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No releases until mid summer,

pities2004 wrote:No releases until mid summer,

You're really surprised? They just destroyed the planet in a fantasy game; I'd hope they'd take a breather after something like that to gauge the response and give themselves time to reflect. Of course, this is gw and "we don't need/do market research" and all so...

NAVARRO wrote:Thinking about it would be very clever if GW to created some starter sets for some Killteam gaming in 40k, like all simplified rules and stats in one box.

That would be a good idea but also an unlikely one. In GW's eyes, every $50 purchase that you can play with stops you from making a $300 purchase to get what is necessary to play. Supposedly that is why they killed off the smaller games that had buyins of less than a few hundred USD.

From BOLS again, yet another source indicating a WHFB release in May of some sort.

Not a ton of info, but a general release schedule rumor putting May and July as the months for WHFB action.

Ignore the URL name in terms of relevancy (though if you like space marines this will interest you too), and scroll down to the release schedule.

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/04/space-marines-rumor-latest.html



It's looking a lot more feasible that there's Fantasy action in spring and summer if you ask me. Isn't Steve the Warboss typically on target more often than he's not ?

Steve the Warboss wrote:Games Workshop Q2-3 Schedule

EARLY MAY
Codex Eldar (allready confirmed by Lords of War)

REST OF MAY
Warhammer 9th

EARLY JUNE
Warhammer Fantasy Content

MID JUNE
Codex Tzeentch Deamonkin

LATE JUNE
40k Expansion Part 1

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

MID JULY
40k Expansion Part 2

LATE JULY
Warhammer Fantasy Starter Set

AUGUST
Codex Space Marines

SEPTEMBER
Warhammer Fantasy Content

OCTOBER
40k Expansion Part 1
Space Marines vs. Tau Empire Boxed Set

Eldar in May? I thought Eldar are ... um ... next week? No?

Id say most of this is correct from what i'm hearing save for the mini dexes are missing. And as far as I understand the first new fantasy will be summer

but i could be wrong and im only reiterating what ive read on here.

Why DA vs CSM again?

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

What? Again? Some wires got crossed I think.

Chad Warden wrote:

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

What? Again? Some wires got crossed I think.

reuse the models maybe?

Or it might be meant to expand on DV.

And this is why WHFB is where it's at: a thread about 9E has a post that lists GW's upcoming release schedule to discuss the WHFB content, but near-immediately gets hijacked by 40k.

Well the posted release list had 40K content,

so was more likely to draw comment than if it had been pruned to only the fantasy stuff)

 Mr Morden wrote:

Chad Warden wrote:

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

What? Again? Some wires got crossed I think.

reuse the models maybe?

Wonder if that means we'll get another rules update. 5th edition 5 years, 6th 2 years, 7th 1 year. Seems legit and follows the pattern of greed given that the codex rerevamps are following suit with 2 year life cycles.

Tiny tidbit FWIW: spoke to the owner of an FLGS I sometimes go to when I'm around there, and apparently he was told when he tried to restock the IoB box he'd just sold, that he really didn't have to (peculiar, since it's part of the mandatory basic stock list) and maybe he should hold off on it for a bit.
IMO as good as confirmation of IoB going OOP soon. (not sure if anything like this was posted before; I don't play GW systems anymore and pretty much just skim these threads out of morbid curiosity )

I feel like GW misses the mark sooo hard in terms of what it's buyers expect.

I hate their marketing team.

 Thunderfrog wrote:
I feel like GW misses the mark sooo hard in terms of what it's buyers expect.

I hate their marketing team.

They have a marketing team?

SilverDevilfish wrote:

 Thunderfrog wrote:
I feel like GW misses the mark sooo hard in terms of what it's buyers expect.

I hate their marketing team.

They have a marketing team?

They have the worst kind. Their accountants review what sold for the last month/6 months/cycle/whatever, grab their whips and tell the design team "make more of this thing that sell", or in a few cases "we've got a lot of stock of this item - find a way to clear it out before we have to dump it in a landfill." (the latter seems to happen less and less - no one wants to bring more bad news to the Commisar...I mean, Kirby clone) Those unfortunate items that didn't sell like hotcakes are left to rot, with no indication WHY they didn't sell other than a lost opportunity to sell something else. They don't really have any idea of why what sold or what items they COULD make that would sell and advance/enhance their product line. Its simply "feed the beast" as far as marketing goes.

warboss wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:

Chad Warden wrote:

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

What? Again? Some wires got crossed I think.

reuse the models maybe?

Wonder if that means we'll get another rules update. 5th edition 5 years, 6th 2 years, 7th 1 year. Seems legit and follows the pattern of greed given that the codex rerevamps are following suit with 2 year life cycles.

In 2016, we'll have a double edition event and be using 11th by May of that year. Y'know, because 6 mos. between 8th & 9th...

 Stormonu wrote:

In 2016, we'll have a double edition event and be using 11th by May of that year. Y'know, because 6 mos. between 8th & 9th...

Maybe just like Microsoft Office, they can be named after actual years. So Warhammer 2015, 2016, 2017! And then they could give the same treatment to 40k... Warhammer 40,000 2015! And if there's a double release year, Warhamer 40,000 2015.5 Of course, in Germany it would have to be... Warhammer 40.000 2015,5 to really mess us up.

If that list is accurate then the thing that stands out to me is the new 9th edition before a new starterset as per usual. I think that's a good indicator that bases ain't changing as isles of blood will still be sold.

Daston wrote:
If that list is accurate then the thing that stands out to me is the new 9th edition before a new starterset as per usual. I think that's a good indicator that bases ain't changing as isles of blood will still be sold.

I doubt it is right. Hell, it got the first item on the list wrong. Looks like a random "take-other-rumours-out-there-and-put-them-into-a-somewhat-plausible-order-hoping-something-sticks"-type of rumour.

If the source can't get a date right two weeks in advance, what hope is there that it'll be right 2+ months in advance?

Steve the Warboss wrote:Games Workshop Q2-3 Schedule

EARLY MAY
Codex Eldar (allready confirmed by Lords of War)

Wonderwolf wrote:

Daston wrote:
If that list is accurate then the thing that stands out to me is the new 9th edition before a new starterset as per usual. I think that's a good indicator that bases ain't changing as isles of blood will still be sold.

I doubt it is right. Hell, it got the first item on the list wrong. Looks like a random "take-other-rumours-out-there-and-put-them-into-a-somewhat-plausible-order-hoping-something-sticks"-type of rumour.

If the source can't get a date right two weeks in advance, what hope is there that it'll be right 2+ months in advance?

Steve the Warboss wrote:Games Workshop Q2-3 Schedule

EARLY MAY
Codex Eldar (allready confirmed by Lords of War)

Well assuming the Eldar release takes 2 to 3 weeks and the 18th being the date preorders go up (rather than the date you can actually get them), I'd guess the Eldar release will go from late April (25th) to early May (2nd, 9th, maybe the 16th).

So assuming that, it wouldn't be incorrect to say early May is Eldar releases while late may is WHFB releases... it's just the START of Eldar releases is late April.

 Talys wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:

In 2016, we'll have a double edition event and be using 11th by May of that year. Y'know, because 6 mos. between 8th & 9th...

Maybe just like Microsoft Office, they can be named after actual years. So Warhammer 2015, 2016, 2017! And then they could give the same treatment to 40k... Warhammer 40,000 2015! And if there's a double release year, Warhamer 40,000 2015.5 Of course, in Germany it would have to be... Warhammer 40.000 2015,5 to really mess us up.

Or, to be even more like Office, you have to subscribe to the rules. $5.00 a month gets you access to the rulebook, but if you cancel your subscription you have to stop playing.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Talys wrote:

 Stormonu wrote:

In 2016, we'll have a double edition event and be using 11th by May of that year. Y'know, because 6 mos. between 8th & 9th...

Maybe just like Microsoft Office, they can be named after actual years. So Warhammer 2015, 2016, 2017! And then they could give the same treatment to 40k... Warhammer 40,000 2015! And if there's a double release year, Warhamer 40,000 2015.5 Of course, in Germany it would have to be... Warhammer 40.000 2015,5 to really mess us up.

Or, to be even more like Office, you have to subscribe to the rules. $5.00 a month gets you access to the rulebook, but if you cancel your subscription you have to stop playing.

Haha. Gw would be plagued with people pulling the porn site maneuver.

1. Sign up for free or 1.00 3 day trial.
2. Download Everything.
3. Cancel Membership before it shows up on the bill and your wife reads it and gets mad and smashes all your Eldar Guardians beneath her stamping rage.

Wonderwolf wrote:

Steve the Warboss wrote:Games Workshop Q2-3 Schedule

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Dark Vengeance and its expansion packs is Dark Angels vs CSM, why would you put out another one?

 Schlyne wrote:

Wonderwolf wrote:

Steve the Warboss wrote:Games Workshop Q2-3 Schedule

EARLY JULY
Dark Angels vs. CSM Boxed Set

This makes absolutely no sense to me. Dark Vengeance and its expansion packs is Dark Angels vs CSM, why would you put out another one?

Could be another expansion or a revamp of Dark Vengeance, different units etc to tempt people into double dipping?

Expansion makes the most sense. You get people to buy the starter, and then give them another box they can buy to add to those starter forces.

 insaniak wrote:
Expansion makes the most sense. You get people to buy the starter, and then give them another box they can buy to add to those starter forces.

Yeah, except when the units are not really desirable, and the expansion is expensive, like the DA expansion to DV.

Now, that SM vs Tau box, if it's any good, I will buy so many of..... (please no more terminators please please please....)


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 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

Or, to be even more like Office, you have to subscribe to the rules. $5.00 a month gets you access to the rulebook, but if you cancel your subscription you have to stop playing.

If there were a way to pay $5 / month, and get digital copies of all the rules, all the time, I would digitally line up to subscribe. I would even be ok with not having access to the rules after I cancel.

Heck, I would happily pay $10 / month, or prepay $100 per year.

Warhammer Fantasy Content

Why are the WHFB items so vague while the 40k ones are at least army specific?

 Talys wrote:
If there were a way to pay $5 / month, and get digital copies of all the rules, all the time, I would digitally line up to subscribe. I would even be ok with not having access to the rules after I cancel.

Heck, I would happily pay $10 / month, or prepay $100 per year.

Given the codices alone cost over $1000 for all of them, I doubt GW would consider being kind enough to supply all rules for only $100 per year.

 bubber wrote:
Why DA vs CSM again?

Because the starter kit has them, so it expands upon that and allows new players to grow their armies.

HBMC: I thought they'd done that already?

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