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Agreed. Very promising.

Some definite Critical Roll Briarwood Arc influences.

The pace of this reveal show is nuts! Just rapid fire stuff! Definitely most jam packed one to date.

Because there are quite a few things ahead of them in the release cycle? We just saw all of the Lumineth today.

I've seen a number of surveys like this where Fyreslayers score extremely poorly. This may be controversial but I think the best solution here is not to give them more models. You don't sink money into a loser. They should, at best, merge them into a combined Duardin book. It isn't just the number of options that causes them to score low. It is the visual design. There are other low kit armies that score much better in appeal and use.

I'm still on the fence. The other rumor engine sword is the same downward pose! I guess we'll find out Saturday. Admittedly the base is stylized to the point where a boss model does seem likely.

Because GW has never done that before...

Interesting take. I assumed we were looking at the model from the back, not the front (looks like they're holding a staff up in their left hand).

While the spears are a pain, there is often an issue with the way they take these pictures that artificially makes the pikes look bent.

No way that they aren't part of the faction. Their armor design and paint scheme picks up with the Vampires we've seen already. Also I can't imagine the term "Gravelord" not lumping in skeletons.

I was thinking about this old Azyrheim Cryer recently as a source of rumours. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/15/mysteries-of-the-mortal-realmsgw-homepage-post-1/ Certainly it has been a sign of some things to come (Bugman model, Vampires, Morathi's narrative resurgence, Slaanesh, possibly the Seraphon WU band). There are still some things that I don't think we've heard about in here. Possibly still more hints left in this article or just filler mixed in with the real rumours?

I think that's a good guess. Unless the game is coming sooner than we think they can't give too much yet.

well they said they would be looking at "some of the villains" so unless they're playing fast and loose with language (which certainly wouldn't be a first), hopefully we'll see something new as well this week.

Anywhere between March and May (probably not as early as March but some people claim to have an inside scoop that it could be)?

This requires us to suspend reality and believe that GW is accurate enough with their estimations of value that they are currently "forced" to price two very similar units 10 points apart from each other. There is no way GW's points balance issues have anything to do with rounding. That gives them way to much credit.

Right?! It doesn't make any sense. It seems like they could make a lot more money if they cross sold their products more. Don't give Underworlds warbands such throw away warscrolls, make Underworlds bands more portable into Warcry, etc.

They had started to make some interesting Underworlds warscrolls recently. This one is super disappointing which seems par for the course Slaves to Darkness. No unique rules. What the heck!

They did the same thing with a Khagra's Ravagers article that didn't post til this week when it was supposed to be last week. I don't think they're doing a good job updating some of their preview articles based on schedule delays to their release timeline.

Sure but GW almost always paints Stormcast one way. Bright shining gold just doesn't fit any of the aesthetic they have laid out so far. A converted Death Guard model doesn't do anything to convince me GW would do it in a way that fits.

I'd rather not any Lumineth or Stormcast. They don't feel quite right for the grittiness of the setting.

Right so we've seen 6 of the 8 heroes so far. Really curious what the last 2 might be. No stormcast yet. I'm really hoping it stays that way as they would break the gothic horror immersion in my opinion. They aren't gritty enough for the setting. I think we could use 1 more tank/barbarian type. 1 more spell caster might be nice too. I hope the last 2 spots are bigger wildcards though, like a not traditionally "good" faction.

Only 1 of the 6 reasons you provided require GW to make nuanced rules tweaks. My "people only care about models" comment certainly contained some hyperbole, but at the end of the day I stand by the assertion that GW doesn't have to do much above and beyond to tweak and improve their existing rulesets to keep people buying their products. AOS is a perfectly playable game without big FAQ updates to balance the meta. You'd think the way some people are reacting that AOS literally was left with a totally abandoned ruleset because, gasp, the rules today are almost exactly the same as they were yesterday.

I think my point is the evidence suggests that customers don't seem to care that much about "customer satisfaction", at least as it pertains to rules/gameplay. They mostly just care about good models which is why they're happy to buy even when we're all locked down.

People can't play in person and GW's sales are higher than ever. They really don't have that much business incentive to invest a lot of time in rules and points tweaks, especially if 3.0 is going to hit later this year and shake some things up. I do however agree that their excuse is lame considering 40k got points updates but I also get why this isn't really a priority for them.

The dual demand for the contents of the box can also mitigate cost. If you don't want the cards, there's a group of people out there willing to pay for them. If you don't want the models, there's a different group of people willing to take them off your hands.