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The world isn't ready for goats with guns! It would be too powerful!

If we get a BoC range refresh instead of Skaven for AoS4, I will lol. And then cry as I empty my bank account for more goat-things.

This isn't a ridiculous stance at all, its a totally understandable one given that segments of the community have literally sent death threats to GW employees who have been known to work on content the community doesn't like.

Beasts of Chaos won't get a battleforce until they have (at least) another Leader and Monster in plastic. They have the same issue that FEC does: the starndard units in plastic are already in their Start Collecting set.

This doesn't really happen outside of Heresy, though. Even in Fantasy almost noone ever died until the End Times plotline, when everyone dying was the entre point. I don't think that characters have to die to make a narrative interesting, anyway. The wider lore about the mortal realms is intentionally done in broad strokes to allow players to have their own armies in it.

As others have mentioned, that was all stock which had been caught in the sewer line leak last year. Stock which has (or indeed, might have) been contaminated by human waste can never be sold or given away; while UK consumer standards have dropped thanks to brexit they aren't that low yet! 💩

Beasts of Chaos can't react to good news! We have a reputation as grumpy, bleating complainers who are the worst and get nothing nice ever. Though I for one am suddenly much more excited about my goatdudes again. So many of the confirmed changes are great for our army design and monsters. In fact, unit removal stuff like the Ghorgon's swallow whole are downright gamebreaking with the new coherency rules. With a new book, everything might change of course. But for now, everything is coming up goats. Which is good, because it looks like those smoothskin ****** are trying to build cities in OUR realm! Tear it down!

The vast majority of mortals across the realms fell to the chaos gods during the age of chaos; this means that fantasy knights do exist- they are just the Chaos Knight and Marauder Horsemen kits now 😬

Infinity's ITS data collection is one of the best in the industry, its true, and something to be respected. Infinity also has close to 50% winrate among all its factions, which is also impressive, but as several commenters have already pointed out, is more related to every model being built off a common build formula, with stats, skills, and equipment costing the same for every faction. Some models receive discounts on some characteristics, but in general, every model in the game is on the same playing field. Its worth noting however, that despite having the incredible tool that is ITS, Corvus Belli effectively does no balancing AT ALL, post-release. Once printed, 99.9% of models will never get updates until their faction gets an overhaul, which has a timescale of 3-5 years. This means underwhelming models remain ******, and great models remain top-picks effectively forever. Games Workshop actually balances their games very aggressively compared to CB already. The only thing which CB has admitted to using the data provided by ITS for... is deciding which factions to discontinue, based on low player count. I don't think anyone wants that kind of feedback applied to Games Workshop games.

While I see quite a few calls for female beastmen models, this is one area where GW could actually get away with almost nothing. Goats aren't very sexually dimorphic (having physical different sexes) so any of the existing models could be female; they are universally hairy, dirty and smelly creatures! All this would need to change the perceptions would be an equal number of named characters of each gender for the faction. Conveniently, BoC have a single named character, so one more release would wrap this up. 😉