Gaz Taylor
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Just now, Ejecutor said:
I don't think you can say "soon" and wait months. The SCE one was announced a month ago. I think we will see them released with the next Dawnbringers book.
Bet GW can
I think the issue is that because they seem to be having issues producing things (look at the online store how much is currently out of stock!!), they have switched to things coming out in around 3 months.
Anyway, its roughly 19 weeks until July which is when we will probably see 4th edition, so we will probably see these sets before then. Then again, really depends on the production issues and all the other stuff that still needs to come out! There's still another 4 40K codexes that need to be released (if you count the FOMO Tau set in that as well as the FOMO Dark Angel set as it's out), plus the Solar Auxilia for Heresy, and more AOS sets between now and release (dawnbringers). Oh and restocking all the out of stock stuff!
That's a lot of busy GW have to get on with.
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My two pence....
No idea if Beasts will go away from Age of Sigmar. However, if it was me, I would be thinking about keeping the following models and developing new kits, and everything else moving to The Old World.
You can come up with new and exciting models and get players to buy new kits. I can totally see them making new Gor models as well as more themed god specific models.
However, just to add and point out - Until it happens, all of this is speculation and rumours!
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21 minutes ago, Luperci said:
Yeah I don't think any faction will truly be "finished", there'll be a point where all factions are fully post AoS kits but GW will still keep making new stuff for them
This
Just look at Space Marines. Strictly speaking they were "finished" 30 years ago but GW have been refining the idea and developing new models and units. They can do this for anything really. With 40K, it's just a new STC has been discovered or a part of the culture of a race we've not seen yet. With AOS it's an open sandbox where anything can happen.
It's great that they can do this and keep coming up with new kits. If you'd had said what things would have been like 30 years ago to me, I wouldn't have believed you. I always thought GW would go out of business!
So in short, nothing is really finished. Things change and sometimes that change is annoying. Your models and rules don't just disappear if GW stop supporting them. Lots of people are still playing 8th edition Warhammer Fantasy, there's Epic Armageddon still being played and there's even Warmaster still going.
Anyway, back to rumours...
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6 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Until we have a proper announcement it is all purely speculating.
Bingo!
Lets get back to rumours
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1 minute ago, Koala said:
Fun fact: GW tried D12 in its dead on arrival 8th "Apocalypse" system.
It also had alternating activations.
I didn't know that!
Also your other points make sense and I didn't think of those
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12 hours ago, Gitzdee said:
Do you all think it would be possible to go to D10 or D12 dice with the current version of the core rules? I was wondering if it would be a possibility for 4th.
I don't think GW will ever do that (yes I know about Inquisitor!) as keeping the rules using D6 makes it more accessible to the general public as that's what dice are
Also I don't know if it's easier/cheaper to produce D6 vs D10/20 on mass or if the mark up is better when you sell your own branded versions.
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7 minutes ago, Vagard said:
So no Battlescroll this week neither?...
I'm not expecting it until after FEC release. Just checked and nothing ships until 17th Feb, so I'd expect it after that.
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17 minutes ago, Ogregut said:
I'm guessing it's the old stuff, the bret and tomb king army boxes and all the releases that went with it.
Possibly but I think it docked at end of 2023/start of 2024 so it wouldn't leave much time to have it go to the US warehouse and then get shipped out. Very possible though as I don't know the lead times on packing and shipping items from the factory. I'd assume for a summer release of a core game, it would be shipped around now to ensure there is enough stock in place but don't know if that's me being too cautious about it.
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4 minutes ago, Pizzaprez said:
Looking at this, I notice 21 pallets of resin figures heading to the US... Haven't been to a GW store since FW and GW sites merged, but is this new? Could be signalling that resin kits may be in stores soon! Last I recall, most anything not-plastic was online only(?)
Maybe, however if you look at the quantity and weight of the shipping (1423 Box and 4021K) I suspect its more smaller kits along the lines of The Old World or Lord of the Rings. Thats only if you look at the average weight of the items.
Going back to the one I'm excited about, which is 24737 BOX and 7842K, it screams boxed game to me.
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4 minutes ago, Chikout said:
I'd forgotten about that. We got some pretty decent rumours from shipping manifests back in the day.
Yup. Not a lot from this one apart from the numbers and the second line has a interesting amount "24,737 BOX"
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26 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
With the image quality reduction from the site it is almost unreadable 😅
It's fine on my big monitor
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Lets get things back to rumours...
Okay, checking details about shipping manifests was all the rage a few years ago but GW cottoned on a got all that info excluded from publicly viewable information (I'm guessing you can read privately).
Anyway, could this be part of the puzzle about 4th edition Age of Sigmar or is it just general shipping stuff?
I'm not an expert and all this says to me is a lot of stuff has been shipped to the US.
Anyway, rumour away folks!
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11 minutes ago, Someravella said:
I guess meta, competitive players are the ones that invest more money in models, because they can be easily nudged by a new metawatch warscroll, and GW *has to* appeal to that player base.
It's a smaller percentage of the player base but tend to be the loudest. I think the steer towards competitive style rules is partially down to members of the studio liking competitive gaming.
I suspect we will see more of a balance with the next edition as I think this is something they want to address. Competitive gaming is fun personally but it's not for everybody.
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Just a general what do you listen to when gaming or painting Age of Sigmar? Does anybody have any cool playlists or albums they have on when playing a game? Do you just have the radio on instead and listen to a particular station?
Just being nosey
When I play it's normally at a club so no music but when painting I listen to a mixture of things.
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17 hours ago, MitGas said:
I figure the new starter with upgraded SC and Skaven will sell pretty well.
I agree. Although I do think part of the sales issue with the current set (ignoring Covid and general rules grumblings people have) is the name they chose. Dominion. That's not a word I associate with Fantasy unless it's like some dark horror daemon type thing. It's like a switch that just dials back the fun whenever I see it!
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35 minutes ago, JackStreicher said:
It's become so generic (rules-wise). The moment it started down this path was when Jervis Johnson retired. Yes he made some really out of whack rules, but at least he made some memorable and cool rules at the same time.
I think it's because what people were saying they wanted and they shifted design to that way for this edition. I think 4th will be more something for everybody but lets wait and see.
25 minutes ago, Garrac said:Um, for 4th theres also this fear that GW may shrink the points value like in 40k. After 10th dropped, many tau, votann, and even marine players suddenly realised their armies were aproximately 20% cheaper and they needed to buy more stuff in order to cover that gap and have a full army again. They're probably planning to do the same thing with AoS now.
They do it with any new edition!
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44 minutes ago, zamerion said:
So, there Will be Warhammer fest day at the end?
It’s the Warhammer World Store birthday. Just lots of activities to celebrate it.
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9 minutes ago, Satyrical Sophist said:
Returning to the rumour/speculation focus, does anyone remember/know how they link the data slate to the battle scroll historically? Data slate was last week (unusually on a Tuesday) but I have a vague itchy feeling in my hind brain that there is usually two weeks between the pair of them?
I think they just come out around the same time. There’s no direct link between them as managed be separate teams.
Suspect the delay is either due to one of the following…
1 ) some internal resource issues (people who do it may be sick, have personal issues like a family death or could even been involved in jury service, etc)
2 ) new edition means they are just less focused on it
3 ) issues with the data / stats (may have lost the data for example like a corrupted database).
A combination of these can easily snowball no matter how well prepared you are.
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+++ Mod Hat On +++
Can any discussion about the cost of collecting new Battletomes, please be a new topic
Can we now get back to rumours
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22 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Warhammer fest has historically been thier biggest preview event of the year. Are they really doing nothing to replace it? If they are why don't they announce it now?
I think they are just bad at communicating. What they should be saying (in my opinion), is "We've listened to feedback from the previous WarhammerFest and want to make it bigger and better than ever. In order to do that, we've decided not to do it this year, but we have these other cool things going on." (or something like that
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9 minutes ago, Danaork said:
Take away - they are thinking about the feedback and going to do something better next time they do it. I would still expect an Open Day at Warhammer World at some point though
I'm also sure there will be lots of upcoming previews as well, so don't panic
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1 minute ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
Kind of don't like the impulse to not want to play with people who just do what the rules incentivize them to do, personally.
I get that but at same time, it's my free time to play a game and unless we're on the same page, I'll choose how to use my free time in the future
However, I do agree, it's a tactic and part of the game and personally wouldn't have an issue with it. I like to play tough competitive games. Not everybody does though, hence some of the views popping up.
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34 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
So, have any of you guys experimented with long line formations yet? I see people kind of losing their minds all over the internet about the rule that lets everyone in the front rank attack. But, even at a cursory glance, a long line of models just doesn't look good to me (outside of shooting units). A line of 30 models would already be unwieldy in AoS with its much more permissive movement, so I just can't imagine it in TOW.
Really depends if it's click bait for videos or a genuine issue, Personally, I think it's something that will come up in a couple of situations but most of the time wont happen as people won't want to play that way. Also if it starts happening at events (which is where I think a lot of the noise is coming from), event organisers would do some house ruling. If it happens at a club game, just don't play that person if they keep doing it.
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7 minutes ago, Garrac said:
I really don't want a 50% of the skaven's identity to get chop-chopped into other game systems, or some dumb ass plot shenanigans with the clans again.
Please bear in mind these are rumours and general thinking aloud. It's quite possible they do a massive refresh and redesign everything and nothing gets dropped. I know a couple of members of the studio like Skaven
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Probably. It's typically a Thursday and they have said it would be this week on the Preview from Sunday. It's either going to be the best battlescroll ever or a so so one but I'm expecting it to be the last one before the next edition (all signs suggest it's summer).