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    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, Blood&skulls said:

    If deepkin are inbound shortly then what pictures from the rumour mill do we think will fit them? 

    I cant think of many off the top of my head. 

    Anybody got a roundup of pictures that will fit? 

    I think 11 and 13 have a strong possibility to be deepkin. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    6 minutes ago, WarbossKurgan said:

    Which kit though? I can't find it!

    You are right I can't see it either...

     

    4 minutes ago, Durant said:

    I think 20 is skaven from shadespire (boss) and 15 is nurgle hero (the thing on his back

     

    Can't see 20 on the Skaven model. I would also agree about the back banner on the Lord of Blights but actually it came out after he was shown and is different. The Lord of blights one has 3 nails at the top. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    16 minutes ago, Ekrund Oath Splitters said:

    I don't think it will, she'll have 6 and then transforms to 12. If she takes 3 wounds and transforms she may just be replenished and must use the new warscroll. It says it takes a minimum of 4 turns to kill her, which wouldn't be true if she takes 3 transforms and only has 6 wounds left as that would be 3 turns? 

    We don't know her exact ruling on how she transforms. She can lose control. I would assume that unloess you chose to transform her she would transform when she suffers he last wound as the Oracle. So  3 wounds a round. 4 rounds of combat. 2 battlerounds. 

    The Rumour Thread

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    I did not say this was perfect. I did not say it was in depth analysis. Just analysis. If you look at the breakdown of armies vs allegiances you get a nice look at how GW saw these races over the years. Now they have changed I had you that. The game is changed but to assume that each grand alliance is going to be fair is naive at best. GW is going to sell what is popular. They are going to experiment within the  confines of what they want to and what they think will sell. They are a publicly traded company so the only way they get to take a gamble is if they are sure they can recoup the costs. Does this mean they wont have a flop? I am sure they will at some point. (Not sure where.)

    Is it fair that most of the battletomes released have been Order? Chaos? Death being left rotting? Destruction who? TBH I think GW doesn't give a second thought which grand alliance they belong to. Can they create a marketable product that they are passionate about, and will it make them money and be IP covered? Yes? Then proceed.   

    Allies were part of the 8th edition rules. Just no one used them.

    So I would love to be wrong but I can guess we will see this disparity for a long time. There will be people with genuine gripes about all the compendium stuff going away and then different races not being supported 15 years down the line but trying to get everyone a participation award will lead to less product that sells and that just removes the game from our hands (in 30 years or so) and replaces it with a new game for the cycle to begin. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    Ok so I did a bit of analysis based on current battletomes comparing it to 8th edition (or WHFB) here is the breakdown. (this is not taking into considerations of the 3 battletomes that were released and then replaced.)

    WHFB

    Chaos - 27%

    Order - 47%

    Death - 13%

    Destruction - 13%

    AoS*

    Chaos - 35%

    Order - 35%

    Death - 7%

    Destruction - 21%

    Not including the new DoK 

     

    So if anything Order needs more books, Death needs a little more and Destruction should not see a book for a while, Chaos is almost spot on. 

     

    We notice it more in this game that's 2.5 years old than we ever did in WHFB. 

     

     

    The Rumour Thread

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    I don't know why people are reading too much into the Shadow comment. I think this is still Neferata. Remember if Vampires are at least similar to their old background they still need to be protected from the sun... (Or the realm of light in the realms case) so coming from the shadows makes sense. 

     

    It also makes sense for Neferata and her children to be working in the shadows as that is what she is all about. 

     

    Edit: 

    If we are reading into the shadow just look at her warscroll:

     

    Neferata is the Mortarch of Blood and the Queen of Mysteries, a vampiric empress who has cast a long shadow across the reaches of history.

     

    Emphasis mine. 

     

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    The Rumour Thread

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    For me it's an aesthetics and availability thing. Also (from my experience) those that play them are deeply rooted in a bygone game and have at times been frustrating to play against as they lament on the days of old.

     

    Also every minute spent balancing those points is less development time doing new and fresh ideas.

    and to quote the great Mr Stinson  "newer is always better"

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    The Rumour Thread

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    4 hours ago, Chikout said:

    The adepticon to has already said that compendium armies will be allowed there, hopefully other organisers will follow suit.

    Hopefully not. Time to cut the cord with those remnants.

     

    The GHB changes seem to have given us a whole new game! Amazing considering its only 2 years old. Can't wait.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    I think this could be the look of the Shadow Aelves. 

     

    Or the new game. hmmm. The Ulgu Aelves have been in there on their own (or without sigmar) for centuries by the sounds of it so they could be twisted or evloved into something much more than an aelf.

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