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I almost figure all these people who have friends at GW HQ probably do here these things- since they're the ones probably making it all up for a laugh or two.

It just feels at times like GW is deliberately trolling their target audience.

And why not? It just adds to the fun and madness of the internet!

Then again, back in the olden days we used to do this anyways. Why would I need to buy a supplement to do

I wonder if this is the same source that saw truckloads of metal figures being shipped out of GW HQ to be melted down? 'Cos we can't buy metal figs any more...oh wait...

I remember reading about this on BoLS a while ago looked legit back then

And your obviously not going to spill on your source

Another 1 post wonder supporting this idea! That means it has to be true!

Oh hai, brand new user who just joined the forum like the other guy to support this rumor!

How dem strings doing?

Bolt gun bandito wrote:
I remember reading about this on BoLS a while ago looked legit back then

And your obviously not going to spill on your source

Link? Or puppet #3?

Sockpuppets... sockpuppets coming outta the goddamn walls!

Well I'm convinced, that's three guys saying its true, three guys, THREE of them.

What's the puppet reference?

I guess it's just GW trying to make up for there crap sales on the fantasy range

Comon guys, you all know its FOUR new user accounts required before we believe the pupp.. "rumour"(s).

Bolt gun bandito wrote:
What's the puppet reference?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29

I can't quite decide if this guy is the best or worst rumour troll of all time.

In not a clone I'm normally using BoLS and personal forums with friends

But I might just have to base a few marines on square bases just in case

 Medium of Death wrote:
I can't quite decide if this guy is the best or worst rumour troll of all time.

To be fair, ghost21 was/is probably the best.

 Rolt wrote:
How would this even work......

"my 200 spearmen change your squad of tau firewarriors, nope, forget it they were all gunned down after the first two steps"

Yep, makes sense.

1 spearman would die for every 3 firewarriors firing (and I'm being generous). the rules really aren't all that different given that they are both based of the same source so technically its possible.

I very much doubt that this is in anyway true though.

Bolt gun bandito wrote:
In not a clone I'm normally using BoLS and personal forums with friends

But I might just have to base a few marines on square bases just in case

Sure... And the fact that you posted just to support this thread and have the same poor grammar/spelling as the original poster have nothing to do with our assumptions...

I'd say worst troll since no-one believes them/him/the hive even the slightest.

Still time will tell, and admittedly to a certain degree it just wouldn't be entirely unbelievable for GW to do something as silly as this.

I like the implication that 40k armies would have to be rebased. This lends credibility to the rumour.


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Bolt gun bandito wrote:
In not a clone I'm normally using BoLS and personal forums with friends

But I might just have to base a few marines on square bases just in case

And my uncle who works at Nintendo tells me Dark Millennium Online is coming to Wii U this fall.

Would make up for the crap sales of fantasy. I would have teclis in my eldar army any day

 Medium of Death wrote:
Sockpuppets... sockpuppets coming outta the goddamn walls!

Exalt!

Exactly what I had in mind.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Beastmen make sense within the 40K Lore as countless varieties of mutants exist.

Beastmen are already in 40K lore. They were a stable human mutation, that once upon a time was available as a cannon-fodder option in Guard armies.

It would be hilarious if this was someone from GW trying to make up a fake rumor to try to get everyone riled up and off the trail of other rumors, considering how butthurt they got over the Knight leak a few weeks ago.

 Malika2 wrote:
But erm..wasn't this during the Rogue Trader days?

Yes, and?

Given GW's current plundering of Rogue Trader and 2nd edition ideas for anything that might make them a few dollars more, that just makes it even more believable...

 Dez wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
Sockpuppets... sockpuppets coming outta the goddamn walls!

Rumor threads really do need a salt thrower

Calling bull.

There have been several stores here in the US which have been doing "40k v. Fantasy" games, but they're not events that are being spawned from the GW HQ. It's from the managers talking amongst themselves and thinking "Hey this might be a way that we can get the people who play one system interested in another".

I have a source that tells me this is made up.
And my source told me the Super Bowl 2014 end result 2 years in advance!

OP just joined TODAY.... Troll-lalala......