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I was just at a My Chemical Romance concert in Wembley. About two thirds of the way through the concert, the band in between songs said something along the lines of "A great artist passed away a few weeks back. His name was John Blanche..." They then mentioned about his work with 40k. Was a bit of a surreal and pretty cool moment. They then dedicated the next song to him.

Raldoron: Revenant No idea if the mini is new or not. Raldoron is renowned for his fluid leadership and pragmatic approach to combat, and is especially good at understanding the hearts of his brothers. This natural understanding will be pushed to its limits, however, as the Blood Angels begin the mass recruitment of hastily trained Inductii in an effort to blunt Warmaster Horus’ conquest of the Garmon Cluster. Bereft of the rigorous training undergone by their brethren, the Inductii have little control over the Red Thirst, and their violent nature hearkens back to the brotherhood that existed before the Great Angel calmed his sons’ savage proclivities – the Revenant Legion. Can Raldoron temper his new recruits and stop the ghosts of the past resurfacing within the Blood Angels? Or will the Revenant Legion come again, and plunge the warriors of Baal back into their old nightmare?

Boyz iz 'ere Boss. Marine Detachment Ork Detachment

I love that the Orks are getting with their Boyz a treatment close to what the Death Guard got with Plague Marines. They get the Armageddon Boyz, which for an EtB kit are surprisingly versatile, the Starter Set Boyz for an extra bit of variety and more unique sculpts, and then the multipart Boyz, which if done correctly this time, should be a very nice kit to play around with. The versatility and variety of this kit remains to be seen, but the little they've shown of the Nobz options seems promising. Speaking of the Nob, this guy's expression greatly amuses me. Just the malevolent joy of it all.

New Boyz are 10/10 no notes

He's bigger, greener and richer than you. He's also in Total War.

These are going to be very difficult for an opponent to tell what is what from across the table - having the box is a win, but not being able to distinguish them is a critical design failure. I think all the current rules and models designers need to go back to Andy Chambers and Jes Goodwin's notes that say these are playing pieces first and need to be recognisable.

I collected all the extra Squigs and Squig vat from a spare Buggy a few years ago with the long-term intent of eventually creating a Squig Taco Stand, and this guy plus all the various Squigs from the Armageddon box are dangerously close to making me pull the trigger on that extremely dumb idea.

Amazing miniatures, the proportions (especially of the weapons) is a massive improvement. The multipart design is very clever and the bionic arm on the nob is excellent also, I need this guy

Isn't that one notorious regarding "cannot get the ammo into the barrel unless the ammo is teleported"?

The terminator chaplain (and my entry for master of the forge) is done as well ! only the outriders left to do, and once they're done I'll post a global finished pic !

Those ork boyz

And they're drastically different to what is, as far as I can recall, the only other example of shotguns in the HH line so far: It's actually representative of a big issue I have with newer HH kits - needlessly changing established aesthetics. Usually for the worse.

Completely unexpected but quite welcome release (to me, at least). I think I am almost alone in liking them, but I do genuinely like them. I mean, when a gun is too nonsensical is bound to be subjective of course, but 40K guns have always struck me as being very "vibe-based", as I believe is called in the parlance of our times - and not just the Ork guns either! But I get why someone might draw the line a different place than I do.

I would assume in a real game situation you could just point at the unit and ask "Those one's have the Combi-Volkite, right?" in the same way your opponent could point at a gribbly Daemon on your half of the board ask you which Ruinstorm Daemon that is.

I, HALANDAAR, heed the Call to Arms and pledge to paint the following models for a total of 23.5 POINTS for the glory of the AELDARI* subfaction of the Xenos Stronghold on or before 15th September 2026, or bear the badge of failure until years end. Warboss (5pts) Bigboss (5pts) Bannernob (5pts) Painboy & Grot Orderly (5.5pts) Big Mek Dakkarig (3pts) (I think this is correct, please amend if not!) *Yes I know it's weird, but I have much more Aeldari to paint later on, assuming I get to them.

Vow complete!

Honestly the weapons might be my biggest remaining issue with Primaris. Obviously i very much lament the loss of each component of a PA suit having its own history, but from a purely aesthetic perspective things arent terrible with respect to standard marines, now that some variation is finally reappearing amongst the basic troops. What issues i do have can be alleviated or rectified with some cutting and sanding, like the leg thrusters on jump pack troops But damn I miss classic weapon designs. That, and the scale issue like you pointed out. Bolters look so good as carbine length weapons. The Grey Hunters' being a source of carbines somewhat help things, but there's still the classic Plasma guns, flamers, comb weapons, etc...

Wow. Maybe a bit of bias here, but this Ork release is, so far, my favorite thing from GW in probably a decade or more. Every single thing gets me giddy.

So with the ork half of the new armageddon box, this mek has been working overtime on something i think is kinda special. Kommadore Plum-Dar's Dredd-WAAAAAGH! being a freeboota WAAAAGH! and all that. Figured the Dakka rig would be a submersible. Thoughts?

They are too small to be bolters and his tiny "plasma rifle" conversion that was part of this series is also missing the point, miniature plasma weapons are too futuristic for the Imperium. For what a bolter is supposed to be, this is too small. I'm not knocking their work because their blog is one of the reasons I bought a razor saw in the first place, I just don't have the same taste as them. GW made a mistake by making the initial batch of Primaris weapons bigger than the original counterparts, a mistake they somewhat rectified by introducing bolt carbines. Primaris Marines look perfectly sensible when armed with original weapons, no need to "truescale" them. Conventional firearms already exist in the setting and those would be appropriately sized if they were the same size as these conversions. FW's resin shotguns, heavy stubbers, autoguns and autopistols were the size you'd expect to see for conventional weapons. FW had the perfect weapon scale, conventionally sized autoweapons/lasguns and bulky special weapons/bolters.

I kind of agree, honestly. Not to do any disservice to the conversions themselves (they're very well made and I like the Sister using basic firearms safety) but given bolter rounds are described as being anything from 75 caliber/1.1" diameter all the way up to fist-sized- the latter usually for heavy bolters admittedly- they look way too dinky there. To be absolutely fair, if the Marine's bolter didn't have such a tiny barrel it'd be a nicely done truescale rendition, but the Sister's weapon looks more like a heavier autogun than a boltgun. To be absolutely fair, balancing 40K weapon designs between having that little bit of verisimilitude and still being the ridiculous over-the-top things they are is tricky. Too far one way, you lose what makes the setting iconic, too far the other way and the suspension of disbelief begins to break down.

So, I went to my first big event over the weekend for 3E a week ago. I let it simmer a bit to clear my thoughts and here are my takeaways: 1. Line needs to go, like yesterday. Of the six games I played over the weekend 3 were essentially draws that ended up being decided by a couple points entirely generated through line scoring. This event capped total points from line etc. at 3 a turn and its still completely game warping. 2. Flavor is dead. There were 16 or so legion armies of which a grand total of 2 ran fewer than 3 tactical squads. And before anyone comes along with "oh but that's great, tacticals should be great so people take them". A: No. The most basic unit being too good us catastrophic for game health because it removes incentive to take anything else. B: Tacticals were fine and everywhere in 1 and 2E. You just weren't forced to take them. 3. Tank battles suck. My last game had to be stopped at turn 2 because it turns out that no Squadron rules are a real issue if someone brings over a dozen small tanks. Other than that, Tank fights are an exercise in frustration tolerance because someone decided that AT Guns are not allowed to be reliable. 4. The status mechanic is terrible in practice. Even CL10 units are routinely statused from number of tests and lack of stubborn. Meanwhile, lasrifle sections, tacticals etc. are practically immune because they just nuncio-vox them and also test to remove regularly *before* scoring. Which brings me to: 5. Welcome to MSU land. Through a litany of nerfs to large units (no multi-charges, no hotl/Apo, no line on anything that is actually tough and scary) just spamming small units so you can keep on feeding line into the grinder for longer than the opponent is absolutely a winning strategy. I really tried to engage with this in good faith. I've painted about a 1000 points of new Minis, wrote fluff, played around with lists, built a custom objective, traveled 8 hours on each drive. In the end I have to say I should have just gone hiking with my dog or stayed at home and played wingspan with my spouse. I used to love this game, I love traveling to events (I attended events in three different countries in the first half of 2025 alone) but currently there just isn't any joy in it for me.

Unexpected cross over https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40k/my-chemical-romance-tribute-to-john-blanche guess I got beat to the punch lol

With the heavy intercessors done I'm just 2 outriders away from finishing my 2nd company!

It is this tonal shift which makes all the difference. Rules are rules and as usual some are good and some are bad. That's not the important but that Corporate GW took over the game changed the vibe of the game quite significantly. It is not the exciting land of opportunities any more where hobbyists come together and explore the horus heresy, enjoying the narrative and generally needy together. It is now one of the core games and they sell it like they sell the other stuff too. Fast food. Buy your new army, don't get distracted by customisation, buy just our parts and then the next thing drops and now buy this. That is the main problem for most players who went away from it. I see that on the discord chat every day. The veteran players all but vanished and now it is to a huge majority people who started in 2ed or even 3ed and who don't care about the fluff and narrative as much as we did.

Just wanted to appreciate the fact that a quarter of the participants are building Traitor Guard/LatD. Quite impressive for an army that GW doesn't sell

@Dr_Ruminahui it seems my vow has not been added to the list of participants In the meantime, here are the first completions

Lovely concept, genuinely think they're the worst looking combi weapons I've seen though. Not being negative for the sake of it but I really don't like them.

I feel quite the opposite. I hate that artwork and I am glad they went a different direction with him. The gun still feels proper Moony without looking, well, stupid.

Huh, first thing in this release that doesn’t really impress me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very nice model and I’ll likely end up turning it into a generic Mega-Armored Warboss at some point, but that’s kind of the problem - it doesn’t say Nazdreg to me. It’s just a big Ork in Mega-Armor. Still, tho, glad to see the big yellow galoot show up in the game again. Now we just need Zagstruk and Badrukk to round out the classic Ork characters in plastic.

I finally finished my second squad of cultists. Between work and vacation it took me a while, but I got there. I'm gonna take a break from infantry and complete my tanks, I wanna take some time on my traitor guard leader.

That’s a typo. They’re talking about the sequel, Twomb World.

, Good Afternoon All Reached out to admin to ask where to put it, alas no reply, so mods/admins if it needs to move, please shimmy it! Have just put together a small trial of a Mordhiem to 40k conversion. This started mainly as a thing for myself and some mates to play some small scale 40k campaign based skirmish without sort of learning a new 'core' system. Shadow Wars was just going to be too much (as well as a bit off the mark, Terminators and Grey Knight kill teams certainly increase the 'scale' of the game). We forayed into N17, but not only did that not have the 'death by bottle in back alley' vibe that Mordheim has (hell N17 feels like elite kill teams/navy seals going in to wreck each others face!), Necromunda's are very human-centric and just...vast. N95 was fine, but again different enough that it would be another game system burning out our collective old man brains. Thus Mord Hive. I figured that it may be of some interest to people here as obviously we all love Mordheim. I love the ability to create a small, weird warband that may be a bit off kilter and never evolve into a true army due to the work (Looking at you lizardmen) invovled, but allows a bit of fun or to try something new. As above Necromunda doesn't really do that as it is all/90% humans and is a bit more complicated. So hopefully this can give some gaming groups wanting that 'small 40k but mordheim' feels! This was very much an attempt to keep the Mordheim/OldHammer feels, with the GW turn of the century art and fluff styles (less is more etc). I've created a few trial factions, based heavily off of existing Mordheim Factions (Imperial Guard, Orks, Pox Cult, Ordo Hereticus Retainers and a single Forsaken Astartes (Just added Cult of the Four Armed Emperor), this in its nascent form is meant to just use the core Mordheim rulebook, skill sheets and missions. It has new (mainly renamed) equipment, with new weapons that will no doubt require a heap of balance massaging! Feel free to have a squiz and if you see anything that needs fixing, please yell out, this is very early in its life, but I've at the very least had a lot of fun putting it together and it never hurts getting some fresh sets of eyes on it! Mord Hive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rSFnIEstQpbZh11AdRdanLLqK31RwCsF?usp=sharing Feedback: https://forms.gle/voZxiSghBGDbFAB79

Nothing new coming, but at least they're talking to Jonathan D Beer about his upcoming novel "Tomb World", which totally hasn't been released in October 2025. Nuh-uh.

What I want to say? Looks like i need to repaint yellow. Or at least make it darker on one side to make osl work. Right now it's just mess. I'm already destroyed yellow on leg and arm just to got right value for power fist. Now I need to build transitions and light on floor and dreadnought's leg . And tone down some parts on fists to make it looks like lightnings. May be I should darkening entire left side..

They better not touch the missing primarchs. Remember the Terminus Decree fiasco? Sometimes it is not possible to live to a setup. The lost Primarchs is one of those cases.

Trust the process :)

Yeah, in friendly games I've never seen anyone complain about it.... Unless your opponent is playing Deathwatch at a 1,000 points, then you should definitely say, "What Detachment are you using? Black Spear? That's 3DP. You can't use that." And then try not to smirk for as long as you can.

It still ticks me off how they did Lucius dirty. He just got axed for no reason whatsoever in a novel not even covering his own Legion, without him being close to the protagonist in that book, and just never brought up again for *years*. As if nobody in publishing even remembered he existed, or maybe his entry in the spreadsheet got deleted on accident when the intern spilled coffee on the keyboard. There CLEARLY was a plan for him there. McNeill set him up to appear in that novel FOR YEARS. And then The Crimson King ended up in limbo, the Ahriman trilogy happened and TCK was already in a weird spot, and then it did so many different things on the side and forgot about Lucius in the aftermath, clearly set up for something BIG? Heck, as of right now, he's literally been missing for years during the Heresy and Siege, and we have no confirmation of when during the Scouring he'll even show back up canonically. The Siege should have been where Lucius fully embraces Slaanesh's offerings, but now he might actually be the most sane Emperor's Children character we got. That McNeill also dropped the ball on Magnus having plans for the Sysypheum crew as per Alpharius/Omegon in The Serpent Beneath, which he acknowledges having forgotten in the afterword for his Siege of Terra novella, is crazy to me, too. Damn that stuff makes me miss when they had Laurie Goulding actually keeping plotthreads together, because lord knows whoever took over after him clearly did not.

Well I got 3 of them assembled anyway - still some washes and silver to add, but I couldn't resist some glowy bits for the Libby: Cheers, The Good Doctor.

Hope not too cheeky posting this here, a friend of mine has just started making 3D printed display plinths. Am using it as a good way to display my Legion champions! Etsy link - display plinths

Was hoping we were just going to get generic Marine unit reveals. Considering it's a shared campaign involving multiple Marine chapters. If it really had to be a unique character, release something for the Salamanders. I don't even care for that chapter, but they committed like 90% of their forces to fight on Armageddon.

Why not use any of the currently available bolter models to make your point? On most of them the barrel is in line with the ejection port and chamber. I have to disagree with you, the default bolter is iconic and any attempt to slim it down ends up looking wrong. Like this Weir Brothers conversion is very technically impressive but this simply isn't an 18mm or 25mm caliber weapon. It looks like a tiny little modern rifle which doesn't fit with my idea of Warhammer. If I recall correctly the thing above the barrel is usually painted like some sort of gun camera or optical sight so I imagine that your regular bolter is filled with electronics and things that connect to the armour's auto-senses. I remember there being a storm bolter cross-section showing all that stuff within a classic style storm bolter.

Agreed. Imagine if that had been ADB! We’d have got at least four books by now!!! Joking aside, the HH series should have had a spine, a critical path if you like, taking the story from Ullanor to the Horus/Emp showdown all written by one author (ahem Abnett ahem). Perhaps 12 novels. And then other authors could pick up other events with standalone books, trilogies etc. The HH then becomes a setting that can expand as much as BL and fans want, but the core story is told coherently.

Slowly getting somewhere with the metallics :)

Yeah, I think if you did a word cloud of that video it would be ‘Flavour’ in massive letters right in the middle. As in, there isn’t any. It really feels like the edition of playing Blue Legion or Red Legion or Yellow Legion rather than playing Ultramarines, Blood Angels or Imperial Fists etc. Plus lists writing is the worst!

Vindicator........

Finished up my Gorgons. While I like the FW kit, they are noticeably smaller than the MK2. For anyone wondering, the arms and shoulder pads work very well with the current 40k Terminator kit.

Arf, forgot to show the machine under the grot...