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People may well not be prepared to be the initial leak (and indeed may well have promised their friends on the inside that they won't be)

but once something is 'common knowledge' they feel able to confirm it

 eohall wrote:

 pretre wrote:

overtyrant wrote:
Wait, Hastings is back on the scene? I thought he bowed out long ago?? Sorry for OT but has he said anything about the WFB rumours?

Yep. His first rumors since Nov that I know of.

Reading through that, I'm struck by the strange contrast between an initial caginess and a subsequent willingness to confirm correct guesses. If a person has "privileged" information, and is apparently willing to be seen confirming correct guesses about said information, why would a person not just say what they know in the first place, over playing a tepid sort of cat-and-mouse? Is this some sort of bizarre attempt at deep-cover marketing?

Don't read too much into it.
I suspect he was just trying to stretch it a bit ... like a striptease it's more fun when you reveal bit by bit rather than just .getting you kit off'.
When I say 'you' you understand I mean when 'one; does a striptease ... not when you specuficaly do a striptease ... not that there is anythingg wrong with that .... if that is what you like to do .... I just has an attractive girl in mind when I said that ... not saying your not an attractive girl ... in fact if you are then that is fine ... you can take you to mean you rather than 'one.

There really is not much in it for rumour posters the ammount of people 'throwing salt' and 'calling BS' ....which is in effect calling you a liar everytime you post something is not even funny .... never mind how bad you feel if you get something wrong. ... or even worse if you are not stoked about the rumours yourself and it is essentially bad news for a chunk of the community ...even posting something good coming means someone else's long awaited update is not coming for a while longer.

Hastings has been the most consistent, most accurate rumour poster for as many years as I have been on the interwebz ....So when he does 'have the scoop' ... I think folks should allow him to have a bit of fun and share that information however he likes.

He does not work for GW ... he is not involved in any sort of deep cover marketting .... you clearly have not seen him banging on about finecast to even suggest such a thing. I don't think he has even bought a GW product for a couple of years .... why he would even continue to bring the rest of us rumours I have no idea.

Best just to say thanks

Yeah I'm glad Hastings is back AND getting involved in 40k rumours not just WFB. I don't play 40k or WFB anymore but like to keep up to date with the goings on with these games as maybe if they improve the rules I'll get back into them.

Great post, Harry. Thank you for that.

I am grateful for all the rumors from everyone

And Harry's back! Please don't let a few bad eggs run you out of town.

I'm just curious what they could do to change the DA codex that would make them fun and exciting again. Or at all.

Iron Wing formation.

Hearthguard - elite Devastator squads!

For the love of the Emprah GW, just release the GDs. Its literally the only thing stopping me from going all out on CD (gonna be starting a Khorne Army soon, obviously)

 Harry wrote:
Don't read too much into it.
I suspect he was just trying to stretch it a bit ... like a striptease it's more fun when you reveal bit by bit rather than just .getting you kit off'.
When I say 'you' you understand I mean when 'one; does a striptease ... not when you specuficaly do a striptease ... not that there is anythingg wrong with that .... if that is what you like to do .... I just has an attractive girl in mind when I said that ... not saying your not an attractive girl ... in fact if you are then that is fine ... you can take you to mean you rather than 'one.

There really is not much in it for rumour posters the ammount of people 'throwing salt' and 'calling BS' ....which is in effect calling you a liar everytime you post something is not even funny .... never mind how bad you feel if you get something wrong. ... or even worse if you are not stoked about the rumours yourself and it is essentially bad news for a chunk of the community ...even posting something good coming means someone else's long awaited update is not coming for a while longer.

Hastings has been the most consistent, most accurate rumour poster for as many years as I have been on the interwebz ....So when he does 'have the scoop' ... I think folks should allow him to have a bit of fun and share that information however he likes.

He does not work for GW ... he is not involved in any sort of deep cover marketting .... you clearly have not seen him banging on about finecast to even suggest such a thing. I don't think he has even bought a GW product for a couple of years .... why he would even continue to bring the rest of us rumours I have no idea.

Best just to say thanks

I can appreciate that. I was basing my questions on a quick read-through of a summary post, and I don't know the background or history behind Hastings or his presentation of information. I think my bullgak detector is a touch too sensitive sometimes, and I don't want to be attacking the character of someone I don't know, though I realize thats pretty much how my post read.

From the necropolis of not-the-front-page I summon thee...

So, did you finally scare Harry off? I think some solid insights into what's coming for Chaos and SoB would have been much appreciated...

 Kosake wrote:
So, did you finally scare Harry off? I think some solid insights into what's coming for Chaos and SoB would have been much appreciated...

I doubt that he was scared off. Dakka is not his usual haunt though, so he drops by only occasionally.