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So yes, there will be MOAR Marines, and that ain't gonna change.

But beyond that, if you were in charge what specific kits would you make a priority for 2021?

For me the most glaring hole is the IG line. Most of the regiments are OOP, Catachans are mail order only and both plastic sets are old enough to join the army themselves.

My hope is for a Necromunda-like release with each regiment getting an infantry kit.

What else should GW prioritize replacing and expanding?

 
   
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Eldar.

Guard don't need more model kits, they need a complete overhaul of how the faction works. Until there's an actual, meaningful difference between Catachan and Cadian and Tallarn and Vostroyan models? New kits mean jack. Wishlist for them all you want, but you need to accept that.
   
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Revamp Eldar - new guardians (that kit is ancient) and aspect warriors.

Dark Eldar - revamp to remove the remaining finecast stuff and add back in some of the missing HQ options (archon on jetbike, etc).

Do both in the same year, call it the clash of ancient kindred or something similarly pretentious.

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I'd love to see Dark Eldar get some of the stuff back that they've lost over the years, and get some new releases in general. After that, maybe plastic Aspect Warriors, and then maybe some new Guard infantry units.

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Yes, they replaced all the old units in new plastic and yes they gave us some new kits and datasheets, all fine and dandy.

If it had been done ten years ago.

The army is still missing some significant pieces and could absolutely do with a second wave of models.


 
   
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I'd agree, with regards to the Imperium line, that the one that needs the most attention atm are Imperial Guard. The core infantry kits haven't aged well at all, especially when you've seen modern equivalents in BSF, and recent Necromunda kits showing that GW is more than capable of doing a multi-faceted kit to handle various regiment types.

Eldar are the next big one, since a huge chunk of their range is ancient and in resin. New aspect warriors are a given, ideally with each of their Phoenix Lords being updated as well. It's also shocking they still haven't released plastic Warlocks or a Seer Council kit of some sort yet.

There's some teasers for this already, but I feel like there should be HQ's or HQ variants that are long overdue to be released (with corresponding new datasheets if necessary). For example, Big Mek with KFF in plastic and an actual Warboss model that isn't just Grukk Face-Rippa, that ideally has a Mega-Armour option. Mad Dok Grotsnik direly needs an update compared to his Orky contemporaries. I could see this being part of a splash release that gives plastic kit updates to Kommandos/Tankbustas, alongside maaaybe Deffkoptas, since they're also still bizarrely available only as that ancient metal/finecast model.

Dark Eldar need some actual options for their HQ's. Having a "lieutenant" equivalent for each subfaction (Dracon for Kabals, Succubus Jr. for Cults, Haemonculus minor for Coven), or even just different equipment options beyond their immediate kits. Having Archon/Succubi on jetbikes/hover boards would make taking multiples at least different than a complete tax.

   
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Get rid of the last finecast from the Nid range, and replace the Gaunt sprues (may necessitate a dedicated Ripper kit).

By no means the faction aching for replacements the most but it's a small-ish scale release that would make them a "complete" range.
   
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Dark Eldar need a ton of gaps filled, they've lost a lot of stuff, some of them rather inherently core units, and that needs to be addressed.

The remaining Eldar 2E/3E sculpts, and 4E metals/finecast, need to be looked at. The vehicles honestly I think are all still fine, the Falcon holds up as well today as it did in 1996, but others...not so much.

Guard regiments obviously. Most of the metals are OOP except the Steel Legion Infantry Squad set, the Catachans scultps are both ancient and simply awful models (though admittedly less so for the more recent releases we've seen), and honestly I can't actually recall ever having seen someone play an IG army in person using Catachan models in the entire time I've played this game. I've seen people use catachans as plague zombies, cultists, traitors, etc, but not that I can remember as Guardsmen. The only time I've seen people play "catachans" is 8E for the doctrine bonuses to be perfectly honest, usually using some different model range. The current Cadians are passable if you swap on different heads, but are still 18 year old kits and all their faces look like they're battling intense constipation. The only newer lines are the now-OOP Vostroyans, the also OOP Elysians, and the partially OOP DKoK if I'm remembering correctly.

Tyranid Shrikes need to be a thing again, ideally with Warriors sporting a 3+ and Shrikes getting a 4+, those models were always rad. Some other kits could probably due with updating.


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The Eldar line definitely needs a switch to plastic, it would be nice to see it get some new units as well while they were at it.

I'll always take more tanks & vehicles for IG as well - and the infantry could use a fresh face.

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I want to say Eldar- but with the current style, I'm nervous what we'd get. I like the sculpts- aside from the new Banshees and Jain-Zar.

I would be perfectly happy with GW producing the current failcast kits in metal again, doing a little re-tooling on some molds, and walking away.
   
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Aspect Warriors...and Mandrakes

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Agreeing with the masses, for 40K Eldar are in the most dire need (see the pun there!) of a major rework. A lot of older plastics and finecast that could do with a huge facelift.


After Eldar I'd welcome GW perhaps having some attention to the Imperial Guard. After seeing the Warcry and Necromunda kits I'd really love them to explore the different guard regiments again with regimental boxes. A block of core troops, heavy weapon teams, sergents etc... all in one box themed around one of the worlds, not just Cadia and Catatchan. I think GW could release half a dozen such boxes and give IG some of the variety that they had way back in the era of metal. They don't need to redo the tanks or most of the rest of the line, just the core infantry like that.

If they wanted they could put regimental insignia and upgrade icons into the troopbox as well so that players who wanted too could decorate their tanks.



Tyranids I'd like to see the Pyrovore/Biovore and lictor/deathleaper come out in plastic kits - I'd wager 3 models in each kit just like the zoanthrope and other kits. That would leave Tyranids all plastic barring one hero and leave them pretty modern all around. The only weakness then that I'd like to see fixed is giving gaunts a revamp with no more split heads and perhaps even introducing some of the weapons like spike rifles into the gaunt kit.



Right now I get the feeling that Eldar are the new Sisters of Battle; however once they are done we are into a world where its more a case of adding to armies and bringing them up in smaller stages; where huge reworks are nice but not "needed" to bring an army up to modern standards.
Things like adding shrieks to tyranids or restoring some of the heros that we lost when GW shifted to "no models no rules" (where they cut a good number from quite a few codex because those heroes never had a model).

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Yeah Mandrakes need a revamp, as good as they are every DE player would buy a couple boxes. Grotesques... we are just used to convert them I think, I don't even remember how that awful model looks.
Court members and Beastmaster and friends... well, they need a place in the army first, and then a model.

But I would prefer more variety for my army, new HQ equipment and special weapons units (trueborn, bloodbrides...) back.

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Aspect Warriors...and Mandrakes leaping off of decorative rocks.


Fixed that for you.

But yes. We do need those! Also - I actually forgot there are so many units still in finecast. I think anything in finecast should be prioritized regardless of army. Maybe do a few months of releases that are aimed at just eliminating finecast.

Edit: I just googled ablutions and apparently it does not including dropping a duece. I should have looked it up early sorry for any confusion. - Baldsmug

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Everything in FAILCAST the fact that GW are still selling that is wilful negligence at this point when you have to put more material in gates and sprue than in the dang model you know the medium is

If they can justify plastic sprues for Primaris LT Jimbob 17, they can certainly justify it for upgrade sprues and Independent Charictors.
   
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Every remaining metal model needs to be replaced with a plastic version except the Iron Warriors warsmith, for fluff reasons.
   
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 ArcaneHorror wrote:
Every remaining metal model needs to be replaced with a plastic version except the Iron Warriors warsmith, for fluff reasons.

I'll take metal models over failcast any day of the week.

Plus always nice to scare the newbies with how much your Models weigh compaire to theirs.
   
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 Vaktathi wrote:

Guard regiments obviously. Most of the metals are OOP except the Steel Legion Infantry Squad set, the Catachans scultps are both ancient and simply awful models (though admittedly less so for the more recent releases we've seen), and honestly I can't actually recall ever having seen someone play an IG army in person using Catachan models in the entire time I've played this game. I've seen people use catachans as plague zombies, cultists, traitors, etc, but not that I can remember as Guardsmen. The only time I've seen people play "catachans" is 8E for the doctrine bonuses to be perfectly honest, usually using some different model range. The current Cadians are passable if you swap on different heads, but are still 18 year old kits and all their faces look like they're battling intense constipation. The only newer lines are the now-OOP Vostroyans, the also OOP Elysians, and the partially OOP DKoK if I'm remembering correctly.


I use Catachan models, but mostly the old metals as they're better (even if only slightly) than the plastics.

But yes, I would love to see new Guard models, though I'd be fine waiting through Eldar releases beforehand.
   
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Denegaar wrote:Yeah Mandrakes need a revamp, as good as they are every DE player would buy a couple boxes. Grotesques... we are just used to convert them I think, I don't even remember how that awful model looks.


That was exactly my thoughts. The finecast Mandrakes are awful, but the unit itself is very good (particularly in 9th), and I think they would sell really well. Grotesques, while also good and in crappy finecast, are very easy to kitbash with Crypt Horrors etc, so I don't think they would do as well.

Tycho wrote:
Aspect Warriors...and Mandrakes leaping off of decorative rocks.


Fixed that for you.

But yes. We do need those! Also - I actually forgot there are so many units still in finecast. I think anything in finecast should be prioritized regardless of army. Maybe do a few months of releases that are aimed at just eliminating finecast.


A worthy fix....ABSOLUTELY leaping off rocks

I wonder if revamped Mandrakes could double as something else in AoS?

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I wonder if revamped Mandrakes could double as something else in AoS?


I could see them being something for Deepkin maybe?

Edit: I just googled ablutions and apparently it does not including dropping a duece. I should have looked it up early sorry for any confusion. - Baldsmug

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Gathering the Informations.

Tycho wrote:
I wonder if revamped Mandrakes could double as something else in AoS?


I could see them being something for Deepkin maybe?

The concept behind Mandrakes is present in the Doomfire Warlocks, which are Daughters of Khaine.
   
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I agree that I'd make the overall plan for the year moving Finecast over to plastic, along with a few low-hanging fruit that really should've been picked by now - a Shining Spears box based on the new Jetbike, for example, at 3 for £35.

Would just take a new sprue to upgrade the riders, including Exarch options. I'd take a SS Phoenix Lord, as well, though I suspect that'd be a character blister, rather than an upgrade option.

DE need at least a secondary generic character for each branch of the army (assuming that structure remains), a Grotesque kit with more than one pose, Mandrakes, and then some new unit options.

For Tyranids, Pyrovore/Biovore and Lictor/Deathleaper in boxes of 3 makes sense.

IG? One reworked Regiment (to test the waters - I'd lean towards Tallarn, or a Mordian/Praetorian set, myself), plus the return of Rough Riders.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Eldar.

Guard don't need more model kits, they need a complete overhaul of how the faction works. Until there's an actual, meaningful difference between Catachan and Cadian and Tallarn and Vostroyan models? New kits mean jack. Wishlist for them all you want, but you need to accept that.


Just because it's your little soapbox, Kan, doesn't mean anyone else has to accept your theory of how things should be.


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 harlokin wrote:
Denegaar wrote:Yeah Mandrakes need a revamp, as good as they are every DE player would buy a couple boxes. Grotesques... we are just used to convert them I think, I don't even remember how that awful model looks.


That was exactly my thoughts. The finecast Mandrakes are awful, but the unit itself is very good (particularly in 9th), and I think they would sell really well. Grotesques, while also good and in crappy finecast, are very easy to kitbash with Crypt Horrors etc, so I don't think they would do as well.


Question on the Mandrakes, btw - is it the design of them that's a problem, or just the material?

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
So yes, there will be MOAR Marines, and that ain't gonna change.

But beyond that, if you were in charge what specific kits would you make a priority for 2021?

For me the most glaring hole is the IG line. Most of the regiments are OOP, Catachans are mail order only and both plastic sets are old enough to join the army themselves.

My hope is for a Necromunda-like release with each regiment getting an infantry kit.

What else should GW prioritize replacing and expanding?


Eldar, eldar, eldar. They have most gaping holes in the model line, in the story and the most rules/points problems. Bar nothing.

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My hope is that they continue to produce only marine kits, so as to drive away all the criers. That way those of us left can play the game in peace.

New guard kits would be nice, along with an update for Tyranids.

Eldar should just be squatted, they're not in power armor anyways.
   
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 Dysartes wrote:


Question on the Mandrakes, btw - is it the design of them that's a problem, or just the material?


Unpopular opinion....I wouldn't be sad to see the back of the WoW Demon Hunter look....and they look a bit small now compared to the newer sculpts.

The main issue though is the the horrible finecast material. I was building some last month, and I honestly struggled to tell the difference between what was supposed to be detail and what was flash from the moulding

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Unpopular opinion....I wouldn't be sad to see the back of the WoW Demon Hunter look....and they look a bit small now compared to the newer sculpts.

The main issue though is the the horrible finecast material. I was building some last month, and I honestly struggled to tell the difference between what was supposed to be detail and what was flash from the moulding


Semi-agree. I think they have the same issue as a lot of the older models in that they now feel too small for what they should be. Also agree they need to be plastic. I'm actually fine with the general design, but with the new plastics we could get a much better pose out of them. Something that really shows them materialising out of shadow for example ...

Edit: I just googled ablutions and apparently it does not including dropping a duece. I should have looked it up early sorry for any confusion. - Baldsmug

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 harlokin wrote:
 Dysartes wrote:


Question on the Mandrakes, btw - is it the design of them that's a problem, or just the material?


Unpopular opinion....I wouldn't be sad to see the back of the WoW Demon Hunter look....and they look a bit small now compared to the newer sculpts.

The main issue though is the the horrible finecast material. I was building some last month, and I honestly struggled to tell the difference between what was supposed to be detail and what was flash from the moulding


I can understand the material being an issue - and if they were transition to plastic, a little embiggening wouldn't be a bad thing.

Would you say the current look is an improvement on the originals, though?

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

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Would you say the current look is an improvement on the originals, though?


I sure as heck would!

Edit: I just googled ablutions and apparently it does not including dropping a duece. I should have looked it up early sorry for any confusion. - Baldsmug

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... I invented the 6th Ed meta back in 3rd ed.
Wait, what were we talking about again? Did I ever tell you about the time I gave you five bees for a quarter? That's what you'd say in those days, "give me five bees for a quarter", is what you'd say in those days. And you'd go down to the D&D shop, with an onion in your belt, 'cause that was the style of the time. So there I was in the D&D shop..." 
   
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 Dysartes wrote:


Would you say the current look is an improvement on the originals, though?


Oh, yes...the current sculpts look like shadowy Aeldari-Daemon hybrids, which what they are supposed to be. The older version had a BDSM-Coven sort of vibe as far as I recall?

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