Halandaar

Fair. As someone who has an eye on the Kill Team box, the Darkwater expansion, the Khazalite army box AND the Khemri reinforcements set, I feel like I would have liked a week off between them rather than just before the inevitable 4-week bank account destroyer combo!

Feels early to be putting out a filler week.

Yes, so having both sets available simultaneously feels like the paint version of having Tactical Squads and Intercessor Squads coexist. Presumably it's temporary to delay the inevitable "you ruined my paint scheme by discontinuing my colours" bit.

This "skull" style MKVI helmet originated on the 5th Edition metal Legion of the Damned models in 2010: (2nd Edition LotD had beakies too, but I don't think they were styled as skulls back then)

If the coverage is all they're hyping it up to be then I could see myself moving over to some of these as my old "normal" colours run out. I mean it feels like some of this is just a codification of almost-triads that exist in the range anyway: Stormwolf Blue 1-5 looks a lot like The Fang, Russ Grey and Fenrisian Grey. Seraphon Blue 1-5 looks like Stegadon Scale Green , Sotek Green and Temple Guard Blue, and so on.

Potentially one of the most interesting things GW has done in a long time. I mean I don't personally care for TTRPGs so it's not for me, but GW being willing to do this as an in-house product with mini support (rather than outsourcing to Cubicle 7 or Fantasy Flight as they have in the past) feels like a bold move.

Honestly I'm actually kind of impressed by a number of things here: making the model line "official" for both systems, expanding the 40K roster to include units that were previously Heresy only, and implementing changes that should significantly reduce the number of minis fielded in a game (and therefore reduce the cost of playing the army) are all very unlike the GW of the last ten years or so.

Been a few cases now where you get more models in the kit than you are allowed to field at once in a team, so only being able to actually get 6 Legionnaires on the board seems plausible. Gotta say, they absolutely nailed the design on these. Really captured the feel of the 5th edition metals. Slight shame they don't seem to have the cool underslung Multimelta or left-handed aimed Bolters that were a neat quirk of the old set, but that's really splitting hairs. Overall excellent job. My main concern, as it was with Exodite, will be availability.

Complete!

I, HALANDAAR, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint the following models for a total of 10 POINTS for the glory of the ADEPTUS ASTARTES subfaction of the Astartes Stronghold on or before 15th September 2026, or bear the badge of failure until years end: Darnath Lysander (5pts) Marneus Calgar in Armour of Heraclus (5pts) Also nominating Marneus for Master of the Forge, simply because I forgot to do so for Guilliman so i might as well!

Job's a Biggun Vow Complete: And vow two complete! And a question - have I understood correctly that the deadline is 23:59 on 15 September PST - i.e. in about 45 hours time? If so, I have a couple more models i'm going to risk!

The first softback 11E Codex (Orks) is already out and it's £25 - about 1/3 less than the price of current 10E hardbacks (£38).

I specifically agreed with you about the unit bloat caused by minor variations on the same thing. It is allowed for people to agree with one thing you say and disagree with another, you know. You don't need to have a tantrum about it.

This is slightly disingenuous because obviously Black Templars could make use of the majority of the generic Space Marine kits released in those years, and there were a LOT of them. It's not really the same as a genuine content drought like Dark Eldar who had nothing between Vect in 2000 and the 5th Edition redesign in 2010, or Tyranids who got nothing between Shield of Baal in 2014 until the Parasite of Mortrex in 2022.

Think these were additional print runs for specific Codexes; my own Deathwatch Codex from that edition was definitely hardback, and that was the default on release for all of them. Yeah, the fact that a single unit (Devastator Squads) have had their role replaced by Desolators AND Hellblasters AND two different types of Eradicators AND arguably Lasfusil Eliminators AND are still lacking a direct replacement for Grav Cannons is absolute madness. But the releases this edition have at least massively toned down adding new stuff for it's own sake versus what was happening in the last three editions, and that's a good thing imo.