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Mr Clark said:
I wouldnt be surprised if over the next 5-10 years GW do some fuckery with a crusade, Cawl working with some pylons and another battle for Cadia resulting in an Imperium win and the Cadian Gate being restored.

I can kinda see them changing how the stalemate works. Instead of trading pawns (backwater planets) or Phyrric victories, they trade knights or bishops (major planets). The stalemate continues but every so often it sways one way then the other. Hell half the Imperium is in the dark, they gotta restore that at some point right?
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It wouldn’t surprise me. I can see them doing something with Lorgar’s return and Cadia.
 
winderson_silva said:
It is just so weird that the planet with 500 billion citizens (Armageddon) seemingly has fewer guardsmen around the galaxy than the planet that had 450 million before being destroyed, or the hellhole with 12 million.
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40k writers do not understand numbers.

To be fair Cadia has been fighting the same fight for the last 10,000 years, it's also probably the most significant place of strategic importance. Everything about that culture and everything being poured into that place is about fighting a never ending war. The whole world is purpose built for a never ending war.

Armageddon's 1st invasion was like 60 ish years before the current time line has stopped. They are new to this kind of conflict. That planet was purpose built for industry and manufacturing. People are born on that planet to work an assembly line, not fire a lasgun. It could be that the work going on in those factories is too important to stop than to draft workers into a never ending war.
 
Looks like they're doing an unboxing stream for the 11th launch box
Comes with a landspeeder
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Includes a hardback lore only book(it's about the space marines trying to reclaim armageddon)
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Core rulebook is now a slimmer paperback
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Includes a chapter approved mission deck, and a "dominatus" deck for campaign creation(fucking finally actually trying to appear to support this shit)
 
p1138 said:
Looks like they're doing an unboxing stream for the 11th launch box
Comes with a landspeeder
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Includes a hardback lore only book(it's about the space marines trying to reclaim armageddon)
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Core rulebook is now a slimmer paperback
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Includes a chapter approved mission deck, and a "dominatus" deck for campaign creation(fucking finally actually trying to appear to support this shit)
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just saw flags getting swept in the chat lmao
 
TingoFranDingo said:
just saw flags getting swept in the chat lmao
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lol, I immediately closed that shit.

They're going over ork stuff now, figured I'd just post a couple of the highlights from the first part in the post regarding what's coming back and how they seem to be handling stuff in the box. There's also a new space marine decal sheet as well with crimson fists and other stuff on it(although it looked like the colors were weird).

They brought out an old(not the original) wartrakk to show a side by side comparison
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New ork centerpiece, bigger than a deffdread
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Land speed looks decent
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Didn't we already have Gravis Dude With Big Bolters? I don't remember their name... Oh, yeah, those were the Heavy Intercessors.

I like me marines ('ate xenos, luv t'emprah, simple as) but it's getting silly how bloated the roster is.
 
Nick Wilde said:
Didn't we already have Gravis Dude With Big Bolters? I don't remember their name... Oh, yeah, those were the Heavy Intercessors.

I like me marines ('ate xenos, luv t'emprah, simple as) but it's getting silly how bloated the roster is.
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They can't just instantly remove all the space marine bloat, they have to slowly piecemeal it over time. Just like they've been doing since 8th.
 
The new landspeeder being move shoot move is cool, maybe they'll release another Ravenwing HQ and I can finally run a full landspeeder army again.
 
Not going to lie the ork half of the box is a lot better than the marine half. At least the orks are getting a lot of much needed refreshes, but the new intercessors look a lot better. The VVs on the other hand are pretty disapointing.
 
harbringer883 said:
Not going to lie the ork half of the box is a lot better than the marine half. At least the orks are getting a lot of much needed refreshes, but the new intercessors look a lot better. The VVs on the other hand are pretty disapointing.
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It would almost be strange at this point if the marine half of these boxes were the more interesting side. Leviathan, Indomitus, Dark Imperium, the marine halves were all bland by comparison. The only reason Dark Vengeance from 6th doesn't suffer from that is due to being actual dark angels specific sculpts. And then Assault on Black Reach for 5th goes right back to the ork half being more interesting. Battle for Macragge is best known for its terrain and that one pilot mini. Even the 3rd edition box, it was the dark eldar and terrain that were more interesting than the marines again.
 
p1138 said:
It would almost be strange at this point if the marine half of these boxes were the more interesting side. Leviathan, Indomitus, Dark Imperium, the marine halves were all bland by comparison. The only reason Dark Vengeance from 6th doesn't suffer from that is due to being actual dark angels specific sculpts. And then Assault on Black Reach for 5th goes right back to the ork half being more interesting. Battle for Macragge is best known for its terrain and that one pilot mini. Even the 3rd edition box, it was the dark eldar and terrain that were more interesting than the marines again.
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The Space Marine side will always be the less interesting choice, because making it too good is self sabotage. They need it to be a well rounded introduction and not a way to buy multiple boxes to have a complete usable army. Not only does it keep them from selling other boxes but short sells the availability to people who are trying to get into the game.

Its funny looking back and the 3rd and 4th edition boxes are some of the worst of them all. The third edition box being a tactical squad and land speeder and the DA being 2 sprues of troops with no guide on what was what. The 4th being much the same in terms of unit but did have the cool crashed ship terrain.

The 8th edition release despite being the primaris refresh was never going to compete with the death guard line up, which is still probably the best and most cohesive range in 40k. It's biggest misses are mostly just redundancy more than models being bad. The starter box Lord of Contagion being better than the replacement unit Lord Felthius while also being cooler than Typhus is a feat in itself.
 
Continuing Black Crusade, you can't make it up. There is a servant of Nurgle named Devran Saar

Saar’s life continued in this vein for some time until he encountered a tsunami of the Living Sea. The billions of insects he witnessed filled him with something akin to divine rapture, his mind snapped and he became obsessed with studying the Living Sea, attempting to catalogue every last species within.
Now centuries old, the entity that calls itself “the Entomancer” is quite mad. The entropic atmosphere of Pyurultide and the buckling effects of the Vortex itself have altered Saar’s body and implants warping him into an odious conglomeration of man, machine, and insect. His obsessive desires have driven him to make dark pacts with dozens of minor Daemons and petty warlords across the Vortex in order to prolong his life and obtain specimens for study. Those who fail him are soon added to his ever-growing empire of mind-scrubbed automatons or, worse still, bait for the eternally hungry living sea.
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Tome of Decay
 
winderson_silva said:
It is just so weird that the planet with 500 billion citizens (Armageddon) seemingly has fewer guardsmen around the galaxy than the planet that had 450 million before being destroyed, or the hellhole with 12 million.

Ultimately, it is because the famous regiments are the ones the writers care about; the same thing with Ultramarines being in every single front in the galaxy, they could use another regiment or chapter instead, but no one cares about them.
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They could invent/ use an alternative numeric system for big numbers in case they don't want to deal with managing big numbers and populations tbf.
 
winderson_silva said:
Continuing Black Crusade, you can't make it up. There is a servant of Nurgle named Devran Saar


Tome of Decay
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FFG's wh40k games were incredibly based. Shame recent Wh40k ones are not, with stuff like using "they" for a no-name cult leader followed by a "she" to refer to a player character, and using "they" for the default pronoun instead of "he".
 
Newcomer 42 said:
FFG's wh40k games were incredibly based. Shame recent Wh40k ones are not, with stuff like using "they" for a no-name cult leader followed by a "she" to refer to a player character, and using "they" for the default pronoun instead of "he".
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Imagine your average hive city working Joe, using two of his hour off hours to go to the gathering his buddy invited him to and a gender blob “they” is leading the procession.

“Douglas, I’d rather join Dave’s throuple and worship their Emperor, he’s got four arms. I’m not following that thing.”
 
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