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 porkuslime wrote:
so, will these be available outside of december?

And.. if I decide in a week that I MUSTHAVE the Tau page.. will I be able to get it?

-P

So far, all digital releases remain on the site, so yes.

Im upset I cant bee hasty and open up every part of the calender like you do with normal advent calenders

xruslanx wrote:
the level of butthurt in this thread warms my heart on these cold december nights. Dakka, never change

If you like being fleeced by things that a couple of years ago would have been free PDF's on the website, then more power to you. As they say, a "A fool and his money are soon parted."

lol my response to this... with escalation being legit superheavys on field without permission...

me: lets play a 3000 pt game
guy: "i get to bring my baneblade, and tau cadre, beside my wraithknight seerspam army!"
me: ok, you can even go first.
guy: *deploys* muahahahahah!!
me: *puts down phantom titan +vect +whatever.

so i seize init....fire my phantom....annnnnnnnnd your dead. thanks for playing. >

Damn, guess I need to buy more broadsides to go with my 6 riptides... If only the formation allowed me to include my wraithknights and wraithlords...

I do think this is BS and I would certainly refuse to play with anyone who fielded this.

Tacohunter wrote:
Cypher looks to be hinted at as returning from the white dwarf daily video.

I think Cypher's a given, really. They're clearly pumping out rules for models and bundles that didn't have them before (or had out of date rules) and Cypher is on the top of the list for that, I imagine.

I cant wait to dust off Col. Commissar Ibram Gaunt! One can hope anyways

I have my unbuilt box of Last Chancers. Here's hoping!

The Nagash Finecast boxes are collecting dust, so I expect special rules for him as well

No, we need a Cain unit

No model, no rules.

HE HAS A MODEL!!!!!!!!!

TiamatRoar wrote:

Tacohunter wrote:
Cypher looks to be hinted at as returning from the white dwarf daily video.

I think Cypher's a given, really. They're clearly pumping out rules for models and bundles that didn't have them before (or had out of date rules) and Cypher is on the top of the list for that, I imagine.

Well, Cypher has just now added himself to my Christmas list.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
HE HAS A MODEL!!!!!!!!!

Black Library limited edition doesn't count. Can you still get it now?

Hopefully Grumlok and Gazbag for Fantasy orcs, one of my favorite orc mini

Whatever models GW has lots of leftover stock of will probably get some digi-advent treatment. This is a liquidation scam disguised as a DLC ripoff.

It is the essence of classy.

Maybe we'll get a new Capt. Cortez for the Crimson Fists....I think his model is still available (horrible as it is).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

xruslanx wrote:
the level of butthurt in this thread warms my heart on these cold december nights. Dakka, never change

If you like being fleeced by things that a couple of years ago would have been free PDF's on the website, then more power to you. As they say, a "A fool and his money are soon parted."

Who on earth would pay for bottled water? I can get some from the lake for free.
Who on earth would pay for apples? I can get them from my tree for free.
etc.

Someone spending money on something that was once free doesn't make that person a fool.

xruslanx wrote:
the level of butthurt in this thread warms my heart on these cold december nights. Dakka, never change

1) That's quite the world weary attitude for someone who has only been here for 3 months...

2) What is this "Dakka" you speak of? There is no Hive Mind Gestalt here - only 80,000+* unique individuals, all with their own opinions on things.

*Minus the people with more than one account, of course.

NamelessBard wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

xruslanx wrote:
the level of butthurt in this thread warms my heart on these cold december nights. Dakka, never change

If you like being fleeced by things that a couple of years ago would have been free PDF's on the website, then more power to you. As they say, a "A fool and his money are soon parted."

Who on earth would pay for bottled water? I can get some from the lake for free.
Who on earth would pay for apples? I can get them from my tree for free.
etc.

Someone spending money on something that was once free doesn't make that person a fool.

Your old water was not contaminated with toxic waste and apples were never free when you didn't have an apple tree. Some stuff is suposed to be free.

 Sarouan wrote:
And if we're lucky, maybe some sisters of battle!

Oh wait...They had a digital codex not so long ago. No need to give new shiny things for the girls, then.

Oh, no, don't worry, we'll get something : we'll get… ignored !
Too bad we have tons of it already.

But maybe they'll do like for Tau, make a big, FOC-free detachment of the most powerful stuff in the codex. It will contain 10 priests. With a special rule to make them auto-pass War Hymns. And use all three every turn.

xruslanx wrote:
i like to think of a games developer in nottingham, who pestered and harassed his boss with this advent calender idea - a snipped of rules every day for a month, giving the fans some new fluffy rules to play around with.

You might like to think it, but that would be your absurd fantasy. The real conversation:

Developer: "Hey, I have an idea, we can have a holiday celebration where we sell lots of new rules."
Boss: "I love selling rules. Just don't fall behind on the codex schedule."
Developer: "Don't worry, I already wrote all of the rules on my lunch break."
Boss: "Keep up the good work!"

The idea that GW's management would actually oppose a plan to sell minimum-effort rules and get easy money is, well, about as reasonable as anything else you've ever posted.

He googles 'gw digital advent calender' to see how people feel about it, if people are happy with his work. Then he reads this thread, takes off his belt and hangs himself.

And nothing of value was lost.

Paying several dollars for this seems odd... I bought it and, aside from a bit of cool new fluff, the only thing you get are the rules Tank Hunter and Bane of Angels for a detachment of 1 Riptide and 2 full units of Broadsides... You don't need to buy this to remember those 2 rules.

Still, I'd love to use this, since my army's fluff is all about being specialized SM killers. I cannot pass up the chance to get PE against them! Though I may simply play as though the units DO take up FOC slots, which would mean excluding 2 of my 3 Heavy Support choices for the Broadsides, which is fine. Broadsides can fill the same roles (I just don't like how expensive the models are.)
I think then it would feel more legitimate, (the only difference being Tank Hunters and Bane of Angels for those specific units.)

NamelessBard wrote:
Who on earth would pay for bottled water? I can get some from the lake for free.
Who on earth would pay for apples? I can get them from my tree for free.etc.

False analogies are false.

How often are you near a lake? Is the lake clean? Do you have water purification tablets or some sort of filter? Who owns an apple tree?

People so unhappy with the rules can apply to make it better

http://careers.games-workshop.com/2013/11/22/citadel-publications-rules-writer-nottingham-uk/

i own an apple tree...... and it happens to be near a lake. ....

.....

jus sayin....

 Zweischneid wrote:
People so unhappy with the rules can apply to make it better

http://careers.games-workshop.com/2013/11/22/citadel-publications-rules-writer-nottingham-uk/

Hahaha, wow! I wonder what they'd look for on the CV. Number of GW armies?

Well, that Tau thing sounds batty. What's next? A formation of Wave Serpents with Fleshbane for Eldar?

 Crimson wrote:
Well, that Tau thing sounds batty. What's next? A formation of Wave Serpents with Fleshbane for Eldar?

If I had to bet some money, I would go for an Eldar Formation with 1 Wraithknight, 2 Wraithlords and 15 Wraithguards/blades

It might be called "Eldar Ghost Warriors"

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440161a&prodId=prod2290016a

Well, the good news: We may finally see Cypher, Doomrider, cheap rules for the Ork Bommers that I can put on an ebook reader because I don't have an iPad, and other things that GW should have put in the original books/given out for free.

Additionally, I doubt we're going to see much abuse of all of these attachments, due to the points cost. By the time you're considering putting in an apocalypse detachment, you maybe be at 2k + points. If you want to bring a Baneblade to a 1.5k game, then you probably don't have enough of anything else to have a balanced army.