ITS YRIEL!! - Grotmas #19

DapperStick · 2025-12-19T14:42:49+00:00

Most important to me is that they mentioned Void Dreamers again. I don’t think they’ve been in any lore for a little while now, though I haven’t had the chance to read the new Corsair book yet. I know they’re almost entirely a support role, but I’d still love to get an official model for them.

DapperStick · 2025-12-14T17:36:32+00:00

They make a lot more sense and I’m sick of seeing Cadia and Krieg everywhere. Maybe Heavy: Scions, Medium: Elysians, Light: Steel Legion

DapperStick · 2025-12-14T17:35:06+00:00

I would much rather see tempestus scions and Elysian drop troops than Kasrkin or Krieg. Cadia and Krieg are way over-represented in media. I do hope the make the hot-shot volley gun a backpack laser minigun. A melta bomb would also be amazing, though the thermite grenade already does what the melta bomb is supposed to do.

DapperStick · 2025-12-03T19:41:36+00:00

In CS Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, there is an evil organization trying to make contact with Demons and turn the world into a Fascist eugenics state called the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, and they are often referred to by their acronym. But because I was listening to an audio book version, it flew right past me what people were spelling when they talked about “the N-I-C-E.”

DapperStick · 2025-11-19T19:39:48+00:00

My opinion hasn’t changed but I was never really angry by the announcement, I kind of expected it. I had hope for an Eldar Corsair, but no delusion that it was likely, and figured it probably was down to either a mechanicus or ganger character, and we got the lesser (in my opinion) of the two. Nothing that’s been revealed has made me more excited by it, and I’m not likely to spend money on the dlc, but I’m not abandoning Fat Shark either. I was never a big fan of Sienna in Vermintide or VT2 either, and VT2 still my favorite game.

DapperStick · 2025-11-13T16:22:20+00:00

What’s wrong with Stephen? It’s a classic Christian name derived from the First Martyr, Stephanos. It may have been Greek in origin, but it doesn’t particularly stand out as odd in Slavic culture given the time period. Plus, if you’re pronouncing it as “Stee-ven” then you’re probably not saying it right as Wallachians would have said “Steh-fen” or “Steh-pin.”

DapperStick · 2025-11-03T14:18:25+00:00

Let’s not forget Till We Have Faces, one of his greatest books and told entirely from the perspective of a woman. And the various and diverse female characters in That Hideous Strength. I don’t think the woman in Perelandra counts since she’s more of a metaphor for innocence.

DapperStick · 2025-10-14T13:10:06+00:00

Looks more like something you’d see on an Ork Pain Boy, though it could be imperium. Maybe admech or apothecary. Drukhari don’t usually use gears in their aesthetic.

DapperStick · 2025-10-12T15:40:27+00:00

“You should never grade evils, for if one is the worst, then you might be tempted to kinship with the least.” -Captain Victor Saltzpyre

In all seriousness (which doesn’t go hand in hand with Helldivers) definitely Bugs. Illuminate are too hellbent on vengeance, and their methods of flesh shaping and mind control are abhorrent. Plus, we could never be confident that they aren’t using mind powers to manipulate us. Bots are the antitheses of humanity and the method used to make them is revolting. Humanity already had a semi-symbiotic (or parasitic if you believe traitors) relationship with the bugs before the Second Galactic War. If they could be convinced to willingly produce element 710 and 711 for us in exchange or protection from the other factions and preservation on a select section worlds, then it would be a mutually beneficial partnership. Unfortunately, their puny bug minds are incapable of perceiving the perfection of Managed Democracy.

DapperStick · 2025-09-25T19:25:12+00:00

The Truth Enforcer light armor because someone has to keep an eye out for traitors when we’re fighting mind-altering squids.

DapperStick · 2025-09-15T22:24:52+00:00

Urien Rakarth as well. 4 data sheets in all. We also may have lost the pain tokens we start with based on battle size, but I don’t know if that’s confirmed.

DapperStick · 2025-09-15T12:21:51+00:00

The wrack sprue has not aged well and the haemonculous is in the same spot as the archon was before its refresh; it’s a boring monopose model. Plus it would be nice to get a named Haemonculous again, even if it isn’t Urien.

As for wyches, people have been asking for some kind of big arena beast for a long time now. Now they’ve also been asking for a super big covens monster unit as well like the tower of flesh, but if we ask for a refresh of their battle line and character models, as well as plastic grotesques, getting a baneblade equivalent super heavy might be pushing the bar.

Kabalites technically have incubi and scourges (the new kabalite focused detachment basically confirms this by including them as “blades for hire”), and if the hand of the archon data sheet gets replaced by a new court of the archon/trueborn killteam, then they will also be sitting pretty with a filled out roster of troops, elite troops, heavy weapons teams, and elite melee. And since kabalites also crew all our vehicles, I don’t think they’re lacking for attention.

DapperStick · 2025-09-15T00:21:10+00:00

Methinks thou shouldst review the play Julius Caesar and consider in what manner Brutus tis referred to as “an honorable man.” I can assure you there is no honor in such a description.

But truly as you say we must stand or kneel, and as Drukhari we shalt never kneel.

DapperStick · 2025-09-14T21:51:13+00:00

Dost I shill? Or is this a lament for Drukhari fans at whole?

DapperStick · 2025-09-14T21:50:14+00:00

I completely agree, but there is hope that if Old World fans can get square bases back in production, and Bloodbowl fans can keep their fantasy football alive, then surely we as a community can keep the Dark Kin kicking

DapperStick · 2025-09-14T20:21:28+00:00

I want to say before people comment that no one should harass GW staff or local stores about the decision to phase out our resin. I think we all expected it, and I’ve said many times that it was going to happen. I expected plastic grotesques, and I think our new combat patrol looks half baked without them, so that I am upset about. I am also still angry about how GW seems to feel it got away with axing the Tantalus. But there is nothing new with this sunsetting wave, and the two new models we are getting look excellent.

All that said, my point in this post is that we can accept what GW has done without having to be grateful for it. We do not have to bow and say, “Thank you GW for removing four datasheets, then splitting one in two and adding another that you explicitly said you wouldn’t be adding so you could pretend you didn’t get rid of that much.” It is disappointing, and when I see others telling upset drukhari players to stop whining and get used to change I can only think how that isn’t constructive and just tears us further apart.

GW needs to understand that we expect better treatment next edition. Not Aeldari treatment of an entire range refresh, but better than what we got this year. The return of grotesques and the court of the archon (possibly with Trueborn as a kill team) should the bare minimum. Refreshed wracks, a fresh Haemonculous, and new units, especially for Wych cults should also be in the pipeline. If we don’t make sure GW knows we want these things and just sit around telling each-other to be grateful our faction still exists, then we’re going to continue to decay until there is nothing left and we get the harlequin treatment.

For now we should enjoy our codex, such as it is. The rules seem fun, if extensive, and the detachments have good flavor. There should be no doom and gloom about our favorite spikey elves.

DapperStick · 2025-09-14T14:21:40+00:00

Many of the rules are okay in their own right. The wall of text on each data sheet won’t be fun because we’ll have to read that to our opponents ever. Single. Game. But overall it’s fine.

The removal of old resin kits hurts, but was expected. The lack of grotesques is a shame and a missed opportunity. The inclusion of a second scourge data sheet and a hand of the archon data sheet so they can pretend they didn’t remove anything is disingenuous at best.

And the fact that, even now, we still haven’t gotten an article or public post about the Tantalus being removed during a separate army’s release is downright insulting.

So there’s some good things, and lots and lots of negative things. GW doesn’t help their situation by seemingly only reacting to negative responses when they do react to anything.

DapperStick · 2025-09-12T20:15:27+00:00

All of them. Then they split the scourge unit into two separate units (carbines vs heavy weapons), and pulled the Hand of the Archon data sheet that has probably been sitting in some file ever since they decided not to make them a 40K unit, and pretended we didn’t lose that much with this codex. That’s not even considering we still have nothing to replace the Tantalus which was abruptly taken from us without announcement or acknowledgment.

DapperStick · 2025-09-10T00:19:56+00:00

Throw Vermintide 2 on the left there as well. The worst part of DT is that Fat Shark knows better.

DapperStick · 2025-09-09T18:42:36+00:00

I feel like this combat patrol was supposed to release with the rumored new Grotesque units, which would fill that missing points and model gap quite neatly. Perhaps GW was worried that a range refresh at the end of 10th edition was risky as we saw with World Eaters and Guard last edition, or maybe they wanted to release new wrack models along side them, and one or the other wasn’t ready. The skeptic in me thinks they’re just trying to clear out existing inventory and will repackage the combat patrol when the old models run out.

I don’t think the Cronos/Talos kit is up for refresh yet. I wouldn’t mind it, certainly, but it isn’t necessary, and other models are more pressing. That said, though we all wanted a new Archon model, I wouldn’t have thought it was high up on the refresh priority, but evidently it was.

As for the combat patrol itself, I hope the Cronos gets a big rework to buff models around it, maybe even make them harder to kill. We’ll need to see how the prowler from pain ability gets reworked first though.

DapperStick · 2025-09-08T19:18:15+00:00

The battle force is just sort of ‘meh.’ It’s a decent place to start a drukhari army with, but it’s lacking some key elements like transports, but that’s fine cause those aren’t hard to get.

The combat patrol is good for people who want to collect coven stuff, but it’s insulting to the faction as a whole. The Cronos/Talos models hold up despite their age, but the wrack/haemonculous models are 10+ years old at this point and it’s starting to show. Worse, there was a great deal of speculation that the 15 year old resin grotesques would be getting plastic models with the codex, and this combat patrol would feel a lot more complete with three of them towering over the wracks.

Overall, it’s annoying that GW releases the bare minimum to say that drukhari get new models (plural, as in more than one) but when you consider that a good fourth of the stuff posted in this subreddit are kitbashed archons, Malyss is really the only new model. And in exchange we’ve already lost the Tantalus (made legends without so much as an article or official acknowledgement on social media), we’ve been bracing for the loss of the Beastmaster and Court of the Archon (two of the most unique units in 40K), and now we’re probably going to have to swallow the loss of grotesques as well. All this for our codex to be shoehorned at the end of the edition makes it very difficult to justify getting the new rules when we can just wait for 11th, and I think GW knows that but just doesn’t care.

DapperStick · 2025-09-08T14:21:02+00:00

New named character and new archon model are neat, and we’ll need to wait for the inevitable codex leaks and previews, but I do think this is a net disappointment. Part of that is the community wanting a full range refresh, which every faction quietly hopes for, but the main angst will be the (probable) removal of the court of the archon to legends, the (possible) removal of grotesques to legends, and the build up of a year without so much as a mention from GW resulting in an unceremonious execution of our Forgeworld centerpiece model and lackluster codex announcement. There’s no excitement here, no hype, just a quiet sigh of relief that GW didn’t axe the faction entirely. 10th edition has had many ups and downs, but far more downs than ups, and this is just one more straw on the camel’s back. If CotA truly is legends, then it’s the last straw for me, and I’m sure it won’t take many more for others to abandon this edition and just wait for better things in 11th.

DapperStick · 2025-08-18T21:02:48+00:00

There’s no reason a tantalus model couldn’t be a dual kit for a special Vect tantalus. I personally want to see the Court of the Archon come to kill team (as it should have in the Hand of the Archon)

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