The fact the army painter is the one that collaborated with blanch for a line of paints will never stop being funny. This would have been a slam dunk for GW considering one of the most celebrated Sci-fi / Fantasy artists were on their payroll but nope bag fumbled once again. How GW makes more money then an entire sector of the British economy astounds me even now.
The generic infantry and command squads got removed and the generic heavy weapon team is now the Cadian heavy weapon team. Also Catachan got their own HWT and command squad data sheets.
Maybe, but being honest, It would be funnier if they arent, and just are the result of homeworld culture. After all, not all Ultramarines descendent chapters are the same logical bunch, you got feral cavemen and celtic inspired chapters from their stock.
DC Comics put out an official Harley Quinn fart fetish comic, with scratch and sniff. I mentioned it because that's the lengths they have to go to for even outrage bait YouTube channels to so much as glance in their general direction. The US comics industry has gone from an evergreen multi generational empire to being so dead that it might never recover.
Instead of having a generic infantry squad, GW listed three different squads based on the kits they sell; Cadian, Catachan, and Krieg. Each unit has different abilities to represent their tactics. It’s not that they are removing Guard variants in the lore, it’s just another case of the rules have to match the models they sell.
They'll probably get a kill team next year to replace them like how GW updated cadians and krieg initially, then a full set of releases in 11th.
StarCraft was initially going to be a 40K game but GW got cold feet and pulled out part way through the project. Blizzard made some changes and a Koreans wet dream was born.
