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Yeah the sculpts themselves are good but they're definitely a little boring pose-wise. But, still, pretty sure I can still use mine so it's not a huge loss or anything, just a little envious!

Double edged sword, I'm sure those will be awesome but just got my set of Warriors and Chaos Lord on Manticore =/ hahaha

Gorkamorka would disapprove (do Ogors worship Gorkamorka? I'm assuming they do)

Hype! Excited to see what updates we get so I can make full use of my StD Battleforce

While I understand that we don't want to be off-putting to new players, I think acronyms for things like factions is entirely fine, especially with Age of Sigmar where they can be pretty long names full of strange words. Having to write out "Daughters of Khaine" or "Ossiarch Bonereapers" every time is kind of annoying. And sure, you can do the thing where you write it out once then use the acronym afterwards, but we're also on a discussion forum where multiple people post back and forth. I don't think every post in a thread about the Bonereapers needs to have "Ossiarch Bonereapers (OBR)." People use that formatting in things like scientific papers because they're abbreviating something that's going to be used a bunch in the next 10 pages, and those aren't discussions where people go back and forth. I do agree though that generally acronyms for rules are more annoying than they're worth; e.g. BLT for battleline tax seems just kind of silly. And having the mouseover function isn't a bad idea either, Dakka does that.

No it just wasn't quoted so I wanted to make sure haha. Thanks for the ideas though!

That's a fair clarification. I just think people are way too ready to jump on the "GW bad at balance, OBR are OP" train before any of us have gotten the models and book in hand and actually played games with them. I mean, this thread has a way overdramatic title and was made before we even got the points values (and the OP even admitted to purposefully making the title overdramatic). Can we not just like wait til we actually have all the information, play some games, and be rational about this?

Was that a reply about the Meeting Engagements list? Or are you continuing a separate conversation and I just misunderstood haha

Maybe a bit silly to ask this question so early, but any thoughts on a possible Meeting Engagements list I can build based off Feast of Bones? Obviously I'd have to buy some extra units to get to 1k but wondering if any make sense with Feast of Bones as a base

It just seems weird to acknowledge that "we'd need about 20 matches for any sort of good data set" while simultaneously making sweeping claims off a single data point. If you know you don't have enough data points, you don't proceed to start making claims off said data points. It's like claiming a dice is weighted because it landed on a 6 the first time you rolled it.

They JUST FAQed the GHB like two weeks ago to allow things like this; there's a screenshot of the FAQ further up

Just to chime in on that, Amazon used to have the Battleforce box for $140 and a decent number in stock but it looks like those sold out and it's now $170 (with like 4 in stock) so I do think the rumors have been pushing people to buy the box; I did buy one on eBay last weekend for $140 though

What are we thinking price-wise for these? Maybe $200 now considering the price hikes they've had this year?

I would love Kurnothi but it doesn't quite make sense to me; there's too much overlap with Sylvaneth (though I guess it could just be Kurnothi additions to Sylvaneth) and as others have said there are still other aelves out there that have been hinted at for a long time, that are IMO pretty different from what we have and would seem way newer than Kurnothi.

Orrukz didn't get terrain either. But GW has stated that writing a battletome takes around a year to do. Those are not insignificant resources. If they wanted to squat those units, it would've been far more logical to simply squat them and not bother with a tome at all.

The cynicism of people who feel slighted is frankly exhausting. A new battletome with the largest variety of units that seems to be competitively strong and well thought out, but because they didn't get terrain they may as well have been squatted. Like @Overread said if they wanted to squat them they'd squat them.

What a silly remark, as if the majority of new players in 2019 are solely getting into armies like High Elves. Sorry to say, but I'm pretty sure the number of players who started in 2019 by purchasing hundreds of pounds worth of high elves is dwarfed by the number of new players who are getting other armies.

You misunderstood me; what I'm saying is because we know your prices are right, then we can say confidently that some prices in the leaks are wrong

Yep, reposting my thoughts on the AUS prices: Interesting, those mostly line up with the spreadsheet leak (though that leak was in USD), except for some outliers that seem to certainly be errors. We don't have the red painting handle here but the spreadsheet had the paint pot holder as $48 USD, quantity unknown, while this has it as the way more reasonable $13 AUS for 6 of them. With that in mind, it's possible/probable that some of the other prices in the leak are also incorrect, i.e. the Warbands for Warcry re-releasing potentially alongside the StD battletome, but the items themselves are correct

Interesting, those mostly line up with the spreadsheet leak (though that leak was in USD), except for some outliers that seem to certainly be errors. We don't have the red painting handle here but the spreadsheet had the paint pot holder as $48 USD, quantity unknown, while this has it as the way more reasonable $13 AUS for 6 of them. With that in mind, it's possible/probable that some of the other prices in the leak are also incorrect, i.e. the Warbands for Warcry re-releasing potentially alongside the StD battletome.

For warriors should it be hand weapon and shield, or double hand weapons?

At least for Psychic Awakening I wouldn't be surprised if they made more, but also that box is pretty expensive at $230, even compared to the Feast box which itself is already a price hike

Yeah budget is being considered so trying to avoid "just have multiples of everything with different loadouts to switch between" haha. I guess at the level I'd be playing at, weapon loadout decisions in my 20+ model units probably won't be the be all end all

Maybe a bit of a more general question but how do people handle weapon choices on smaller models like the Motrek Guard? People are saying it's not worth it to magnetize, does that mean generally there's a better "overall" weapon choice and people just choose it and stick with it? I'm excited to build them when I get my Feast box this weekend but don't wanna like equip them with spears if it turns out the build I might want prefers blades.