Still-young

Looks like Dark Sphere have come through with my Darkoath box 🤙🏻 Wasn’t overly worried as the AoS ones don’t tend to disappear in 30 seconds but I’m probably driving at 10am tomorrow morning so at least I won’t have to explain to the police why I was on my phone…

I’m really excited for these Darkoath kits. I also think GW have been on a hot streak of ‘guy on really tired horse’ models:

I think they’re a little bit off if we’re getting an index, I don’t think they’re next.

The actual metalwork is very Hedonites, but some of the extra details do match that GSC model well.

I really like the flame motif on the back of the axes.

The Casket is presumably direct only so won’t show up on price lists.

Tbh I’m just glad the Darkoath box isn’t £135 like the Kroot one was.

He’ll come with DB6, the last 2 similar sets (Blzcktalons and the Callis and Toll ones) came with DB books as well. But I think the gap between army sets and individual releases is longer than I’m expecting the wait for DB6 to be - it’s usually about a month at least isn’t it?

I think Clanrats are pretty safe for 20s because the sculpts we’ve seen there were 13 bodies with no double ups I could see. Obviously they might get a separate kit from the starter ones (it seems pretty random as to whether starter units get a full kit or the push fits) but Clanrats seem like a quintessential 20 man unit to me. Both Gaunt units were only sold in 12’s anyway I think for years before the new kit (because they came 4 on a sprue), whereas Clanrats are in 20s now.

Shame the Darkoath novel isn’t going up too, I’m looking forward to giving that a go.

I’m hoping it’ll be okay, AoS ones don’t go like space marine ones do. The Kroot one is still fairly easy to get from retailers in the UK.

They wouldn’t have announced them and showed the stuff off yet if it wasn’t coming til that late. I hope it’s the Darkoath box today. Really tempted by that as a lil birthday treat (which I say about everything I buy like a month either side of my birthday)

When I used Necromunda like game, I didn’t mean the rules at all. I’m fine with the Warcry rules. I just mean a more self contained setting with bespoke models.

Synergy across games seems to be almost the opposite of how GW work, especially with like the Old World/AoS divide…

I’d rather Heresy, Old World etc weren’t pulled into a regular edition cycle at all tbh, but I’d much prefer 4 years for AoS and 40k than the three years.