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    The Rumour Thread

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    1 hour ago, Chikout said:

    My apologies. I will be absolutely delighted if they can come up with a compelling offering on Wednesday. Gamepass and Audible are both great services which I'm happy to subscribe to. I hope GW can come up with something similar. With their wide range of digital media in the form of novels, audiobooks, battletomes and Codexes, they could do something very interesting. 

    Unlikely wildcard, what about exclusive STL files?

    The Rumour Thread

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    2 minutes ago, Sleboda said:

    Why is that unfortunate?

    The kits still look awesome and they have the added bonus of being easier to build.

    I totally don't get why folks think that something with additional features should cost less than the things without them.

    🤷‍♂️

    Lack of bits for conversions is one reason, but personally I love etb and ptf stuff. 

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    5 minutes ago, Austin said:

    The real question is what will happen to the 25 digital battletomes/campaign books I have on their current app.....

    Well GW need to honour the contract and transfer them to the new platform free of subs or keep the current app up.

    Personally, I probably sunk £1k into digital comics. I hope they keep the platform up there. 

    My job involves licensing digital content (Academic Librarian) and we have industry agreements in place to retain content if a platform goes under.  

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    1 minute ago, Urauloth said:

    In an hour-long queue... guess I'll have to see how lucky I am. I have to say I don't like the lack of a digital edition for the new core book, I hope they aren't moving AoS to a hardback-only model like WH40k.

    Betting Warhammer + will have all digital rules on subscription. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, SilentSentinel said:

    The LGS that i'll hopefully be ordering from did mention that they had been allocated some more boxes that are set to deliver in 4 months. Based on this it does seem like there's at least one more run of the box planned.

     

    Same here, I've been provisionally allocated a pre-order 'for the autumn' so I wonder if there will be waves of releases or some made to order stuff? -Never mind, caught up on the other stuff. 

     

    The Rumour Thread

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    3 hours ago, Still-young said:

    If you’re there before 10 you get put in the queue randomly, anyone after 10 gets added on the queue in order. The 10 minutes is once you get through the queue onto the store. 

    Does the allocation after 10 come sequentially after the random allocation of the pre 10am sessions? Or are they truely random?

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    1 hour ago, King Under the Mountain said:

    These sort of Warhammer Community deep dives are never really that...well deep.  You will get better more objective information from other players who post on site like this.

    I still enjoy them though for what its worth.

    Hard to do a deep dive  tbh when your editor wants all articles to be read within 5 minutes. 

    The Rumour Thread

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    5 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

    I don't rail on anything, but view 40k crusades as or more critically than the one from the latest teaser, because I get the impression that the fact that crusades are not actually generally thought of as good is lost on 40k fans fairly frequently, and even the writers occasionally.

    Also did not mention inclusivity once. That was not a major point of any of my posts.

    EDIT: Actually, sorry about engaging with this conversation again. I said I would stop before. My bad.

    Fair play. 

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    22 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

    This is the last comment I will be making on this, in an effort to keep the thread on topic.

    But please do me the favour and read what I write without assuming I have not thought through my position or believe things that are obviously absurd to after a moment of reflection. Also, please don't assume that I am OMFG OFFENDED at the mention of a topic I don't like or want to shut down GW or whatever.

    While the world of Age of Sigmar is obviously not the real world, the writers who shape that world and the readers that consume their writing do exist in the real world. So it's not like writing a piece of fiction that endorses colonialism or imperialism (which I am emphatically not claiming GW is doing) is automatically ethically unproblematic because it is fiction. That's making things too easy for yourself. I don't think it should be disputed that fiction is a good way to explore certain ideas and for people to connect with them in ways that considering these ideas dispassionately would not allow.

    That is why when certain themes that are ethically dubious in the real world appear in fiction, an appropriate amount of care needs to be taken to present them critically and with a certain amount of respect of the subject matter. And readers have a responsibility of engaging with them critically. Stories are a way for us to try out ideas, and if our story allows people to try out the idea that "colonialism can be good, actually" (again, not claiming this is happening at GW right now), then that demand a certain level of care on the part of the authors.

    For this reason, I made the comment that I hope the issue is handled with the appropriate amount of respect, both by the writers and by us, when we engage with the fiction that is presented by GW. I already said that there is no problem with writing about things that would not be ethically sound in the real world or with enjoying such fiction, when done in the appropriate way. Literally all that is needed is the acknowledgment that something like a Dawnbringer Crusade would very likely be quite dubious, morally, if it occured in reality, and a bit of thinking about what makes such a concept still enjoyable in fiction.

    So do you rail on 40k for Lost Crusade or Indomitous Crusade? 

    The article noted that those loosing a coin may get hanged, so we can say the Dawnbringer Crusades are morally dubious, as is all of the Warhammer fiction and trope since the 1980’s. That is not a defence, but it should not invalidate is existence and invite instant censorship.

    There are better battles to fight when it comes to championing inclusivity. 
     

     

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    The Rumour Thread

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    11 minutes ago, MitGas said:

    Don't. Just leave it. Logic has long left this place in regards to many topics. 

    Seriously, is it really offensive now that the "good" fantasy guys colonize regions of the bad fantasy guys? Time to grow up. This is fiction - and if the implications of such actions bother you, then kids, the worlds Warhammer (where the good guys are at best in a grey zone usually) are really not the place for you.

    IIRC the bad guys took it a while back from the good guys in the Age of Chaos so its all up for grabs right?. Furthermore, Warhammer has always been grey, no total good or bad, just factions in conflicts. That is all this represents. Personally, I think Sigmar is big on inclusivity by letting Elves and Dwarvises into his cities and allowing workshop of other gods. Also he lets ladies fight. 

     

    And it is Toy Soilders. 

     

    On a side note, I work on Decolonisation in my role and personally I find this kind of reactionary attitude to pop culture trivialises an important issue. I'd take time to consider the issues before jumping at a few words. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, GeneralZero said:

    This promises a kolossal mess at 10am june 19th... For indomitus, most sellers (including GW) had their web site shut down because of simili DOS attaks...(in fact, people trying to order)

    At least one UK retailer is taking a register of interest. 

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    2 hours ago, Klamm said:

    Any rumours about whether the orruk release will have anything for Ironjawz/Bonesplitterz?

    Kruelboyz being one of three factions within Warclans is a cool idea. Kruelboyz are the aspect of Mork, Ironjawz Gork, Bonesplitterz are kind of the purest in their Gorkamorka worship. And it also means those factions can be more niche, since they can plug up eachothers' gaps.

    But I do feel Ironjawz and Bonesplitterz could do with getting a few extras. The latter in particular, I know they're monster hunters but a rogue idol type behemoth would do a lot to make the army look less samey. 

    There was some Irpnjawz rumors a while back - may get wrapped up in a new Wartribes tome release?

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    50 minutes ago, novakai said:

    not much reveal from the Skull event for AoS outside of the Warhammer quest expansion for Shadow under Hammerhal

    the Frontier foundry game was a Grey Knight game and Nacon was Bloodbowl 3

    the one game that got me excited was the Ork 2D shoota game

    the two TW trailer didn't reveal much new stuff outside of Skarbrand and Skulltaker. but Beastmen get a DLC with brass bull

     

    Honestly Frontier need to sort out Elite so I suspect we will not hear anything for another year on the rts.

    I wonder if it is related to the DawnBreaker Crusades and base building.

     

    I would personally love AOS Total War tho.

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