if it did then shouldn't alakhai be dead wasn't he the big bad in the original battle for the citadel boardgame?

I think warzone 1e had some good models and some bad ones, but most of the newer WZ2 models rock, and yet I don't think the issue should be are the new ones 'better' or 'worse', as in some cases the answer is the older one is probably, but in many cases, like the MEKA the answer is clearly the newer one. I do like the older Vulcans very much, but like the new purple sharks I'll have to see these models all painted up before rendering some opinion. I have an awesomely painted Great Grey and the paint job alone makes it so, along with the fact the model is cool. so how these models look in the end will have a lot to do with how they are painted.

The new models are nice imo. I like them much more than the older models.