u/revlid

Almost every "real" gang in the game has a plastic gang box, a plastic weapon/upgrade set, one or more plastic boxes of specialists, elites, and/or juves, plus a resin specialist/character or two (or three, or four...). Most also have a vehicle and/or bikes. The exceptions are the Malstrain Genestealer Cult and the Spryers, both of which are unconventional gangs and also both the newest to be introduced.

Oh, and the Corpse-grinder Cults, who after seven years have a single gang box and one resin bounty hunter. Five years after their release, they also got a resin weapon set.

Palanite Enforcers were released in the same box, and now have three plastic ganger boxes (four if you count Justicars), a plastic weapon/upgrade sprue, plastic big guys, a plastic vehicle, and four-odd resin character sets.

And they're not a huge outlier! The two more recent gangs, Ash Waste Nomads and Ironhead Squats, each have three plastic ganger boxes, a plastic weapon/upgrade sprue, plastic mounted gangers, and a variety of resin specialists, characters, and big guys (plus the Squat tank).

It's *specifically* the Corpse-grinder Cults who have been left on the cutting room floor. No plastic weapons and upgrades, no possessed ghouls or gory ritualists, no corpse-golem big guy or bone-gnawer pets, no Cargo-8 upgrade sprue to make a corpse-harvesting food truck.

Why do you think the Corpse-grinder Cults got neglected, so specifically? Did we ever hear any rumours or gossip about why?

Characters

• Ynnari (3): Yvraine, The Visarch, Yncarne
• Corsairs (2): Prince Yriel, Kharseth
• Harlequins (4): Troupe Master, Shadowseer, Death Jester, Solitaire
• Exodites (1): Dragon Masters

Infantry/Mounted

• Corsairs (3): Corsair Voidreavers, Corsair Voidscarred, Corsair Skyreavers
• Harlequins (2): Harlequin Players, Harlequin Skyweavers
• Exodites (3): Dragon Knights, Rangers, Shroud Runners

Vehicles

• Corsairs (2): Starfang, Corsair Vyper
• Harlequins (2): Starweaver, Voidweaver

With the new Exodites Kill Team, we've got 22 datasheets associated with Aeldari Outcasts. That's before including any "shared units" beyond the Rangers and their bikes (who are already Outcasts) and the Vyper (which already has Corsair build options in the kit). No Corsair/Ynnari Wave Serpent or Venom, no extra tanks, no Ynnari infantry or leaders borrowed from Drukhari or Asuryani rosters.

It also doesn't include a generic Corsair Prince, which seems like the perfect kit to accompany such a Codex release, or any of the other obvious expansion possibilities; updating the ancient War Walker kit and including a Wasp Walker Corsair build, for example, or adding more Exodite dinosaurs, or bespoke Ynnari cultists, or bringing back Mimes or Harlequin 'Dreadnoughts'.

By comparison, Leagues of Votann and Emperor's Children launched with 12 and 18 datasheets, respectively. Imperial Agents have 22 unique datasheets *right now*, and are much less cohesive as a self-contained faction that fights together. We already know that Corsair Princes act as patrons to Harlequin troupes, that Harlequin troupes perform for Exodite courts, that Exodite knights hitch rides with Corsair fleets to see the stars, and that Ynnari seek souls and followers wherever they can.

Splitting Aeldari Outcasts off into their own Codex seems basically inevitable at this point, and I couldn't be happier. They deserve so much more attention than a page or two of lore in the Asuryani Codex.

Include Detachments themed around each specific subfaction, plus soup Detachments for adding specific subfactions to Asuryani and Drukhari armies. Done.

Verminus, Skryre, and Eshin have essentially had full range refreshes at this point. They've all got their core infantry, plus support units and specialists.

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Meanwhile, the Clans Pestilens have the Underworlds Plaguepack, but are otherwise stuck with decades-old Plague Monks, as well as the old (but still good-looking) Plague Furnace, and the End Times-era Plagueclaw and Verminlord Corruptor. It desperately needs updated Plague Monks for its core infantry, as well as revived Plague Censer Bearers, and ideally an extra hero or cauldron-palanquin or something.

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Moulder has new Rat Ogors, the Master Moulder, and the Brood Terror, as well as the End Times-era Hell Pit Abomination, but it's out of its old "core infantry" standby of Giant Rats, has lost its Packmasters, and has none of the other smaller beasties like Wolf Rats or Brood Horrors.

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Which of these two Great Clans deserves the next wave of updates more?

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The Imperium uses a bunch of different force fields, with the most prominent being refractor fields, conversion fields, void shields, and ion shields. They all operate in different ways, such as dispersing hostile energy throughout the field, converting it into light energy, or distorting and shunting it through the warp.

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Storm Shields (and the lesser Combat Shields) are said to integrate a power field generator... but I don't know what kind. Is it a refractor field? A molecular disruption field like a power weapon, but used to disrupt hostile energies somehow? Something else entirely?

As far as I can tell, all the difficulty options in Mechanicus 2 focus on skirmishes (how much health do enemies have, how much damage do you do, etc), and the campaign map (how many resources do you get).

But the biggest stumbling block I've been hitting (and hearing about) is *between* battles in the same mission, when my units are damaged or dead enough that I just can't possibly win and have to restart.

Aside from a "return to mission select" restart option, I think it could really help to add a difficulty option that provides some of the later mid-mission revival/healing upgrades for free.

If my units all healed a bit between missions (or full heal, if you turn the dial down all the way), if I always got the option to revive or recruit an extra unit at camp, if squads always refilled (for a resource cost?) unless they were destroyed, etc.

Not as a standard, but for a lower difficulty option I think it'd make a huge difference without turning individual battles into cakewalks.