Halandaar

Would only be direct subscribers who have it at the moment, it's not out as a single issue until next week. If nobody has posted the paint guide by then, I'll upload it next week. There's no solid info on this (Hachette don't usually preview these special issues to FauxHammer etc) but they've done 3-4 specials in every previous partwork (it's not always been models, mind) so wouldn't be surprised it they continue here. The specials in the last partwork (AoS Stormbringer) was 4 character models from factions that weren't actually featured in the main collection, so there isn't even really a precedent to follow, could be absolutely anything.

For anybody who missed out before, Newstand are showing availability of issue 26 (Wraithlord) as a back issue.

It's great to see any character from the 5th Edition book finally getting a model after all these years, but Malys is the weirdest pick imo given the design overlap between her and Yvraine (I was always of the opinion that Malys had effectively been repurposed into Yvraine back in 8th but I suppose this has proven me wrong) If nothing else, hopefully it means we will see Baron Sathonyx and my old warlord Duke Sliscus one day!

Maybe. 8th Edition had an SM Codex at the beginning (August 2017), and then another towards the end (August 2019) with 9th Edition out less than a year later. The fact that 8th to 9th wasn't a drastic change is pretty immaterial because SM got their 9th Edition Codex (invalidating the v2 one from late 8th) within a few months anyway.

Issue 29 (Jetbikes issue 3 of 3) is available currently from Forbidden Planet, Buy Mags Direct and NewsStand if you still need a copy.

White Dwarf under his stewardship was arguably what got me entrenched so deeply in the hobby all those years ago, so thanks and RIP Paul. (My bank account, however, will curse him until the end of time)

I don't doubt for a second that someone at GW has floated the idea of switching the two Liber books to a single army list book with the generic units in (like the old red book) supplemented by 18 different Arcane Journal style softbacks at ~£17 a pop. Whether or not they go for it is another question; with Old World they had a clean slate to set it up like that, with Heresy it would feel a lot more like having content taken away for the sole purpose of being able to sell it to you over again and would cause significant backlash.

Much as the idea of yet another game going to a hard 3-year cycle disgusts me, at least with Heresy it's about 5 books total for the entire system, not a rulebook and 25 new Codexes where nearly half of them only get a year of usability.

Really surprised by that as they sold out very early on FP's website (and everywhere else that sells them online!). They were also gone from my local newsagent and WHSmith by the time I got to them on Wednesday too. Shame as I would have liked a couple!

FYI Issues 33 to 36 (Chaos Legionaries, Chaos Havocs) are now available for order on Forbidden Planet.

Plasma Gun is a callback to this variant, looks like you can build a few different ways to approximate a few of the old Missionaries

"Vanguard" is what AoS's version of Combat Patrol boxes were called before they were renamed to Spearhead for AoS 4th Edition last year. Every Combat Patrol box came out at the same price (£90), but they came out one by one alongside 9th Edition Codexes so there was a pretty long crossover period where some factions still had Start Collecting boxes (which potentially had three different prices), and others had new Combat Patrol sets at the new single pricepoint. I think it basically went like this (years are approximate) 2016 - Start Collecting! launched for 40K and AoS (single price point at £50 across both systems) 2018 - Start Collecting! prices start to diverge based on contents with different boxes priced at £50, £55 and £60 2020-2023 - 40K SC! sets start getting gradually replaced by Combat Patrol in 9th Edition (single price point at £90) 2021-2024 - AoS SC! sets start getting gradually replaced by Vanguard sets in 3rd Edition (single price point at £85) 2023 - 40K Combat Patrol pricepoint increases to £95 / AoS Vanguard pricepoint increases to £87.50 2024 - 40K Combat Patrol pricepoint increases to £100 / AoS Vanguard boxes renamed to Spearhead for 4th Edition (no increase)

For the most part, Combat Patrols have had a single price point since they were first introduced in 2020 - in the UK at first they were all £90, then all went up together to £95, and now are all £100. In USD that unified price was $168 up until the start of this year, with both Astra Militarum and now Aeldari coming in at $170. I think our US brethren can consider that a preview of what will happen in March (i.e. the other Combat Patrols will all go up to $170 to match it and restore the unified price point. Worth noting that in GBP, EUR, CAD, DKK, PLN the new Patrols (Guard & Eldar) are the same price as the old ones, so the increase seems to be specific to select countries/currencies (USD, JPY, NZD, NOK, SEK as far as I can see) Australia is an outlier because the price of the Combat Patrols seems to vary pretty wildly: there are sets at 280, 278, 262, 260, 238, 235 AUD. £40 is probably a FLGS price - when Start Collecting boxes launched during 40K 7th Edition (2019) they had an RRP of £50 across the board. It was a couple of years later when they started to price them more according to the contents (AoS ones with big monsters in all went up to £60, for example)

Kinda, the AoS Darkoath one *was* a tenner cheaper than the Kroot box which came out at a similar time, although Darkoath was also an anomaly in that it was the only army box released in the last ~2 years that didn't come with a full Battletome/Codex and Card set, it was just a softback supplement with about 4 unit profiles in. But yeah, every army set box over both systems since the last round of March price increases has been £145, and actually in raw discount terms (41.6%, see my reasoning below) it's very much in the same ballpark as Krieg (~40%), Blood Angels (~43%) and even the earlier £135 ones like Kroot (~42%) and Deathwing (~41%). Gitmob not included because we don't know the standalone prices for those kits yet.

Breaking - army set is the same price as the other two army sets released in the last 6 weeks