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Dang, the Thousand Sons bots are definitely off. This is exactly like comparing the Mechanicum Castellax vs the much goofier AdMech Kastelan bots. Like many here, I agree they should have taken more cues from the 30k Achea automata. The Sekhetar even share the mirror dome face with the Kastelan.

Ok I just want to say regarding the mystery arc, that it really felt like this clip. Like, yo, Bree, come on. I guess I have to spoiler tag this: Otherwise, great book.

Put me down as another reader burnt out by TEatD III. It took me most of the year to get through it, and ended up walling me off from reading other works. I picked it up and then would just quit on it for weeks at a time, and at one point over a month. I think I was actually burnt out by Volume II, because III actually felt pretty good? I have plenty of criticisms, but it handled Horus vs the Emperor really well. Other than that, I've read Lord of Excess, and I'm currently about 2/3rds of the way through Eidolon. So I guess my book of the year is Lord of Excess for now, due to having no real competition. I won't count TEatD III. It's 1/3rd of a larger novel, or so they said.

The Sagittarum Guard set was explicitly made to represent the Custodians in that picture. It's been a while, but I do distinctly remember Tony Cottrell bringing it up when they were first shown at the 2017 HH Weekender.

I absolutely love this sculpt. Just about everything about it is perfect, and it's seriously tempting me to consider some kind of Sagyar Mazan zone mortalis force. I think those lose access to all non-Infantry Heavy Support, but as part of a boarding action force that might not be so bad. If I have any issue with the sculpt, it's that of the two leather drapings over his tabard, one seems to continue through his belt, and the other (on his right) looks like it's weirdly floating? IIRC, the Khan is noteworthy for forcing the adoption of a ton of Chogorian influences in the Legion to help unify what was, before his discovery, a Legion composed of a bunch of individualistic path-finding forces. He also made them adopt Chogorian names. I'm not actually sure, but I'd guess that Hibou's face paint is a throwback to before the Khan?

For the SA, there's at least the Carnodons, Auroxes, and the Hermes Light Sentinel. I could see the Light Sentinels coming on a sprue with the light tanks, or maybe there's more Fast Attack options they'll add to the main AoD and LI ranges, like a Solar Auxilia pattern Tauros assault vehicle or something. I think we'll also see another Leman Russ sprue at some point that has Russes with sponsons, Demolisher Cannons, and either the Volkite Macro-sakers or Executioner Plasma Cannons. I'm not sure what else they'd add for them at that point, but they could always go back to Imperial Armour options and do Solar Auxilia versions. Explorator-pattern Destroyer Tank Hunters could be neat.

Great mini. I love this guy's audio stories, and I'm hopeful his arc gets some decent resolution on Beta-Garmon, since that's what he was being built up for. I know he also shows up at the Siege but he's basically just a name drop there for all his character matters in that story. Even if Haar missed the Angron re-union and the Nails, he's still in the World Eaters supply chain and presumably also changed his iconography with his Legion as a general order. It's entirely within reason that he has World Eaters heraldry while also missing those events. It's a little like the Sons of Horus who are still partly in Luna Wolves colors at Prospero. I think his proportions being off is also fine, because part of his deal is that he's possibly a Thunder Warrior/proto-Astartes hybrid? The angular studs are a nice touch, too. I wouldn't mind seeing more of that style of bonding stud.

*weeps for Endryd Haar* I'm still not over some of the bad choices in Saturnine, let alone the un-edited mess this "book" has turned out to be

HH2: Massacre notes that even some members of their earliest Terran intake had "ember-like bioluminescence" in their eyes. The Terran intake also displayed a tendency towards developing a "granite-like or obsidian quality" to their skin "in response to prolonged exposure to high levels of potentially harmful radiation." P.117 under "The Devils in the Dark." So to develop the skin tone they just need to have fought some rogue Mechanicum using irad engines or assaulted a ship's reactor or something. They can have glowing eyes regardless.

Nice Banelash!

Well, I'd also like to point out that so far, we've seen three Daemon Princes of the Ruinstorm, and three overt phases of the Siege where the power of one god is ascendant (with some overlap). Samus (Khorne), Cor'bax (Nurgle), and the six-fold angel in the Hollow Mountain (I guess it's named Vassukella, of Slaanesh). It stands to reason there's a fourth, and I can't think of a moment of the Siege that's more Tzeentch-ascendant than the ultimate betrayal by Chaos of Horus. It would be a moment that involves pride, deceit, change, power, hope... all qualities generally linked to Tzeentch. So for Valdor to have a Tzeentch-throne moment and be involved in a general flux in the warp in the last act towards the Great Deceiver would make a ton of sense. Or Abnett just drops that Ruinstorm Prince thing that the other books set up and does his own thing. At this point, who knows.

It's Manel Parellada (mp_miniatures on insta). He does sell some of his designs on cults, but he does a lot for just himself too. He's got some stunning mechanicum on top of his DG.

I'm gonna hazard a guess: it's going to be a tiny resin Angron and two bases of resin Devourers. Or an Angron and a Khârn with 2-3 bases of Rampagers. Or a better example might be, a resin Mortarion and two little bases of resin Deathshroud. etc ....for $60 edit: gdi I didn't see Sete's comment before I posted but lol