I've been working on a few models recently, but no significant progress. However, I've been reading a good chunk of various nerdly books so I wanted to make a quick post about that.
First up, I finally finished the forge world Horus Heresy book I. If you like Chaos or Marines just buy this book. There is more information in this book about the "big four" traitor legions (Emperor's Children, Death Guard, World Eaters, and Sons of Horus) then 4 codices combined, plus there is a huge amount of information regarding the start of the heresy, titans, the mars dudes, etc. If you actually want to play heresy era games then you have to own this book. I can't wait for the second one. After reading this it is very tempting to make a marine/chaos marine force dedicated to big daddy nurgle.
Next up I got the new Apocalypse book and the Farsight supplement. I'm pretty meh overall about both of them. I'm not a huge Tau guy, but I wanted to check out a supplement and see what they are all about. The backstory was ok...the rules seem pretty much on par with the Tau codex as is, not too many changes. My major complaint is the backstory kinda makes Farsight seem like a bitch. One thing that did strike me as interesting is that not only is GW doing these new supplements but these new war zone add ons for apocalypse also. These two separate things essentially make up an imperial armor book; a slightly new army list with background and a warzone with some history and special rules for fighting out "historical" scenario's. Except instead of paying $75 for one 200+ page book we are paying $40 each for two 76 page books...you cheeky bastards GW! I'm am anxious for more supplements to come, particularly ones for armies I'm interested in. I'm not holding my breath for a necron one.
I also just finished Betrayer. For awhile I was plowing through those Horus Heresy novels right up until I got to the one about Dark Angels. Ugh...I get it, you have secrets. So I stopped reading for a bit, but I got back into with this book. It's about the world eaters, whom I don't think to highly of. In my mind they've just been rampaging berserkers so I doubted a decent story could come of them. While it was far from a great book it was very entertaining. It also went to great lengths to show not only why Angron is a useless tool but why Horus needs him. I would recommend it.
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Hey... ask Loper about his feels on BTs being in the 'Nilla Marine Codex.
I can't believe people are shocked by this. The range (and sisters) haven't been supported in years. The supplements seem perfect for these armies. Aren't most of the templar units all from the marine book except for like 4-5 units?
Dunno, I have to wait till I get it since I have vanilla marines. All kidding aside, I think they will just be fine in that Codex. I just like busting Adam's balls over it because he seems so upset. I also figured they wouldn't get their own codex, but I did expect a supplement. Does mean though that the Ally Chart will be off kilter.
I think I recently heard that they will remain a separate army, but they are in the space marine codex codex because they have so few different units. The marine codex is supposed to be over twice the size of the other 6th ed codices so maybe Loper just needs to buy 1 codex now instead of 2!
See Adam, you win!
I tell ya, if your not looking at Libbys in your army, BTs don't look that bad. Fluff aside, the only thing they really lose is having two heavy weapons in a 5 man Terminator unit.
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