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That might be the best critter GW has ever done, at least in the horse+1 category. Looks like something straight out of modern Star Wars, but in a good way.

The page before you click on the article says it’s the final Kroot reveal. I’m not sure it’s fair to be disappointed, because it’s a good range and all the models are great, but I was hoping for a big Knarloc or something to round it off.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The page before you click on the article says it’s the final Kroot reveal. I’m not sure it’s fair to be disappointed, because it’s a good range and all the models are great, but I was hoping for a big Knarloc or something to round it off.

Hmm, I haven't seen that anywhere.

Biggest problem here is how much competition there's going to be to actually place an order on launch day. The queue to get on the storefront is going to be looong.

Heafstaag wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
The page before you click on the article says it’s the final Kroot reveal. I’m not sure it’s fair to be disappointed, because it’s a good range and all the models are great, but I was hoping for a big Knarloc or something to round it off.

Hmm, I haven't seen that anywhere.

Heh, I was convinced we were getting kroot artillery of some sort, but guess not. Seems like they are still lacking in the department of something that will hit really hard to make mono kroot truly viable

chaos0xomega wrote:
Heh, I was convinced we were getting kroot artillery of some sort, but guess not. Seems like they are still lacking in the department of something that will hit really hard to make mono kroot truly viable

Start writing in now for a Kroot Combat Patrol listing, would be fun to have!

chaos0xomega wrote:
Heh, I was convinced we were getting kroot artillery of some sort, but guess not. Seems like they are still lacking in the department of something that will hit really hard to make mono kroot truly viable

Maybe they'll get an extra wave in 11th edition, and a few more things to expand the range out.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Heh, I was convinced we were getting kroot artillery of some sort, but guess not. Seems like they are still lacking in the department of something that will hit really hard to make mono kroot truly viable

Maybe they'll get an extra wave in 11th edition, and a few more things to expand the range out.

Kroot are awesome, but I hope the 11th ed Tau wave is focused on Vespid and a tank refresh.

The whole refresh was unexpectedly big, but if that's the end for now, I do regret the lack of winged or otherwise divergent Kroot. Their whole gimmick is adaptive physiology, it would be nice to see that actually in action.

I've really enjoyed most of these new Kroot models, although I'm still not sold on the latest Kroothounds. This one is nice, but I don't really understand why he isn't just riding a Knarloc. Some proper Knarloc riders would have rounded out this new range nicely. This model just seems like a bit of an outlier (I know that's what he's meant to be, but I mean visually). Hopefully the new models sell well and GW crank out some more.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Heh, I was convinced we were getting kroot artillery of some sort, but guess not. Seems like they are still lacking in the department of something that will hit really hard to make mono kroot truly viable

Maybe they'll get an extra wave in 11th edition, and a few more things to expand the range out.

Kroot are awesome, but I hope the 11th ed Tau wave is focused on Vespid and a tank refresh.

Vespid are rumoured for Kill Team this year anyway.

Loving the new "kavalry" Kroot newt.

Also loved the Knarlocks back in their day. Speaking of which, nothing says Forgeworld can't expand upon the line later. It's what they do.

Is it? I do t think forgeworld has done any 40k model expansion in years. Now it’s primarily specialist games and horus heresy. They haven’t done any big aos monster or 40k thing in so long

Forgeworld hasn't even got any AoS models, they stripped them out entirely (esp so since they removed the greater demon models there was nothing left for AoS (though I've some hope that Old World might bring them back). Even before they did that the only AoS they did was a set of heads for stormcast - nothing else! Every other AoS model was an Old World one.

40K has similarly had very little added over the last few years, but it has had models removed. Last pass they even removed the Malanthrope and Diamichton from Tyranids.



In general FW has been working on 30K and the whole specialist games line. With a mix of plastics and resin models.



The days when FW was expanding models lines for 40K have been gone for a good while. Though even then it was very random what they did - eg Imperials got a LOT; Tau also got a big chunk; however many other factions got very little to nothing. Dark Eldar had 1 model and an upgrade kit; but otherwise nothing much whilst Eldar got a BIG chunk of models. Orks also once had a good chunk; but Tyranids have had rather little.



There is a general hope that many of the FW models might get plastic conversions; but the speed at which GW releases those and the chance of them doing is very very random.

Is Forge World still a thing? They seem to have been fully rolled back into GW proper.

Tyranids had a lot of FW releases in conjunction with Imperial Armour 4: The Amphelion Project, or in the years prior.

However, these were for the older Tyranid aesthetic visible in the Hierodule models, and also included several models that now have plastic kits (like the Trygon). There were also upgrade parts for plastic kits like Hive Tyrant weapons and the Stonecrusher Carnifex.

Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Chaos, Orks, Craftworld and Corsair Eldar, Tyranids, and Tau all had good FW ranges at one point- basically it depended on if your faction featured in an Imperial Armour book. Necrons were more limited but their book (IA12) was as FW was winding down for 40k and swinging into the Horus Heresy games. Other Imperial factions got a sprinkling of kits. Dark Eldar were very limited as mentioned- they had some stuff that didn't age well with the 5th ed range refresh and a couple of newer kits. Maybe they would of gotten more love if FW ever got round to writing them into an Imperial Armour.

 Overread wrote:
Forgeworld hasn't even got any AoS models, they stripped them out entirely (esp so since they removed the greater demon models there was nothing left for AoS (though I've some hope that Old World might bring them back). Even before they did that the only AoS they did was a set of heads for stormcast - nothing else! Every other AoS model was an Old World one.

40K has similarly had very little added over the last few years, but it has had models removed. Last pass they even removed the Malanthrope and Diamichton from Tyranids.



In general FW has been working on 30K and the whole specialist games line. With a mix of plastics and resin models.



The days when FW was expanding models lines for 40K have been gone for a good while. Though even then it was very random what they did - eg Imperials got a LOT; Tau also got a big chunk; however many other factions got very little to nothing. Dark Eldar had 1 model and an upgrade kit;

Actually, Dark Eldar had THREE models and an upgrade kit. The Tantalus, Raven fighter, Razorwing lite bomber.

Yeah Forgeworld is dead, (long live Forgeworld!). The idea of random variant models or cool additional stuff from the lore doesn’t fit with GW’s current “vision” for 40K; everything should be built exactly as the box art and there will only be rules for those options.

For shame.

Whilst some of the choices GW has made are annoying (taking away double twin devourers on hive tyrants - taking away ALL close combat weapons on warriors - which are still all in the freaking box!) its honestly a good thing that "what's in the box is what's in the rules".

IT makes conversion optional instead of mandatory.

I prefer this over the 4-5th edition wave of codex with ever more whole models (not just weapons) that never EVER got a model for them.
Conversion should always be an option




GW does have some very annoying or odd takes on it - eg 10th editions free upgrades meaning that every gaunt unit should take the option weapons instead of making them a specialist choice for unique effects and such and an actual "think about the choice if you want spike rifiles or the webcaster" etc

Well, next week for Kroot pre-orders!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/10/sunday-preview-the-kroot-are-on-the-prowl/

faster than i expected

Was hoping there’d be longer between the Solar Auxilia box and this!

I'm looking forward to the Kroot vs Catachan battle report on Warhammer+. I don't normally pay much attention to the battle reports on Warhammer+ but if this match up doesn't get me engaged I don't know what will.

I was hoping we'd at least get Kill Team: Nightmare first!

How much is this box? £120?

 NAVARRO wrote:
How much is this box? £120?

£135 probably. That's just a best guess based on other similar boxes though, I don't think it's been confirmed yet.

Deathwing assault was £135/$220, expect the same here.

Biggest question I have is which 4 units are up for the chop. The index has 37 datasheets, the new card set is listed as 38, with 4 new units with Kroot (treating the Warshaper as a direct swap for the current Shaper). My suspicions lead me to losing the Longstrike sniper team, Aun'shi, Longstrike, and the standard Crisis commander, as most are currently out of stock online, and the Crisis commander isn't available outside of the team kit.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
I was hoping we'd at least get Kill Team: Nightmare first!

I was hoping we would have gotten the Wildercorps available separately before this!

warl0rdb0b wrote:
Biggest question I have is which 4 units are up for the chop. The index has 37 datasheets, the new card set is listed as 38, with 4 new units with Kroot (treating the Warshaper as a direct swap for the current Shaper). My suspicions lead me to losing the Longstrike sniper team, Aun'shi, Longstrike, and the standard Crisis commander, as most are currently out of stock online, and the Crisis commander isn't available outside of the team kit.

Aun'va is fine caste and dead in the background so I'd not be surprised if he didn't make the cut (the model working perfectly well as a Etheral on hoverdrone). Aun'shi and Longstrike I definitely think are going to be gone.
Crisis and Enforcer being combined into one could make sense, but they do like their different styles of commanders giving different leadership bonuses to the units they are attached to.

I think you could probably save a fair bit of space by consolidating the the Tidewall's sheets as the Gunrig isn't even in the store anymore.

But I can't see the sniper drones getting dropped - have we lost that many units in the past due to the finecast transition? Thought it was mostly special characters (who could conceivably be downgraded to regular characters or fancy squad sergeants/regular tank commanders).