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I hate to fat-shame a model but the Banshee looks a bit on the 'heavy' side for me. The 1st & 2nd ed were far slimmer & agile-looking. The hair looks really 'clumpy' too. :(

 Latro_ wrote:
Was thinking after a second look at shrike if you took him out of time and posted him on this forum 5-6 years ago before primaris etc i'm pretty sure the reaction would be.

And on another note i might buy one for the head to make the lesser know warmaster EMODDON.

SHRIKE FOR WARMASTER.
VOTE NOW; for the low price of your soul and eternal damnation at the hand of the blacklegion.

It is probably Omnis, but it is still a bit different. It has Phobos lower leg shape, an extra set of wings and actual jets on the backpack. This looks more like a proper jump pack that could proper a marine.

I had ordered an extra Suppressor Sergeant model to convert into a Primaris-scale jump captain, but I think I'll use Shrike as a basis of that conversion instead.

 zedmeister wrote:
Wow, remarkably similar right down to the tail sting!

I had not noticed that. Pretty awesome catch, get that exalt you magnificent Bastet.

 vipoid wrote:
I am glad to see that the undead have finally acknowledged the strategic usefulness of ranged weapons. Pity it didn't come up when they were designing the 4-armed dudes. They could have used two hands to fire a bow and still had two left over to dual-wield swords.

Or fighting bare-handed!
Something like this:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
“The series will see plot threads that have enticed fans for decades resolved, champions new and old rise to the fore, and staggering revelations made”

"We will ruin longstanding mysteries by explaining them, lots of new Primaris characters will be introduced, and we'll make some new plot threads!"

Sounds about right. GW learn nothing from Star Wars or countless other properties by explaining away things that never needed explaining. Mystery is part of the appeal of some things.

I cannot agree enough.

Bonecrons are awful. How do you get skeleton warriors so wrong?

The 40k campaign just means they are going to ruin the fluff even more.

Warhammer legends sounds like an excus for cutting a bunch of models from the product range.

But then they win me back with plastic aspect warriors and sisters of battle. Didn't see the aspect warriors coming and if they stay true to the original designs like that banshee I'll be buying up a bunch of them.

 Tamereth wrote:
Bonecrons are awful. How do you get skeleton warriors so wrong?

They're not skeleton warriors, they're bone golems. There are plenty of sources for normal boring skeletons if that's what you want.

Also Shrike's face reminds me of:

The new sisters are great, the new shrike is eh, and the faction symbols I am surprised they didn’t have the adepta astra telepathica, or at least sisters of silence.

I wonder if we will see the return of the Necron Pariah?

Honestly I think GW doesn't know what to do with the Sisters of Silence. They are heavily overshadowed by Sisters of Battle and the best move GW could have made - putting Sisters of Silence into Custodes - appears to be a move GW doesn't want to make.

So Sisters of Silence are left out with their 1 model kit from GW and 1 transport from FW (baring in mind their rhino is just a rhino painted gold). It's a great 3 in 1 kit, but they are still 1 model box.

I think the other problem is that visually Sisters of Silence would just be "female Custodes" or "Gold Sisters of Battle". So they are kinda an army that's copy-catting two others at once.

I think they either need wrapping into another force or GW has to go and do a massive make-over for them; with the risk that its yet another space marine army.

They were a fluffy 30K unit orphaned in 40K and won’t get support.

Well, they are already stuffed into the Adepta Astra Telepathica, and with that symbol being thrown out every trailer you’d think there’d be something. Especially with this trailer being ‘the Psykers are coming, reee’

Fold them into Custodes, hey presto Talons of the Emperor are back.

Problem solved.

Sterling191 wrote:
Fold them into Custodes, hey presto Talons of the Emperor are back.

Problem solved.

Solves two problems at once - since that also answers the "What new stuff do Custodes get from Psychic Awakening?" question.

 Crazyterran wrote:
Well, they are already stuffed into the Adepta Astra Telepathica, and with that symbol being thrown out every trailer you’d think there’d be something. Especially with this trailer being ‘the Psykers are coming, reee’

Given that the Telepathica is where the Black Ships fall under, it kinda makes a hell of a lot more sense for the Sisters of Silence to be there than your "stuffed into" suggests.

 Eldarsif wrote:

 Latro_ wrote:
Was thinking after a second look at shrike if you took him out of time and posted him on this forum 5-6 years ago before primaris etc i'm pretty sure the reaction would be.

And on another note i might buy one for the head to make the lesser know warmaster EMODDON.

Cut my Emperor into pieces, this is my last heresy. Suffocating, no breathing. Don't give a damn if I cut my dad, bleeding.

You get to join the black parade, i mean crusade

So Necrons are getting something for the new psy campaign.

Anyone else hoping its the triumphant return of the Pariah?

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Or like, several dollars, as is GW's wont.

 BrotherGecko wrote:
So Necrons are getting something for the new psy campaign.

Anyone else hoping its the triumphant return of the Pariah?

Sorry, but it's going to be the Blackstone Pylons...



That comment is only partially in jest. Psychic Awakening seems to tie in to the Belisarius Cawl novel we saw previewed at the Black Library Open Day, and Cawl has made getting his hands on as much Blackstone as possible a priority. He's got a frigging intact Cadian Pylon to study!

I'm hoping that Necrons see Pariahs and Pylons show up. Just like I'm hoping AdMech brings in the Skitarii Primus...

 BrotherGecko wrote:
So Necrons are getting something for the new psy campaign.

Anyone else hoping its the triumphant return of the Pariah?

I wish, but I am more than a little worried that we get some silly data-sheet, or formation, or whatever they call those sorts of things nowadays...

Or, just some Relics/Strategems that can allow a character to have some anti-Psychic abilities.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They need a reason for existing Eldar players to buy new Aspects. Giving them new weapons they couldn't get before is a perfect reason. Worked with Death Guard. Hell, go back far enough and you'll see it working with things like the current Stealth Suits. Had to give 'em a Fusion Gun otherwise Tau players would stick with the Stealth Suits they already owned.

My thoughs exactly. Just the exact replica of an existing model is far from GWs MO, they usually ad a new gimmick weapon to make sure you update your models. The lack of flimsy might be the result of them dualkiting it with a brand new unit -and why not an ynnari equivalent of aspects, forsaking Khaine for the death god in a baroqe mirror of the original aspect.
Dramaturgically speaking it feel like something GW could have been holding back updating aspectwarriors for this long.
Pure speculation ofcourse, but it just seems strange we wait all this time and get the exact same model, basically.

I like the new Shrike model even though I'm a Tau player, although maybe it's because the armour evokes some battlesuit/anime mecha imagery.

It could also be that I enjoyed Panic at the Disco's "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" album back in the day even though I prefer EDM.

I reckon it will be an announcement that 30k is going to be set up as its own studio, and new and updated normal sized FW models and vehicles will be produced in plastic going forward.

The amount of handwringing here over Shrike having some bangs is hilarious. The model is going to look nice in person. Huge improvement over the existing version.

 gorgon wrote:
The amount of handwringing here over Shrike having some bangs is hilarious. The model is going to look nice in person. Huge improvement over the existing version.

The best part is that if people saw the art of Shrike unhelmeted before? Yeah...that was some edgelord crap.

By the way, dont Ossiarch Bonereapers mean Bony Bonereapers, more or less
Yup, this is GW

robbienw wrote:
I reckon it will be an announcement that 30k is going to be set up as its own studio, and new and updated normal sized FW models and vehicles will be produced in plastic going forward.

I think you need to be prepared for disappointment, LOL.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the "Welcome to the Black Crusade" memes.

robbienw wrote:
I reckon it will be an announcement that 30k is going to be set up as its own studio, and new and updated normal sized FW models and vehicles will be produced in plastic going forward.

Nah. 30K ran its course and peaked quite a while back. Black Library is wrapping it up with 3rd tier authors and the Nolan Fanboy edge-lord "we-take-40K-super-super-serious-and-only-want-desaturated-colours-and-no-humour" crowd has luckily faded a bit these days, allowing GW to get back to some classic 40K fun (outside of a 2014ish design-leftover failures like like Adeptus Titanicus).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They need a reason for existing Eldar players to buy new Aspects. Giving them new weapons they couldn't get before is a perfect reason. Worked with Death Guard. Hell, go back far enough and you'll see it working with things like the current Stealth Suits. Had to give 'em a Fusion Gun otherwise Tau players would stick with the Stealth Suits they already owned.

Don't forget the dreaded "Duel Kit". "Here's Howling Banshees which also happen to make these brand new aspect called Bowling Handees which are so super cool and awesome that your army can't do without!"

 zedmeister wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They need a reason for existing Eldar players to buy new Aspects. Giving them new weapons they couldn't get before is a perfect reason. Worked with Death Guard. Hell, go back far enough and you'll see it working with things like the current Stealth Suits. Had to give 'em a Fusion Gun otherwise Tau players would stick with the Stealth Suits they already owned.

Don't forget the dreaded "Duel Kit". "Here's Howling Banshees which also happen to make these brand new aspect called Bowling Handees which are so super cool and awesome that your army can't do without!"

I absolutely expect every plastic Aspect to come with a new weapon loadout.