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Yeah I put that rumor out of mind as soon as they said “don’t read more unless you want the entire plot to 4th edition’s start spoiled”, it was so arrogant and obviously riding the Chuardin wishlist hype the hobgrotz started I knew it was hot air. As for actual plot theories I imagine we’ll zoom in on the Hammerhal Aqshy siege Tahlia was sent back to break. Skaven the main focus at first as their numerous plots across the Realms(capping leylines with machines, unleashing new plagues, Eshin making moves to retake Ulgu, Gnarlwoods having a magic bursting point Moulder can exploit) going over their new refreshes before it turns to that second siege force, Khornites, that sees ascended Khul take on a new form of Vandus. Also whatever’s stirring under the main religious Fyreslayer Lodge will erupt and give them new elemental units and the force that’s causing the Fuethan Deepkin in Aqshy to be raiding more desperately will either get revealed as more Slaanesh, Skaven sub fleet or those Abyssals. But that’s just a Realms theory!

Had to vote no because I think with the focus right now is refreshes and getting factions up to date & speed with everyone else. They could always surprise us however and I know I got bottles of hopium with labels ranging from Silent People to Grotbag Scuttlers. At realistic levels I can imagine another Ironjawz supplement but for a new sub-faction like Gholemkind under Kharadron/CoS or some such.

Yeah, the article (and now Reddit posts) make it sound like the 20% shares lost was all on RoR but it’s because they already had several games with poor launch sales this year + a lot of layoffs because like other companies they over-hired during quarantine. It’s just not been Frontier’s year in general. Also agreed, we’ve tons of examples of games with bad launches that pulled themselves up after years to become really decent(Cyberpunk, No Man’s Sky, etc) which you can even put the first releases of the Dawn of War series in that category. Gamers only think in very short term though(even backwards with how much they’ll bash AAA games because they fell to 1k players after being out for 4 years). But all in all we need to see how things play out next year. Physical releases + more hero packs + AoS4 hype + whatever more content they have planned for the long term support. RoR can fight its way up just like AoS did. 💪 ⛈️

Very angry RTS fans wanting Dawn of War 1 clone. You can see the majority of the negative reviews bashing on it for not having base building. This is in part why RTS is niche because the fanbase is volatile as heck(and this comes from some who has been in strategy game forums & mod projects for well over a decade and a half. Smart move would’ve been to also wait to release the game in Summer instead of November as a majority of players are going to holiday sales instead. example from Reddit today: ”I wanted to get it as someone who is new to the RTS genre and Warhammer, but it also released in November which might be the busiest time of the year for someone who loves video games. If it had released during the summer, it might have been more convenient but I could be alone in that.” It’s a poor situation but at least Frontier has gone on to say they’re going to continue support and try building up sales with more content(which yeah, they love DLC’s) Also they just dropped the new patch today:

Huzzah!!! After the long wait Thursday comes our salvation!(suitable for AoS to get goodies on “Thors Day” )

I’m really hoping it’s Ironweld & city-duardin next if not a wave building off Hammerhal Ghyra(as the current wave is very Aqshy focused). Had a shower thought the other day that they could get a new gyrocopter that built off their “can build an entire fortress in one night” lore(from the AoS3 Corebook) that’s a castellite mini-fortress with propellers slapped on so it can fly towards the middle of the battlefield, Fire off a salvo, and then plop down as a shielded bunker that the infantry can run up to and link their shield walls up to for an instant forward position. 🛡️

Yeah I think they’re waiting for the physical editions to drop in February. Which does seem to be their big product market as GameSensor has the game grossing at $800,000 on PC sales alone at 20,000 players which going by Steam & Crossplay only a small percentage are PC players(1500). Did an impressive $700,000 in 3 days too. https://gamesensor.info/news/warhammer_age_of_sigmar_realms_of_ruin_sales_three_days_on_steam https://gamesensor.info/app/1844380 In other news, Frontier will soon be putting out a major patch to fix several main issues people have been experiencing(they already patched the console bugs) Interesting reviews & gameplay by the former CA employee who went by Simone & Cody Bonds And just a fun fight here Also this guy is doing faction break downs that seem pretty good. Give them some clicks. Lastly Pete the Wargamer shows how to kitbash your own Sigrun! ⛈️ Plus Vincent is having fun with the painter Also Frontier have been asking for people’s custom maps to show on Twitter. If y’all have some fun ones but no Twitter account I’ll post them there for you and give credit. Edit: just rose to $900,000 one day after I posted that.

So far so good, went from 8/10 to 9/10 on Steam this morning, went up to 86% and then dropped a little and is holding at 82% Very Positive with a lot of thumbs ups. If that stays we’re golden. Love the prizes they keep putting out. Also Arby’s which is hilariously awesome. Also also, nice that YouTubers playing it seem pretty positive like Angry Joe gave it a nice recommendation.

Yeah, it’s like how we went from Josh Reynolds to Noah Van Nguyen. One door closes another opens. 🥰

Going by this article a few months back it looks like they want to leverage both more in-house and freelancers. https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-40k/illustrator-job “The Citadel Illustrator will be “responsible for helping to develop briefs, create concepts and produce finished detailed, fantastical illustrations for a variety of different print formats” for Warhammer 40k, according to the job listing. That will include creating the artwork for new Warhammer 40k codexes and box sets, bringing the many Warhammer 40k factions to life. Candidates will need to be skilled at figure drawing and painting, according to the job listing, which adds that the team works “predominantly in digital media, most commonly Photoshop”. The Art Manager role is a brand new post that will lead GW’s in-house Warhammer 40k illustration team, as well as coordinating with freelancers. According to the job listing, Games Workshop is looking for “an experienced creative leader used to managing high performing art or design teams” for the role. …. Don’t be put off applying if you’ve never had a professional job as an illustrator. During our interview with former Warhammer TV presenter Louise Sugden, she explained how she began her career with Games Workshop as a Forge World illustrator straight out of university. The new map of Warhammer: The Old World was one of her very first projects.“

Awww man, really sad news, after weeks of such great news, that Thomas Elliot left. 😞 Here’s his deviantart page if anyone wants to look at more of his stuff or even try supporting his work. https://www.deviantart.com/thomas-elliott-art/gallery Truly wishing him the best going forward, was looking like he was gonna be the big cover artist going forward with his rich eldritch works propping up the epicness of AoS2’s end, AoS3’s climb to success and AoS4’s launch. Will be interesting to see what the cover arts will look like in the near future, from what I can tell there’s still considerable talent on their payroll. (Honestly wouldn’t mind some steps sideways to how AoS1 art just commissioned anyone it could, some fun experimental results that way which I thought worked with the Realms cosmically varied nature)

If this isn’t a nutshell of the AoS experience I don’t know what is. 😅 We are always faced with either camps “oh I don’t much about warhammer but dang this AoS stuff is fun” or “AoS?!? REEEE!” the in-betweens are far and few.

There are some better balanced reviews out there as well: https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-realms-of-ruin/review#:~:text=With its loving%2C characterful recreation,don't know what does. HAHAHA, PCgamer is hysterically biased! 😂 I expected bad but not “it certainly evokes the spirit of Age of Sigmar tabletop but unfortunately that’s the worst version of Warhammer”. What an absolute tool. Well ignoring that circus, spiffingbrit stream is entertaining(he found out how to train Mournguls & max out his Crossboos! Watch out!) and there’s a unit guide now:

Note that if the preload option isn’t showing up the devs advise restarting your steam app. Seems Steam has been a bit finicky today(Tzeentch work no doubt).

Launch trailer time, baby. 🌟 Thankfully someone clued me in on what that thing was that broke through the gates at the end. Couldn’t make heads of tails of it at first but makes sense it’s show up in a Ghur campaign. Also friggin’ sweet rig: Lastly, YouTuber Great Book of Grudges has really been diving in on the game with interviews with devs, multiplayer match with the Steel Faith modder for Total War and now is trying his hand at AoS lore videos. 12,000+ views on twitch was nice. And he’s doing another twitch stream right now:

It’ll likely depend on if they delay it or not since it wound’ve been worked on alongside the SoC dlc and when they saw Hyenas gonna cost them a fortune so raised prices to account for the $100 mill loss. So either it releases as is and they hide during the holidays from negative feedback or they delay it and try to cram in some more units to justify the price(even if the units are buggy from the last minute push).

AoS Harry would fit really well with Death on the rise with book 3, further set-up for chaos in AoS4 and factor in bringing in some sales from the Total War Flc crowd(which hilariously pumped up players numbers for that game better than the Shadows of Change Dlc did) He’s also shown up in 2 Warhammer Community Hammer tier lists since 2019 so he’s obviously been on their minds. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/10/20/warhammer-community-investigates-which-is-the-best-hammer-in-the-mortal-realms/ https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/06/27/the-top-5-hammersgw-homepage-post-3fw-homepage-post-3/

Someone made a good point that another Dlc pack was hinted at before. Maybe we’ll see Olynder vs Kairos next?

I could see Kragnos getting weakened and the Orruk Warclans having a bit of a civil war because many Kruleboyz and now Ironjawz truly worship Kragnos and only followed Gobsprakk because he spoke for their god(very much like Morathi & Khaine situation) so if his plans go south and Kragnos rises back up with his lost people they might aim for Gobsprakk’s back next. Centaurs* Centigors have twisted dragon claw feet where as Kragnos and the Drogrukh have natural cloven hooves as true born creatures of the Realms and not chaos spawn. I hope one day we see even an animal people sub-faction for a Destruction faction. I’m not a fan that every time a beast person shows up everyone wants them tossed in with BoC which severely limits what they can do or stand for with chaos corrupting everything they touch. With so many God-beasts having been ruling the realms king before Order & Chaos showed up I’d love to see their peoples on the rise again in the Realms which they ruled since primordial times. Edit: oh, will say I really loved Karazai’s Seraphon strike force. The description of the Starborne that they were so hastily sent down by Kroak that their physical forms hadn’t fully manifested yet so you see lizard bodies with holes in them where swirling stars & small galaxies appear instead is exactly what I love about the faction being phantasmic Star daemons needing skin suits to interact with the realms.😍🌟 Fan artist “The Thinking Gnu” on Reddit had concepts that fit great with those Starborne.

Yeah, that’s the threat of any dlc though. Hopefully this is already showing the restraints of that because if you have to swap out say your Vexilor for Yndrasta making you lose their vital healing abilities and Yndrasta is both a high level last stage base hero along with a big resource & time cost then it could cost you in situations where she’s swarmed and you needed a healer to hold the line and not a beat stick. Edit: oh wow, I didn’t even see the physical release news! So happy it’s not just digital!(physical & cartridge player 4 life 💪) And the new hero pack also comes in the base game with the physical editions, noice. “The physical edition comes with the full game and both hero DLCs!”

That’s so cool! 😍 (and Gobsprakk makes sense too as not only a rival but his love of taking Tzeentch limbs as trophies lines up with that faction 😁) Interesting you swap them in by choosing another hero unit you take out of a roster instead of just an auto-add. That could be very good indicator of future roster packs like if you buy an Ironjawz pack you can swap out the Kruleboyz units for mostly Ironjawz or do a mix. Same thing with Stormcast chambers, missing NightHaunt units and maybe even a Slaves to Darkness ally pack? My hype is way up and the twitch stream hasn’t even dropped yet! 😁

Fittingly with Tzeentch there’s been a change. 30% increase to unit speed for multiplayer & conquest campaign. Only Story Campaign will keep the original game speed for beginners & to enjoy the cinematic experience. I liked the slower battles for easier battle awareness and to zoom in on drawn out fights but understand that slowness felt almost unresponsive to some players and was a common complaint on every gaming outlet. Looking forward to seeing what the increase looks like during the livestream! 🍻

Content creator Nathan is looking for more streamers to give an early copy to. If you know any give them a whistle about this😄 Also livestream on Friday!

Heads on spooky deals! 🎃 https://x.com/cubicle7/status/1718739232175583326?s=46&t=jCd67B32MVmYRRlrhJqWtA https://cubicle7games.com/all-products?cat=65 Also 9 days left for the humble bundle on various supplements: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-warhammer-cubicle-7-books Also C7 have been looking for new writers so worth a look into that for people interested And finally on cool fan stuff absolutely loving these 😍, something cool and something spooky: Lastly in case anyone missed this big of news: “> Emmet — > Welp, someone let the cat out of the bag! Yep, Champions of Chaos will be a corebook. The rules will be almost identical bar some wonkiness we want to fix (Called Shot, I'm looking at you), and what replaces Soulfire > And yes, we've had nothing but positivity for the Soulbound system and have multiple games in the works using the C7d6 system > Champions of Chaos is a corebook because Chaos is so big but also it is a great new entry point for people. Champions of Chaos will likely release almost 4 years after Soulbound. Soulbound launched during a pandmic, which did hinder it, so hopefully Champions of Chaos will be big! > Also, no guarantee it will be called Champions of Chaos (my shelf weeps at the thought)” Bolds well for next edition being Order vs Chaos again as Chaos players get a ton of material to immerse themselves with as they explore, conquer and corrupt the Realms. 💪 😈

So I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and make an archive like we have for Malign Portents(my infinite thanks to @Garxia for doing that 🙏) and want to make archives for Forbidden Powers, Broken Realms and now Dawnbringer Crusade stories. However I can only use a Mobile and have been flummoxed how to spoiler stuff on here so the entire stories don’t spring up all over the screen. and now I’m hearing rumors of GW changing to an “all-in-one site” soon which if true could erase those stories. So please, if anyone would take the time I’ll DM you the stories and you can make a new archive topic, copy-paste the stories and then spoiler them for me and we can preserve the glorious lore of the Mortal Realms! Big thanks to anyone that decides to help me.