Clan's Cynic

"Hey bro we heard you liked teasers, so we put a teaser with your teaser." I guessed back when they first teased the one on the left it would be a Khorne cultist warband for War Cry and it looks like I might be right. The right is probably another Daughters of Khaine spinoff then? I wish they gave this much auxiliary attention to Fyreslayers, another semi-naked, infantry-heavy army collecting the pieces of their dead god and in desperate need of more visual diversity... Also really rubbing the salt in the wound with that Ogre Butcher in the video GW.

Beasts of Chaos fluff article, including the above art.

Games are generally smaller, so you don't need to bring as many models as you would a 40k/AoS army. It also scales down to low points values extremely well, meaning you can run it with one box of generic dudes and a Hero or two (or one box of Heroes if you want to run the Fellowship or something). Equally it scales up just as well, so you can bring as many models as your AoS collection if you want - and big battle events recreating scenes from the films and books aren't uncommon. Most of the range is 19-21 years old now. It's seen plenty of price rises over the years (I remember when the Last Alliance box was £12 and now it's £27.50), but they're generally still cheaper than 40k/AoS equivalents. The Hobbit released during the very worst of the GW Dark Ages however, so they had truly ludicrous pricing even back in the day, but Lord of the Rings stuff wasn't as badly effected. A Battlehost is more than enough to play the game. Sorry for the off-topic, don't hurt me mods. To bring it back to AoS a bit, I'm angry that GW had their best ruleset ever staring them at the face when they made AoS in the form of MESBG and didn't think it just take it and change some things around.

The person who posted the thread on B+C typically does a breakdown of these reports.

New Metawatch. New Battlescroll.

Eternus/Mounted Chaos Lord sprue article.

People are twitchy because so far all they've shown are lore articles and the occasional piece of concept art. Drip feeding pretty much nothing rarely goes over well - even the reaction to the Dawnbringers/CoS articles has gradually become less positive when it's clear they're just drip feeding until a major event reveal. It's clear the whole announcement was done to take the momentum out of the various 'replacement' rank-and-file wargames which were coming about, however it's also meant that they've had to produce these drip feed articles so people aren't taking to social media and 'speculating' that GW/FW has quietly binned the project off - they haven't, they just have nothing to show for it yet. As it stands I've stopped caring about these articles. I probably won't be given to care until we're maybe 9 months out tops, just because CoS/Dawnbringers made it clear that unless there's a massive leak like what happened with World Eaters, they're not interested in showing much of anything until it's only a few months from release.

The Phobos and Heavy Intercessor boxes didn't look to shift, but by contrast the new Battleforces they put out look be doing a lot better judging by a number of places selling out of them already.

Initial reaction was something AoS, but all of the article's text talks about the Ecclesiarchy, sooo...?

Blackstone Fortress expansion. Pretty sure it's OOP now though, sadly.

They also popped up in a Wood Elf DLC for Total War: Warhammer.

I don't think FW have even made a dedicated 40k model since the Astraeus and that was 5-6 years ago. It's been Heresy, MESBG and the older Boxed Games. Unless there's a big change of tack (which seems unlikely) I'd fully expect the AoS section to be directly replaced by TOW's banner when it releases. The Stormcast upgrade heads going OOP was the death knell of anything AoS from FW in my opinion.

General's Handbook and STDs next week.

GHB and Imperial Guard.

When you see stuff vanishing off the webstore probably. Earliest will be when/if we start seeing leaks of the contents page. Anything with an 'army box' tends to get leaked a good while out from release (remember when we had STD sometime silly like June?)

I was worried they would do that, which is why I didn't bother in the end. At least you should be able to sell them on and recoup what you paid, maybe even with a tiny profit.

I just don't care about seeing what amounts to a collection of Rumour Engines. It does nothing for me.

I've noticed Valrak tends to be more accurate the closer to an actual release we are. If it's something a week or a month out, he's probably got a reliable source. But he's been throwing out big, sweeping, """rumours""" for years that often wind up being nothing, however enough time has passes that people forget them and seem to take him as reliable because he's also accurate sometimes. Being right only half the time isn't a very good track record, but people still act like he's all-knowing for some weird reason. There's a reason "PRIMARCH!!!" is a meme associated with him. He's flung darts at pretty much every one of them as returning to 40k now. A broken clock is right twice a day, so it had to happen eventually.

I'd argue GW's "well done Chaos, well done, HOWEVER..." when it came to desperately handwaving Cadia not falling as "w-w-well you see... uhhhh... Order had more... errr... let's see... Battlefleet Gothic(!) victories! Therefore it's a stalemate!" was as bad as Chaos magically teleporting to Middenheim. At least the Storm of Chaos stuff was so shameless it actually managed to make me laugh, and I was playing for Order in that one! Seasons of War and Konor were still worse in my opinion. There was a pretty blatant attempt at a 'pay to win' in that store purchases counted towards your victories as much as actually winning games. No prizes for guessing which Grand Alliance/faction won those as a result. Even Nemesis Crown felt more satisfying than those.

And while I rarely condone going on Facebook, stores usually announce on their pages a good few weeks (or even months) when their anniversary day is.

Seems Honest Wargamer got his hands on the GHB early. Or have I just been totally out of the loop and it leaked a while ago?

I know Warhammer/fantasy rarely makes sense, but I'm glad the Votann have gladius' on several models. A short-sword meant to be thrusted rather than swung (thus good for tunnel fighting) is extremely fitting for Dwarves.

You can, although I think you're limited to one per person per individual model. So you could buy a Votann and a Kharadron, but not two Kharadrons.

You just walk in and buy them like any other model, the only catch being they're only available that weekend. If they sell out, they'll order you one in. Usually there's a delay of a month or two. Iirc the 'extras goodies' like the pins, dice, etc are limited, but they usually have a decent amount.

You know, I don't dislike him by any means, but I do think it looks very similar to the existing model.