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 Kroothawk wrote:
To be fair, the Slayer Pirate blister is still listed as "expected to dispatch within 4 weeks", code for cast on demand.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat500015a&prodId=prod1140013

Not on the US website they're not.

"Expected to dispatch within 4 weeks" by the way is not just 'code for cast on demand' but for 'we might still have some in the warehouse somewhere' as well.

If anyone's got the Army book, can you tell me if it's still got Bolt Throwers in the list? I'm waiting for my FLGS to get it in.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Is it just me or does the front of that battleline box look really empty?

It definitly feels... underwhelming :(. If I were a new customer, I wouldn't find it very enticing (especially with such a price on it).

They made a strange choice there. Why didn't they take a closer shot so that the stunties fill the entire picture ?

Yes, Bolt Throwers are still in the list.

 JHall wrote:
Yes, Bolt Throwers are still in the list.

Excellent, thanks. Worth using?


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 Erzanj wrote:

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Is it just me or does the front of that battleline box look really empty?

It definitly feels... underwhelming :(. If I were a new customer, I wouldn't find it very enticing (especially with such a price on it).

They made a strange choice there. Why didn't they take a closer shot so that the stunties fill the entire picture ?

I agree, it's such a bad shot it makes the army look pretty empty. I wonder if they were following some mandate to include more terrain in the pictures or something though.

 sonofruss wrote:
I am guessing no rules for the slayer pirates yet one more addition they sit in the mini box

Forgot to post this as well

The Grand Army of Zhufbar 1- Click Collection includes: 1 Belegar Ironhammer, 1 Grim Burloksson, 1 Runelord with staff, 1 Dragon Slayer, 32 Dwarf Warriors, 16 Thunderers, 60 Longbeards/Hammerers, 50 Ironbreakers/Irondrakes, 4 Gyrocopters, 1 Cannon and 1 Dwarf Battleline of 59 miniatures.

It can be yours for the low GW Full Retail Price of $1103.00.

And that's pretty much why I won't be starting a Dwarf army.

 Alpharius wrote:

 sonofruss wrote:
I am guessing no rules for the slayer pirates yet one more addition they sit in the mini box

Forgot to post this as well

The Grand Army of Zhufbar 1- Click Collection includes: 1 Belegar Ironhammer, 1 Grim Burloksson, 1 Runelord with staff, 1 Dragon Slayer, 32 Dwarf Warriors, 16 Thunderers, 60 Longbeards/Hammerers, 50 Ironbreakers/Irondrakes, 4 Gyrocopters, 1 Cannon and 1 Dwarf Battleline of 59 miniatures.

It can be yours for the low GW Full Retail Price of $1103.00.

And that's pretty much why I won't be starting a Dwarf army.

That's a 4000 point army according to White Dwarf, Alph.

Most people aren't going to be playing at those points levels--and the list is built almost purely around the new kits.

So, to get down to 2500 points we'll shave, what, $250 off of that?

Still in "No Thanks!" territory.

Which of the two units are the heavily armoured and which one are the Longbeards? They look EXACTLY THE SAME from such a distance.

Book seems interesting. When 9th edition his next year, if allies get added a force of dwarfs allied with ogres could let me field all my chaos dwarf units in one rulebook based army. Unless they aren't allowed to ally . Guess I'll find out when the time comes... unfortunately as cool as the dwarf book is, you really can't represent a full chaos dwarf list with it alone.

Basic dwarfs with great weapons seem pretty good for 10 points a pop, to me... there are likely some pretty nasty combos lurking with all those rune options, as well.

GW wrote:59 miniatures for £100!

Not really a massive discount here. You're basically only getting 4 Warriors, 4 Thunderers and the Runelord for free.

 Flashman wrote:

GW wrote:59 miniatures for £100!

Not really a massive discount here. You're basically only getting 4 Warriors, 4 Thunderers and the Runelord for free.

That's a fair point, Flashman but one issue is that right now Warriors and Thunderers/Quarrelers are sold 16 to a box for $35 USD rather than 10 at some silly price point so doing an exact "price breakdown" is kind of difficult.

It's 250$ in Canada. *shudders*

I'm moving to Australia.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
It's 250$ in Canada. *shudders*

I'm moving to Australia.

nah, it's 200

so 200 in Canada, 250 in Australia and 290 in New Zealand? holy crap, no wonder people are crapping on gamesworkshop so much, It cant be that much more expensive to ship there than here


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Herzlos wrote:

 JHall wrote:
Yes, Bolt Throwers are still in the list.

Excellent, thanks. Worth using?


i think they are for the points cost and potential damage they can bring

 Flashman wrote:

GW wrote:59 miniatures for £100!

Not really a massive discount here. You're basically only getting 4 Warriors, 4 Thunderers and the Runelord for free.

It is a 21% savings. I would say that is a rather good discount. Combine with typical 20% discount from retailers and it is nearly 37% discount off retail.

@Alpharius: What type of army are you looking at (shooting, combat, etc) and what is your budget? Those Battleline boxes are a good base. Two of those would make a solid starting army and bare bones works out to nearly1700 pts from the old book. And that is without any rune to enhance the units and assume the characters are basic rune smiths. Tool them up and you can easily reach 2000. Add in a lord on a shield and gyrocopter and you would be good to go at 2500.

Not a huge fan of the Warrior sculpts myself. Can you just have Longbeards as your core?

Yeah Longbeards are core - and the restriction on them from the old book is gone too. So you can have as many of them as you want

In years gone by I would have picked up the army book to whet my appetite and play around with lists before buying in to the army. At $60, that's not happening.

Triple_double_U wrote:
Yeah Longbeards are core - and the restriction on them from the old book is gone too. So you can have as many of them as you want

Yeah I haven't looked through the book yet, but yeah the old rule was no more that 50% of your warriors could be upgraded to longbeards, unless you had I think High King Thorgrim grudge bearer then he allowed you to take 50% + 1 additional unit.

That's good to know.

Trolltrader posted this image on their FB page.



I really hope the bomber is the way for you guys to go, because £28 for that is a new low for GW IMHO.

Wow. It's the size of a paint pot. "Gyro-Cockpit" indeed.

AUD$60 as well. Bargain!

Good lord, they're getting worse. What's the next one, just a hollow facade shaped like the front of an aircraft?

I think someone said it earlier, and now I have to agree. It looks like a happy meal toy.

It'd look more at home in Rivet Wars than in WFB.

You only get one?



I mean they should have included enough parts to at least make two or one bomber at the very least.

 azreal13 wrote:
Trolltrader posted this image on their FB page.



I really hope the bomber is the way for you guys to go, because £28 for that is a new low for GW IMHO.

A picture really is worth a thousand words...

...wow.

 Alpharius wrote:
A picture really is worth a thousand words...

And the model's not worth sixty dollars...

O_O!
That makes what the recasters charge seem expensive, never mind the actual plastic price...

Yowza - and here I thought that gyrocopter was actually somewhat reasonably priced. That's way smaller than it appeared in the promo pics.

I guess being on the flight stands made them look bigger than they were. Very disappointing, but I guess should have been expected.

I in no way thought the Gyrocopter was that small.

Now I am REALLY looking forward to the third party versions.

Titan Forge, Avatars of War, etc.

Bring 'em on!