That Praetor looks good. I'm holding out until we get that 30k boxed set because apparently GW is taking over that side of things publication wise if I remember correctly. But I've got quite a bit of 30k ready to go when it drops.
They did the last increase a bit before Brexit's first date so people forgot about it already. I expect another price increase soon because GW still pays for the import taxes they have to pay for shipping stuff inside the EU.On the prices, I used to hate when they did the big yearly increases across almost the entire range, I don't know if they stopped that or just aren't as public about it but it seems like they sneak in a lot of price increases via new releases these days. While for me it has never been an inexpensive hobby, it does feel particularly pricy to get some kits right now, probably because my income hasn't really been increasing at the same time.
This is why I just stick with a very limited number of factions in 40K and AoS while looking to something smaller like Kill Team if I want to try out different factions, and I very rarely buy stuff directly from GW at full price.
Necrons got at least as much if not more in their recent update.The sheer quantity of ork releases upcoming is insane in general. Beast Snaggas have named characters, their own specific troops, transport/weapon platform, cavalry, unnamed warboss, psychic option, nobz, then on top of all that we're getting a warboss in mega armour, new boys, new kommandos, new koptas… this has got to be the most love any existing Xenos race has gotten since their launch, right?
Best part? I love all of it. Every single one.
this has got to be the most love any existing Xenos race has gotten since their launch, right?
The sheer quantity of ork releases upcoming is insane in general. Beast Snaggas have named characters, their own specific troops, transport/weapon platform, cavalry, unnamed warboss, psychic option, nobz, then on top of all that we're getting a warboss in mega armour, new boys, new kommandos, new koptas… this has got to be the most love any existing Xenos race has gotten since their launch, right?
Best part? I love all of it. Every single one.
My guesstimate is 10-14 months from codex launchIf the ork combat patrol from the codex is actually released to public (lol sisters of battle, combat patrol). It is by far the best one.
Warboss in mega armor, 20 boys, 1 deffdread, 3 deffkopta
Only one old model, so much new stuff.
Here's another leak of the Ork codex. https://imgur.com/a/YC4UNqS
It's competing for the worst internal balance of any codex I've ever seen in my 30 years of Warhammer. So much of it is so bad I don't think it was tested even once.
As a nice touch the only way to get obsec on grots is by making them smell like shit and debuff your own units. And use your one and only specialist mob slot on it. That sounds like one of those RPG campaigns you had as a kid where the GM and a player got into an argument and the GM started taking it out on the character.
As someone who has never played Orks (and only played against them literally twice) can you tell me what's so bad about the internal balance?
Well there's the usual fare of some units being way more powerful than others (bikers or the white shark squig character for instance), restricting viable builds because you always want to take them. But then many rules also are just not working with themselves, for example:
- Orks got T5 to be tougher. But at the same time they lost their old morale rules. So now the maths against bolters goes so that they lose less to attacks than before, but then fail morale and end up losing more Orks than before. And they got a points increase. It's just clear that GW didn't think it through at all.
- They moved a lot of the old special rules to stratagems. And overpriced them or ridiculously nerfed their effects (hello Kustom Force Field). So now the units become less fun, AND you lose out on the stratagem game. Might not be the end of the world power level wise, but it makes gameplay less fun because it's one more facet of the game you won't want to interact with.
I am going to wait until Saturday when I get the codex and sit down with it. So far Sisters, Admech, Necrons have all had great 9th edition rules so we will see how Orks turns out. It would be strange to see it shit the bed after Admech and Sisters books being decent.
There's still a chance we're missing some information, but the points I mentioned are from photos of the paper book. One ray of hope is that a lot of that is clearly just mistakes, so GW might fix them eventually. The first one will surely be Trukk Boyz specialist mob, who at the moment aren't allowed to ride in a Trukk.
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edit: here's the first review, sounding more positive than me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP-fUob8Yzw
What are the chances that GW will ever release the Gellerpox Infected Kill Team on their own?
I missed out and really want them for my Nurgle/DG army.
Random hot take, but for some reason it always pops up in my head.
I've always felt like the "no women in the space marines" thing was a ton of bullshit. Especially since there are essentially women Custodes, are there women in the Inquisition, even women in the Mechanicus.
Which brings me to the hot take. The "custom legions" thing is dumb. Make the two missing Legions and their Primarchs women. One loyal, one traitor.
The story here would essentially have to be "Yeah we had women space marines but they both did something wrong (probably independently as well) and had to disappear for 10,000+ years", which is a terrible retcon and perhaps worse than there being no women space marines in the first place. And even if you can get past that, it still stinks of tokenism.Which brings me to the hot take. The "custom legions" thing is dumb. Make the two missing Legions and their Primarchs women. One loyal, one traitor.
I agree with the first and not with the second for the reason f0rk gave.Random hot take, but for some reason it always pops up in my head.
I've always felt like the "no women in the space marines" thing was a ton of bullshit. Especially since there are essentially women Custodes, are there women in the Inquisition, even women in the Mechanicus.
Which brings me to the hot take. The "custom legions" thing is dumb. Make the two missing Legions and their Primarchs women. One loyal, one traitor.
The Kill Team listbuilding rules intrigues me. There's a lot of potential for GW to fuck up and let the T'au bring 2 fireteams of Crisis Suits, which I am broadly in favor of.
I agree with the first and not with the second for the reason f0rk gave.
The big thing for me is that as long as Space Marines command the lion's share of the lore, the total lack of FSM means that women will be severely underrepresented. There's just no two ways about it: when your protagonists are overwhelmingly Space Marines, and Space Marines are 100% men, your protagonists will be overwhelmingly men.
I think that the better option for FSM is the Primaris. Have some backwater system receive instructions for how to make Primaris Marines, but they're a little bit messed up because Astropathic communication is not 100% reliable and they don't realize that Astartes can't be women, so they try it with both sexes and it works. Cawl wasn't even necessarily trying to make that happen, but it did anyway.
The Kill Team listbuilding rules intrigues me. There's a lot of potential for GW to fuck up and let the T'au bring 2 fireteams of Crisis Suits, which I am broadly in favor of.
I agree with the first and not with the second for the reason f0rk gave.
The big thing for me is that as long as Space Marines command the lion's share of the lore, the total lack of FSM means that women will be severely underrepresented. There's just no two ways about it: when your protagonists are overwhelmingly Space Marines, and Space Marines are 100% men, your protagonists will be overwhelmingly men.
I think that the better option for FSM is the Primaris. Have some backwater system receive instructions for how to make Primaris Marines, but they're a little bit messed up because Astropathic communication is not 100% reliable and they don't realize that Astartes can't be women, so they try it with both sexes and it works. Cawl wasn't even necessarily trying to make that happen, but it did anyway.
You could argue with the introduction of primaris marines they had an opportunity to introduce female marines.
Random hot take, but for some reason it always pops up in my head.
I've always felt like the "no women in the space marines" thing was a ton of bullshit. Especially since there are essentially women Custodes, are there women in the Inquisition, even women in the Mechanicus.
Which brings me to the hot take. The "custom legions" thing is dumb. Make the two missing Legions and their Primarchs women. One loyal, one traitor.
Yeah, it's unhinged. I can't even begin to understand the logic.
Kind of an aside but I have a rant I need to get out. I've not mentioned it here but I've not posted in this thread very often lately because I've genuinely feel like I've been priced out of the hobby almost entirely and in turn my love of it has dwindled. Shit like the above does not help this feeling. When I first got into the hobby five years ago everything was a bit expensive but not like, prohibitively so. I could grab a box of space marines or something and not feel like I'm going to break the bank. Nowadays though? It feels like almost every thing they sell now is $60+ and I can't rationalize that kind of asking price.
I would love a completely digital only tabletop wargame. Attempts have been made on Tabletop Simulator, but still.
In fact, I thought Warhammer Online or Storm Ground would be that. But alas.
Aye. If space marines were some small sub faction you could get away with it as a themativ monk thing. As it is, you're basically excluding women from like half the armies in the hobby and the face of it.
Yeah, you have sisters of battle, and I think we all like sisters for sure, but so what. They're still just human. They're just not as cool.
I'm the opposite, I love the physicality of miniature wargaming - digital just doesn't scratch the same itch for me. Seeing the models is what got me into the hobby!
If this happens, I'll definitely welcome it, but... I'm not holding my breath. Marines are still the poster boys, and I don't think that's going to change; if it were, I think you'd have seen GW start diversifying the Sisters more, in the same way that they did for Marine chapters back in the day. Sisters are all still nuns with guns, fundamentally. I dig their look and their vibe but the fact that they still fill only that one niche says to me that they're not really meant to actually compete with SM for top billing.I think GW have made the right approach as pushing them up to be held in the same level of limelight and importance as space marines. Especially from the beginning of 9th. I think from now on we will see the sisters having as much prevalence as the marines.
Thing is, GW regards itself as being first and foremost a miniatures company; everything else, the lore, the rules, it's just a reason to buy more plastic. Creating a digital version of WH40k would be defeating the point, from their perspective.kind of like DnD and Roll20/other digital sources, for accessibility and resources reasons, I think both should be an option. Especially if GW wants to gain a wider audience to pay for W+.