Given that GW is a British company and the American division is headed by a Briton I really doubt any kind of silly coastal rivalry had anything to do with it. It's just where they think they have the numbers to justify a GD based on geographical sales volumes (or so I'm told).
It is a nice enough model but I can't say I'm that excited about it.
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Nice model, and this will be available at gamesday?
However the process of robo-insemination is far too complex for the human mind!
A knee high fence, my one weakness
Id love to get my hands on one, looks like fun to paint. Id use it as an Inquisitional henchmen.
Less of an East vs West thing (that should be left for the game table...maybe our own version of the ETC) but more of an observation/complaint that GWUS is ignoring half the country.
Armies Played (in order of acquisition)
Crons, SW, SM, Tau, 1k Sons, IG, Nids, BA, DE
I hate the cyber-mastiff, he looks more like a servitor-mastiff or a zombi-mastiff