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Fango wrote: collectible pins? I didn't get anything with my hardcover book set except the dice tin that I paid for.
Check the very bottom. Mine was under the book between the bottom flaps.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here's what the one I got looks like:
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RiTides wrote: Is there any mention of chaos dwarfs in the books so far? The Dark Lands look pretty untouched, right? Wondering what they're thinking regarding Forgeworld's model range.
FWIW, The events of Tamurkhan are mentioned, insofar as it comes up when they're talking about how Nuln has never fallen.
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Fango wrote: collectible pins? I didn't get anything with my hardcover book set except the dice tin that I paid for.
Check the very bottom. Mine was under the book between the bottom flaps.
Spoiler:
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here's what the one I got looks like:
Nope, No pin here. And Thanqol was the only one I actually managed to get a pre-order in on. Nagash we picked on the 2nd or 3rd printing.. Glottkin I screwed up thinking it would be out longer and didn't pre-order. Khaine sold out when it was in my cart and I was typing in my login info...
All I've got in my box is my dice and my book.
Were the pins supposed to come with the LE versions instead?
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Were the pins supposed to come with the LE versions instead?
No clue, I ordered a standard HC.
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RiTides wrote: Is there any mention of chaos dwarfs in the books so far? The Dark Lands look pretty untouched, right? Wondering what they're thinking regarding Forgeworld's model range.
FWIW, The events of Tamurkhan are mentioned, insofar as it comes up when they're talking about how Nuln has never fallen.
Thanks RZ! Good to see you lurking as always . I'll be very interested in your thoughts on the new fantasy.
Thanks for the mention of the hellcannons too, Kan - I just picked up one of those in resin a few weeks ago (much better than the old metal hulk!).
Out of 21 Thanquol books ordered, 15 have shown up so far, and 1 had a pin. No clue what the deal on them is.
....maybe only 13 were passed out....to those destined for greatness.....yesyes.....
....and lo!.....The Age of Sigmar came to an end when Saint Veetock and his hamster legions smote the false Sigmar and destroyed the bubbleverse and lead the true believers back to the Old World.
I saw a GW shop over in the UK had gotten some of the pins when either verminlords or the book dropped (when I did a google search for the pins this morning, it snagged the facebook post that particular shop had made. I have no idea how the pins got sent out.
I don't think I'd ever heard there were pins with the books to begin with.
Last time I got a special thing like this I got artwork when I pre-ordered spacehulk.
I'll have to run that by the shop tomorrow when I stop in and see if they have any idea what the deal is.
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Fango wrote: collectible pins? I didn't get anything with my hardcover book set except the dice tin that I paid for.
Check the very bottom. Mine was under the book between the bottom flaps.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here's what the one I got looks like:
Oooh I want one of those!
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mikhaila wrote: Out of 21 Thanquol books ordered, 15 have shown up so far, and 1 had a pin. No clue what the deal on them is.
....maybe only 13 were passed out....to those destined for greatness.....yesyes.....
Only his most faithful got them, apparently.
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Schlyne wrote: Khaine sold out when it was in my cart and I was typing in my login info...
A bit OT but I'm still pissed off about this. I was typing in my CC info when it happened. Once an item is in your cart it should deduct it from the stock until you either remove it from your account or log out.
As for pins, I haven't opened my box yet, been busy.
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The pins seem utterly random, I have the skaven one which came with a direct order of some bases to my local GW.
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Just finished reading Thanquol, good stuff, but not necessarily the best written, lots of inconsistencies (ex-theres one point where it says Queek is inspecting the 4th and final clawpack in his force, on the very next page it says he lead 5 clawpacks, lots of little inconsistencies like that theoughout which make for a sometimes confusing read). Seems like just about every major character in this one dies.
In any case, ramifications and implications:
Spoiler:
Clan Pestilens is virtually destroyed (good, always disliked them anyway), Clan Mors and Clan Rictus are in shambles, doesnt seem like much is changing with the status quo there. Despite the fluff alliance between Archaon and the Skaven, as well as the fact that Skaven are inherently a Chaos faction, Id take the ending of the book and the fact that Glottkin didnt put Skaven in the Legions list to mean that its a temporary thing, no doubt until the Verminlords plans are fully revealed and Archaon is betrayed. Beyond that, Estalia, Tilea, the Border Princes, and Bretonnia are all stated to have been overrun by Skaven. The Southlands were invaded and destroyed as well (much in the same way as Lustria). Its also implied, if not outright stated, at a few points that Cathay/Ind/Nipon were invaded and destroyed also.
Most of the Slann (if not all of them) are gone. Lizardmen, as we know them, are destroyed (but it seems pretty clear to me that they will continue on as a faction in some capacity).
Dwarf civilization seems to be at an end, only one hold remains and it doesnt look good for them. Ungrim is stated to have departed, presumably with some faction of Dwarves, to assist the remnant of the Empire, which lends creedence to the Dwarves being folded in with them in the next book.
Ogres seem to be migrating to the Old World, popping up in the employ of Dwarves and Greenskins alike along the way, still no clear indication as to what the endgame there is.
The Empire is basically Averland and nothing more. There are still Brettonians keeping company with Karl Franz, looks like theyre the last of Brettonia at that. Also looks like Valten wasnt really Sigmar reincarnated after all. Oh, and Ulric is dead...
Speaking of Ulric, wonder what our good friend Teclis is up to...
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CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
Fango wrote: collectible pins? I didn't get anything with my hardcover book set except the dice tin that I paid for.
Check the very bottom. Mine was under the book between the bottom flaps.
Spoiler:
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here's what the one I got looks like:
Nope, No pin here. And Thanqol was the only one I actually managed to get a pre-order in on. Nagash we picked on the 2nd or 3rd printing.. Glottkin I screwed up thinking it would be out longer and didn't pre-order. Khaine sold out when it was in my cart and I was typing in my login info...
All I've got in my box is my dice and my book.
Were the pins supposed to come with the LE versions instead?
Same here, no pin in my box, in fact, they just wrapped the book set in a piece of flimsy foam sheet (1/8" thick about). so it was just floating around in the box and one of the corners was pretty squashed in...
Melcavuk wrote: The pins seem utterly random, I have the skaven one which came with a direct order of some bases to my local GW.
According to my local GW guy, the pins have been going out with web order/pre-orders? this past week. I guess it's all sort of random.
I'm much more annoyed that it took GW two weeks to charge me for Thanquol...which caused some scrambling today, as I'd thought it came out of my account earlier. You know..sometime in the last two weeks, like a reasonable thing *grumble*
What I get for not being able to do a normal store in store pre-order, I guess.
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chaos0xomega wrote: Just finished reading Thanquol, good stuff, but not necessarily the best written, lots of inconsistencies (ex-theres one point where it says Queek is inspecting the 4th and final clawpack in his force, on the very next page it says he lead 5 clawpacks, lots of little inconsistencies like that theoughout which make for a sometimes confusing read). Seems like just about every major character in this one dies.
In any case, ramifications and implications:
Spoiler:
Clan Pestilens is virtually destroyed (good, always disliked them anyway), Clan Mors and Clan Rictus are in shambles, doesnt seem like much is changing with the status quo there. Despite the fluff alliance between Archaon and the Skaven, as well as the fact that Skaven are inherently a Chaos faction, Id take the ending of the book and the fact that Glottkin didnt put Skaven in the Legions list to mean that its a temporary thing, no doubt until the Verminlords plans are fully revealed and Archaon is betrayed. Beyond that, Estalia, Tilea, the Border Princes, and Bretonnia are all stated to have been overrun by Skaven. The Southlands were invaded and destroyed as well (much in the same way as Lustria). Its also implied, if not outright stated, at a few points that Cathay/Ind/Nipon were invaded and destroyed also.
Most of the Slann (if not all of them) are gone. Lizardmen, as we know them, are destroyed (but it seems pretty clear to me that they will continue on as a faction in some capacity).
Dwarf civilization seems to be at an end, only one hold remains and it doesnt look good for them. Ungrim is stated to have departed, presumably with some faction of Dwarves, to assist the remnant of the Empire, which lends creedence to the Dwarves being folded in with them in the next book.
Ogres seem to be migrating to the Old World, popping up in the employ of Dwarves and Greenskins alike along the way, still no clear indication as to what the endgame there is.
The Empire is basically Averland and nothing more. There are still Brettonians keeping company with Karl Franz, looks like theyre the last of Brettonia at that. Also looks like Valten wasnt really Sigmar reincarnated after all. Oh, and Ulric is dead...
Speaking of Ulric, wonder what our good friend Teclis is up to...
Maybe it's because it's skaven. Perhaps it's because it's written in their style with lots of inconsistencies & "clerical errors" lol.
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chaos0xomega wrote: Just finished reading Thanquol, good stuff, but not necessarily the best written, lots of inconsistencies (ex-theres one point where it says Queek is inspecting the 4th and final clawpack in his force, on the very next page it says he lead 5 clawpacks, lots of little inconsistencies like that theoughout which make for a sometimes confusing read). Seems like just about every major character in this one dies.
In any case, ramifications and implications:
Spoiler:
Clan Pestilens is virtually destroyed (good, always disliked them anyway), Clan Mors and Clan Rictus are in shambles, doesnt seem like much is changing with the status quo there. Despite the fluff alliance between Archaon and the Skaven, as well as the fact that Skaven are inherently a Chaos faction, Id take the ending of the book and the fact that Glottkin didnt put Skaven in the Legions list to mean that its a temporary thing, no doubt until the Verminlords plans are fully revealed and Archaon is betrayed. Beyond that, Estalia, Tilea, the Border Princes, and Bretonnia are all stated to have been overrun by Skaven. The Southlands were invaded and destroyed as well (much in the same way as Lustria). Its also implied, if not outright stated, at a few points that Cathay/Ind/Nipon were invaded and destroyed also.
Most of the Slann (if not all of them) are gone. Lizardmen, as we know them, are destroyed (but it seems pretty clear to me that they will continue on as a faction in some capacity).
Dwarf civilization seems to be at an end, only one hold remains and it doesnt look good for them. Ungrim is stated to have departed, presumably with some faction of Dwarves, to assist the remnant of the Empire, which lends creedence to the Dwarves being folded in with them in the next book.
Ogres seem to be migrating to the Old World, popping up in the employ of Dwarves and Greenskins alike along the way, still no clear indication as to what the endgame there is.
The Empire is basically Averland and nothing more. There are still Brettonians keeping company with Karl Franz, looks like theyre the last of Brettonia at that. Also looks like Valten wasnt really Sigmar reincarnated after all. Oh, and Ulric is dead...
Speaking of Ulric, wonder what our good friend Teclis is up to...
Really?!
Spoiler:
They actually killed off some of my favorite clans. Skryre will always be my favorite though. If clan moulder died i wouldn't have cared with the exception of the abomination but clan pestilens like Clan Mors were some of the most successful clans. Also no pestilens rats is gonna really cut down on all the plague stuff and that seems so weird given how pestilens centric the last release was.
So yeah one greater clan in ruins and like the 2 most powerful warlord clans destroyed with all 3 clans having their seats on the council of 13 taken away unless something happened. Definitely some big news for skaven.
So whatever happened to tretch craventail. I can't remember if he was with Clan Rictus or not. Also what's going on with the other greater clans and the skaven nest-port?
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They dont really mention that any of that from what I can remember. The only time the Skavy pops up is when they mention that Clan Skurvy smashed the dwarf Navy and destroyed their port.
Personally, Im in the camp of "Skryre or GTFO", Id be more than happy if both Pestilens and Moulder(not likely to happen given that their equal partners w Skryre in the creation of Stormfiends) were forever written out of the fluff. Im not that big a fan of Eshin either, although after reading Thanquol you could say I have an appreciation for them.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
Honestly i think every greater clan had their positives. That said plague monks were already becoming a lot like nurgle rats though without as good stats (same goes for their popularity becoming the same as nurgle heavy armies). What i wouldn't give for opponents to have a -1 to hit in close combat against them.
Don't get me wrong skryre is my favorite too with the inventions, the abomination is about the only thing moulder has done i liked aside from skweel (though people love giant rats and any hope of rat cavalry will come from here most likely), clan eshin was alright and personally i'd have loved to see eshin rocketeers (since the culture they stole from developed rockets such as the doom rocket). Honestly if any greater clan was written off i'd have preferred it to be either clan eshin or possibly moulder though having no abomination currently would hit me hard. At least clan pestilens knows how to succeed. In fact they were one of the most successful clans. That said a moulder+skryre combo would be pretty deadly as we see with the stormfiends. Imagine how sick it could get if they get cavalry or monsters with weapons teams or special tools on them. I'm not sure how eshin would work into this. They should be more about sneaking behind enemy lines and destroying certain parts of the enemy to disrupt their lines and they kind of do that.
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ImAGeek wrote: Pestilens was definitely my least favourite. Not really getting the hate for Moulder, or Eshin, both are awesome imo.
The only really awesome thing about moulder up until the End Times is the abomination. Rat ogres aren't that great and giant rats are the only other thing they've got which is just really used for chaff. Clan Eshin's gutter runners were pretty good and the assassins were cool. Clan Pestilens was successful and that's what made them good. Sure Pestilens are the nurgle rats but they're effective and they had lots of plagues. Are Pestilens completely destroyed or just mostly? Skaven are really hard to stamp out for good. Hopefully there are some survivors somewhere.
flamingkillamajig wrote: Are Pestilens completely destroyed or just mostly? Skaven are really hard to stamp out for good. Hopefully there are some survivors somewhere.
Spoiler:
They were devastated to the point where they probably won't be as powerful as they were for a long time. Their leadership is dead, save a few exceptions. Skrolk survived, but is unaccounted for and one of the Plague Lords of Pestilens was hidden away somewhere and didn't take part in the invasion of Lustria. I guess he was their backup, sorta like the one government official who doesn't attend when all the branches of government are in the same place. Even the Skaven Vermin Lords can't trace them, and that worries them.
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flamingkillamajig wrote: Are Pestilens completely destroyed or just mostly? Skaven are really hard to stamp out for good. Hopefully there are some survivors somewhere.
Spoiler:
They were devastated to the point where they probably won't be as powerful as they were for a long time. Their leadership is dead, save a few exceptions. Skrolk survived, but is unaccounted for and one of the Plague Lords of Pestilens was hidden away somewhere and didn't take part in the invasion of Lustria. I guess he was their backup, sorta like the one government official who doesn't attend when all the branches of government are in the same place. Even the Skaven Vermin Lords can't trace them, and that worries them.
Spoiler:
probably just made an official pact with Nurgle and went the route they've been on for a while
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chaos0xomega wrote: Just finished reading Thanquol, good stuff, but not necessarily the best written, lots of inconsistencies (ex-theres one point where it says Queek is inspecting the 4th and final clawpack in his force, on the very next page it says he lead 5 clawpacks, lots of little inconsistencies like that theoughout which make for a sometimes confusing read). Seems like just about every major character in this one dies.
In any case, ramifications and implications:
Spoiler:
Clan Pestilens is virtually destroyed (good, always disliked them anyway), Clan Mors and Clan Rictus are in shambles, doesnt seem like much is changing with the status quo there. Despite the fluff alliance between Archaon and the Skaven, as well as the fact that Skaven are inherently a Chaos faction, Id take the ending of the book and the fact that Glottkin didnt put Skaven in the Legions list to mean that its a temporary thing, no doubt until the Verminlords plans are fully revealed and Archaon is betrayed. Beyond that, Estalia, Tilea, the Border Princes, and Bretonnia are all stated to have been overrun by Skaven. The Southlands were invaded and destroyed as well (much in the same way as Lustria). Its also implied, if not outright stated, at a few points that Cathay/Ind/Nipon were invaded and destroyed also.
Most of the Slann (if not all of them) are gone. Lizardmen, as we know them, are destroyed (but it seems pretty clear to me that they will continue on as a faction in some capacity).
Dwarf civilization seems to be at an end, only one hold remains and it doesnt look good for them. Ungrim is stated to have departed, presumably with some faction of Dwarves, to assist the remnant of the Empire, which lends creedence to the Dwarves being folded in with them in the next book.
Ogres seem to be migrating to the Old World, popping up in the employ of Dwarves and Greenskins alike along the way, still no clear indication as to what the endgame there is.
The Empire is basically Averland and nothing more. There are still Brettonians keeping company with Karl Franz, looks like theyre the last of Brettonia at that. Also looks like Valten wasnt really Sigmar reincarnated after all. Oh, and Ulric is dead...
Speaking of Ulric, wonder what our good friend Teclis is up to...
Welp, that's it confirmed then; GW are morons who can't grasp the idea that an IP is the sum of its parts, not the name you give to it. I have zero interest in a Warhammer Fantasy universe that lacks Dwarfs, fractious multi-clan Skaven, all the interesting parts of the Empire, and every single other human civilisation.
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Finished putting together and starting to paint my thanqoul and boneripper model.
Very nice model. I ended up making the censor one but the warpflame guns on the bottom arms (so I can use it as both).
ImAGeek wrote: Pestilens was definitely my least favourite. Not really getting the hate for Moulder, or Eshin, both are awesome imo.
The only really awesome thing about moulder up until the End Times is the abomination. Rat ogres aren't that great and giant rats are the only other thing they've got which is just really used for chaff. Clan Eshin's gutter runners were pretty good and the assassins were cool. Clan Pestilens was successful and that's what made them good. Sure Pestilens are the nurgle rats but they're effective and they had lots of plagues. Are Pestilens completely destroyed or just mostly? Skaven are really hard to stamp out for good. Hopefully there are some survivors somewhere.
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