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There's been multiple Necromunda models in rumour engines over the years. There's also been Limited Edition sculpts, resin sculpts, Blood Bowl, Cursed City, Blackstone Fortress, Warhammer Underworlds, Horus Heresy, The Old World, Kill Team and Warcry. Only Middle Earth and Epic scale haven't been used so far.

At least one of the guns with an Aquila on it is new, and previous GSC models have Aquilas on them. They're ex-Imps, often masquerading as loyal Imps. Aquilas fits them. That said, it is an upgrade sprue. That's 100% the current Caidan kit.

It actually looks like an unusual fleshless Drukhari Kymerae (as opposed to the regular ones, which are just skinless), but the amour plate, souls and the construction of the bones gives it away as Ossiarch Bonepeepers.

I like these kind of releases for Necro. Always good when you have models that can lend a hand to any gang.

And pull 40k rules support for them at the same time, because 30k and 40k aren't allowed to share models anymore.

Sadly, a disappointing sculpt. They were doing so well with updating old Marines, but in the last couple there's been some odd design decisions and bad anatomy (Dante's calf muscles). There's nice elements there. I like that the smoke is optional. The pose is better than the last sculpt, even though it's nostalgia bait. The weapons are nice. But the shoulder robes are stupid. It looks the sculptor tried to do a pellegrina but didn't understand what it looks like. His top half also looks squashed to me, for some reason. I think it's a combination of the weird helmet design/hood falling forwards, the fat Dark Angel rosarius hanging from his neck and the angled iron halo. On that subject, those iron halos that are angled forwards like that are an awful design, I really hope whoever is behind that isn't allowed to make anymore characters. Also, why does every Astartes character now have to be on a massive sculpted base. Without the smoke, Asmodai is going to look like a pea on a drum, his pose doesn't even come close to filling that base & there's going to be so much empty real estate to either side which will just look bad. I miss the days when characters were on the same sized base as everyone else.

I see Guard players are getting shafted again. That's two editions in a row where their Codex has been released in the second half of the edition. I'm sure people love playing with out of date rules for the majority of an edition.

I've seen it discounted at 3rd party places. All sold out though.

Just had a thought about Necromunda. In an interview with Loremaster of Sotek on YouTube, Mark Gibbons mentioned that a Necromunda character is returning and he think's she's getting new artwork based on his old artwork. For those that don't know, he's (almost certainly) talking about Mad Donna. She got a novel a few years ago with artwork that looked nothing like Mark's original, so I'm guessing by returning he doesn't mean another novel but actually returning to the game. Probably not in this preview, but it would be cool to see her back. Here's the timestamp to where he says it.

Necromunda has finished it's current campaign books, so it won't be that unless they start a new set. That would be odd given the previous one wrapped up last week, not nearly enough time has passed since the last book dropped to announce a new campaign. Delaque have not had any kind of content for Ash Wastes. While it's true that the Enforcer Tauros hasn't been previewed yet, it's already known - which isn't usually what they preview at these events. They tend to go for something new for an upcoming release, not just a model that fills in a hole in the previous release. Necromunda has always had a couple of dozen models missing from previous releases, yet those never appear at previews - they just announce them from time to time on WarCom. I'd expect to see Delaque get a vehicle, as that's the biggest hole in the Ash Wastes content so far. They might include the Tauros as well, though personally I think they'll just drop that on WarCom at some point. And probably something that hints of whatever is coming next now that the current campaign is wrapped up. Hopefully they'll decide to explore a new locale, there's some really interesting ones they were planning to do content for.

For anyone looking to buy specific models from GW's site, don't bother going to the site and navigating through that train wreck of a UI, just Google the product name and you'll get a direct link to the page. Much quicker.

10 minutes in a 3 minute queue, 404 error at the end, back into the queue for another 10 minute wait. After a few times repeating I tried opening in a new window. Now there's not even a queue, just straight to the 404 and the "Back to warhammer.com" link now sends me back to my browser's home page. Amazing. Just implementation problems - they'll get it ironed out, so not the end of the world. I'm far more worried about what I'm hearing of the store layout from others, though without being able to access the store I can't see it myself and see how good/bad it is.

Just noticed, he's translocating onto a tactical rock I don't get why GW think it's funny to keep doing that. Do they want to keep annoying their community?

To counter that: they've released limited models before with unique wargear options or new datasheets. They're clearly not bothered by using that as a FOMO tactic. I hate it, but GW don't really care as long as it makes money. Models are sculpted before rules - this model was sculpted because they thought it was cool/would sell way back in 9th, or even 8th edition (we know that because of their lead times and the rumour engine image). It wasn't sculpted to fit a wargear option written by the design team. So they could have made the wargear option one that doesn't need a specific model to represent it (and by my reading of the WHC article, that might even be the case). Or they could have just not made it a wargear option at all and left it as an Overlord with a cool effect. Other models have effects without having specific wargear. Most importantly, it's not new. It's an amalgamation of the rules from the Nephrekh Dynasty's Translocation Beams and the name from the Crusade Relic Translocation Shroud, both of which are from 9th edition. I hope they aren't, but I think they will.

Would also have made more sense as the 40th anniversary model too. At least Necrons have been in the game more than 5 minutes, unlike Leagues. Hell, this Overlord could have been for any promotional event rather than a standard Codex release.