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The product photo is in German and when I've ordered a 40k game from them before it's all been in German, so while I'm not 100% sure, it's probably safe to expect the documentation will be in German.

The shoulder pads are not weird in the slightest. Iron Hand Gorgons had them before gravis even existed. And Iron Hands Tactical Squads had them before Gorgons existed. That shoulder pad design for the Iron Hands dates back 20 years.

That's a really nice set. I hope between this and the Tyranid terrain, we're starting to see a move to doing more varied terrain pieces in 40k/Kill Team.

And now we know why they've sent the C&D. Joy Toy is making licensed helmets.

66 if you total the entire thread. In just 4 posts. I'm genuinely impressed, I don't think I've ever seen anyone pull off that many dislikes in such a short time on here.

That's not a concussion ram. There's a concussion ram on the Subjugator sprue above the SLHG assault ram and to the right of the assault shields. It looks like a larger version of a concussion rifle. You can see both weapons on the sprue picture on GW's website. That's a new weapon and judging by the barrel and ammunition tank, some kind of chem-thrower.

The rumours I heard came from a content creator who knows people at CA. I can't remember which creator though because I regularly watched multiple when I was playing TWW3 heavily a while ago, and I'm certainly not going back through thousands of videos to find where it was talked about. What I do know is that there wasn't any other stuff mentioned, just that TW40k was in the works, that Star Wars had been talked about and that a game engine from an aborted WWI project was being used. With regards to it not being a good fit - companies & franchises have to evolve to keep revenue streams going. If TW40k is real, then it's a franchise evolving so it can continue making money. TWWH has a limited life span which it is coming to the end of. The historical side of TW has been disappointing for a long time and unlikely to ever take off again. Simply put, CA are running out of content for rank and file games. They can either keep making games that are a "good fit" for TW and wait for Sega to asset strip them after a few more failures, or they can evolve and go in a new direction. and hopefully get another hit like TWW. Sure, 40k isn't a good fit for what the Total War name has represented, but times change. These exact arguments were playing out just over a decade ago when TWW was announced., and look how that turned out. You're welcome to your opinion and I can see where you're coming from with it. But the truth is that outside of the die hard historical TW fans (like the ones who are still angry about big monsters and magic in their franchise), nobody gives a hoot about whether 40k is "a good fit". 40k fans don't care, CA don't care, GW don't care, Sega don't care and the shareholders certainly don't care. What the various stakeholders care about is getting a good game, CA continuing to exist as a studio and of course, making lots and lots of money. 40k fits all of those criteria.

There's been a rumour of Chaos Spawn being added for a few months now. RE Total War Warhammer 40,000 Rumours have been around for about 5 years now. Valrak was far from the first person to be talking about it - other people who have contacts at Creative Assembly have been talking about it for a while. These are the rumours that I've been hearing for a few years now: as Indy Techwasp already said, it's built on a new game engine, the same one they were developing for a Total War World War I game (which I think has been cancelled). So the current game engine which is geared towards rank and file isn't relevant. it's being designed to replace Total War Warhammer, which is Creative Assembly's biggest earner by far and is coming to the end of it's life. While Total War Warhammer still has probably a year or two more of updates, they need to be thinking about what will replace it as the breadwinner. the game engine was also intended to be used for Total War Star Wars - I'm not sure if that's still a thing or if it's scrapped. In other words, if the rumours are true this is a completely new game. It's not a Total War game like any previous games, it won't have any rank and file mechanics and will be a new skirmish game engine. Arguing that 40k is a bad fit for Total War is pointless because aside from the brand name, this isn't a Total War game. Just like Dawn of War re-invented itself between each instalment, this is a re-invention of Total War.

Clearly a leaked still from a new Tarentino movie.

The original model never worked in the rules. But that's because GW rules designers are bad, not because of the model. Downgrading a model because the designers can't write simple rules is not an improvement.

There hasn't been a 3rd. The first model (the one in your post) has an alternative build for using her as a trooper/Sergeant with a lasgun - people might be mistaking that for a separate release. Or they could be thinking of Severina Raine, who was another BL female Guard character that got a release 4 or 5 years ago, though she's a Commissar, not a Cadian.

You're right to be worried. There's been three very similar releases of Black Library characters and their mates in AoS - the going rate is £47.50. Unless there is a price increase between now and her release which will almost certainly put her up to £50.

Yeah, that's right. I think the Sanctum is the only kit to ever include the cool arches & statues. The Basilicanum statues were in some of the Kill Team Killzones, but those are long OOP as well.

Miniset.net has pictures of all the sprues for the kit, as well as pictures of different angles of it completed and a detailed description of what was in the box. It's another great resource for anyone wanting to know what they'd need to re-create it.

"We have a group called "Ministorum delegation" "But what about the name Ministorum refering exclusively to the Ecclesiarchy in the Book of Faith?" I suspect that's the heart of the problem, though it's a different problem to how they're dressed. Their name is Ministorum delegation and yet they are not part of the Ministorum/Ecclesiarchy. For that one, I've got nothing, as there is no explanation for it. Personally, I think it's a bad name. I could guess that it's meant to imply that they are Ministorum sanctioned, or that the Ministorum allows them to use their name as a stamp of approval, or that the games designer forgot that Ministorum is just an alternate name for the Ecclesiarchy. But all of that would just be guesses. "wearing the symbol of the Ecclesiarchy" "the pious Matriarchs provide the Clan House* with genuine holy objects drawn from the stores of the Ministorum..." - exact quote from House of Faith. That explains the Ecclesiarchal symbol. They have access to holy objects, relics etc that the Ministorum holds in storage. So anything with Ecclesiarchal/Ministorum symbols on it is obviously going to be something drawn from those stores. The symbol above her chair fits in perfectly with the lore. *it's referring to House Cawdor here. "I don't recall anythin in the Book of Faith implying that Ko'iron is " the most visible official representatives of the God Emperor on Necromunda" and "they have it's backing and from a faithful Underhiver's perspective they are the same thing"." It doesn't state it directly, but it's fairly obvious, though you do need to go outside of House of Faith. Necromunda is the most detailed world in the Imperium. It has significantly more lore than even Holy Terra. And yet there's barely any mention of the Ecclesiarchy. We know there's a Sororitas Covenant somewhere in Hive Primus, though they are never seen and barely mentioned. It's safe to assume that there are Ecclesiarchal chapels in the Spires and Hive City. But there is no notable presence among the Underhive or Ash Wastes. Necromunda lore has always been very clear that the main Imperial religious organisations are House Cawdor, the Redemption and more recently, House Ko'iron. Given that House Ko'iron is at the top of that food chain and present in all levels of Necromundan society, from the Spire to the Underhivve, with House Cawdor almost being subservient to them, it's not hard to see that they are going to be the most visible religious representatives. Not to mention they dominate Hive Temnos and have pilgrim trails and shrines all over the planet. House of Faith tells you that they have the backing of the Ecclesiarchy, if you go beyond the words and consider the implications of them. They have close ties with the Ecclesiarchy, they supply thousands of troops to Wars of Faith to curry favour with individual Ecclesiarchs, they have the ear of the Sororitas on Necromunda, they have a grand cathedral at the top of Hive Temnos as well as shrines all over the planet and they have access to at least some of the Ecclesiarchy's stores of relics. Given the nature of the Ecclesiarchy and how enthusiastic it is about stamping out Imperial faiths that it doesn't like, I think it's safe to say that they are fine with all of this. If that's not the backing of the Ecclesiarchy then I don't know what is. If you read enough Necromunda lore you can know exactly how faithful Underhivers would view a member of House Ko'iron. They unlikely to know the difference between them and the Ecclesiarchy and they're unlikely to care. Ko'iron are a noble house, they have almost no presence in the Underhive and as such, most of the details about them is a mystery to underhivers. The Ecclesiarchy is even more of a mystery, because it has close to zero presence in the Underhive (it may actually have zero presence, but I'm leaving the door open in case there's some obscure bit of lore about a shrine somewhere in the Underhive or something). All across the lore, for the last 3 decades the underhives ignorance of anything beyond the underhive and the organisations that operate in it has been made clear. So when a priestess comes down in to the underhive, with both her and her bodyguards covered in religious trappings, performing prayers, rituals and blessings, do you really think these people who are ignorant of almost anything that goes on in the Spire and the wider Imperium are going to say "Wait, you're not the real Ministorum". Of course they aren't, they won't know the differrence and as long as they get blessed they won't care. They're even described it as "her touch akin to the touch of the God Emperor for such worthy souls". It doesn't outright state that the underhivers would consider Ko'iron and the Ecclesiarchy the same thing, but if you know Necromunda lore it's pretty obvious. "Redemption was nearly excommunicated and Redemtionist are outlaws, so saying that Ecclesiarchy has no issues with them is weird to me." I don't think they were nearly excommunicated - as far as I'm aware that would require them to have been part of the Ecclesiarchy to begin with and they never were. But I haven't read the stuff about them in the old RPG so maybe it's in there. Either way though, you're right, they are outlaws. Yet both the Inquisition and the Ecclesiarchy use them as agents and foot troops (Inquisitor miniature game and Siege of Vraks have info on this if I remember correctly). It's also worth noting that House Ko'iron doesn't care that they are outlawed either, only the Enforcers and Guilds seem to care about that (and by extension, the Imperial House, though I think Imperial House agents will also work alongside them so who knows). But basically, this is a prime example of the hypocrisy of the Imperium at work. The Redemption are not sanctioned and at least on their home world, are an illegal organisation. But multiple Imperial organisations have zero issue with that (or the way they dress) and will include them in their ranks. It might seem weird to you, but to me it seems perfectly 40k for Imperial organisations to say one thing but do the opposite - as is the case with the Redemption. I think at this stage I've provided more than enough evidence that having the bodyguards dressed in religious gear is perfectly in keeping with the lore of House Ko'iron, their relationship with the Ecclesiarchy and the purpose of those models (in regards to them being specifically for trips into the Underhive). You don't have to agree, but there is plenty of lore that supports the way they are dressed.