Classic Black Templars & Dark Eldar Pop Up For Warhammer 40K
December 24, 2021 by brennon
Games Workshop has announced that a couple of surprise releases are popping up for pre-order over the Christmas weekend. For example, go back in time (to when I started Warhammer 40,000!) and pick up some Black Templars and Dark Eldar.
Black Templars Vs Dark Eldar // Warhammer 40,000
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This mirrors the Starter Set that you could buy for Warhammer 40,000 back in the day. It comes with ten Tactical Space Marines for the Black Templars (or whatever Chapter catches your eye), a Landspeeder, and twenty Dark Eldar with Splinter Rifles. You even get some options for Splinter Cannons in this set.
The perfect chance to go back in time and have a pop at making a more archaic-looking army for use in Warhammer 40,000? Those classic Space Marines were a lot of fun to paint and I believe I actually did paint them up as Black Templars.
The Dark Eldar, before they became Drukhari, are certainly showing their age but they might be good for a kitbash or two.
Are you tempted to snap up this set?
"The perfect chance to go back in time and have a pop at making a more archaic-looking army for use in Warhammer 40,000?"
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Ah I feel surge of nostalgia when ever I see those miniatures.
Ooh very much like one of their earlier game boxes.
Young ‘un- back in my day, we didn’t have any of this Dark Eldar mumbo jumbo- and we had SQUATS! Space Dwarves, I tell you what. And Zoats! None of this Tau and Necron whatsimacalled. Also Space Marines were the same size as humans and so were their primarchs.
Also, Ragnar Blackmane had blond hair. I guess they named him before his baby fuzz wore off or something.
Hang on, I gotta go tell some kids to get offa my lawn.
Not to ruin a good rant, but I believe Ragnar is named after the black wolf he killed, not his actual hair colour.
Either way, carry on sir.
Fair enough.
Sometime later on, they repainted a studio Ragnar with black hair.
Truly, the most epic hair in the 41st millennium will always belong to Jain Zar.
I…but…why?
Of all the plastic starters they could release, they pick the one that’s among the worst ever?
It was my 1st 40k starter, and even I think it’s trash. The dark eldar models were bad when they were released and the marines are literally the same tactical marines you can get today but…less detailed and with fewer options. They’re not even goofy-bad nostalgia fuel like 2nd ed plastics, they’re just modern enough to age like milk.
And you don’t even get the sargeant and special weapons parts in this “made to order” set.
All I can think of is : GW found some stock of the crap they couldn’t sell and are hoping it does now …
I mean those marines are at least somewhat decent, but I don’t know in what universe those other things would be considered passable …
I’m guessing they were the start of GW’s “add spikey bits to everything in order to make it more ‘alien’ and grim dark”-phase that continues to this day.
Those marines are basically the marines that they used up until they released the Primaris.
But I think the spikey bits phase must have started earlier with the release of the 2nd ed Codex Chaos.
Why? Easy. They just figured out that a significant chunk of the “new” customers they have gathered during the pandemic are actually returning players in an age bracket where this was the starter set when they first started in the hobby. This will sell based on nostalgia to a large number of people.
I doubt it, I’ve never met anyone with nostalgia for the worst starter kit in 40k history. People joke about the landspeeder gap to this day when it’s brought up. If they re-released 2nd ed figs, they’d probably backlog the casting machine for months instead.
I’m sure some will sell, some people will buy anything with GW logo slapped on it, but it’s still a bizarre choice if they wanted to go for nostalgia-baiting.
Then you probably haven’t met anyone with Nostalgia. Nostalgia is driven purely by feelings and memories. In 1998 it was an amazing set and people remember how they felt back in 1998 when they first got it, not how the models look now
Go home GW, you’re drunk.
Please tell me these dont sell out?
Please tell me people dont actually pay money for this?
Why? Why? would anyone pay GW prices for this.
Nostalgia