[RUMOUR] Blood Angels poster faction for 11th

[Wispy]

Wouldn't take much to turn BA around. Even Sanguinary  Guard could be saved by a pair of Sanguinary Guard characters - imagine an Ancient or Champion character you can add to squads, full wings. So not everyone has wings but the important guys do. 

[Comandante Alexos]

Maybe I’m one of the few people that didn’t like the Old winged jumpack; I’m pretty fine with the new kit and I’m really happy of new characters. I really can’t ask more, maybe  

new Vanguard or the beloved old flying command squad.

[DemonGSides]

Even if you don't care for the wings, which I totally get, getting three copy and paste bodies as a replacement for what was once a kit that made 5 very bespoke guys was a huge downgrade, not to mention the mind boggling helmets. With a good head replacement I think the modern SG kit goes from what were they thinking to being fine. I don't love the genericization of their weapons but that's also easily converted. 

Edited 3 hours ago by DemonGSides

[Blindhamster]

All it would have taken to make the kit go down broadly better would have been variety basically.

 

theyre veterans, most veteran kits have variety.

 

had there been three body designs, three leg designs and three helmet designs plus maybe some variation in weapon designs (I personally love the new swords, but I can understand a desire for at least one single edged one) the kit would have gone down much better, even without wings

 

i think the poses are good as far as jump infantry goes. I like the bare heads, the new jump packs are pretty cool actually and look much more usable (unlike astorath and sanguinors which are even more awkward than their older models ones - how do they walk around??)

Edited 2 hours ago by Blindhamster

[Rain]

1 hour ago, DemonGSides said:

Even if you don't care for the wings, which I totally get, getting three copy and paste bodies as a replacement for what was once a kit that made 5 very bespoke guys was a huge downgrade, not to mention the mind boggling helmets. With a good head replacement I think the modern SG kit goes from what were they thinking to being fine. I don't love the genericization of their weapons but that's also easily converted. 

This is a general issue with nu-GW. Modern kits are very highly detailed, but the dynamic poses, bodies and legs generally not being separable, and very unique looking doodads molded into the armor make for issues when fielding multiple “boxes” of models.
 

This is made worse by the “3 elite dudes per box” paradigm, so even a single squad of 6 will feature 2 sets of uncanny clones in the same exact poses, with identical doodads and ornamentation.

[jaxom]

34 minutes ago, Rain said:

This is made worse by the “3 elite dudes per box” paradigm, so even a single squad of 6 will feature 2 sets of uncanny clones in the same exact poses, with identical doodads and ornamentation.

^This, and I'm agreeing as someone who really likes the modern kits. There needs to be enough variety to cover at least two units of the same type or a full squad, not just one box.