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    The Rumour Thread

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    3 minutes ago, The Lost Sigmarite said:

    Love how they kept them simple yet detailed. These are minis you will paint in the dozens and you won't spend hours on a single clanrat, but hopefully the models look quite simple to paint. You have your fur, your tail/ears/muzzle, the clothes and the metal. The details are mostly on the fur. You can easily paint slapchop them with contrast paints, or paint them the old way with base paints, generous amounts of Agrax Earthshade and drybrush over it and you'll have good looking clanrats quickly.

    And it doesn't matter if they're not painted to studio levels, because Skaven are meant to look like ******. Just like Nurgle you can get away with getting sloppy in your paint job. 

    If people haven't already, I highly recommend watching Vince Venturella's videos on speedpainting and Skaven.. although given how much he loves Skaven, I'm fairly certain he'll have new ones coming for the new edition anyway.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    32 minutes ago, Matrindur said:

    Do I see Vanguard Hunters on that shelf? They weren't on the list?

    Maybe they are just going webstore only but who knows

    I've definitely seen stuff going Direct Only appear on those in-store 'Get It Before It's Gone' sections in the past, so it's probably just that. 

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    2 minutes ago, maitremage said:

    I'm not sure this is the right place to ask but... Do we have (or do we know when we'll have ^^) the AoS rules for the new warbands (Lumineth and Nighthaunt) ? I'm really curious about that 😛

    They usually drop in the days leading up to the Saturday of release, so either next week or the week after. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    1 minute ago, Kronos said:

    I’ve entirely missed these, what Underworlds game was this for? 

    Wyrdhollow, alongside an awesome Tzeentch team. Currently still being sold I believe.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    Just now, The Red King said:

    Man it just occurred to me that we're all supposed to be happy when someone gets a new mini even if it isn't for us (and we generally are) 

    But we aren't all supposed to be upset when someone loses a mini? Should I complain about how every miniature they release affects the number of kits they can support?

    To be frank, the mood around Fantasy models being squatted has always been mixed here. It's not as bad as it used to be, but there's definitely been times when people were practically giddy at seeing another "Fantasy model rightfully squatted" as a sort of strange revenge against the hatred a lot of Fantasy players had for Sigmar's launch. That's lessened as the years have gone by, but I don't think it's ever entirely gone away. 

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    The Rumour Thread

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    9 minutes ago, Vasshpit said:

    Just out of curiosity how old are the current BoC and Bonesplittez plastics?

    If I recall correctly, Beastmen are a mix of 6th edition (2003) and 7th edition (2010), except for the Endless Spells and Herdstone (2018), Underworlds warband (2019?) and the new Beastlord (2023). 

    Bonesplitterz I think are entirely from 8th (2011), except for the Underworlds warband. 

    Poll: SCE in every starterbox set?

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    I'm neutral.

    I don't mind Stormcast being in every starter set because, as others have already said, they're a very good 'starter' army and were clearly designed from the ground up to be exactly that. Plus the start of the new edition is their only real release wave, unlike 40k where you can expect at least half a dozen variations of Loyalist Power Armour to appear in an edition so the fatigue is real. True, Stormcast do get more in that way than most armies, but it could be a lot worse.

    On the other hand, having two different armies back in Fantasy was something I actually quite liked. Variety is the spice of life as they say, so having two different armies getting big new releases/updates to older sculpts is certainly nothing to scoff at.

     

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    Maybe that one suit at Nottingham who is obsessed with sticking Tzaangors in every box possible just got his wish, with BoC making way for Battletome: Tzaangors and Codex: Tzaangors.

    "All good things come around again... in blue!"

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    The Rumour Thread

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    Just now, sandlemad said:

    Separately, ogres have only received a handful of new minis since AoS started. Two characters, two terrain pieces and a Warcry unit.

    I don’t think it’s actually super likely that they’ll be squatted and/or rolled into TOW… but I’m a lot less confident than I was yesterday.

    Ogres aren't a 'Core' TOW army for the foreseeable (at least until they do a 'Eastern' expansion) unlike Beastmen, so I think the odds of them getting an AoSification with new sculpts is pretty good... but I was also confident Beasts of Chaos would be sticking around and I was obviously wrong about that, so I don't know what to believe anymore. 

    The Rumour Thread

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    Admittedly part of me feels like people shouldn't be too shocked that a game built on the bones of abruptly squatting peoples Fantasy collections would, perhaps inevitably, see squattings of their own occur when it worked out well for GW before (I realise I said a while back I'd be surprised if BoC was squatted but I was obviously wrong in that assumption).

    On the other hand, just like back in 2015, I can't begrudge anybody for being extremely upset the army they spent hundreds/thousands of pounds buying, building, painting and playing with is thrown in the proverbial bin.

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    1 minute ago, Sarouan said:

    Joke started with Warhammer Battle's End Times : "Battle is dead, play AoS now". Now the circle is done, the snake eats its own tail ! :P

    An ouroboros of squatting (especially now Squats are back).

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    Interesting that Horns of Hashut are getting squatted, considering they're a Warcry 2.0 launch warband.

    Optimist in me says it could be tied to AoS Chorfs, the cynic in me says they just sold that poorly.

     

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    The Rumour Thread

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    Early warning of what's going away in 4.0. It's official, Beasts of Chaos and Bonesplitters are off to the great Old World in the sky, at least for competitive play.

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    Two factions, Beasts of Chaos and Bonesplitterz, as well as a number of older Stormcast Eternals from the Sacrosanct and Warrior chambers, will be receiving free-to-download digital battletomes. These will feature new background and rules, and will be considered legal for use in competitive play until summer 2025. At this point they will move over to Warhammer Legends, and will no longer be supported for competitive play.

     

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