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I would love it then hope they spin a Warhammer Romance imprint out of Black Library. Citation needed on this as all of the things GW said about it seemed to imply that you get one free for subscribing and then subscribers would have the option to buy the other one too.

Or if they wanted to do so they could just release a Beast Herds book that allows you to build for either Chaos or Destruction with a couple of alternate options (no deity specific Beastmen in Destruction, no Kragnos in Chaos for example)

It's worth noting very few models were exclusive to Soul Wars (unlike Dark Imperium). Chainrasps, Glaivewraiths, Grimghasts, Lord Executioner and Spirit Torment are all available separately with different sculpts as are Evocators, Castigators, Sequitors and Ballistas. The mounted Knight of Shrouds could be released in a start collecting box and its sprue has the Spirit Torment and Guardian of Souls on it (or just that sprue as a direct release) and the Lord Arcanum on a Gryph Charger could be the same with the spare Evocator Prime on the sprue just being an extra (or even rebranded as a Knight Incantor). Then you'd just need to release a new Knight Incantor (or maybe repackage the £5 Getting Started figure) although Stormsire's Cursebreakers might fill that niche as well.

Nighthaunt got: Not in Soul Wars: 9 Bladegheist Revenants, Dreadscythe Harridans, Black Coach, Kurdoss Valentian, Reikenor, Dreadblade Harrows, Lady Olynder, Myrmourn Banshees, Endless Spells Alternate/full kits/repacked sprues of Soul Wars figures: 5 Chainrasp Hordes, Liekoron, Grimghast Reapers, Glaivewraith Stalkers, Crawlocke Plus the Thorns of the Briar Queen for Underworlds so 15 releases in total. Necrons got: Not in Indomitus: 11 Flayed Ones, Chronomancer, Psychomancer, Void Dragon, Hexmark, Lokhust, Doomstalker, Ophydians, Szarekh, Terrain, Monolith Alternate/full kits/repacked sprues of Indomitus units: 3 Necron Warriors/Scarabs, Skorpekh Destroyers, "Royal Court" So 14 separate releases although one of those is an overpriced character sprue repackaged. I would guess we'll see some of the sprues from the Kruleboyz side repacked as is whilst another 9-10 releases (including the Breaka-boss and Beast-skewer) plus at least one Warhammer Underworlds warband next season

I suggest having a read through the terms and conditions of subscribing. If I remember rightly you have to give them a month's notice of cancelling and that's where people have the most horror stories with Hachette. So I would anticipate being subscribed for the first two deliveries at minimum if you tried that. If you want the whole thing it's worth subscribing, I've had no issues with that side of thing for both Conquest and Mortal Realms, but just getting a few issues I would recommend giving the terms and conditions a good long read then work out if you'd prefer to just order the individual issues instead.

I think the thing to remember is that "playable" has a broad meaning. I mainly buy to build and paint so tend to follow rule of cool with my purchasing choices but at the end of it, when I have 2000+ points of an army, that's still playable regardless of whether it's built to be competitive or even especially functional. I can use my armies amongst themselves with friends to play casual engaging games without having to collect 3 of the same unit because it's optimal if it jars with the flavour of my army. And that's just as valid a way to play as any other.