Halandaar

I feel like a better way to avoid Vanguard Veterans stepping on the toes of Bladeguard would have been to keep their Thunder Hammer and Lightning Claws loadouts, rather than forcing them into the same wargear niche as Bladeguard and then having to nerf the shields to avoid them just being straight up better at the same job.

Oh no, GW are definitely into this, see Orruks, Ogors, Fyreslayers and Aelves in AoS (and specific units like Null-Khemists), and in 40K in the Votann stuff like the Brokhyr, Hearthkyn, Arkanyst, and many more I've doubtless failed to reference.

Vow Complete!

This has always been my beef with GW price rises. I can forgive a ~1-3% price uplift on a product that came out last year to align the profit margin with the increased cost of production, because I presume the design/setup cost is still being amortised. The same uplift for a 25-year old kit that has covered it's costs a hundred times over is a different proposition.

Still working on a few Orks for the Xenos forum, but confident enough I'll have time to handle these as well: I, HALANDAAR, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint the following models for a total of 36 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. 5x Company Heroes (13pts - I think the Captain and Ancient are worth 5 each and the Veterans 1 each but i'm not 100% on this) Librarian (5pts) Chaplain (5pts) Apothecary Biologis (5pts) 3x Eradicators with Heavy Bolters (3pts) 5x Sternguard Veterans (5pts)

I, HALANDAAR, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint the following models for a total of 23.5 POINTS for the glory of the AELDARI* subfaction of the Xenos Stronghold on or before 15th September 2026, or bear the badge of failure until years end. Warboss (5pts) Bigboss (5pts) Bannernob (5pts) Painboy & Grot Orderly (5.5pts) Big Mek Dakkarig (3pts) (I think this is correct, please amend if not!) *Yes I know it's weird, but I have much more Aeldari to paint later on, assuming I get to them.

Vow complete!

The hip/waist joint of the sentinel is on the opposite sprue from the legs/cab, so you do need both issues to build the main structure of the model.

It over-solves the silliness of 40K Combi-Bolters by undersizing the Bolter bit, which is still supposed to be the bulk of the weapon (after you shoot your one Plasma round, it's supposed to function like a normal Bolter) A 40K Combi-Flamer is a full-sized bolter with a full-sized Flamer on it (200% gun) A New 30K Combi-Flamer is half a bolter and half a Flamer (100% gun) A Combi-Flamer feels like it should be a full-sized bolter with a one-shot Hand Flamer on it (150% gun)

Looks like I missed the Jackals, would have liked a couple of those!

Neophite Hybrids now sold out too. There were, very briefly, some absolutely wild bargains available including Wraithlords for a fiver and Orks Boyz and Termagants for 99p:

Huh, I always thought that was the norm/intended unit assignment. A full Assault Squad was 6 Bikes and 2 Attack Bikes (or Land Speeders) = 10 Marines total.

Well no, they should have been actually mounted on the bike in place of the bolters, like the old scout bike grenade launcher, the original Chaos biker upgrade set, and the Forgeworld Outrider bikes (and of course the Ravenwing Knights)

The reason to "get the old monopose going forward" would be it would have an upgrade sprue bundled with it to improve it. It's not like this is an outlandish concept, see the Termagants from last edition (monopose in starter sets, extra weapon sprue for the standalone release) or the even more comparable AoS Chaos Knights (had an upgrade sprue for the command options added later).

This is a pretty longstanding rule to be fair.