The rumour
mill has started spitting out specifics for the 8th
edition starter set. Obviously, this is just a rumour so get your
salt out but the reported contents are as follows:
Death
Guard
Chaos
Lord
Terminators
Plague
Marines
Blight
Drone(s?)
Ultramarines
Captain
Librarian
2x
Tactical Squads
Assault
Squad
Devastator
Squad
Price point
is rumour to be £80 and its pretty good value even if I doubt that
the Blight Drone or Drones will be the full size of the Forge World
ones (though they will be a damn sight easier to build...). I'm
certainly setting aside some money for one on the strength of the
Death Guard alone, an army I have wanted for years but find the Forge
World versions unbuildable.
The
Ultramarines, though...
Now, its not
like I dislike Ultramarines, I'm actually rather fond of them and
Know No Fear remains my
favourite Horus Heresy
novel. The problem I have, assuming like the Dark Angels in Dark
Vengeance they have embossed
heraldry, I don't think its a good idea to have them in the starter
set. Or, rather, I don't think its a good idea to have both armies in
a starter set be a specific sub-faction rather than generic models.
Take
Assault On Black Reach,
still my favourite 40k starter set and where are my multi-part
plastic Deffkotpas, GW? In that set you had generic Space Marines
usable for any sub-faction of vanilla Space Marines, Dark Angels and
Blood Angels, plus Orks that you could use as the foundation for any
build of Ork army you wished. Even Dark Vengeance,
with its very specifically Dark Angels Space Marines, had a
completely generic Chaos Marine force and where are my multi-part
plastic Cultists and Chosen, GW?
This
set gives us two specific sub-factions: Plague Marines and
Ultramarines. Having one or both armies be generic was genuinely a
usability issue, it provided the player with an economic start to
numerous armies. My Dark Vengeance
Chaos Marines were Night Lords, my Black Reach
Orks were Freebooterz and the Space Marines they came with were, at
various times by the grace of brown Dettol, Exorcists, Black Templars
and Guardians of the Covenant.
Unless
I'm wrong about embossed heraldry, I will have Ultramarines who only
be Ultramarines which is one sub-faction amongst dozens in the Space
Marine background. Still, I might have a use for them since my
Mechanicus come from Ultramar and if not there's always eBay.
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