Clan's Cynic

Assuming the Rumour Thread post was missed, the Swampcalla Shaman sculpt from LVO is this year's Event Exclusive.

This year's event exclusive is the Swampcalla Shaman from LVO. Oh and a Primaris for 40k if you care about that. Nice touch on the Ossiarch bones lining the tips of the staff.

There was a post by ADB somewhere - might've been Reddit or B&C - where I believe he said the only BL books that really sell are about Space Marines and that if BL cared only about sheer profit, they'd never release anything but Horus Heresy and Marine books covering the big three Chapters. Even Inquisition, Imperial Guard and Chaos books don't seem to shift too well. With BL being the only arm of GW that's been losing money or barely making a profit, I guess it's not too much of a surprise the focus is overwhelmingly on 40k.

Of the current authors, anything by Peter Fehervari, though he's only written for 40k. Abnett in second place. The rest I've never been dazzled by.

Just Black Library Celebration next week. Guess there's the Kragnos book, but that's about it for AoS. Tangentially the Witch Hunter re-print. Oh and the Blood Bowl Goblin specials.

Hike for the Flamekeeper if he is a <Priest>. Hearthguard Berzerkers up another 10pts. That'll be it.

Honestly it's probably a way to just stealth kill Firstborn. "They're not being squatted, they're being taken out of rotation haha."

GW tried with 40k in 8th. They set the standard to 1750 and the community rioted. Some tournaments did capitulate out of a desire to toe the party line, but the norm returning to 2000pts in 9th suggests they listened to that brief outrage. The only way I see it moving is if GW radically increase points across the board and 'the community' don't just raise the norm to say... 2500 to accommodate. I think people like 2000pts because 1) Familiarity. GW fans are typically anything if not adverse to change and 2) It's a good point range to allow everybody to bring all their shiny toys. Personally I'd be over the moon to see the average point battle drop to 1500 points or so, largely because I hate seeing boards where things are awkwardly crammed up like somebody poured a bucket of Army Men out over it, but I don't see that changing unless GW themselves push for it.

I wouldn't count on this weekend with the Black Library Celebration stuff. Be a nice surprise, but next week seems more likely.

T-they're painting Fyreslayers up too... r-right? ...Right?

Grimnir's Sacrifice When a Fyreslayer <Hero> suffers a wound, on the roll of a 6+ any Fyreslayer non-Hero model within 1" is removed from play and the wound on the Hero ignored. This ability can only be used by a unit once per battle and a Hero can only ignore a wound this way once. "A huge improvement for the survivability of Fyreslayer champions!" - Warhammer Community, probably.

They're not great, admittedly. A buff to be sure - unless FS Bravery is going down, which seems unlikely - but nothing that's going to set the meta alight, let alone make up for the warscroll nerfs. The Heroic Action in particular seems pretty meh considering you're probably still going to be using Their Finest Hour on someone and whilst getting an enhanced rune is nice, it's rarely that big of a deal even when it's army wide, let alone on a single Hero.

Battletome previews are starting.

Looks like we're getting Fyreslayer 'tome previews.

GW have risen their prices in some form every year even pre-pandemic and that's before getting into the 'slow crawl' of new kits costing more (Lumineth and the Underworlds boxes come to mind). This time they can put up their hands and go, "oh it's totally the pandemic guys, costs are going up everywhere, it's totally not our fault..." Unfortunately across the 'net there seem to be more people happy to swallow this line and defend them than not, so very few camels are going to have their backs broken and ultimately nothing will change. See you in next year's price rise thread.

EG is quite bad about not removing OOP items. The Fyreslayer dice, Warscrolls and even the 1.0 Battletome are still listed despite not having been in print for 3/4 years now.

This. GW has a very high profit margin compared to the majority of companies. They could absorb the cost if they wanted to, but they know their fanatic fanbase will happily eat it instead and any falloff from people being priced out will be carried by those willing to pay more.

The Krieg and Kommandos from the first boxset were the other week. Stands to reason these will be after a lengthy delay.

I think it's just theorising based on, as you mentioned, the supposed three-year cycle. If we assume that Horus Heresy will be Summer's big headliner release we probably won't hear anything until the second half of the year anyway.

The only Old World MTO I remember is some of the special characters (Thorgrim, etc) back in 1.0.

The box is $80 going by the UK prices revealed today.

Still two hours to go until the last Community article of the day. My guess is the Dragon Emperor for MESBG since we've seen the silhouette.

Another Daughters of Khaine 'tome.

March seems generous. I'd not be surprised if we didn't hear anything until May at the earliest. I'm not expecting much out of Adepticon but Chaos Space Marines, Horus Heresy and Underworlds.

So no IDK/FS 'tomes for at least three weeks. Sad.