The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Elbows]

Thus far, all of the Killteam "special" units have come out in their own box later - I believe?  I picked up the Corsairs (read: Eldar Pirates) in their own box recently.

For non-40K game stuff both the Kroot and breachers appeal to me for 40K adjacent gaming.

[beefcake]

Right GW, bring out the Vespid Stingwings next please.

[YPU]

Right GW, bring out the Vespid Stingwings next please.

As much as I'm a kroot fan, I'd love to see the vespid get some attention as well!

[YPU]

Looking at this tweet, the kroots do come with other weapon options that i might prefer. https://twitter.com/VincentKnotley/status/1565989637205680130?t=Z047g-f-gz-XC-7Wjc_DCw&s=19

[Lost Egg]

They look better to me, thanks for sharing.

[zemjw]

Yeah, much better options. Not enough to make me spend £130(*) on it, but it does make buying the box set when it comes out on its own pretty much a sure thing.

(*) I'd thought it was much more expensive than Octarius, but looking back, it's only £5 more. Still not buying it, but not as big a jump as I'd thought.

And yes, I know there's Wayland, but there's more than enough in the paint queue just now. I've only just started the Orks from the Octarius box set I bought in August 2021

[manic _miner]

 The Kroot are really nice figures.

 Dark Sphere games have the set for £97.50.Still quite high but way better than paying £130 for it.

[eilif]

For those wanting a fluff download, Humble Bundle is offering a Rogue Trader and Deathwatch RPG bundle.
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Just purchased it myself.  Hoping there will be some fodder and hooks for small-scope skirmishes, but even if not, I'm quite interested in the Rogue Trader fluff.

[Belligerentparrot]

New Cadian plastics. These have been sooooo long in coming I'm actually not sure what I make of them. But they're certainly competently done and a big improvement on what has gone before!


My lukewarm reaction might just be that they now look so military they won't be great base models for other kitbashes. Some nice looking plastic Kasrkin or whatever they're called coming in Kill Team too.

[Terry Deathstrike]

According to the article, the new codex will encourage mixed regiments, including the old catachans.

It would certainly make for an amusing sight seeing the two side by side 

[Elbows]

Cadia has always been the absolute most boring/lethargic/uninspiring "Guard" pattern, so...even revising an old range, it just leaves me absolutely cold. 

[Mammoth miniatures]

I prefer them to the old ones, But I really just want some new plastic catachans.
These new cadians certainly seem to have more human proportions which I like, But GW are so committed to everything being chunky that the figures are now approaching 40mm to account for that - So either these will be very small to make them human sized next to a marine, or we'll have gone full circle and have marines and guardsman being the same size again.

[Codsticker]

These look really nice but I have no desire to buy more IG/AM/WTFE and I suspect you are right:

... or we'll have gone full circle and have marines and guardsman being the same size again.

[Andrew Rae]

I'll never understand how the 2003 plastic Cadians get so much stick. Brian Nelson pretty much nailed the brief - chunky toy soldiers with coherent proportions (very much *not* an attempt at human proportions). Ok maybe the heads and helmets are too big compared to the rest of the figure, but that's probably easily done when you're sculpting 3-ups rather than something at scale and you're trying to compensate.

But these new ones... I just don't get it. Something has gone very wrong with GW's 'standard' human dolly. The proportions are so out of whack with what I'd expect of GW figures. They just don't make any internal logic. There's no style - they're being pulled in too many directions, small heads and yet big, chunky details, heroic scale yet not. They're so basic, so every-GW-knockoff-stl-download-ever and just... off.

But what do I know, I like the 2003 cadians.

[Belligerentparrot]

Something has gone very wrong with GW's 'standard' human dolly. The proportions are so out of whack with what I'd expect of GW figures. They just don't make any internal logic. There's no style - they're being pulled in too many directions, small heads and yet big, chunky details, heroic scale yet not.

Last week I made the (very exciting, to me) discovery that the new Traitor Guard heads fit perfectly for headswaps with the old late-80s Confrontation gangers. I hope that example speaks to your point because they really shouldn't fit. Those first Confrontation gangers were small, and with much more emphasis on correct proportions, as compared to everything else in the RT ranges: they're really unusual in that way. And as everyone knows, GW minis have progressively got larger since then. So how does a 1989 GW mini and a 2022 GW mini have the same size head, especially when the 1989 one does not even have the standard 1989 outsize proportions?

I wonder if the Cadians suffer especially badly with respect to your point though. The "standard" human dolly works alright to my untrained eye for the standard humans: the Underhive scum for example, or the latest traitor guard. But the Cadians are supposed to be ordinary humans and well-equipped body-armoured "future colonial marine" types all at the same time, aren't they? I imagine if they redo the Catachans it may be less of a problem, because if everyone has to look like John Matrix some of those different directions you mention won't apply. Or do you think it is a problem across the board?