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[The Praetorian of Inwit]

They should stay with Imperial Fists. Why downgrade to the lesser Legions?

[Imriy]

3 minutes ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

They should stay with Imperial Fists. Why downgrade to the lesser Legions?

I blame advertising and marketing reasons. The idea is like "Hey, you already got all those imperial fists from last box, right, let's give you some different ones." 

 

Perhaps a far-flung hypothesis but I see no other reason. 

[RedFox]

You mean other than for fun, variety and to showcase other famous HH battles?

[darkhorse0607]

20 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said:

 

It's probably because they already used IF for 2nd.

 

They're also some of the legions with the least new stuff. All of the Salamander stuff is old and they don't have Praetors/characters or anything. IWs have faired better but still are missing some stuff, so maybe they'll both get the treatment SoH and IF did last go around? World Eaters and Raven Guard would also be prime canidates and would be a cool matchup thematically

 

The fact that they're already putting them on transfer sheets gives weight to the rumor at least

[Wispy]

32 minutes ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

They should stay with Imperial Fists. Why downgrade to the lesser Legions?

As important as the Fists are narratively to the 30k setting, they don't have that cache at the cashier. There's a reason the 40k default is blue - 42% of people's favourite colour vs 3% for yellow.

Edited Wednesday at 08:21 PM by Wispy

[Nephaston]

It's also nice to not slavishly follow the same match ups that have been memed to death. Sure IF vs IW is a classic, but it's not the only enmity these legions have.

[Unknown Legionnaire]

During HH 1.0 no one gave a dime about IF, the boxsets in their continuity were ...

 

- Battle for Calth: UM & WB  (1.st ed.)

- Burning of Prospero:  SW & TS  (1st. ed.)

 

Then for HH 2.0

 

- 'AoD' Boxset: IF & SoH  (2nd. ed.)

 

So let's be patient about what the 'rumoured' new boxset will hold. I'll believe it when I see the first pictures of it.

[Imriy]

1 hour ago, RedFox said:

You mean other than for fun, variety and to showcase other famous HH battles?

Yeah, that's fair. I get caught up too much in the lore :P

[Antarius]

8 hours ago, Nephaston said:

It's also nice to not slavishly follow the same match ups that have been memed to death. Sure IF vs IW is a classic, but it's not the only enmity these legions have.

Indeed. Also, part of the charm of the Age of Darkness is that there's a galactic civil war going on and everybody's involved, so it'd be a bit strange if the only battles were between legions with an established rivalry.

[Corswain]

I would also suggest that it doesn't matter in the least what Legions are on the box art - we're all just gonna paint them whatever colour we want anyway. 

I've purchased Betrayal at Calth, Burning of Prospero and Age of Darkness and not one of them was used as a Legion represented on the box.

[Mandragola]

Well my first edition (and actually slightly before) army was Imperial Fists, starting out with resin mk3s. I used the AoD stuff to make Raven Guard. Mk2 probably works well for Salamanders and possibly for Iron Warriors, though I think they'd tend to prefer Mk3.

 

Actually Mk2 doesn't have a lot of room to paint flames and stuff on Sallies. The Mk3 extra armour on the chest and shins is better for that.

 

My vague current plan is to do a traitor force in 3rd. Maybe Sons of Horus.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

IMPERIAL FISTS are just better though. This is like replacing a Ferrai with a Vaxhall Astra. Yellow is also just a superior colour. 

 

It should go even further though. Personally I think it should Imperial Fists 40,000 not Warhammer 40,000. Warhammer World building itself should be painted with IF Contrast. 

[Mandragola]

7 hours ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

Warhammer World building itself should be painted with IF Contrast. 

While that sounds like a good idea in principle, and certainly an improvement over the boring grey it is today, what if that meant there was no Imperial Fist contrast left for our models?

[Matcap86]

 

8 hours ago, The Praetorian of Inwit said:

IMPERIAL FISTS are just better though. This is like replacing a Ferrai with a Vaxhall Astra. Yellow is also just a superior colour. 

 

It should go even further though. Personally I think it should Imperial Fists 40,000 not Warhammer 40,000. Warhammer World building itself should be painted with IF Contrast. 

 

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