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The weird wording for Lucius being restricted to only Slaanesh daemons seems to confirm that subfactions are very much gone.

I'm coming around on Dark Pacts. D3 mortal wounds isn't the end of the world, but it does lean towards being used by anything with a high volume of attacks. Sustained Hits on Warp Talons. Lethal Hits on a power scourge Helbrute when it charges a vehicle. Not so great on a Land Raider unless it's a dire situation. Curious to see what Lords, Sorcerers, Dark Apostles, and such offer our units when they're attached.

Kinda disappointed that Chaos would get the faction rule that has a negative, but it is what it is. Legionaries look solid. The return of being able to double up on special weapons is nice, even if they aren't duplicates. As long as we can take Chaos icons on more units and they aren't too expensive, I don't see why you wouldn't spam the Dark Pacts. Also damage 3 autocannons are hilarious. I need more immediately.

The way I see with the various chapters is this: If the difference from the "baseline" chapter is tactical, it can be represented by a detachment. If the difference is organizational, then it can be represented by being a separate faction. For example, the Raven Guard are a regular codex compliant chapter that favors it's own sneaky tactics. This can easily be represented by running a complimentary detachment. You don't need 6 relics, 6 warlord traits, and a whole host of stratagems to represent that army. The Blood Angels however have their glaring genetic flaw, as well as unique organizations of Death Company and Sanguinary Guard. Same goes for the unique structures of the Dark Angels, Space Wolves, and Black Templars. Thus it's better represented by an actual faction change instead of just one detachment. Subfaction rules leaving the game is probably one of the best possible changes for the entire line of armies. We no longer have to deal with the outright embarrassing rules forced upon various armies and have way more free reign about how we play, while still being able to represent our favorite subfactions with how we build our lists, play the actual game, and how we paint our models.

70. 40 built from boxes, 10 from the start collecting box, and 20 still on the sprue. I don't see myself using more than 4 squads, so the last two boxes will probably turn into alternative weapon options for the existing squads.

YITH I finally got my airbrush and supplies! Today the painting and building begins. I have a few test figures to strip from my brush days, but once I'm all done I'll be sitting on 2 CSM squads, two terminator characters, a helbrute, two rhinos, and 10 renegades of some sort.

TITH I used green stuff for the first time. I'm using it to make flayed skin trophies for my Black Shield/Renegade marines. It's a little tricky at first, but I'm having a whole lot of fun. The idea of an army thats completely unique satisfies me immensely. Photos will follow once they're painted!

TITHI started kitbashing and converting some mk4 marines into renegades, ordered like 180 skulls from Wargames Exclusive, and worked on a few fluff ideas for my warband. Overall really excited to have direction in the hobby again, and loving how adding extra bits to miniatures gives them so much character. Anyone know a good kit to get lots of spikey bits and skulls and chains?

Painted the first tactical marine from an armored assault box. I'm feeling the allure of Codex: Space Marines again and decided to do Knights of Gryphonne. The orange is definitely a unique look... the larger kits would look particularly interesting.

Picked up my first mini to paint in the new home. I always liked the Chaos Terminator Lord kit, so I'm starting out with him. If he's fun, I see myself starting up Chaos as my new army. My new desk arrives in the mail tomorrow, so I just need to pick up some Krylon to prime him with after I get all set up. Let the hobby begin anew!

I'm looking at moving to the Orem area this spring/early summer. Anyone play in that area or nearby?

Today in the hobby, I continued to work on painting my Silver Eagles demi company. 3 tactical squads down, now I'm working on my devastators. I also had Strike Force Ultima arrive in the mail... adding even more grey plastic sprue to my back log.

TITH I decided to finally order that Strike Force Ultima box... cause who doesn't need a 3rd land raider, 2nd Storm hawk, 4th razorback, 6th drop pod and some extra tactical marines? I don't want to think about how many points of marines I have...

Today in the hobby I finished up building my Fellblade, two Predators I had partially built months ago, and began working on another tactical squad to make sure my 2nd Company is rounded out. I think I'm going to pick up a Calth box, Strike Force Ultima, and a Grey Knights kit so I can finish some projects in my backlog all at once.