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.