In case you missed new Kill Team stream,
GW presenters said that Kill Team compatible troop boxes will have parts to indicate various specialists in the game. They shown new upgrade sprue for Krieg with stuff like prayer book + beads for zealot, mace for melee fighter, etc.
Of course, my first thought at seeing this was thinking to
the two units Primaris would be using in Kill Team - Reivers and Infiltrators. Both have big problems, lack of any melee weapons among them being one of the first given both units want to walk up close. What would
GW put on similar upgrade sprue? Why, melee weapons for all the
CC specialists, of course. The thing is, giving the squad option to take one would be trivial years ago seeing they made all
SM arms compatible so there was nothing stopping them from giving both units said option in the two
SM codex books we had since... Unless said upgrade rules were held back for the time both units got
KT upgrade sprues
Or take new
CSM squad. Players complain it's missing weapons... Then
GW turns up with upgrade sprue filling the gap, and maybe say 'pocket medic' parts for 'heretic not-apothecary candidate' that will greatly increase their competitiveness in
40K. Rinse and repeat for every troop unit with 'problems'
GW failed to fix in the last few years because they were waiting for
KT bits. Is that too cynical thinking or something
GW would actually do?