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Recently I picked up the creeping vine kit to breath some life into my terrain and I gotta say I absolutely love them. I didn't expect them to be made of a softer plastic and thought I'd have to heat them up to bend around pieces and actually be a nightmare.

Anyway I figured I'd make a thread asking if you guys have picked up a relatively new product that you ended up liking more than you expected, be it terrain, a new unit, contrast, etc

I got some Infiltrators and Intercessors, and I'm really digging the models. Way better than I thought they'd be, much better than my old Tactical marines.

Bsf.
Enemies.
Nice sculpts at an actual decentish price for gw level

The only one I've actually bought is Syll'Esske, but my favourite is the new Keeper of Secrets.

I may have a slight bias.

Right before the price hike, the Sepulchral Guard or Rattlebonesy-whatnots from Shadespire. A nice box of seven skeletons (using them in a dungeon crawl) with shockingly restrained sculpts and more in line with classic fantasy than the AoS mess. One of the few products I felt was fairly priced for the quality from GW. The barbarian box was okay too (not quite as great on the sculpt front).

Difficult to say, I tend to like pretty much every new release they do except a few things.
But I barely bought anything this year, I would say my latest purchase was the SM and Ultramarines codices and I was nicely surprised to be honest. I wish I had the Salamanders one for example because I almost already know everything about the Ultramarines by heart but they are lovely little books with plenty of informations and stories and pictures !

Apocalypse. Or the new Edition of Lotr.

Modelwise maybe the Great Unclean Ones because it has all the options in the Box and also looks cool.

Good to know about the creeping vine kit, was considering doing the same to liven up some older ruins.

I've been really impressed with the shattered stormvault warcry terrain box. Objectively good value and the temples are huge, taller than old box dread. It's also just really good terrain, basically hills/topography without being exactly that.

 Crablezworth wrote:
Good to know about the creeping vine kit, was considering doing the same to liven up some older ruins.

I've been really impressed with the shattered stormvault warcry terrain box. Objectively good value and the temples are huge, taller than old box dread. It's also just really good terrain, basically hills/topography without being exactly that.

Yeah, I bought 2 of these. Good deal and love those gryph statues!

Blackstone Fortress

 John Prins wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Good to know about the creeping vine kit, was considering doing the same to liven up some older ruins.

I've been really impressed with the shattered stormvault warcry terrain box. Objectively good value and the temples are huge, taller than old box dread. It's also just really good terrain, basically hills/topography without being exactly that.

Yeah, I bought 2 of these. Good deal and love those gryph statues!

Ugh I'd love to buy this but I gotta finish up my terrain from the Admech/GSC kill team box. At least they dyed the plastic so I didn't feel too bad leaving it for so long

 Crablezworth wrote:
Good to know about the creeping vine kit, was considering doing the same to liven up some older ruins.

I've been really impressed with the shattered stormvault warcry terrain box. Objectively good value and the temples are huge, taller than old box dread. It's also just really good terrain, basically hills/topography without being exactly that.

Good value overall for the terrain or for an addition to Warcry?

 Excommunicatus wrote:
The only one I've actually bought is Syll'Esske, but my favourite is the new Keeper of Secrets.

I may have a slight bias.

I will admit I really like Syll'Esske, but I can't claim it since my Slanesh are a back-burner project and I haven't bought him (it? them?) yet.

I liked the Invictor Warsuit better than I expected.

VAYASEN wrote:

Good value overall for the terrain or for an addition to Warcry?

Two Dominion of Sigmar: Shattered temples cost as much as the Shattered Stormvault. You only get 8 pillars in the Stormvault rather than 16, but you get 2 gryph statues, two rectangle plates, two braziers, 1 vault, the cardstock flats and tokens, cards, etc.

Don't play warcry but just as terrain they're a good value as John mentioned. Fewer pillars but more cool sprues.

They're not new, but I recently picked up the painting handle and the texture tool. I had avoided them for the longest time because they seemed patently ridiculous and massively overpriced (particularly the texture tool). I'm not sure why I decided to try them out - I think I was just really flush that month - but they're actually both great; Yes! Even the texture tool (although it's still massively overpriced)!

for me I'm gonna say Abaddon, absolutely amazing revision of such a classic character

All the new marine kits are Primaris and I'm really not interested in those. No new Tyranid model has come out, either. All my purchases have been older kits, with the exception of the codex and UM supplement. They sort win by default. I bought a contrast paint but I haven't gotten the chance to try it yet.

For me that'd be the AoS Cities of Sigmar battletome (+ the warscroll card pack)

Nice.

(returning to 40k after many decades so dont understand some terminology).

Is the Warcry Basilica(?) the thing with the 2 statues terrain also good value?

Gonna say Blackstone Fortress.

I have yet to play it but it's great value and the minis are full of character (except for the Eldar Ranger).

Not sure really. Not super new, but I'll give it a mention for reasons. Myphtic Blight Hauler. They were out of stock for awhile but I got a few of them.

I like the kit, and the models done me proud and I don't feel like GW picked my pockets for the price. All in all a win for me, but then I love their ETB stuff for the most part. Having cheaper options will always get my appreciation from GW.

A toss up between the Painting Handle and Warhammer Underworlds Dreadfane.

The handle is something that I wish I had of used decades ago, been painting minis for 30 odd years and didn't think a handle would be useful. How wrong was I! Absolute game changer, and the GE one is actually really good, well priced for what it is.

Warhammer Underworlds Dreadfane, a complete game in a box that has a lot of replay value. Been a while since GW managed to do one of these. I love how the two Warbands in the game have premade decks and there are no spare cards to alter the decks, it eliminates the illusion of choice that Warhammer Underworlds tends to have, so many cards, yet only a handful are worth while taking. The Hazard deck really adds some interesting elements to the game and keeps it from getting stale. For me it is the pinnacle of the Warhammer Underworlds series. I understand that it was initially intended to be a light version of the main game, but I think it has eclipsed the main game for me.

Zarbag's Gitz for Underworlds, such a fun kit and full of character. The fanatic isnt the greatest (other than the squished snotling under it!) due to the constraints of the game tiles but the rest are all top notch.
Been impressed with all the Underworlds kits I have seen so far, other than the Cursebreakers, but the Gitz are my favourite of the lot.

Tough to say..the new GSC stuff was across the board phenomenal. I also got some Idoneth Deepkin in an army swap and they're a joy. I'm excited for new Incubi with functional rules.

I've also never been unhappy with a Necromunda gang. I'll be picking up Goliaths to build some Digganobz at some point.

Oddly enough, Marine Repulsor. The amount of Dakka it throws out is embarrassing, but at the same time very satisfying.

The new Apocalypse ruleset. I think I'm done playing standard 8th edition 40k when I can play similar-sized games with Apocalypse's much better ruleset. $70 box with all rules, cards, and markers you need, and all "codex" datasheets for all 40k factions (including FW) available online for free. Good job GW.

I think BSF looked like a really nice little release although I havent played it yet myself.

Models-wise I think the AoS stuff has been great - nothing much for 40k though model-wise.

Until they make a plastic thunderbolt.....

I think the Goliath truck. Kits easy to assemble and has lots of intriguing kit options.

Death Guard. I haven't played 40k since the beginning of 6th edition, so when I decided to get back into it in 8th, I was shocked that my favorite CSM unit is now its own army! The models are great! All in plastic too! And tickle me surprised to find out my favorite daemon unit (PLaguebearers) are now ALSO in plastic. Its been a blast.