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The Long War: Episode 512
Show Summary:
This week, the crew covers the new 11th edition rules previews. Here are the key takeaways, section by section:
- (02:00) The hosts frame summer as “hobby momentum” season, arguing players should keep painting and building now so they’re ready for the rumored 11th edition launch instead of scrambling later.
- (03:34) Orks get a lot of hype, with talk of a possible “Hot Ork Summer” leading into Orktober, especially as the Armageddon launch box and new Ork interest start heating up.
- (06:00) Hobby tip of the episode: cheap Gunpla-style alligator clip painting stands are great for sub-assemblies, tanks, alternate weapons, and batch painting models without wrecking fresh paint.
- (10:01) The “would you delete one 40k faction?” segment gets spicy, with Tau and even Space Marines floated as candidates, mostly because of lore fit, faction fatigue, or the chaos of rewriting the setting afterward.
- (15:51) Product news covers Battle Foam’s sale, Monument Hobbies OneStep paints, and the “Special Sauce” medium, which the hosts praise as a flexible acrylic medium for glazing, washing, wet blending, and improving paint flow.
- (21:04) Games Workshop news includes Vostroyan made-to-order releases, a new Ciaphas Cain and Jurgen model with diorama options, pre-painted terrain that will also be available unpainted, and the Dominatus campaign deck.
- (26:49) The leaked “Warhammer Tone Pro” item gets discussed as likely real, though the hosts stress nobody knows whether it’s a new paint line, Contrast replacement, bottle change, shade/tone system, or something else entirely.
- (31:25) The rough release roadmap has Horus Heresy tanks first, Kill Team/Guard-related releases next, and then likely 11th edition pre-orders around early June, with stores possibly seeing it around June 20.
- (33:33) The 11th edition Q&A confirms the Armageddon box as the limited launch set, free core rules, free Combat Patrol rules, app support for Legends later on, Space Marines and Orks as the first codexes, and broad PDF updates rather than a full codex reset.
- (45:17) Chaos Knights previews show new detachments focused on Knight Tyrants, War Dogs, and cultist-style “Damned” support, including rules for better targeting battleshocked enemies, War Dog detection tricks, and sacrificing cultists to heal Knights.
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