hey guys jay here welcome to models memory weekly episode 47. model's memories is a show
about nothing and it is filmed in front of a live studio audience this is a show where i talk about
painting modeling and worrying experiences from the week now you might think to yourself jay you
put out three youtubers a week and you stream every single night you could you possibly have
more to say well i do and here goes this week games workshop showed off the full range of eldar
core series that are coming then are gonna fill up half of the new kill team starter box and they
look super super great and it got me thinking about my kill teams because i have a lot of
kill teams i super duper love this game and i may have bitten off a little bit more than i can chew
although i have been pretty regularly finishing things but i have currently i have painted
finished and have been playing with death guard and cursor space marines assault intercessor space
marines krieg veteran guardsmen sisters rapentia and greenskins orcs and croots i've actually
played a lot with the crews they have not won a game with them yet but they're super super fun
they're they're really fun to play a lot a lot of the kill teams a lot of the kill teams feel really
fun to play because they actually all feel pretty different in kill team 21 or in kill team 2018 the
previous version of kill team a lot of the things felt very samey because they were borrowing the
same exact stat lines from 40k where stat lines are very samey i mean toughness four strength four
one wound bolt gun stats hitting on fours bolt guns were terrible four up saved maybe three up
save now with new way that they've kind of they've completely overhauled the entire game where now
it's its own system and so now teams actually feel really really different from each other
especially with tactical ploys and strategic ploys you really every single team feels and plays very
differently it's a lot of fun oh my gosh and i also have a whole bunch of kill teams that are on
the painting desk uh we're still on sprue which is uh my battle sisters fire team my battle sisters
are coming along i just want to do some kit bashing to them before i actually get them painted
my sister novitiates from the chow math those are those are on sprue my astromeltarum tempesta's
scion team which they just need to get some paint on them and my death watch team which i have been
steadily working on this guy has a power sword that is my favorite power sword i have ever
painted yet i feel like i'm finally starting to get the hang of it but it is getting a little bit
out of hand because i do want these eldar corsairs i've i have called them i get the corsairs uh nick
will just have to deal with whatever the other half of the box is but let's take a look at these
corsairs at lvo they showed off one model and i think they picked by far the worst one to show off
and that is the guy with the bird and i think they were hoping that the bird would really
take off just like the crab did from last year but just you can't plan for something like that
it's just got to happen naturally there's no good reason why that crab exploded in popularity and
became like the second highest voted model for model of the year like it just happens
that's just this is just a natural thing of the internet for things like that to happen
i think people just saw the bird and they're like but i think that model looks really really good
alongside the other corsairs and these guys are so so dope i'm not that big a fan of the eldar but
these are like all the best possible bits of the eldar all put together and another super great
thing about this kill team is it seems like it's not just 10 guys with shuriken catapults in fact i
only see one shuriken pistol in this whole lineup but we got a ranger with the ranger rifle which
is super super cool because uh the rangers are actually one of the better options for eldar in
kill team from the compendium but taking an entire fire team of them is kinda because of that heavy
gun but i feel like just having one around is really really great and then we've got some sort
of a gunslinger with a shuriken pistol and i get the name of that pistol but i think it's like a
essentially a melta and then we've got a warlock which is super super cool so hopefully he'll have
some psychic shenanigans and a guy with a dark eldar shredder rifle which is super super neat
then we've got another friendly fella with super saiyan hair with a um a shuriken
a shuriken blaster a shuriken cannon a shuriken cannon a vehicle weapon that he's holding in kind
of like a weed whacker style grip to carry such a giant weapon into battle and then the guy under
him is super interesting to me because yeah it's your classic close combat guy he's got two pistols
or he's got two two um two daggers and what's kind of fun is he's got his two little daggers
and then he's got two more little daggers kind of tucked into his dick but uh he's really really fun
but on his back you can kind of see that he has a warp spider warp jump pack so i can't wait to see
what kind of rules he's got because in kill team it's kind of hard to get things into close combats
it's you have to get you have an 8 inch charge and you can't really supplement
that with movements because if you make a charge move you can't make a normal move or a dash move
and so you're kind of stuck hoping that something wanders within eight inches of you
or if you can get him to with eight inches and then the other person doesn't move away or charge
you first it's a little challenging so i can't wait to see what kind of rules they come up with
for warping around the battlefield i hope currently there a rule exists where and it exists
in a couple of different factions the orcmanos can do it's the um the gene stealer cult can do it
where you can set up one operative anywhere on the battlefield that's more than six inches from your
enemies deployment zone or your enemy operatives and then it also has to be within three inches of
heavy terrain which is kind of it's pretty good but it's kind of limiting and it does cost you
some of your your action or um it does cost you some of your points and so hopefully this is a
little bit more baked in where they just get to do a thing as opposed to having to spend your points
to do a thing but uh that guy is super super interesting to me i can't wait to see his rules
and then we've got the leader with a nice power sword and ah what is that pistol it's
the harlequin pistol i forget the name of it but uh super super cool again i love that none of them
just have churrican catapults the shuriken pedicle is not the worst gun it's a bit better than a bolt
gun but uh i mean i'd much rather have a whole bunch of other unique more interesting weapons
than just a whole bunch of shuriken catapults oh and then the guy next to him he's the one
with the shredder what does the other guy got is that the blaster they're about the same they're
the similar sort of medium weapon it's one of the the squad upgrades for the eldar and dark elder
and then of course we've got probably the medic we've got a lady holding up spirit stones so there
she's probably gonna have some sort of ability where she can like stop people from dying or
resurrect people by making use of the spirit stones and bird guy i'm really interested to see
what kind of rules they write for bird guy i don't know if the bird is going to be some sort of a
ranged weapon or if it's going to maybe be like a spotter like the the veteran guardsmen have
a spotter guy who can target people who are in concealment and then you can target them as if
they don't have a conceal order i could totally see that working really really well for the bird
like he has the bird fly around the battlefield spotting people for him and then maybe he can
that activates things for some of the other eldar who have special weapons
but i just think this team is super super dope i also love that everybody is wearing
armor that is halfway between dark aldar and eldar i mean the warlock has a classic eldar helmets
and then there's another guy who has a classic dark eldar helmets i think that's super neat
i think that this uh i'm really excited for this kill team i think it'll be really cool and this is
only half the box we're gonna still get to see the other half of the box later but speaking of boxes
from games workshop i was thinking this week about boxes from games workshop because the the hot
thing right now has been the eldritch omens box the the box that comes with a whole bunch of new
eldar models and new chaos basement models and i think it's just a bad box i mean i think it
is mathematically average like you know it's it's uh two factions in a box and it if you add it all
together it is does come in at a discount but it's just no fun 16 models is no fun i think
cause cause this this isn't we're talking about a hobby we're talking about fun and it's not just
a math problem to solve it's it there should be fun involved and 16 models eight new models aside
it's just not that much fun i'm imagining two friends going halfsies buying this box
i don't think the eight models versus eight models is gonna make for that much fun of a fight
and then if you're planning on spending all this money on this
box and then instantly spending more money to throw more models onto the battlefield
i think this is one of those boxes that just ended up being what it is because of games workshop's
release schedule every time they come out with new models they have to come out in one of these
big boxes and it's a little bit of a bummer although for me i uh maybe this is because i've
been playing for so long but these boxes don't tempt me that that much because to me everything
games workshop makes is new to me and so i never really have that oh i gotta get that new new model
because it's new and it's exciting cause like even for armies that i have butt loads of like my
my necrons i've got like five thousand points of necrons and ten thousand points of space marines
i don't own every single unit in the range like not even close like there's tons of new things
of things i could buy that would be new to me all the time so i never really feel like
i really have to jump on these boxes as much as games workshop would love me to
but it's the eldritch omens box i don't know if you're someone who desperately
wants every single unit in the box and we're planning on buying all of it separately
anyway it's a deal i suppose but i don't know it just doesn't seem like much fun
i think that they should have thrown in some sort of chaff units just to help pad it out a little
but speaking of these games workshop boxes the new box for age of sigmar arena of shades
actually looks like a fun box it comes with i think 40 models 44 models spread across the
knight haunt and the daughters of kane showing off two new heroes in one unit of archers one
brand new never before seen unit of archers for the knight hunt and this see this box seems cool
44 models so like 20 miles per side that's that's evenings and evenings worth of building models
months of painting models lots and lots of playing the daughters of cane models you've got the flying
ladies the guys on horseback and then the witches like that's three very distinct and different
units and then i mean the night hunts are just fun in general you got all of those
super scary wispy ghost skeletons this actually seems like a good box like a good
a good box to buy hilariously i bet this box sells a lot worse than the eldritch omens
eldar box because this isn't 40k but uh this this really seems like a cool box and this box temps
me a lot more part of that probably also has to do with that um i only have one ada sigma army
and that is the stormcast eternals from dominion box and so all the entire range of models from
age of segmar is new to me and so and new models are just fun but i think in terms of boxes and in
terms of like the types of boxes games our trap has released in the past i think that uh arena
of shades beats the poop out of eldritch omens i think eldridge omens is just such a lame box
i think we haven't gotten the super exciting 40k box in a while i i know before we had the
gray night box that came with jean stealer cults showing off the jeans taylor cults
demolitionist model and the new fella for for the adeptus custodies that box is a little on the lame
side too um maybe maybe we're gonna have to wait for the new kill team box before we get another
really really fun box for 40k although i suppose it won't be for 40k but there is a rumor going
around that the other half of the eldar corsair kill team box is going to be chaos and that means
that we're going to have eldar and chaos in the same box so what kind of terrain are we gonna get
with orcs and veteran guardsmen we got orc terrain and with uh sisters of battle and tau we got space
murrah we got imperium terrain so what kind of a terrain are we gonna get for the eldar because i
feel like eldar terrain would be really really cool and chaos terrain would be really really
cool so how is games workshop going to manage to avoid both of those and give us something
that's just kind of fine like i wonder i wonder if they're gonna bite the bullet and actually
make something really really cool or if they're going to recycle something that already exists
um if i had to put money down i'd say they're probably gonna recycle the eldar like overgrown
jungle terrain that came out a while ago and i think maybe is still available but it's got like
spiky plants mushroom plants viney plants and a bush and like two pieces of eldar scenery that
are like that have vines growing on them it's kind of cool terrain um it'd probably be nice
to have because natural terrain is kind of hard to come by usually most terrain is just buildings
but that's what i bet we get but i would love to see new eldar buildings or new chaotic buildings
i think that would be absolutely dope and speaking of things that are absolutely dope you might have
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eons of battle a week but with that said let me know in the comments below what you think
of the eldritch omens box i please vindicate me because i think this box is super lame i really do
i like i like all the new models in it i think they're all individually cool and like i think the
warpsmith the chaos warpsmith looks like it would be a really fun model to have in paints but just
having all of these models crammed in the same box just doesn't do anything for me i don't know
maybe i'm just being a negative nelly or maybe i'm absolutely right
please let me know in the comments but as always thanks for watching