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**malfred**

mikhaila wrote:ack, well that's.....just wonderful, I think? Crap. Got a WFB GT in July...hmmm, I wonder how early in July?

I doubt that an edition change will affect your turnout for that particular event. Now
maybe if that tournament were to occur in September, you'd have a different story.

Same month with signups happening now? I think you have yourself a sales device for
8th edition.

"Coming in July! Play 7th edition and buy 8th!"

**LunaHound**

*Edit : wrong thread rofl

**malfred**

I know the comet thing with the hammer is fluff related, but really it looks like they gave it a jetpack.

**sexiest_hero**

The flames look like a woman's legs with a giant Mallet hiding her no-no zone!

**malfred**

sexiest_hero wrote:The flames look like a woman's legs with a giant Mallet hiding her no-no zone!

It's a trap.

**Kroothawk**

Here a translation of the Spanish newsletter part (translation provided by Hoarmurel on Warseer):

The new Edition of Warhammer is an important event, specially in Spain.
We only are going to reveal a little snippet about rules at this moment, and we know it will be a controversial one, somebody will grumble about it, and many will be delighted...
Warhammer will leave centimeters and will become to be placed in inches… Or better, Units of Measurement. In the july issue of WD magazine you’ll find a detailed article explaining the reasons and process of this change.
Anyway, this mutation will affect all the army books, but don’t panic!. You will can still playing with your army books for many years, because we are going to give you some free PDF files in order to update all the data you might need in your games. The current army books are utterly valid with the new edition.

However, we think that is not fair keep selling the same army books in the future, so we are going to re-publish them. The new army books will contain the same information of the current ones, but all the measurements will change to UM. The moment we set out this ambitious change we think, so we are doing this, it worth to correct all the mistakes; So all these books will be corrected without all the mistakes we have located, both english and ours. What’s more, we are going to update all those army books to the rules changes that the new rulebook means, thanks to the close collaboration of the english Studio. Those will be the final army books.

This movement is focused to offer the best customer service possible. The re-printing process will be done in waves throughout a year, starting this next summer. The Warhammer Rulebook will be accompanied by the first wave of books, consisting of the Empire, Skaven, High Elves, Beastmen and Chaos Daemons army books. This new incarnation of Warhammer is so exciting you are going to be amazed with!!

The interesting part is the first batch of reprints, all unlikely candidates for a new army book soon (that included High Elves and Empire). O&G are not in the first batch

Another tidbit: Matt Ward seems to have written the rulebook. His DoC and O&G army books broke the current edition.

Plus: Release is the 10th July (confirmed on GD France).

**Ixquic**

Kroothawk wrote:
Another tidbit: Matt Ward seems to have written the rulebook. His DoC and O&G army books broke the current edition.

Where is this info coming from? I'm really hoping it's not the case since his WotR is a huge mess and I don't want to see him ruin Fantasy...

**skyth**

Kroothawk wrote:

skyth wrote:I love the part where they suggest you start an army before you see what the rules changes are...

Another weird thing. My Skaven army is on hold until I know if spears or two hand weapons are better (and I know the contents of the starter box). I am currently only doing metal models with fixed weapons.

I wouldn't say it's a 'weird' thing. I'd say it's a bit of a underhanded thing. They want people to make armies before the rules change, and then have to buy different models when the rules changes adversely affect thier army or make thier army unplayable.

**Death Gear**

Yes now I have a reason to finish my Tomb Kings army

**Alpharius**

skyth wrote:
Kroothawk wrote:

skyth wrote:I love the part where they suggest you start an army before you see what the rules changes are...

Another weird thing. My Skaven army is on hold until I know if spears or two hand weapons are better (and I know the contents of the starter box). I am currently only doing metal models with fixed weapons.

I wouldn't say it's a 'weird' thing. I'd say it's a bit of a underhanded thing. They want people to make armies before the rules change, and then have to buy different models when the rules changes adversely affect thier army or make thier army unplayable.

I don't know if I'd go that far.

But, I also know I'm not going to be rushing to finish ANYTHING for WFB before July!

**Kanluwen**

Alls I can say:
Where are the updated Elf Infantry?

**Jin**

Wait, the guy responsible for the Daemons Army Book is responsible for this Edition?

While I'll reserve judgement until I see the new rules "in the flesh", so to speak, I feel like I need to ready a *facepalm* pic for July.

**JohnHwangDD**

Jin wrote:Did Sigmar's Hammer turn into a rocket?

LOL, that's what I thought, too.
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Kroothawk wrote:But pretending that there is no current Fantasy tabletop game by GW and implying that everyone who has ever bought Fantasy miniatures from GW has his army shelved for years and dust covered, is nothing a professional made promotion text should do. It is as if they are embarrassed by the bad quality of their current product.

There may be more truth in there than you realize. I haven't played Fantasy in 3 or 4 years (i.e. since the dawn fof WFB 7E), and haven't really missed it. My DoW & Empire have been sitting boxed away on shelf untouched for over 3 years. If 8th fixes a few things, I might be tempted to jump back in. Maybe.

**Le Grognard**

JOHIRA wrote:"This is a world where victory and death rest upon a knife-edge and the fate of the world... will soon be decided. "

OMG GW advancing the timeline????!!!!WUT

Probably about as much as SoC did.

**Platuan4th**

Le Grognard wrote:
JOHIRA wrote:"This is a world where victory and death rest upon a knife-edge and the fate of the world... will soon be decided. "

OMG GW advancing the timeline????!!!!WUT

Probably about as much as SoC did.

You mean the same SoC that isn't mentioned in any of the army books released in the past 2 years? THAT SoC?

**Aramus**

Gorram it, I was just finally going to get around to painting my Dwarves...I seriously doubt I'll be dropping 75 bucks for the boxed set for just a rulebook, or 50+ on the hardback for a game that I might play a few times a year...eh, we'll see.

**Platuan4th**

Aramus wrote:Gorram it, I was just finally going to get around to painting my Dwarves...I seriously doubt I'll be dropping 75 bucks for the boxed set for just a rulebook, or 50+ on the hardback for a game that I might play a few times a year...eh, we'll see.

Don't. Wait a couple months then pick up the Box set mini-rule book off of a friend or a bitz seller.

**Clang**

The inches thing is odd - are we heading for a world where inches are only used for gaming? Or was this an American decision, given they're one of only about three countries on the planet who haven't officially adopted the metric system?

**BAWTRM**

Ostrakon wrote:And since the army I'm interested in is included in the starter, it's fairly unlikely that they've been nerfed to oblivion by the new rules.

O&G players say no.

**Ostrakon**

BAWTRM wrote:
Ostrakon wrote:And since the army I'm interested in is included in the starter, it's fairly unlikely that they've been nerfed to oblivion by the new rules.

O&G players say no.

Weren't they nerfed by a new army book, not by a new rulebook?

**Flashman**

No Orcs & Goblins was a great army book, it was the over powered nonsense that followed which resulted in said nerfing.

Skaven book went some way to reversing the overpowering trend IMO, so it will interesting to see where GW go with the next few books.

**Chimera_Calvin**

No, they were nerfed by everyone else's new army book

damn, ninja'd by flashman.

well, name and nature

**reds8n**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6LPRV-cQSw&playnext_from=TL&videos=Kb0QU6I6Pow

Youtube agogo

**Flashman**

reds8n wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6LPRV-cQSw&playnext_from=TL&videos=Kb0QU6I6Pow

Youtube agogo

Go on, who's going to be the first person say, "New dark elf ships? Amazing!" Joking aside, possible new minis spotted. Going to attempt a bit of frame pausage and see what's there...

EDIT - Nothing of interest that I could see. Did wonder about the Empire Knights charging out of the castle but think it's just a different paint scheme.

**Chimera_Calvin**

Its a welcome return for Man'o'War!!!

With reference to the rumours thread, though - i'll be interested to see if any of the infantry units look to be ranked 10 wide...

**Flashman**

There is plenty of evidence of wide rankings in the vid, but this could be because a mass of large infantry units looks cool.

What confused me was a unit of Cold Ones Riders ranked up. I thought their tails got in the way...

**Chimera_Calvin**

And is it just me or does the unit just behind the cold ones look like they've just been sprayed black and dumped on the table?

**malfred**

Chimera_Calvin wrote:And is it just me or does the unit just behind the cold ones look like they've just been sprayed black and dumped on the table?

That's stealth.

**Red_Zeke**

reds8n wrote:

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Armed with faith in Sigmar, their warrior god, and with tempered steel and black powder weapons they defend their lands. South and east of the Empire lies Bretonnia, a land of chivalry and noble tradition.

Geography fail?

**Kirbinator**

Red_Zeke wrote:Geography fail?

Fluff can and is rewritten for any reasons whatsoever to please the writers. Brettonia has simply placed all of its buildings on horseback and moved to a new location.