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Annnnnd where did this come from? Who is the writer and why should we trust them?

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What a time to be alive.

Whelp, the End Times have come.

Audustum wrote:
Annnnnd where did this come from? Who is the writer and why should we trust them?

Count it as it is from me,

Hello rumourtracker my old friend...

Great, now I want 8th edition AND pizza.

So random anonymous internet person claims to have seen when GW staffers can't take holidays...

... therefore 8th edition 40k?

Didn't something like this happen around the time of Blood Bowl's release? It is probably for Adeptus Titanicus.

 pizzaguardian wrote:

Audustum wrote:
Annnnnd where did this come from? Who is the writer and why should we trust them?

Count it as it is from me,

Hello rumourtracker my old friend...

Pizzaguardian - Total rumors: (17 TRUE) / (2 FALSE) / (0 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE)

not bad

Tbh most of that 17 true marks is only for actually 3 releases.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
So random anonymous internet person claims to have seen when GW staffers can't take holidays...

... therefore 8th edition 40k?

It's not unreasonable. By all accounts, the staffers can't take holidays only when big releases are coming. Otherwise they can just have their reserve managers fill in for them.

Not being able to take Hols isn't uncommon, so nothing to jump the gun about.

I think the most unbelievable thing about that is GW giving their staff three months warning.

If it's legit, we will have confirmation soon enough. Knowing people at the design studio who are willing to talk about their work is pretty rare, but lots of us are friends with some random GW employee.

 Perfect Organism wrote:
I think the most unbelievable thing about that is GW giving their staff three months warning.

If it's legit, we will have confirmation soon enough. Knowing people at the design studio who are willing to talk about their work is pretty rare, but lots of us are friends with some random GW employee.

Ehhh...being told "You can't take holidays during this time period" isn't the same as being told "40k 8th edition is this time period".

I think that Blood Bowl and Silver Tower got the same kind of "blackout" timeframe.

Well, I'm just on the bandwagon of "wait for more evidence/info from GW"

Heck, it wouldn't surprise me tho. Working in a big business it's not uncommon for people to be denied holidays due to big orders coming through, and even then it's usually for the really good stuff that earns tons of cash.

Could be Adeptus Titanicus.

Could be something big for AoS.

Could be the hypothetical new game they're showing off at Adepticon (which there is wild speculation could be a new game universe)

Fingers crossed! Come on bring back Warhammer Fantasy models! Yes, I know I'm lazy, I just miss the freecompany and bretonnians

It does tickle me that, making the (pretty big) assumption that it's true, some posters' reactions are "it walk s like a duck, it quacks like a duck... Hang on, it must be a chicken in disguise!!"

Waiting until I see more firm evidence from GW. They've been pretty loose-lipped as of late


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 Azreal13 wrote:
It does tickle me that, making the (pretty big) assumption that it's true, some posters' reactions are "it walk s like a duck, it quacks like a duck... Hang on, it must be a chicken in disguise!!"

Cuz no one has thrown around the 8th edition rumor before

I trust in Pizzaguardian

Also, if this would have been made up and fed to him there would be a lot of garbage, like initiative will get removed, the Emperor dies but returns and gets 40k rules and his own 96-page Codex book (first release of 8th edition 11111) and/or the game is going to be renamed. All that blabla

This is brief, no glitter, sounds legit

The day of preorder coincides with the event for winners of Inner Circle in dallas. Maybe an exclusive preview of new edition?

There was an article on BoLS about that: http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2017/02/40k-8th-edition-release-window.html

Right, I'm taking this possibility with enough salt to fill up and entire new ocean, BUUUUUUUUT



Pretty please a revolution in the rules, I want a game as fun as AoS *fingers crossed*

That .png in the OP contains a virus according to F-Secure.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
Right, I'm taking this possibility with enough salt to fill up and entire new ocean, BUUUUUUUUT

Spoiler:

Pretty please a revolution in the rules, I want a game as fun as AoS *fingers crossed*

The rumours in the pubs around Nottingham are that there was going to be a huge AoS style dumbing down of the 40k rules with some work started in parallel. Then AoS launched with more of a damp fart than a Bang and concerns were raised about the new direction but plans were to persist then after months of AoS sales that managed to keep dropping plans were made for 8th to be another revision rather than a revolution.

Throw in the drama of the Darklord being overthrown around that time and I guess it could be true but who knows until we see what is released.

Now for the more important question. What's gonna be in the starter set?

Edit: I want dank armies and lit poses.

From what I hear it's going to be a fairly significant shift. Think 2nd to 3rd vs. 5th to 6th.

Additionally the time frame is perfect. They don't need the bump for sales this fiscal year. That starts their new fiscal year off with a bang. Not to mention it's their tried and true release time frame for edition changes. It's almost always in that time slot between May and June. Just for the last few editions of 40k it's been to prop up sales for the year so May.

 jreilly89 wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
It does tickle me that, making the (pretty big) assumption that it's true, some posters' reactions are "it walk s like a duck, it quacks like a duck... Hang on, it must be a chicken in disguise!!"

Cuz no one has thrown around the 8th edition rumor before

Are you replying to someone else, because that doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of what I was saying?

 pizzaguardian wrote:

Audustum wrote:
Annnnnd where did this come from? Who is the writer and why should we trust them?

Count it as it is from me,

Hello rumourtracker my old friend...

For reference:

Pizzaguardian - Total rumors: (17 TRUE) / (2 FALSE) / (0 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE)