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 Flinty wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Anyone know what the free GW store mini or coin are for next month ?

Fire dragon, Eldar and Gottek

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/jaoqg3v6/heat-things-up-this-month-with-a-fire-dragon-and-two-coins/

Thanks. I look for stuff on that website, but I just can't find what I want. But if I try here, sometimes I find you get what you need.

There goes my plan to fill out my Heresy EC's tacticals and get some sabres if they are that huge...

They had to ditch all of their Predators because they're too tall to fit inside them.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
i assume the priests are for SoB. religious-themed units have always been their purview, regardless of gender

the Khorne unit is fantastic. wonder what role it's going to serve in the army. gorgeous models, really showing tactical rocks at their finest

They're described as 'militiamen', so the Frateris are back!!!

Don't know why there are two missionaries there, though; the current KT setting is a clearly Imperial world, so I don't know why they'd be there.

maybe the people on that world have the wrong kind of emperor worship. it's not like missionaries don't try to convert people of the same religion but different denominations in the real world

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Anyone know what the free GW store mini or coin are for next month ?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I should probably do a little research

Seems an apt quote to keep to hand, especially when the article in question was from as far back as... Monday.

 Dysartes wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Anyone know what the free GW store mini or coin are for next month ?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I should probably do a little research

Seems an apt quote to keep to hand, especially when the article in question was from as far back as... Monday.

I'm working from a mobile, internet navigation isn't the easiest.

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
i assume the priests are for SoB. religious-themed units have always been their purview, regardless of gender

the Khorne unit is fantastic. wonder what role it's going to serve in the army. gorgeous models, really showing tactical rocks at their finest

They're described as 'militiamen', so the Frateris are back!!!

Don't know why there are two missionaries there, though; the current KT setting is a clearly Imperial world, so I don't know why they'd be there.

maybe the people on that world have the wrong kind of emperor worship. it's not like missionaries don't try to convert people of the same religion but different denominations in the real world

That's what the Confessors are for, loud and bombastically getting people to Do Things Properly. The missionaries are the ones that spend decades in deep-cover amongst newly-rediscovered cultures, nudging their native religions to being focussed around the Emperor.

Does remind me of that old Gav Thorpe short story though, where a preacher who's part of a sect out of favour gets punished by being sent to tend to a run-down parish in the mutant part of town.

Here's that short story, if anyone's curious. Its a rare story where an Imperial Priest actually shows compassion to mutants

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Wrong thread, ced?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Anyone know what the free GW store mini or coin are for next month ?

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
I should probably do a little research

Seems an apt quote to keep to hand, especially when the article in question was from as far back as... Monday.

I'm working from a mobile, internet navigation isn't the easiest.

But but but... how can that be? GW just spent gazillions on a new website streamlined for mobile use!

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
i assume the priests are for SoB. religious-themed units have always been their purview, regardless of gender

the Khorne unit is fantastic. wonder what role it's going to serve in the army. gorgeous models, really showing tactical rocks at their finest

They're described as 'militiamen', so the Frateris are back!!!

Don't know why there are two missionaries there, though; the current KT setting is a clearly Imperial world, so I don't know why they'd be there.

maybe the people on that world have the wrong kind of emperor worship. it's not like missionaries don't try to convert people of the same religion but different denominations in the real world

That's what the Confessors are for, loud and bombastically getting people to Do Things Properly. The missionaries are the ones that spend decades in deep-cover amongst newly-rediscovered cultures, nudging their native religions to being focussed around the Emperor.

Does remind me of that old Gav Thorpe short story though, where a preacher who's part of a sect out of favour gets punished by being sent to tend to a run-down parish in the mutant part of town.

I don't want to say you're overthinking it, but between Arbites showing up on a space hulk and recent blatant 40k updates released as Kill Teams I suspect the priesthood is just a convenient way to update the part of the Sisters codex that didn't get any model love during their codex releases.

If the missionaries' presence is explained at all, it'll be some excuse like their departure was interrupted by enemy activity and they volunteered or got volunteered to take care of that problem before they can go back to their actual mission.

 stahly wrote:
Here comes my review and unboxing of the Emperor's Children army set, inc. high-res sprue images and a scale comparison of the new Tormenters/Infractors: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/03/review-emperors-children-champions-of-slaanesh-army-set/

Emperor's Children are huge! About the same eye level as Primaris, but with less bulky armour. Much bigger than Heresy Marines.

Thank you, excellent review as always. And I knew they were bigger, but that side-by-side is very helpful. I really like the size, it is nice to have CSM that are properly tall. It is just unfortunate and bizarre, that the did not make the other relatively new CSM and HH marines in this size as well.

 Crimson wrote:

 stahly wrote:
Here comes my review and unboxing of the Emperor's Children army set, inc. high-res sprue images and a scale comparison of the new Tormenters/Infractors: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/03/review-emperors-children-champions-of-slaanesh-army-set/

Emperor's Children are huge! About the same eye level as Primaris, but with less bulky armour. Much bigger than Heresy Marines.

Thank you, excellent review as always. And I knew they were bigger, but that side-by-side is very helpful. I really like the size, it is nice to have CSM that are properly tall. It is just unfortunate and bizarre, that the did not make the other relatively new CSM and HH marines in this size as well.

Newer Chaos Marines and HH Marines are already upscaled. How big do you want Marines to get?

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Crimson wrote:

 stahly wrote:
Here comes my review and unboxing of the Emperor's Children army set, inc. high-res sprue images and a scale comparison of the new Tormenters/Infractors: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/03/review-emperors-children-champions-of-slaanesh-army-set/

Emperor's Children are huge! About the same eye level as Primaris, but with less bulky armour. Much bigger than Heresy Marines.

Thank you, excellent review as always. And I knew they were bigger, but that side-by-side is very helpful. I really like the size, it is nice to have CSM that are properly tall. It is just unfortunate and bizarre, that the did not make the other relatively new CSM and HH marines in this size as well.

Newer Chaos Marines and HH Marines are already upscaled. How big do you want Marines to get?

Primaris-sized. Look at the picture in Stahly's review. The new EC are as tall as the Primaris.

But Primaris are supposed to be a head taller than firstborn, so then they'd be too small again.

 Crimson wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 Crimson wrote:

 stahly wrote:
Here comes my review and unboxing of the Emperor's Children army set, inc. high-res sprue images and a scale comparison of the new Tormenters/Infractors: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/03/review-emperors-children-champions-of-slaanesh-army-set/

Emperor's Children are huge! About the same eye level as Primaris, but with less bulky armour. Much bigger than Heresy Marines.

Thank you, excellent review as always. And I knew they were bigger, but that side-by-side is very helpful. I really like the size, it is nice to have CSM that are properly tall. It is just unfortunate and bizarre, that the did not make the other relatively new CSM and HH marines in this size as well.

Newer Chaos Marines and HH Marines are already upscaled. How big do you want Marines to get?

Primaris-sized. Look at the picture in Stahly's review. The new EC are as tall as the Primaris.

Tbh it makes sense for the slaaneshii followers to be a bit longer and lithe but thinner. I don't expect any none primaris to be as tall as a primaris, so this is borderline weird.

How do they compare to death guard and world eaters sculpts (purposefully excluding TSons as they are older smaller sculpts except the infernal master who is a giant)

 Lord Damocles wrote:
But Primaris are supposed to be a head taller than firstborn, so then they'd be too small again.

Pretty sure you can just hand-wave it away with, "Chaos makes them bigger."

 Lord Damocles wrote:
But Primaris are supposed to be a head taller than firstborn, so then they'd be too small again.

Primaris models are scaled to be about seven feet tall compared to GW's normal humans. So that's the proper marine size. Yes, if we assume primaris to be even taller, then the models are too small, but we can just forget about whole primarias thing and marines are just marines.

 BorderCountess wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:
But Primaris are supposed to be a head taller than firstborn, so then they'd be too small again.

Pretty sure you can just hand-wave it away with, "Chaos makes them bigger."

Yeah, that’s probably what happened to Asurmen as well.

No 40k stuff on the list to go on pre-order next week, but the WD mini-preview in there does mention a Harlequin Combat Patrol will be in the next issue.

First Knights and now Harlequins? Is GW feeling alright?

SamusDrake wrote:
First Knights and now Harlequins? Is GW feeling alright?

They are making me want to renew my lapsed WD subscription.

First look at the new Harlequins Combat Patrol, called the Twilight Cavalcade...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/6mtwb9vh/white-dwarf-510-go-behind-the-scenes-with-the-middle-earth-strategy-battle-gametm/

...and here's the rough list...

1x Shadowseer
1x Troupe Master
6x Players
6x Players
1x Voidweaver
2x Skyweavers

chaos0xomega wrote:
How do they compare to death guard and world eaters sculpts (purposefully excluding TSons as they are older smaller sculpts except the infernal master who is a giant)

Rubric marines are in the current scale AFAIK.

https://imgur.com/a/marine-sizes-gp2vhIx

That's a link that I found just now

I believe that the rubric troops are the first, or one of the first, of the newer scale models. Who knows if they'll get even further embiggened in the future though.

Yeah, the whole resculpt era really starts in 7th edition. Everything released late in that edition had an eye towards the Primaris relaunch.

The Black Adder wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
How do they compare to death guard and world eaters sculpts (purposefully excluding TSons as they are older smaller sculpts except the infernal master who is a giant)

Rubric marines are in the current scale AFAIK.

https://imgur.com/a/marine-sizes-gp2vhIx

That's a link that I found just now

I believe that the rubric troops are the first, or one of the first, of the newer scale models. Who knows if they'll get even further embiggened in the future though.

I think Deathwatch in 7th were the first and TS followed... but could be the other way around

Anyone know what this is going to be?

A new way of playing Warhammer 40,000 is introduced with the first Aspects of War ruleset – Exigency Stratagems are an escalating series of abilities that add high-stakes tactical twists at critical junctures.

Sounds like Tactical Objectives DLC.

Sgt. Cortez wrote:
tI think Deathwatch in 7th were the first and TS followed... but could be the other way around

I'm fairly certain DW were first, but they're also more compatible scale wise with first born than Primaris (though still larger than Firstborn)