I understand why GW is moving away from those transparent stands, they constantly flip over on tilted terrain, you can't get them inside buildings with low ceiling, and it's a chore to transport them. But those rock poses are objectively dogshit. GW doesn't understand how dynamic poses work, the perfect example that new jump pack chaos lord.
If they're getting halved, the community can still do what it wants to do, and just play 500 point games then. Although the new star wars legion update also seems to be encouraging people to be at about 1.5x the army size they were previously. Clearly it's done for the sake of sales, but I do wonder if it's just part of an observation of communities wanting larger scale(as in more minis) in a game while retaining a distinct skirmish product(for star wars that would be shatterpoint).
The immolator has been a plastic kit on the website for a while now. Where are you seeing that it would need to be re-released? Sure it's listed as out of stock but that's just because they're probably packing them into the battle box, not that it won't ever be back on its own on the site.
from my experience when it goes out of stock online it stays that way for a long while
Well sure, but that's no different than half the website at any given time. Probably related to their wanting to build a new factory. If GW can't sell you what you want, get it elsewhere.
A lot of the times when they do those kinds of boxes, they tend to prioritize placing those sprues from that kit into that specific box rather than boxing them as individual kits. It’s why they’re going to wait to put the canoness with a jump pack out as an individual blister pack. That paired with people buying them up because of meta relevancy just like with novitiates means they’re probably going to go in and out of stock for a while until something else comes up.
Are you one of the rare souls who actually plays Crusade?
That would be genuinely terrifying with my EC. An army of tiny Rackets running around is a proper Benadryl nightmare in the making.
I'm gonna let you in on a little secret it's the worst kept secret especially in war gaming scenes I've worked on a few TTRPG's no one actually reads the flavour text.
They do sell characters from books outside of gaunt’s ghosts, but the true fans of those armies aren’t going to go full soyjak over them making some tokenistic changes to pander to wokelets. The people who fawn for that stuff and the people who outrage farm on twitter are nogames and the same people who will say there’s more to the hobby than miniatures or are hopping ship to battletech.
I know they make miniatures for those books but they never make any other miniatures for away covers Kane.
