StudentOfEtherium wrote: Kanluwen wrote: tauist wrote:Aand its gone. Sold out in under an hour. And no doubt the vast majority of people only bought the box for the minis for their
40K armies
Gee, almost like that's what the teams effectively were?
This whole season has been very lackluster. A big chunk of the revealed Kill Teams have just been units getting resculpts(Scorpions, Scouts, Mandrakes) or units getting upgrade frames(Night Lords and Brood Brothers). The only "new" has been the League of Votaan
KT coming with Brood Brothers.
upgrade sprues are nothing new for kill team. every vs box for kill team to date has been a new kit vs an old kit with an upgrade sprue. legionaries, pathfinders, hierotek circle, the first votann kill team, and so on
Please read what I wrote, not what you thought I wrote:
This season's lackluster, not because of upgrade frames but because of the fact that out of the 6 revealed Kill Teams only one has actually been something
new.
Bheta-Decima:
-Salvation featured Scouts(new sculpts with gubbins on the sprue) vs Striking Scorpions(new sculpts; 1/3 units available for the
KT)
-Nightmare is Mandrakes(new sculpts with gubbins on the sprue) vs Night Lords(unit with upgrade frames)
-Termination features Mandrakes(Cadians with upgrade frame & repacked characters; lazy compared to the Blooded
KT) vs Hernkyn Yaegirs(new unit with gubbins built into the sprue).
Compare that to the Gallowdark season:
-Opened with Kroot Farstalkers v Breachers(both new)
-Moved to Shadowvaults with Hierotek Circle(upgrade frame+repacked character) v Kasrkin(new/returning unit)
-Moved to Soulshacke with Hand of the Archon(upgrade frame) v Arbites(new/returning unit)
-Ended with Gallowfall, featuring Fellgor Ravagers(new unit) v Hearthkyn Salvagers(unit with upgrade frame).
Gallowdark and Bheta-Decima were separated with "Ashes of Faith", a narrative Kill Team set which was just a repackage of a ton of products plus a single Inquisitorial warband that seemed to be just trainee sculpts released.
First season of KT2021?
-Octarius was "Veteran Guardsmen"(new
DKoK models, but the ultimate generic
KT name; unit with an included upgrade frame) v Ork Kommandos to start things off
-Chalnath was the Novitiates(a new unit with an upgrade frame built-in) v Pathfinders with an upgrade frame
-Nachmund Gauntlet was Corsairs(new unit; designed around being a
KT and a unit) v
CSM Legionaries with an upgrade frame(which really wasn't, because it featured an option that was in the unit profile from the codex to begin with)
-Moroch ended out the first season with the Traitor Guard "Blooded"(all new unit designed around being a
KT, including a Blackstone Fortress character pack repurposed) vs Phobos Marines with an upgrade frame.
We're literally on an Adeptus Mechanicus research world, and not a single AdMech bit(a faction that would have been a perfect opportunity for an upgrade frame ala the Pathfinders to address weapons being 1 per sprue, for example) has been showcased. Instead we weirdly got Space Marine Scouts as "guards" for an AdMech facility that had an Aeldari prisoner?