly, but I always took a delight in seeing the sheer variety of chapter and warband helmets mounted on the trophy racks of his Iron Warriors. He was a huge inspiration for me for many years, and I was stoked to see him appear in White Dwarf. Rest in peace.

I'm getting old, it's all turning into a blur for me. Did the Night Lords come out before or after the army boxes?

I hope this doesn't mean that the Chaos Lords that came out in those army boxes a while back aren't coming out till 2025 because that'd be kinda nutty. I'm not insane right? They haven't released those yet?

Calm, friend. Fair points about the Heresy, I meant in a real world sense mass production can often result in a decrease in quality, but GW can handwave that away. I never claimed personalization improved the effectiveness of the armour. But even Mk VII armour had variations to it, look at the tactical squad kit. Different piping on the face, studs or skulls on the brow, chest plates with different ornamentation. Now all you get is copy and paste marines. I'm lamenting the lack of variation we get in model kits now, that is all. It can be justified in lore a million different ways, however GW wants to, and you can argue we get better poses in exchange (though that is also very subjective, I would say poses in the new jump pack Intercessors are mostly worse than the old assault squad for example). But the variation in marine armour has decreased, that can't be argued, and I think that's a rather major downside.

Yeah see, this is is gross to me. Leave mass-producing things to the Astra Militarum. Marines get the best-of-the-best which just...isn't something that can be produced in huge quantities, because repeating production processes on that kind of scale introduces flaws. GW's trying to have its cake and eat it too, and is just sucking the flavour out of the faction. Again, just my opinion, but when the individuals in a squad of guardsmen (y'know, something that can be part of a horde faction) each have more character than marines, something's gone very wrong. Thankfully my main army is CSM and I can still have unique marines there (for now anyway). I know none of this is new or anything but the SG really just highlight this issue for me, seeing as they're the Blood Angels elite. Nothing against those who like them, more power to you! But for me it leaves me very concerned for the future of marines. If I wanted clone troopers I'd go to star wars.

Totally valid, opinions are opinions. Back when I first started in the hobby (in 4th edition) I remember reading Black Library books that mentioned things like armour being inscribed with the names of previous wearers, or with their heroic deeds. Each suit from tactical marines to chapter honor guard were revered relics, and that's influenced my preference I think. Armour being massed produced strikes me as something more from the Horus Heresy rather than 40k. But I haven't read much new 40k fiction so maybe I'm wrong. Just seems like a sad change if that is the case.

I'm not interested in BA at all so feel free to ignore my opinion, but with the SG it's glaringly obvious GW designs one marine, and then reposes it a few times to make a squad. Like aside from the weapons, pouches on the belt of one guy, and purity seals you used to add yourself anyway, the entire squad is exactly the same unless you use bare heads or kitbash. It strikes me as incredibly lazy sculpting. I miss the days when you could make unique marines straight from the box - it made them feel like "your" marines, and better represented the lore of them each being an individual with personalised armour.

The Inquisitor is nice, but between this guy and that store anniversary model from a couple of years ago, what's with GW making cool Inquisitor models as annoying as possible to buy? Zero interest in signing up to WH+ so it's a pass from me. I'd probably buy him otherwise

Didn't see it posted here yet, apparently this artwork was on the Warhammer twitter:

TITHI realized I used the wrong primer on the Crisis suits I'm working on when I began to basecoat their armour. It's been over a year since I last painted any Tau (aside from Shadowsun, but she was in a different colour scheme) and I thought I usually primed them with grey, but nope! Should've been black. Turns out Caliban green looks pretty different depending on what undercoat you use! On top of that the weather here is currently garbage so I'll have to wait before I can get outside to spray them again