Bosskelot

It's wild that Valkia still doesn't have an updated model.

Beastmen are still one of the strongest armies in the game and the Hagtree Fetish shaman is still extremely good.

Yeah GW released an entire range of middle eastern/specifically Persian inspired models based around them being hedonistic pleasure seeking degenerates and no-one cared despite western literature having a long history of portraying that area of the world in such terms. Babylonian Dwarfs (a dead culture it must be noted) aren't going to upset anyone.

It's also very telling that the moment TOW comes out instantly the BoC stuff starts selling more and seeing the same lack of stock as a lot of other ranges.

Beastmen got a 7th ed army book and a giant release wave. Most of what you see in the army currently is from that 2010 release.

It really depends on how GW sees them or how actually profitable they are. Underworlds has always seemed like it did very well and didn't seem like a crazy expensive to produce system (maybe it is; idk what the RoI is on cards and the like) but these giant big limited edition prestige boxes for Warcry have always seemed very strange. Doubly so when hearing back from my LGS contacts about how aggressively GW has tried to push them in the past; basically trying to get these places to order almost the same amount as Indomitus or Dominion for whatever seasonal Warcry box is coming out. It gets even weirder when Kill Team gets very few allocations. It's almost like that very first Warcry release in 2019 was such a surprise success they overcommitted to it and thought those sorts of numbers would keep on going up and up.

4 editions in and we're still doing 6's to hit cause mortals. Joy. 🙄

Going from the store implies it disappears completely, not just being repackaged for TOW

The KF/Character on Griffon model is in the TOW rulebook so I'm doubtful it's going anywhere.

It costs £82.50 to get 30 old Ork Boyz currently and those are from the same era as the Orcs. Tomb Guard and Black Guard are from about the same time period as each other. One costs 47.50 for 20. The other costs 70. That Tomb Guard price is also cheaper than when they first released (£25 for 10)

TOW has been charging its plastic at a discount. With beastmen being in TOW they'll literally be cheaper than in AOS.

At 2k you could have 2 units of savage boyz and 2 of savage boar boyz. Which is limiting but also considering the size of armies in the game that's honestly going to be most/the core of a 2k list so it's not too bad.

Removing any sort of morale system also runs the risk of the game either becoming far too grindy and lacking in dynamism if lethality is too low, or the game becoming too lethal so entire units get wiped out in single activations because that's the only way to avoid the eternal grind. The Necron mirror match in current 40k has this problem, where the army isn't lethal enough to overcome its own tankiness, and battleshock is a worthless mechanic so by turn 5 very little has actually died and it's difficult to really feel as if anything of consequence has happened.

I think if you just putty in those mouths and file them down so it's flat the helmets are improved massively. Why they decided SCE should look even more like Handsome Squidward I don't know.

I'm kind of impressed that they managed to make the Stormcast helmet design even worse. I guess they wanted more of a divergence from the original model which is fair, but that face ain't it.