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Yup I downloaded, I'm going to see how I can print this for my Battle Brothers here.

Sorry for late reply, I actually showed these to Timperial Guard. Huge interest in the things like insignias, Chapter badges, etc. We discussed a bit and we kinda compared tattoos to transfers for our miniatures. If we can imagine a transfer that'd go on our miniatures, we can imagine that on our skins. That said, from a sheer design, my favourite is that Bolter with scales incorporated into the Hydra, but I would not imagine that as a tattoo Tim would get. The Ave Imperator Aquila with the Lasgun is like EXACTLY the edge where I think Tim would go, like it's exactly just different enough to catch his attention. Sharing this because we were both well impressed, very well done.

Yeah, I was just letting my brain float while reading and you reminded me of that scene in End & the Death Part III where Blood Angels went Black Rage for the 1st time, like this janky Not-Rite of War should be seen as some weird NPC encounter like that, that would be a cool modeling project for real. Some 3D printed vampire heads on upcoming plastic Assault squads, or something.

Thanks for the heads up, Brother Shepherd, because this is both a significant AND surprising reflection of the 30k range*. * HUGE asterisk here: my local meta loves 30k with the current rules, but ppl CAN buy the plastics for use with 2nd ed rules. Why is this half-year core revenue number significant? Because it measures GW's own sales from June 1st until the end of this month, that's how the GW's calendar works, and follows how they launch new flagship products in the summer like new editions of 40k, AoS and, this year, 30k...which did better than I expected. GW rightly and responsibly separates core revenue from licensing revenue (from video games, etc.), so no cover up here. PREVIOUSLY, 40k has the obviously biggest jump, starts leveling off with AoS, then (weird currency fluctuations notwithstanding), just plateaus with 30k. There's a rhythm to it, like BANG, Bang...boop. Because of the negativity surrounding HH 3.0 (not saying right or wong, but that negativity exists), I'd have been glad if it held steady...boop. But what this core revenue number suggests is this HH launch performed better than the AoS one last half-year: So last half-year's AoS launch period AND Space Marine 2's release, £235.6m to £263m was an increase of ~10%. (Yes, Space Marine 2's licensing revenue i.e. royalties is separate, but those players then go buy their 1st minis, k?) This half-year's 30k launch period, and fans of Space Marine 2 might still be here, £269.4m to £310m is an increase of around ~15%. Anticipating your question, what was 30k 2nd ed's launch period like? Taking out the weird currency fluctuations, around 0%. That doesn't mean 30k 2nd ed didn't sell, it just meant it sold at almost exactly the same rate as AoS...boop. Because of the negativity around 30k 3rd ed, I thought it'd be around ~0% again. (I remember AoS's launch last year, everyone was playing that Spearhead game here, it was cool and fast and popular! So no disrespect!) Other factors I'm keeping in mind: - Space Marine II released in Sept 2024, lingering effect - Pricing Update around Oct 2025, yes, that would bump up revenue, but it's quite late, like period ends in November - But Brothers et Sororitas, help me out, what other significant releases since this June? I saw some SM characters To have this half-year outperform AoS AND the initial rush of new Hobbyists from Space Marine 2, this is a significant and surprising twist. I'll leave it here because if anything, I have Contemptor Dreadnoughts to build, but I was expecting bad news, and this is way good news imho.

*reads Oath of Moment: Blade of the Just, all the way down to Doomed Heroics* Oh for crying out loud! Thanks for the heads up, Brothers. This might be the Final Boss (whose A.I. cheats) of HH 3.0.

Brothers, I slept on it to come back with an open mind. I know you already bought a box of Hormagaunts, but I honestly think this: Use different colours/paint scheme AND Tyranid models that ppl don't see, because we grognards have a Pavlovian recognition of them. I know these are part of the Kill Team range...but they don't even look Tyranids to me. They look like Zerg from StarCraft. I know this isn't even new anymore, these Neurogaunts, but no one ever uses them. So I never formed an association with them. 'Cos I was thinking about what I said, like converting. Well, I can still tell that's a converted Tyranid Warrior. So these would be like Brutes and the basic Troops types, for example. And maybe I'd spam these like a scuttling tidal wave. I'm in total agreement with unfamiliar colours, so I'm just adding they got to be unfamiliar forms, too. But definitely would love to see your paint scheme, Brother Valkyrion. You see where I'm coming from. Edit - didn't want to make it sound like Brother Valkyrion needs, y'know, paint scheme approval. I actually thought about this overnight and I could not come up with any interesting colour schemes that look Xenos without looking like Tyranids. I did think of a cockroach paint scheme using Tamiya Smoke, though...but that's so gross, just to show my failure of imagination.

Welp...it's finally time to upgrade. Btw, caveat emptor, I don't think Myrmidon Destructors are great in 3.0 because their weapons aren't so good anymore, BUT would use these models for character conversions. Honestly, I might use these to convert into Obliterators for 40k mebbe. Because these new Myrmidons really might be my favourite models.

(Sorry if I missed discussions about this, I briefly heard this idea in some YouTube 30k video, but I wasn't really paying attention.) I was in our Warhammer Store and got talking about the Blackshields PDF and suddenly people starting shouting “萬歲!" (maan seoi!) That means an age of 10,000 years and is a cheer for a Chinese emperor, so I was freaked out, like did a Qing emperor pop up behind me? Turns out, they weren't speaking in terms of Chinese history, but Japanese; you know that phrase as "Banzai!" What kamikaze pilots shouted. And what they were describing was this suicidal charge list-building strategy based on one of the Oaths in the Blackshields PDF: The idea is you take a Blackshields Detachment with as many Centurions with Jump Packs as possible and NO OTHER upgrades. Then they just jump head 1st into the enemy to die, then they each get D6+1 VPs. So an army list is you start with the Crusade Primary Detachment and get Jump Pack Centurions, which unlocks the Officer Cadre Detachment, for more Jump Pack Centurions. Your entire army is Jump Pack Centurions that jump headlong into danger. That's about a thousand points with 8 or 9 models. What do I do with this except to buy a pack of the upcoming plastic 30k Assault Marines and shout 萬歲? Also what Legion would they be from? It's not White Scars, the original meaning of kamikaze was this typhoon that tore the 2 Mongol fleets apart. I suppose they could be Medusan Immortals. Actually, some weird Medusan Immortal suicide force is the closest I could think of, but feel free to prove me wrong (I did Shattered Xth in 1st ed, not looking to repeat it).

I saw this last thing and I think I understand where you're coming from. Like something from Murder in Horus Rising. Then yeah, maybe some sort of kitbash of Tyranid parts with some robotic bits, might not even be Mechanicus/um but like 3rd parties. We actually had a discussion in our local meta about pre-Tyranids, and you know how a lot of Horus Heresy dabbles in not-Squats, etc., with the Militias and Cults was in fact something like Genestealer Cults. They'd be long left behind remnants from the last time the Tyranids were in our Galaxy, laying dormant since forever...as Genestealer lore describes, like how they survive in the vacuum of a Space Hulk...and had been awaken early and started taking over some local world. And even then, it was suggested for anyone interested to use the Necromunda Genestealer models, like they're a very different strain from the ones in 40k. What stopped the idea: there are so many cool factions in the Age of Darkness, we were more likely to make not-Squats than this, for example. So it's a cool idea, but with so many different options for 30k, we opted to do other cool stuff instead that was less immersion-breaking, ya.

So I just listened to this YouTube. In case you're reading on your phone, this Hobbyist has very concrete observations based on 40+ games: No themed armies like the OLD Rites of War, like an all-Termies that can score, like in previous editions Missions are samey, Mission 3 is unplayable according to him (it's the one that "drains" VPs off Objectives) Terrain rules are terrible Clunky rules, especially during the Charge Phase The biggest thing I agree with him on is how clunky the rules are, and yes, it's especially around the Charge Phase. You got to add up your Initiative and Movement, look up the result on a table to Reposition, then you got this extra Shooting Phase of Volley Fire, then someone calls up a Challenge, then they got this Gambit they gotta read out AAAAAAAAH. +++++ I'll take this opportunity to NOT talk about the financial report, except to say I 100% agree with you guys. +++++ And nonetheless, it turns out in my local meta, this really seems like the most popular game in a long time. I'll give you the short version why: the guys play these team games, yesterday they did 4 vs. 4. Something with how flexible list-building is and how 1 of the guys summed it up, "The gap is smaller," meaning unlike 40k where there's absolute top tier units and rubbish units, the variance isn't THAT big between different units and Legions. So team fun. However, there is a huge asterisk: no one here's played the previous editions except the Warhammer Store Manager and me. As for familiarity with the lore, only one other player then myself have read the novels...but we won't shut up about them.

Thanks for highlighting this. I had flipped through this, the "Scenery Showcase" issue just this past weekend, and didn't notice that. Oh man. A lot of people bought the Krieg set and people like the Mechanicus horsies and one of the nice guys plays GSC, this should be A Thing.

Yooooo~oh~ho~hohoho, thank you for this insight, Brother Tolmeus. Our Warhammer Store manager totally forgot to hold onto a copy for me. This actually sounds a lot like when the Black Rage 1st hit the Blood Angels in The End and the Death Volume III. Like all the Blood Angels were all berserk except for Dominion Zephon and his friend was like "well, you're okay," and he was characteristically humble like, "no, Brother, I'm so not, but I snapped out of it before the others."

Sister Dalmyth, take care because Brother Iansalt's breakdown is right. You're right that there were indeed Salamanders...and they were all in the Throne Room with Vulkan pretty much the entirety of the Siege. And you're also correct that there were Dark Angels during the Siege, and they were all with Corswain to relight the Astronomicon (to guide the Lion's force and the Ultramarines to Terra). (In an almost comedic twist, the Dark Angel Lord Cypher shows up from nowhere in Volume II of The End and the Death and even Corswain's like, "what're YOU doing here?") So in most cases, those small forces of Loyalist Legions were only there for a very specific reason. However, I also remember 2 Iron Hands and they were just 2 guys wearing black in a sea of yellow armour outside the Imperial Palace as the doors closed (iirc Volume I of The End and the Death), to show there were just random Loyalists all over. There were a couple of Ultramarines in the Crusader Host, an honourary, almost ceremonial role with representatives of all the Legions on Terra, that were there before the Heresy began. When Rogal Dorn found out about Horus's betrayal, he had them all imprisoned, just in case any of them were Traitors. We never found out about those Ultramarines. However, we know some of the Crusader Host were let out to perform roles during the Heresy. The Blood Angel Dominion Zephon was a super nice guy and had this tragic task of inscribing the names of his Legion's fallen on some Terran wall, but he would be tapped by the Custodes for a [REDACTED] in the Imperial [TOP SECRET] [VERBOTEN]. In fact, a lot of those in the Crusader Host were given jobs by Malcador the Sigilite to join the [FILE DOES NOT EXIST]. As to your specific ideas: Right, regarding the geneseed issue, please do keep in mind the very 1st thing the Traitors did in the Siege was take over the Selenar Gene Cults that were churning out Inductii, precisely for that reason. This is a case of where someone has the raw material, the geneseed, but not necessarily the processing facilities to make actual Legionnaires. But that might not matter as much, so what's your idea for the Ultramarines Inductii during the Siege? I can think of at least 1 good reason.

I like how the AI was like "this is perfectly painted as is, there's nothing I can do to improve it, so I'll just shoop in a battlefield background," except apparently it doesn't know the =][= symbol.

So I mentioned my friend Timperial Guard, my go-to guy when I read Games Workshop's financial reports and I don't understand enough about the costs of plastic mould injection, who also happens to be the best painter in our meta, the bastard. He's actually a teacher, a top one, head of the Design & Technology department in his school. He also runs his school's Warhammer Club, because the reward for good work is MORE work. He was telling me about this year's students, went like this. "I got 20 students in the Warhammer Club this year, guess the gender mix." It was not a political point, and I knew from past conversations with him there were differences between gender and sexuality that teachers have to be very careful about, so I kinda waded slowly into this particular pool, but being me I came off awkward like a cat intruding on your bathtime, "Uh...are you talking about LGBTQ..." "No," he replied, emphasising it wasn't that, just simply, "Boys, girls. 20 kids. Guess." "20 dudes." I knew it was a trick question, and that was the obvious and obviously wrong answer, but just moving the convo forward. "No, 17 and 3." "Oh," I exclaimed, "that's not bad!" I like my female fellow Hobbyists, they're usually the better painters in my meta. "17 boys, 3 girls, nice." "No," Tim corrected my dumb butt for a 3rd time in a row, "17 girls, 3 boys." 17 Sororitas: 3 Fraters!!! If your reaction is, "wait, wut," that was MY reaction as well. I received the Stupefied status effect irl, like Emperor's Children in HH 3.0 hit with a Truth Bomb. "Oh," Tim scoffed, "they don't even play. They showed up and asked, 'Warhammer's just sitting with friends, painting, chatting, listening to music, right?'" He explained, these 17 girls would sit in the classroom, talk amongst themselves, listen to the soundtrack from Kpop Demon Hunters X on loop, and paint. They paint whatever they like, however they like, and the 3 boys take their miniatures and actually play 40k with them. But they have these random Marines painted as Rainbow Warriors vs. the Strawberry Cupcake Chapter. Then I thought of something, "Tim...we haven't played a 40k game since 9th edition." I myself played as recently as our Warhammer Store's 10th ed Crusade Campaign, WE have played Aeronautica Imperialis, Blood Bowl, Warcry together, he plays Legiones Imperialis WEEKLY with our mutual friend who I haven't seen since forever, Legiones Louis, but "painting, chatting, listening to music and NOT playing (40k)...that's YOU, dude!" He did the look up like when you scan the heavens for records from your memory, found a big gap since his last 40k game, and conceded the point. But 17 girls, 3 boys. Not bad. Painting while listening to Kpop Demon Hunters X over, and over...and not playing. Actually, I hate that Soda Pop song. 17:3