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Brubby said:
New boyz sprue seems to be monopose with the exception of the nob, and you only get 3 shoota sculpts, 5 choppa sculpts, a heavy weapon sprue (which you can probably kitbash with some percsice snipping and greenstuff to be either loadout if you have the bits lying around). All in all very sad.

Choppa boys are what you really want but if you're a badmoons player and were excited about the new sculpt you're basically fucked. I just went and got an old boy kit to mix them in with the combat patrols for later. It really seems like they want you to diversify your army and not just make a boy horde with all the changes they've made with the 9th dex. And they REALLY want you to buy the buggies but I expect nerfs as soon as the next chapter approved comes out even if orks are'nt that big of a menace in the meta.
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That's the same thing they've done with every "early access" box, isn't it? Like the Bladeguard Vets from Indomitus were Monopose and then later a multipart kit came out with a lot more options.
 
Vs boxes are usually monopose sculpts, stand alone combat patrols are not. The only exception is the shadowspear contents being sold separately because otherwise there would be no way to get venomcrawlers and obliterators - but those are'nt listed as combat patrols they are listed as the older "Start collecting" kits (also an anomaly to be monopose under that category)

Shorthand is the boyz kit is fucked and you're going to have an army of clones if you want to spam shootas without heavy customization

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-Edit- In some ways this is a return to form
 
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Brubby said:
New boyz sprue seems to be monopose with the exception of the nob, and you only get 3 shoota sculpts, 5 choppa sculpts, a heavy weapon sprue (which you can probably kitbash with some percsice snipping and greenstuff to be either loadout if you have the bits lying around). All in all very sad.
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I suspect it might be to disincentivise peope from buying 3d printed parts, like alternative arms or heads, if you would have to do way more work to get them to fit. Ironically this just creates a market for more full scale minatures for the sake of variety. Though I still think the worst offender for this was the DE grotesque. It's insane to think they would keep doing that shit, like with the beasts of nurgle.

I recently got 5 of the DE wrack proxies from Edge minatures which looked decent as well. But their grotesque proxies look too shitty to really consider.
 
Pustus said:
Maybe I am too optimistic but I think this is probably going to be the same way that the new chaos space marines were. With a box that has mono-pose and then later on a kit with multi-part comes out. I mean hopefully right... right?
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They changed the article saying a multi part box will happen.

The marine combat patrol or the Phobos one it’s the same ETB infiltrators and eliminators
 
Pustus said:
Maybe I am too optimistic but I think this is probably going to be the same way that the new chaos space marines were. With a box that has mono-pose and then later on a kit with multi-part comes out. I mean hopefully right... right?
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Aren't we supposed to be getting a bunch more Killteam stuff? Weren't the Krieg vs Kommando kits highly customizable?

If you want multipart, are you going to have to shell out for globs of Killteam terrain?
 
Brubby said:
Oh good, where is this stated?
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I checked the Warhammer community article but its not there? I could have sworn people were stating the individual box will not be monopose maybe on facebook?
 
GW really does their best to highlight the benefits of printing. Posing? No problem, and you don't have to risk the actual model to do so.
 
The sprees that will be in the patrol box will be the sprues of the normal release. The only time that is not the case is for the new edition boxes because they cluster fuck the sprues together.
 
I was gonna wait for orks for next year but the question is why are kommandos an elite unit typically monopose for modern GW customizable over the troop option.

Mostly just wait for the individual kit I think.
 
Just Some Other Guy said:
GW really does their best to highlight the benefits of printing. Posing? No problem, and you don't have to risk the actual model to do so.
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Not hard to pose any model as long as you're good with green stuff, but majority of the people in the hobby can't do that so prefer models they can pose how they like without any fiddling.

iceteayo said:
I was gonna wait for orks for next year but the question is why are kommandos an elite unit typically monopose for modern GW customizable over the troop option.

Mostly just wait for the individual kit I think.
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I think that's something to do with Killteam and some changes made to them in the new rules.
 
iceteayo said:
I was gonna wait for orks for next year but the question is why are kommandos an elite unit typically monopose for modern GW customizable over the troop option.

Mostly just wait for the individual kit I think.
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The kommandos were killteam kits first and 40k second, Killteam has slight more nuance to load out on the individual model then 40k.

Got my hands on Belakor as a gift. (Fucking awesome gift), now I need to make disciples work at 1000 points.
 
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Besides the answers given above, the whole not wearing a helmet is lampshaded in the books (I think Ultramarines novels) where characters outright say not having an helmet is absolutely retarded.
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Dan Abnett also touches on it in some of his novels. A CSM gets pincushioned to death by venom-tipped bolts fired from kludged-together magnetic crossbows thanks to not wearing a helmet in one of the Ghosts books, and in another the SM protag has his helmet save his head from a Dark Eldar glaive. Also has one of the few uses of the Betcher's Gland I've seen right after that. Gloating is a terrible habit...
 
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Having said all that, the models definitely run on rule of cool, so if you want hats on your marines, go for it. I actually started a /tg/ reply chain in one of the threads a few years ago about the only theme of Space Marines I didn't know anyone had done -- Cowboys. Evolved into a lot of theorycrafting about a Texas themed Space Marine force out in a rural, agricultural part of the Imperium.
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Dammit lol. I've been theorycrafting White Scars successors as spess cowboys, partially inspired from the subculture in Japan where their patron saint is John Wayne and due to the way they treat their bikes like horses that can do wheelies.
 
ExsanguinateHorizon said:
Dammit lol. I've been theorycrafting White Scars successors as spess cowboys, partially inspired from the subculture in Japan where their patron saint is John Wayne and due to the way they treat their bikes like horses that can do wheelies.
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I'll try and find it, they had some great ideas. There's a space marine torso that's a single star, which you could easily paint up as a Texas flag, for example.
 
Saw one thread a few years ago for someone who's homebrew had characters name's which were mash up of film stars and presidents, red, white and blue colour scheme, think one of the dread's might have been like Nixon in Futurama.

On phone so searching ain't great, think it was on bolter and chainsword but would've been posted elsewhere.
 
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