Jagged Red Lines
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Well, most of the people I know who are in to AoS also play the game.
Most of us are dads, so we only play at events, probably once every month or two.
Because we don't get to play so often, when we do our lists we play are highly tuned.
Because we don't get to paint as much, we only want to buy and paint units that have value in game.
I would say the majority of people who play this game fit a similar demographic and therefore have a similar attitude to purchasing decisions.
Of course, I've never encountered anyone who buys the models and then does nothing with them. Doesn't paint them, doesn't play with them.
I would be surprised if that was the majority of their customer base.
11 minutes ago, sandlemad said:Sounds like a bad idea tbh, those kinds of lists only last until the next points update or battletome refresh. Which is to say yeah, they’d sell well, to a minority of serious tournament whales at least, but tbh I don’t think GW is actually interested in specifically targeting them.
@CommissarRotke Peachie’s podcast, Painting Phase, had a good interview with Tom Hibberd, formerly a senior designer in GW, and he was clear that GW works on the assumption that a majority of people buying don’t necessarily go on to play much, if at all. Many don’t even paint. The idea behind stuff like Contrast paints was to smooth all that out, get people painting quickly, onto the tabletop, and ultimately staying in the GW ecosystem for longer.
He was also pretty clear about tournament players, folks with multiple armies, people who focus in on older ranges, people who are deep into it enough to be deeply involved in forums, they’re all such a tiny minority in the grand scheme of things that they’re not really worth considering when it comes to serious business decision.
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I wish they built these battleforces around meta lists. How about morathi and the bow snakes, or sharknado, or oakenbrow, or kroakbomb?
The people who build these boxes prob don't even play the game. Either that, or they add random useless units like doomfire warlocks to the box as a cynical 'tax' on the rest of its content.
The closest they came was the squigalanche box last year, and that was prob the fastest selling battleforce ever.
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On 10/16/2023 at 8:29 AM, Jagged Red Lines said:
Next week
Told ya
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If the schedule had slipped, I would have assumed they'd have published an updated roadmap in the last stream.
Personally I expect them to stick to the existing roadmap and release DB3 in the next few weeks.
DB4 will then follow at the beginning of Dec with a StD-style army box for Fec.
That will then allow them to release the full Fec army in early 2024, once again in the same vein as StD.
I don't think that's unrealistically ambitious.
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31 minutes ago, EonChao said:
Dawnbringers 4 is just listed as winter, which for GW can be December, January or February so it could well be out next year.
Once again its winter 2023.
If it meant Jan, Feb, it would say roadmap 2023-2024 on the top, as they have done in previous years:
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2 hours ago, Morglum StormBasha said:
Ok slightly revised my guest list based on feedback. all but the first 3 weeks are speculative, in shop dates quoted not preorder.
Guess schedule
21 October warcry
28 October heresy mark iii
4 November necromunda
11 November cities of Sigmar
18 November epic imperialis
25 November Xmas battle boxes
2 December dawnbringers 3
9 December kill team scorpions and scouts
16 December xmas stuff
23 December - nothing
30 December - nothing
6 January ad mech and Necron codex
13 January Flesh Eater Courts
20 January mark vi heresy
27 January dark angels codex ?
3 February The Old World starter set
10 February dawnbringers iv
17 February ork codex?
24 February solar auxilia armyQ2 2024
Old world empire vs orcs boxset
Dawnbringers v
Custodes codex
Tau codex
Chaos space marine codexq3
aos4 stormcast vs skaven
Once again, dawnbringers 4 is out before the end of the year, as per their roadmap.
On that schedule, dawnbringers 3 will be a lot earlier. Poss preorder announcement Sunday.
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1 minute ago, Fellman said:
when do people think the 3 book come will com
Next week
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Well I guess lady of ruin and scyla not until next year. If every book has a theme, and this one is order, then book 4 will be fec and death.
Chaos book likely not until first quarter
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Would love for gotrek to get the fyreslayers keyword. Honestly, I feel like fyreslayers as a whole needs a major rules patch with the dawnbringer crusade.
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11 minutes ago, Snorri Nelriksson said:
Please GW,give us an avatar of Grimnir.
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Just now, Ejecutor said:
100% with you.
It's the 40th anniversary of WHFB and its mostly 40k stuff
However the 40k anniversary is in four years, so hopefully we'll get some fantasy nostalgia then
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2 hours ago, Snarff said:
B O N E S
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2 minutes ago, Tonhel said:
I guess this is good news. 😀
Oh man, new marauders would rock
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Lol imagine after all the rumours and nudges toward kurnothi we just end up with some insects or terrain.
Kurnothi are the new 'bretonnian stormcast'. Expectations of the community miles away from the reality.
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So no kurnothi, no slaves lady?
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22 minutes ago, Nezzhil said:
There are gonna be 4 factions on this book. Make your guesses
Khorne, StD and Sylvaneth. Perhaps also fyreslayers get some new rules, but no new models.
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One kurnothi unit, do we think? Or two or three, and kurnoth himself?
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I have a 21 varanguard list I'm (very) slowly painting up. Would love for a female varanguard boss to have her own army of renown.
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22 minutes ago, elfhead said:
I know, but why this model. I don’t understand the logic behind it.
Same reason they include new plastic heroes with your shadow and pain, feast of bones, or wrath and rapture boxes. It puts a fresh face on old miniatures.
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Huginn and muninn right? Gotta be sci-fi odin, aka Nigel Stormcaller.
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16 hours ago, Theduke said:
FEC Bat Cavalry... Whatever that means.
Whitefang like on this. Sounds epic
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Wonder if they'll update the gorger warscroll at all to allow them to be taken in units. Or if this will be a unique unit similar to other warcry bands.
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Well if Nezzhil knows something, then they've confirmed what it is.
Keep your grubby paws away from my spiderfang. I've already had my phoenix temple invalidated this year.
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
Posted · Edited by Jagged Red Lines
Eh, I've never met a casual AoS player, because the game itself is a casual game. Some of the top players in the community, are also some of the genuinely sweetest human beings I've ever met.
Actually, I find those who lambast the competitive scene as pretty toxic. Fortunately, the only time I've run into them has been in 40k.
I've never, ever had a bad game of AoS, or seen anyone complain about competitiveness.