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I've used Vallejo for years, but not impressed with the recent changes with game colour and dread to think what the new version of model colour will be like now. Until now, I found them to be unbeatable for cost and availability where I am. But I have a bad habit of buying up tons of paints as and when I see them in stores, even if I don't need new paints! I love trying new paint lines! But theres just too many now and I do get sick of companies change them so often. So now I'll probably switch to a selection of two thin coats and a handful of citadel colours that I just can't do without and become very strict to just how many colours I buy going forward. No more buying each and every triad and new wave or line that appears in a range. I was very tempted to by the fanatic line, but 200+ paints seemed excessive and one of its strengths was that it had a good range of triads which I want to move away from relying on. At this point, I'd be happy to have a basic line of 'foundation' style paints again and a decent enough bone colour to turn them all into their own highlight colours. I'm getting old enough to not care about three stage highlights any more.

Exactly. The next book would have had nothing to do with the throne of chaos series, as it was already previewed before it was canned so we know exactly what it was all about. They already have models being re-released for TOW which would likely have been part of book two of this series and they have nothing to do with the next part of Throne of Chaos.

I will continue to play 1st edition (with skirmish) as I've always done, and the 4th edition starter set models will just become conversion fodder for more WFB units for my Slaanesh mortals army (stormcast) and WFB Skaven. I won't buy further into 4th edition than what ever the big 'bargain' FOMO starter set is. Even having gave up on the edition chase early on I feel I'm saturated with enough AoS rule books, box sets, and literature now that I no longer feel I need to continue to support the game in any form to continue to enjoy the setting and my backlog is big enough that I'll have warbands & terrain material for 10+ years before a significant dent is even made in it. I understand GWs need to retire most of these models, but they brought the issues on themselves mostly by flooding the market with cheap stormcast kits with the magazines and promotions and they need create some artificial scarcity again. The skaven kits for the most part are old, though some are baffling to be gotten rid of. The beastmen thing is just plain mental. Whilst I understand they logic behind most of it, I don't at all agree with it and massively disliked the backlash from it- from forcing people from feeling they need to choose to 'take a side', to seeing complete strangers call each other out for not having the same feelings over the situation. I'll be keeping my models on the tabletop by doing exactly that- keeping them on the tabletop and ignoring GW. Treat GW as you might any other miniature manufacturer and not an all encompassing hobby and it becomes a lot easier to separate the hobby and the commercialism.

I'm very, very pleased to see red stay as the colour of AoS. I Stuck with playing 1st Ed & skirmish, but brought the battle tomes for 2nd ed for the expanded lore. I stuck with these as I refuse to play the edition chase, skirmish suits my group perfectly well without the need to constantly buy new rules. But I LOVE classic red warhammer and really wished they'd gone with red for the battle tomes earlier so I could have enjoyed them on the shelf. But as I can't help but enjoy starter sets especially with all the new skaven models they should hopefully bring, I'll be happy enough to get red core book to go with collection. (Then its just the waiting game with adding 3rd ed battle tomes dirt cheap when people start getting them replaced out with new 4th ones, and I'll have the red ones too!)

There's some really good AoS art, but I do find a lot of it to be very same-y and its been a while since a a single bit of AoS art really caught my eye but this one... wow. This one hits that sweet spot. I don't know if its because it captures that 'wouldn't look out of place on 2002 Black Library novel or cover of 1997 white dwarf' feeling so well, or because the artist went for a little more work in the background over that 'quick add some swirly BS in AoS-y colours with some vague chaos-y shapes that could buildings, could be things' that they moved into doing these days. Either way, be nice to see more of a mix of art styles all of the time and this is one of them I'd love to see more of. This should a book cover. I do wish they would list their artists again. I'd like to reach out to them and ask if they drew Gunnar looking so disgusted because the Hobgrots must be really, really cold and I have assume the poor fella is sadly getting an eyeful of their swamp nips 🤢

When I was a lot, lot younger I questioned why warhammer was a setting. I wanted to see the story progress. I was used to things like Lord of the Rings, where we saw characters go through events and arrive at the end of the quest and saw how the world was reshaped. But as I got older I realised I liked the games as a setting, it made sense. I could shape my own story. I could even add in my own elements from other stories. It didn't need a story, it just needed a setting, I could do the rest. The issue I have with them treating the mortal realms as a story now, is that it never really goes anywhere that a 'real' story would it never flows like a a fantasy tale. It feels more like they have a handful of plot points they need to get to on a whiteboard and someone in the office just fills in the gaps with the details, often with a scrabble bag of which forces to include to boost model sales. They can't ever endanger a character or force that has a model/model range, so no real conflict can ever be brought in to the stories without the status quo being reset (or at least only setting up the next edition status quo) I love the AoS campaign books, but I do wish they were smaller in scale sometimes and focused more on a singular campaign/war/story with more generic 'no-name' heroes so we could have some real high fantasy adventure brought to the game.

They released it as a print book but only at some very limited print run only given away at a single US event the year after it was put out on the website. The Malign Portent shorts were some of my favourite things that they have put out for AoS and they've never made the print version available outside of this event.

Last time I tuned into one of GWs 'big' reveals it was for MESBG and well....turned out all they were showing was a forgeworld diorama (a pretty bad one at that) so I like to temper expectations when it comes to GW announcements now. Especially more so when its just pre-announcing an announcement.

"Everything has a price" Except all the things out of stock on the webstore for months a time 😅(well actually I guess they do have a price, you just can't exchange anything for said items!) I'm keeping my expectations very low...that way I hope to be pleasantly surprised rather than getting to the big reveal and finding out that the leaked skaven big gun is the only new model and the '4th edition set' turns out to just a price rise on a bunch of old models.

I'd love to see new yeti models. Its like the last thing I need to complete the ridiculous amount of ogres I've found I've picked up over the past few years. I'm normally pretty dismissive of 4chan rumour posts, but for once I truly hope this is a real one and not just wishlisting. That said....if they do bring out the yetis I guess I'd actually have to get around to painting the entire army so maybe they could hold off another lifetime or two before we do get them!

Oh. No point in buying any more miniatures then I guess. It was fun whilst it lasted. Doubtful, the rumour was the dwarf king mould was dropped and broken. A load of the sprues made it into the wild (presumable test runs) and I'd be surprised if they forked out to make a new mould just for the old world. The old models are not up to par with new sculpts, its one thing to re-release old models you still have the mould for.

Always pleased to see this painting log back at the top of the page with new updates! A feast for the eyes every time!

Always loved the fluff for FEC, but the left over WFB kits (thought really nice) never really fit the idea of them. Excellent to see new kit coming for them where at least the weapons lean into the idea behind them. Whats even better is that these should hit the shelves around the same time as the TOW bretonnian. I honestly can't wait to see what mad armies people come up with finally! (Without having to sell a kidney for parts that is!)

They seem to have mislabelled that awesome looking Grotbag Scuttler as a plain and simple Grot! But I guess its the first sneaky preview of the new Grotbag Scuttlers miniature line! New battletome when GW?!

He was on twitter. I can't link it as twitter always covers the posts with the login/account creation popup. I'm too lazy to remove the popup and get to the posts but you can probably find it easily enough with an account there.

GW generally release new stuff like this during January-March period, December tends to be for the big Christmas boxes/releases only. But who knows this year, with Epic being pushed back it could be they release all sorts this December.

Except you know; resin, finecast, metal, static grass, sand. They even advertise building of sub assemblies & using superglue on their warhammer youtube painting videos. Its a lot less likely they stopped selling superglue in store due to children, and more to do with the expense of rebranding cheap superglue from china. Plus they still sell the hobby knife in stores, the scraping tool just let them include it in starter paints sets/sell them directly to children. Personally I don't fully trust the Painting Phase videos as reliable sources of info. They clearly still have to tow the GW line as they won't dare bite the hand that still feeds them. They are still as reliant on GW to keep providing them a living as much as when they worked for them directly, so no way are they going to air something that actually spills any real dirt on the company or they practices.

It doesn't seem to be up on their blog yet, and its not really a rumour for AoS 'proper' but I think it fits here fine. Cubical7 have announced they are continuing their license with GW, meaning more AoS goodies. I am not a fan of RPGs really, but the stuff they put out for AoS & WFB are fantastic. The posters are lovely and the books are packed with lore and art. I'd honestly like to see GW put more effort in to their own AoS book releases, as the quality of C7s books blows them away. I really hope we see some more AoS books similar to the WFB cities one, as they are packed to the brim with content (even for those of us that don't play the actual RPG)

40k regularly has one build characters (Magnus nipple armour on or off doesn't count as alternative build!) https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/11/27/sunday-preview-warhammer-40000-battleforces-and-necromunda-goons-and-goodies/ And whilst not a named character, the black coach is pretty much a €100+ single build. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/11/20/sunday-preview-get-your-fill-of-age-of-sigmar-battleforces-and-the-new-warcry-expansion/ The Lord of change I guess does at least have an alternative build, but its not too far off similar contents to including kroak. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/11/16/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-battleforces-incoming/ Most sets have had named characters/single builds in the past, just not all of them at €90+.But mostly Battleforces don't have to cater to existing players that might have models, even if existing players would like the discount.

Its looks rather dull (colour wise I mean) and what little game play is shown, it looks kind of empty. I'm not really a fan of RTS games (Which I know is odd, as someone that like huge mass battle wargames!) so I'm probably not the target audience for this, but I'd hoped for AoS game that was bright, vibrant and crammed with troops and oddities. This could be any basic mobile battle game, I'd not tell it was AoS from the gameplay alone. Also not a big deal, but seems odd to be finally getting an AoS game like this, only for it to be in the realm of beasts when its safe to assume that a new edition will be here 'soonish' and will no longer be focused on Ghur. 🤷‍♂️ As someone that has thrown together some pretty dodgy looking games of their own, I can appreciate the time to make a good quality game! But I would expect something flashier for a game based on a GW core game! Hopefully this is just a case of announcing a game far too early! Should have waited to show this off when they had a full blown game play trailer!

They had an army book(let!). It is even newer than the 'most recent' Bretonnian army book was! So they received more updated support than one of the armies already being shown in the old worlds return!

Yeah it is all very strange. They stated before that its not really aimed at new players. But a good amount of old players probably have everything they ever need, and then some, to keep playing WFB games. So they can't be aiming for them either. Its like they are aiming for the complete opposite of, 'in an attempt to please everyone, it pleased no one'. 😅

For me, thankfully the armies not seeing support (Pity PDFs will go down about as well as the original AoS legends ones did) I have pretty much everything for them, or just need one or two more kits which are still available in the AoS range. The main things I'm missing from being able to field pretty much any old world army is a whole lot of dwarf warriors (I have enough dwarf miner bits to make a zillion miners, just missing more bodies!), a whole bunch of plastic high elves and a handful of tomb kings. So this release pretty much covers everything I need to play any classic WFB game. But I do feel sorry for those that have a force on the 'not supported at release' forces, or those that brought a ton of the new lizardmen to play or even those that wanted to run forces like lizardmen/skaven, as to be able to play both old world & AoS games. There is no way I could sell this game to my local group now. There is no reason to play the old world over the older versions of WFB that we already own. Will I buy the campaign books? Probably. But they will be on the gaming shelf for anyone here to read and save anyone else having to buy anything. I see this release as nothing more as a 'made to order' run for those armies I'm missing things for.

Prices are single handedly the #1 reason I can't afford to get any friends outside of people in this hobby. They might want to actually do something 😅

I've just noticed, they have a 'modern' take on the classic goblin green/bad moon yellow sand bases too! Very snazzy!