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Quick Q: can you stack the Lord Arcanum on Dracoline command ability ; Pack Alpha (add 1 to attacks characteristic of .... etc. ). Thanks.

On the GW store entry for the handbook it says.... Open War Terrain – presents four different methods of setting terrain up before your games, including an optional terrain generator, and optional rules to provide instructions for where you place terrain on your battlefield. Are we sure the terrain rules are for matched play?

Liberators at max unit 20 with a max discount would have been nice. Lots of talk last few pages about Libs over Sequitors, but yeah Judicators (and castigators!) needed a bonus.

Why do you think the book and cards will be out of date? The GHB will only change the points for spells (not seen any rumour to suggest otherwise) so the Malign Sorcery book still contains a large amount of stuff that can be used such as the endless spell rules, realm spells, realm artefacts, magic themed scenario etc.

Looks awesome. Have to say though, kinda getting non-plussed of the proliferation of -1 to hit already in AoS so not sure about adding more due to weather. There will be games where it will be almost impossible to hit once you stack this on top of all the minuses some armies get. EDIT: Also, it says on page 4 use the 2020 handbook? 😉

'Order of the Blood Drenched Rose'? More like 'Knightly Order of the Blessed Lady' 😁 ...those stories about what happened in the last village they visited were totally fabricated, no one got bitten at all 🙄 I'll get my Bretonnian Knights on the table somehow!

I pointed out this would happen when GW decided 2 models equidistant would pin (rather than the more obvious choice of decide which is closer, like every other time a GW rule has 2 models equidistant). Everyone went ballistic and claimed you could never measure 2.9", and even if you moved them in place and stated 'these are 2.9" away, ok?'. So id caution against this strategy or you may have issue with your opponents.

Yep, same here for Tempest Lords. I just went with a slightly fluffed 'the Sacrosanct are guardians in Azyr so have the Azyr hammer symbol because they dont live/stay/hang-out with the rest of the host in their Stormcastle/keep' kind of story.

They have been listening....

I think this is a general GW theme these days, maybe two options at most when you build a model but nothing more. Warcry does seem to be a 'warband in a box' approach to factions, underworlds style. We will no doubt find out this week as more is revealed.

Im not sure it will be so far into Necromunda everyone seems to think it will be. Kill-Team has a campaign for growing your party, and developing skills, a little expansion on that would suit Warcry, you could even use cards to give models advances, like Underworlds but carrying on between games.

The social media team know everything that is in development in the main studio, but they cannot share anything not actually announced. They also need to keep people happy now (irrespective of what they know may/may-not be coming) so their standard response template includes some variation on this 'that's all we know right now. As soon as we have more to announce here, we'll announce it!'. so you can never read anything into their responses unfortunately.

I think the community team probably agree, based on how many questions they are having to answer saying 'this is what we know, for now!'. If you look at what they have done for Kill Team, with the initial pack and now the 'competitive' versions, plus all the extras like leaders and elites, then its safe to presume WarCry will go the same way in time. But im with you, not really enthused about this box based on preview alone. Dont doubt it will get enough support to develop though.

Promotional channel used to promote products. You cant really expect them to not put out sales hype just because whats revealed so far is not the correct game system? Yeah annoying but they would be derelict in their duty not promoting their new stuff to as many people as possible. We dont even know if AoS isnt coming yet.

They can and they do. Obviously they wont do so without reason, but they do not have infinate resource and if predictions suggest investing time into a new faction will yield better sales than a codex or battletome for older stuff, then we see what they do. If you have evidence of the opposite, share it with them, but im pretty sure they know the score, especially given so many senior staff have graduated to management from shop floor and through numerous other roles. Its the same reason narrative and open exist, despite gamers saying no-one plays it the have significant experience that it is. Everyone tottally agrees with what you repeatedly say and im sure GW staff dont want to alienate or drive people away (from what is also their passionate hobby dont forget!), but you cant please everyone, and you cant run a business on the wishes of people who dont seem to spend money.

What would be worse; No information on what GW is doing with a faction until its released or GW saying they will do something and then doing something else (for whatever reason, choice, financial, legal, market response, etc.) , or doing it in a different way to what the internet has decided they will do despite a level of information provided.

So, general consensus is pricing is for Shadowspear now out the 'autobuy' or 'buy 3!!!' range, especially without a big hardback rulebook included but still has good value for many gamers/collectors/hobbyists. What do we think this means for AoS? will we get a set like this for AoS this year, or is it still too close to Soulwars release? In the past id have said its too close but GW is pumping things out at a rapid pace and im starting to think we might get one this year.

Its clear Freeguild need an update. When they outlined who they are they only had empire kits available. They will come, when? who knows. Until last month skaven didnt properly reflect their lore, a few months ago grots did not reflect the lore. Change will come but GW works on longer timescales and is a business so cant just pump out stuff that only the hardcore fans want, they have to produce stuff that their figures say will sell. I cant wait to see what they do with them though, it will be amazing.

Rumour (sort of, its out there but not officially). The new 40k Shadowspear box will be £105, for 2 mono-pose forces and no big rule book (but 2 codex pamphlets). Fairly big change in pricing structure, but in line with start collecting increases. Whats next for AoS, and will we see prices rising on more new stuff, or even existing stuff?

Yeah he just got it backwards, send an email and let him know he needs to correct it.

Where are you seeing this? do you have a link or quote? Ive not seen this in any post on here. You are correct its 4+ (unless aiming at Hero or monster which get +1) and wound on 3+.

Ignore it, there is always someone complaining that one month without a major AoS release is the second ending of the old world and marks GWs final abandonment of fantasy, we've heard the exact same argument every month we havnt had a preview.

How often do people get 'Empower' off onto a large unit of Sequitors (20)? Played first games with Stormcast at the weekend and couldnt manage my positioning to keep the unit 'wholly' within the Evocators, without significantly reducing the effectiveness of either or both units. Not having a lot of units on the board i didnt feel i could just leave the Evocators babysitting the Sequitors to try and cast Empower (and hope it wasnt dispelled).

Isnt it obvious, forgeworld weapon packs . Seriously though, this is probably a long time from now so we neednt worry yet. There are so many examples of 'broken' rules being fixed in one place but never another.

HA! yes I admit I'm the kind of person that causes miniatures like this to continue to exists, awesome model, terrible rules. Who knows when ill use it, but I will eventually.