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 Ghaz wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Gotta hold those models hostage longer so people feel the need to buy these new increased price battle box more. It's all business.

What battle boxes? Looncurse sold out on the first day and has not had any further production runs.

That's the really frustrating part. At least if they were pushing sales of battle boxes by holding the new heroes hostage, it'd at least make sense even if I didn't like it.

 Ghaz wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Gotta hold those models hostage longer so people feel the need to buy these new increased price battle box more. It's all business.

What battle boxes? Looncurse sold out on the first day and has not had any further production runs.

All of them from now on, with the knowing that these may or may not be available on the store for a very long time based on previous boxes, people'd want to buy them sooner now. And many of these boxes being sold out (including Feast of Bone with higher price) is an indicator for GW on how to price these box.

Neat concept for a new set, but I’m gonna pass. Looking at it makes me realize I only really wanted more of the ground units for these factions, but, that’s fine.

From the artwork at the end of the video, I assumed the tzneetch sorcerer was a woman, which I thought was cool, since we don’t see many female chaos characters (outside of Slasnesh, & warcry). But it’s a dude...

Also, sidebar:
I’m sure it’s been brought up before. But GW has said on several occasions, one of the reasons the 40k squats got cancelled was that tiny dwarf bikers was a silly aesthetic . Yet, strapping dwarfs to balloons, and giving them metal top hats & battle monocles is fine..? Not saying I don’t love the look of KO, but, c’mon GW...

 skullking wrote:

I’m sure it’s been brought up before. But GW has said on several occasions, one of the reasons the 40k squats got cancelled was that tiny dwarf bikers was a silly aesthetic . Yet, strapping dwarfs to balloons, and giving them metal top hats & battle monocles is fine..? Not saying I don’t love the look of KO, but, c’mon GW...

That was old GW from decade ago, and one can't simply talk about silly aesthetic dwarf without mentioning the naked one with weird looking axes, that'd make KO look miles better in comparison.

I already love the balloon units, and I only have one gunhauler, so this is definitely a double-buy for me. I can trade one Tzeentch half and keep the other for warhammer quest. I've always gotten a lot of value out of these boxed sets and I am still kicking myself for not getting Looncurse when it dropped.

 bsharitt wrote:
I've wanted and unnamed Brokk since KO first came out, but it's hard to get excited about any of these new heroes since they're all stuck in limited edition expensive box sets with no individual releases in sight. So while I would theoretically love more stuff for my long suffering KO army, this gets more of a yawn than a yay from me. And if the new guy is as important to the army as the new ghoul hero was for flesheaters, I'll probably not even worry about the new book and just let my KO army continue collect dust which means I won't be doing my planned expansion of that army either, so that's probably at least a good $300 GW just saved me while I go see what's going on with Kings of War or if Oathmark looks any good.

Someone sold half their BoneOgre box to the FLGS and I got my Tyrant second hand

 Equinox wrote:
I wonder if the "missing" character models for AoS will get rolled into new Start Collecting boxes. Seems like the new StD box may be the approach to some of this stuff moving forward.

 Sabotage! wrote:


I would have hoped for at least a Scions of Flame or new Underworlds warband reveal. Or at least a new unit box for something.

LVO is a month from today. I am sure that is when the Q1 major reveals will happen.

That’s a good point. Hopefully we will see some more interesting stuff there.

Tempting box. Might get a few packs of cotton wool to use as terrain as well

 Sabotage! wrote:


That’s a good point. Hopefully we will see some more interesting stuff there.

There's also the Warhammer World New Year Open Day on the 4th, which is going to have previews of *something*.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 Equinox wrote:
I wonder if the "missing" character models for AoS will get rolled into new Start Collecting boxes. Seems like the new StD box may be the approach to some of this stuff moving forward.

 Sabotage! wrote:


I would have hoped for at least a Scions of Flame or new Underworlds warband reveal. Or at least a new unit box for something.

LVO is a month from today. I am sure that is when the Q1 major reveals will happen.

That’s a good point. Hopefully we will see some more interesting stuff there.

There's also the New Year Open Day in a week.

Tbh the main thing I'm excited about from this Aetherwar release is that it means there's only one major battletome left to update:

Seraphon.

drbored wrote:
Tbh the main thing I'm excited about from this Aetherwar release is that it means there's only one major battletome left to update:

Seraphon.

Aw yeah, the gloomspite treatment

 lord marcus wrote:

drbored wrote:
Tbh the main thing I'm excited about from this Aetherwar release is that it means there's only one major battletome left to update:

Seraphon.

Aw yeah, the gloomspite treatment

Range refresh? Please.

Plastic everything. New big dino, awesome terrain, flavorful rules, wonderful background, so much could and should be done.

But I have to say, I really like the boxset too. I was looking for an excuse to start KO.

Little birdie told me that the Bonetithe Nexus is going Direct Only.

Not sure if this was known previously, or if this is the fate of all faction-specific non-modular terrain pieces, but I thought I should pass it on.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Little birdie told me that the Bonetithe Nexus is going Direct Only.

Not sure if this was known previously, or if this is the fate of all faction-specific non-modular terrain pieces, but I thought I should pass it on.

They are good sized kits that would take up a decent amount of shelf space, yet players would only need one for their army so it wouldn't have a quick turnover on stock. It makes sense that they would be Direct Only just so long as the independents can still get them for their customers.

It's what happens to all the scenery pieces.

Carnikang wrote:

 lord marcus wrote:

drbored wrote:
Tbh the main thing I'm excited about from this Aetherwar release is that it means there's only one major battletome left to update:

Seraphon.

Aw yeah, the gloomspite treatment

Range refresh? Please.

Plastic everything. New big dino, awesome terrain, flavorful rules, wonderful background, so much could and should be done.

But I have to say, I really like the boxset too. I was looking for an excuse to start KO.

I was referencing seraphon. I'm looking forward to properly realized saurus/

H.B.M.C. wrote:Little birdie told me that the Bonetithe Nexus is going Direct Only.

Not sure if this was known previously, or if this is the fate of all faction-specific non-modular terrain pieces, but I thought I should pass it on.

Good thing i got it for christmas!

 lord marcus wrote:

Carnikang wrote:

 lord marcus wrote:

drbored wrote:
Tbh the main thing I'm excited about from this Aetherwar release is that it means there's only one major battletome left to update:

Seraphon.

Aw yeah, the gloomspite treatment

Range refresh? Please.

Plastic everything. New big dino, awesome terrain, flavorful rules, wonderful background, so much could and should be done.

But I have to say, I really like the boxset too. I was looking for an excuse to start KO.

I was referencing seraphon. I'm looking forward to properly realized saurus/

H.B.M.C. wrote:Little birdie told me that the Bonetithe Nexus is going Direct Only.

Not sure if this was known previously, or if this is the fate of all faction-specific non-modular terrain pieces, but I thought I should pass it on.

Good thing i got it for christmas!

As was I, I was just commenting on what we have that's coming/concrete. The Aetherstorm box.

I have a sneaking suspicion our SC box will be gone, and we will see either a skink themed sc or a brand new push-fit/easy to build sauras box with knights, warriors and a scar vet/oldblood of some kind. Maybe foot, maybe on cold one.

But like the S2D, they'll keep the old plastic infantry and knights.

Did anyone else notice the ship behind the skywardens in the video? It has an endrin that is not a sphere but more like an oval. At first I thought it was just a trick of the shot but watching it again you can see a mast that is not on any ko ship. Could this be a 'sneak peak'? It also is very weird that they obscured the ship the way they did. Why hide it behind a hill that way?

 Pael wrote:
Did anyone else notice the ship behind the skywardens in the video? It has an endrin that is not a sphere but more like an oval. At first I thought it was just a trick of the shot but watching it again you can see a mast that is not on any ko ship. Could this be a 'sneak peak'? It also is very weird that they obscured the ship the way they did. Why hide it behind a hill that way?

Probably the KO terrain piece.

I hate to be a downer, but it truly looks like it’s just a rock and some pvc tube connected to a few known ironclad bits.

I’d love to be wrong!

yeah, given how lumpy it looks, and how the release schedule looked for revamped books this year, I'd not expect anything beyond book, warscroll cards and the actual 2-player box for either army.

Cronch wrote:
yeah, given how lumpy it looks, and how the release schedule looked for revamped books this year, I'd not expect anything beyond book, warscroll cards and the actual 2-player box for either army.

Tzeentch had better get endless spells and faction terrain; I guess I could live without terrain, but I'll be damned if KHORNE gets endless spells and Tzeentch doesn't.

Chopstick wrote:

 skullking wrote:

I’m sure it’s been brought up before. But GW has said on several occasions, one of the reasons the 40k squats got cancelled was that tiny dwarf bikers was a silly aesthetic . Yet, strapping dwarfs to balloons, and giving them metal top hats & battle monocles is fine..? Not saying I don’t love the look of KO, but, c’mon GW...

That was old GW from decade ago, and one can't simply talk about silly aesthetic dwarf without mentioning the naked one with weird looking axes, that'd make KO look miles better in comparison.

Looking at an old WD, The old dwarves had a perfect aesthetic. A gleam in the eye, a middle finger, sass and crass, tough lil bastards. The sculpts were awesome.The new KOs never appealed to me like the old dwarves did. I want sass and crass bearded bad-asses with a grudge and a mug.. not steam punk dwarves.

The old dwarves were fine, if lacking flair, but they suffered from being sculpted like actual barrels with limbs, no hips or shoulders to let them move like humanoids.

Aether Wars and Tzeentch plus KO Battletome preorders next week

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/12/29/coming-soon-aether-war/

plus Tzeentch Endless spells

What are these normal looking fire blasphemies?

No, lurid shades of green, pink or blue, just perfectly mundane fire. Boo.

I had a feeling Aether War and the new battletomes were going on pre-order next week since they didn't save the reveal for the New Year Open Day next Saturday.

It’s a book that reads you.

So I am guessing this means no faction terrain for either? If so, that's pretty disappointing.