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Just an odd choice with the mkvi helmets on the Salamanders in that last pic.

I know they wouldn't use the FW mkiii since it's OOP, but c'mon...

I think they look cool with those helmets tbf. They’re suitably styalised that they don’t just read as MkVI helmets on MkIII armour.

beast_gts wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
What do you mean smooth chest? Isn’t that how they’ve always looked?

Spoiler:

No collar and the rivets are less obvious, plus no decoration.

The collar is definitely less pronounced than I’d like, but there’s still something there you could paint as metal. Some of the painters in the article did. I don’t think any of the plastic mk3 had chest details, only the resin ones

Yep it was a sprue of 10 identical plain chests.

Snord wrote:I only just caught up on this - I was wondering how they were going to handle this issue. It's a good solution, but those of us with OCD will still need to add the 2 rivets to the back plate on each hand (or remove them from the models with bolters).

Among real military units, it's pretty unusual for every single person to have exactly the same loadout, down to every detail. Some people will be wearing different gloves, or no gloves, etc.
Unless it is the palace guard drill & ceremony unit, it is more "realistic" to have slight differences in uniform.

Yeah, the degree of "uniformity" in military units in the field is not... quite what most people seem to imagine. The level of uniformity/standardization present in GW's minis is probably higher than what actually happens in the real world, even amongst top tier first world military powers.

When you consider the scale and scope of the Horus Heresy specifically, and that the Legiones Astartes themselves were not highly standardized in and of themselves, and that the kit they were equipped with was drawn from countless manufacturing centers and suppliers and subject to all sorts of minor modification and variations in its design and construction (hence the existence of the term "pattern", a bolter is a bolter regardless if its an umbra, phobos, umbra-ferrox, tigrus, or godwyn pattern), etc. it should become more than ok for minor variations in their gear to not be an issue.

ImAGeek wrote:I think they look cool with those helmets tbf. They’re suitably styalised that they don’t just read as MkVI helmets on MkIII armour.

Compared to the FW Salamanders MKIII ones they look odd on "nu" mkiii.

The MKVI ones look great on MKVI.

What I'm curious about is if any future Death Guard models will be modeled around this updated MK3 armor, or if they'll keep consistent with the current range

All the new Mk3 models are closer to this kit than the now OOP one, so...

The flat surfaces give you room for customization (add battle damage, attach ammo/nades, purity seals etc), if left stock they will look very uniform

New MK3 sprue pic -




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Big box does only have 1 Special Weapons sprue:

1x Legion Special Weapons Frame including 5 plasma guns, 5 volkite chargers, 5 volkite calivers, 5 flamers, 5 meltaguns, and 5 rotor cannons

The age of the two-part power pack is over. Finally, the dark times have ended.

Deredeo :

Interestingly, the Exemplary Battles book is 'while stocks last'.

No contents page or steer on how expansive the corrupted EC rules are yet. Hopefully there are some influencers posting reviews tonight Aus time.

Nice to see the continuing trend of unspoken holes for magnets where the Heavy Flamers/Bolters go.

I do wonder how easy it might be to magnetise, or just assemble in a way it can be easily removed for the main weapons though, with them being so big.

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Interestingly, the Exemplary Battles book is 'while stocks last'.

No contents page or steer on how expansive the corrupted EC rules are yet. Hopefully there are some influencers posting reviews tonight Aus time.

Based on my experience with Adeptus Titanicus, "while stocks last" means that the contents of the book will eventually be reprinted in a future compilation book.

I do really like the new Mk3 power packs. They are beefy as befits the mark.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Interestingly, the Exemplary Battles book is 'while stocks last'.

No contents page or steer on how expansive the corrupted EC rules are yet. Hopefully there are some influencers posting reviews tonight Aus time.

Based on my experience with Adeptus Titanicus, "while stocks last" means that the contents of the book will eventually be reprinted in a future compilation book.

Yeah, GW have done this with Necromunda and Kill Team. The issue is the consistency at which they do it.

For example, for Titanicus it wasn't until the game was basically done that they compiled everything.
For Kill Team, they compiled all of the Gallowdark interior fighting rules, but a lot of other stuff is still in individual books (legionaries, corsairs, for example)

So, here's hoping for some form of consistency for 30k, lest certain rules simply become impossible for fans to find after a period of time.

Damn. From an online retailer with 20% off RRP, that battle group is a good deal.

Good enough that I'm tempted to get one and then sell the MkIII. Could end up only paying 1/3 of the price for both the Land raider and deredeo.

Yep great deal and a limited print run, so it won't deflate the value of its component kits. Parting it out could net a profit. I do hope they make enough to at least cover preorders tho.

 Marshal Loss wrote:
No contents page

There's an unreadable one on the Digital site:

The MKVI Chainbayonet on the MKIII:
From this review


Also a size comparison:

They cool yo

Yeah, that’s pretty nice. I hope more of the helmets have the classic vertical vents though.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Yeah, that’s pretty nice. I hope at least some of the helmets have the classic vertical vents though.

Yes?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Yeah, that’s pretty nice. I hope at least some of the helmets have the classic vertical vents though.

Yes?

I really like those bare heads. I know people are hit and miss on them, but these are really cool.

Bit on the fence about the corrupted EC rules. Goonhammer writes that there are two corrupted rites of war supplied, both of which require Fulgrim - if you don't take Fulgrim, you don't get a rite of war. That sucks if accurate.

 Marshal Loss wrote:
Bit on the fence about the corrupted EC rules. Goonhammer writes that there are two corrupted rites of war supplied, both of which require Fulgrim - if you don't take Fulgrim, you don't get a rite of war. That sucks if accurate.

Yeah that’s disappointing. The whole book sounds pretty disappointing tbh from the Goonhammer review. No Sunkillers either which is pretty baffling. They’re not loyalist only or anything are they?

Just a weird choice to not put the EC stuff all together.

Here is my review with some higher quality sprue pics & a list of all Deredeo and MkIII assembly options and bitz: https://taleofpainters.com/2023/10/review-legiones-astartes-battle-group/

Also can confirm that you can easily cut off the spikes from 5 of the 6 helmets on the sprue.