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Looks fine, but this is a strange kit to prioritise moving into plastic over the myriad of other things I think would be far more useful/in much higher demand.

A rare White Dwarf purchase for me.

Yeah the TS battleforce has one pair of the robots. The article is a bit lacking. I quite liked the look of the DG battleforce and anybody not watching the stream wouldn't know it exists.

Missed opportunity to add a sarcophagus/anything to remove the model's well-earned 'baby carrier' moniker.

Always disliked the bare heads en masse aesthetic thing the Space Wolves have going on but other than that, these look very good & uncluttered/rewarding to paint. The Wolf Priest is fantastic.

Pretty unimpressive across the board in my opinion. The automata are too weedy for my tastes and of all the single characters they could have done for World Eaters, 'slightly angrier Eightbound' was the least interesting. I do love that Thousand Sons codex art though.

Looks like a good suite of reveals. Pity about the lack of Heresy though. Nice to see World Eaters get an actual unit rather than just a character.

I'd really love to see new Mark IV (over and above new Mark II), so I'd be really pleased if that were true, but Valrak's seems far more plausible to me. I think Mark II is a better selling point for a new edition box than Mark IV as it's been out of print for a long time and there's quite a bit of community demand, Saturnine Terminators are inevitable given they're listed in the HH 2.0 rulebook timeline, and why wouldn't they throw a big hook into their giant expensive box.

Is there any new information in the video? I think we've heard this a few times now. In any case, I hope they've taken the opportunity to do a very solid balance pass. There are obvious offenders like Dreadnoughts, HSS, certain reactions and the like which definitely need a tweak but other little things like certain rites of war giving line to their special units in certain legions (particularly on the loyalist side) and not in others can be a bit of a buzz kill. It's a great game, but there's a lot of room for improvement. I also hope that 2.5/3.0 brings with it a renewed focus on core infantry kits moving to plastic.

For those also interested in incorporating parts into 30k-era traitor EC forces, a youtuber ('Hellstorm Wargaming') did so in a recent video:

I like the Sanctifiers as a motley group of 40k Imperial sculpts that I'm happy to admire but will never purchase, being the filthy traitor I am - they'd look fantastic with the right paintjob. Jakhals attempting to roleplay as Bloodletters wasn't what I had hoped a World Eaters KT would look like. Swing and a miss for me overall.

Looks like there are some Flawless Blade parts (well, at least one head & a different pose) we hadn't seen yet.

I'm doing something similar - current plan is 20 Infractors, 10 Tormentors, and 10x Tormentor/Infractor worth of bits to start incorporating into late heresy EC units. I'll pick up the combat patrol when that's released as well which will give me some spare on the side

Two sets paid for and secured, best of luck to everybody else buying a box!

It's a fair question, I suppose they might roll that out across subsequent marine armies to keep Terminators feeling hyper elite, but in the EC context I had assumed they were limited to 5 man squads because they didn't want their super speedy melee army to have a giant anvil style unit. The army has a very tight theme (and even tighter roster) going on.