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polarbear

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  1. I've posted this before but I believe the way GW operates is like many publishing companies: it has about a thousand balls in the air at various stages of development and is constantly assessing what to send to production and when. This is why sometimes they release things that they mostly finished a long time ago, and sometimes they react quite quickly. It's not set in stone, though they are always working from a schedule and tweaking it, and I bet there are 50 things for every one that sees the light of day. What a treasure trove the creator's studio and design concept documents would be if they were ever unearthed!
  2. I've never had interest in Bloodbowl, don't care for football and thought the idea was goofy, but those Skaven and dwarf teams are out of this world. I would love that as a painting project. I guess if you want the board and all you'll have to pick up the starter with human/orcs eh? Humans pretty bland in my opinion. Also, this really makes me want to see a new Skaven clan and new dwarf army in AoS in these styles. They could make some crazy awesome Eshin now that they do tails so dynamically.
  3. Forgive me if off topic but this Lord Brain stuff makes me kind of want GW to come out with a giant tentacle brain beast that is the true god of the Stormcast, totally changing their interpretation in the fluff. Would actually be kind of neat if all these noble legions of heavenly warriors actually work for some horrendous evil monstrosity that controls them. That's enough procrastinating before work for me now.
  4. Doubt they'd include old plastic kits in made to order, eh? Would love to get some of the exclusive IoB kind of minis of the past.
  5. That Quest character box looks great. Love the bundled characters. Would like to see even more bundles that span factions, such as just one unit of one faction plus another of some other one. Think it's a pretty good way to hook people into buying more. Breaks the ice on new armies well.
  6. Those trolls with plague drone heads are just killer! Love that idea. Nice work.
  7. Not to be off topic here but I think the rumour aspect of GW, in some ways at least, is a positive for them. I'm always going through my feeds looking to see any hints of what's coming. It creates excitement. There are pluses and negatives to anything of course. For me, when the reveal finally does come, I am more inclined to spend money because of that wave of excitement, rather than after the news has worn off a few weeks later. They could do with more hints and teasers though just to keep everyone on the hook and not make the future look bleak at times.
  8. GW giving a special artefact to Chaos for two days in the campaign is a pretty cool move. Had zero interest in the campaign myself but this sort of thing makes me like it more. Becomes a little bit more interesting than how I viewed it as a proxy for online favourite alliance voting/most popular seller list.
  9. People on FB seem to think it's fake but it would line up with the rumours earlier this year. The box sets tend to be hits for GW lately so I wouldn't be surprised if they're going for one per year now. Even if this isn't real, it's a bit crazy how hard they've pushed AoS in 2016. It has snowballed into an avalanche.
  10. I believe that's because the horrors or flayers (whichever one that is a courtier of) become battleline only if he's the general, which I thought was kind of silly considering if you're running pure FEC you'd want a ghoul king at the top. Thanks for the bat rep!
  11. The hotdog-bun problem has gone off the chain with the matched play structure. Leadbelchers come in boxes of 4, but you'd need to buy 3 boxes to have an even split of groups of 3, unless you want superfluous models. In a weird way I'm actually coming around to it though. It basically means you'll almost never build an exact force, buy it and be done. You'll always have extra models and that will breed different ways to construct your army as you go. Steers you a bit more to building your army in a general sense and not specifically for that one competitive list.
  12. Really cool to get SC sets of new models. That Ironjawz one looks nice. Seems like they're packaging up the bad sellers in each run, good idea. Too bad Fyreslayers miss out.
  13. Thinking it's to catch up all the battletome'd factions with allegiance abilities etc. like the new battletomes.
  14. Oh man, five start collectings coming Saturday? That gets me more hyped than a whole new army.
  15. I'd go with 32mm. A lot of units are photographed on different bases than they're supplied with/make sense.
  16. I put my war hounds on 40mm rounds too. Dire Wolves on the other hand look good on the small ovals. Edit: Shouldn't be too contentious with opponents as I think the larger rounds actually limit your own ability to move/get into combat more than the small ovals.
  17. The command traits/unique lores definitely make the battletomes a lot more attractive. I'd pick up the Pestilens book if it had those. Bit messy to update them so soon after release but I hope they find a way to do it. Stormcast, Fyreslayers, Ironjawz, Everchosen, Seraphon all deserve some cool stuff on that front. More ways to differentiate the factions is a good thing in my opinion.
  18. I think GW has shown an ability to cash in on nostalgia, and I could certainly see Tomb Kings or Brettonia reinvisioned in a flashy, of course a bit different, way. Not necessarily imminent at all.
  19. Wow, I absolutely love how they look all ranked up on that tray. Beautiful job!
  20. I like some incentive to stay within faction.
  21. Good stuff! Been working on the courts myself. Just about to dig into the Vlagorescu box. Also, I like your YT videos.
  22. Definitely a darker take than I expected. Background to this faction could be interesting. Don't like this art much. Not an elf guy in general though.
  23. The GW Facebook page just posted this. Not sure if indication of new models or just a fun/fluffy take.
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