wayniac

First, I find the rumors of what boxes are being made to be stupid as hell. They have 4 Grand Alliances, but they ignore one to give the one that doesn't need more support a second box, because it "sells better" (well no duh it will sell better when it gets the most support! Haven't they learned that yet?). But anyways, to my knowledge no battalion in a boxed set has come with points, and as well know if it doesn't have points it might as well not exist. I have no reason to expect this to be any different.

My GW has neither confirmed nor denied (wink wink) that there will be Black Friday sales.

Yes. Anything that can get clicks, you can often tell by who posted an article if it will be anything good or just random "Somebody posted this somewhere, let's roll with it" ******. In fact even their regular articles tend to be either just what is basically a forum post/blog post, or someone trying to say how everything is great in GW land and anyone who doesn't think that is a hater.

That's the rumor; dual-kit with a new Lord of Change + Daemon Magnus.

Now THAT's what I'm talking about. Still kinda weird it's 4x4, but as I've said before I feel 4x4 can work well for smaller, faster paced games with lower points levels so I don't have a real issue with that other than most people will be mad it's not 6x4

That's likely why it's 4x4, now that I think of it. "Default" table size is getting more and more to 8x4 ayways.

True, but few of their games are really suited to 4x4, and the ones that are can be grossly unbalanced anyways (see: Kill Team and Path to Glory)

Yeah I saw this, and immediately felt they dropped the ball by doing only a 4x4 one, so hopefully it's the start of a series. AOS I think would be the perfect opportunity to have themed mats for the different realms so it's not always the same board with the same molded features like the RoBB.