Matrindur

Missed an earlier post

In addition to this guy There are also these https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1iw4m1Z7G1/?spm_id_from=333.999.0.0&vd_source=a7e711a0f51061aac5c55e73a6445650 Apparently GW uploaded the wrong video on bilibili?

I don't think we'll see SA yet, they probably still have stuff to reveal and I wouldn't expect the army set before everything is shown off. Kill Team, Warcry, Underworlds are probably more likely, with Kill Team the highest since the Night Lords half of the next box where revealed back in November already. Legions Imperialis could also get some more stuff, not necessarily the new stuff that gets their rules with the book released next Saturday but the old Titanicus and Aeronautica kits from the core book that still haven't been rereleased. Especially the missing Titans/Knights and the two discount boxes announced back in August would make sense since the newest book has a rules portion specifically about Titan/Knight battles.

That veins on the middle part remind me of Tyranid spores: And the colorations look like how they painted the "spore sack" on the Biovore: So maybe another Tyranid model for the end of 10th campaign in two years? Would also fit the normal lead times on rumour engines

These boxes are likely to be at different price points, the Cities one has 185€ of models inside while the FEC only has 144€ inside. Which is kinda strange as all the Combat Patrols and Vanguard sets have been at the same price point (110€ for Vanguards and 125€ for CP)

40k Combat Patrol is its own gamemode that mostly uses the normal 40k rules but uses preconstructed army lists made from the combat patrol boxes. The rules for the models and faction rules are slightly different from the normal rules so each combat patrol is balanced against each other. (Though they don't always do a good job with that) For example the Stormcast might not have all their rules or slightly weaker unit stats while the cities box might get a stronger faction rule than normal or additional unit buffs to even out the forces

Of course I can't talk about everybody here but the fact they are old and we don't know what happens with them should be a big part of that. In my local area I was the only Seraphon player for years until they got their update and now there are three more. Same for Cities, no players before, two now. So while they for sure aren't that popular now, if they got a refresh like Seraphon or Cities that would also for sure change for the better. If they get as big a boost as other factions would get is the actual question.

Yeah the fact you can get the pricelists from there has become more public in the last few months so they probably stopped putting them up there and are going to send them to the retailers via private ways instead in the future. the € prices posted here also aren't from the retailer page. But as long as we are still getting leaks of prices in one currency its not really a problem as you can just convert the prices to other currencies by looking at newer stuff on their webstore. For example for UK prices: Dawnbringers: Book IV: The Mad King Rises - £30.00 - based on Biovore Battletome: Flesh-eater Courts - £32.50 - based on Genestealers Fangs of the Blood Queen - £65.00 - based on Horrors of the Hive Flesh-eater Courts Dice Set - £18.00 - based on ADEPTUS MECHANICUS DICE SET Royal Decapitator - £22.50 - based on Black Templars Marshal Grand Justice Gormayne - £25.00 - based on Tyranid Prime Ushoran - £70.00 - based on Norn Emissary Abhorrant Cardinal - £24.00 - based on Librarian in Terminator Armour Cryptguard - £30.00 - based on Biovore Morbheg Knights - £35.00 - based on Psychophage These two aren't on the price list so will be webstore only Varghulf Courtier Marrowscroll Herald

This was posted on page 4872 and as far as I know thats all we have for now. If you need other currencies you need to go to the webstore and look up kits that cost the same € prices as here and then compare how much they are in other currencies.

I would be very surprised if the current Questoris Knight kit changes in any way. Valrak isn't that precise in what he is saying most of the time so even if he says Questoris Knights in the video he very likely just means either another addition to the Questoris kit in the form of a new Magaera/Styrix sprue or another box altogether with just those two options. I can't see any reason why they should be redoing the sprues just to fit all the parts on less sprues. Any savings in plastic they would get would be negated by the cost to make a new mould

Realistically there won't be much more this year for AoS than what we already know/expect. AoS3 will likely not have anything else after the last Dawnbringers books and while we don't know exactly what else is coming in Dawnbringers 5 and if there will be a 6th one we have enough rumours that some of them should turn out true. After that we will get AoS4 which we already have rumours of Skaven for and normally the first year of an edition doesn't have much else than the two launch factions. So while we also don't know what exactly Stormcast and Skaven will get there shouldn't be anything else completely new this year.

Whats also strange about the Sunday article this time is the footnotes at the bottom: These don't reference anything in the article. Its also different to last week so not just a copy&paste error. So it seems likely the article was originally written for something else (likely Legions Imperialis) and changed on short notice and they missed to change the footnotes.

I think that could be because the head is closer to the body on the prerender. The neck on the finished version looks weird to me

They said the Legions Imperialis expansion book would be alter this month and there is only one more preorder slot so should be that unless they moved stuff around. But since they actually said something about the LI book and nothing specific about Dawnbringers I wouldn't expect them to move it, easier to just have Dawnbringers the week after

Does that mean we will get a sixth book for chaos?

Left is kroot, right is Solar Auxilia Aethon Sentinel so middle should be something AoS

While that is true, 2nd edition was pretty late in that it was announced in May, Soul Wars was revealed on 5th June and already went up for preorder on 16th June. Thats not really how GW does their stuff today. For example the current 40k edition was revealed on 23th March, full Leviathan box on 29th April and preorder was 10th June. So I would be very surprised if we need to wait until Warhammer Fest for anything 4th edition. The actual launch box might take until then to be revealed but the anouncement of a new edition will for sure be earlier

Would explain why there isn't anything big to preorder today. Originally we had four releases that should have come in January (TOW, Dawnbringers/FEC, Legions Imperialis, Dark Angels) and four preorder slots in January so lines up perfectly. But none of them went up for today so I was asking myself if they would put two of those together? Both LI and Dawnbringers/FEC should be coming with a lot of kits so not really space for DA but if Dawnbringers/FEC is delayed that would explain it.

I don't think they was talking about finished sprues that where never released and they dug back up, they probably meant models that where designed for past editions of fantasy but never finished and released but are getting released now and that is what is written in your second quote

A little bit of conspiracy doesn't hurt (except when it does)

In this article they are saying a Bretonnian model designed decades (not a decade but decades) ago will be released for TOW in the future so I wouldn't be surprised if the Beastlord is also such a case. Granted it wouldn't mean its coming in the exact same form it was designed ages ago, they could have redesigned it a bit or even just redesigned how the mould will be cut but it could be a model they sat on since Fantasy. Might even be that they already planned to redesign BoC for AoS and thats why they never released that model because it wouldn't fit the new design and why make a mould if it will be discontinued in the future But because TOW happened they thought "we can just release the Beastlord for the 3rd edition tome so the BoC players at least get something until the actual releases and move that model over to TOW after the AoS redesign"

It's not too surprising they are switching the Vanguard sets for new ones as they also seem to be doing that for the 40k Combat Patrols (but those keep the same name) Its more surprising that its already happening now and not in 4th. Also the new name could be because they also plan to have a "spearhead" only game mode like the combat patrol gamemode for 40k and they didn't want people to mix up the boxes

And Adepticon was also where they showed 40k 10th last year, which also got quite alot instead of just a teaser. They got a full trailer that showed a few new models in animated form, two models shown of completely and some information about how the game will change.

Unlikely since there are three more preorder Saturdays in January and three more releases we either already know or can be very sure to be in January which are the Dark Angels army set, Dawnbringers 4 with FEC and Legions Imperialis. Legions Imperialis was called "available to pre-order later this month" instead of something like "very soon" on Thursday so I wouldn't expect it just yet, probably last on the 27th. After we just had TOW I also wouldn't expect another "Fantasy" preorder with the AoS stuff so likely Dark Angels next on the 13th. With Dawnbringers 4/FEC following on the 20th and LI on the 27th

Will be interesting to see in 2025 since the last time we had a year without big edition releases was 2019. 2020 and 2023 was 40k, 2021 and 2024 is AoS and 2022 was the Horus Heresy launch. While that system doesn't get as many releases as the two main systems nowadays, the launch itself was pretty big. So 2025 will be the first year without a big system launch (as far as we know for now) since 2019 and Warhammer as a whole got alot bigger since then