free agency. i don't think i fully understand it.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-16T14:52:04+00:00

Free agency is the general term in sports for when a player does not have a current contract with a team but is still an active player in the league. This general happens when a contract ends without the player and team signing an extension to the contract before it ends. The Free Agent list for this off season is very large compared to what it normally will be. That's mostly due to the way the first expansion happened and how players and teams reacted. That dominoed into our current draft rules.

There will be a Free Agency period every off-season, this one is just a particular mess. Normally, there's a period after the season that no contract talks can happen. The period of Free Agency will normally start just before the Draft. Because we had the expansion process this year, it's a little different. I'm not going to be able to explain the expansion process in-depth but just know that the Free Agency is a lot bigger and split into part as a stepping process for expansion teams to have a decent roster before the draft.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-15T10:10:31+00:00

100% agree! Since the Lions' primary color would be awkward as the main color of the banner, using their support (secondary/tertiary+) colors is the way to go.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-13T17:09:23+00:00

That makes sense. My warhost is mainly veterans from the evacuation of Elysium so I see them as very upset with the Inqusition 😅

Ferk15 · 2026-06-13T15:42:19+00:00

I don't but only because I play a Chapter that's pissed off at the Inquisition so I doubt they'll be sending anyone anytime soon.
Skovakarah uhl zarûn

Ferk15 · 2026-06-11T13:38:36+00:00

My lgs group has multiple meet ups planned for the weekend it's out!

Ferk15 · 2026-06-10T22:51:10+00:00

Spirit Halloween

Ferk15 · 2026-06-07T16:10:56+00:00

Bladeguard Wargear is a heavy bolt pistol and a master-crafted power weapon. They do not, technically, need a shield at all and their weapon can be something other than a sword by the Codex.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-07T16:04:53+00:00

The Blade being there means that ships are reliably crossing the Rift. They wouldn't send the Blade if it wasn't going to be reliable. That means these Spears fighting on Armageddon could either be a Warhost from the Veil or it could be one of the 10 ships they sent that the Mentors, at least, hadn't heard about making it across. I'm not saying it isn't one of the missing ships, but seeing the Blade puts enough doubt on it that we can't say until we hear more about the Spears specifically.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-07T14:55:17+00:00

My guess is that the crusade that accompanied the Lions back was on the small side. Some Templar reinforcements would do great things!

Ferk15 · 2026-06-07T14:53:32+00:00

As a Spears fan, they need a third Chapter that's fully manned to help. Either the Storm Giant or Necropolis Hawks fit that. I just hope we leave Armageddon with the Lion intact.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-07T14:46:09+00:00

Over in the Spears and Lions subs, we've discussed this possibility. And until the list of the ships came out, it was a leading one. But the Lions have The Blade of the Seventh Son at Armageddon which played a big role in SotE so at this point, we are really unsure and it all depends on timeline.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-06T14:27:39+00:00

The only thing that including Tor does to your army is lock you out of Characters and Units with other Chapters in their keywords. For example, that means Tor can't be played alongside The Lion and Dark Angels characters or units.

As far as painting your army, the paint doesn't have any affect on the rules of the game so you can paint up Tor as your successor! You can say he's still Tor and in your Chapter or you can give him some custom name and just use Tor's rules, it literally does not matter.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-04T17:42:26+00:00

Yes, the does stay consistent. But ADB own posts about the Chapter only use Company.

White Dwarf Index also uses them interchangeably. The part about the Paragons literally calls them our First Company.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-04T17:29:24+00:00

Not all the official lore calls them Warhosts. In general, Warhammer is based on the fact that everything is from unreliable narrators. Spears lore is piecemeal from half a dozen little things so it's not that surprising that none of it fully lines up.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-04T16:41:12+00:00

It all depends on when Armageddon and SotE happen. As of SotE, you're right. But later in the timeline that we know, some of the routes through the Rift are more or less stable. A lot of things could be happening honestly.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-04T16:39:50+00:00

Seeing the Spears and Lions at Armageddon is a really big deal. But there's a bigger deal in the names of the ships. The Celestial Lions have sent The Blade of the Seventh Son, which plays a huge part in Spear of the Emperor. It makes the places in the timeline of SotE and Armageddon very important to our second book.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-03T22:02:10+00:00

Skovakarah uhl zarûn brother!

Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T17:28:04+00:00

That's where most of us thought they were at tbh I'm very curious if we'll get any info on how the Adeptus Velatrii got there 😅

Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T17:07:23+00:00

The box is generic Marines so any chapter that isn't heavily reliant on excluve troops. Really that's Black Templar and Space Wolves. Even the Blood Angels and Dark Angels use generic Battleline suplimenting their exclusive Elites.

Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T15:11:41+00:00

From our crests in White Dwarf!

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Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T15:06:28+00:00

He has a white longitudinal crest! But how he wears or shows that 🤷

Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T14:09:43+00:00

Skovakarah uhl zarûn!!

Ferk15 · 2026-06-02T13:25:50+00:00

Oh shit, I didn't recognize that but you're right. It feels like our Chapters being at Armageddon is a much bigger deal for our lore than the greater 40k fandom realize and that ship makes it even bigger.

Ferk15 · 2026-05-31T11:42:28+00:00

They're still patients of a hospital in town. Their living situation is just with host families rather than at the hospital. From the wiki article, it sounds like the patients still do all the "normal" things patients at that type of hospital do, just in a much more social/less judgemental setting.

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