New Faction Packs!

[ThePenitentOne]

So the only one I've looked at so far is Imperial Agents- it's a huge improvement- Karamazov, the Jokaero and Daemonhost are back and they added a ton of Deathwatch Cards. I'm going to to check out the others that interest me, but I won't be checking out all of them- I made the thread general to updated packs rather than specific to IA, so anyone can post changes to their favourites.

[Indy Techwisp]

11 minutes ago, ThePenitentOne said:

So the only one I've looked at so far is Imperial Agents- it's a huge improvement- Karamazov, the Jokaero and Daemonhost are back and they added a ton of Deathwatch Cards. I'm going to to check out the others that interest me, but I won't be checking out all of them- I made the thread general to updated packs rather than specific to IA, so anyone can post changes to their favourites.

 

The Deathwatch Datasheets they've added are the new DW Killteam one, although with a different name and slightly different rules from it's version in Deathwatch proper (which makes me think that's been done so IA can still have a native Deathwatch unit when DW get a proper Codex again in Legends) and Legends Datasheets for the old Primaris Killteams prior to them getting updated when we got the Deathwatch Index back.

You can tell because Fortis have Outriders and all 3 teams have Jump Pack options, even Spectreus with the Supressors that didn't make it into the Talonstrike team for some reason.

 

Speaking of which, Deathwatch also got their killteam, which HAS NOT replaced the Deathwatch Veterans unit and is instead the faction's second Battleline option (tho it looks poised to become the only Battleline option in 11th since the old DW Vets kit isn't on sale anymore.

 

Space Marines got their new characters and detachments, but I've not taken a closer look at that yet.

Edited 4 hours ago by Indy Techwisp

[ThePenitentOne]

Oh wow man, just checked the Space Marine pack, and if you're okay with Legends, Chaos can take Spartans and Leviathans. I don't know if that was always the case, but I love these models for Loyalists, and they're even cooler if you Chaosify/ Convert them. 

 

Thanks for the detailed analysis/ comparison of IA DW to Index DW- I didn't even notice that the IA Teams were the old composition. That's cool because I can still use my Outriders in a KT as long as it's an IA list. I am now motivated to finish the conversion (getting DW shoulderpads to work on outriders is not going to be fun (it's been a while since I looked at the kit, so I'm not sure it's all three riders that have shoulderpads built directly onto the arm, but at least one of them does). 

Edited 2 hours ago by ThePenitentOne