LameBeard

So are you looking for rules that were published for 40k (3rd to 7th editions) that you are going to convert for 30k 2.0?

So 2 minutes of internet research suggests that UK/EU sanctions are focused on Russian individuals and strategic sectors (military, energy etc) and is not a blanket ban on trade with Russia. Still a bit of a PR risk for these companies having a Russian section of the supply chain, but looks like I was naive. I think @WBRBloom has it right - increase in demand and supply chain issues since Covid probably push manufacturers into making compromises on sable quality, it may also have acted as a spur to improve the quality of synthetic brushes.

GW may have done a terrible job selling the edition but it looks like you have done an excellent job in wife selection.

Surely sable from Siberia is subject to sanctions in large parts of the world? Or am I being hopelessly naïve?

I’d like to see a picture of his White Scars army - often mentioned but I think I missed the issue it was actually shown in?

Except I can get 20 Mk II plus disintegrator sprue for less than that on eBay from a box splitter. What am I missing? Decals? Instructions? Nice art on the box?

Perhaps you took my post a little too literally. I’m sure we’d agree that in evaluating the profitability of White Dwarf, GW need to consider not just the production costs and revenue, but also the marketing benefits of the having the physical magazine available in other distribution channels like newsagents. Those benefits are difficult to quantify, but it’s White Dwarf that got me into the hobby. For a firm selling physical models it would seem rash to rely on digital channels like influencers. Especially when those digital channels sometime go a little “off message”.

But you know how it’s now written months in advance - difficult to use the magazine to respond to events like that any more. I agree it could be more human though, on many levels. The best bits are the human bits. I stopped getting White Dwarf when it was nothing but sales-speak and a though I rarely get it these days, it does seem to have recovered a bit.

Maybe - but people were complaining last time about old and undersized cataphractii, Spartan being a brick they wouldn’t bring in smaller, start-up games and the praetors being ridiculously huge and mis-proportioned. I think one thing AoD had going for it was that the new mk vi were a call back to RTB01, a very widely loved kit. Saturnine terminators might be trying to do the same, but the originals were nowhere near as common as RTB01.

I have no particular interest in the rules or about half the models. But 35% off a box that already includes a bulk discount does look too good to pass up. I think my problem is do I have the physical space in my house?

Yeah White Dwarf doesn’t have to make a profit because it’s one massive advert for their products … surely they know this?

Ok who is the current underdog - Emperor or Warmaster? I might pledge. Mind you, my record is not perfect, I might just drag the side down …

+1 to missiles out plenty situations you might quickly switch from shooting to running without carefully closing your carapace. I have that loctite and still have to drill out the dried up super-glue every time I want to use it. I agree it’s still better than soft tubes, which are asking to split at the bottom and create what we call “a total shampoo mega-disaster”.

Hey I like to feel I didn’t lose my head over the Liber leaks but I admit I was wrong about the Tormentor - it made it! And surely there can’t be many of those in the wild? Please post pics and prove me wrong!

I am wrong to be vaguely reminded of Legiones Imperialis army building? It felt like something was missing there …