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 Pacific wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
LEEEEEEK ALREADY IM SICK OF NO NEWS!

Don't say I don't ever do anything for anyone !

Spoiler:

And now...
The musical!


Warning - ear worm!

Sad thing, I believe that the leaks that GW used to complain about did more to advertise their releases than GW themselves ever did.... So GW shut them down.

The Auld Grump

starting to get a little excited. Excited enough to rebase some of my extra Tomb Kings models for the lulz.


Bring it on. If it's good, I'm in. If it's bad, so be it!

 TheAuldGrump wrote:

 Pacific wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
LEEEEEEK ALREADY IM SICK OF NO NEWS!

Don't say I don't ever do anything for anyone !

Spoiler:

And now...
The musical!

Spoiler:

Warning - ear worm!

The Auld Grump

Oh dear god. Thats the most disturbing song I've heard since the Nyan Cat.

As fun as the momentary distractions have been, can we try to stay on target.

 Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:
As fun as the momentary distractions have been, can we try to stay on target.

What target? There is literally nothing to talk about anymore.

Actually some of the divergent chatter has been interesting, and its still a good place for any leaks, new info that comes to light and for it to be discussed.

So my request was a polite lets not spam this to death eh? ...or at least go find or start a thread discussing the implications over in Warhammer General.

Jesus, your avatar is terrifying, Morathi. I realize that's off-topic, but it really needed to be said.

Wow. I agree. The last one was fetish fuel, and this one is nightmare fuel.

 Pacific wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
LEEEEEEK ALREADY IM SICK OF NO NEWS!

Don't say I don't ever do anything for anyone !

Spoiler:

Your leek may have surprised some people, but mine's a lot more far-fetched.

While the "leek" tangent has been an interesting diversion it's time to reel this thread back in a bit...

As Alpharius posted last page:

 Alpharius wrote:
More on topic, less spam please.

If there is no new news or rumors to report or discuss, then it is OK to not post anything

Let's let this thread die down if there is nothing new to talk about, so that it can remain open and ready for the moment the cat gets out of the bag...

Thanks!

word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

 Commissar-Danno wrote:
word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

It's a rumor thread. When a rumor gets started, this'll be the place to look. But so far - nada on price.

 Commissar-Danno wrote:
word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

I heard 70 lb, 110 dollars. And that is 3rd hand info from friend friend of...someone in UK unknown to me. In line with other GW sets, but IMHO, still high for a 'Starter'.

 mikhaila wrote:

 Commissar-Danno wrote:
word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

I heard 70 lb, 110 dollars. And that is 3rd hand info from friend friend of...someone in UK unknown to me. In line with other GW sets, but IMHO, still high for a 'Starter'.

By way of comparison, Dropzone Commander is £60 and Star Wars Armada is £80.

 Flashman wrote:

 mikhaila wrote:

 Commissar-Danno wrote:
word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

I heard 70 lb, 110 dollars. And that is 3rd hand info from friend friend of...someone in UK unknown to me. In line with other GW sets, but IMHO, still high for a 'Starter'.

By way of comparison, Dropzone Commander is £60 and Star Wars Armada is £80.

Yeah but you know what you are getting with those - BORING!

The extra money is for all the extra GW Surprisium the box will contain.

To be honest, £70 isn't ridiculously priced for a starter. - Particularly if it is a 'full game in a box' experience, or it has all new sculpts.

I think FFG still hold the 'ridiculous price for a starter' award with Star Wars Armada, which is literally half a game in there. - Conversely, their Imperial Assault set for the same price, is basically 2 games, one of which is a fully fleshed out campaign system that you could entirely possibly play every week for a year and still experience new things from.

 Compel wrote:
To be honest, £70 isn't ridiculously priced for a starter. - Particularly if it is a 'full game in a box' experience, or it has all new sculpts.

I think FFG still hold the 'ridiculous price for a starter' award with Star Wars Armada, which is literally half a game in there. -

Well, I think that particular price must go to Corvus Belli, which only ship you 14 unpainted, mono-pose 80s-style pewter miniatures and a crappy paper posters of the quality you wouldn't dare put into the cheapest kind of titty-magazine for their starter for nearly the same price.

At least the FFGs stuff is painted miniatures, loads of cards cards, tokens, dials, range-measure-thingy in high quality, etc.., etc.. Still expensive.

Most people have been raving about how good the quality/value the Ininity starter set is...

Wonderwolf wrote:

 Compel wrote:
To be honest, £70 isn't ridiculously priced for a starter. - Particularly if it is a 'full game in a box' experience, or it has all new sculpts.

I think FFG still hold the 'ridiculous price for a starter' award with Star Wars Armada, which is literally half a game in there. -

Well, I think that particular price must go to Corvus Belli, which only ship you 14 unpainted, mono-pose 80s-style pewter miniatures and a crappy paper posters of the quality you wouldn't dare put into the cheapest kind of titty-magazine for their starter for nearly the same price.

At least the FFGs stuff is painted miniatures, loads of cards cards, tokens, dials, range-measure-thingy in high quality, etc.., etc.. Still expensive.

Painted miniatures isn't necessarily a good thing for everyone in this hobby. And while there aren't many minis in Operation: Icestorm, the quality of them is amazing, and you hardly need anymore for a proper sized force.

 mikhaila wrote:

 Commissar-Danno wrote:
word on the price of Age of Sigmar?

I heard 70 lb, 110 dollars. And that is 3rd hand info from friend friend of...someone in UK unknown to me. In line with other GW sets, but IMHO, still high for a 'Starter'.

That's pretty reasonable. I thought it'd be at least £75-80.

So just about £60 when bought from the usual suspects.

No biggie, I just hope its good.

I have an army of dwarves waiting to be painted based on this release, but then they been waiting 10 years for some paint so no rush!

 ImAGeek wrote:


Painted miniatures isn't necessarily a good thing for everyone in this hobby. And while there aren't many minis in Operation: Icestorm, the quality of them is amazing, and you hardly need anymore for a proper sized force.

Painted minis might not be what you're looking for, but it's a cost I can see going into a box. As is a Star Wars license. Don't want it? Fair enough. But I can see the cost.

14 metal minis, mono-pose with no options don't justify more than 20 quid max. Whatever the game rules may or may not be. Just like you might not care about pre-paints, not everyone might care about the rules. What if I want to use them to proxy a 40K Apoc game? What if I am only a painter? Etc..

Mini-for-mini-for-quality, Operation Icestorm is far, far, far and away the worst "deal" on the starter-set market.

Because it's a starter set, to get people started in the game. Of course rules are important. Obviously you might get less value if you're using it for something other than its purpose.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Because it's a starter set, to get people started in the game. Of course rules are important. Obviously you might get less value if you're using it for something other than its purpose.

Oh. That's right. Unlike every other starter-box on the market, Operation Icestorm doesn't even give you the full rules of the game!!! Lol! What a fantastic way to get started!

The rules are free, otherwise you'd have a point.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The rules are free, otherwise you'd have a point.

Free? Awesome. Send me a book then to use at my club.

I don't think that it is debatable that that what you get in operation icestorm for the price is pretty bad.

This thing is pretty much the same price as Dark vengeance, yet you get a lot less minis. And I don't think that the quality is any better either

Wonderwolf wrote:
(blah blah, doesn't like Operation Icestorm)

Anybody saying that they will pay no more than £20 for 14 metal models of the highest quality is talking custard. In my totally subjective opinion, naturally. Anyway, £70 for a GW starter would seem suspiciously acceptable. I mean, the Assassins thing was more than that. But I suspect that GW (along with most every other company) is trying hard to keep starters within the price range that people would be happy to buy one and split it with a friend.

 streetsamurai wrote:
I don't think that it is debatable that that what you get in operation icestorm for the price is pretty bad.

This thing is pretty much the same price as Dark vengeance, yet you get a lot less minis. And I don't think that the quality is any better either

The quality of Infinity miniatures is miles ahead of anything produced by GW.

If Infinity is so great at miniatures, it shouldn't be a big problem for them to put some 25 to 30 or so multi-part plastic miniatures into a 65 - 75 quid starter set, including some dreadnought-sized guys (TAGs), as well as maybe a deadzone style rubber mat, some hard plastic terrain and a 40K-style complete mini-rulebook of N3.

If you don't need that many minis for the game, just put in 4 or 5 factions.

It's not rocket science people ask of Corvus Belli. The above would put them roughly into the mid-field of "normal" starter sets of the kind you get for DZC, 40K, etc.., etc.. , and from there they could let their quality speak for themselves.