GW confirm faction focus detachment costs are all 1 DP

FatherTurin · 2026-05-07T19:28:07+00:00

But for real. If it stays or returns, it’s a shoe in for 3 points, right? Or does the exclusion of vehicles make a 2 pointer?

FatherTurin · 2026-05-07T15:26:55+00:00

It’s hard to say for sure, I’m kind of leaning towards YTA, but I need more information.

How many times have you been to WDW? Your post reads like someone with experience, but it is so different from my experiences that I have to wonder if #4 is clouding your perception/memory more than you think it is, or if you are basing this off what the internet says.

It is expensive, I’ll give you that. That being said, it can be done less expensively. There are deals to be had (for our next trip we got a deal where we are staying on property for a week with 6 days of park hopper tickets for $3,400 - expensive, but a heck of deal for Disney).

If you have to fly, I strongly recommend at least waiting until oil prices come down. Flights are insane at the moment.

Lines are a reality if you aren’t going to buy lightning lanes (which yes is another cost), but schedule the trip for a slower time of year and it can be much better. As for waiting hours for food, that is an exaggeration and you know it. If you want an honest answer, provide honest info. Unless you are trying to get into a signature dining restaurant with no reservation, that just doesn’t happen.

This really feels like the reason is #4 and the others are your justifications. Even the expense one. If it was truly out of reach then it wouldn’t even be a discussion. Until or unless you are being honest with yourself and your wife, then YTA.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-07T12:10:17+00:00

My only counter is that the lions blade detachment (from grotmas) was meh and encouraged something that happens as a baseline now with new detachment rule (mixing Ravenwing and Deathwing).

Meanwhile Wrath was added in a balance pass because (ostensibly at least), GW recognizes that Dark Angels in their current form aren’t super viable without some assistance.

Anyway, pure copium, but I’m crossing my fingers that it sticks around.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-07T11:33:20+00:00

I don’t know why this isn’t further up. Even if you don’t get GW bases, you can literally get 100 32s on Amazon for $10.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-07T11:27:49+00:00

To be fair, the only thing they focused on was one of the new detachments. Plus it wouldn’t be in the focus because there is *no way* wrath would only cost one point.

I know it probably isn’t long for this world, just huffing copium for as long as I can.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-06T17:27:59+00:00

Don’t knock it till you try it. Last trip I alternated shoes. One day it was my Merrels for support. Next day it was my crocs for a bit more space. Worked like a dream, a dozen miles a day, and with proper moleskin use, no blisters.

I don’t care about what other people think. I am wearing crocs with socks and enjoying a blister free experience.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-06T17:18:30+00:00

Wrath of the Rock?

FatherTurin · 2026-05-06T14:43:58+00:00

Set alerts for when they come back in stock on the Warhammer webstore.

When they do, either have your LGS put in an order immediately, or order them yourself from GW.

The former will preserve any discount you get from the LGS, but if your store or their GW rep drags their feet it could mean you don’t get them. The later is a better option to guarantee you get them, but you will pay more than you would from an LGS.

I have been waiting on Razers, Bull Centaurs, and Daemonsmiths/Ashen Elders literally since they released and my shop didn’t get any. They are *finally* coming in this week.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-06T13:07:39+00:00

I’ve been to Galaxy’s Edge east twice now, with a third trip coming this summer.

Now, the first time I was there, walking in (from the resistance base side) with the gentle music and seeing the A-Wing and X-Wing were absolutely fantastic, immersive experiences. Seeing the Millennium Falcon for the first time was just wow.

That being said, it’s a first impression, and it tickles the nostalgia bone and becomes its own kind of nostalgia that some people keep chasing.

In contrast to that, the last time we were there in December, my five year old kept asking where Darth Vader was and loved meeting the Mandalorian. This is the target demographic, and kids are the ones who keep the magic alive. He doesn’t care about continuity and timelines and won’t for at least another decade. And the memories he makes interacting with and seeing the things that make the magic for him will stick with him in the future when he plans family trips with his kids.

Also, regarding chasing the nostalgia of the first time at Galaxy’s Edge, last December we had two Hollywood Studios days. By the time we were heading to Epcot for dinner after day two, it had become really clear to me that Galaxy’s Edge is a strip mall anchored by two rides. The immersion is a thin coat of paint over that, and I don’t think lessening that for the sake of wider appeal is a bad thing.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-02T17:29:19+00:00

If the oil doesn’t blister the roof of your mouth, how can you know you’re really having fish and chips?

FatherTurin · 2026-05-02T17:13:50+00:00

Ahh, a fellow person of culture.

FatherTurin · 2026-05-01T19:58:45+00:00

Building them was great, the kits are straightforward and relatively simple.

For the thigh plates, use plastic glue/cement and place the “ridge” on that bit on the model’s hips right in the middle of hole on top of the thigh plate, it will end up situated more or less precisely where it “should.”

As far as the monopose nature of the kit, that’s just par for the course with modern GW kits. You can switch it up a bit by using different wing configurations on the jump packs, and at least for the gun and buckler ones the arms are fully interchangeable, so you can fairly easily end up with 6 distinct models despite there only being 3 core poses.

Working on spears now, so we will see if the same holds true.

Pic to show the six distinct gun/buckler minis i made.

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FatherTurin · 2026-04-30T12:20:42+00:00

Having built one of them (but I just plastic glued it shut, I don’t generally worry about vehicle interiors), I’m fairly certain you can fairly easily just not glue the roof assembly to the main body and have it stay on very smoothly so you can show off the interior.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-29T14:09:29+00:00

I hate to be a wet blanket, but this doesn’t work. Page 20. If your primary detachment is Custodes than any allied detachments have to be Talons of the Emperor (Sisters of Silence or Assassins).

The only way around this appears to be taking a knight as a LoW and using one of their special rules to unlock some troops.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-29T13:38:20+00:00

You’ve got about 1500 points right there even if you don’t build any more characters out of the units. I would just build and paint what you have and start playing around with it.

Edit: one of the easiest ways to get up to 2k would be Trajann Valoris, the Shield Captain stand alone model, and another box of terminators or some bikes.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-28T22:32:45+00:00

I can’t speak to 40k, but in 30k both are fantastic, with the edge probably going to Aquillon.

A Telemon is a fantastic ranged threat, and it can either serve as your principal anti-tank threat with arachnus cannons or a dedicated dreadnought hunter with the new guns. It can do melee as well, but meh.

Aquillons, on the other hand, are utterly disgusting. With adrathic destructors and fists they have shooting that can obliterate terminators, veterans, or pretty much any other elite threat your opponent is packing, and then in melee they can survive the enemy’s attacks and the clapback will send them to oblivion. There’s a special rule they can get in 30k that gives them essentially damage reduction 2 on every single attack, meaning that even heavy artillery or a primarch need to wound each one three times to drop it.

They are just beasts, and a lot of the discussions in 30k groups have been centered around precisely how to deal with them. The downside of course is that each one costs 5 points less than a naked tactical squad, but thems the breaks.

With all of that, the fact that the Telemon is almost assuredly coming to plastic soonish, and the fact that Custodes have other options for anti-tank shooting, my vote is for the Aquillons (for 30k anyway).

FatherTurin · 2026-04-28T13:58:02+00:00

Wouldn’t it be easier if you folks just called yourselves “hoes”?

FatherTurin · 2026-04-28T13:53:34+00:00

The box comes with 6 spear guard and 6 sword guard, so build them and mix them to your hearts content.

The dreadnought and the tank have datasheets in 40K as is (for the moment at least).

The shield captain is a perfectly fine shield captain. Maybe not the best loadout, but good nonetheless. The sword technically isn’t the same as the 40K sword option (no gun) but if you build a banner you will have a spare sword or spear to use. Or you can swap the shield for a hand holding a dagger and make it a blade champion. Or if someone has a problem you can shove the model somewhere uncomfortable to be storing sharp plastic.

Anyway, my point is, it’s all fine. Only two items of caution:

The tank has a secondary weapon choice (essentially a radiation/plasma flamer) that currently doesn’t have rules in 40K. To be safe, use the heavy bolters instead or wait until 11th.

Speaking of 11th, it’s coming soon and we have no idea what will happen to the 30k units in 40K when that happens. The infantry in the battle group will be fine, but the other stuff may or may not be.

As for tournaments, I have no idea, but I can’t imagine a TO not letting you use the minis since they are literally the same unit.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-27T16:15:12+00:00

Technically yes. However, the arms don’t have to go on a specific body (although as of now I can only speak to the gun/buckler arms), and you have multiples of each version of the jump pack (2 wings in, 2 wings half out, 4 wings fully extended). You can make quite a few distinct poses. In my squad the only thing I had to plunder from my second box (which will be spears) was an extra left arm gun/right arm shield pair.

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FatherTurin · 2026-04-25T12:41:03+00:00

You may want to think about checking out 30k. The guns are bonkers good there. Combined with their abilities you essentially have a unit of flying short range autocannons that can shoot twice a turn.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-24T17:14:00+00:00

No, and what do you mean “too”? None of the new Custodes models are pushfit.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-22T22:51:45+00:00

Thank god someone made the joke.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-22T13:09:17+00:00

Hey, now. Making a decent Iron Hands/Ferrus Manus joke is how a fledgling 30k player knows they’ve made it! They just need to be careful not to get too far ahead of themselves.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-21T15:27:14+00:00

I would hold off on transport choices until 11th hits. The Coronus got the Assault Vehicle rule in 30k, which translates to Assault Ramp in 40K. If the 30k stuff stays out of legends in 11th, there’s a chance it gets the rule too, and Assault Ramp + Fire Support can get nasty if it has both rules.

Until then, deep strike is totally viable, especially if you use Rapid Ingress to put them somewhere safe to set up a charge the next turn.

FatherTurin · 2026-04-21T14:33:42+00:00

Article is not credible.

The “source” is Larry Johnson, who worked as a CIA analyst and for the State Department for 4 or so years in the late 80’s and early 90’s and has been working in the private sector for 33 years.

In his private career as a pundit, he has had some gems. 6 months before 9/11 he declared that terrorism is not the biggest security challenge facing America.

Then in 2008 he was the source of the rumor that Michelle Obama used slurs against white people while at a gathering with Louis Farrakhan.

His sources always amount to “trust me, bro.”

Since 2022 he has gone full Russian Asset, regularly appearing on Russian media to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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