#lord kakophonist

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Lord Kakophonist

[titanomancy]

The big show is, of course, Emperor's Children getting a full reveal including special edition launch box and cross-promotional tie-in novel. My original guess had been summer before they just full on exposed Fulgrum for Christmas,

The new Tormentors and Infractors (Noise Marines with bolters or pistol/close combat weapon, respectively) do a fantastic job of filling a gap in the range that Emperor's Children (or other Slaanesh marked Chaos Space Marine armies) have long suffered, that being a suitably degenerate form of regular infantry. Yes, you can just paint a Legionnaire pink but is that really excessive enough?

The new Noise Marines, themselves, are a home run. There are a ton of new details evocative of actual musical instruments that mesh nicely with the existing, distinctive silhouettes of the blastmaster and sonic disruptor.

And new to the range are the Flawless Blades, evoking much more of that freaky-deaky cenobite self-mutilation aesthetic that's always undergirded the Slaaneshi design brief but never really manifested in the miniatures to date. These are ugly dudes, body and soul, and that's beautiful.

The multipart Lord Exultant looks to offer a fair amount of flexibility for a modern character model, and the studio examples do a great job of working within a single pose to make it look like three completely different figures. Some thought clearly went into that cape.

But if you really want to go loud, you know you're going to want to take the Lord Kakophonist. What an absolute banger of a model, just a completely wild throwback to that Rogue Trader vibe. I'm curious to see how the kit actually breaks down, if he's only got those screamer pistols or if there's another option on the sprue.

And last of all, Lucius. Disgusting, traitorous, degenerate Lucius. Slaanesh's favorite miscreant. He's certainly no prettier than he's been, but what a glow-up. It really makes you wonder who the hell greenlit Coteaz.

Overall, great showing. Extremely satisfied with the range, ten out of ten, no notes.

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shoutout to this crying little face on his back

Lord Kakophonist