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 LavuranGuard wrote:
Oh FFS, I just find out loads of my IG stuff is no longer ok in Codex only events and now it's likely that my WE army is losing the one figure I have more than enough of - Eternal Guard...

Also should add I spent the end of year getting my Gaunts + Spore Pod list ready only for GW to remove the rules...

What loads of stuff? Did you have an army mostly composed of griffons and marbo led by Kamul?

Griffons, Medusas, a Colossus, Penal Legion and Marbo yes...


Also have over 40 of the metal WE Eternal Guard before you ask too.

 LavuranGuard wrote:
Oh FFS, I just find out loads of my IG stuff is no longer ok in Codex only events and now it's likely that my WE army is losing the one figure I have more than enough of - Eternal Guard...

Also should add I spent the end of year getting my Gaunts + Spore Pod list ready only for GW to remove the rules...

FAQs are (supposedly) coming soon, you should start Tau...

 LavuranGuard wrote:
Griffons, Medusas, a Colossus, Penal Legion and Marbo yes...


Also have over 40 of the metal WE Eternal Guard before you ask too.

You should post some pics of all that on one of your blogs (your profile one is different from your sig). From your blog pics, most of your stuff is converted blood pact (assuming that is your IG army) and since it is already nicely converted counts as then there isn't much stopping you from using your conversions as basilisks instead of griffons. Don't get me wrong... figs getting retired sucks and I experienced the exact same thing two IG books ago with my own 3rd edition penal legion figs and griffon. In the end, you learn and adapt as will wood elf players.

Yep one blog is for the commercial stuff we do, the other for my own projects (which may overlap a bit).

The Griffon is for the Blood Pact so it sits on a Halftrack chassis as do all my Chimera variant count-as models, with the exception of my 'Basilisk'. This has a different chassis - sort of confusing to use one as the other. The Medusa is for my loyalist IG army which is mostly unpainted/unbuilt, hence few pics.

Blogs are a little out of date as I'm working on a house move and renovation at the moment - it's taking ages and keeps getting longer with delays and problems etc.

 LavuranGuard wrote:
Griffons, Medusas, a Colossus, Penal Legion and Marbo yes...


Also have over 40 of the metal WE Eternal Guard before you ask too.

I feel your pain. I am always surprised people keep going back to GW. They have been doing stuff like this for years: Squats, Chaos Dwarves, Halflings, Dogs or War, etc.

Woodleves are really bad in 8th. Now they will get a new codex just in time for them to be useless in 9th.

I keep playing GW stuff as a backup because it means I don't waste my time on my monthly 25 mile trip to the game store. I try to schedule other games in advance whenever possible but I bring 40k as a "backup" and I haven't bought a new plastic kit in years (I just keep current with the codex releases and occasionally trade for new stuff I want). Fantasy was never my thing and is somewhat dead comparatively in my area but I always liked the wood elf line from back in the day when I first saw the kurnos and dryad models. I do hope they get a full physical codex release and not the SOB-esque digital only option.

Eh, in GWs defense.. people who played Squats obviously had no self pride to willingly use those awful models!

Leggy wrote:
Allseeingskink - I suspect once someone hears something credible the floodgates will fly open. As of right now, however, these rumours come from Faeit212, which is 50/50 on its best day.

That Wood Elves come next comes from hastings, more than a year ago.
And the snipped from WD comes from WD I assume.

Uhm... If I am not mistaken, there was some talk about 7th Ed. in May and New Starter Kit/Orks in June.

Would GW release a WHFB Codex and a new 40k edition in one month...?

 Kosake wrote:


Would GW release a WHFB Codex and a new 40k edition in one month...?

Any reason why they wouldn't do releases for two different systems? Weekly White Dwarf means its not a one and done each month.

 Kosake wrote:
Uhm... If I am not mistaken, there was some talk about 7th Ed. in May and New Starter Kit/Orks in June.

Would GW release a WHFB Codex and a new 40k edition in one month...?

Well, Dwarfs, Imperial Knights and Astra Militarum all took up about 3 White Dwarf Weekly.

There are 6 or 7 White Dwarf Weekly left in April/May (i.e. before GW's financial year ends on May 31st): April 19th, 26th, May 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st (not sure if the last one would count).

Plenty of room.

In 2012, 6th Edition came out in July and Dark Vengeance in September.

Also, unless you actually believe BoLS/Natfka-rumours, there is no new Starter Set with new push-fit models, so a "book-only" release as rumoured by 40K Radio wouldn't take up a lot of weeks. A fancy new 40K rulebook, with various Limited Editions, would make for a "good" accounting stunt for the last weeks of May, to bring up the sales numbers for the financial year after the "crash" at the half-year-results.

And if there really is a new starter box (unlikely, unless we hear something from a reliable source), it would probably prop up GW's financials for the next year.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Leggy wrote:
Allseeingskink - I suspect once someone hears something credible the floodgates will fly open. As of right now, however, these rumours come from Faeit212, which is 50/50 on its best day.

That Wood Elves come next comes from hastings, more than a year ago.
And the snipped from WD comes from WD I assume.

Old rumours are old.

And the WD snippet could just as easily be hinting at a new "Mysterious Forest" terrain set (along with its £30 "Mysterious Forest" Scroll of Battle) ;p

Leggy wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:

Leggy wrote:
Allseeingskink - I suspect once someone hears something credible the floodgates will fly open. As of right now, however, these rumours come from Faeit212, which is 50/50 on its best day.

That Wood Elves come next comes from hastings, more than a year ago.
And the snipped from WD comes from WD I assume.

Old rumours are old.

And the WD snippet could just as easily be hinting at a new "Mysterious Forest" terrain set (along with its £30 "Mysterious Forest" Scroll of Battle) ;p

Yeah... but the Wood Elves Stag Cavalry Artwork Commission from Daarken flying around (see my sig ... or Warseer if you're a GW-style internet-averse) seems to chime pretty well with both (a) the Stag Cavalry rumours in content and (b) the timing right around this springtime.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Small hint in this weeks WD:

anonymous source on Faeit 212 wrote:Upcoming white dwarf is dedicated to a new hobby kit from GW. The kit will come in at $150 US and has a file, clippers, modeling knife, moulding line knife, hand drill and comes in a special foldout canvas case.

The rest of the dwarf features an extended Hobbit battle report where they cover all of the battle scenarios from an unexpected journey.

What I found most interesting was the tag line for White Dwarf #13:
If you go out to the woods today... ...you'll be in for a big surprise.

If there are no bears in the WE army, I will be very disappointed in this rumor. Picnic optional.

New Wood elf Artwork spotted

Fantastic in my opinion. Just brilliant. And Orion in the background just being awesome, ahh I love it.

Really nice, like the masks on the Stag Riders.

Orion looks big.

The Masks are great but I'm most impressed by the Treeman. To be fair anything would be a step up from the awful current model but that looks really nice. I like how it's almost got a helmet like shape to it's head.

%$^%"%! I wait years to start WE waiting for the new edition and then I start a HE army (Because they've got birdies!) And now suddenly WE with Stag riders?

GAH my wallet is not safe!

I do hope WE come out - I've been waiting for them to get an update for aaages now.

That art work is amazing! Reminds me of the "old" style army book and box art we used to get, real quality.

Does anyone know what this really means...paintings have been released? It's from the Daarken site, artist of the stag rider painting.

"I contacted my art director at Games Workshop and confirmed that a few of my paintings have been released, giving me the go ahead to post them online."

 motyak wrote:
Fantastic in my opinion. Just brilliant. And Orion in the background just being awesome, ahh I love it.

I thought Orion had a tri-pointed spear. Has that changed? Plus the head doesn't look particularly stag-like.

Ah god not more elves on Stags - the Legion elves of Reindeer were bad enough :(

reps0l wrote:
Does anyone know what this really means...paintings have been released? It's from the Daarken site, artist of the stag rider painting.

"I contacted my art director at Games Workshop and confirmed that a few of my paintings have been released, giving me the go ahead to post them online."

Released for publication?

Don't think its the cover. 8th edition books have tended to have a single figure on the front rather than a army panorama.

Picture is from Daarken Blog

http://daarken.com/blog/2014/04/02/new-art-fo-yo-face/


First image with opened face helmet and no banners

I would be impressed if "EarlyBird" s rumour from 2012 holds up.

no no no ! Orks ! ORKS ORKS! make fantasy go away!!!... untill you fix Tomb Kings that is

 Mr Morden wrote:
Ah god not more elves on Stags - the Legion elves of Reindeer were bad enough :(

amen.

Deer riders are just an awful idea. Hope that they don't make it as a mini . These owl monsters seems a lot more interesting as a concept.

Those pics are amazing! Excited to see how they handle the unique playstyle of the Woodies.