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I was checking out the warhammer world calender earlier and the 14th of July is looking a bit suspicious.

Design studio open day.
New art exhibition.
Weird "Cataclysm" 40k event on the 15th of July

See your yourself http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId&categoryId=3500001§ion&aId=14300120a

Image for the lazy.


This reminds me of a rumor on these boards from last year which also suggests a 14th release date based of a leaked memo.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/407941.page

Again image for the lazy.


Let the wild speculation begin!

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There have been some updates to the Warhammer World calendar and events page recently so I thought I would resurect this with some updated information and more wild speculation.

The Cataclysm event is a 4 game 1250 point mini tourny presumably to encourage visitors from the open day to stay the weekend, no event pack so far.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=3500001§ion=&aId=20900013a

August 18th ( Imperial Armour Warmarch )
The Imperial Armour Warmarch event pack is quite interesting as it references the FOC several times for army building, assuming 6th edition comes out on the 14th of July and this was written for these rules then the FOC will be present in 6th edition.
As most will know the general rumor is a return to the 2nd edition40K/Fantasy style percentage based army construction, this event pack would suggest that a percentage based restriction is an addition to the existing FOC rather then a replacement.

Let the wild speculation begin!

If it comes out July 14th, it comes out two days before my birthday. I smell an expensive personal birthday present (collectors edition!!) for me.

Comment by Harry:

I would expect the rule book to be released before this.
In the past I have already had my special edition rule books and been able to turn up to this event with them to get them signed.

Also this is a holiday in France. Not that GW's release schedules consider holidays outside UK, given that the 8th Warhammer Fantasy release was on 4th July

If it is than happy birthday to me. I mean I wont be playing 40k but still

This seems somewhat familiar. I think we had a thread on this some time ago.

Well....

The existence of a science fiction table top game in development by Games Workshop was made known through Citadel Journal in 1986 and Rogue Trader was officially released at Games Workshop's annual Games Day event in October 1987.

So, a true 25th ann edition would be Oct 2012......


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of course a summer releaase would be better & make sense....


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May 20th (5+20=25)
June 19th (6+19=25)
July 18th (7+18=25)
Aug 17th (8+17=25)

Verrryyy interesting. Doesn't `Ard Boyz start in like, August?

I'm sure everyone will be having fun getting ska-rewed by the new ruleset.

Assuming there is Ard Boyz this year, that is.

Well going on current release schedule/White Dwarf tie in, July 7th seems more likely.

I'm just waiting for some kind of sign. The current week before release set up seems to go against a full edition release, as that seems way to claustrophobic for collectors editions and the like.

Will be an interesting test.

Or it can just be another revolutionary change in the hobby... like the rumoured change in GW painting line (maybe "finepaint").

Yeah a bran dnew game replacing 40k "Finehammer 40k" which includes "The finest rules known to man, with Finehammer, you can have the most out of your hobby as you utilise some of the most modern rulesets ever"
And of course, the release will not be the second coming of christ we were promised.

Let me guess. With the release of Finehammer, the book would come pre-eaten by book worms. Pages would fall out upon opening and then later gw would release a a 50$ set of tap and moth balls to deal with the mess.

Back on topic. I for one would be really stoked to see a 6th ed with some of the ambiguity cleaned up in the rules set.

Or, we could, you know, talk about the topic rather than making old jokes... As they say old joke is old. Its just annoying now that we can't have a thread without these jokes.

It seems very much like we will get a preview in the june 30th (july issue) WD the release two weeks later on the 14th.

Hopefully filling up some missing modles next month, chaose in may, this in july and DA in september.

Old jokes are sometimes still amusing, and, in this instance, still relevant.

On topic, it's more than plausible, I look forward to discovering whether or not it's true.

Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls,
June or Aug Id say, nothing is mentioned around these dates

just my 2c

2 months before Ard Boys would be a great way to drive up sales as people have to adjust their ard boys armies to 6th ed.

I am so excited for 6th eddition. I'm saving up already. Of course, its more useful to know when it's coming in advance.

I was not making an joke... serius, this can be just another "second coming" that GW is planning, not 6th... Im hoping for 6th, but it is GW.

If it does turn out to be 6th, I hope we all remember to give Chi Bodge-Battle much love for pointing out what "Project Prisoner" meant on that sheet, because that was obscure as hell.

Ouze wrote:If it does turn out to be 6th, I hope we all remember to give Chi Bodge-Battle much love for pointing out what "Project Prisoner" meant on that sheet, because that was obscure as hell.

wow, I guess I missed that before.
There are still quite a few die hard Prisoner fans in the UK even now (I used to work with one)
Thats just the sort of geeky reference I could imagine one of the more senior Devs pitching as the project name for 6th edition.

Last i heard, 6th ed was suppose to come out in may. Now July? I wonder if GW will bring back the pocket rule book. And i wonder if you will be able to buy this thing with out having to buy the starter box. I remember having to carry around the BRB. Then i finally got my hands no a pocket one. I could break things any more, but the up shot was that, I couldn't break things any more. It will be interesting to see what happens with the next ed. Every one i know is saying they will nerf mech back down. I am hoping not.

I'm also going to vote for a July/August release.

Rulebooks almost always July, starter September.

crazyrossboy wrote:Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls,
June or Aug Id say, nothing is mentioned around these dates

just my 2c

They might do something similar to tourneys and new codices, they could run Throne of Skulls under 5th edition, and give a month before their events switch over to 6th.

Alfndrate wrote:

crazyrossboy wrote:Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls,
June or Aug Id say, nothing is mentioned around these dates

just my 2c

They might do something similar to tourneys and new codices, they could run Throne of Skulls under 5th edition, and give a month before their events switch over to 6th.

That's what I would assume also.

Lockark wrote:

Alfndrate wrote:

crazyrossboy wrote:Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls, June or Aug Id say, nothing is mentioned around these dates

They might do something similar to tourneys and new codices, they could run Throne of Skulls under 5th edition, and give a month before their events switch over to 6th.

That's what I would assume also.

Me too because just how major is Throne of Skulls to the marketing team in the UK? June or July....by November no one will care.

crazyrossboy wrote:Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls,

We shouldn't believe a new edition is coming out in July at all. There would definitely be signs of their most important release when it's only 3 months away.

Instead we have nothing.

I believe they did a similar thing when 5th came out, pretty sure a tournie was right in the headlights for the release date, but they just stayed for 4th for that edition.

The also do a similar thing when new codexes come out.

Kroothawk wrote:Rulebooks almost always July, starter September.

Listen to this man: GW releases work in patterns - new rulebooks will be in July with the starter set in September/October (just like WH8th / IoB)

DarknessEternal wrote:

crazyrossboy wrote:Do we really believe that a new edition will be released 6 days before a major tourny IE throne of skulls,

We shouldn't believe a new edition is coming out in July at all. There would definitely be signs of their most important release when it's only 3 months away.
Instead we have nothing.

You are aware of GW's new "play dead" marketing, right? No official news on April's release, but we all know it's the Empire army book. And we know a few details about the starter box.