Rumour update "Summer of Flyers"

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**Skinnereal**

It's you're after the term for a bit of a letdown, it's squibs. Look for Filch in Harry Potter for a quick check, but squibs are used for cleaning IIRC.

**Alpharius**

Damn - this thread just won't stay dead!

**Skinnereal**

But, is it still just a rumour?
I might have time to get my Eldar painted up, and get some swooping pew pew.

**lord_blackfang**

Skinnereal wrote:But, is it still just a rumour?

And it'll always stay just a rumour

**deleted20250424**

Alpharius wrote:Damn - this thread just won't stay dead!

I was thinking the same thing.

Is it time to mention the Plastic Thunderhawk yet?

**Miraclefish**

Apparently Grey Knights are getting a giant walker thing too....

Sorry, I thought we were playing unsubstantiated rumour game. If I pretend hard enough, Ward hasn't ruined my favourite army yet...

**Gavin Thorne**

Skinnereal wrote:It's you're after the term for a bit of a letdown, it's squibs. Look for Filch in Harry Potter for a quick check, but squibs are used for cleaning IIRC.

You're right, it is squib, but the terminology refers to a small explosive, most commonly used in the movie industry to simulate the effects of gunfire on a variety of surfaces, including humans when combined with a plastic bag of special effects blood. A damp squib would be a letdown because it will fail to explode.

Back on topic, though. I find it interesting, slightly disappointing, but also enlivening that there's no anticipated SM release other than the Stormraven for the Summer of Flyers. You'd think the posterboys would get a little sumfin-sumfin, even if it's just hard-top speeders...

**Ascalam**

Like they need sumfin

They'll probably get new look GK rhinos that are in blue plastc, look like a Police Box and come with a sound chip

**deleted20250424**

Gavin Thorne wrote:
Back on topic, though. I find it interesting, slightly disappointing, but also enlivening that there's no anticipated SM release other than the Stormraven for the Summer of Flyers. You'd think the posterboys would get a little sumfin-sumfin, even if it's just hard-top speeders...

It will be an AA turret for the Whirlwind.

It will be retconned into Heresy fluff where it was last seen aiding Sanguinius fighting the demon.

It was actually the flak from the AA that broke the demons' back.*

* Idea and rhyme not to be stolen by Matt Ward.

**bigmek35**

agnosto wrote:
GW Management: Hey guys, I've got it; let's create micro-releases that only do something nice for 1 to 3 armies, people will love it. You know, instead of doing something for every army and selling a great deal more merchandise, we don't want that now do we?
GW Sycophant: Fantastic idea! I've got another great idea! Let's make a big deal about allowing people to "showcase" their armies. Maybe they'll run out and buy all new models like a teenage girl on her first date buys a whole new wardrobe.
GW Management: I'm glad we're so smart. Let's hold hands!

That my friend is geting siged!

**porkuslime**

Games Workshop wrote:Incoming: Storm of Magic

Storm of Magic - when the eight winds howl...

The Winds of Magic are tumultuous. Drawn by Morrslieb, they are prone to rise from a strong gale into a howling tempest. And when they do no kingdom or realm is safe.

Monsters awaken from their slumber and are summoned from their lairs at the bidding of sorcerous masters. Armies assemble, ready to defend their borders or seize the opportunity to gain limitless power. It is in these desperate times tenuous pacts between wizards and creatures of darkness are sealed to create alliances never thought possible.

A time of doom and great deeds is at hand. Will you rise to meet the storm?

Announcing the impending arrival of Storm of Magic, the latest and largest Expansion for Warhammer, the Game of Fantasy Battles. Launched in July 2011, Storm of Magic describes what happens when great eldritch maelstroms roil across the lands. Magic becomes far more powerful and there is a whole range of Cataclysm spells to cast, unleashing untold devastation on the enemy. Arcane Fulcrums burst from the ground, not only acting as loci for the swirling energies that pervade a battle fought amidst the Storm of Magic, but changing the way a Warhammer tabletop looks and interacts with your armies. With such things so crucial to your Storm of Magic games a new range of Warhammer scenery and Wizards will soon be released in time for you to wage cataclysmic battles.

Then there are the monsters. When the Winds of Magic blow with such strength, the fell creatures of the world gravitate towards the tempest, slithering from deep tunnels or emerging from mountain lairs.

With the new Expansion allowing you to use so many different creatures there are a whole host of new monstrous plastic kits on their way. Citadel's queen of creatures, Trish Morrison, has spent the last few years in her own lair preparing for the new monsters to be unleashed upon the world and you can see two brief glimpses of what is to come below:

July is still a few months away; we are in the calm before the storm so now is the time to prepare. Bolster your forces, prepare your regiments and summon your wizards in time for the ultimate war. Keep checking White Dwarf and the website for updates, for when the storm hits nowhere will be safe!

New Incoming article.. which implies that THIS is the big summer doo-hickey... will they do 2 things?

-P

EDIT: better thread for this specific expansion here.. (sorry Yggs)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/360231.page

**Leggy**

There's still a chance the flyer expansion could come in august. GW's idea of summer is typically quite vague. However with the stormraven out, and the Dark Eldar Flyers rumoured to be due in June, I'm not sure there's any product releases for the event to push. IG Hydras, maybe?

**BrassScorpion**

I was just about to say, here's your "Summer Of Fliers" with regard to Storm Of Magic, but I see someone already posted it just a little bit before me. Unless by "fliers" people meant dragons and griffins (or gryphonnes in the proprietary GW spelling) and the like, Summer Of Fliers would appear to be a bust.

Summer Of Fliers, killed before it had a chance to live. Farewell, Summer Of Fliers, you will be missed, if it's possible to miss something that never happened in the first place. Maybe another year you'll get to ravage the war-torn 41st Millennium. Bye-bye.

**Kroothawk**

It's Wartorn Skies. And I still think it is coming ... in August.

**evilsponge**

Stickmonkey'ed again

**BrassScorpion**

I'm sure every time GW announces something else for one more month then the following month will be the one rumored to have the "Summer Of Fliers", even if we're into next February.

And even if this materializes in August it's a Summer Of Fliers not even in the strictest seasonally literal sense. Summer begins in the northern hemisphere June 21 and the recreational summer is over these days in a lot of places before August is even over. So what is the new nomenclature on this? How about the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers"?

Stickmonkey'ed again

That sounds uncomfortable, you might want to have a doctor look at that.

**Brother SRM**

BrassScorpion wrote: So what is the new nomenclature on this? How about the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers"?

Wartorn Skies. Posted two posts above yours.

**BrassScorpion**

Yes, I saw that.

I was making a point, which I believe still stands.

**Savnock**

Kroothawk wrote:It's Wartorn Skies. And I still think it is coming ... in August.

I'm with Kroothawk, and willing to place a small wager on a flyers-oriented release by end of August. Forget the timing, BrassScorpion: if it's for flyers and in the summer at all I'll be happy, and the naysayers would be wrong. Care to place a friendly bet on this?

**BrassScorpion**

How about everyone bet on how many NEW model kits are being released with the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers" since nearly everything that started out in this rumor clearly had little veracity? Even if this materializes, this is a lot different than the original "Summer Of Fliers" chatter which was so persistent until THIS MORNING's announcement of Storm Of Magic that this thread is named Summer Of Fliers. Or did everyone suddenly forget that this started out as a supposed early summer promotion with rumored new fliers for virtually every army in 40K? LOL.

It really doesn't matter much to me, I'm happy to see new kits whenever they are released and however many there are. I just find it amusing how short the memory can be for many Warhammer "enthusiasts".

If someone has something about what kits are being released, then that would be news I'd like to hear. Unfortunately, unlike with the Dreadknight, I don't have anything in advance to share on this one.

**Kanluwen**

BrassScorpion wrote:How about everyone bet on how many NEW model kits are being released with the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers" since nearly every thing that started out in this rumor clearly had little veracity? Even if this materializes, this is a lot different than the original "Summer Of Fliers" chatter which was so persistent until THIS MORNING's announcement of Storm Of Magic that this thread is named Summer Of Fliers.

Who's to say it can't still be the Summer of Fliers though?

If they're both going to be White Dwarf articles, one gets one month and the other gets another--fwabam. Problem solved.

**Worglock**

BrassScorpion wrote:How about everyone bet on how many NEW model kits are being released with the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers" since nearly everything that started out in this rumor clearly had little veracity? Even if this materializes, this is a lot different than the original "Summer Of Fliers" chatter which was so persistent until THIS MORNING's announcement of Storm Of Magic that this thread is named Summer Of Fliers. Or did everyone suddenly forget that this started out as a supposed early summer promotion with rumored new fliers for virtually every army in 40K? LOL.

How about we bet on how interested I'll be in this if it doesn't contain 40K version of the old Tzeentch Flying Daemon Engines from Epic.

I'll start off by betting 1 Billion Dollars on "Not interested at all."

**lord_blackfang**

Savnock wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:It's Wartorn Skies. And I still think it is coming ... in August.

I'm with Kroothawk, and willing to place a small wager on a flyers-oriented release by end of August. Forget the timing, BrassScorpion: if it's for flyers and in the summer at all I'll be happy, and the naysayers would be wrong. Care to place a friendly bet on this?

It's a done deal that the Dark Eldar airplanes will get released sooner or later. Anything else is a pipe dream until it's printed in a Codex, IMHO. "Flyers" (that aren't, really) for one faction do not an expansion make.

**Kroothawk**

BrassScorpion wrote:How about everyone bet on how many NEW model kits are being released with the "Highly Abbreviated Summer Season Of Flyers" since nearly everything that started out in this rumor clearly had little veracity? Even if this materializes, this is a lot different than the original "Summer Of Fliers" chatter which was so persistent until THIS MORNING's announcement of Storm Of Magic that this thread is named Summer Of Fliers. Or did everyone suddenly forget that this started out as a supposed early summer promotion with rumored new fliers for virtually every army in 40K? LOL.

It really doesn't matter much to me, I'm happy to see new kits whenever they are released and however many there are. I just find it amusing how short the memory can be for many Warhammer "enthusiasts".

If someone has something about what kits are being released, then that would be news I'd like to hear. Unfortunately, unlike with the Dreadknight, I don't have anything in advance to share on this one.

Counterquestion: Is the rumour about a 2nd Dark Eldar wave in June negated now that we know of the release of Tomb Kings in May?

If you follow rumours, then you see that both rumours are independent, that's why I made one thread for each. The Fantasy rumour turned out true, that doesn't make the other one false. Maybe I got both right, we will see in 4 weeks.

Is August in Summer? Yes. Summer ends 23rd September. August is also rarely used for Codex/army book releases due to many people being on holidays and/or not playing indoor tabletops that much. So GW often uses it for campaigns, supplements and such.

Will we get flyers? Before 2011 we had basically only one, the Valkyrie. Now we have the Storm Raven for Blood Angels and Grey Knights. In June we will get at least another one for Dark Eldar, similar to the Eldar Phoenix (combo kit?), with several others in the works, as seen by several posters.

But I will bookmark this page for future reference

**MikeMcSomething**

Every time I see this thread pop up to the top I think it's going to have news but it just turns out to be someone talking about how ''awesome'' a plastic thunderhawk would be or something equally news-like.

**BrassScorpion**

This thread reminds me of when a "psychic" gets one prediction right out of hundreds by pure chance and all the believers proclaim them "authentic". So far every rumor about this has turned out to be blatantly untrue, but when some version or part of this whole idea finally does happen there will be people that will conveniently forget all the false rumors they proclaimed as being for certain and then claim they were correct all along.

Every time I see this thread pop up to the top I think it's going to have news but it just turns out to be someone talking about how ''awesome'' a plastic thunderhawk would be or something equally news-like.

Every time? Now that is THE definition of optimism!

**MajorTom11**

Plastic Thunderhawk??? No ways!!!!

Anyone have pics?

I also heard a rumor the Golden Throne is actually a toilet. With wings.

**BrassScorpion**

I also heard a rumor the Golden Throne is actually a toilet. With wings.

Any chair one never gets out of eventually doubles as a toilet.

I will be happy to see what kits are finally being released for this promotion and supposed expansion whenever it does come along. With the variety of my 40K collection there's bound to be something fun for me in there.

**ChrisWWII**

I'm still crossing my fingers for a plastic Hydra.

Unlikely to happen, but a man can dream, can't he?!

**Captain Jack**

Meh, I'll go back to playing more Aeronautica then...