EccentricCircle

I'm glad I'm not going mad, although you can never be sure when Chaos is involved!

Huh, I'm sure it wasn't earlier... I only counted seven factions under Chaos. Eight is a much spikier number though...

Surely the lack of Greenskins and Beasts of Chaos must be a mistake? I can't see why those would be the only factions just to be rolled into the "all Destruction" and "All Chaos" tabs, especially given how popular the beastmen are proving to be since their revamp?

Interesting, perhaps its worth the rest of us keeping on at them in that case.

Here are some pictures of how it goes together. The original Azyrite Ruins kit has three long wall sections and three shorter types with right handed connections. So these can be assembled in any of the nine permutations shown in the first picture. Clearly you only get one of each type in this set. This is basically three sprues worth of ruins. The taller pieces can be assembled by attaching a long and short wall together, as shown in the box art. and the floor pieces fit in quite neatly in this arrangement. I've not tried standing any heavy metal models on them, but they seem fairly stable for lightweight ones. You can then connect the two long pieces and the two short pieces, to make a very large building, and a smaller piece. The broken floor segment can be attached to the larger piece, so that the floor still fits in this combination. The smaller azyrite ruins pieces can also be attached to the double height wall segments, using a smaller piece to fill in the "gap" in the attachment. (The two adapters can also be put together to make a freestanding column. ) I think putting the smaller Azyrite ruin sprues in this kit makes a lot of sense, and makes it the much better of the two options. I'd still have lived to have had that longer single storey section that's shown on the box. Maybe one day! I've tried to keep the same basic colour scheme across all the sections, to make them interchangeable. Clearly some sections have ended up with slightly darker washes than others, so its not a perfect match, but these still basically look as though they belong together once you get them on the table, so I'm pretty happy with how its turned out over all.

So long as you paint all the pieces to match, they can be rearranged as much as you like. They are designed to be stored as flat wall sections and snapped together when you set up the table. I'll see if I can post some photos of different ways they can be combined.

I do really like how modular it is as well. As I was painting it, I was thinking that the larger walls only stuck together in a couple of ways, but once I realised you can also combine them with the smaller wall segments the number of possibilities has vastly increased. I like how the broken floor piece can fit in several different ways, depending on how you connect the walls as well.

There's also the fact that they'd shown off the taller wall sections months ago, back when the first set of Azyrite Ruins were released. It seems like it was all designed at once, but it took them a while to figure out what they were going to do with the different pieces. Clearly someone changed their mind as to which pieces were going in each set, but somewhere in the chain of command the message got lost. As a consumer we basically want the cheapest possible way to get the complete variety of ruins. As a company they know that unique sets will sell more than duplicate ones, and so want to make sure that as many people as possible buy a ruins box, a townscape box, and a blasted hallowheart box. Or wait until Christmas and splurge on the big bundle. I suspect that they realised that they were stealing the thunder of the larger set, by releasing a more affordable way to get the long ruin segment at the same time. No way to know for sure though.

Its worth noting that this is the set of squigs which duplicates the sculpts in the Squig Herder sets. So its possible that they intend to keep selling the models, just not without the associated goblins. It will be interesting to see whether any of the other resin models vanish. The "Skarsnik" warboss is currently out of stock, but not listed as sold out for instance. Nonetheless, thanks for the tip. Its definitely time to order that squad of Squig Hoppers I'd been considering!

Wow, great stuff! That's quite the fortress!

Well, my Friendly Local Gaming Store have just given me the replacement which they received from GW. Unsurprisingly, it contains the exact same thing as the one I returned to them on Monday. Given what other people have heard back I guess there's not much else to be done at this point. I wasn't going to make a fuss to the shop keeper, since its not their fault, and I'm not keen to try to sue games workshop for false advertising over a £30 kit! That said, I am really disappointed by the way this has turned out, and GW's apparent handling of the situation. I've been quite pro GW over the last year or so, but my attitudes to them are definitely swinging back to neutral after this. Ironically, prior to this all, I'd been considering getting the Blasted Hallowheart set in order to get the longer wall section. That assuredly isn't going to be happening now.

Wow, that's really bad. If it was just the booklet that would be one thing, but declaring all of the promotional materials to just be wrong is shameful. It is rather telling that the sprue they are leaving out is the one that had hitherto only been available in the expensive Hallowheart set (and now looks to be in the big Christmas bundle.) I'd hazard a guess that they decided they didn't want to give people a more affordable way to buy that element, and chose to keep it exclusive to the bigger sets. It will be interesting to see how my indy store handles this (they told me to come back on friday, by which time they'd have the correct kit from GW). If GW will be turning around and telling them that there is nothing wrong with it, they might be in a tricky position.

So they've saying that its the box art and instruction book that are incorrect, not the contents? That's quite a stretch. The long wall section can be seen in almost every picture on the box, and is clearly there in many of the marketing pictures! It was clearly advertised that that would be part of the set. Its not just that they've put the wrong leaflet in the box! I wonder if someone changed their mind as to what pieces would be included late in the process, and they didn't get around to changing all of the pictures and such. Either way, its clearly been advertised to include that piece, so i'd think they are on shaky ground trying to say that they never intended to include it.

Similar at my end; I took it back to the indy game store where I bought it, and the clerk rang up the GW official who handles their stock. It was apparently the first that official had heard about the problem. We sent him photos of the sprues and the shop will be getting a replacement copy for me with their next order, while they send back the original. I'll be certain to check the box before I take it home though, as I've yet to see any evidence that complete kits actually exist!

OK, thanks. I didn't know that they did that! That potentially makes things much simpler.

I guess the next question is: Has anyone actually received the full kit? If its just a few faulty units that's one thing, but if everyone is missing a piece it could be somewhat more awkward to get replacements. I bought mine from a 3rd party retailer, rather than GW themselves, so I'm sure they'll refund me, but unless there is a product recall it might be tricky to get the full thing.

Glad its not just me. From examining the sprues, it looks as though it can make most of what's in the instruction book, just not the long wall (which I think is the one which has only been available in the £50 box up till now.)

Hello Can someone please confirm how many sprues there are supposed to be in the new Azyrite Townscape kit? I've just bought one, and am concerned that a piece might be missing. I've got two large sprues of two storey ruins, and two small sprues which look identical to the ones from the Azyrite Ruins kit. However there doesn't seem to be a large sprue of single storey ruins as depicted in the instruction book. I've looked on the GW webstore, but it only shows three sprues of single storey ruins,and doesn't show the two storey ones at all. So basically I'm not certain where the error lies.

Wow, that looks fantastic. What great topography!

I think that's referring to pages in the Rumour Thread, rather than pages in White Dwarf.

I love the way you've set up your displays, especially the Tomb Kings on their pyramid! Some fantastic models in there, particularly nice to see such variety in your forces!

I think the technical term is "Wow!" That is a vast collection.

That looks amazing!

I'm pretty sure that the Nurgle book is one of the "white spine" books which were "written to work with 2nd edition"*. Thus it likely was written with the philosophy of providing exceptions to the core rules, rather than setting out rulings that 2e core would then errata. * I.e. they likely wrote it after the new core rules, even though it was published before, while 2e was still being playtested. I'm pretty sure that we can pin down when the 2e rules were in development as being that big gap between the last turquoise spine book coming out, and the first white spine one. I seem to recall it was a few months at least?

I kind of love that Sigmar was evidently running out of ideas for Cool Stormcast names when he got to Balthas; "Balthasar... Balthasar...um... Balthas Arum!"