Kugane

Does anyone know if previous season boards are still allowed?

About the realms topic... It would be great if they became fleshed out like the old world. I am just afraid the realms may lack history? How old are they by now? Also wondering how big these realms really are. Is it like a whole world contained in itself? It would be cool if these things became fully shaped planets over time.

Where there are cities, there are skaven lurking in the sewers. The CoS battletome might as well be Cities of Skaven.

If there are going to be new models its likely after bonereaper hype has died off. Cant have wallet fatigue!

This is mine. Hoping for more skaven to convert ^^

Thanks for that info. Less refresh RSI haha.

Absolutely gorgeous.

They better keep their paws off the broodhorror

Your season 1 warbands will be useable (even if not 100% competitive). All universal cards reprinted in the latest 2 seasons are legal for play. All your warband specific cards are legal for play. Since your game store will play beastgrave, why not see if you can read through their rules? Or simply go like "I would love to play, but I only know nightvault rules. Care to share what changed?" Just take note and use those rules :). I dont think the game changed too much. Either way I am sure you will have enough stuff to toy around with.

I think just do what I and my wife are doing and just keep using the old rules to play each other and friends. As a standalone product the game is still playable. You can discuss with your local game group if they want to just keep using all the cards as well. And yeah, I know the scammed feeling. I invested significant ammounts in armies that got scrapped. GW stuff simply has an expiration date =P. What we could perhaps do is ask GW if they can make an extended format where all ole cards are available and ask if tules are able to be uploaded digitally for people that do not have the funds for the new boxed set. But cheer up! You can always snag the rulebook off a bitz site for a cheap price =).

Second that^^

I think the way they design these set releases to play competitively you need to buy almost every set for 1 ot 2 cards each. There is always some sort of staple in a box for a warband. I think this would hold true even if they didnt update the rules. So competitive players would have to buy these regardless. I am not happy with it, but it seems GW wants to put an expiration date on their products more and more. That said: nothing to do about it. Its their company and I hope the changes at least fixes some of the previous issues.

Magnets and metal boxes is indeed by far the best. For easy storing but also safe transport. Especially with all the fragile parts GW produces lately.

It may be quite dangerous to invest in morghasts currently. For all we know the rules may change when the tome hits the shelves? Maybe they are a suboptimal unit as well. As for conversions, I think you can just take whatever look you prefer and specify it to your opponent. If you model all of them with chest plates it hardly changes the WYSIWYG.

High fantasy in a WHFB setting for me. Like skaven or tomb kings and their environment. The new realms somehow makes everything feel less connected to me.

Thank you everybody for the tips!I guess I will store them away for the time being then^^.

The riders from underworlds are useful at least. 3 for ~18 euro with discounts isnt too bad I suppose? The weapons are converted easily.

What do you people do with armies you fully painted and finished, but dont enjoy playing? (Or like in my case the original planned army wasnt competitive enough and shifted into something unenjoyable) I loved IDK previews. Loved lothan, namarti, soulrender, aspect and volturos and the playstyle they promote on paper, but boy was I dissappointed with the actual output on the table haha. The reason I cant play the aspect is due to fragility. His spear already broke off 5 times during games XD. I have a personal rule of thumb that I only play what I painted, so kind of feel stuck with the army now having invested so much painting time into it.

The only possibility I can think of is that they release a wave of terrain and possible models with these battletomes as a surprise release to see if a "flash" sale will increase sales compared to early previews of models. Lately the pop up store and flash release business model is gaining quite some success in other fields. There is a slight possibility GW is dipping their toes in similar markets? Make the general public aware there will be a COS/Orruk release and then totally surprise us with a mini wave. Also I think they want to line up the bonereapers with halloween (31 october). Hence late october release will likely be on that date. Same reason why Gotrek was released on the international beard day? GW is experimenting :P.

Doubtful. Bonereapers are said to be released at the end of october and COS ans Orruks should be at least a week before that, which leaves only a 4 week gap for stuff to actually be reveales and the whole "pre order next week" thing to make it out there before bonereapers preorders go up. That feels rushed for GW standards.

I see :/. Thats a shame. Regardless looking forward to your progress 😃

Would it be an idea to base it around an existing army's warscrolls and just change the names and keywords of abilities? That way if you ever play the army in a tournament setting you can refer to them as a counts as X army?

Really cool idea. I wish more projects like this were actively made and used in the public

The chittering intensifies.

I think its a business decision. They may be trying to keep a close check on average profit each month to be roughly equal and growing at a stable pace so it looks smooth in the charts for the stock holders. Similar to those buy 1 get 1 free deals you tend to see everywhere in poor selling months/years for products of big corporations. Having a dip in the graph for any particular month isnt good for company image. Because of that I think they try to put these big releases at the end of a month in case sales are going poorly or move it up 2 weeks to the start of a month if quotas are already expected to be met. Having stable organic growth with no dips lures in potential investors?