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What is the driving force for a new edition? I feel like 2.0 is good and I’m not particularly keen to rebuy battletomes again yet.
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Honestly I kind of appreciate the small army. Getting into 40k now is daunting at best. Keep the warscroll count low And slowly add as the game evolves over the years - and honestly, don’t be afraid to take away *ducks flak*
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12 hours ago, MitGas said:
Compare older lore to the newer stuff. There is at times a big difference, both in maturity as well as quality. When I see stuff like Bloody McBloodnose with his trusty axe Blooddarkblood it is simply ridiculous and one-sided (that goes, to a lesser extent, to the other 3 as well) - compare it with publications like the Liber Chaotica or older Chaos armybooks and you will see sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant alterations to certain passages to make it more cartoonish. Or turn a blind eye if you feel like any sort of criticism is a problem (but then please have the decency to not challenge my words). Fact is what they're putting out now is often times simplified and diluted (or more "kid-friendly") and that is simply a step in the wrong direction for Chaos as its concept should make you think and not just go "oh, those are just bad dudes, yo". That's a waste of great work and depriving younger minds of more mature content (not talking about boobies here, I'm talking about the darkness in our minds) is a missed chance.
It was also more interesting when the Emperor was simply wrong about the Thousand Sons and ordered their execution instead of what it is now which just paints Magnus and most of the other dramatis personae as idiots - yeah, one can say Tzeentch/Horus is such a great master of puppets now but it was much better when Tzeentch's involvement wasn't blatant and they had to turn to him out of sheer necessity. Made the Sons tragic and the Emperor much more grey (and in this one case OBVIOUSLY wrong) than he is now in that storyline. Added depth. I guess that is what I'm arguing for - I want more depth, not less of it.
I agree with you, but they’re trying to open the game up to a wider audience. I don’t see the trend reversing.
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Which armies are the next to be abandoned do we think?
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I agree with you 100%. For me, nothing kills a game faster than an opponent digging through four books trying to find that rule they vaguely remember reading. With all of the expansions and everything now it only becomes more problematic. Put it all in an app and remind us of the buffs we have in place for each phase.
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26 minutes ago, Grimrock said:
I'm not a business expert or anything, but I can at least address this to an extent. There are definitely considerations that need to be made for making, shipping, and storing material combined with a healthy dose of risk management. Just to go through a basic exercise:
You have a product that costs 50 dollars to make and you can sell for 100 dollars. If you make 1,000 units and sell all of them, you've made 50,000 profit. Now, lets say you make 2,000 units and sell 1,500. True your revenue is up to 150,000, but due to your increased costs of making the additional product your profit is still the same at 50,000. In addition, you now have to store the additional 500 units until they're sold, which could be an incredibly slow process if you've already eliminated primary demand. Now you might say why didn't they make 1,700 units instead of 2,000, but the demand might be extremely difficult to judge (maybe a global economic crisis caused by a pandemic has skewed predictions?). In the end the best practice is to try to get as close to the actual numbers of purchases as possible without going over to fully maximize profits. 100% of product sold means no losses due to excess production or storage.
Obviously they undershot the mark on this product and most of the past limited runs as well, but it makes perfect sense that these box sets are designed to sell out from a business side. Certainly not ideal for the customers that miss out though.
I’m ignorant, but I don’t see why they can’t do a run and then a “made to order” like they’re doing now. The moulds are made, the product is designed. It would completely sewer the scalper market and ensure all profit flows to them, without the potential risk.
Or - open pre orders on a certain day and then announce if you haven’t ordered by day X you’ll be out of luck. Then just make that many plus a percentage extra for shops.
I dunno, it seems solvable to me, more so than how it’s been.
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27 minutes ago, Nighthaunt Noob said:
Stormcast lack the key structural element that Space Marines have which limit GW's incentive to push them as heavily. Stormcast is one army. Space Marines, because of chapters, is many different armies. When GW creates a new Space Marine unit, they can sell it to people who play Ultramines, Space Wolves, Blood Angels, etc., so there is a multiplication effect that isn't mirrored in Stormcast. I'm not necessarily willing to say this means we stand any chance of having a starter set without Stormcast, but it does seem to limit Stormcast releases mid-edition which gives space for a lot of other armies.
With the release of the sacrosanct chamber, does it not feel like they’re moving in that direction? I could see one day the different chapters of stormcast be separate armies with different books, no?
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1 minute ago, Overread said:
Yes and no. Yes this weekend its the start of a 2 week pre-release for the new 9th edition for 40K. However this weekend we are also getting the AoS release of the General's Handbook. It's also likely that the next pre-release after 9th edition will be for more 40K. But GW is long past the days when they'd focus on one game for months at a time and ignore all the others. GW today is far more open to swapping between games and systems week to week.
That's a relief. I remember the old days of Warhammer Fantasy suffering for months and months with nothing.
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Does this new 40K edition mean a likely pause on Age of Sigmar releases for a while?
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My brother is trying to assemble a 2K army list for Seraphon and he'd like to include an Eternal Starhost battalion. Obviously, the individual components of that army if you follow the list would be like 4000 points. Are we interpreting this correctly? You can only use this battalion in the most massive of battles? How would you ever use some of these battalions in a regular game? Thanks!
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On 5/25/2020 at 3:29 PM, JReynolds said:
Sharkpunk is a great anthology. I really recommend it. It was edited by BL alumni Jonathan Green and has some great stories.
And the decision to part ways with BL was mutual, with no hard feelings on my part. We simply reached a natural point of divergence in our working relationship. They wanted me to go one way, and I wanted to go another, so I went and they wished me all the best.
You are my favourite Black Library author. Real characters and depth. You will he missed.
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What do you guys think they’ll do with armies like the Mawtribes? So many models are ****** resin on squares bases. Do you think they’ll fix this before moving on to 3.0?
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On 6/17/2020 at 1:36 PM, gronnelg said:
I got my little girl (4 yrs) interested in Warhammer. I let her choose the models she wanted. Alas , she failed to see the greatness of The Great Horned Rat... We glued two models and then she painted one.
I haven't had this much pleasure in being a dad in quite some time. It was such a great bonding experience!
That’s fantastic! I’d love to get both of my kids (6 & 3) into the hobby one day. My oldest is interested but doesn’t have the patience yet for it.
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