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Who? Who are these people you are talking for? If you didn't like it that is fine. But generating a narrative to support your own personal opinion is skewed. How do you know this information? The product design workflow run months/years in advance. GW doesn't do "last-minute" I could see the double packaging of warbands as perhaps shifting excess stock, but that is just speculation. You seem to know definitively? The game is going really strong (and it is basically a product equivalent to a single well-served Faction line for either 40k or AoS) I agree with diversification, but always felt that was on the cards as I would have thought GW didn't intend on ONLY releasing Choas bands forever.

Ah. So when you said. "People didn't like it" What you meant to say was "I didn't like it". Got it.

Where did you get "People didn't like the first edition of Warcry?" From most accounts, the game was super well received.

In a magical world, I would have GW invest £100 million + into a new production and storage facility as a WARHAMMER Legends department. It would provide an annual catalog like the old Citadel catalog for every kit, ever produced since the beginning. There would be the "current games" of 40k and AoS and with each update, a significant amount of kits would be moved to legends. The Legends department would also do limited full runs of old editions. (How cool would it be to buy a 2nd edition 40k limited edition set with all the published material from that era? Using modern hardback publishing?) I am a big advocate for cutting certain things. Not because I don't like them, or have something against them (I love ToW) I just think it is good for AoS as a game and product line to stay tight and focused. People frequently talk about wanting to have tight rules. I want tight model collections, from a visual design perspective.

Ah, Dogs of War.... Lorenzo Lupo is all that remains of my fated DoW collection. He stands shieldless and with a chipped derpy 20-year-old paint job. The merchant prince has been biding his time. He shall be reforged! He will be stripped and renewed to serve in my new CoS army! Long live Lorenzo Lupo!! Merchant Prince of Luccini! (I like to think many of the DoW characters found some crazy Lizardmen tech that entombed their souls and transported them across the void into the Mortal Realms, they are just now waking up, confused, from a billion-year nap.)

I bought (or my dad bought me) my first miniatures just over a quarter of a century ago. I still use some of the models that have managed to keep a hold of. The kits that GW stops selling have generally been available for years. If people wanted them, then they have had every opportunity to get them. There seems to be a strange expectation (which GW has been foolish to perpetuate IMO) that models will be supported forever (which is just ludicrous in my view as the product line will inevitably become a bloated mess) As Draznak said, I think it has been a mistake for AoS to STILL have so many of its product lines as ToW transplants. Square bases and paint jobs from ToW are still listed under AoS years after its launch. ToW is bringing back square bases? By the looks of the webstore, they have never left!! I generally like change and embrace it. The majority of people do not. I can hardly wrap my head around the idea that someone would be "sad" that a collection of decade-old kits from another game are most likely being moved back to that game. Like, what is there to be sad about? I'm just sad that so many of the ToW persist in AoS to this day.

This is a minor thing but I am glad they finally put the Celestial Hurricanum on a round base! With the approach of ToW hopefully, we can see an end to square bases being marketed under the AoS banner. With these removals (I guess most of these kits will return under ToW banner) it will only really leave the Dark Elves (The Duardin Models are some of the best-looking ToW kits in the CoS range IMO). I'll guess we will see what happens with them in 4th Edition.

I love the box and really like the fact that it comes with a chunk of good old infantry! The core of my new CoS army will be infantry so I am happy.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure that GW-Online was reported to have overtaken GW-Retail one or two financial reports ago. Again, I am just speculating, but I would have thought they have an Online Warehouse which puts in for runs of a few hundred to a few thousand of certain kits as and when. Obviously, the press machines are running at capacity and so to put in for a run of sprues will mean sitting in the queue. Then there will be product lines marked "Do Not Reprint" as there is no point in printing off 500, or 1000 of something if they will only sell a couple of hundred before a repackage, rebrand, repackage, or removal. I doubt they are doing "as needed" runs. Once a model has paid for its R+D, Mold, and Manufacture, further print runs will bring the cost considerably. These kits must be still sold in some kind of numbers. GW is pulling in hundreds of millions of pounds.

It's so difficult to gauge if things are "slow" in being updated without access to any kind of sales numbers. Obviously, GW still has the molds for all these kits, most of which (if not all) will have paid for themselves many times over. Each kit is just a print run and box, so the sale price is almost entirely profit. So if the kits are moving at a semi-decent rate, I can understand why GW would be hesitant to remove them. After all, why bother if they are turning a tidy profit each month?

I'd like for Malerion to get a kit (alongside some new "Sons of Khaine" kits) and for the Darkling Covens, Scourge Privateers, Shadowblades, The Order Serptentis, Black Dragon, Sorceress, Black Guard, Executioners, Dreadspears, Bleakswords, Darkshards, War Hydra, Drakespawn Chariot/Knights, Assassin, Darkriders, Black Ark Fleetmaster, Scourgerunner Chariots and Black Ark Corsairs from the CoS range to be either, moved, removed or updated and snow-balled into a single large BattleTome with Daughters/Sons of Khaine, called something like "Children of Khaine".

I'd like to see FS cavalry as well!

I'm a big fan of factions having a large sold "core" of Infantry/Cavalry. I just think it really sells the concept of the faction being a fully-fledged army. I love monsters, characters, war machines and crazy concepts I just like to see them juxtaposed alongside "regular troops". Armored Knights are such a staple of fantasy settings. The Palladors, Dracolines and Dracoths are good. I'd just love to see a Stormcast version similar to the Chaos Knight kit as previously mentioned. Duardin cavalry of some type would be awesome.

A squad of Brienne's, sign me up!

I would really like to see 5 Stormcast Knights, on large Warhorses with cool armor. I think their monstrous cavalry works, but I really think a "Standard" knight kit would be great.

It's funny, but when I see the details on these I think they will be easier to paint. I find large flat panels of armor to be frustrating, as getting a smooth finish is a pain. These shields sprayed with lead belcher, the wood panel painted the main colour, wash and light dray brush and they will look good.

This little guy is overwhelmed.

I really like them. Man... this CoS release is gonna be big for me. 😅

The team at Creative Assembly has done an AMAZING job at bringing ToW to life. The cinematics and trailers they make are top-tier "Warhammer Content" IMHO. I would love to see them continue to support ToW for years to come, but I realise that the majority of the work is done. It would be my personal dream to see them actually release a full run of End Times DLC expansions starting in 1/2 year's time. With entire sections of the world getting destroyed, heroic last stands, final goodbyes, and desperate attempts by great characters to navigate the End Times to try and see their souls be carried into the void. Cumulating in complete world destruction and the launch of a new Total War Warhammer: Age of Sigmar game.

I picked it up early on Saturday morning. Took it home and read through it with a cup of tea. As I sat down it started pouring (one of those super summer showers) Reading through the RAIN OF DOUBT and of Alarielle's healing rains across the Everspring Swathe made me smile. The book overall is good, the quality is there but the quantity is lacking. I was left wanting more and felt as though we just got snippets of information rather than significant substance. That "level" of information is good for a Warcom article, but a fully-fledged book? Not enough. I was also pretty disappointed by the lack of artwork, I also feel like it should be a rule that new books come with at least one new map. Solid B+ Grade. SPOILERS I really liked the snippet regarding the Metaliths that float above the farming terraces of Hammerhal Ghyra and how the various merchants and farming barons competed to have them winched over their lands, as the Healing Rains had formed large pools and lakes on them containing the magical water, which they wanted for their crops. The SUBTERRANEAN MENACE and the Grots emerge in the Glass Foundry and proceed to trash the place. "Bull in a China Shop" should become "Goblin in a Glass Foundry" Think it would have been cooler for Fjori to lose his fingers and eye in an epic fight with Braggit, rather than having them torn off by some random Squig/Squigbat.

There is a difference between thinking a product line made for the ToW, should be sold under the Old World Banner and AoS kits sold under a AoS banner to wanting something to be "binned". As I said, if the Bonesplitter sales are there, then GamesWorkshop should do a full Bonesplitter range refresh. I just fundamentally think, that apart from a few exceptions AoS should be moving away from ToW kits almost entirely. (Dark Elves, High Elves, Bonesplitters, BoC, Ogors, Skaven) all should be "AoSified". If 4th edition is going to "bin" any kits I would bin the Endless Spell kits. Anyways... just my thoughts. AoS players can rest easy. I don't think the AoS studio will be under my control any time soon. 😅

Truuuuue. 😅

Yeah. Fair enough. It's fun to daydream about it. I suppose it is just a fundamental difference in design philosophy. Just to be clear. I'm not advocating for a reduction in ranges. I'm advocating for the ranges to have a sort of "hard cap" for product lines (which some factions like Cities and Stomcast have reached IMO I don't think factions need more than 50 active Battlescrolls). If you take AoS as one large product line and the GW website as where Gw is at in terms of its offerings. You have about 600 or so total product listings under the AoS Banner. (There are multiple listings for the same product, but I think roughly 600 is about the size of the AoS total line allocation) I would like to see a total of 60/100 total products "added to the line", but almost as many "removed" from the line as well. Keeping the total number of offerings around 600 or so. Others would like for the current 600 to stay and for new kits to be added so that each edition adds more and more. When it comes to creative space I am much more of a death/rebirth kinda fella. It's good to have a clear-out every so often. I've used this metaphor before, but it's just like maintaining and cultivating a Tree (or plants in general) it is good to prune and remove the dead weight. Keep it healthy, fresh, and vibrant. Now I'm just saying I think BS should be moved to TOW because they are from the OW. I also have 0 idea in regards to sale numbers. For all I know the BS might be shifting hundreds of kits a week and if I was privy to that information I would be singing an entirely different tune. It's just a subjective view of what I think works in a faction (mostly as it refers to the models as a "collection", not just as gaming bits.)

Suggestion. Consolidate the multiple Faction Forums into 4 Grand Alliance Forums.