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So, funny thing I just learned.

According to the latest Both Down episode, Pete Knifton's comic was supposed to be colored. If so, I can then understand why it seems muddier, since the colors would have made certain elements stand out. It's why I thought the rest of the art MeanGreenStompa posted looked better, since it's a cleaner style with better defined lines which works in black and white.

Are those positional boosters in plastic or resin?

Resin.

 Sabotage! wrote:
It seems to me it probably would have been mentioned, but I thought I should ask. Did anyone who attended the seminar hear anything about Blitz Bowl? I'm really curious to see if it's any good, because 40 minute games of Blood Bowl means I could get a whole lot more Blood Bowl in my life.

I don't recall hearing anything about it, but it could release in the fall. Might be a filler release or something that releases in november/december before christmas.

I will say though i'll be bummed if the two teams left to be revealed this year don't include a death/undead team...whether it is undead/necromantic/vamps. They really need to pump out at least one undead team soon...for the sake of variety. I know undead teams aren't exactly the hardest to convert, same with nurgle. But they seem to be going with a more sportsy kit look for the armor, not to mention the lack of any suitable plastic models for mummies, and the current zombie kit is really showing it's age.

I expect more elves and either undead/Amazon/lizardmen

 Thargrim wrote:


I don't recall hearing anything about it, but it could release in the fall. Might be a filler release or something that releases in november/december before christmas.

I will say though i'll be bummed if the two teams left to be revealed this year don't include a death/undead team...whether it is undead/necromantic/vamps. They really need to pump out at least one undead team soon...for the sake of variety. I know undead teams aren't exactly the hardest to convert, same with nurgle. But they seem to be going with a more sportsy kit look for the armor, not to mention the lack of any suitable plastic models for mummies, and the current zombie kit is really showing it's age.

Yeah, I haven't heard anything either unfortunately. Late Summer or early Fall would be my best guess. I also second the death team. Undead are my favorite team and not having any representation is a huge bummer, I'm a fairly competent kit-basher, but I had to buy third party models for my Zombies and Mummies, which is a bit of a bummer to me. We really have nothing to convert to a mummy and as you stated, the Zombie kit is very outdated. It's particularly annoying in that we got Pro Elves, before undead of any sort (and to be fair, if it were Wood/Dark/High elves it wouldn't bother me nearly as much). I'm really crossing my fingers we get undead or necromantic and lizardmen as the two remaining teams. It will probably be halfling and ogres though with the way they have prioritized releases though.

Considering they already have an ogre kit and goblins, kind of surprised they haven’t put the team in ‘officially’ like they did for Underworld and Pact.

 Crazyterran wrote:
Considering they already have an ogre kit and goblins, kind of surprised they haven’t put the team in ‘officially’ like they did for Underworld and Pact.

That's because the Ogres team uses snotlings, not goblins. An Ogre team with 0-16 goblins might make a decent tier 2 team, or would at least elevate Ogres from being the worst team in the game.

I thought they were called something else, not snotlings exclusively. I was just saying Goblin models could handle little guy positions quite well for it.

Then again, they are titchy, so maybe not.

They show Nurgle concept awhile back, I'd expect them to be out this year.

The Ogre team, when it gets a proper re-do (like how goblins got secret weapon positionals), should get different kinds of Ogre and Gnoblar. Including at least a ‘tyrant’ type that doesn’t have bone’ead.
Or maybe Gnoblars should get a “fast learner” trait, where they gain SPP at double rate to counter the stupidity of regular ogres.

I can't remember if it's been answered or not, but are both of the Dark Elf Assassins resin or is one plastic like we've seen with the Ogre and Troll?

Resin. The team will be 2 Blitzers, 2 Witch Elves, 2 Runners, and six linemen. The booster will be assassins and, I would guess, the other two blitzers.

Ugh. They're missing a good opportunity to add another plastic Assassin to the Shadowblades range then.

Ogre and Trolls being plastic are a miracle consider even big release like Necromunda didn't even get any plastic extra like that, unless you also count bulkhead , barricade, or base.

The troll is also pretty cheap for a 2 sprue character.

ForgeWorld could always mess up and give us booster of 1 assassin, 1 blitzer, 1 witch and 1 runner. If they stick to their tradition of having to include one alternative sculpt for each non-line position.

Quite possible but that would suck badly considering what we want is two assassins and two blitzers.

We've seen two assassins

This month was extremely eventful compared to the rest of the year so far. We got:

-Chaos team
-Chaos dice
-new Spike magazine
-Chaos cards
-Skaven cards
-Blitzmania 2 cards
-Underworld dice
-Renegade dice
-Chaos pitch around the corner
-Dark Elf teaser (team, star players, pitch)

Should probably be added to the first post in the thread, but:

ALL TEAM BOXES ARE PLASTIC.

ANY NON-TEAM BOX RELEASE WILL BE IN RESIN UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED OTHERWISE (ie Ogre and Troll).

It COULD be the case that the Dark Elf assassins might be released in plastic, if GW/FW thought there'd be enough interest to justify such a release, but without any confirmation to the contrary, the assumption should always be that they will be a resin booster release.

Anyone know the release date for Dark Elves?

Chopstick wrote:
Anyone know the release date for Dark Elves?

the end of the WD talks about BB next month.
So maybe in the 2-3 first weeks of july.

zamerion wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Anyone know the release date for Dark Elves?

the end of the WD talks about BB next month.
So maybe in the 2-3 first weeks of july.

I hope so, only because cawdor would likely release at the same time. The chaos pitch was originally rumored to release in july, so a specialist games release during that month would make sense.

They said Cawdor took a while longer to come out and Dark Elves is "coming soon" so I wouldn't hope to see a Cawdor/GW4 anytime now, at least until Aug/Sep

According to Skitters on Talk Fantasy Football (Posted on June 1 from the previous Warhammer live):

"No release date on Dark Elf stuff ("next few months"). I think i caught a hint that the assassins would be around a month after the box. They were discussed in terms of Dark Elf have assassins whereas other teams have a big guy so from that I think it will be just assassins and not a booster with a couple of blitzers.
*Dark Elf box set will include alternate witch elf hand and an alternate lineman head. "

Which very well could be July. Or it could be Blitz Bowl. I'd be excited for either (or both).

They already show Witch Elf hand in various shot at the fest and trailer. She have a salute/pointing hand and a hand holding a heart.

I just hope they made the kit a bit more flexible like the Elf Union one where you can swap bit around, but that's seem unlikely.

 Sabotage! wrote:
According to Skitters on Talk Fantasy Football (Posted on June 1 from the previous Warhammer live):

"No release date on Dark Elf stuff ("next few months"). I think i caught a hint that the assassins would be around a month after the box. They were discussed in terms of Dark Elf have assassins whereas other teams have a big guy so from that I think it will be just assassins and not a booster with a couple of blitzers.
*Dark Elf box set will include alternate witch elf hand and an alternate lineman head. "

Which very well could be July. Or it could be Blitz Bowl. I'd be excited for either (or both).

With your permission, i add the other information from that user:

*Doom Lords pitch should be July
*no specific indication of a planned booster for dark elves, though there was general talk of teams getting boosters
*Human booster and alternate troll shown as was Roxanna, Swift twins and Eldril. These will also be next few months.
*There will be an Orc booster - but will be to 2 black orcs, 1 blitzer and 1 thrower...(this sounds like it will be further down the line)
*A Helmut Wolf model is being worked on - sounds like he will be one of the next stars made available
*Sounds like an intention for there to be a BB specific Scyla model as Andy noted that the existing model is a little too big for the BB pitch
*a Gobbler Grimlich is being worked on as it caught the imagination of one of the sculptors (I didn't catch the name)
*There was some alternate minatour artwork that may be used for a Grashnak model
*In general it felt like an intention to get models out for most, if not all, of the star players...though it did feel as if the process was more sculptor being inspired and asking to take on a model rather than we need this model - design it approach (which to me implies they will be a little scattergun in release order but should hopefully show more creativity)
*Karla was specifically mentioned as being a model that people would like to see. There was a brief talk of her being a strong female character so it makes me wonder if it may be a direction for some future new star players.
*The intention is to get to 10 star players for each team *but* that is not a hard cap and it may be in time some teams may have more added (though it came across as if some teams may have 10, others may have 11 or at a stretch 12 rather than bigger discrepencies)
*recruitment still on-going for the specialist team


I hope they show Gobbler on July 15

Orc got thrower instead of another blitzer is just weird

Dont necessarily make the boosters based on the meta :p

It's not even just off the meta, you can have 2 throwers but 4 Blitzers - buying a box and a booster will give you 3 of each instead of the actual values you can take.

Just a silly choice.