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I only keep my sub for the army builder. I sell the model to offset the cost a bit.

If there isn’t a closed helmet option, I might paint then face the same metal as the rest of the helmet.

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.

@pnkdthWHFB saw some units get repeated resculpts, so this isn’t anything new. As a Stormcast player, I am very happy to see the Oldcast sculpts getting replaced over new u it’s. There most likely will be new units, of course, but I am hoping GW consolidates enough warscrolls to reduce the overall number.

Why does the other army have to be a ‘good guy order faction’? Ironjawz look cool, are elite and simple to paint.

Yes. I only play Xenos armies in 40K. One of the big reasons for picking SCE as my main AoS army was the near-guarantee of regular updates to both models and rules. Plus, I like their background; the skew on being chosen to fight by the gods.

I play a computer game called Stellaris. It’s a strategy game about conquering the galaxy. You can select from dozens of different aliens.. but looking in FB group I’m in…the number of folks just playing humans is pretty high. 🫤

It reminds me of the Cybermen.

Savage Orruks need only the slightest nudge to be turned into the painted savages that fought the Roman invaders to the British Isles aka the Picts. And they’d get to keep the English accents!* *Yes, I know the Picts weren’t actually Cockneys. Probably.

Old news. F’oh!

Might this mean that scenery is actually relevant again? It seems fairly unimportant outside of faction terrain.