Starfyre

Never heard of them, but those look good. I know GW explored pre-paints internally (I used to work for Ronnie Renton who ran the design studio at GW among other things), and decided against it. That was a while ago now though. Who knows, but I don't think it'll happen.

The warhammer hobby is so vast that the show could have an impact on video games, novels, merchandise as well as their mainline miniature games and model kits. Parents will buy kits for their kids as well, so it could have a reasonable impact all round. Other than X-wing, pre-painted minis don't sell. I also know GW experimented with it internally and didn't back it.

I also don't like the wording of the witchbane curse when it comes to the powered up version. You roll a D6 chanting roll and on a 2+ you get that many ritual points. And you spend 4+ of them for the prayer to go off. In the wording it says 'If the chanting roll was 8+, inflict D3 mortal damage on the target.' But you can't roll 8+ on a D6 chanting roll. I know it means that once you've got 8 ritual points you can spend it on the enhanced ability, but that's not what it says. I don't think anyway.

I like that all wizards know a spell lore, it's so much more flexible than what we have currently. Agree! Tracking points is just going to be annoying. I guess it's trying to be thematic, but from a game play standpoint, I don't love it.

This has made me realise that SCE are the Mortal Realm's answer to Team Rocket and now I've thought it I can't unthink it.

Reading through it I thought Spite Revenants getting 2" range is a little odd, but then again in 2 months' time everyone's getting 3" range so whatever.

Agree, but tbh I also think 'at a glance' they'd look like alternate builds off of each other. Absolutely brilliant models though.

I think the reclusions are brilliant brilliant models and they've sparked my interest in this wave of SCE after all but the thing that sticks out for me is they're all facing the same way with very subtle variations and I would have liked to have seen more variety in the poses. That's to take nothing away from the models, and I presume there's a multi-part kit coming as well, but it just sticks out for me. They're phenomenal otherwise.

It's perfectly fine for them to feature their product in their promo materials.

I played in a recent tournament with someone with these and he was fine until he needed to pile-in, whereby they became a total hindrance.

I like it! I painted mine in the Hammers of Sigmar colours. I think were I to pick up Thunderstrike though, to me they look almost like a different army, so good excuse to mix it up and choose a fresh scheme of my own creation.

New Liberators look better in gold than silver to me. The Reclusions will look great in weathered Hammers colours as well.

TBF even the 1st ed SCE had parchment on them.

The SCE battle traits look fine, the two previewed battle formations look super dull in my opinion.

Wonder if they'll attempt faction-specific command abilities like they tried with SCE 3.0 again or keep it limited to these 10. OBR getting new abilities to replace their reliance on command points generation as well, interesting. We could see a lot of faction shake-ups.