Issue five is out and this week is a space marine week. Not
only does it introduce power weapons into the rules but we got a new exclusive
model called lieutenant Calsius.
Calsius is a well know Lieutenant and even
served on the same battlefields as Roboute Guilliman. The story we are given for
him is the battle on Nova Thulium. The worlds supply line of food is under
attack by a horde of orks who are set on destroying as much as they can before
the ultra-marines can respond.
Lieutenant Calsius and squads arrives and starts
taking out the orks until he spots their leader, a big ol warboss. Now
warboss’s are huge and if I saw one id probably shit my pants but not Calsius!
He walks straight up to him and the two start fighting it out until Calsius
whips out his big power sword that’s the end of the warboss.
It’s a good introduction to how lieutenants stick out a
little bit more that normal space marines and how they get to use power
weapons. The rules update for this guy is he is a character. Characters usually
have better stats, weapons and different abilities. Unlike the previous rules
for units from issues 1-4 characters can go around the battlefield independent
from units.
The model
Calsius’s backstory seems to build him up pretty nice but
does the model live up to it?
The model itself is really nice. The problem I usually have
with space marine characters is they can be over decorative sometimes. I mean
how many purity seals dos a guy need? We get you’re a bad ass but stick any
more of them purity seals on you and your gonna start looking like a mummy.
But his guy isn’t like that. He has 2 purity seals, one on
his back pack and one his hip. The shoulder pad and a knee pad have the ultra
marine symbols and that’s it. This guy doesn’t need all that. All he needs is
his ork slaying power sword.
Overall
This weeks release was really good. The magazine is slowly
adding more dept to the rules and lieutenant Calsius is good addition to the
space marine side. What this does now is make me think when are we going to get
the Death Guard equivalent? Because if calsius looks good then the Death guard
leader is going to look amazing.
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