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Here is my unboxing & review of the new Astra Militarum army set, incl. high-res sprue pics of all pics, a size comparison of the new Cadians with Kasrkin, Death Korps and various other human and Space Marine models, and a flick-through the new book (and confirmation of most of the leaked content):
I bought one Cadia stands box, just gonna wait on the Combat Patrol and roll the dice on the chance that it doesn't contain garbage. Website loaded fine, doesn't seem to be a huge queue on this right now but I'm still expecting it to sell out by day's end (maybe earlier!).
Automatically Appended Next Post: Are all the heads that size though? I did notice that peahead in the publicity pics and decided I wouldn't be using that one but there seems to be some variance from what I saw (I'll have to go back and check now I suppose). Thx for the pics as always stahly.
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stahly wrote: Here is my unboxing & review of the new Astra Militarum army set, incl. high-res sprue pics of all pics, a size comparison of the new Cadians with Kasrkin, Death Korps and various other human and Space Marine models, and a flick-through the new book (and confirmation of most of the leaked content):
I imagine it's an artistic choice? Whatever, I'm happy to see it, I like to have my marines tower over my baseline guys. Here's what I mean about variance in the heads, looks like that slightly squished head might be atypical (or the face at least)
That particular head is kinda androgynous imo, there's a couple of more obviously female heads (from what I remember) but that one could pass for either male or female, but yeah I suppose your theory could explain it and in turn confirm that head as female.
stahly wrote: Here is my unboxing & review of the new Astra Militarum army set, incl. high-res sprue pics of all pics, a size comparison of the new Cadians with Kasrkin, Death Korps and various other human and Space Marine models, and a flick-through the new book (and confirmation of most of the leaked content):
GW needs a new model design team, everything has a soft video game aesthetic. It's obvious their artists come from a background of anime and video games. Nothing feels 40k anymore. Chaos/Orcs were particularly cartoonish.
The old guardsmen are better in every way, the only problem with them are the dwarf-like proportions. What's going on with the pants and horrible kneepads? It looks like someone forgot to sculpt kneepad details then slapped some on last minute.
Maybe their best sculptors are all working on the old world?!
Old World Prediction: The Empire will have stupid Clockwork Paragon Warsuits and Mecha Horses
stahly wrote: Here is my unboxing & review of the new Astra Militarum army set, incl. high-res sprue pics of all pics, a size comparison of the new Cadians with Kasrkin, Death Korps and various other human and Space Marine models, and a flick-through the new book (and confirmation of most of the leaked content):
Could you do me a huge favour and post a good quality close up photo/scan of a codex picture showing the shock troop models with the gasmask heads?
Can't really find one, as the Cadian Shock Troops sprue doesn't have gasmasks at all, there are only two gas mask heads on the Command Squad Sprue, probably for the two flamers.
Can't really find one, as the Cadian Shock Troops sprue doesn't have gasmasks at all, there are only two gas mask heads on the Command Squad Sprue, probably for the two flamers.
Yes, I know the sprue doesn't have them, but some of the codex pics show bits that are not on the sprue, like the gasmasks and the belt fed autogun. The last pic of your article shows them, but there is some glare and it is rather zoomed out.
Reviews are up, anybody found a good review that covers close up looks at the pages? So far only found either people reading from the book zoomed out, or heads on screens.
I have mixed feelings about the newer "true" scale that GW are doing these days. Sure, the proportions are far more realistic, but painting heads is becoming very difficult. It's like GW forgot the reason that Heroic scale existed.
I noticed it very much on the Sisters refresh and now Cadians. I'm glad that I have plenty of alternative heads, put it that way.
Scottywan82 wrote: Weird. So the Cadian Shock Troops unit entry says they can have the same special weapon twice. I thought that wasn't allowed.
It is super weirdly worded. It says up to two can replace, and then redundantly adds that you cannot take the same weapon more than twice...
Agreed. And the DKoK unit entry is even weirder. It includes 1 Sgt, 8 Troopers, and 1 Plasma as standard, plus up to two flamer/sniper/melta/GL, and also has the no more than 2 per unit note.
Found a few models not seen before on Warhammer community in the new dex.
New Aegis Defence line, a few additional bitz that aren't on the Infantry or Command Squad sprue in the box, and two unseen head options for the new Cadian Castellan:
Is there anything in the fluff that tries to explain why Kasrkin are that much bigger?
Back in the day... the biggest strongest dudes would get the job of lobbing grenades (big lead balls loaded with gun powder) and were called grenadiers. Over time grenade lobbing disappeared as a specialist and grenadiers became elite squads of the biggest and the strongest.
I would imagine that in the Grim Dark the biggest and strongest get injected or implanted to make them biggester strongester and become Kasrkin.
If would be hysterical to use Necromunda Goliaths as your Kasrkin.
stahly wrote: Found a few models not seen before on Warhammer community in the new dex.
New Aegis Defence line, a few additional bitz that aren't on the Infantry or Command Squad sprue in the box, and two unseen head options for the new Cadian Castellan:
diepotato47 wrote: Reviews are up, anybody found a good review that covers close up looks at the pages? So far only found either people reading from the book zoomed out, or heads on screens.
Spoiler:
Ash from GMG usually does a good job for that, I feel.
Undead_Love-Machine wrote: I have mixed feelings about the newer "true" scale that GW are doing these days. Sure, the proportions are far more realistic, but painting heads is becoming very difficult. It's like GW forgot the reason that Heroic scale existed.
I noticed it very much on the Sisters refresh and now Cadians. I'm glad that I have plenty of alternative heads, put it that way.
I'm in the boat of thinking GW went way overboard with "heroic scale", the old Cadians looked too much like children.
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