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Im brand new to Fantasy, but have always liked the Dogs of War when reading through my WD. Iv recently decided to start a Tomb Kings army, but can find zero info on them.

Going through the forums leads me to dead ends, going to GW shows that they seem to be expunged from the records, with no warhammer annual books (which I hear had the rules), nothing on the GW site in terms of the store, FAQ page, or anywhere for that matter. The only thing I can find there is some models in the collectors range.
Wikipedia has them listed still with some information, but again links lead to the main GW page.

Are Dogs of War extinct? Where they devoured by Tyranids? Why does GW not have any info on them besides in their older rule books?

Can anyone help?

If you already have the download / WD article(s) / Chronicle, then all is well.

But yeah, GW doesn't like Tilea right now. I do like to think that we'll get a new book in WFB7 to make up for not having a book in 6th.

/sigh

Dogs of War are near extinct, being kicked out of almost any and all gaming systems minus friendly games or really, really nice tourney heads.

Try to find the PDF's for them, I've found them and am currently looking at my models to see what I can convert into a DOW unit.

GW isn't fond of it's "sub-armies", which is a real shame, IMHO.

combatmedic wrote:Im brand new to Fantasy, but have always liked the Dogs of War when reading through my WD. Iv recently decided to start a Tomb Kings army, but can find zero info on them.

Going through the forums leads me to dead ends, going to GW shows that they seem to be expunged from the records, with no warhammer annual books (which I hear had the rules), nothing on the GW site in terms of the store, FAQ page, or anywhere for that matter. The only thing I can find there is some models in the collectors range.
Wikipedia has them listed still with some information, but again links lead to the main GW page.

Are Dogs of War extinct? Where they devoured by Tyranids? Why does GW not have any info on them besides in their older rule books?

Can anyone help?

DoW are unique in that their individual units were designed to be mercenaries, i.e. to be added to other armies. A long time ago, mercenaries and allies were considered fun. That was before tournaments sucked all of the “fun” out of WFB, and made it “serious” (and deadly dull). To sell more regiments, the DoW could also be combined into an incoherent hodgepodge army that was inherently weak. But, with mercs not being allowed in tournaments (Heaven forbid Chaos get a small cannon!), and the DoW regiments being all-metal and a pain to revamp, and Tilea being basically another human army, DoW were left to languish. They never got an army book in V6, and were kinda, sorta written out of the later army books. They did get a boost with the addition of Ogre Kingdom mercenaries, mostly to sell Orgres.

So, they don’t really need the Squat treatment, because they’re designed to be added to “normal” armies. But, as interests wanes and the molds wear out, they are indeed slip-sliding away. DO NOT make DoW your first and only WFB army (BTW, in case you ignore this advice, I will sell you my fully painted DoW army). Ironically, the army you choose instead, Tomb Kings, may also have a cloudy future.

I had heard rumblings about the Tomb Kings getting a new book in the near future (knowing GW that means 3 years).

Have I been lied to? Cause that would make me a sad panda to start an army only to see it die.

TK are sort of self-contained army with their own unique rules and all the units they'll ever need. Plus, they are undead-lite. I dunno if they are a big seller. I've heard TK will get the Dark Eldar treatment (off the shelves, many years using the same book) to make room for Dark Eldar. But, I've also heard Dark Eldar are still in limbo.

Hmm...

There's a new DoW site up:

http://www.dogsofwaronline.com/


This effectively picks up where The Merchant Prince left off:

http://razadecon.proboards.com/index.cgi