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 MDizzle wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Mat Ward writing the Daemons army book? Still wondering why there is a new Warhammer Fantasy edition next year?

The reason is Alessio Cavatore had his hand in it and they are not so happy that he is making warpath and kings of war in the same city GW is in. I bet they are also pissed about how well Bolt Action is doing.

Must be a terrible shock to some people that when you fire talent, it may well be hired by your business rivals. The mindset in the Ivory Tower was probably that he and Priestly et al would go to the nearest cliff and hurl themselves off in despair at being kicked out of GW, well, that or check out operator at Tescos.

Another release with no special character

Cant remember the last time we had a new codex release without a new SC model before Chaos Marines last year

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 MDizzle wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Mat Ward writing the Daemons army book? Still wondering why there is a new Warhammer Fantasy edition next year?

The reason is Alessio Cavatore had his hand in it and they are not so happy that he is making warpath and kings of war in the same city GW is in. I bet they are also pissed about how well Bolt Action is doing.

Must be a terrible shock to some people that when you fire talent, it may well be hired by your business rivals. The mindset in the Ivory Tower was probably that he and Priestly et al would go to the nearest cliff and hurl themselves off in despair at being kicked out of GW, well, that or check out operator at Tescos.

Was that ever actually confirmed that he was fired?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 MDizzle wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Mat Ward writing the Daemons army book? Still wondering why there is a new Warhammer Fantasy edition next year?

The reason is Alessio Cavatore had his hand in it and they are not so happy that he is making warpath and kings of war in the same city GW is in. I bet they are also pissed about how well Bolt Action is doing.

Must be a terrible shock to some people that when you fire talent, it may well be hired by your business rivals. The mindset in the Ivory Tower was probably that he and Priestly et al would go to the nearest cliff and hurl themselves off in despair at being kicked out of GW, well, that or check out operator at Tescos.

Was that ever actually confirmed that he was fired?

I can tell you I have some information on fairly good authority that supports my previous statement... Both gentlemen did not leave of their own volition, or rather, if either of them did, they did so as the result of some 'gentle encouragement'.

Am I the only one seeing these those models and thinking "goddammit those are some fugly models"?

They are some of the most boring looking models I've seen in a while.

 Brother Axel wrote:
Am I the only one seeing these those models and thinking "goddammit those are some fugly models"?

Only about half of the posters in the last 12 pages.

If you aren't going to read people's posts in this thread, why should anyone read yours?

 Brother Axel wrote:
Am I the only one seeing these those models and thinking "goddammit those are some fugly models"?

Yes, you are unique in all the forums. Rejoice in your uniqueness.

Or just read the rest of the thread and realize that this is about the hundredth post with that sentiment.

Heck, even I posted something about not really feeling the models.

The skullcannon of khorne

'LOOK AT MY SKULL CHARIOT WITH A SKULL HEAD IN FRONT AND A SKULL CLAIMING DOOD IN THE BACK OPERATING A SKULLCANNON SHOOTING SKULLZ!'

 thenoobbomb wrote:
The skullcannon of khorne

'LOOK AT MY SKULL CHARIOT WITH A SKULL HEAD IN FRONT AND A SKULL CLAIMING DOOD IN THE BACK OPERATING A SKULLCANNON SHOOTING SKULLZ!'

I don't mind them adding 'skull' and 'death' to things related to Khorne.

'Khorne Cannon' sounds too much like 'Corn Cannon' to the unitiated.

The idea is bizare though.

A god who likes claiming skulls and resents magic and doesn't like shooting who gets a cannon shooting his beloved prizes?

Khorne is a god of war and bloodshed. You can get those by shooting too. Just sayin.....

Doesn't take away that it is a warmachine with the following idea:

GW staff 1:'we need a warmachine for Khorne Daemons. Khorne... Skulls! Hey, mono-Khornearmies don't have shooty things! Let's make a SKULLCANNON!
Other GW staff: 'Yeah! Huzzah! Let's prize it at $75,-'
Even different GW staff: 'Huzzah! Fill the WD with pictures of them!'

I'm not against the concept of the Skull Cannon, just the way the model appears. 360 degree view might improve it.

Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Doesn't take away that it is a warmachine with the following idea:

GW staff 1:'we need a warmachine for Khorne Daemons. Khorne... Skulls! Hey, mono-Khornearmies don't have shooty things! Let's make a SKULLCANNON!
Other GW staff: 'Yeah! Huzzah! Let's prize it at $75,-'
Even different GW staff: 'Huzzah! Fill the WD with pictures of them!'

You know that Khorne Skull Cannons have been in Warhammer for a looooong time, right?

Mis-info.

 pretre wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Doesn't take away that it is a warmachine with the following idea:

GW staff 1:'we need a warmachine for Khorne Daemons. Khorne... Skulls! Hey, mono-Khornearmies don't have shooty things! Let's make a SKULLCANNON!
Other GW staff: 'Yeah! Huzzah! Let's prize it at $75,-'
Even different GW staff: 'Huzzah! Fill the WD with pictures of them!'

You know that Khorne Skull Cannons have been in Warhammer for a looooong time, right?

The hellcannon is undivided, right? D:
Or are Skull Cannons even another thing? Even so, it is one lame thing.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Or are Skull Cannons even another thing? Even so, it is one lame thing.

Cannon of Khorne or Skull Cannon is an ollllld item. Old enough that the last one was made by Armorcast, iirc.

 pretre wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
Or are Skull Cannons even another thing? Even so, it is one lame thing.

Cannon of Khorne or Skull Cannon is an ollllld item. Old enough that the last one was made by Armorcast, iirc.

Spoiler:

It buuuuuuurns my eyes!


The heralds are really nice models though.

Nice Pic thanks for the trip in the way back machine! I had never seen that too cool!

 Sasori wrote:
Now that we know the Authors, let's please not turn this into a Ward Hate/Kelly hate thread.

Can we turn it in to a Kelly Lovefest? Personally, as an Ork player, I can't get enough of Kelly. Balanced, Fluffy, and have longevity to die for.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

The hellcannon is undivided, right? D:
Or are Skull Cannons even another thing? Even so, it is one lame thing.

What I want to know is, when will we finally get the Slaanesh Love Gun??

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

The hellcannon is undivided, right? D:
Or are Skull Cannons even another thing? Even so, it is one lame thing.

What I want to know is, when will we finally get the Slannesh Love Gun??

Shooting..
Scrap that. That's against the server rules. Forward unto the bad side of the internet!

 undertow wrote:


'Khorne Cannon' sounds too much like 'Corn Cannon' to the unitiated.

 matphat wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Now that we know the Authors, let's please not turn this into a Ward Hate/Kelly hate thread.

Can we turn it in to a Kelly Lovefest? Personally, as an Ork player, I can't get enough of Kelly. Balanced, Fluffy, and have longevity to die for.

He wrote an awesome codex there, I personally think it should be held up as a standard for a good army book.

I am very worried, given what others have said about the fantasy ork and goblin book, what will happen if Matthew Ward does to the Orks codex, given that he seems very pro space marines and 'good guys'.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
I am very worried, given what others have said about the fantasy ork and goblin book, what will happen if Matthew Ward does to the Orks codex, given that he seems very pro space marines and 'good guys'.

You know he wrote the last DoC army book, right? And Necrons... Neither of those were underpowered or underloved.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 matphat wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Now that we know the Authors, let's please not turn this into a Ward Hate/Kelly hate thread.

Can we turn it in to a Kelly Lovefest? Personally, as an Ork player, I can't get enough of Kelly. Balanced, Fluffy, and have longevity to die for.

He wrote an awesome codex there, I personally think it should be held up as a standard for a good army book.

I am very worried, given what others have said about the fantasy ork and goblin book, what will happen if Matthew Ward does to the Orks codex, given that he seems very pro space marines and 'good guys'.

His fluff is OTT, so Ward will be really good at writing Orky fluff
May I remind you about the WHFB Wood Elf book he wrote? And his Daemons of Chaos for WHFB were OP if I'm right. So, he can aactually write good stuff.

 thenoobbomb wrote:
The idea is bizare though.

A god who likes claiming skulls and resents magic and doesn't like shooting who gets a cannon shooting his beloved prizes?

I believe all Khorne daemon engines in Epic have guns.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 matphat wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Now that we know the Authors, let's please not turn this into a Ward Hate/Kelly hate thread.

Can we turn it in to a Kelly Lovefest? Personally, as an Ork player, I can't get enough of Kelly. Balanced, Fluffy, and have longevity to die for.

He wrote an awesome codex there, I personally think it should be held up as a standard for a good army book.

I am very worried, given what others have said about the fantasy ork and goblin book, what will happen if Matthew Ward does to the Orks codex, given that he seems very pro space marines and 'good guys'.

If, based on the rumors, he hates the greenskins so much, why would they have him write the new Ork book? Also, where did the rumor get started that he would write it? It's my only army. If it gets ruined due to some writers bias, I'm more or less out of the game. =(

Thank you to GW for providing my gaming group with about 20 minutes of laughter and eye rolling, followed by a brief stint of "what happened to GW?" which then ended with a nice session of "remember when GW was great"?

 matphat wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 matphat wrote:

 Sasori wrote:
Now that we know the Authors, let's please not turn this into a Ward Hate/Kelly hate thread.

Can we turn it in to a Kelly Lovefest? Personally, as an Ork player, I can't get enough of Kelly. Balanced, Fluffy, and have longevity to die for.

He wrote an awesome codex there, I personally think it should be held up as a standard for a good army book.

I am very worried, given what others have said about the fantasy ork and goblin book, what will happen if Matthew Ward does to the Orks codex, given that he seems very pro space marines and 'good guys'.

If, based on the rumors, he hates the greenskins so much, why would they have him write the new Ork book? Also, where did the rumor get started that he would write it? It's my only army. If it gets ruined due to some writers bias, I'm more or less out of the game. =(

Matt Ward hates Orks?

*goes out and picks up an Ork army*