Karhedron

Ah, stand down.

I don't see the conflicts in Ukraine or the Middle East resolving in the near future so I expect oil prices to remain high. Having said that, the price of raw plastic makes up a pretty small amount of their costs. High oil prices have a bigger effect on transportation costs and on the costs of running stores and the factory. In the UK at least, electricity prices are linked to the price of gas (which is also high).

Here be spoilers! You have been warned.

Almost unusable today, this is only the second post I have managed to make. The total number of posts looks to be down compared to normal (although that might just be summer holiday numbers).

Had a break on holiday but I am back in the groove now. Here is my Librarian and the first of two Smash Captains.

And gone again!

That is about the best guarantee for any army!

Ever since the Horus Heresy, Astartes psycho-indoctrination was intended to make Marines more resistant to the temptations of Chaos. In practice, nothing is perfect and we have plenty of examples of post-Heresy CSM (Huron for example). I am sure Primaris CSM exist, even if not really represented as models (yet). Only the Grey Knights and Custodes are truly chaos-proof.

OK so are we guessing Knights will be near the end of the 11th edition refresh cycle if they are coming in 2028.

Indeed. The Sisters of Silence have been around since the Great Crusade whereas Bequin was born nearly 10,000 years later in 40K

VanVets are cheaper and have more attacks but are less durable making them a bit of a glass hammer. They also pair well Dante as his +1 to Hit is wasted on Sanguinary Guard.

My head-canon is the Earth was an Old One outpost or science base. The Necrons bombed it from orbit and the residue looked like an asteroid impact 65 million years later. Probably not an important base or the Necrons would have brought out bigger guns as, at their height, they has weapons that made exterminatus look like a nerf gun.

I seem to recall this is normal from past releases. New edition drops in June and people spend the summer building and playing it. Then new codices start to drop in September.

I have put this down to exponential growth. Not all of those planets would have been colonised directly by Terra. If you start of with just one planet and it colonises one planet per year, then each colonised planet then colonises one planet per year, you get exponential expansion. You would actually reach the million worlds total after only 30 years. Obviously it would take years (or even decades) before settled planets to launch their own colony ships to other planets but it shows that humanity could easily have reached 1 million worlds just during the DAOT.