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Chikout

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  1. I wonder if this is repurposed material from a season of war Gallet book. It would certainly add credence to the idea that Season of Gallet existed and was cancelled.
  2. Probably the best white dwarf gift ever. I absolutely love that mini, and the lore that came with him. The Kislev and Cathay situation is very disappointing. I'd love to know what happened. The rules seem to be pretty good, and the books they've put out are solid to the extent that I hope AoS follows the same format, but everything else has been quite badly handled.
  3. We definitely aren't getting Warhammer Fest this year. GW cancelled it. It's possible GW will do an online thing to replace it but there is no in person preview event in April or May this year.
  4. Interesting to see another preview this soon. We still don't know if they are going to do another preview in the spring now that Warhammer fest has been cancelled. Could we be seeing book 6 next weekend and then a full 4th edition reveal at Adepticon? I think the goose will be a hafling thing for blood bowl. We will probably see the dwarf range for the old world and custodes and/or Orks for 40k. It really does depend on whether they have an event planned for April or May.
  5. The Eldar had 50 preview articles between Jan 3rd and March 23rd. It's kind of insane how many articles they did for a release that wasn't huge. Cities had 25 articles in more than a year. The Eldar preview cycle was certainly concentrated but they really did take over the community site for more than 2 months, if not explicitly the new model Monday section, though they did a Christmas day preview followed by 6 Monday previews in a row from Jan 3rd to February 7th. (One of those was the codex and one showed off the autarch options). I really hope the Skaven get this kind of treatment, but I'd be surprised if the whole 4th edition rollout has more articles than the Eldar had.
  6. Of course they can. The imperial guard did. Seraphon did. Cities would have if there hadn't been a leak. The big Eldar wave took over the community site for months.
  7. I agree that Gorkamorka, the chaos gods and Sigmar should never get models but AoS is pretty strongly inspired by Norse mythology. That's a setting where the gods walked among mortals even before Marvel came along. For me it's ok if any of the gods that were formally mortals are in the game. Sigmar being the exception as the whole point of his narrative is that he realised getting directly involved was a bad idea. The horned rat was never mortal so it doesn't make sense to do a Horned Rat model. An avatar would be fine though.
  8. It's annoying that they don't include the old text so we know what the changes are. The Eidolon spell went from 12 to 18 inch range and went from d3 units to 3 units. The melee thing isn't new.
  9. There's definitely a sixth book. A Whitefang like suggested as much. Also if book 5 was the last book it would be marketed that way. "The thrilling conclusion to the Dawnbringers saga". Look at the way the Lion book was marketed.
  10. Not really. If the book just sold out, it doesn’t make much sense to reprint it this close to the end of the edition, especially if 4th is a reset.
  11. They promised a quarterly battlescroll. If the next one comes out on Thursday it will be a full 5 months since the last one. We’re not talking a week or two late here.
  12. While the internet is full of over reaction, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect GW to release their updates at the same time each year, especially since they promised they would. If someone is a month late on a deadline in almost line of work, you can be sure that the client will be more than a little angry.
  13. They produced scenery and endless spells in China as well as all printed material. The produce all of their standard miniatures in the UK. This is definitely true as all the books and boxes are labelled. They built a second factory in the Nottingham. The rumour goes that when they opened it and turned on the power, they were accused of drawing too much power as there is a hospital on the same section of the grid that needs that power. This meant they immediately had to shut it down again. I've no idea if this is true or not but it would certainly explain all the production problems GW has been having recently. Edit. The new factory is near a hospital.
  14. My understanding was that production in china suddenly got much more expensive as did shipping. I'm not sure if it has settled down or not, but hearing about scenery kits getting cancelled isn't surprising.
  15. You always seem to be the bearer of bad news. If there is a spider incarnate, surely it could be repurposed as a gloomspite unit. When was the last time we got new scenery that wasn't part of kill team or warcry? It would be a shame if GW gave up on that part of their busines.
  16. Anvils of the heldenhammer finally get to take centre stage, maybe with their own special character?
  17. Which means they have a stable loyal player base that loves them regardless of their power in the game. They also have never been the least popular faction. I'm not trying to say they're mega popular, but they certainly aren't the first faction you would expect GW to cut.
  18. Maybe, but it's been a long time since WHFB and a lot of the most popular units have been newer kits like the Tzaangor. This data doesn't overlap with the Old World at all.
  19. According to the woehammer stats they are currently the 17th most played faction out of 27, more popular than Lumineth, ironjawz, Tzeentch, Nighthaunt and Skaven. Only six factions never saw their monthly play rate drop below 2% in 2023. BoC were one of them.
  20. I wasn't really expecting anything, but you never know unless you try.
  21. GW normally do faction specific articles in the run-up to launch so we should know one way or the other in the spring. If it is true it's in GW's interest to share the news soon so the don't spoil the hype for 4th edition.
  22. I asked Warhammer community directly on twitter and got a surprisingly instant reply. Basically a no comment, but I'm surprised they didn't just ignore me.
  23. I understand that this is a wishlisting thread but GW is never going to use anything but a d6 for their core games. There was an interview with an ex gw guy on the painting phase podcast who explained that GW always chooses the mass market option. My current desires are as follows: Dump battletactics. Have a selection of secondaries for each battle plan. Introduce spearhead as a format. Change up enhancements. Every general gets a command trait. Every character who isn't special gets an artefact. Every wizard gets as many spells as they can cast. Every applicable mount gets a mount trait. Make more of all of these and introduce a free tier, a 20 point tier and a 50 point tier. Dump battalions completely Roll off for turn one. Models can fight in two ranks in close combat Moving is alternating activations but if you moved in the opponents turn you can't move in yours - so all models can move in either turn but only once per battle round. Across the entire game rebalance things to have fewer attacks than do more damage. On the other hand have fewer mortal wounds and fewer ward saves. Never let rally be better than 6+
  24. I think @Whitefang back me up was the bearer of bad news regarding BoC which is why people are hoping they are full of it. They said we'd see new ToW factions before the end of January. This was a rumour that didn't come from anyone else and turned out to be true. The actual @Whitefang has liked a few of their posts. They do seem to have some solid info. I'm inclined to believe them, but I really hope they're lying or were misinformed about the BoC stuff.
  25. A new edition of Kill team is due out this year. I'd expect AoS 4 late June or early July and Kill team in August. There's been a rumour about Vespids for kill team floating around for a while. @Whitefang back me up Is terrain changing for the better? It's been one of the more common complaints about AoS for a while.
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