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It's plausible existing rumours mixed in with made up provocative stuff to make /tg manbabies get mad. "Chaos Dwarfs aren't coming because antisemitism even though they've teased them, referenced Hashut loads and put two of them in Warcry warbands" is inane, "High Elves and Wood Elves are being retired from AOS" suggests they have no idea what they're talking about at all

[TOW 1.0 - The Empire]

(From one of the server's mods):

I just received a batch of juicy rumours from a reliable source. This is not a late April's fools: The bad:

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  • Skaven will remain in AoS for the time being. Don't expect them to return for TOW for the foreseeable future.
  • Forgeworld Mammoth won't be returning.

  The good:

  • There's an army book for Cathay, with the same roster as TWW. Don't expect this soon, though.
  • Unlike the Mammoth, the preyton, gorebull BSB, skin wolves and Fimir will return as part of the Beastmen AJ.
  • The Beastmen AJ includes a new lore of magic (reminiscent of the Lore of Beasts).
  • The Beastmen AJ armies of infamy are a minotaur horde and a call of the wild list (which is where the new lore of magic and the FW minis will be slotted).
  • They're working on another FAQ to release alongside every other Arcane Journal. The way I understand this is that it's a third FAQ, not the second one we've been promised. What the contents of this FAQ are is a total mystery. Maybe specific clarifications for the AJ? (speculation mine)
  • The armies of infamy for Empire are Gunnery School of Nuln and a Middenheim flavoured army. 

   

[TOW 1.0 - The Empire]

There's a batch of rumours doing the rounds via the WHFB discord (and possibly some other places) including that the Empire Arcane Journal armies are Nuln Gunnery School and Middenheim

[Warhammer: The Old World News and Rumours Thread]

Interesting, just the two armies of  infamy and two special characters. The weird new shaman has a little bit of troll in him a la Grom.

Some more subtle expectation-management language towards the end saying it will take a long time for the 9 core factions to get their stuff released, and the scale of the project has grown (presumably after it shrunk at first during development) and leaving the door open for other stuff to come back in scope

Trying to thread the "Kislev and Cathay will come later, but buy other stuff in the meantime and don't get mad at us for saying they're not actually coming until then" needle

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I'm probably not going to get to collecting Greenskins for a while, but I really want that new shaman model. It strikes a perfect balance between "he looks ridiculous" and "you'd be too scared to tell him he looks ridiculous".

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Disappointed that they used the term "Gubbinz" to describe some of the preorders but did not in fact rerelease Gubbinz the Jester from Lair of the Orc Lord.

[The Rumour Thread]

"even this guy may cast a shadow" [gestures at confused snotling]

[Warhammer - The Old World]

Thanks - It's meant to be more of a sea green overall (doing a lesser-spotted Cothique-themed force to fit in with the expeditionary/seafaring nature of High Elves in the current game's setting), but there's enough (dark sea) blue in the mix that it doesn't feel too outside of High Elf tradition

I've really come round on those Island of Blood Swordmasters after painting these, I wasn't really a fan of the "unit champion holding his helmet for no reason" aesthetic, but I've kind of got into the headcanon that's he's just a really vain guy who is doomed to be eventually domed by an unlucky repeater crossbow bolt at Finuval Plain. Hopefully they do re-release IoB as a ton of people will want it, but the mixed sprues might need them to reconsider their current obstinate attitude to the poster-rats for AOS 4e

 

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Daaaamn, I started painting six swordmasters in January and I've only just finished them

Gonna be a bit more pragmatic about the paint jobs for the back ranks in general tho

Fun with magnets, slightly less fun with fiddly banners

[AOS Battle Reports? What do you watch?]

Yeah I rate Battleshock Wargaming.

With youtube batreps I'm looking for a combination of sensibly edited to remove boring delays and chatter/good balance of high level view and closeups of nice miniatures and dice rolls/games being played for some measure of fun and entertainment value/presenters not incredibly annoying, and they're up there on those fronts. They also seem to play a good range of stuff and get newer armies to the table pretty frequently

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I got ol' Aenur for a £6 off ebay a few years ago, people seem to want £35 for him in our strange current Warhammer economy. I'm going to run him as a Loremaster type character as he looks more like what I imagine one should than the chunky greaves squid-throwing official one

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Nearly done with the front rank of my swordmasters, and slowly rescuing some seaguard and assorted Ebayed character models from their inferior 2019 paintjobs

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Thanks! It's Scale75 Surfer Orc Flesh with Vallejo Ivory and dark sea blue mixed in for highlights/shade. SOF goes on so easily, the only thing I'd used it for before was airbrushing some spooky/cursed warcry terrain but I've got my supplies in of it now, it's going to see a lot of use

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I'm doing a Cothique High Elf army, basically cos I like the scheme. Time has been tight in terms of getting my swordmasters up to the standard of the test model, but it's enjoyable. I have a loremaster, a dinky little 5th Ed mage, 15 Seaguard, 19 swordmasters, 20 archers, 8 shadow warriors and 5 reavers (if I can ever find the damn sprues for the last two). Gonna try and get good progress on the infantry so I can splurge on characters and phoenix guard when the range is actually on sale at normal prices.

 

 

 

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32 minutes ago, JerekKruger said:

lso Element Games had large amounts of stock (10+ status) of the Core Book, Ravening Hordes and Forces of Fantasy for sale online.

Thanks, this has saved me from Wayland Games back-order purgatory at last

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I think some people just naturally have that "how can I break/optimise this" mindset and it's probably super useful in tech jobs and stuff, I just can't fathom why they want to apply it to a thematic wargame where elves fight goblins

[Warhammer - The Old World]

The online only mathhammerers/amateur rules lawyers pushing insane interpretations of things they haven't read properly have been having a field day (elsewhere). I kinda hoped they'd give us like one more week of childlike excitement that there were fun army lists out for all of the old favourites

Anyway, I've been consulting my intellect and found that even in the optimal 13-wide formation, silver helms will only do *._23@ wounds to a T3 unit on the charge on a wet Wednesday in Stoke, so anybody who was painting a unit of those will want to immediately melt them down and reconsider their life choices

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37 minutes ago, Wnerva said:

Murderous rule is not a misprint.

High Elves got a similar rule - Ithilmar weapons. reroll 1s to hit, and also with hand weapon only.

Which units can actually use this rule for High Elves? Would it be mainly ranged units who end up in melee (assuming you'd never build a character that had nothing but a hand weapon unless you were really low in points)? Does a spearmen unit champion automatically count as having a spear in line with the rest of the unit or can they reroll ones?

[Warhammer - The Old World]

Given Comrade GW's newfound hatred of scalpers, maybe they could factor this into their marketing of the factions. The Wood Elves of Athel Loren are coming to no-look snipe your wallets, you mayfly parasites

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I got a good deal for a few Lothern Seaguard on ebay and some High Elf archers on TrollTrader over the last few days, and both orders were cancelled due to mysterious sudden unavailability of the items. It's like buying a dang house, slap a bid in and pray that market conditions don't change while the paperwork's being drawn up

Probably karma for me buying Spire of Dawn for £80 and then selling the Skaven half for £70 four years ago I guess

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7 hours ago, Jefferson Skarsnik said:

I painted up a test scheme Swordmaster in the week and couldn't believe how easy it was compared to the wardens and sentinels I've done. I just...painted some straight lines for the armour trim then painted some silver rectangles for the armour, gryph charger grey and it was like 70% done. The instances of "****** I spilled over into an intricate detail I'd already painstakingly finished" were almost 0.

OK I jinxed myself, it took me a long time to get the sword shading right and the eyes on these are harder to pick out than the newer models. But I'm still a liiittle bit more optimistic I can get through 17 more of these

 

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23 minutes ago, Bosskelot said:

Do you know how absolutely mindnumbing it is trying to paint a Lumineth army compared to a High Elf one? And that's even with the Lumineth requiring less models. Painting 20 wardens made me want to kill myself. Painting 10 dawnriders made me wish for catastrophic climate change to end our species. Gorgeous models but agony to paint.

I painted up a test scheme Swordmaster in the week and couldn't believe how easy it was compared to the wardens and sentinels I've done. I just...painted some straight lines for the armour trim then painted some silver rectangles for the armour, gryph charger grey and it was like 70% done. The instances of "****** I spilled over into an intricate detail I'd already painstakingly finished" were almost 0.

The Lumineth certainly made me feel well-prepared for the High Elves though, it's like spending a few months at a higher belt in martial arts and belatedly realising you can smash white belts now

Totally agree about the Instagram culture/paint job dysphoria as well, nothing makes me happier than seeing someone who's good at getting through lots of models with nice paint jobs and good colour schemes but to a realistic, sustainable tabletop standard. I think Vince Venturella's very pragmatic outlook on this stuff has always been very helpful

[The Rumour Thread]

6 minutes ago, Grunbag said:

So the current bonesplitterz models will be used in ToW for war paint upgrade ? Not sure I get what you mean 

In ToW Savage Orcs are represented by a warpaint upgrade to regular orcs that you pay points for. However GW don't appear to have indicated old Savage orc models will be sold, so it appears to be a "fine, use your bonesplitterz" situation

[Warhammer - The Old World]

Their aversion to their employees having surnames is soooo weiiiiird, it even extends retrospectively to people whose names have long been widely known, how are you referencing a legendary monster sculptor known only as "Trish", come on

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Test successful imo.

Age old question: how are you doing the cloaks?