Warhammer Legends

Warhammer Legends is GW's way of supporting your favourite Special Character without having to actually put them in the next book. This mainly takes the edge off of ruining characters or units each update. But at the same time, it relegates them to the back corner. So, if you wanted to run Vlad von Carstein in AoS, you can. But if you want to see a real update for Vlad von Carstein? Too bad. Many choices for the initial Legends category are shocking and give us some in-sight as to what GW is thinking about, strangely.

The Good

• Bretonnian players can field their special characters now in AoS.
• Tomb King's player can field their named character as well.
• Same with the Empire.
• Hell, the same with (almost) every faction.
• You won't have to worry about Units or Characters being completely squatted.
• Keywords for the old factions are in.
• You don't have to worry about cutting off certain weapons from your models.

The Bad

• For the Fantasy armies that were squatted, there is reference to their units, but nothing in regards to rules.
  • Back in early AoS 1E, a lot of the special characters of each army had a bunch of really stupid and gimmicky rules that just pissed people off. A very nice heap of salt on a very open wound.
• 40k players now have to dismount their HQ choices, as a great many of them have lost forms of personal transportation.
• Fantasy models do not have point values. As of General's Handbook 2020 most Legends Units have Points again (even Gitmob Grots). Warscrolls have yet to be seen though.
• Fantasy models tend to lack any synergy with your big armies because of incompatible keywords (See Lizardmen vs Seraphon, High Elves vs Lumineth Realm-Lords).
• Honour Guard is in.
• Almost ALL 30k models including the newly cast in plastic Contemptor and Leviathan dreadnoughts and most of the FW Daemon Engines. Some consider this particular one to be in poor taste, as GW unapologetically marketed the crap out of these fresh new plastic Leviathan/Contemptor sculpts without so much as mentioning the upcoming boot to Legends. After all, it's not like the people who play one tabletop game by GW don't use their armies to play another game made by the same company, right?
• Forge World in general. Lost and the Damned, lots of Death Korps of Krieg, the old Eldar Corsairs and many named/unique characters have since been shuffled off into Legends before being wiped out. A lot of non-Titanic vehicles (and some titanic ones) have also been dumped into legends.

The Ugly

• Games Workshop has made it a point to say that anything in the "Legends" category isn't automatically allowed in Matched Play. Meaning your opponent can simply say: "No Legends," and there goes most of your White Scars list. They have even left it up to event organizers to determine whether to allow Legends or not.
• It is also apparent that GW wants to distance themselves from the 40k 7th Edition Meta by getting rid of everyone's mounted HQ choices. Or maybe just gimp those armies they don't like since the Primaris Chaplain is confirmed to have a biker model coming out sometime soon.