A new age???

[bansh]

So with all the new gear for spacemarines, have we left the old canon behind, i remember when getting into 40k many many moons ago, that mans ability to create new wargear was lost due to the now dark age, and it was the hunt for the old pattern machina that was part of the expansionist regime. ....
Im not that keen on all the new stuff because of this....i think the new releases should have been fluffed a bit, ie the finding of new worlds that were formerly part of the empire..

Anyone else have an opinion.

[acehilator]

All the new tech is a result of Cawl tinkering around for 10k years. I am rather ok with it, keeping stuff the same for 20+ years is comforting, but at some point you got to move forward. And it's still baby steps in the grand scheme of things. Cawl tech + Custodes leaving Terra (and maybe re-introduction of Sisters of Silence) are the only new trends despite a Primarch coming back from the "dead" and the worst upheaval since the Horus Heresy. For all intents and purposes, the Imperium is still as monolithic as ever, running the same strategies.

Imperium civil war with Papa Smurf vs all the retarded rest would be amazing. As much as I hate the model on the tabletop (well now he got nerfed heavily, but whatever), I really like the direction they took him in the books.

[Overread]

Sculpts have always advanced and shifted around somewhat. Look at the first generation of Tyranids, then the second and now the third - each one is quite different in many areas. Heck the old Hive Tyrant is a tiny thing compared to the current pure monster! Some stay the same; Gaunts haven't changed a huge amount, though Hormaguants did between first and second generation. What is interesting is to see that first generation tyranids held their weapons in claws; whilst second and third got progressivly more body melted weapons. In addition some, like the zoanthrope, had a huge change, going from a legged brain bug with huge rending claws into the powerful mental unit of a floating brain that we have today where the head is almost cradled in a throne of bone for the neurothrope

[nurglitch]

The Zoanthrope is amusing since it was always described as a floating brain and the model didn't really resemble it until the 3rd edition or whenever the first floating brain metal model appeared.

Me, I've built my Warriors like the first edition guys with the Deathspitters up top and Scything Talons (although arguably rending claws) as the mid-limbs. The Deathspitters don't fit well, so you need to carve up the torso a bit.

[yoritomo]

Or just use old warriors.