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Replacement. Gravis Calgar has gone from the webstore.

Ah, I see what you mean. The " " around operatives made me think you were referring to scalpers. I don't play Kill Team so I forgot GW called the models in it operatives.

This will continue until the community stops supporting these practices. And the community will unfortunately continue to support these practices until all the people with disposable income and poor impulse buying control are priced out. It's only going to get worse.

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.