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Balding figures were in the Fantasy Empire plastic range for decades.

Would be redundant and less thematic than Celestian Sacrosancts. Nothing to stop you converting Sacrosancts to have swords for your order.

Not a joke, just a matter of opinion. The effect looks more Green if you're used to the Lion where the canvas is larger and there's other green on the model to bring out the green-ness but its impossible to tell 'green so dark its black' from 'black highlighted by green light'. The armour is greener than the 'Eavy Metal Black Templars but that still doesn't mean it isn't black. If you look at the way I paint the Black Legion in the link from my signature you can tell why I don't consider the highlight colour to determine how to interpret black armour but other people do sometimes confuse my models for Night Lords so its a matter of perspective.

Is everyone in this thread colour blind? They're black highlighted grey.

That's what Mark V has always been supposed to be like, a prototype terminator helmet that was reworked into the Mark VII. It just hasn't been executed quite this extreme before. Now if only Legions Imperialis had a mark V kit.

I'm not familiar with Gustav Davidson but a poet writing in the 60s is not the best source for ancient religions. Especially not with a pre-1990s use of the word 'gnostic' which is among the top five the most controversial words in religious studies. Demons and angels are distinct categories. Not always the same distinction, that definitely varies a lot and sure placing individual figures or individual uses of names is a mess but the categories have a very long history and are not 'amateur misconceptions'. Samael is not Apollyon. Samael is a name that's used for a variety of figures to such a degree that no 'true' Samael exists as a specific concept while Abaddon and Apollyon are direct translations that both originate from the same passage in the Book of Revelation but also get used basically at random for whatever various writers have wanted throughout history. Dark Angels actually prioritise demonic/fallen angel names not use random Judeo-Christian ones. Azrael - Angel of Death, sometimes an angel, sometimes treated as equivilant to Azazel who is always evil and sometimes a fallen angel. Belial - 'Lord of Filth'/'The Worthless One'. One of only three demons mentioned by name in the canonical Gospels (or the only one since 'Legion' is a descriptor for a non-individual and 'Satan' is a job title). Asmodai - clearly derived from "Asmodeus" of unknown meaning, possibly 'demon of wrath' in Persian, one of the few demons mentioned by name in the deutercanon and a major evil figure in Jewish folklore and mysticism. Ezekiel - The only real outlier in the original Dark Angels cast. Ezekiel is the name of a Biblical prophet and an obscure non-fallen angel. Also a female fallen angel in the Video game El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron but I have no idea where they got that from because its not in the main sources that game uses. Gideon - Not an angel but got replaced by Sammael so clearly someone wasn't impressed by the name choice. Sammael - 'Venom of God', sometimes a fallen angel always an evil demon. Bethor - An Olympian Spirit from Renaissance Grimoire magic but those are basically just an idiosyncratic substitution for what are normally demons in that kind of magic (and aren't treated as that evil when they're explicitly called demons anyway). Also not really high ranked but was on the original special characters list. Sapphon - This is a sacred mountain in Canaanite but its associated with Baal which is always interpreted demonically in a Abrahamic context. Once you get into the lower ranks and latter sources the names get a bit less focused but with the core characters they're all 'dark angels' with the exception of Ezekiel. They're also all pretty basic choices except for Bethor and Sapphon so except for Ezekiel they're probably meant to give fallen angel or evil vibes.

Oils don't act like enamels that's why you use one or the other.

How much does any chapter know about Primarchs? Even most first founding chapters don't have accurate information about 10,000 years ago. Space marines are literally brainwashed as part of their training, they don't have more accurate information than anyone else in the Imperium.

Omnis is shared with the Stormspeeder crew so its not unique.

They don't want any army to be a horde army, then make Battle Companies legal at 2k

This is just nonsense and shows you've never been to a tournament. At a thirty person event you have tiny odds of being in the top 3 so if winning was the only reason to attend almost no one would bother. Its only small invertationals where everyone is at a high skill level where winning is the actual goal of showing up. 40k has just too many options that its literally impossible to make a 'casual' list that doesn't have the potential for being a highly unfun hard counter to another 'casual' list. I've obliterated tons of people in pick up games with lists that can't do better than 2/5 in a tournament and were never designed to be powerful.

Forgeworld Daemon Engines haven't been mentioned at all. Daemon Engines have never been Horus Heresy units. The article said nothing about FW units in general. FW units weren't updated more than once per edition in 8th or 9th. Them becoming legends is basically no change at all.

They're completely different. I've put metal arms onto the older plastic bodies and they look okay but the older plastics have smaller out of proportion arms compared to the current ones. Best fit for the old metal arms are actually Tartaros/Scarab Occult terminators. Only picture I have is the first one in the chaos link in my signature and there's no close up of the terminators. So I guess if you can't notice which arms are metal in that picture that might give a sort of answer. edit: On the other hand, I do have this post in that thread. Those are the new terminators and one has a metal arm.

The snap fit ones were in the 4th ed battle for McCrag starter and didn't last that long, the Space Hulk ones from 1989 were push fit but the arms would fall off without glue. Current stealers are from 2005.