UPDATED list of discontinued GW models...

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**H.B.M.C.**

Hello all,

That small list I posted a few weeks ago has grown considerably:

41-36 LEMARTES GUARDIAN OF THE LOST
41-38 ASTORATH THE GRIM
41-39 MEPHISTON LORD OF DEATH
41-40 BLOOD ANGELS COMMANDER DANTE
42-43 CATACHAN SNIPERS
43-13 CHAOS DREADNOUGHT
43-18 CHAOS SPACE MARINE RAPTORS
43-20 CHAOS HAVOCS
43-21 CHAOS THOUSAND SONS
43-23 DEATH GUARD PLAGUE MARINES
43-36 ABADDON THE DESPOILER
43-40 CHAOS SPACE MARINE LORD
43-41 CHAOS SPACE MARINE SORCERER
43-42 CHAOS LORD WITH JUMP PACK
43-43 HURON BLACKHEART
43-44 KHORNE LORD
43-49 CHAOS OBLITERATORS
44-38 DARK ANGELS COMPANY MASTER
45-13 DARK ELDAR INCUBI
45-14 DARK ELDAR MANDRAKES
45-36 URIEN RAKARTH
45-37 DARK ELDAR LELITH HESPERAX
45-38 Dark Eldar Clawed Fiend
45-39 Dark Eldar Razorwing Flock
45-40 Dark Eldar Khymera
45-41 Dark Eldar Succubus
45-42 Dark Eldar Beastmaster
46-13 ELDAR SHINING SPEAR SQUAD
46-16 ELDAR FARSEER AND WARLOCK BODYGUARD
46-22 ELDAR DARK REAPERS
46-23 ELDAR FIRE DRAGONS
46-24 ELDAR HOWLING BANSHEES
46-25 ELDAR STRIKING SCORPIONS
46-26 ELDAR SWOOPING HAWKS
46-27 ELDAR WARP SPIDERS
46-29 ELDAR RANGERS
46-30 ELDAR AUTARCH ON JET BIKE
46-34 ELDAR HARLEQUINS
46-35 ELDAR FARSEER
46-36 ELDAR WARLOCKS
46-37 ELDAR WRAITHGUARD
46-46 ELDAR AVATAR
47-36 IMPERIAL GUARD OGRYN BONE EAD
47-37 IMPERIAL GUARD COMMISSAR
47-43 IMPERIAL GUARD OGRYN
47-45 CADIAN ASSAULT WEAPONS
47-56 COMMISSAR YARRICK
47-66 CADIAN SNIPERS
48-11 SPACE MARINE BIKE
48-18 SPACE MARINE CHAPLAIN ON BIKE
48-24 SPACE MARINE TECHMARINE WITH SERVITORS
48-31 SPACE MARINE STERNGUARD VETERANS
48-33 SPACE MARINE VANGUARD VETERAN SQUAD
48-35 MARNEUS CALGAR AND HONOUR GUARD
48-38 SPACE MARINE CHAPLAINS
48-39 SPACE MARINE APOTHECARY
48-42 TERMINATOR CAPTAIN
48-43 TERMINATOR LIBRARIAN
48-44 SPACE MARINE TERMINATOR CHAPLAIN
48-45 SPACE MARINE CHAPLAIN WITH JUMP PACK
48-53 SPACE MARINE SCOUT SERGEANT TELION
48-54 SPACE MARINE SERGEANT CHRONUS
48-55 CRIMSON FISTS PEDRO KANTOR
48-56 ULTRAMARINES CAPTAIN SICARIUS
48-91 SPACE MARINE MASTERS OF THE CHAPTER
48-95 Legion of the Damned Squad
48-96 Damned Legionnaires
48-97 Damned Legionnaire with Heavy Weapon
49-10 NECRON HEAVY DESTROYER
49-12 NECRON C’TAN NIGHTBRINGER
49-13 NECRON C’TAN DECEIVER
49-35 NECRON LORD WITH RESURRECTION ORB
49-39 NECRON IMMORTAL
49-42 NECRON TOMB SPYDER
49-44 NECRON PARIAHS
49-45 NECRON WRAITHS
50-18 ORK WARLORD GHAZGHKULL THRAKKA
50-19 ORK KOMMANDOS
50-23 ORK BIG MEK WITH SHOKK ATTACK GUN
50-24 ORK TANKBUSTAS
50-35 ORK WARBOSS
50-36 ORK WEIRDBOY
50-38 ORKS IN MEGA ARMOUR
50-39 ORK PAINBOY
50-40 BOSS ZAGSTRUK
50-41 KAPTIN BADRUKK
50-42 BOSS SNIKROT
50-47 ORK BIG MEK WITH BOSS POLE
50-51 ORK BIG MEK
51-09 TYRANID HIVE TYRANT
51-14 TYRANID BIOVORE
51-15 Tyranid Pyrovore
51-35 TYRANID ZOANTHROPE
51-36 Tyranid Venomthrope
51-38 TYRANID LICTOR
51-39 TYRANID BROODLORD
51-42 TYRANID TYRANT GUARD
51-43 Tyranid Hive Guard
53-09 CANIS WOLFBORN
53-35 NJAL STORMCALLER
53-46 LOGAN GRIMNAR
55-11 BLACK TEMPLARS SWORD BRETHREN SQUAD
55-40 THE EMPERORS CHAMPION
56-12 TAU XV88 BROADSIDE BATTLESUIT
56-15 TAU SNIPER DRONE TEAM
56-16 TAU CRISIS BATTLESUIT COMMANDER
56-20 TAU VESPID STINGWINGS
56-36 TAU PATHFINDERS
56-42 KROOTOX
56-43 KROOT SHAPER
56-44 KROOT HOUNDS
56-45 TAU PATHFINDER RAIL RIFLES SQUAD
81-07 BEASTMEN TUSKGOR CHARIOT
81-12 BEASTMEN CENTIGOR HERD
81-35 CHAOS BEASTLORD
82-08 LOUEN LEONCOEUR KING OF BRETONNIA
82-37 BRETONNIAN LORD
82-40 BRETONNIAN BATTLE STANDARD
82-42 BRETONNIAN MOUNTED YEOMAN
82-46 BRETONNIAN DAMSEL
83-11 CHAOS CHARIOT
83-13 CHAOS WARRIORS CHOSEN COMMAND
83-14 CHAOS WARRIORS CHOSEN
83-17 ARCHAON LORD OF THE ENDTIMES
83-18 KHORNE CHAOS LORD ON JUGGERNAUT
83-21 LORD OF SLAANESH ON DAEMONIC MOUNT
83-23 CHAOS LORD ON DAEMONIC MOUNT
83-37 NURGLE CHAOS SORCERER
83-39 WULFRIK THE WANDERER
83-40 SIGVALD THE MAGNIFICENT
83-56 CHAMPION OF CHAOS
83-58 KHORNE CHAOS CHAMPION
84-07 DWARF ANVIL OF DOOM
84-15 DWARF GYROCOPTER
84-19 DWARF GRUDGE THROWER
84-20 DWARF BOLT THROWER
84-21 DWARF HAMMERERS
84-22 DWARF HAMMERERS COMMAND
84-25 DWARF SLAYERS
84-26 DWARF SLAYERS COMMAND
84-40 DWARF SLAYER LORD
84-41 DWARF RUNELORD
84-43 DWARF MASTER ENGINEER
84-59 DWARF LORD & SHIELDBEARERS
85-14 DARK ELF WAR HYDRA
85-15 DARK ELF WITCH ELVES
85-16 DARK ELF WITCH ELF COMMAND
85-17 DARK ELF EXECUTIONERS
85-18 DARK ELF EXECUTIONER COMMAND
85-19 DARK ELF BLACK GUARD
85-20 DARK ELF BLACK GUARD COMMAND
85-21 DARK ELF SHADES
85-35 DARK ELF ASSASSIN
85-37 DARK ELF LOKHIR FELLHEART
85-39 DARK ELF REAPER BOLT THROWER
85-43 DARK ELF DREADLORD
85-44 DARK ELF DREADLORD ON COLD ONE
85-45 DARK ELF SUPREME SORCERESS ON COLD ONE
85-46 DARK ELF SUPREME SORCERESS
85-50 DARK ELF DARK RIDERS
86-38 EMPIRE WARRIOR PRIESTS
86-41 EMPIRE ENGINEERS
87-24 HIGH ELF SHADOW WARRIORS
87-36 ALITH ANAR THE SHADOW KING
87-49 PHOENIX GUARD CARADRYN
87-50 HIGH ELF KORHIL
88-08 LIZARDMEN SLANN MAGE PRIEST
88-10 ANCIENT SCAR LEADER KROQ GAR
88-39 SKINK WARCHIEFS
88-42 SALAMANDER HUNTING PACK
88-46 LIZARDMEN SKINK PRIEST
88-48 LIZARDMEN SAURUS LORD ON FOOT
89-09 ORC WARBOSS ON WYVERN
89-12 GOBLIN ROCK LOBBER
89-13 GOBLIN DOOM DIVER
89-26 GORBAD IRONCLAW
89-35 Savage Orc Great Shaman on War Boar
89-36 Wurrzag
89-37 Orcs & Goblins Nasty Skulkers
89-38 SNOTLINGS
89-43 GOBLIN SPEAR CHUKKA
89-45 GRIMGOR IRONHIDE
89-47 NIGHT GOBLIN SQUIG HERDERS
89-59 BLACK ORC BIG BOSS
90-35 SKAVEN WARLORD
90-37 WARLORD QUEEK HEADTAKER
90-38 DEATHMASTER SNIKCH
90-41 IKIT CLAW
90-42 SKAVEN WARLOCK ENGINEER
90-43 TRETCH CRAVENTAIL
90-44 SKAVEN DOOM-FLAYER WEAPON TEAM
90-46 SKAVEN WARP-GRINDER WEAPON TEAM
90-47 SKAVEN POISON WIND GLOBADIERS
90-49 SKAVEN JEZZAILS
91-09 VAMPIRE COUNTS BLACK COACH
91-13 VAMPIRE COUNTS VARGHULF
91-18 VAMPIRE COUNTS MANNFRED
91-36 VAMPIRE COUNTS WINGED VAMPIRE LORD
91-37 VAMPIRE COUNTS VAMPIRE LORD
91-38 VAMPIRE COUNTS KONRAD VON CARSTEIN
91-39 VAMPIRE COUNTS VLAD VON CARSTEIN
91-41 BLACK KNIGHTS
91-42 BLACK KNIGHT COMMAND
91-45 NECROMANCERS
91-47 SPIRIT HOST
91-52 UNDEAD WRAITHS
91-55 UNDEAD BANSHEE
91-56 UNDEAD BAT SWARM
91-59 FELL BATS
92-10 WOOD ELF TREEMAN
92-12 WOOD ELF WILD RIDERS
92-36 WOOD ELF LORD MOUNTED
92-37 WOOD ELF WARDANCERS
92-39 WOOD ELF WAYWATCHERS
92-40 WOOD ELF ETERNAL GUARD
92-42 WOOD ELF SPELLSINGERS
92-43 WOOD ELF WARHAWK RIDER
92-44 WOOD ELF TREE KIN
92-62 WOOD ELF LORD WITH GREAT WEAPON
94-10 TOMB KINGS BONE GIANT
95-11 OGRE TYRANT
95-12 OGRE HUNTER
95-17 OGRE BUTCHER
95-35 OGRE MANEATERS
95-37 OGRE GORGER
95-39 YHETEE
97-10 PLAGUEBEARERS OF NURGLE
97-11 PLAGUEBEARERS OF NURGLE COMMAND
97-13 FLAMERS OF TZEENTCH
97-14 FLESH HOUNDS OF KHORNE
97-18 GREATER DAEMON OF TZEENTCH
97-20 GREATER DAEMON OF KHORNE
97-36 THE MASQUE
97-37 BEAST OF NURGLE
97-38 FIEND OF SLAANESH
97-39 KARANAK
97-40 CHAOS NURGLINGS
97-45 THE CHANGELING
99-19 CHAOS EMPERORS CHILDREN

We still have no real confirmation if these means that these models are going Direct Only, or are just going Direct Only until they are out of stock and then gone forever.

Either way, it's time to start panic-buying!!!

BYE

P.S. This is the 100th thread I've started at Dakka. Yay for me. :-)

P.P.S. I was planning on using my 100th thread to do a Cover-2-Cover review of the Grey Knight Codex... but as I consider that Codex to be the absolute nadir of all 40K releases since the start of 5th Ed, I decided that I couldn’t be bothered.

**Boss Salvage**

We were talking about this at the LGS today, and the owner said he was told by GeeDub that they were being 'repackaged'. We all agreed that we had no idea what that really meant

- Salvage

**mikhaila**

The words that got my attention when talking to my sales rep at GW were:

'On sell down' and 'While supplies last'.

A simple repackaging would have been done over time. I suspect there is a lot more to it, and am placing my bet on spin cast resin vs. just a packaging format.

Frankly, I'll be pissed as hell if I was told to get rid of metal, just so I could fill my shelves back up with repackaged metal.

May 16th before we get news.(

**RiTides**

That would make sense to me, too- the switch to resin would require something this drastic. Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense.

**Brother SRM**

I think it would be a shorter list of what wasn't being "discontinued" in one way or another.

**Necros**

Well, good thing I just stocked up on squig herds today

**H.B.M.C.**

I didn't include the LOTR stuff, so the list is actually longer than that.

And from a 40K perspective, this list will completely gut Eldar, Necron, Chaos Daemons and especially Tyranid players. Yes, Matt Ward’s about to outdo himself with a second attempt at the ‘worst 40K release ever’ when ‘Crons get redone at the end of the year, so their missing models aren’t such a big deal, but for the others it’s essentially ripping the heart out of the army. No Aspect Warriors? No Daemons outside of the few plastic ones that exist? The Tyranids will be left with 6 kits from a Codex that’s already missing half its available units (and with no Wave 2 in sight).

Repackaging on this scale just doesn’t seem realistic (or, at least, not in such a sweeping all-at-once manner).

**samrtk**

It's too much stuff to discontinue all of a sudden, and it's alot to re-release in resin. Who knows what GW are doing? I think it's gonna be a direct-only thing, any other way is a bit sudden and drastic; cause that's A LOT of kits.

When I saw all the Necron stuff though my heart shouted "UPDATE ON IT'S WAY!" Then I glanced over the rest of the list...

**Kirasu**

Cant imagine theyre getting rid of those models on a permanent basis. Direct only or resin sounds plausible since thats way too many holes to fill

**H.B.M.C.**

samrtk wrote:It's too much stuff to discontinue all of a sudden, and it's alot to re-release in resin. Who knows what GW are doing? I think it's gonna be a direct-only thing, any other way is a bit sudden and drastic; cause that's A LOT of kits.

Well given their response to online sellers was “No shopping cart for you! Hurr!”, it’s hardly a stretch of the imagination that the removal of all metal kits from stockists is their next ham-fisted attempt to get back at the people who are selling (and have therefore already paid for) their stock.

**WarOne**

Can someone check to see if they missed any metal models in this possible list of models being discontinued?

And why don't GW just simply yank the rug from all retailers and simply sell all their products themselves? It'd certainly kill their company faster if all you could buy of GW was from GW itself.

**SagesStone**

Because flailing around like this is more interesting?

I'm thinking, like others have already said, these will go to direct only to slowly chip down the remaining stock while they switch over to resin. Hopefully the quality doesn't drop when they do this.

**JoeyHeadwounds**

Looks like I picked a hell of a time to get back into 40K... especially considering that my girlfriend and my nephew both decided to follow me. So that's two CSM armies and one Blood Angels army that'll be affected by this.

Granted most of what we have left to buy is in plastic, but there are still a few things such as HQ's and Daemons that are going to be a problem(possibly).

I wish GW would pull their heads out of their asses and give an official explanation of what's going on.... be it a news letter or message on their website... something.

**WarOne**

JoeyHeadwounds wrote:
I wish GW would pull their heads out of their asses and give an official explanation of what's going on.... be it a news letter or message on their website... something.

I guarantee that they won't even give us the dignity of a response because this outcry of the Pewter Curtain will go unheard.

GW is still leagues better than Hasbro that owns DnD and MtG, which has done a stellar job in slowly killing DnD and morphing MtG into something entirely different (not sure if this is a good idea yet).

**SagesStone**

Just noticed there are no Inquisitional units up there at all. But, they might have already been discontinued anyway. If not perhaps it helps hint towards when the SoB codex may come out if at all. For the GK stuff, I think it's more of a case of being too new still.

I wish GW would pull their heads out of their asses and give an official explanation of what's going on.... be it a news letter or message on their website... something.

About 1-2 weeks before it happens as standard.

**Kurgash**

Crap, time to buy up all the pariahs I can find! Have some horrible ideas, just need a full 10 squad.

**nixti**

Well so much for filling out my Cron and Nid lists...

**WarOne**

Kurgash wrote:Crap, time to buy up all the pariahs I can find! Have some horrible ideas, just need a full 10 squad.

Indeed!

I got to go get me some Tyranid Hive Guards and Tyrant Guards over at Men at Arms soon, or perhaps drive to the Warstore!

**Ouze**

Kurgash wrote:Crap, time to buy up all the pariahs I can find! Have some horrible ideas, just need a full 10 squad.

The first horrible idea was buying up Pariahs

**Chrysis**

WarOne wrote:Can someone check to see if they missed any metal models in this possible list of models being discontinued?

And why don't GW just simply yank the rug from all retailers and simply sell all their products themselves? It'd certainly kill their company faster if all you could buy of GW was from GW itself.

I didn't see Ahriman, Kharn or Lucius on the list, so it's not an exhaustive list of metal models. At least not yet.

EDIT: Or Fabulous Bill.

**Hatemonger**

The only strange thing that stands out is the Space Marine Bike. What does that have to do with metal switchover?

- H8

**Brother SRM**

Hatemonger wrote:The only strange thing that stands out is the Space Marine Bike. What does that have to do with metal switchover?

- H8

Well, it's an ancient model, so maybe they're making room for a new one? That would actually be lovely.

**nixti**

Hatemonger wrote:The only strange thing that stands out is the Space Marine Bike. What does that have to do with metal switchover?

- H8

Well I don't know about the SM bikes but some of the kits getting pulled are plastic kits with metal components. So that may be part of it.

**Blackmoor**

45-13 DARK ELDAR INCUBI
45-14 DARK ELDAR MANDRAKES
45-36 URIEN RAKARTH
45-37 DARK ELDAR LELITH HESPERAX
45-38 Dark Eldar Clawed Fiend
45-39 Dark Eldar Razorwing Flock
45-40 Dark Eldar Khymera
45-41 Dark Eldar Succubus
45-42 Dark Eldar Beastmaster

These just came out so it looks like resin is on the way.

**VermGho5t**

I really hope someone of higher caliber writing and rules development will steer the next iteration of the CSM codex. Fingers and toes crossed. OT: I guess this means I should buy those centigor, bestigor chariot, mounted yeomen, and lascannon havocs I still need...

**btemple0**

I am glad I got what I wanted that was metal before this happened, but hopefully that means that CSM players get some new kits. IIRC the actual chaos dreadnought kit was a nightmare to work with.

**Popsicle**

VermGho5t wrote:I really hope someone of higher caliber writing and rules development will steer the next iteration of the CSM codex. Fingers and toes crossed. OT: I guess this means I should buy those centigor, bestigor chariot, mounted yeomen, and lascannon havocs I still need...

Perhaps this is simply a tactic to scare us all into panic-buying. I wouldn't put it past them.

When did this all start? It wasn't Apr. 1st, by any chance?

**btemple0**

The pulling of models started in March.

**Phototoxin**

Are they going to sell us twice as many in a box for the same price though? Or are they going to amp up the price?

**Maelstrom808**

Well, if all of their metals are permanently going to a direct-only format, with no resin replacements at lower cost or available through discounted retailers, that'll be the end of GW games for me. I'm struggling to put armies together as it is.