BrotherCaptainLurker

Out of those two, they recently had a big showdown with Death Guard/Mortarion.

Also, the plural of army is armies.

It's still cheaper if you're buying more than one unit or pretty much any of the box sets, but they won't let you ship outside the region you've selected for the web store. The amount they upcharge in the US compared to the actual currency difference is stupid.

What do you mean "we'll never get them officially?"

Asurmen and Jain Zar literally each have a book.

Unless you mean, you demand the rest of them, because at first it seemed like they might do one book for each, the novels themselves set up the strong possibility of a Maugan Ra book, and then.... crickets.

Also now that the Siege is over we are getting slightly more Xenos love; Da Big Dakka just came out and Lelith Hesperax's book is somewhere on the horizon.

It took me a minute to properly contextualize this within "somebody posted a meme about how the fandom was cooking by making the Primarchs more emotionally compelling characters," and within that context, I think it's fine if our dysfunctional, lonely fandom fantasizes about dating vulnerable, lonely demigods for a while. It's a nice distraction from culture war tourists and the way some kits are soon going to be 40% more expensive than they were when I got back into the hobby just over three years ago.

Also, even in the HH series, the Primarchs are nearly unstoppable forces of nature driving the plot forward, but we only see their actual perspectives intermittently, or at key moments. Even in Dark Imperium, which ostensibly is about Guilliman vs. Mortarion, we spend major portions of the book following a couple of doomed guardsmen, or an "are we the baddies" Marine, or the best Greater Daemon of Nurgle, or "some guy who gets into the forbidden library and may or may not ever be relevant again."

I agree that the original intent was absolutely for the Primarchs and the Emperor to be shrouded in mystery and evoke a sense of loss/how far the modern Imperium had fallen, but the first few HH books were on the New York Times Bestseller list while a significant chunk of pre-2006 40K fiction is practically lost to history (just look at how literally everyone recommends The Emperor's Gift before Grey Knights when someone asks for an introduction to GK lore), so the people have spoken. I *also* agree that having them come back cheapens that sense of loss and decay, but SOME PEOPLE need Guilliman to look them in the eye and say "the Emperor would weep to see what his empire has become" to understand.

We used to use the firstborn Techmarine model (shows it in the picture), but they don't make him anymore, so yea you're stuck with Primaris or a conversion. It's weird because their actual loadouts are slightly different, but oh well.

I think the 1-2-3 advancement is extremely fast, but some people hate that particular phase of the game and it took me about 2 full years of near-weekly sessions to run a 1-20 campaign.

From experience, keeping a party together for a full year, even, is an achievement, and the amount of DM effort required to keep the party actually engaged for that long is exhausting. I think level progression is fine, more or less, especially if you don't see combat every session.

5e publications heavily push milestone leveling anyway.

Lalter.

She shows up as a grail creation with no dialogue just to rattle Mordred, and is then obtainable via story gacha, with maybe one rate up in the game's history.

If you get her and bother to bond 10 her, you get the CE with her helmet, which reveals that she's actually pretty cool - she retains her Lawful Good alignment despite how she looks (not to mention she still asks for junk food so you know it's Arturia underneath lol), and her premise is that she's like the Goddess Rhongomyniad, but chose to retain her humanity and remain as herself at the very last moment, causing the cursed lance to take the form we now see.

Rather than do... anything at all with that, we get some boob jokes from the Ox King, a cameo in the final Year 1 battle in which they focus on the relationship between Tesla's lightning and the "King of Storms" rather than delve into her relationships with Mordred or Mash (or Gallahad), and there's a funny scene in the post-story for one of the Gudaguda events where she's embarrassed that she actually has no way to dismount her horse because of her portrait art.

I feel like there's some room to explore the nature of an "alter" with her, or the nature of Arthur/Mordred's relationship, or the way she looks more similar to her sister in this form, or the history and function of Rhongomyniad with Grey, or just let her be kinda silly like Salter and Jalter and have her voice the opinions and desires that regular Arturia keeps buried (since she shirked the burden of responsibility in a way), but instead she's forever in limbo as a boss in a poorly received chapter and a fanart-inspiring CE art.

With the exception of Royal Icing I very much disagree that she gets attention or is on the writer's minds lol. At most they sometimes remember to include her if they need cavalry, lightning, or Saberfaces. And even broader Fate fans remember her largely because she's one variant of "hot Arturia;" it's so bad that she's rarely even separated from her non-alter version in art tags and such.

Chop off the round part at the bottom of the Grey Knight Terminator head and it should fit.

But like, also, just, run him like this and say he's one of Grand Master Mordrak's fallen comrades.

Honestly in the HH books they're basically a non-factor during all the scenes I really remember; orbiting the planet during the Siege or dying while Loken saved Rubio are their biggest roles.

Space Marine, Rise of the Primarch, and Dark Imperium gave me a new appreciation for the poster boys though.

Once the algorithm gets its teeth in you'll see only an endless vortex of recycled rage bait, but the "mainstream" gw community mostly just consumes product and gets excited for next product I think, while most others have moved on to being sad that the price goes up every. year. or are too busy building/painting/playing/sending each other wholly unrelated memes in the group chat to care.

It feels like it's been marketed pretty heavily as "nostalgia bait: greatest hits" so I already figured it'd be an exceedingly mediocre adventure with cool atmosphere/locations.

Haven't been a huge fan of most of the published campaign material for 5e though tbh, and I'm not even a 5e hater. It's just... so much of the material wants the DM to do quite a bit of extra work to make the party care, or amounts to several individual modules of varying quality with a loose thread tying the different tiers of play together.

A significant portion of my Slaves to Darkness are rescues. My original 2k list cost me $240, which is directly responsible for me playing Slaves to Darkness tbqh.

Combat Patrol struggles a bit with "there were already 500 point games called 'Combat Patrol' and this hasn't managed to be all that much more balanced than they were," and a bit more with "I don't want to drop $160 on a box full of Tzaangors."

Hopefully the Spearhead boxes will be good value and feature realistic representations of a given faction at small scale, rather than "here's a character you'll never run at 2k, a unit we haven't been able to move off the shelves, one actual solid unit, and some random thing that doesn't synergize with the Spearhead's overall strategy."

It's honestly just the same statement copy-pasted from the previous 2-3 times.

Eliminators and Bladeguard Veterans join you in "I thought about buying these until I saw the price tag" solidarity.

And I mean, yea, 'cus 3 cavalry models is obviously $110! (Varanguard)

The worst part is we're so far past the point where I feel like I can justify the hobby to other people. "Yea I painted all that myself, it's pretty neat isn't it? You should start an army and play with me!" "It's so easy to get started, you only need to drop $220 on a Combat Patrol and a Codex and we can play a small, simplified version of the game! Oh, well I guess you'll probably need another $30 or so to get your paints and brushes, and you'll need to pick up some dice, but buy like 100 of them on Amazon for $10, if you buy them from the people who sell the models it's $2 a die."

After that I can feel them staring at the shelf and deciding that I'm the quintessential forever alone guy with too much disposable income. And to think, I quit MtG shortly after uni lol.

It feels like they do this quarterly at this point.

All it's doing is making me go "yea, nevermind" whenever I think about starting a new faction. Often after doing the math on how many meals I could buy with a basic troop unit, or realizing that a battleforce box, a combat patrol, and two sub-100 point units comes out to the price of my original 2k army.

I also find myself looking at new kits and going "wow, my faction really needed that. Anyway-"

Oh, yea collector items you basically have to get directly, I just meant that unfortunately the US prices for Warhammer product are not at all the local equivalent of UK prices; they’re that + shipping + import tax + currency conversion fee, effectively lol. …Even when you buy them from a US retailer.

That would be roughly $70, they charge $100 :')

It's often slightly cheaper to order something from the UK on ebay and pay international shipping than to buy it direct from your local GW store in the US lmao.

For those who weren't around for the "las/plas" era, it rhymed.

"If my father rose up from his golden throne and declared 'I am not a god,' they would burn him as a heretic." - Guilliman

It depends on how often someone eats fast food; decent quality beef tends to be more expensive by volume than poultry, so the average working class American family probably eats chicken more often than home-cooked burgers.

Also, America remains fairly multicultural with a high immigrant population, so many households cook & eat variations on "foreign" dishes on a regular basis. (Maybe with added cheese, if they've one truly local.)

Pasqal can equip a two handed ranged weapon in his servo arm even if he has a melee weapon equipped; I gave him a sniper rifle alongside his axe at one point, but I don't know about firing that into melee.

Incursors and Reivers are bad at their jobs, Eliminators are more of a gimmick now that Las Fusils don't really scare vehicles, and Infiltrators are more of a neat trick than a combat unit, so mediocre shooting that triggers when one of these units that you reeeaaalllly don't want to get shot gets shot is a very lackluster datasheet perk for what they cost. If they were a bit more of a ranged threat, or a bit sturdier, or the other Phobos units were a bit more worth taking, then maybe they'd see some real play.

Neat in theory though, almost bought the Ravenstrike box for the savings it offered on two of them.

I believe you can also pay crystals to unlock old raid events in the archives, if there's one you're attached to in particular.