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A little inside baseball for you: Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: the Horus Heresy are two separate brands with two separate ranges of products. Therefore, sales for one do not count towards the performance of the other - so it's not really surprising that there should be two separate drop pod kits for the two separate games.

For my part, I will be remaining hopeful for dreadnought drop pods in tactical scale.

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In light of recent events, I admire the audacity.

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Don't ever let anyone ever tell you that scale creep isn't real. Scale creep is very, very real, and it will hurt you.

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The embiggening will continue until morale improves. As previously predicted, Deathwatch have gotten their much-needed update to bring them in line with the rest of the Space Marine range.

It's a bit of a bummer that some of the loadouts seem to be locked to the Gravis and Phobos armour builds but even with the pivot back to classic Space Marines, I don't think we're likely to be rid of them going forward. They're just kind of here, now.

Of course, you need to have xenos to kill and the new Necron canoptek constructs don't disappoint. The Geomancer is another solid variation on the Cryptek theme and more scuttling robotic horrors are always welcome. The best part, though, has gotta be the new Tomb World terrain.

It's a pleasant surprise that they're still doing this kind of modular terrain after the overall cool reception to Gallowdark. Naturally, you should expect this to completely replacing the Boarding Actions terrain set so maybe grab it now if you haven't, already, if you like that kind of Space Hulk-y stuff.

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I think this represents the final and complete failure of the Primaris experiment. Darnath Lysander was quite literally killed off to make room for a goon in Gravis armour, but Terminators are back and now so is he. The hate for Kayvaan Shrike's Primaris redesign was so palpable that he's been entirely replaced with a functionally identical lightning claw assault captain.

My only complaint is that the White Scars shouldn't be getting a jetbike before Samael is updated, but it's a fine looking model nonetheless. Quality sculpts across the board.

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I am actually mad about this. I don't care how big a deal Lord Helmawr thinks he is, disintegrators should not be so commonplace in 40k that you can equip your enforcers with them.

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POV: You have been found guilty of mind crimes.

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"Where do you think our fans hang out?"

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We've put it off for as long as we can, but now Saturnine is here.

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How exciting! A new squad of Space Marine Heroes. But, wait, what's that footnote in the WarCom article?

Every display unit will have eight blind boxes, but there is no guarantee you will get all seven miniatures if you buy a full dispenser of eight boxes.

That's a deal breaker.

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Games Workshop doesn't want you to know this, but you can just de-Primarisize their kits with third-party accessories.

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"With regret, Interrogator, the Lord-Captain's interpretation of the Lex is technically correct; the Emperor's word is the Emperor's Law, and the Emperor did say, 'fuck xenos.'

"I don't think that's how He meant it, though."

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Mozgus looking physiognomy.

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Are particle shredders just Terran gauss flayers?

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Techpriest: attaches conversion beamer aperture backwards

"Behold! The inversion beamer!"

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Fall in, frater, we're going crusading.

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I had always kind of felt that the 2nd edition Space Marine Captain was meant to be the miniature version of "hero" Captain from the 2nd edition cover art, but then GW actually went and put out a miniature of him for Games Day 2012, rat tail and all.

Anyway, it's always fun to see classic models revisited with modern sculpts. There are a couple of others that haven't been primarisized, yet, that I wouldn't mind seeing in the embiggened scale.