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Still holding out hope this is a delayed April Fool's

I wish I didn't agree with you. PP has always shown "faction favoritism", or at the very least Haley/Denny favoritism. I still hold out hope though that these casters will be limited only to certain play formats (like Champions or league play).

Silver lining: in order to play Denny0, they have to NOT play Denny1.

So this is all supposed in the idea that you can cast a spell after making the movement for a charge but before actually making the attack roll. Can anyone confirm this is legal?

Naaresh charges something, casts Cyclone to maneuver around his target, immune to free strikes, into its back arc. Then he gets all the attacks from Cyclone. Then, since he hasn't completed his charge but is still in melee range of his charge target, makes the charge attack, but now from the back arc.

Is this jank possible?

I would think the real reason to use Primal Terrors over CotD would be the Hellmouth and the synergy between Bethayne and the Blightbringer which would make her a veritable monster during feat turn. If you use Wasps to proc Flank, they can (reasonably) be protected via concealemnt or hiding behind Ogrun bases. These same bases also give you a place to hide Bethayne herself. You end up losing a free solo slot, but you already had that problem in CotD anyway. Heck, because of her miserable beast points, you often have that with Bethayne regardless of what theme you take.

I agree that Legion themes are terribly designed. So badly designed that I completely quit the faction. Really, with the exception of maybe Primal Blightbringers, PP has completely dropped the ball when designing Legion in my opinion. But that's still a pretty small fraction of the themes and does nothing to dispute the idea that less models that can work together makes you have less interactions to test.

But one faction out of over a dozen having badly designed themes has nothing to do with limited model selection making it easier for them to balance. I mean, frankly, what's easier to balance and test: ALL the models in entire faction? Or a much smaller subset?

I DESPISE Legion themes. Like... Oh my God. So much am I salty. But... Part of the reason why is because they are so severely limiting, even compared to other factions. Most factions don't have massive battlegroup limitations on their themes, or themes limited to only light warnouns, etc. But these heavy limitations mean they have far fewer interactions to test. So... Silver lining I guess.

I think most people miss "the point" on "why themes". It has little to do with fluff or "restricting choices": it's how PP strives to balance things now because of the enormity of the "base factions". That's how it is "good for players". The idea of trying to make every model meaningful, much less delivering "army balance" would be basically impossible without them. It's already pretty daunting as is. But they couldn't just say "sorry player base, all your armies are illegal", so they made "themeless armies" still legal, but the power differential between in-theme and out-of-theme that PP can mostly just ignore balancing a model across an entire faction because the "broken combo" would have to be so wildly egregious it has to make up for roughly 15-20 points + powerful special rules.

Summarized: we should all be grateful and embrace themes because without them we would be back in Mk2-land, where there is almost no reason to play over half the models in your faction because they are out-classed by your other choices. Yes, they are less fun from a list building perspective, but the alternative is so much worse it doesn't really matter.

I can see them being very good for X2 under Mk2 rules.

But "during testing" they made mk3.0 Skorne, which was about the most pathetic designing I've ever seen PP do, so... I'm not surprised. I just don't see how they (nor Cataphracts) got touched during the v2 revamp.

Anyway, I'm just kvetching. Seriously, does anyone have a suggestion for these models other than paper weights?