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    The Rumour Thread

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    9 hours ago, Sleboda said:

    I noticed a ton of stuff out at the moment. Many dragons, the Hydra, zombie dragon, half the Skaven range. I'm beginning to think there's just a straight up production issue.

    Remember GW are casting all this in a fairly small area comparatively, to the point where they are using too much of Nottinghams power grid.

    The Rumour Thread

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    On 2/28/2019 at 2:28 PM, PJetski said:

    If the Soul Grinder can make it into AOS then it stands to reason that any of these daemon engines could be brought over, too

    Doubtful. The soul grinder is a fairly neutral design overall. The new engines are VERY clearly 40k.

    AoS 2 - Flesh-eater Courts Discussion

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    11 hours ago, Charlo said:

    Throne makes sense too!

    The peasantry erect a glorious throne for the king's to watch over the Hunt's preceedings. It's all about the pageantry! 

    Whilst I'm not sure of its exact historical accuracy, I remember in a Sharpe Novel the french set up bleachers for the upper class to watch their victory.  Since its a Sharpe novel the french lose.

    The Rumour Thread

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    4 hours ago, Skabnoze said:

    Gloomspite, Moonclan, and Destruction as a whole is much better off by the inclusion of all 3 into the same book than it would have been with a Moonclan only book and leaving Troggs and Spiderfang off as their own semi-ignored allegiances.  Honestly, I'd say that the entire player base is better off by having books like this as it makes a larger variety of lists more viable which means more variety in play and less stagnation.

    I never said it was a BAD thing, merely that as far as pattern recognition goes it seems incredibly odd to not only fuse three armies but ALSO release 11 new kits. Hence my "Feels like tacked on" comment. I mean the quality is good immaterial of the planning, its just weird is all.

    Then again GW are known to swerve off plan when it comes to their favourite factions.

    The Rumour Thread

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    4 minutes ago, RexHavoc said:

    I dont see them joining up all four clans. We might see skyre as the main focus but with some units from other clans, other than pestilence, added in, much like gloomspite.
    I think gloomspite can probably be seen as the redux standard going forward. It's very similar to how DoK was brought back, only DoK missed out on spells and terrain.
    It could be that we have another BoC on our hands with skaven, where we no new kits except spells and terrain. Most of the skaven kits from end times are still pretty good and not far off todays standards. We of course get the new warlock from carrion empire as a separate release. Only thing not readily available is the heavy weapons teams and they can just do away with them.

    I'd love it if they did get a gloomspite sized overhaul but with the amount of kits they still have which are pretty serviceable I don't see it happening. The pestilence machine kits all have skyre duel builds and then you still have the stormfiends and doomwheel. We might see new stormvermin as a troop type but that could be it and they still have a full force, enough for a battletome.

    The aim of the game is to make everything plastic. Of the 18 kits I mentioned over half are finecast/metal and at least a third are monkey-rat aesthetic which is very much out of date. A LON isn't going to cut it. 

    The Rumour Thread

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    Slaves dont exist anymore weirdly. But our ideas are diametrically opposed depending on what GWs army release will follow. The older minimalist style (5 odd kits) or the newer fusions. I feel the fusions are only worth it if theres not enough material to spin out or its just several pre existing kits that got split needlessly during the initial AOS (ala BOC or LON).

    Entirely unsubstantiated but I feel that Gloomspite started off as a moonclan only deal before they decided to throw in the Spiders and the Trogs (whom probably had been finished further back but needed the right release time) at the last minuite.

    The Rumour Thread

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    1 hour ago, Skabnoze said:

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    My only worry about getting a book release soon for Skaven is that they won't make a big release wave like Gloomspite Gits and that would be a really big shame.  Skaven deserve a full-blown overhaul style update and that seems more likely to happen in a later release window.  Remember that 40k is still going to alternate with AoS and take up big release windows for the year.

    I legitimately cant see GW fusing all the Clans back together when they can make more money with less effort by just selling 4 clans that can ally. 

    I mean they have to make 18 units alone in plastic afaik. I dont think GW have ever done that much in a single release post WFB frankly. Not even Stormcast. 

    By keeping them separate its much easier. You fold Clanrats, Stormvermin and Grey Seers into every faction since every clan has expendable chumps and their slightly better bodyguards , using Skyre as an example they'd   get a plastic Dual Acolyte kit, Endless Spells, plastic Weapon Team Kit, scenery item (since thats a thing people forget) and a plastic kit that can make either a Warlock Engineer or arch Warlorck.

    5 kits are an easier sell then 18.

    The 5000+ Owners Club

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    Well I've 7000 points of Dispossesed/Dwarfs. Mostly unpainted sadly because its 377 models (well 2 are Order allies but its a coheisive army) and I'm a very slow painter and atm the current mono-build nature of Dispossesed has left me disinclined to work on them. 

    I'm kind of surprised though looking at this thread that GW hasnt made an Imperial Knight army equivalent for AOS. Just 4 big plastic kits and your done.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    22 minutes ago, Aryann said:

    I've just assembled 40 Chainrasps. They are basically flying blankets with swords or clubs. Compare them to Stabbas. Huuuge difference. But ok. Glad you are happy with them, I am less. Always wanted to have at least one army from each Grand Alliance - only Destruction left for me. Maybe after all I will find a build for an army where Stabbas are absent or very few. Or maybe should wait for other releases. ;)

    I've once read, maybe even on this forum, that when you choose an army for yourself you should ask yourself, whether or not you like the battleline, as most of your assembling/painting time will be focused on those guys. I agree with that. The more I am surprised that GW leaves the most common unit for GG obsolete. That would be the first thing I would change when designing GG.

     

    You could just play Spiders or Trolls ? 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    26 minutes ago, JPjr said:

    In terms of timing I guess that could make sense. The Vigilus campaign ends around the start of March too (I think, they started the 80 day countdown mid December I think), I'd have thought they might have a breather in between but then maybe best to strike whilst the squigbrand is hot.

    The 80 day countdown is to the 'arrival of the Warmaster' (a new Abbadon model) 

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