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 Galas wrote:
At what hour it will be the Stream? I think Spanish is UK hour-1.... or not. I think is the same.

It'll be the second game slot of the Wednesday, so I think it starts 6PM. We're in British Summer Time right now too, so we might be 2 hours in front of Spain.

As for giving any hints, Nercronoxx is right that I am not allowed to reveal anything, so you'll have to tune in and find out

If any of you Dakkanaughts subscribe to Warhammer TV make sure to shout out in the chat the box

Good job Bottle! It's good to see your community work pay off

Wait, what? GW have not only paid attention to a fan ruleset, but it seems they're effectively working with the creator of said rules?

This. Is. Brilliant!

Don't get me wrong, Hinterlands is ten kinds of awesome, but I'm equally impressed with GW's attitude to this. They really, really seem to be turning a corner with the new CEO. Maybe Kirby was the problem all along?

Next they'll be hiring all the old FFG freelancers to work on a new 40K RPG.


Please...?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Next they'll be hiring all the old FFG freelancers to work on a new 40K RPG.


Please...?

As long as they don't copy paste the injury charts like they did in the previous RPGs (which doesn't work well for Space Marines), then yes.

I don't want to put words in Bottle's mouth, but I think he is just being invited along to play the game. The rules were written by James Gallagher ( the same guy who did the gangs of commoragh game). Given the lead times on GW development, it would be interesting to know how much of an influence Hinterlands had over the final product.
Still cool to get Bottle on to showcase the new rules. Looking forward to watching it.

Chikout wrote:
I don't want to put words in Bottle's mouth, but I think he is just being invited along to play the game. The rules were written by James Gallagher ( the same guy who did the gangs of commoragh game). Given the lead times on GW development, it would be interesting to know how much of an influence Hinterlands had over the final product.
Still cool to get Bottle on to showcase the new rules. Looking forward to watching it.

I'd say this had a far shorter lead time, since there was no mini designing hampering it. Look at SoH, it took less than a year so I "can" see them having managed to do so in time.

Hopefully you can share details here after the game bottle.

Chikout wrote:
I don't want to put words in Bottle's mouth, but I think he is just being invited along to play the game. The rules were written by James Gallagher ( the same guy who did the gangs of commoragh game). Given the lead times on GW development, it would be interesting to know how much of an influence Hinterlands had over the final product.
Still cool to get Bottle on to showcase the new rules. Looking forward to watching it.

It really depends on the amount of new content in the book.
Is there new artwork, new photos which needed to be taken (almost certainly), etc.
I doubt this has had more than 6-7 months lead time, which would fall in the timeframe when the print files for Gangs of Commoragh would be finalised.

It's right that I didn't have any involvement in the rules of this new supplement. GW have just invited me up to play the new game

Really hyped for this !
I hope we'll get to see nice miniatures with some original conversion

Hey at least they are going back to the days where they recognized they weren't the end all, be all of gaming, back when there were things like the Specialist games publications.

winterdyne wrote:
Wait, what? GW have not only paid attention to a fan ruleset, but it seems they're effectively working with the creator of said rules?

This. Is. Brilliant!

Don't get me wrong, Hinterlands is ten kinds of awesome, but I'm equally impressed with GW's attitude to this. They really, really seem to be turning a corner with the new CEO. Maybe Kirby was the problem all along?

Hey, never forget that the AoS General's Handbook, which largely "saved" AoS, and now shapes 40k, was essentially HeelenHammer/SCGT. New GW is definitely not afraid to recognize an outsider's excellent work!

 Bottle wrote:
It's right that I didn't have any involvement in the rules of this new supplement. GW have just invited me up to play the new game

Good for you -- hope you have fun

pics etc please !

 Bottle wrote:
It's right that I didn't have any involvement in the rules of this new supplement. GW have just invited me up to play the new game

Exactly what the hidden rule developer under an NDA would say!

 Bottle wrote:
It's right that I didn't have any involvement in the rules of this new supplement. GW have just invited me up to play the new game

Ouch. Still, bring pics. Get Roundtree's if possible, haven't seen how the guy looks like. Gags ain't mandatory but you may need them.

I love Bottle's stuff.

The ruleset focuses on getting a serious force on the table and actually make sense in concept and execution.

One of the issues, ( The main one) that !@#%ed me up was that the background, and how it was presented did not include the obvious.

Bottle's game actually enhances it, and If I were Bottle, I would use the game as an introductory job interview. Make no mistake, young yeoman, the Infamous THEY are watching you, and you will be approached at some point. Gargantuan-teed.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Grot 6! Hinterlands was really fun to make and see it grow. Overall I am really happy to see GW take the helm now because it means I can sit back and enjoy painting/playing a bit more and start working on whatever project next takes my fancy - it might be something to go with AoS Skirmish or I might do something more akin to roleplaying in AoS/open board WHQ (that would again sit on top of the AoS Skirmish rules)... and then there's another part of me that wants to do something for the new 40k. Not "Hinterlands 40,000" because there are already loads of popular kill-team fansets + SW:A, but I certainly have an idea of *something* cooking in my brain right now.

Anyway, I will certainly come back with pics and reports after the games. AoS Skirmish is going to be really exciting for everyone I think! :-)

By the way, what's in for this week's pre-orders?

Lord Kragan wrote:
By the way, what's in for this week's pre-orders?

Blood Bowl stuff.

 ImAGeek wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
By the way, what's in for this week's pre-orders?

Blood Bowl stuff.

And that's it? Can't say I'm not slightly disappointed. Though considering that people in my LGS play more bloodbowl than ANYTHING ELSE COMBINED right now maybe I could pick it up.

winterdyne wrote:
Wait, what? GW have not only paid attention to a fan ruleset, but it seems they're effectively working with the creator of said rules?

Like they did with 40k in 40 minutes / patrol clash in ... 4th edition 40k?

Any speculation if this Skirmish game will come in the former of a rulebook or might we see actual skirmish-sized warbands and boxes? Something akin to the old Mordheim boxes?

Are you guys excited for seeing AoS Skirmish this Wednesday?

This is the warband I will be taking out for the first game. (Around 6PM)

Freeguild represent!

Looks great, Bottle. Should really pop on the ol' stream .

 Bottle wrote:
Are you guys excited for seeing AoS Skirmish this Wednesday?

This is the warband I will be taking out for the first game. (Around 6PM)

Freeguild represent!

In the current Generals handbook this is 256 points (I think, I don't play AoS).

I'm wondering if the game will be very shooty, particularly as you've gone big on guns with a wizard leader. I'd love it if Skeleton warriors were a practical choice.

 Bottle wrote:
Are you guys excited for seeing AoS Skirmish this Wednesday?

This is the warband I will be taking out for the first game. (Around 6PM)

Freeguild represent!

Ahhhh I completely forgot this was happening!

They look sweet af!

I was about to say, how would it be great if this Skirmish would allow to buy some 3 Fimir Warriors + Fimirach, paint them nicely and have a game (like we can do with Shadow War now). But then I remembered, that FW doesn't really care

Ben2 wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Are you guys excited for seeing AoS Skirmish this Wednesday?

This is the warband I will be taking out for the first game. (Around 6PM)

Freeguild represent!

In the current Generals handbook this is 256 points (I think, I don't play AoS).

I'm wondering if the game will be very shooty, particularly as you've gone big on guns with a wizard leader. I'd love it if Skeleton warriors were a practical choice.

Bottle's army has a lot of shooting in it anyway, this seems like a reasonable representation of the whole army so I wouldn't worry about it being cherry picked to take advantage of a shooting meta. And Bottle isn't really into that anyways.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

Ben2 wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Are you guys excited for seeing AoS Skirmish this Wednesday?

This is the warband I will be taking out for the first game. (Around 6PM)

Freeguild represent!

In the current Generals handbook this is 256 points (I think, I don't play AoS).

I'm wondering if the game will be very shooty, particularly as you've gone big on guns with a wizard leader. I'd love it if Skeleton warriors were a practical choice.

Bottle's army has a lot of shooting in it anyway, this seems like a reasonable representation of the whole army so I wouldn't worry about it being cherry picked to take advantage of a shooting meta. And Bottle isn't really into that anyways.

I was thinking of things like Mordheim and Frostgrave where missile focused builds tend to be better or substantially better than melee builds.