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New Exemplary Battles article - Iron Hands vs. Blood Angels, each getting new units.

News on next season of these articles, too.

Bit underwhelmed by the BA tbh, not sure we needed another jump pack squad who are made from the Sanguinary Guard kit. Not sure they add much tactically or aesthetically, but oh well

These are both mostly sidegrades with some added lore flavor, which I guess is what all Examplary Battles should be.

Never been a fan of the Sang Guard kit (aside from the HH era plastic jump packs). Even this will not get me to like them.

When it comes to "blinged out BA", I much prefer FW kits. GW's plastics get Flanderisque quick at times whenever they're depicting "special"

I wonder if that's the suitable break point where they'll stick the Exemplary Battles stuff in a book.

I do think it remains weird that Deamons/Cultists aren't getting their own book.

I don't know about a book, but a combined "Exemplary Battles Season One" PDF would certainly be an idea.

Exemplary battles are cool...but where the feth are ruinstorm + C&M????

Dread Master wrote:
A lot of the bad will GW faces comes from their arbitrary pricing. And it definitely abuses its largely price immune customer base. It would go a long way for them in the future were they to conform their prices to the exchange rate.

There is no reason for them to do so. They know people are crazy enough to pay any price and too addicted to stop buying their products or boycott them. So they bank on that and the fact that in their mind 3d printing is make believe, and there is no other worthy opponents out there... but then again you got companies like Atomic Mass Games pulling people toward them more often. And companies out there like Modiphus who make better games with solid rule sets.

They spend more time hunting the little guys out there filling the gaps they leave, then proof reading their codexes and rule books they endlessly put out.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/01/19/heresy-thursday-sky-hunter-squadrons-swoop-in-to-provide-supporting-fire/

Jetbikes today
Interesting that they changed the Plasma design

Obligatory 'Valrak was right again' is obligatory.

Alright, so we've had plastic vehicles for a while, and now we've got plastic infantry on a plastic vehicle.

So maybe more plastic infantry soon?

Also interesting that these guys don't have the infantry's toes molded onto their feet.

Really nice. It's an interesting choice to use MkVI armour for the riders. It was to be expected from the silhouettes they teased, and I love MkVI and get they're the current poster boys, but an older mark might have made the kit more appealing to people who collect early Heresy themed armies.

New flight stem.

I’ll take three. Vroom!

Tsagualsa wrote:
Obligatory 'Valrak was right again' is obligatory.

Honest question, but was it before the silhouette was shown on WarCom? Because it wasn't really in doubt after that.

Yes it was.

 stahly wrote:
Really nice. It's an interesting choice to use MkVI armour for the riders. It was to be expected from the silhouettes they teased, and I love MkVI and get they're the current poster boys, but an older mark might have made the kit more appealing to people who collect early Heresy themed armies.

Do they have some sort of additional armoured greave bolted to their lower legs, or is that just an effect of the angle of the shots?

Tsagualsa wrote:

 stahly wrote:
Really nice. It's an interesting choice to use MkVI armour for the riders. It was to be expected from the silhouettes they teased, and I love MkVI and get they're the current poster boys, but an older mark might have made the kit more appealing to people who collect early Heresy themed armies.

Do they have some sort of additional armoured greave bolted to their lower legs, or is that just an effect of the angle of the shots?

They definitely do. MK VI infantry don't have that circular imprint on their legs, the knee part looks higher, and there seems to be some pattern on the inside of the leg.

 infinite_array wrote:
Alright, so we've had plastic vehicles for a while, and now we've got plastic infantry on a plastic vehicle.

So maybe more plastic infantry soon?

Also interesting that these guys don't have the infantry's toes molded onto their feet.

Why would you want more infantry? Everyone wore mk6 for the entirety of the heresy. If you think otherwise you're just taking this toy soldier thing too seriously.

JSG wrote:

 infinite_array wrote:
Alright, so we've had plastic vehicles for a while, and now we've got plastic infantry on a plastic vehicle.

So maybe more plastic infantry soon?

Also interesting that these guys don't have the infantry's toes molded onto their feet.

Why would you want more infantry? Everyone wore mk6 for the entirety of the heresy. If you think otherwise you're just taking this toy soldier thing too seriously.

Assault based infantry.

Nice!

Is that a mold line I see running down that Marine's leg? tsk tsk

Those bulbs on the legplates are a variant from one of the plates in the MKVI kit, which has similar looking bulbs on the backside of the legs

Anyways, we are getting a MKVI torso to use for all our mounted vehicle kitbashes (HQs on jetbikes anyone?), as well as some pistol & chainsword arms, both very welcome! The jetbikes themselves don't fancy me, but I know many legions are all about them so it's all good

It shouldn’t bug me, but why don’t these have toes? I guess the mk6 praetors don’t either but I like consistency:(

 tauist wrote:
Nice!

Is that a mold line I see running down that Marine's leg? tsk tsk

I’m not sure it is, because it’s so pronounced. I’m thinking it might be an extra level of armour bolted on?

Generic Praetors no, but the newish EC Praetor has them.. I dont mind either way, but having the option for both flavours (cameltoe or plain) would be preferable

Nice, looks like the bike is the same size and the rider is bigger (head reaches past the rear cowling). Maaaybe the foot rest was moved down a smidgen.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

JSG wrote:

 infinite_array wrote:
Alright, so we've had plastic vehicles for a while, and now we've got plastic infantry on a plastic vehicle.

So maybe more plastic infantry soon?

Also interesting that these guys don't have the infantry's toes molded onto their feet.

Why would you want more infantry? Everyone wore mk6 for the entirety of the heresy. If you think otherwise you're just taking this toy soldier thing too seriously.

Assault based infantry.

Oh you mean a mk6 upgrade sprue.

Eh... kind of don't like them. Its mostly the riders, but there's no sense of motion or force- they're just sitting upright as if they're on a sawhorse, and the two brandishing weapons are definitely doing it wrong- they're entirely breaking the illusion that they're on a sleek, fast platform.


Absolutely hate the flight stems. That big chonk of cloudy plastic isn't even trying to feed the illusion that these things are flying.

Voss wrote:
Eh... kind of don't like them. Its mostly the riders, but there's no sense of motion or force- they're just sitting upright as if they're on a sawhorse, and the two brandishing weapons are definitely doing it wrong- they're entirely breaking the illusion that they're on a sleek, fast platform.


Absolutely hate the flight stems. That big chonk of cloudy plastic isn't even trying to feed the illusion that these things are flying.

I guess the alternate flightstand market will sooner or later be served by one of these kickstarter-based printing firms that does 'special effects' like muzzle flashes and explosions in clear materials. You could probably make some very dynamic flightstands in the form of e.g. swirls of smoke or whipped-up debris.

GW hasn't made a mini with a sense of motion in 15 years so that's a weird complaint.

I mean I like that bike design and they're a good implementation of it.

I do agree a bit that the arms holding weapons are not posed very interestingly - it would be better if they were aiming them in a swiping motion down really, it would make them feel more dynamic and, well, they would generally be chopping underneath them in practice.