The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Lost Egg]

That's actually an amazing idea! I found them rather "blah", but making them into Exodites actually has me interested in them now... Hmm, dangerous.

  Sorry. It's a shame they haven't done new shining spears too for the lances...

[Major_Gilbear]

Sorry. It's a shame they haven't done new shining spears too for the lances...

Well, the new rifles don't look like the old 2E needle rifles, and the lances were supposed to be laser-lances, so... Might not be too hard to pull off with some spare (2E) plastic Eldar arms, and converting the rifles into lances.

Hmm, I may need to make this happen. So I'll need a box of Dark Elf Cold One Knights too I suppose... Hmm again! 

[Lost Egg]

Good luck sir! If I didn't have more than enough to be getting on with I'd join you.

[3Fingers2]

I quite  like the look of the space wood elves .

[Blackwolf]

They do look good!
I recently bought the two flying dragons,lovely kits though pricey. Best dragons GW has done since the early days.

[Duncan McDane]

Just in case anyone is interested I managed to get my hands on a box of the outcast gang and think they are great little minis. I've converted some to use them in my IG army.

Cool conversions!

[Belligerentparrot]

New "Seasons" idea for 40K looks interesting. If I understand it, it is quarterly (?) tweaks to various forces, tied to developments in the fictional narrative.

On the plus side, that is a more creative and immersive version of "keep buying our stuff" than just redoing the codexes endlessly. On the minus side, it is still "you need to keep buying stuff to keep up".

I wonder if this is GW trying to emulate the card set cycles of Magic the Gathering's endless buy-in. Doesn't look as effective a strategy if it is.

[Lost Egg]

I like this idea in that release waves will presumably be themed, e.g. this series of battles take place in dense jungle so everyone gets a scouting type unit.

Do 40k units come with rules in them? If so then presumably you wouldn't have to buy the season books?

[beefcake]

If so then presumably you wouldn't have to buy the season books?

This is GW, more likely there will be 2 season books 

[Elbows]

This is GW, more likely there will be 2 season books 

"Did we say seasons?  We meant months..."

[Lost Egg]

So GW have put the new Ork Boyz box up for pre-order...

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/ork-boyz-combat-patrol-2022

£29 for 10 minis (9 boyz and a nob) but you can only build 3 shoota boyz and 5 with sluggas & choppaz plus one big shoota or rokkit launcha.

For a new kit that sounds really limiting.

[Elbows]

That's on par with their recent kits for stuff like Chaos.  Fortunately the 3D print market can more or less make up for that (with bits and/or whole models).

[beefcake]

I bought my son a deathguard combat patrol for xmas (which he was excited about) and we were pleasantly surprised to find 3 bodies for chaos marines on the poxwalkers, apparently due to them being part of another boxed set, so we set to kitbashing 3 more marines out of the spare parts. kind of surprised by that.

[Elbows]

Ah, yeah I'd imagine that's cut from the old starter box.

[Major_Gilbear]

So GW have put the new Ork Boyz box up for pre-order...

£29 for 10 minis (9 boyz and a nob) but you can only build 3 shoota boyz and 5 with sluggas & choppaz plus one big shoota or rokkit launcha.

For a new kit that sounds really limiting.

Yeah, it is. 

Dunno why either, as the previous box managed to do:

- 10 Orks plus a Nob (so 11 models total)
- All armed with slugga and choppa
- Or all armed with shoota
- Up to two models can have one big shoota and one rokkitt launcha
- Nob has fancy slugga, power klaw, big choppa, and two head options, plus a few different back banners
- Kit has loads of grenades, anti-tank mines, armour plates, scopes/sights, and other accessories.

Did the Orks kit really need a refresh? Yes, definitely. Is this the refresh it or Ork players deserved? Um, no... 

When I look at how the Space Marines kit was revamped in 2017(?), it makes me sad to see the careless way that the newer kits for other factions have had their contents selected. Still, at least the Orks got a new kit, unlike the poor Cadians who just got an upgrade sprue of a few guns that their kit should always have had, pus a load of wonky-looking heads...