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The Battlefield In A Box Craters are discontinued, but you can still find them around. I just bought a set for $29. Good fit for urban gothic setups. https://www.gf9.com/Default.aspx?tabid=348&art_id=4302

Not true at all. Most recent example - they shipped me the Sigmar Dominion box Tuesday before release, I got it Thursday. Two days BEFORE the official release. And this was just a bit ago. They could have done better here.

Nope. Not a hint of my direct mail order shipping, either. Do better, GW. You had two weeks to prepare, and I can walk into a store and buy it today, while my order is still ‘pending’? At least have it in the mail already…

One of my 'local' stores has a full Turbodork rack. I used 'Redrum' metallic red on a Dreadball project a couple years ago, and was satisfied with the results. Alas, no pics at hand, but the paint covered well, but it was kind of thick straight out of the bottle. One of the good things with Turbodork is that you frequently have several options in shade within a color; there are like 3-4 different reds, for example.

For a while, the Apple Books store was bundling the Horus Heresy Novels by book number into compilations of five novels. For example, the first one had books 1-5, etc. And you got a bit of a price break. Essentially you paid for four books, and you got the fifth ‘free’. However, they stopped at volume 7 with book 35 Eye of Terra being the final book covered this way. This was over four years ago now, so it seems unlikely Apple will finish up the numbered books Heresy compilations now

I think they have already taken to heart the dogma of the modern video game industry - ‘release it today whether it’s ready or not, and then maybe fix it tomorrow.’ I don’t think we need to encourage GW to be any more like the video game industry, which is itself a cesspool of lazy, sloppy, buggy, creatively bankrupt game releases, followed up by copious micro transactions.

Does it actually do anything for the quality or the speed with which you get your copy, or is this just flag-waving? It benefits domestic jobs rather than a sweatshop in China. That alone is reason enough to be happy. Not every business in China is a sweatshop. But do go on, wave the flag. Sorry, I don't care that the ChiCom government has a little less revenue. I do care that someone in England has a job. And before you cry over the poor left out Chinese workers, most of that business is supporting the regime that represses them, not going to the workers. So damn right I'll flag wave, even though I'm not in the UK.

I am generally a fan of Haley's work, over many of the other BL authors that are frequently touted as 'the best' on forums. Baneblade, for example, was far greater than any model tie in novel had the right to be. And he did far better by the Blood Angels with Dante and Devastation of Baal than Swallow ever has with his silly stuff. But I found Avenging Son kind of 'meh' overall. Among the major threads, I liked the naval action and the Inquisitor sections, but I found the Marine and Administratum parts dull and boring at best. If I was to do a sequential ranking of Haley's 40K work, it would be hard to keep this from bottom or near bottom of my personal list.

Abnett's Titanicus also has a look at a hive city dwelling couple who were basically hoping to get permission to have a child someday. So I guess there it was no kids unless the authorities say so. Then she got called up into the PDF, and he went kind of nuts while she was away....

Tempered expectations is a good thing, after the way they’ve handled the Heresy series and The Beast Arises. I guess we’ll see if Black Library has learned anything from the errors made there, but my expectations are low on that as well.

The first two tiers of Sigmar and 40K have some stuff that hasn’t been offered like this before, but if you’ve gotten the Humble Heresy stuff, there isn’t much attractive about Fanatical’s third Hersey tier.

Vallejo certainly does make a dark green spray paint, however it is part of the 'Hobby Paint' line; they don't do Game Colors as sprays. In this case, the color they do have is 'Russian Green'. I don't have a Caliban spray to compare it to directly; I haven't had one of those cans in years. Going off of memory, the Russian Green is probably a little darker and more brown tinge to it. https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/product/hobby/hobby-paint-en/russian-green-4bo/

Now, this store is so far away from me that I only visit a few times a year, not play there. But clearly no one out there was playing these games where it was worth their time and money to stock them. It was disappointing to see the games with no traction in a much larger area than my usual haunts.

I got some bad news visiting one of the game stores in my circle, the largest one, although it is a two hour drive for me. They have dropped Aeronautica, Titanicus, Blood Bowl, and Kill Team. Everything they still had was on the clearance table for these games. Only Specialist still being sold there is Necromunda. They never even got the Taros stuff in; decision was made before its release.

There is still no indication old marines are being removed. And Huron has a model from GW (not just FW), and the Red Corsairs have rules from GW studio (not from FW), so I'm not sure what you're trying to get at here. Perhaps you missed then that almost all of the rules and fluff developement for Badab was done by Forge World, not GW. And an ancient finecast Huron model is not a vote of commitment to the setting. People keep saying it, but the old marines ARE being shuffled to the background...and the next step is disappearing altogether.