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 Kanluwen wrote:
Power Fists/Power Weapons are on the Assault Intercessor sprue.

Which came out quite a bit after those upgrade sprues came out. For a time these were the only places one could get Primaris Power Swords/Fists/Thunder Hammers.

 Kanluwen wrote:
It's time for the other Founding Legions to get something beyond a token character and upgrade sprue.

Just say "Raven Guard", because that's what you mean.

POINTS ARE OUT ON THE APP

And here too

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ICTVf4gHJnMRc0kV.pdf

There is also an update to the other marine indexes. It is all about which units can lead Assault Intercessors, Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs, Company Heroes, and Sternguard Veterans.

 xttz wrote:
And here too

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ICTVf4gHJnMRc0kV.pdf

where did you find this on the site? i'm trying to point someone to it and it's not in the downloads section (unless i'm blind which isn't impossible or even unlikely).

 gigasnail wrote:

 xttz wrote:
And here too

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ICTVf4gHJnMRc0kV.pdf

where did you find this on the site? i'm trying to point someone to it and it's not in the downloads section (unless i'm blind which isn't impossible or even unlikely).

Its the very first entry in the 40k download section for me, under key downloads at the top.

i may need to clear my cache or something. it says munitorum was last updated in june or something for me.

EDIT: nevermind, they post dates the in day/month/year format, and i'm not very smart.

I was looking at the updated Dark Angels index to see what new units the characters can now join, and hoo boy are there some strange inconsistencies. For some reason Ezekiel and Asmodai can join Company Heroes, although if they do the unit will go poof as it cannot also have a captain with those characters and is destroyed if there is no Captain/Chapter Master attached. Also for some reason neither Ezekiel nor Asmodai can join regular Intercessors, and Lazarus, despite being a captain, cannot join Company Heroes. Oh GW, never change...

Shows how much they play their own game.

I wonder if the update was penned by the same jallopy who can't tell the difference between a chainfist and a narthecium?

New model from BL.

Is he a Mek or what? Not a lot of orks into hammers…

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Is he a Mek or what? Not a lot of orks into hammers…

He is not a Mek but he is part of Waaagh led by the Big Mek.

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Is he a Mek or what? Not a lot of orks into hammers…

He is not a Mek but he is part of Waaagh led by the Big Mek.

Cool, nice to see someone remembered that Mekbosses exist.

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Also for some reason neither Ezekiel nor Asmodai can join regular Intercessors,

They’re not Primaris yet. In the base Marines book Vulkan has the same issues with limited units he can join, though they did let him join Infernus and Assault Intercessors.

That's a pretty cool Ork, are Black Library minis available at indy retailers?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That's a pretty cool Ork, are Black Library minis available at indy retailers?

They should be able to get it, if it's not a regular stock item.

Model's a touch busy for my tates, but the weapons are both cool and I can see it being the basis for many a fine conversion. Tripod-cum-tactical rock squig not withstanding.
Biggest gripe, as with all the modern orks, is that head is terrible and needs to be changed.

This head is quite good. I just think he needs to be darker green.

He's about as decorated as you'd want a Bad Moon to be

Though if you cut up the moon glyphs and gave him a snazzy new hat, he'd also make a fine Freebooter

Has the Ballistus Dreadnought been released yet?

tneva82 wrote:
Here's example of how GW has done these. Eldar jetbikes. They were done and ready to go long time before they did. But then they also made new wraithguard & wraithknights. GW COULD have released them BOTH. But instead they opted to keep jetbikes for future release and released just the wraith stuff.

They only wanted couple SKU's for eldar in that release so ALREADY DESIGNED JETBIKES HAD TO WAIT.

That's how GW works. They don't release everything as soon as it's done. We can only guess how much they have waiting for suitable release slot. Wouldn't surprise me if they had new grave guard waiting for AOS 4th edition soulblight ready for example. Maybe 6th mega gargant. Something for marines pretty much given.

You really should follow how GW operates and not just assume GW chucks out products as soon as it's done.

Funny with that last line, because it applies first and foremost to the above (which is laughably wrong). GW does WIP mockups and concepts, yes, but these tend to differ in a lot of details from the finished product and if it's not moved to sprue design stages, it means the design was not accepted for whatever reason and is sent back to drawing board. It's not ""ready"", it's still just a pitch (like, say, oh, the Eldar jetbikes which differed a lot from initial models, being only oh, completely rescaled in proportions of individual parts and had options changed).

Or Atomantic Pavise for Horus Heresy, which went through 4 or 5 revisions since 2013 or so, changing look each time, and it still is not released yet. I guess it's waiting for that mythical new release/book, one decade/whole new edition of HH (and 20+ new dread models that could use it but can't due to lack of bit that were released in meantime) later?

And yes, they do release everything as soon as they can find production slot. Try paying attention to Sisters of Battle/World Eater/Cities of Sigmar ranges where we saw progress in real time and they were dumped pretty much immediately after being finished plus time needed to produce boxes/sprues/books/etc stuff needed for release. Or interviews with Jes Goodwin who pretty much confirmed the aim to close the design and release/produce, at least for the stuff company ordered (some, like DE or SA ranges are pitches from sculptors but even in these cases GW pushed to produce them ASAP after they were accepted, funny that).

And it's the production slots that are the bottleneck here, GW already runs their machines constantly and they would love to produce more but physically can't. Sitting on ready (as opposed to concepts and WIPs) product means you pay your workers for highly expensive creative work that costs you money while earning nothing. In what universe does this strike you as good/sane business decision?

As for the dumb grave guard/SM speculation, yeah, no. Just look at Space Marine II, they only got half of the new SM/Tyranid designs from edition starter box, the most important GW product of three year cycle, something that had absolute priority, simply because other designs weren't done yet and the game had to make do with ancient resin Lictor design among others. Yeah, sure, they were instead designing obscure units for literally who faction that won't get any production slots for the next 18-24 months at least (or more likely 36+ because they just got big model dump). This makes any sense how, again?

The Necron Lord that just came out this weekend appeared in a Rumor Engine post over two years ago…

So he's an Ork that can't lift his own gun and needs help from a squiq? That won't get him beat up by the other Orks or anything...

Bob Lorgar wrote:
So he's an Ork that can't lift his own gun and needs help from a squiq? That won't get him beat up by the other Orks or anything...

He's not puny, he's just lazy. Typical Bad Moon...

Probably an aimin’ squig, like the one the Flash Gitz nob has. I’m mor interested in dat ‘ammer - looks like it’s got some sort of power gubbins or something.

So here goes the hope for the new, updated, multipart Carnifex kit. Screamer is the same push fit from the Leviathan, sharing sprue with Neurotyrant.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/10/sunday-preview-kill-team-salvation-stalks-into-view/

We knew on day leviathan sprues was shown that sprue comes to sale.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
So here goes the hope for the new, updated, multipart Carnifex kit. Screamer is the same push fit from the Leviathan, sharing sprue with Neurotyrant.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/10/sunday-preview-kill-team-salvation-stalks-into-view/

I wouldn't hope too hard, ask csm players how the wait for a standalone venomcrawler is going.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
So here goes the hope for the new, updated, multipart Carnifex kit. Screamer is the same push fit from the Leviathan, sharing sprue with Neurotyrant.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/10/sunday-preview-kill-team-salvation-stalks-into-view/

I wouldn't hope too hard, ask csm players how the wait for a standalone venomcrawler is going.

Yeah, I should know better, hope is the first step on the road to disappointment after all