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Forewarning - looks like stock is softcapped at around 50 a store. If I remember correctly, that's under the cap that Indomitus was at. If I'm remembering correctly, Indomitus was capped at around ~100 or so a store. Seeing a few FLGS and stockists note its only a softcap, and it being possible potentially more will arrive. If it's anything, I managed to grab an Indomitus box just a few weeks ago in March that had been sat on a local store's shelf - so it might be that it's not the end of the world - but I'd be ready as early as possible on Saturday to make sure you can grab one...

Did GW really not put the Hobgrots as Battleline, leaving the Kruleboyz awkwardly not-legally-playable with only one battleline unit? I guess it's a reason to buy one of the starter sets to fill out the Kruleboyz...

Bestigors, Gors and Ungors are all sold as a 10. Chaos Warriors - definitely - and Skaven too. But I'd imagine the min unit sizes would be 'what is the no. in a box?' and go from there. But everything else lines up. The recent battletomes did feel awkwardly overcosted too

The supposed 'plastic HH' and moving of 40k kits into Heresy has some implication for AOS and Old World. Granted - it's only rumours I've seen so far of the older 40k kits (Mars Pattern Rhinos and non-primaris Marines etc.) and nothing entirely clear whether it will be purely rules or a complete move, but interesting implications for us. Granted - judging from Total War and CA's comments - Old World might have FW and GW bring those older kits up to date w/ additions such as Kislev, Cathay etc. Still, hope HH 'in plastic' has some precendant for GW to fix FW prices and roll them into the single umbrella - with a hope that we update those kits in plastic like Legion of Azgorh. Judging with what seems GW's gutting of the FW team - Sugden in WarCom, designers moved to Specialist Games or main games - it just might be...

They really did make Primaris Stormcast. Anyone got a size comparison yet on the Kruleboyz or the rest of the SCE side bc these models seem massive??

Imported from 40k, where 2k has been the norm since as far as I can recall in 4th - Hot take : AOS plays honestly best at 1000 points. 9th 40k does too. Those out-of-the-box Indomitus games sold me on 9th then lost me when I tried ramping it up to 2k. Quicker, feels more active. 1k best game size.

IDK vs Maggotkin. Crabs vs Drowned Men. Hit me up with that Pirate Nurgle. They're the only 1.0 battletomes too. Copium is ingested

From the way the leaks seemed to read, the double reinforcement rules only seem to apply to units that are non-conditional battleline. There was something about it being warscroll based rather than condition based. Sure it's mentioned somewhere in the reinforcement rules that were leaked. No 'death stars' seemed to imply it too. If so, think its a max 6 Stormfiends. Also really hits Pestilens too. Plague Monks are conditional too. Now I think of it, there is a very small group of factions who benefit from that if it is 'core battleline' reinforcement. EDIT : I've reread the leaked rule. It specifically says 'battleline battlefield role'. Whether this includes conditional battleline or units explicitally battleline on the warscroll isn't too clear. I'm hoping it's the former, but the way it seems to be phrased by WarCom would make me believe it's only for unconditional battleline.

Did the maths SCE sit at around 1350 Kruleboyz sit at around 1050 If you play w/o Yndrasta, would be a balanced box points wise. BoC vs Gitz box seems a little bit unusual. Appreciate new releases for BoC and Ogors tho. That release schedule feels sparse though. Out of the factions that need an update, I'd have thought Skaven would be one rather than DElfs and Lumineth.

Indomitus was 239 CAD too. £125 UK. Not too bad, I guess

From the sounds of it then, point discount for big units will be gone then And seems to fix Pythagoras Coherency for large based models.

Orwell wrote in 1946 discussing the 'four motives' - what he sees as the reasons behind why writers and artists create work. The fourth of these is 'political purpose' - As something is written in the context of a wider sociopolitical context and by an individuals, whom engage within that context, then we must assume that all art is political. As the audience, we are engaging with art within our own sociopolitical and personal political context. Arguing that 'well we didn't previously view x in this context' is incredibly bad faith. If you disagree with someone's opinion on whether AOS is or is not glorifying crusades, then offer a counterpoint rather than the dogwhistle of 'keep the politics out of my writing/art'. And it is a dogwhistle - look no further than half of the alt-lite content on YouTube for the same 'politic bad' when the opinion isn't one socioconservative. Look no further than Football in the UK - where individuals would frame protests against racism as 'evil cultural marxists making everything political no my *game with a long documented history of factionalism, nationalism and bigotry (of which certain fans' infamous violence in the 1980s would inspire the best 40k faction)* shouldnt be political!' Or even in this hobby - the certain YouTuber whose name is a shape who argued the same thing to 'keep politics out of the hobby' following Games Workshop's statement last year following the death of George Floyd and the BLM movements resurgence. This happened after he was publically challenged for extremely derogatory comments and for his public antisemtism, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. It was not because 'my game isn't political' - just 'challenging my view is wrong'. I'm not saying that having the opinion that not wanting to talk about the imports and exports of particular cities of sigmar and how that might affect the particular economies of certain realms isn't a completely valid opinion to have. If you do enjoy discussing fictional economies, then that is also valid too. But be VERY aware whether people using the 'no political talk about *piece of art*' are doing so because they simply find it dull, or because they like to think it supports their own bias. As the latter tend to have politics that I would hope the majority of people would find detestable. Thank you for coming to this TED talk. - Now away from people appearing out of the woodwork to make the same dogwhistles the second anyone thinks GW may be accidentally helping foster the uncomfortable elements of the community who have increasingly uncomfortable opinions, I'm hoping our monsters tomorrow are some more of those Troggoths - and they are usable in Gitz.

Might make sense, The new coherency rules definitely seem to be written with much smaller units in mind.

With Hallowheart being discontinued and the amount of Warcry Terrain crawling into every promo picture for Dominion, I can see our 'Battlezone' equivalent release being the Warcry Terrain repackaged. It wouldnt suprise me at all if the Command Edition is just the repackaged Catacombs version of the terrain (one of each building sprue + belltower)

A free 4 abilities a round seems extremely powerful, especially with where they are in the round. Gonna be interesting to see if the new battalions boost up monsters, because if so, can definitely see monster-focused armies becoming top tier. It's gonna be interesting to see just how the new battleplans shape out - if we do shift to a more 'heroes and monsters are the new bread and butter', can see armies like Ogors, Gitz and Sons becoming absolute monsters.

Pour one out for the 40k community who finally had some new Orks just for AOS to pull up with some too. AOS really is GW's favourite child

The Stormcast definitely feel suitably Greco Roman. That Chariot is brilliant. Also did Twitch just DMCA the sound for the music??

I said there was a reason Kragnos felt overcosted...

I'm just hoping we get some recognition at this level of how we are going to prevent scalping but 'whilst stocks last' definitely sounds like we are in for a whole lot of disappointment

They feel very Labyrinth-Hensen. A bit of palette swap and they're there

They're really teetering around the 'Chaos Dwarf' stuff. Is this... Is this confirmation something is to come?

'they'll throw curses' Ah yes Telling your enemy F Off is the strongest attack

Team Potgrot vs Team Stabgrot is the real hobby discourse

I'm very intrigued. That big troggoth in the Kragnos photo isn't in this box... What else is too come?

The Start Here but also Warscroll Cards? This feels way more like a Starter Set than Indomitus did?