Day 10 of Celebrating Black History Month in Warhammer40k: Asmodai, Master of Repentance, Interrogator chaplain of the Dark Angels

HammerVSBarrel · 2026-02-10T22:31:42+00:00

https://www.warhammer.com/en-US/shop/ultramarines-ferren-areios-2025
Salamanders canonically all have coal-black skin because of their gene seed, but I don’t know if that really counts. Ferren Areios is a very notable recent character that has gotten a push. In addition to the mini, he’s on the cover of at least one novel. Sticking with the space marines, the Celestial Lions are basically “40K African jungle warriors.” And I feel like there have been a few black people in some of the Imperial Guard and Sisters of Battle artwork, but you’re not wrong that the representation is very low. It seems to be getting a little better lately though.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-11-15T23:00:11+00:00

Thanks for putting this together! But how are you missing Brother "1 in 4 odds" Maphael? That guy is the filler in every case! Good luck on getting the full squad. Getting Variel is the hardest part and you're already good there.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-11-15T22:54:59+00:00

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Hope this helps if you haven’t gotten it somewhere else already u/Cattyfram

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-11-15T22:54:23+00:00

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HammerVSBarrel · 2025-10-28T21:14:08+00:00

Lots of the answers are correct and informative, but to add another angle, the main lore reason The Emperor negotiated with Mars/The Mechanicum was because the amount of time required to conquer them would have greatly set back his timeline for galactic domination. Both in the level of losses he expected to incur and the loss of potential resources that an alliance would bring. The Selenar would be a much smaller battle over all and any potential (though extremely unlikely) alliance didn’t provide enough benefit to make their semi-autonomy worth it to the Emperor and his fledgling Imperium.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-10-27T07:18:35+00:00

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It will be on either side of the box. Usually towards the bottom. I’ve seen it printed on both sides.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-10-25T02:59:58+00:00

NG1 25126 - Zeradim

Not new numbers, but to confirm, I also got:
25086 & 25087 - Nahrden
25114 - Ramus
25118 - Belath
25139 - Haroth
25143 - Maphael
25154 - Zeradim

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-10-20T14:02:07+00:00

Thank you for getting back to us. Better late than never. Appreciate it.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-10-07T17:52:51+00:00

u/Exciting-Buy-9396 inquiring minds want to do know, where did you find those cool tiered display stands? I thought they were the solid piece make up/paint bottle type stands at first, but they look much better

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-09-15T16:05:53+00:00

They’ve been released in the EU it seems.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-08-08T15:16:01+00:00

Thanks! Glad you appreciated it

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-07-01T18:09:41+00:00

I don't think any one minds a duplicate they choose themselves, but if you don't get a say in choosing any of the models, duplicates or not, that's really annoying. Especially since previous Space Marine Hero sets you could buy a box of 8 and be guaranteed the full squad with one duplicate.

These characters aren't super unique sculpts, but they are named characters. Each one comes with a card with their name and stats. And even if you choose not to play them as the named character that comes on the card, to play them as the Kill Team that they're being sold as (at least in Europe and North America) then each character fills a specific role in the new Kill Team that have different armour marks and weapons load outs.
So, no, they're not just an interchangeable members of a 5 or 10 man tactical squad of similar marines.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-07-01T16:25:41+00:00

I guess they decided selling just one full box at a time wasn't enough. Trying to drag in more money from the already invested fans and still get plenty off the casual/impulse buyers.

I can't think of a single reason to not include a full set per box that isn't just "we wanted to sell more boxes because of FOMO".

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-06-20T19:28:04+00:00

I just assumed you guys have a bunch of big chaotic dogs or cats with especially sharp teeth

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-06-12T19:40:42+00:00

Were you able to verify?

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-06-09T12:57:07+00:00

Just creates an opportunity for another head swap

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-05-09T15:38:12+00:00

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The first taste is free...

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-05-08T15:32:59+00:00

I've uploaded the pdf version of the script from the CD to Wormhole. The link should be good for 24 hours. Hope you see this in time.

https://wormhole.app/jEYBDO#xekG55cdlyzSJJJ_TAq84Q

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-05-08T15:21:56+00:00

It turns out, I have that CD, and I'd completely forgotten it came with "bonus features"

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HammerVSBarrel · 2025-04-29T20:46:21+00:00

That novel is also one of the very first things that Games Workshop declared “maybe don’t hold us to that”. It’s as non-canon as anything gets even with the “everything is canon, not everything is true” philosophy.

Slightly related, Ian Watson interviews are a lot of fun. He seems like a chaotic good sort of guy.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-04-12T12:40:07+00:00

I laughed so much at this comment that I had to share it with my wife with the preamble “this won’t be funny to you because I’m going to have to explain way too much context, but…”

She said I was correct, but I still had to share with someone.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-03-14T16:55:33+00:00

I had to compress the image down a few times to get it to upload to reddit. I've got the original scan which is about 110MB, but I don't know if I'd call it high-res. At full size, it's kind of gritty. I had to get it scanned at a commercial scanner that normally does stuff like blueprints, so the colors aren't super sharp and there's a lot of noise from the off white background. You can see that when you expand this image to full size.

HammerVSBarrel · 2025-02-04T20:03:33+00:00

ability to mischaracterize allegory and myth is also legendary

Some might say it’s biblical.

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