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I was at my local GW store picking up paints and the manager and I got to talking as usual. I knew a manager of GW (who went up in the higher ranks of GW) here in the US for several years (we played 40k before he ever worked for GW), and the store manager(at the current battle bunker I go to) mentionedthat he ran into him when he was back east a few weeks ago. Not sure if he still works for GW though. I mentioned that, once, I posted on Dakkadakka that there was a plastic valkyrie kit coming out by gw, which I heard from the GW manager. No one believed me then because FW had a kit out....Anyway, he mentioned that speaking with this guy, that GW is toying around (no pun intended) with releasing a new starter box of CSMs & SOB! And the rumour is the CSMs will be closer to a truer scale miniature. The test models "...appeared a little larger then the current models..." for CSMs. Now how true this is uncertain.

Not a good idea to burn your sources by giving such specific information about them.

I don't believe it, but since both are due for an update, it wouldn't surpise me in the least :3

Last time I mentioned him by name and got in lots of trouble. I last saw him 2 years ago. Not sure if regional manager is correct title, but he oversees several states & all the GW stores in those states....

Again, this rumour comes froma gw store manager who got the information at GW HQ back east.....

Not sure of how true or reliable it is....


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I don't care either way. I have a guard army (DKOK). Also, this summer of fliers business is nonsense according to GW. The DE are getting a new flier, and a few people saw the pic on the back of a wd and went with it, that is all for summer of flier rumour....Besides, there is already a ton of fliers already out there and rules for them all.....

Chaos versus Sisters: sure. I'll buy that rumor.

I call BS on True Scale.

Well, this is certainly an interesting rumor. I can't picture GW moving away from their current scale for just one line of miniatures, though.

If it were true, that'd be fantastic. Chaos Marines are due for a rules overhaul.

The models, though, I'm not so worried about. The majority of Chaos Marine models are just fine right now, and we have a few that are just exquisite. (Terminator Lord kit, anyway? Yum.)

There are a few specialist troops that could do with re-working, though. Plague Marines jump into my mind immediately, and Khorne Berzerkers look ridiculous as ever, what with the infamous bunny ears.

And that Dreadnought. Oh, that *#%@ing Dreadnought.

krazynadechukr wrote:Last time I mentioned him by name and got in lots of trouble. I last saw him 2 years ago. Not sure if regional manager is correct title, but he oversees several states & all the GW stores in those states....

Again, this rumour comes froma gw store manager who got the information at GW HQ back east.....

Not sure of how true or reliable it is....

Thanks for the information and passing it along but you have to consider you have now:


Given his/her title in OP,
now comes job description.
now work location

anything else?

*classified*

kronk wrote:Chaos versus Sisters: sure. I'll buy that rumor.

I call BS on True Scale.

I'll echo this sentiment.

True Scale would look ridiculous and would force them to re-create molds for all of their other stuff, where the whole point of this new plastic-resin mix was that it could be used in the same molds as their metals.

kronk wrote:Chaos versus Sisters: sure. I'll buy that rumor.

I call BS on True Scale.

Quoting this, as I agree.

No. No. No. and No.

/No

By what rationale are Chaos Marines bigger than contemporary marines? By the current fluff, the older Heresy-era CSMs are dwindling with their numbers being replaced by more recent renegades and chaos converts, anyway, so that bigger CSMs doesn't really make sense.

Not that GW couldn't just change their fluff (again !), but still, I doubt that they'd put anything in the story that would diminish the stature of Imperial Space Marines. They are the company's bread and butter, after all.

-Dis.

Strategically for GW, it would be a great idea, if you're gonna do Grim-dark drop the comic proportions and legs akimbo sculpting......but, this will never happen.

I'm happy with my choive to join the DE wagon club, but I would love to see GW up their game.

Sisters and CSM, I can buy.

CSM true-scale doesn't sound right. They have a relatively new kit, and GW seems to rely on their compatability with Loyalist marines. Having said that, I can see some bean-counter coming up with the idea of making them bigger, which would prevent using loyalist models, which would drive up CSM sales, hopefully cause everyone to re-purchase their army, and that equals profit for GW! But, I'm not buying it.

I could see them being a little bit more true scale, but not full on.

GW North America no longer has "Regional Managers" who oversee a bunch of stores in a specific regional area. Instead they replaced those positions a couple years ago with DFG (Director For Growth) positions. Unlike the old Regional Managers, the DFGs have stores located all over the continent and they travel about 3 out of 4 weeks each month visiting those stores.

I don't see em doing this, just because they'd have to redo every other model in the line to make em fit.

However, I always did wish marines were bigger, and all on the bigger round bases like terminators are.. or a new base size that's a teeny bit larger than normal. just because I hate it when marine toes stick out over the edges.

krazynadechukr wrote:Last time I mentioned him by name and got in lots of trouble. I last saw him 2 years ago. Not sure if regional manager is correct title, but he oversees several states & all the GW stores in those states....
Again, this rumour comes froma gw store manager who got the information at GW HQ back east.....

What people are saying is this:
1.) If the rumours are close to truth, you have just caused these easily identified persons to lose their jobs.
2.) Otherwise the rumours are totally made up and these sources are safe and congratulated by GW.

Never reveal your sources if it can harm them.

Necros wrote:I don't see em doing this, just because they'd have to redo every other model in the line to make em fit.

However, I always did wish marines were bigger, and all on the bigger round bases like terminators are.. or a new base size that's a teeny bit larger than normal. just because I hate it when marine toes stick out over the edges.

I wouldn't mind GW switching to a 30mm base like Warmahordes.

Kroothawk wrote:

krazynadechukr wrote:Last time I mentioned him by name and got in lots of trouble. I last saw him 2 years ago. Not sure if regional manager is correct title, but he oversees several states & all the GW stores in those states....
Again, this rumour comes froma gw store manager who got the information at GW HQ back east.....

What people are saying is this:
1.) If the rumours are close to truth, you have just caused these easily identified persons to lose their jobs.

Never reveal your sources if it can harm them.

This. Way to be a d-ck.

Store staff will go out of their way to give -good- info to their -good- community, people being d-cks both jeopardize those guys jobs and justify the guys at corporate that don't want anyone to know anything.

Bottom line: don't be a d-ck.


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Platuan4th wrote:

Necros wrote:I don't see em doing this, just because they'd have to redo every other model in the line to make em fit.

However, I always did wish marines were bigger, and all on the bigger round bases like terminators are.. or a new base size that's a teeny bit larger than normal. just because I hate it when marine toes stick out over the edges.

I wouldn't mind GW switching to a 30mm base like Warmahordes.

dear god no.

I went down to the chicago battle bunker the other day and I spoke with the sales manager named Leroy Jenkins who lives on 1337 Egg lane, Blackrock, USA

He said that he has been gathering a lot of information over the years and slowly giving it to friends to get past GW's cone of silence.

It's okay, hes a jerk so even if he gets fired and blacklisted I got all the info I needed already (hes such a loudmouth over vent).

Basically he gave me early pictures of the new box set and the sisters/csm codex due out a few months before the main starter set.

Ill upload all pictures to a public site after I finish putting his name as a watermark on them

krazynadechukr wrote:I mentioned that once I posted on Dakkadakka that there was a plastic valkyrie kit coming out by gw, which I heard from the same regional manager. No one believed me then because FW had a kit out

Funny but I just went through all your posts and there is no such mention of a plastic valkyrie rumor before it came out.

Haha, busted!

That said, warboss has way too much time on his hands.

Furthermore, OP is a terrible person and worse friend if he gets his buddies fired.

warboss wrote:

krazynadechukr wrote:I mentioned that once I posted on Dakkadakka that there was a plastic valkyrie kit coming out by gw, which I heard from the same regional manager. No one believed me then because FW had a kit out

Funny but I just went through all your posts and there is no such mention of a plastic valkyrie rumor before it came out.

Yeah, I started a new account on dakka because I went about 2 years without gaming. Forgot old account name and password. After I posted that valk info, and several other rumours (most of which cam true), I got tired of all the nay sayers and slander towards me....Name calling, immaturity, and the like. I took a risk that this information might be taken in better stride from the Dakka folks....Looks like nothing has changed.

Worglock wrote:
dear god no.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize 5mm extra would RUIN WARHAMS FOREVER!

withershadow wrote:Haha, busted!

That said, warboss has way too much time on his hands.

Furthermore, OP is a terrible person and worse friend if he gets his buddies fired.

Not really, lol. When you've only got 85 posts, it takes less than a minute to ctrl-F search through the 3 pages of posts for "valkyrie".

again, this was back in may 2008. different account name here on dakka.

Platuan4th wrote:

Worglock wrote:
dear god no.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize 5mm extra would RUIN WARHAMS FOREVER!

Have you not seen the people that complain about those with older models still based on the original base? Can you imagine the complaints if all of a sudden the basic CSM was now released on a 30mm base? How many threads would pop up about people with their OOP models needing to "get with the times" and rebase their entire army? My guess is one a week.

Platuan4th wrote:

Worglock wrote:
dear god no.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize 5mm extra would RUIN WARHAMS FOREVER!

It kind of would, actually, at least for fantasy. The larger bases would make those blocks enormous, and they can already be cramped once you're scratching 3000 points.

krazynadechukr wrote:

warboss wrote:

krazynadechukr wrote:I mentioned that once I posted on Dakkadakka that there was a plastic valkyrie kit coming out by gw, which I heard from the same regional manager. No one believed me then because FW had a kit out

Funny but I just went through all your posts and there is no such mention of a plastic valkyrie rumor before it came out.

Yeah, I started a new account on dakka because I went about 2 years without gaming. Forgot old account name and password. After I posted that valk info, and several other rumours (most of which cam true), I got tired of all the nay sayers and slander towards me....Name calling, immaturity, and the like. I took a risk that this information might be taken in better stride from the Dakka folks....Looks like nothing has changed.

Your current account is older than the current guard codex and the rumors that preceeded it. Do you have a link to the posts where you broke this info under your old account? Dakka doesn't erase old threads (as evidenced by multi-year ones being necroed occasionally). Trying to easily verify a remarkable claim from a not-too-frequent poster is not name calling or immaturity... it's common sense.