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2 hours ago, Ejecutor said:
Don't you find it weird that we are 16 days away from seeing the full box but we don't know its name yet?
It’s called Cardassian Union, following on from GW’s odd trend of naming AoS starter sets after Star Trek Deep Space Nine villains.
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34 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
We also had Season of War: Firestorm for the first edition.
Not to mention the Realmgate Wars books.
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37 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Which ones were you expecting?
The old multipart regiment.
edit:Ignore me, I should’ve scrolled down and seen its separate release! I blame old age.
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Bit disappointing to see the Orc boys are the push fit Black Fire Pass monoposes
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35 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
I didn't see them in person, but I find it a pretty solid peace. In fact, I am looking for them, but a newer version would be cool as well.
The design was good. The issue is they were cast in China out of a horrendous plastic that didn’t react well with polystyrene cement. It was the case with all the early AoS scenery and some 40K pieces - the worst being a plasma gun turret thing that was so irritating to assemble that I sold mine as soon as I painted it.
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2 minutes ago, Landohammer said:
Per THWG the entire company is striving to better separate their game systems so profitability of each system is more clear. This seems silly at the surface but its actually a fairly common business practice for companies with distinct departments.
It seems to be true because the wildly popular plastic leviathan dreadnought was removed from 40k and is now an HH only model. The BOC of transfer to TOW, and the widespread purge of the STD Warcry units only further supports that.
The speculative/rumour part is that some believe a large percentage of Underworld/Warcry sales are from AOS players, and overall Underworlds is not performing well. So there are rumours that underworld will be killed off and those resources diverted to other systems.
Personally i'm indifferent to underworlds bc the kits get lazy AOS rules anyway and many are out of production. But Warcry actually significantly contributes to AOS so I would hate to see it go.
The same “rumour” also claimed Legions Imperialis was underperforming. You know, the game system that has sold out every release.
In short, I wouldn’t write Underworlds eulogy just yet.
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1 hour ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
I kind of feel that if spiders were out, they would have gone at the same time as Bonesplitters.
To be honest, I’d say nothing is safe for this edition until a factions battletome is out. I suspect we’ll see more departures as armies update.
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3 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Yeah, but GW has become a more luxury item since then. I think both those points are the big pillars that GW have to fight to become something mainstream.
It was always a luxury item. I think you’re underestimating the human desire to buy stuff when they like a tv show.
I own a Sonic Spork because of a tv show.
A spork.
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17 minutes ago, Starfyre said:
Never heard of them, but those look good.
I know GW explored pre-paints internally (I used to work for Ronnie Renton who ran the design studio at GW among other things), and decided against it. That was a while ago now though. Who knows, but I don't think it'll happen.Moving to prepainted miniatures has been the death-knell for multiple companies.
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1 hour ago, Ejecutor said:
We cannot compare how easy is to pick and play a game compared to miniature painting. Obviously, it could help pump the sales, but it won't be that big.
When the Lord of the Rings was first licensed, the tabletop game outsold 40K and WHFB combined. Because the films were still in the cinema, and later seeing the dvd release, tons of people wanted merchandise and it brought people into GW to buy models who had previously never touched wargaming.
A super popular 40K adaptation could very well see a similar boost to sales. Like LOTR, it won’t last forever, but the bubble will pay for a lot of new toys before it burst just like LOTR paid for advances in plastic design and casting.
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50 minutes ago, Thalassic Monstrosity said:
A Youtuber I followed said "Custodes are chosen from the strongest applicants and women aren't as strong as men".
That's why Sigmar is better. He picked his Stormcast not for their physical strength but their strength of character. He could mold the rest into a warrior's body.
Behold Garradan, a healer who defended his patients with candlesticks. Not a warrior, not an athlete, certainly not a gene-enhanced warrior.
Now behold Gardus Steel Soul, who needs no ****ing introduction.
The Emperor says "only the worthy".
The Hallowed Knights cry "Only the faithful."The YouTuber is wrong. Custodes are selected at birth, for their genetic suitability and built from the ground up.
That to me is one of the biggest ironies of the whinging. Half of those complaining of fluff changes don’t even know the fluff they supposedly care so much about.-
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Huron Blackheart.
I can dream.
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2 minutes ago, Luperci said:
Ah I see, I wonder if darkoath that worship a specific chaos god exists, can you give them god keywords in the current s2d book (savagers, warqueen etc.)
A quick play on the app, it doesn’t seem so. I imagine their disdain is for the various mortals in the god specific factions.
I’m not going to make a declaration on the fluff before it’s released, too much of that going on with the current 40K internet silliness, but it does seem some of the themes from our dearly departed bovine chums have been transferred across to the less horned newcomers. -
2 minutes ago, Luperci said:
I don't think it's their disdain for monotheism, moreso disdain for "craven" Gods who they perceive as hypocrites
Last line of the paragraph. Also add to that their desire to see civilisation crumble and it’s sounding very familiar.
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1 hour ago, Vagard said:
Sad that 2 reclusians out of 3 have exactly the same pose
by the way, darkoath lore before skaven lore hahahahaha
Undivided worshipping savage warriors who look down on those that devote themselves to a single god? That sounds familiar…
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7 hours ago, dmorley21 said:
I mean, that’s on you. It was not worded as some big reveal. We got rules for Darkoath, an article looking at the models, and the EC stuff. All were new looks. Sure, they used the word shindig, but that’s just a fun word.
It was more of a hootnanny in the end.
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13 hours ago, Pizzaprez said:
But GW not wanting their players to use their armies in more than one book/setting/game system is absolutely not going away based on current trends; no idea if the colors thing is still relevant in 40k but it grossed me out real hard.It’s not. Detachments focus on play style over narrative restrictions. As it should be really. It should be up to the player to impose any restrictions on their armies they feel fit their background. I don’t use Gaunt’s Ghosts with my Catachans because I don’t feel they fit my fluff, but nobody should be told they cannot use them.
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58 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Very likely. If we turn them all gold they would look ******.
Who looks better in all promotional shots? Only the Faithful!
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21 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Is that a sexy Bel'akor?
That’s Azazel. He’s a daemon prince with serious history with Sigmar.
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1 minute ago, Nezzhil said:
A series of campaign books for ToW was on the pipeline since the beginning. That rumour is not a rumour, It is like saying that AoS next edition will have Battletomes
I’ve heard whispers that GW are considering releasing miniatures in the future. Can’t reveal my source.
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5 hours ago, Baron I_oyd said:
Good evening/day everyone,
today I bring news regarding specialist game studios.
With the succes of Old World..GW considering reviving Thrones of Chaos Campaign and finish the story...all depends on two things: Thrones of Decay sales and Old World needs to continue gather revenue in similar style with remaining core factions.
Old World is now considered on same level of importance as Horus Heresy for the studio...it was never planned to go into this huge scale by the studio..but this changed a lot.
Sorry not buying it. Throne of Chaos was one of the last ditch attempts to turn WHFB sales around, along with Storm of Magic. It failed and it’s been moved on from. There’s simply no reason GW would take any TOW success and feel resurrecting a failed project, whose author has departed GW, would be the best route.
I’d believe Dreadfleet was returning before I’d buy this rumour.
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12 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:
Its so good isnt it!! Whilst not in the Horror genre per se I highly recommend Gloomspite by Andy Clarke.
It completely changed my view on Gloomspite Gitz from funny quirky little Grotz to truly horrifying creatures that make me feel like Id have a better chance against a Khornate Bloodbound.
Gloomspite 100% should have been under the Horror branding. Everyone should read it.
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54 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Maybe they substitute the Hobgrots with humans this time? Based on Horns of Hashut? Would be weird releasing Hobgrots for KB and the next edition doing the same for Chorfs. Is like Chorfs theoretically stepping into the FS but rather than being the main army the ones doing it would be their slaves.
I don’t think it’s that odd for Hobgrots being both. They’re only a single unit in Krule Boys, just like Cities have their Ogor.
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26 minutes ago, BarakUrbaz said:
IIRC Chaos Dwarfs were designed less to be "Chaos, but Dwarfs" and more "Dwarfs that have given in to the evil side of Dwarfish nature". Chaos Dwarfs are essentially the greed and spitefulness of regular Dwarfs turned up to eleven.
Their background from the White Dwarf Presents days was they turned to Chaos out of desperation because their own gods failed them, and became twisted by it.
Turning to Chaos to avoid extinction has become a bit of a tired trope and covered by Ogroids and Dragon Ogors ( if they survive the Beastcull) in AoS, so I’d like them to go further down the notion you’ve said. Have the new Duardin be motivated by greed and spite, have them embrace Chaos not to survive but because it gets the more stuff than following Sigmar’s little Pantheon.
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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I mean they’re not wrong about Sigmar “i lost my hammer, run away!” Heldenhammer.