It's bad enough that this Cadian Kill Team stole the role of a potential Catachan Kill Team, but now they're up for pre-order next week, but The Red Terror (which shared a release box with them) is nowhere to be seen.
Between the Kasrkin and the Brood Brothers kits, Cadians are well covered on the Kill Team front. Not to mention the huge range refresh they got not too long ago.
And now Cadians get ANOTHER kit.
Meanwhile, Catachan has been stuck with this since 3rd edition; I used to have a Catachan Guard Army with these models when I was like, 17 years old... I'm 44 now!
Get a load at how poorly the lasgun bit lines up with the weapon's stock; this screenshot is from the GW webstore. You can look it up yourself. Not even the professionals can assemble this kit without issues.
The Lasguns come separate to the arms, and whole; you have to cut off the Lasgun's stock and pistol-grip so that it can be replaced by the stock/pistol-grip sculpted on the arm/hand. With no indentations sculpted into the flakk jacket on the torso to accommodate the Lasgun, you're hard pressed to get it to line up straight.
That's how it was done back in the late 90's/early 2000's; we just had to raw-dog it and modify the kit, right out of the box to make it work.
And if you want Catachans, you still do; at a cost of 60 bucks for the privilege.
Look! They're so embarrassed by this old kit, that the model they show in the thumbnail on the app is from the Command Squad (which came out a few years later).
Good luck building a Guard Infantry squad using the Catachan Command Squad kit lol.
A Kill Team set where a squad of Guardsmen go up against a big Tyranid gribley would have been the perfect opportunity to release a Catachan Devils Kill Team/Catachan Jungle Fighters Infantry Squad, duel kit.
And they BOTCHED it.


















