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zanzibarthefirst wrote:
thing that has disappointed kme most in these books has been the lack of missions compared to over campaigns. The Red Waaagh was released in a similar format yet featured nearly triple the amount of missions .

Eh. They had more missions but didn't get anything like the army lists or battlezone rules we got with these two.

 Galef wrote:
According to Iyanden fluff, Yellow is the color that Eldar associate with death, or rather mourning. I have unfortunately forgotten where I read that.

If you cannot cite it don't say it as if t were true. All too often inaccurate misremembered or totally false stuff is passed off or repeated as true with those excuses of "I read this detail somewhere but conveniently cannot remember where" or "I heard someone say". I have the Iyanden supplement and cannot find any evidence for your claim. If it is somewhere more obscure, then you will have to cite it. I have cited my source for white being the Eldar color of mourning (last chapter of Path of the Outcast).

Iracundus wrote:

 Galef wrote:
According to Iyanden fluff, Yellow is the color that Eldar associate with death, or rather mourning. I have unfortunately forgotten where I read that.

If you cannot cite it don't say it as if t were true. All too often inaccurate misremembered or totally false stuff is passed off or repeated as true with those excuses of "I read this detail somewhere but conveniently cannot remember where" or "I heard someone say". I have the Iyanden supplement and cannot find any evidence for your claim. If it is somewhere more obscure, then you will have to cite it. I have cited my source for white being the Eldar color of mourning (last chapter of Path of the Outcast).

I've got a copy of the Codex: Craftworlds at home. I'll have a look through that

On the warhammer live stream yesterday Rob was talking to Simon Grant about the new book. At one point Simon compared the new Eldar faction to what they had done in the end times with the elves. This caused Rob to interject and say that this is "IN NO WAY THE END OF 40K". Meanwhile in the background Simon is joking about how the avatar is the 40k Nagash.
It was an enjoyable exchange. It is very clear that Rob has been briefed to say that this is not the end of 40k. In every segment on the gathering storm Rob had said that this is setting up the future of 40k into "2018 and beyond"
It seems equally clear that the fluff writers are thinking. "the end times was fun. Let's do that"

OgreChubbs wrote:
I think the God of death or dead always has to be black.

In Japan colour associated with death is white. Which is one reason why all the pilgrims tend to wear white. For one in olden days when pilgrimage was more likely to result in death(and indeed some went for one to die) you therefore was in your burial clothing from the get-go. For second it symbolizes you "dying" from regular world and when you finish your pilgrimage and take off the white it symbolizes your rebirth.

FAQs are up for this book now

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Gathering_Storm_II_v1.0.pdf