Souleater

I do not. It’s the improved sculpt.

Squires or attendants following knights around is also pretty common in fantasy.

Filmed for eyeMax? 😜

“Hot Dayum!” - Captain Raymond Jacob Holt.

Tempted to try and get that DO army to use in ToW.

They are two slightly different datasheets. It isn’t the same card used in two armies. Same stat lines but GSC Purestrain Genestealers get stuff like Deep Strike and Advance and Charge, while the vanilla Genestealers in Tyranids get Scouts and a re-roll wounds ability. However, I can certainly see the same situation happening with Hobgrots across Chorfs and Runts.

Oh, they would have sold boatloads of the dreads in plastic!

GW not wanting cross sales has cost them sales from me. I had started planning out purchases to make a cross system daemon army. The only way I could justify another army to myself was the ability to use it in multiple games…in fact, narratively I loved the idea of the same daemon’s turning up in different places. Same for the HH/40k Custodes/IK army I have been collecting. They could have put out a plastic kit for one of the Custodes vehicles but oddly (given the wild popularity of Custodes in my area) they’ve gone for Yet Another Character. So I’ve sold off most of the boxes I had picked up so far, and will stick to the armies I have.

Possibly these Battleforces are to sweeten the pill of only getting a single model with the new codexes?

@GitzdeeI think there is a decent chance that Beasts of Chaos will return as Beasts of Destruction. They can redo minotaurs, add more goat centaurs, etc and really give them a full on AoSification. They could even add some goat ladies to make Destro a bit less of a ‘boys club’ I think there’s a lot of scope for interesting new kits and lore. Sadly, I don’t see Bonesplitters getting redone. IJ and scrawny dudes have taken the ‘splitters cool stuff in order to make those ‘new’ factions more diverse. ☹️

They can been seen as a stereotype of ‘savage’ indigenous tribes encountered by the European colonists. (Ignoring that many Englishmen like me probably descended from the locals that got their heads kicked in by Romans, Scandinavians and Normans. 😂) However, Bonesplitters could easily be pivoted into the savages that occupied the British Isles before the romans turned up. That’s how I see mine. They paint themselves blue and are obsessed by Boars, for goodness sake! And Spiderfang could have been done instead of Silent Ones or something.

I got back quite a way. I am not referring to models that came over to AoS from WHFB, but rather the units that got multiple refreshes during WHFB. Example would be Witch Elves - the current kit is actually the fourth incarnation from WHFB. Hence, my comment that GW are happy to replace existing models with ‘updated’ sculpts.

Anyway, I don’t have any Thunderstrike models in my SCE…and my other painted army is Bonespilterz. A rather disappointing day for me.

I think so.