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Wizcats might help make stormcast aesthetically palatable.

Yes there is. They literally said it this week and clarified it on Facebook.

My models are new. Very new. They were in liquid form very recently. They are just an old sculpt. It's ****** that new players are tricked into buying these models only for gw to say actually we are soon demoting you to narrative only, buy stormcast instead.

So if you have an old army don't worry because you can be forced to start a new army? This is exactly what people are afraid of.

Before i had certainty, now i have doubt because gw said they intend to gradually remove models/scrolls from matched play. I have units in my army that are probably high on the list for the chop. There is no grot shaman on wolf model available for sale. It's conversion only.

Sure, they haven't invalidated anything now, but said they will - hence people are concerned their dudes are being demoted to narrative-only.

Gitmob shaman on wolf is no longer made. They'll get rid of that and demote the scroll to narrative only. Then the other stuff over time - they said it'll all get moved over at some point, some armies sooner than others.

I've stopped my gitmob expansion. Will finish them with a basic paintjob and not buy any more. This gw decision really really sucks.

3rd grot rumour engine by my count: squig head, grot rope, this thing.

several destruction models have smoke plumes like this. Its upside down.

Despite all this my preference is for a grot soup tome that includes all goblin models, like what Death got. The idea of painting 200 goblins for a new faction does not appeal to me. But as for rumours, all I can share is that I chatted with some staff at warhammer world, trying to tease info out of them about the new grot tome, and their body language and faces basically confirmed it's incoming. (I'm probably reading too much into this)

yeah i'd happily see them ditched if they weren't so useful in the army - the artillery is great, as are the bow-grots; if only moonclan archers weren't trash-tier.

Much of the Gitmob range has been 'temporarily unavailable online' for weeks. Maybe getting re-boxed? The finecast stuff is trash, but I've grown to like the plastic infantry, even if they are a chore to assemble and remove mold-lines.

Remaining monies sent. Explaining what payment "QUALITYASS" was on my expenses sheet was awkward.

you got a great soup tome. i would be delighted with a soup tome. My biggest fear is NOT getting a soup tome as that means new models (which I don't care about).

My thinking was surely it couldn't be WORSE than last years handbook and things can only get better

The only hope is that this years handbook gives rather than takes away again.

It's like the head of the big squig.

I travel around USA for work so gunna schedule my jobs to happen a day before/after these big conferences Yeah America doesn't do half-measures on this sort of thing, they put on a hell of a show and every little detail is done so great. I for one welcome our american overlords.

I'll be there next year. Seems great. Also gunna get to E3. America seems better at these types of events than the uk.

Charging units to go first in combat you say? Buy stocks in fanatics !

Who needs insider knowledge when you can just Follow the Paint?

I agree, unless they shove stormcast in it somehow. But I think they've learned from all that and changed direction bigtime.

I get the feeling this army is gunna be a big deal in terms of luring new players and rekindling interest amongst past players. More so than previous releases, this seems to be really pressing buttons. Certainly closest I've been to buying a non-goblin. I really love the shark-mounted harpoon thing, reminds me of a 2-pilot jet fighter or something. And that wave-cloak dude... I hope the designers feel as good as we do right now; this is what GW does best - batshit crazy ideas that work great and look even awesomer. I'm hyped to see what the awesome painters do with this army, e.g. that dude with the coral reef trolls, or Vince from Warhammer Weekly.

My gut tells me that each lore of magic will get a model for an iconic spell. The spell will summon a physical thing that the player controls, e.g. the purple death moon moves 6'' a turn and zaps units within 3'' or whatever until killed. Just like summoning a balewind, the summoned thing has rules for how it interacts with stuff around it.