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Is it sad that I *could* see them doing this?

 Kroothawk wrote:
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!

Lies! No one called Manning choking that hard!

WayneTheGame wrote:
Is it sad that I *could* see them doing this?

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Well, it does sound like the kind of idiocy their logic tends to follow - People might have WHFB armies that they can't use in games of 40k, and vice versa. Since their approach seems to be whatever you have in your collection you should be able to use...

Not even an entire ocean has enough salt to cover this one.

WayneTheGame wrote:
Is it sad that I *could* see them doing this?

Not at all. As I already mentioned, they've done it before, so it's not that big a stretch to think they might do it again.

GW does some crazy things like renaming Imperial Guard to something noone can remember ("Hey IG still sells. Suggestions?").
But three Brits joining today to confirm the same nonsense ... there are limits.

I heard this rumour as well, but also that Epic 40k will be involved.

The scale differences will be explained by the 40k figures being magically made large via a new Chaos Sorceress special character:

 VorpalBunny74 wrote:
The scale differences will be explained by the 40k figures being magically made large via a new Chaos Sorceress special character:

That's a little silly. Clearly the Epic units would just represent units that are further away...

Reeks of fake.
It's way farfetch'd and dumb.
Plus It's a totally legit source... and joindate.

I mean seriously what's an elf spearman gonna do to a heavy armoured Space Marine? Poke him with his stick?

Ofc and once every eighteen times the spear will go through and kill the marine

M.

Completely believable.

With sales dwindling....

Now that I think about it...
Come summer and the rumored revamped 6th ed there will be a new FOC with a compulsory slot for a WHFB unit

M.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
I mean seriously what's an elf spearman gonna do to a heavy armoured Space Marine? Poke him with his stick?

You know 40K includes regular, non-powered close combat weapons, right?

Why would a fantasy elf spear be any less effective than, say, a guardsman with a rifle butt? Or anyone with a knife? Or an ork with a choppa?

 SickSix wrote:
Completely believable.

With sales dwindling....

Aye - it'd be something that would take 3 people a few days to slap together, and then GW will sell it as $30 e-supplement. Why wouldn't they sell it?

Introducing a new DE supplment to Warhammer 40k, Warhammer fantasy.

Finding it hard to break into Warhammer Fantasy after spending so long playing 40k, this new supplement is for you! You can now field your Warhammer Fantasy army along side you Warhammer 40k army.

Ever wanted to field your Chaos Daemons army with your Chaos Daemons army, well now you can!

Can you ask your friend what the Orks are getting?

 Madcat87 wrote:
Ever wanted to field your Chaos Daemons army with your Chaos Daemons army, well now you can!

Better yet: Orks vs. Orcs.

 Wilytank wrote:

 Madcat87 wrote:
Ever wanted to field your Chaos Daemons army with your Chaos Daemons army, well now you can!

Better yet: Orks vs. Orcs.

or Daemons vs Daemons.... wait a minute


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I will say that chaos warrior as feral cultists is something I already do, so whatever if this happens.... which it won't.

What makes me disbelieve this rumour?

Having a mate on the inside who you will throw under the bus to get 'cred' on an Internet forum.

I have friends in certain industries who give me heads up about certain things, but I will never pass on what they told me in case they get fired.

Either you made up the rumor or you really want your mate to lose his job...

Aeon, where did you think that most of these rumours come from...?

Well I guess we get dwarves in space again, just not squats

Hm, if you could pit fantasy against 40k, fantasy sales would probably go down hard instead of spawning new buyers. Throw in a lord of war unit and the fantasy is out.
Throw in a flyer and fantasy is out.
There is simply no competition.

If anything, its gws way of "fixing" dreadnoughts -they would be great in this setting.

 insaniak wrote:
That's a little silly. Clearly the Epic units would just represent units that are further away...

Would make for interesting arguements about line of sight

In any case maybe Bretonnian Knights will be a hard counter to Imperial Knights

And sometimes, when it seems the most ridiculous, a statement made in jest (or trolling) ends up being the next big thing.

Case in point:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/feth-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/

 insaniak wrote:
Aeon, where did you think that most of these rumours come from...?

The rumour fairy sneaks into people's houses and whispers to them as they sleep. Duh.

This could work.
We just need to add a bit of fluff...
The Fantasy worlds are so magical, existing in a slightly higher plane of reality, that our perception of physics is slightly alters. Those weedy little elves? They can bench 400 pounds. An Ogryn would stuggle to lift the weight of a suit of plate armour, such is the magical imbuement.
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When I was younger and more a part of GW's target audience, we did try a few games of 40k vs Fantasy. It can actually be quite suprising, depending on how you resolve Fantasy attack vs 40k armour and vice-versa. If you play it as fantasy strength modifies 40k saves, but 40k only beats fantasy saves with AP, then it can be quite brutal. Eg a unit of Chaos Knights of Khorne, relatively cheap compared to any 40k equivalent, in combat 2nd turn dealing 3-4 S5-6 attacks each, reducing Sv3 to Sv6, and having a 2+ armour save for themselves....
Thats pretty much what a fantasy armour would play like. An entire army of assault terminators which can move 16" per turn, for 20pts or less each.

 plastictrees wrote:
"The Voices" count as multiple sources.

Magnificient. Exalted.


The idea is too stupid, even by GW standards.

Draigo went to the WFB world in a recent Black Library short story

there is foreshadowing

Trasvi wrote:
When I was younger and more a part of GW's target audience, we did try a few games of 40k vs Fantasy. It can actually be quite suprising, depending on how you resolve Fantasy attack vs 40k armour and vice-versa. If you play it as fantasy strength modifies 40k saves, but 40k only beats fantasy saves with AP, then it can be quite brutal. Eg a unit of Chaos Knights of Khorne, relatively cheap compared to any 40k equivalent, in combat 2nd turn dealing 3-4 S5-6 attacks each, reducing Sv3 to Sv6, and having a 2+ armour save for themselves....
Thats pretty much what a fantasy armour would play like. An entire army of assault terminators which can move 16" per turn, for 20pts or less each.

It worked better during 2nd edition 40K, when the two games were more or less identical. About the only change that was needed was to just treat 40K units as skirmishers.