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Blue looks right. Yellow always feels more appropriate for a unit with Chainswords.

What do you mean by grooves? I'm confused between that and mounting points. Do you mean cupolas, or the nubbins like on the 40k rhino and predator ?

They haven't priced me out completely, and most things with a 20% discount I will still buy, however clear red lines for me, in terms of things I will not buy are: £24 single miniatures unless special characters £14-18 single troop miniatures like death guard icon bearer or champion. Any unit at over £12 a model from forge world - suzerians, crimson paladins Lerneans, etc at £75 for 5 models are insanely priced. I aaaalmost once bought a set of angels tears at £58 for 5, and maybe if i liked the models more I would have, but they're ugly, and now out of scale. The kratos at £85 is too much. I did buy one at £75 with a 20% discount on top.

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18 new units for my Alpha Legion! Great to see them, overall I felt they were slightly worse than some of the previous versions, but from this conversation maybe slightly better? The Alpha Legion ones are now immune to being targeted for 1/4 turns instead of 1/6, which is a huge boost. The random combi weapon option is weird, I'm unsure if losing fury of the legion is worth it, but couple of volkites, grenades or flamers are probably decent in there MK2 assault squad!

Nah, Mat Ward received a lot of online hate around 2010-2013, and Robin Cruddace I believe did also for producing two of the worst 40k codexes of 5th edition.

GW has generally not immediately increased the prices on new kits, these releases will have the price rise baked in - we already see the MK2 assault squad is £2 more than the mk6, so we know how much the mk6 will go up to.

This summer has been manic with work so apologies for the late response! I got my saturnine and have been slowly building, doing the platform first, and now 3 saturnine terms, and a 5 man disintegrator squad, which seems like they will die to their own guns most games. With the release of the felllade I had to pick one up, so that's on preorder, and I need to get my local club organised to play some learning games!

Overall I'm ok with the rules. They make an ok game. It seems they have sacrificed 'fun' for a competitive gaming experience though. I'm deeply mourning the loss of larger blasts, like plasma blast guns, titan grade weapons, being 3" is madness. They have increased ap on some stuff to make it more killy, but the fun with blasts was clipping a shed load of models at once. I need to play more. Four turns seems short, like my tactical squad can only do 4 things this game. It makes rhinos/transports really valuable and I'm thinking whoever can drop 40 tacs on midfield objectives T1 will likely win.

Aster crohne and kaedes nex were released in may this year, preceded by the iron hands praetor and the iron warriors warsmith, not to mention the almost monthly centurion we received for a while!

I did this with my 40k blood angels, each squad was a demi combat squad and the squad leader had their own back banner with appropriate heraldry. Massive fan of banners, I think the Luna wolves would be also, definitely ultramarines.

It will cost less until the October price rise... Don't get carried away as the glaive won't be too far behind! Id like to get one of these, however for which legion? My alphas already have a falchion, it would look great as a blood angel, but everything looks amazing as iron warriors...

Quite a cool unit, I would have expected a melee upgrade sprue for saturnine first. Am I missing something but they're missing the rule that lets them shoot 2x weapons, but they can actually take a plasma bombards and a plasma blaster each? Maybe it's for the dual fist models.

I'm sure I seen £105 somewhere, £100 is even better - for the admech, that means basically the castellax and a Thallax are free.

Yeesh, I'd definitely be using the veiled face there, that face is so bland - is it just me or can you tell a particular sculptor through their female faces? This bland pouty one is pretty common across ranges - I'd put £10 on them being the same sculptor: Then compare them to whoever did the battle sister heads etc, so much more expression.