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4 hours ago, Tonhel said:
I was certainly convinced that we would get legacy factions becoming core factions after the first months of TOW. Certainly Vampires. But now I have no idea. While I believe that TOW is a succes and I hope that that succes will be mentioned in the financial report.
Hopefully there will be also some more clarity with what they mean with the "scoop of the project has changed".
Currently I have no clue what to expect anymore for TOW. GW release schedule seems such a mess, even if TOW is cash cow for GW. I don't know how they can support it better/more. Warcry Briar and Bone is still not released. AoS 4th edition delayed for two weeks if we have to believe the rumours. We are still missing the Ogdruz Swampdigga mini for O&G.
There is so much stuff coming for AoS, what with underworlds and warcry, will they finally produce more Kill team box sets, so people can actual buy them.. than there is the big guy (40K), HH, the Epic stuff, middle earth and finally TOW. I love TOW, but where is the room for it withing GW release schedule? Currently I don't see it.
GW seems overstretched. It feels like a miracle that GW did such a fantastic second half of the financiel period june 2023-june 2024.
I have no idea what you mean with people like me.
Do we know a rough date for the financial report?
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3 hours ago, JerekKruger said:
What's iteration with Kislev is this?
I am not sure 100% about the armies that were thought to be included, according to the rumours, but it was something like Kislev, Empire with some different armies and Bretonnia, IIRC.
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3 hours ago, JerekKruger said:
So my FLGS has Dominion in stock, and I'm seriously considering buying it primarily for the SCE Spearhead.
I already have a Thunderstrike Chariot that I picked up from Stormbringer (indeed for a conversion that didn't go ahead), and can pick up 10 Vanquishes from it too. That leaves me with the Thunderstrike Command. My options are: (i) buy the command by itself for a stupid amount, (ii) buy the Spearhead or (iii) buy Dominion fur like £30 more than the Spearhead, and get 10 Vindictors, 3 Praetors, a Knight Arcanum and a Lord Imperitent extra, plus a bunch of Kruleboyz to sell.
As an aside, I really wish GW would stop selling the big sprue from their starter set at such a ludicrous mark up.
Honestly, if you want it I would do it. In the FLGS stores I visit they have almost the same price with discount as a spearhead box. And you can always sell the Kruleboyz, for example, and get some money back.
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11 hours ago, ArcLight said:
Why wouldn't they? Isn't that essentially what they did with some of the basic Freeguild troops? They did the same with the Seraphon refresh (Chameleon Skinks > Hunters of Huanchi, Salamanders > Spawn of Chotec, Saurus Knights > Aggradon Lancers).
I'm sure there are more examples out there that I can't think of too.
The difference between the examples you provided and CoS is how the army started. Seraphon started as a proper army meanwhile CoS was the place where you put random stuff together so the WHFB players could keep using their minis. A lot of that random stuff has been pruned over time to give the army a more coherent range, and we are not done yet.
We got the Freeguild replacement because it was the base of that new identity, but it is not clear yet how far that multiracial aspect will be maintained.-
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@Tonhel The iteration with Kislev was just 5-6 factions and all humans. So it was smaller than the current one in terms of factions count.
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7 minutes ago, Tonhel said:
I fear that, that will be the case. What the future will bring for Beastmen in TOW is also unclear. I mean it could be an update like Bretonnia or it could be like O&G. Which means zero new plastic sets and only two resin foot heroes. I do hope beastmen get cool stuf for TOW, but moving to TOW sadly doesn't mean lots of new stuff.
Maybe they can get a use for the terrain. The endless spells are more complicated to fit in.
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12 minutes ago, Tonhel said:
I don't believe it anymore that BoC was moved to TOW because of TOW. TOW is probably just a convience to soften the bitter pil and this only works for people that are interested in TOW. The ones that aren't, basically lost their army.
We have only rumours.. nothing concrete of why and how. My guess is TOW was coming full force with all the factions of old, Chaos Dwarfs (The legacy Chaos Dwarfs armylist is almost of the same level as the core factions, it's the most fleshed out legacy faction.) and Cathay / Kislev.
That was imo the very early plan, than something changed (did they realize it was a to big of an investment, fear of failure or whatever). So the scope of the project changed to what it is now. Still fantastic, but ofcourse 50% of the factions are more or less legends only.
Now it isn't noticable, but when all the Arcane Journals are released + campaign books. The legacy factions will feel outdated. (Same as what will happen with BoC and BS in AoS, when all the other factions got their battletome).
Somewhere mid-late spring 2024 the scope of the project changed (again) and we will see in a year or more what it means. It can be pure marketing talk without zero effect. Which isn't unusual for GW. Or it means that maybe Cathay is coming or maybe a legacy faction becomes core or maybe it just means that all core factions get an additional Arcane journal. Lol, or it just means a new dice set.
From all the rumours we had, including some with decent sources, none of them ever mentioned a scope (because we had like 3-4 different scopes so far) including all the previous armies. In fact, what we currently have is the biggest in terms of factions of all the iterations the project had.
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21 minutes ago, Garrac said:
It's until the 5th of august.
Yep. August. My bad. We cannot time travel yet 😄
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1 hour ago, Garrac said:
I did think abotu september, but if the reveal is on august, isn't september too close? It's just less than 30 days for preparing all the orders.
We have the box on the 13th of July. The contest votes start on the 15th of July until the 5th of August. Then we will have a preview, and another one at the end of August (Nova Open). By that time we would have seen both ranges. Make your bet with that info. I would say Sept/ Oct.
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33 minutes ago, Grunbag said:
Does it mean my theory could be right about they removed BoC to let a free spot on another army with buff references (chorf) ?
I don't think so. We had many bull related content between different armies. I think it is more related to the launch of ToW and giving them enough core armies without spetting in the AoS planning for the next editions/ releases.
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Just now, Garrac said:
Im back! Do we have any rumours on the release date for the 2nd waves?
From September, that is the contest ending.
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58 minutes ago, Twisted Firaun said:
HASHUT! HASHUT! *DAEMONIC MECHANICAL BULL-TRAIN ROAR* bring it on boys and girls I have been eating well these past two years! First LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!! Returns, and now the daemonic tall hat loving bearded lads are coming full force alongside ww1 methhead Jerry? What a time to be alive!!!
Bless you.
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1 hour ago, Mutton said:
Imagine if Sigmar tried to make amends for his past aggression by saving the Dragon Ogres from Chaos and reforging them as Sigmarite Draconith Ogres.
More Dragon iterations for Stormcasts? Is that even possible?
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1 hour ago, Asbestress said:
Whitefang Jr. did mention the cogfort, and now with it being tied to dwarfs (and them disappearing into TOW), I wouldn't think their time is too far away.
****** it, here comes CoS wishlist 5.0;
- Dispossessed Cogfort
- Dispossessed Steam-Walker (Steam Tank replacement in terms of size)*
- Dispossessed Heavy Infantry
- Dispossessed Engineer
- Devoted Priest
- Devoted Flagellants
- Devoted Fanatics
- Freeguild Marshal on Big Mount
- Freeguild Bombardier-Major
- Collegiate Fire Mage
- Collegiate Life Mage
BONUS: Terrain and Endless Spells
*: I really want new Gyrocraft as a reference to Khazalid flying machines that were the precursor to Kharadron vehicles, but I'm not sure if GW want to have flying dwarfs in two factions.
All Ironweld units cut, Ironweld Great Cannon keeps the name but gains Freeguild Keyword, all Fantasy dwarfs removed. Luminark/Hurricanum stays.
Dark Elves stay until Malerion and get refreshed after that with a more unique nautical aesthetic (Dispossessed = Kharadron Lite, Cities Aelves = Idoneth Lite?).
Let the Hurricanum go.
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2 hours ago, Asbestress said:
I was just watching the flip-through of the new Core Book, and something from the Cities section caught my eye (and got me too excited/hopeful again):
There is no mention of Ironweld anywhere in on the 2 pages Cities got. I'm 100% biased here, but I'm thinking this means Dispossessed will be where we get heavy infantry (instead of a unit of Arch-Knights) and the cogfort, and they'll probably shift from "regular dwarf warriors" to "regular dwarf engineers" (lower tech than Kharadron, less refined medieval/renaissance steampunk vs almost sci-fi airships).
And they finally have an official, written down reason to go on Dawnbringer Crusades, with them building the strongpoints when they reach their destination (probably in the Dawnbringers books already but I still don't have them
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Privateers and Darkling get the usual mention of making up the fleets of the cities (I don't think Darkling were ever mentioned as being part of the fleets before), so I still stand by my theory that if aelves stay in cities they'll be nautically themed.
In the end, in the DB we have dawis and even in the short story they are engineers/ miners.
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31 minutes ago, Hollow said:
Excited, you mean? Out of all the factions I am most looking forward to seeing what they do with Cities. I think it is pretty clear that we will see the remaining Duardin kits move to ToW. Rumours point to potential Fannatics/Cogfort? Will the Dispossessed remain a part of Cities?
I agree with worried rather than excited. If we see multiracial kits for CoS won't be this edition, I would say. So worried because it will take years until we see them back, if we see them back.
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10 minutes ago, Jagged Red Lines said:
I stopped short of endorsing the Darkoath book before, but now I'm close to finishing it, I would wholeheartedly recommend it. Especially to anyone who enjoyed Godeaters Son or Scourge of Fate.
GW has done a sterling job recently of putting out books that offer a human face to chaos tribes. So much so, they're starting to feel like the protagonists, at least to me.
Characters are well-rounded, full of flaws, vulnerabilities but also redeeming qualities. Thoroughly enjoyable read.
In terms of numbers they are the protagonists indeed. They outnumber order by far.
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2 minutes ago, Tonhel said:
I think Rob mentioned it in his youtube vid. Atleast I thought I heard something about it. But not sure, my brain is overloaded with the AoS info
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Although I do think @Beliman interpretation is correct.
Which reviews?
Is AoS 4 what I hoped that it would be. No. i.e they actual made customization even less compared with 3th. The opposite what I hoped for, but I do think our small group will have enjoyable evenings with it.
Overall all the reviews I've seen are positive.
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37 minutes ago, BarakUrbaz said:
I screenshotted the most important part of Sprues and Brews video covering the core book.
Is that the BoC section?
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10 hours ago, Dragon-knight77 said:
Read this!
I ****** love it this
It a steam tank crew consisting of a Grizzle veteran, a turret rookie & duardin cogsmith do a Saving Private Ryan to save a human gyrocopter pilot that has info on the Skaven invasion. It is as awesome as it sounds the gunfight, the pre-existing setting utilized very well, the character very charming as it balance the action with some character moment here and there.
Like if this by grace sigmar get to be a novel i would by it
This on one hand make me feel kinda bad that eventually the steam tank and Gyrocopter are going away but it does raise my spirit and optimism what might the Ironweld wave has in store to replace it. I posted before Cogfort come in many variants so a small faster wheel version oppose to the big spider borderwalker would be sweet
It cannot be kept in its current state, it is too imperial. But it is a pretty loved mini. We will get a new iteration for sure.
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Wow. Wicked Brick would have its first limited edition case, where the case is more expensive than the mini:
Limited Edition Display Case & Plaque for the Warhammer Grombrindal Co — Wicked Brick
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15 minutes ago, The Red King said:
Be so kind as to share that? It shouldn't be against forum rules right since it's just screenshots from a video we can all watch and not a pdf of the book or anything.
If not can you message me a link?
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3 minutes ago, Hollow said:
That image makes me think that something similar would be a good layout for a faction-based section of the Website. It really would be something if GW had a portal like this and when 'Read More' was clicked it took you to a digital Store/Battletome page for that faction, thematically laid out with a model's lore, rules, battle scroll, art, painting, building and purchase options all available in a single integrated digital hub. Each Faction hub would receive a small monthly update, with new lore, a new bit of artwork, a new unit or character or a novel release.
I'm not really a fan of GW's current approach of having a billion different websites for each of their settings, that launch with a big splash and then are left to wither and die until a replacement arrives.
They currently have something similar in spirit, but not in the visual side:
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4 minutes ago, ScionOfOssia said:
Note- Beastmen died on their way back to their home planet
They get some sort of ship, like Seraphons, and time travel to the old world. That way we can explain why they leave and how they appeared in the old world.
Pay me GW. Job done.
The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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I think that will be announced later on, with the Start Here boxes and the Start in Warhammer Age of Sigmar magazine.