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2 minutes ago, KriticalKhan said:
I'm really interested in seeing how they handle Stormcast going forward. After the middling response to the initial models, I don't think GW had a lot of time to pivot their design direction in time for 2e; the Sacrosanct feel like a natural expansion rather than a redesign. But 3e and the Thunderstrike models almost feel like a complete reboot, and many of those models feel more like replacements instead of additions (Vindictors and Liberators, Annihilators and the other Paladins, etc.)
I've heard some rumors that older units like Liberators are getting new models for 4e, which I initially thought was absurd until I remembered that it would be nine years since they had been released, and given GW's design-to-release timeline, by the time we get to 4e they could have been in-development eleven to twelve years ago. I don't think there's any scenario where they drop them entirely (at least, not for another twenty years) but the roster bloat is real and I don't see a way they can diversify some of these units when there are so many trying to fill the same battlefield roles.
They do have like 2 more chambers to open in the future.
I also guess they can keep making different armor type to fit whatever the narrative or new mechanic they are introducing in each edition
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Gobsprakk was in a boxset last year as well
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I rather they focus on the narrative a bit more during the whole edition instead of sidelining it until almost the end of the edition.
at least with 40K they release crusade packs regularly during their codex release even if some of those narrative very inconsequential to the greater galaxy.
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1 hour ago, Jator said:
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🤫It was King Brodd by the way
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sounds like Khorne, Sylvaneth, and Skaven are going to be active in the next book. Maybe doubling back on either Nurgle or Fyreslayers
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36 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Being reactionary is conservative. That's how most companies do business: release a product, listen to customer feedback, iterate. There's a strong argument to be made that Hollywood relies on customer feedback from test screenings a little too much.
10th edition was a reaction to the bloat that players complained about in 9th. The Ironjawz pdf was a reaction to the complaints about Lumineth in Broken Realms. The Old world was a reaction to the complaints about the death of the old world. Sisters of battle were the number one request in a customer survey. Every Ghb has been a reaction to the last. The mere existence of any kind of ghb is a reaction to the complaints about the lack of points when AoS launched.
But they still do what they want to do over what most people want/think/ assume they to do,
we would have digital rule set, less battletome releases, no paywall apps, and less ambiguous rules on their fans RTS
what people are asking of city is beyond the bounds and parity they set up between other armies, most armies won’t get to at much support or expansions out of its core identity and Cities is not some golden goose exception to their design philosophy
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I mean careful where refreshing are going, most of the old models being ask to be replace are also relatively cheap compare to other battleline (daemons, clanrats, grots, and skinks) when termagaunts and hormagaunts where refresh they where price outrageously if not prohibitively high for a standard horde units.
of course in the end this may just be an inevitable as GW far as GW pricing structure goes.
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19 minutes ago, Chikout said:
It was a dumping ground/ passion project for Sam Pearson but it turns out that people loved it. GW has absolutely learnt in recent years that listening to customer requests is a gold mine. That's why we got Sisters of Battle, Leagues of Votann, and the whole special studios project. The desire for more Aelves and Duardin in Cities has been almost universal since the cities update was announced but at that point the minis were already done. GW would be leaving money on the table by not fulfilling that request in the future.
I feel your making big assumption on GW parts, they not really a reactionary company but rather by the book and conservative business structure.
largely people who say leaving money on the table are often not realize there really no money on the table
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I doubt that the action they will take considering that is seem categorization and making armies similarly unique is more of GW design philosophy.
I think writing is on the wall that City will eventually just be all human in the end as they want an all human race in AoS regardless of what people felt or assume what city was suppose to be
at the end of the day it started of as a dumping ground for old model and it doesn’t look like discontinuation of Old world models is going to stop
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It would be nice to have more shows on Warhammer +, I know 40K is more popular but only having 1.25 shows and both done by the same hammer and bolter animators makes it lacking
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2 hours ago, ScionOfOssia said:
I can’t believe Destruction has 3 genuinely interesting POV characters, and they decided to make absolutely none of them the star of the Era of The Beast, and instead made Kragnos who is about as compelling as a wet paper bag. Why couldn’t it have been King Brodd?
I mean only now have we gotten any lore narrative about the era of the beast, we have gone almost two year without much happening from dominion to harbringer
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It would be weird as I assume Marines where going to be release first before Reign of Brute
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1 hour ago, DeLewko said:
So I the article they mentioned that kruleboyz are snatching eggs of exotic monster in Ghur, do you think is only mentioning the new warcry warband or it’s a setup for wave 2 ? 🤔
Yeah they just reminding people about the upcoming warcry warband. They even hyperlink the text to redirect you to the Monsta Killaz reveal article.
granted they mention the Miredrakes twice now (the Belcha banner uses a Miredrake tongue) but I wouldn’t read too much into it yet.
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Probably just like Seraphon, it be a few months after the initial release for the vanguard boxset to be release
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Some feature are confirm on their steam page. Army painter, map editor, and scene editor
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55 minutes ago, cyrus said:
Do you have any link to the list ? Thanks!
it’s here but you need to have an account to view the list
https://www.bestcoastpairings.com/event/5DR48KVUUQ
He got second place with Kruleboyz
Edit: probably a typo but the boltboyz are 240 each
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Kruleboyz went 7-1 at NoVA
GW: eh they are doing fine lol
but seriously a Kruleboyz supplement would be sorely needed just to fixed dirty tricks
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2 hours ago, Grunbag said:
Why split them when you already can play them separately in a single battletome if you want , but it also give you a 3rd army buy living brutal and kunnin ? Split them in their own battletome will just remove one gameplay , for no gain (and more money to spend into 2 BT instead of one)
Because they get the benefit of being a full fledge army and not be tied or balance because Big WAAGH exist. GW doesn’t seem to be able to balance big roster with similar units without messing it up and they already move away from souping armies this edition already. Kruleboyz themselves seem like they should have been their own army to begin with because of how redesigned they are compare to the classic GW Ork design.
BiG WAAGH can exist as some side allegiance that you can do for fun but it should not have any balance or weight to pure Kruleboyz or Ironjawz allegiance
Not to mention every time they get their one foot hero they get an actual hero that work for their army and not for the other
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35 minutes ago, Grunbag said:
Stormcast BT have more page , so I guess they can increase the orruk one I guess . Especially if they remove the BS from the BT that will free some space
I mean at that point you might as well split IJ and Kruleboyz into their own book. Warclanz is really just there to give Bonesplitterz a home since there really no place to put them otherwise. If they squat Bonesplitterz then there really not a big point of keeping Ironjawz and Kruleboyz in the same tome especially if by that time both there ranges are big enough to stand alone.
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I don’t think the bone RE matches the one on the Gorger (or I do not see those metal studs on it)
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3 hours ago, Grunbag said:
I don’t see the point of removing big waaagh just for the sake of splitting BT.
it always be popular and perform in the meta , giving players the possibility of playing only gork with IJ or only Mork with Kruleboyz , or gorkamorka with big waaagh .
removing it will not improve neither IJ or Kruleboyz , just remove one playstyle .
also IJ and KB don’t need to have separated BT to have better enhancement / mount trait / battle tactic or whatever. You can improve them in a single battle tome , just add more pages to the BT .I wouldn’t say they ever been popular only common when either something is broken or some unintentional helps them like Gobsprakk.
generally the solo clan are play more often then big waagh
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9 minutes ago, Elbaf said:
Valrak did a rumor on AoS in his today's video, about christmas boxset rumor (mostly 40K but talked about aos for once)
AoS could have Bonereaper box, Soulblight, a Chaos one/Be'Lakor theme ( without him but with Eternus ) and Seraphon
we will have to wait and see, it could be interesting
to his rumors from last year, he was accurate with the AoS ones but he only had 4 out of the 6 battleforce release.
there a possibility there is two more if they start to release 6 battleforces for AoS going forward
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The army box are also not as enticing to buy multiples for general people (even though irl I seen more people have done this )
the miniature discounts is not as great as vanguard boxes and the extra thing like Battletomes and warscroll cards are hard to offload. Often times they put a model in the box that you don’t really need multiples of like Light of Eltherion or the Slann.
Future Of AoS
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All thing point to them separating their games setting more then any unifications at least between their mainline games and Specialist games.
what happen in 40K where they basically legends all the Horus heresy is probably the indication of what they will do going forward with AoS and Old world