bsharitt

Next year Warhammer Legends will be getting points, and with so many Dwarf units going away for Cities of Sigmar, they might finally get the full Legends treatment(hopefully the reason they didn't come out right after CoS is because they're going to have points right away).

Now I feel much better about deciding to base the old dwarf army I've been refurbishing back on squares with the hopes of finding players for 6th and 8th edition fantasy and maybe some Kings of War rather than rounds for possible Warhammer Legends Dwarf rules with points next year. Maybe in 2-3 years I'll have a new ruleset for them.

If it's a couple of pages that are together and I can swipe back and forth, I'm okay with a digital version(but even then I think I'd print it out if it's that small). I just find swiping or scrolling back and forth on a tablet to be a lot worse than what I can do with paper, especially if we're talking a full size book where I have to jump around the book, even if it has an okay working index. I'm not a total luddite, I like my Kindle for regular books/novels and don't mind my iPad for the task(though the bright screen gets to me quicker), but those I'm reading one page at a time and then going to the next in sequence. It's the jumping around that I find much slower on digital. I've been looking to play some older versions of Warhammer, and while I don't have as many qualms about "alternative" means of acquiring digital copies of out of print material (compared to current stuff), I'm still paying the eBay premiums to gather dead tree versions of those old books.

I'm hoping and expecting a new narrative campaign/event that give some new rules that amount to basically new subfactions for that get them(i.e. Legion of Grief in Forbidden power). And maybe use it as an excuse to release new heroes for various faction. I don't think AoS will get something as big and multipart as Psychic Awakening, (especially if the theories and rumors pan out that it's basically the 40k version of End Times and will be followed by a big narrative shakeup and a new edition). What ever AoS gets will probablly be smaller, but still a decently big event that does change some narrative stuff(opening Azyr as a realm that people are fighting over?). Obviously there's the hope that the rest of the 1st edition battletomes get replaced. Probably see a least one wholly new army next year if not more. Maybe the back half of the year starts seeing 2.0 versions of 2nd edition books. And yes, that would probably include yet another Stormcast book.

Having given up on Underworlds, what I'm really curious to see is what faction their AoS rules will be. I'm guessing they're be shoehorned into in Gloomspite Gitz. On a related note, how long did it take them in the past to release the model only boxes for the warbands? Was it after they did all the actual WU releases? I really like nearly all the models for WU, but since I'm not playing that game anymore, I'd much prefer to save myself $10 a set for this round of warbands(especially since I think I'll be buying nearly all this time).

2019 made sure everybody at least has a battletome, hopefully 2020 will be all about replacing the 1st ed ones.

The Ogre subfaction article looks disappointing. Not in the rules per se, but in that there seems to be a clear distinction between the Gutbusters and the Beastclaw Raiders. Now I'm worried this is going to be a repeat of the orc book that was really two battletomes in one with a small bit or rules that allowed for some combination, but the two armies are still clearly meant to be separate. I was hoping for(and I guess we could still get) a combination closer to Beasts of Chaos or Gloomspite gitz where moonclan, spiderfangs and trolls still have their own flavor, but are still one army. (also super happy to see Maneaters in article pictures)

I'm not that surprised. "Slaves to Darkness" has a long history with GW's chaos factions.

That'd be really nice. Much like Underworlds, I like some of the models, but don't really care for the game it's attached to, so it'd be nice to be able to get the models for a few bucks less and skip the extra bits. Though Warcry is a little different as I'll actually play that game even if I think it falls well short of being a solid skirmish game. At least it's a skirmish game and not a board/card game.

Good to hear that nothing is going away. I'm not planning to build an Ogre army tomorrow or anything, but it's a long term plan for my next army, though I may do the maneaters mercenary company sooner rather than later(as well as painting a few more ogres I have kicking around here). I already practically run Gloomspite as an "elite" army(elite for goblins at least), so it'd be funny to use gnoblars to run ogres as a horde army.

None of the Maneaters are last chance to buy/no longer available, so that's a good sign, but they've not been mentioned or shown any either article announcing the new book or the faction focus. Maybe they're safe, but I won't feel good about them until this weekend when the Ogor Mawtribes section of the store goes live and I can see if they're there or not. Really happy to see that the Gnoblar name is back though.

This will be the third Knight Questor with a distinct load out? Though one is a store anniversary model, so probably not relevant at large.

There's been one at my shop this entire time and I keep thinking about it, if anything as marked StD troops for my Nurgle army, but just doesn't seem worth it to buy that much of their stuff all at once. More enticing is the Carrion Empire box that appeared(probably a held order that was never purchased).

The hole has me thinking not hammer at all. Probably something Eldar related with the the new models they're getting around this psychic awakening stuff.

The placement of the rock in his right arm and just the general style of his armor, I'm getting a real blood bowl vibe from this guy.

Yeah, not sure why they even bothered to keep the keyword. Earlier this year I came very close to starting a Devoted of Sigmar army. If I had done that, I think I'd be done buying GW stuff for a very long time right now. I did buy a witch hunter, but technically I bought him to use as an Inquisitor or Rogue Trader for 28mm Inquisitor, so I won't get too mad about it. At this point I'm still on the fence about getting the book for my Dwarfs since half of them are going to be counts as Freeguild. I might just wait around to see what happens with Warhammer Legends getting points and see if we get a Dwarfs release. Then I'd get to use even more old stuff and I'd finally have the motivation to actually do the repaint of Thorgrim Grudgebearer on his throne of power.

I would guess there was a non-zero chance that some of the decision to remove models were made after the battletome was done. Maybe there's a chance the excelcior warpriest is in the book(but I guess that's unlikely since he's probably be up for preorder), Though Shadow Warriors did get moved to shadow blades, so there was some shuffling to accommodate removals.

I was hoping for a little more cross-race synergy, epscially since I'd be running Dispossed along side some very short Freeguild handgunners, crossbows and guards, plus a much flatter helblaster vollygun.

Another disappointment from that made up rumor is there's also not alternate builds of existing kits.

So there's no unifying non-racial faction keyword and the bonesplitterz and Ironjawz heroes basically only work on their own faction(except Gordrakk, but he's supposed to be the Destruction version of Aracheon). So that book really is two distinct battle tomes in book.

Where's the battletome info coming from? Has the review embargo dropped? I thought that usually happened around Brittish morning time.

The best part about this warband is that when the plain box with no Underworlds comes out, we've either got enough unique models to run as Crypt ghast courtiers, or at least have new ghoul models to back fill models in the unit so you're not wasting 19 models to field one model.

Huh, I didn't realize they still were. I though that bit of old world lore had been removed.

Bats? Are Flesheaters getting back a link to vampires?

Yeah, I would have assumed it's somehow "enchanted" by the same magic that usually makes Stormcast stuff go back to Azyr.