Arkangilos

They can literally make a book titled something like, “Hall of the Dead” or “History of the Martyrs” And make rules for all the dead characters for people that are playing “historical” 40k

How customizable are the kill teams?

This. The BA stories were originally awful, and so I lost all interest until the Black Book and ADB fixed them. Then I was big on the HH again until Dan Abnett ruined it again in the last book. The Black Book and ADB at least the appearance it was the same legion, almost like a seed that would develop into the 40K. But then it ended without all the stuff that was established in the heresy so the link isn’t there anymore.

I don’t think it helps that everything seems to be the same chapters and regiments everywhere. Cadian Remnants? In every war. Main Space Marine chapters? Same ones everywhere. I think something that would help the setting is growing the scale so we hear of Cadians and such less, and hearing of other ones more. Honestly, what I kinda wish they would have done is make a new Imperial Guard standard, which could be based off Cadian gear or off of the older style models (the old metal ones) as a, “Crusade” type force, where they were standardized in some degree but maintain customization options based on operations. (Jungle operation regiments would follow the Catachan model, Desert would follow Tallarn, Winter the Valhallan, etc.), and the space marines would follow gene line (Codex Blood Angels would become Sons of Sanguinius, for example, with Templars and Fists being Sons of Dorn). Customization would still be a thing. The reason for the rebranding would be specifically for a psychological aspect. That would be that people would stop thinking of “Blood Angels” and “Cadians” being everywhere and instead, “Sons of Sanguinius fought in X Campaign with the Astra-Militarum Jungle Regiments.” Then it makes it bigger because it’s not the same chapter and destroyed planet (or small death world) fighting across the ENTIRE galaxy. I could be wrong, but I feel like it would cultivate making a more diverse setting.

It’s too bad they won’t release rules without models. Then they could do more and do it more quickly.

If that is the change they are going with it’s much better, thank you! Though still, one guy going through the whole galaxy through unreliable warp travel seems a bit inefficient when it can take years to arrive. So hopefully they retcon him to not be the only one. As another said, every chapter should have someone assigned to that duty.

It’s been a while, but I am fairly certain the Tower of Arameo is for the thirst, not the rage, and that those who were let loose in DoB were those who fell to the thirst. Previously it was the thirst, not the rage, that made the death company dangerous to the point of needing to be killed (because the Rage made them think they were Sanguinius, and the Thirst that made them kill indiscriminately). Before Astorath, they were killed as necessarily by the chaplains if they survived the battle. But there was also the option to lock them up, and they did do that even if they were so far gone they would kill everyone. That’s when the whole detachments were used, when they wanted to just break everything. Now it’s one guy that does it when anyone falls. The lore in the codex at least explicitly stated that he would know anytime anyone fell by foreknowledge, would show up, and then would execute everyone (DC) that survived. The tower was retained for the thirst.

I would agree with this if they didn’t make Astorath a thing where he kills them after battle. Entire detachments would work even if whole forces didn’t fall just by the fact that they could collect them from all over and send them as a massive wave. However, with Astorath going around executing them all it doesn’t work. It’s actually the big reason I don’t like Astorath.

Ooo those look great!

The ones that don’t wear helmets don’t do it to look cool, they do it because their heads are bigger and so the helmets don’t fit.

I would rather Astorath be gotten rid of and Lemartes become the big chaplain like he was in 3rd.

You had me until the end. :p

I’m not angry. No I didn’t. You started off laughing at someone that didn’t like the sculpts and dismissed his reasons. Then you asked a series of questions. The answer I gave was a simple truth, I can get higher quality for much cheaper. So you asked, I answered. I even said later on that I didn’t even like printing GW stuff and preferred buying from them. Then why did you 1) laugh at someone that complained, and 2) dismiss the main complaint? (Cost). Everyone’s reply was that GW boasts premium quality and charges premium prices. Because you were laughing and ridiculing criticism, you and several others missed the mark by missing the criticism. You were so caught up in saying why they were wrong you missed why they were right, and your persistence in defending bad behavior in the way you and others did it are indicative of White Knighting. Look man, if you can take responses and being called something, don’t dish it out. You were the first to call names, so don’t get offended when people dish it back out. You don’t want to be called a white knight? Don’t strawman, don’t go off about printer bros, and don’t laugh at people not liking things.

Pretty sure the original complaint wasn’t from a “printer Bro”. It was from someone upset they paid a lot for obviously bad defects. The “white knights” then came out and dismissed the obviously valid criticism and asked why it was a big deal, and then I, an “apparent” “printer bro” answered a question as to why people might be upset, and the “white knights” got upset. You know an easy solution to this discussion? Stop getting offended if someone is disappointed in the quality. I know it sucks when someone doesn’t like your toys, but if the expensive toys are low quality then it is valid.

I wanted this to be the box for me. But lower quality that is more expensive made it not. To make it clear: it isn’t the quality, it is the *price*.