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Same. In particular I can't stand the current setup with the railgun in a "held at the hip rifle" pose, I much prefer the original style. And while I do welcome a new Crisis kit in general, I worry about them doing away with a lot of the posability in favour of "dynamic but fixed" poses. Weapon loadout options are also something I always fear for these days, but given that those options still exist (albeit on different unit types of Crisis suits), I would guess that's less likely to be done away with unless they make separate kits for those types.

I like 'im. The specific vision might not be to everyone's tastes, but he feels much more "someone had a fun idea for an Ork and went for it" and less "Ork designed by committee", which was what I felt held back the Warboss. Though admittedly, there was potential for a really wild multi-part kit here, with all sorts of crazy parts. But that's wishlisting. For what this is, I think it works.

I can't deny, as someone who enjoys force organisation charts and other such restrictions because they force me to think and plan army composition, this is how I feel whenever I read about one of GW's games becoming "more open than ever, letting you build armies however you want!": (note: I haven't actually read in detail and don't have real opinions on the new system yet, this is just a joke that comes to mind whenever they shift away from existing restrictions on army building)

Kroyle is delicious. A mounted Inquisitor with a hunting rifle, bizarre alien beast, pith helmet and magnificent facial hair? 40k Van Pelt from Jumanji? Yes please. MORE. I like Wazdakka too, even if he doesn't blow me away quite as much. It's got the over-the-top Orkiness that I feel is missing in the new Warboss kit, and while the posing and details might be a bit "fixed" if it was a generic character, I think that gets more of a pass with special characters.

Decent, but doesn't blow me away. As others have said, the axe arm and the unhelmeted head look a bit small, though IMO the helmet and klaw versions alleviate that somewhat. Still, overall it's not bad, but it's lacking some of that over-the-top-ness that I love in Orks, just feels a bit oddly restrained for a race where that's very much not the vibe. It feels to me more like an Ork Warboss by committee (kommittee?) rather than an expressive piece by someone passionate about the race.

For me there wasn't a single "That's it" moment, but when I moved out to go to university I left my models behind, and was out of the hobby for a good while. By the time I got back into it many years later, the prices had gone up to an eye-watering level. I mean, even when I was more closely involved, I still knew they were A) expensive, and B) ever-increasing in price. But the big jump from my absence hammered it home. I would see boxes that, in my gut, felt like they should cost £10-15 suddenly costing double that. Even now, I see some folks on this forum responding to new boxed sets with, "Wow, that's actually a pretty good deal", and the old Longbeard in me grumbles and thinks how it doesn't look like it to me. I also remember sometime around 2010-ish I was getting tired of seeing people excusing the price hikes by just saying it was inflation, and I actually sat down and made a spreadsheet of price changes from White Dwarf, showing how the prices of kits and models changed over a period of about 15 years. I don't remember precisely, but I think it showed that the prices were averaging 3 x the average UK inflation rate across the same period. Nowadays I do still purchase the odd kit, but I certainly don't bother trying to collect actual armies any more. Thankfully, the likes of Tabletop Simulator and Warhall allow me to have plenty of fun with the games without investing ludicrous amounts into them, and I can just buy the occasional model/unit that I want to assemble and paint up.

For me, there's nothing wrong in the above as a way to take a Defiler model, and I would be fine if it were just an optional way to assemble it. If anyone wants their Defiler done in a more fleshy way, great, go for it. It's Chaos, after all, anything goes really. But it's not so much for me, at least with this particular engine, hence why the new style doesn't do it for me.

I was starting to think I was the only one, but this is pretty much my feeling on it too. It's a cool looking kit in general, I love the head options, and I can appreciate how the kit seems to share more stylistic traits with the Venomcrawler, Maulerfiend and Forgefiend. Might be some smooth kitbashing potential there. But as an actual new Defiler, this one's not doing it for me. I think the big aspects turning me away are: The much greater emphasis on the fleshy side. Some of that can be fine, but for me, this is too much of that for a daemon engine. In general, it seems to weigh more heavily on the body/thorax rather than the limbs. Not saying that's 'wrong' as a design choice, but I always liked how the legs stood out on the old one. Here, it has more of a chunky feel to the middle parts, which in turn makes the legs feel a bit stubby by comparison, at least for me.

They look better than the previous iteration, obviously, but something's definitely lacking. For what they are (heavily mutated, warp-infused close combat morphing monstrosities), they feel oddly restrained. There's an appropriate level of detail and chonkiness that I appreciate, but that aside they're kind of bland. Half the weapon arms just seem to be "fleshy nub with a blade/blunt object embedded into it". I feel like they could've gotten a lot more creative with those and the bodies themselves too.

I legitimately don't know if I've ever seen a post on here I've disagreed with more. For me, these are leagues above the old ones. Wonderful even on their own, but the contrast to the stubby old ones, which always looked to me more like Dwarfs cosplaying as Custodes than anything, is night and day. Insane glow-up, my God-Emperor. These make me want Custodes just for how much better they are than before.

Same. Much as I'm interested to see a new take on it, I do fear that given GW's current model trends, it'll lose a lot of that kit utility and flexibility.

I'm glad we have some kind of category split now, but I still wish they'd split the "best of the rest" up more, there are too many Horus Heresy, Necromunda and Blood Bowl models I just adore, and now we've got Old World in there too! Anywho, for me: 40k: Lhykhis (I don't dislike Fulgrim's model, but it so pales in comparison to his 30k one) AoS: Prince Vhordrai on his zombie dragon, mostly for the mount The Rest: Iron Warriors Warsmith (probably the most agonising choice for me, Miao Ying would've taken it if I weren't such a sucker for absurdly over-sized HAMMERS)

Only thing in my lifetime I ever remember actually winning in a contest like this was 2nd prize in a raffle at GW Kingston back in the day for a Predator Annihilator. So may as well give it a shot!

Necromunda don't miss. (and also continues to do Squat/Votann better than 40k proper every single time)

Like the models themselves a lot, but God-Emperor that is an awful choice for paint scheme. The bare flesh colour of the metal just makes them look like naked long-legged guys.