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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.

Personally it’s not about it being Chaos only, it’s about the lack of emphasis of the models made for the actual game, and the watering down of it as its own thing. I like the warbands they’ve made for it for factions that aren’t chaos, but I don’t like the fact that a jumble of order models from the main game perform better than the cool models they specifically designed for Warcry.

I don’t imagine the CoS dwarves will stay for long, and StD and Gloomspite have old versions of most (all?) of the models in the Old World lists that they’ll release.

Buildings on stilts over the flood, I can see it.

This is why I was never happy with the way they opened Warcry up and let you use models from AlS factions in the game. The rules were obviously very different but it felt more like an AoS Necromunda equivalent. I liked it as a narrow focused game with bespoke models. I don’t mean I necessarily wanted it kept Chaos only, I’ve no problem with the Warcry warbands for other factions, but it bothers me that warbands made up of normal AoS models seemingly tend to be better than the bespoke units actually made for the game.

Just seems like they’re finding increasingly expensive ways of locking new single models behind old model purchases to me.

There’s not really. There are minor details that hint at the clans (a hood, a crest and some pustules), all of which were present in the previous kit.

Yeah I think it’s maybe a fun little nod to Pestilens and Eshin at most, not actually those clans in one unit. Hoods like that were in the old kit and most of them there had pustules to some degree.

Almost certainly 20.

Yeah they’re great.

In person though they’re so much better. The overall design was fine anyway, all they needed was exactly what they got, a modern remaster.

Yee