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Adeptus Astartes .

Familiar looking terrain?

From the triumph and treachery book for whfb

Via WarbossKurgan

-Aaron

so the spooky realmgates have been hanging about for a fair while in one form or another... (I don't know fantasy well enough to know if the other bit of terrain is released or not.. if it's not possibly something we'll see later?)

guru wrote:
GW at Insomnia gaming festival

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/2015/07/14/i55/announcing-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-at-insomnia55/

Taking a hyper casual tabletop game to a super competitive video game festival seems like a really poor idea.

Wait.. square bases and blocks of units? Those pictures must be ooold.

Triumph and treachery was the end 2013 I think, so I guess the photos must have been done early 2013?

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Triumph and treachery was the end 2013 I think, so I guess the photos must have been done early 2013?

Wow. Crazy that no one noticed it.

Just goes to show how many WHFB players were left, and how many T&T copies were sold...

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Just goes to show how many WHFB players were left, and how many T&T copies were sold...

I think that may be a bit of a jump.

Your probably right,

and a lot of the really deeply involved players (who would have picked up T&T) are probably also those least likely to be really involved with AoS which seems to have most traction with those who'd given up WHFB when the gave size/price point went full crazy

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Your probably right,

and a lot of the really deeply involved players (who would have picked up T&T) are probably also those least likely to be really involved with AoS which seems to have most traction with those who'd given up WHFB when the gave size/price point went full crazy

I was talking more about the fact that no one copped to it when T&T came out.

 Bottle wrote:
I can't wait for the Storm Cast Eternals to be over with so we can get some REAL Warhammer updates :-D

Where are the Fyre Sleighers!?

Sainta Sigmar's flying Reigndeer!

 SilverDevilfish wrote:

guru wrote:
GW at Insomnia gaming festival

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/2015/07/14/i55/announcing-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-at-insomnia55/

Taking a hyper casual tabletop game to a super competitive video game festival seems like a really poor idea.

You'd think a little bit of market research would have told them that. But such things are otiose....

 SilverDevilfish wrote:

guru wrote:
GW at Insomnia gaming festival

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/2015/07/14/i55/announcing-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-at-insomnia55/

Taking a hyper casual tabletop game to a super competitive video game festival seems like a really poor idea.

On the contrary, a piece of casual entertainment pie with a beer or two after a hard session of competitive gaming is what most people look for to wind down.

I think its pretty crazy to think they had those terrain pieces in their vaults for what 2 years?? Makes you wonder what other cool models they have hidden in there.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 SilverDevilfish wrote:

guru wrote:
GW at Insomnia gaming festival

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/2015/07/14/i55/announcing-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-at-insomnia55/

Taking a hyper casual tabletop game to a super competitive video game festival seems like a really poor idea.

On the contrary, a piece of casual entertainment pie with a beer or two after a hard session of competitive gaming is what most people look for to wind down.

Insomnia also seems like a good place to promote the Total War Warhammer videogame.

 pretre wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Your probably right,

and a lot of the really deeply involved players (who would have picked up T&T) are probably also those least likely to be really involved with AoS which seems to have most traction with those who'd given up WHFB when the gave size/price point went full crazy

I was talking more about the fact that no one copped to it when T&T came out.

I think you'll find it was covered

http://www.thefieldsofblood.com/2013/11/new-warhammer-terrain-pieces-spotted.html

 pretre wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Your probably right,

and a lot of the really deeply involved players (who would have picked up T&T) are probably also those least likely to be really involved with AoS which seems to have most traction with those who'd given up WHFB when the gave size/price point went full crazy

I was talking more about the fact that no one copped to it when T&T came out.

Really?

I know the people I play Fantasy with had been lusting after those scenery pieces since T&T. I could have sworn it was discussed before on Dakka as well.

Couple more terrain pieces got spotted earlier

First, from Instagram, the Numinous Occulum
https://instagram.com/p/5LkAdVkVka/


Then, from Twitter, the Dragonfate Dais
https://twitter.com/michaelh_012/status/621517837761277952

They're really going all in on this new system. Especially if the rumors of all AoS releases until fall with Tau.

Really like all the new terrain.

I'll be getting that dais at least.

One thing I can say about GW is that I've always enjoyed their plastic scenery kits. Their pretty solid builds too, considering the roughhousing my kids have given some of those pieces.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I know the people I play Fantasy with had been lusting after those scenery pieces since T&T. I could have sworn it was discussed before on Dakka as well.

Yeah, pretty sure it was Kroothawk that posted the pics. They've definitely been pictured on this site before.

Chopxsticks wrote:
I think its pretty crazy to think they had those terrain pieces in their vaults for what 2 years?? Makes you wonder what other cool models they have hidden in there.

2 years ago there were pictures of the new Eldar Jet bikes that just came out 2 months ago.

It makes you wonder if GW had also been sitting on AoS for 2 years as well, or if they just never got around to releasing the terrain and just re-purposed it.

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
It makes you wonder if GW had also been sitting on AoS for 2 years as well, or if they just never got around to releasing the terrain and just re-purposed it.

Which means they sold the End Times range and even the recent Wood Elf and Dwarf stuff with this in mind. Hmmm

I have no doubt that AoS has been planned for some time. You can't just churn out plastic kits on a whim; there is a great deal of lead time in terms of sculpting the kits, tooling the moulds etc. It isn't the sort of thing you can just whip out the next month. I would imagine even with the tooling and production done in house it would require a lead time of 6 months or more. You also have to take into account machine capacity and production slots as well.

 filbert wrote:
I have no doubt that AoS has been planned for some time. You can't just churn out plastic kits on a whim; there is a great deal of lead time in terms of sculpting the kits, tooling the moulds etc. It isn't the sort of thing you can just whip out the next month. I would imagine even with the tooling and production done in house it would require a lead time of 6 months or more. You also have to take into account machine capacity and production slots as well.

A lot of companies have parallel development paths, though. You don't just build the next version, you build the next TWO versions at the same time, and the two teams leapfrog each other, not always knowing exactly what the other is up to.

It makes sense if your development cycle is, for instance, 4 years, but you want a release cycle of 2 years. You can't always shorten the development cycle just by throwing more people at it -- sometimes, more people means more inefficiencies, and other times, you have equipment constraints (like, you can only tool 1 model at a time, but you can sculpt more, so you want to keep your tooling team busy as much as possible).

You see this sort of thing in tech R&D all the time. Intel is famous for it on CPUs (like Core processors).

Ohh, that is one, healthy looking Greenskin ;D

via: https://twitter.com/lady_atia



Cheers

 nels1031 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I know the people I play Fantasy with had been lusting after those scenery pieces since T&T. I could have sworn it was discussed before on Dakka as well.

Yeah, pretty sure it was Kroothawk that posted the pics. They've definitely been pictured on this site before.

Speaking of which- where's he gone? not seen him here in yonks!


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Also- nice stuff in the AoS campaign book thingy shown in the GW blog today.

The author Josh Reynolds has an ask.fm page.

He's covered a few odds and sods to do with AoS, at least with regards to his tale set their.

http://ask.fm/JoshMReynolds

Is is possible that any of the stormcast eternals were women, or members from one of the other races like aelfs and duardim? I actually asked about that. The answer I was given was...possibly? It's being left vague intentionally, was my understanding. Nothing stopping you saying yours are aelfs or whatever, if you want

Forgot to put this image up.. those crossbows are really fething huge!!

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 SilverDevilfish wrote:

guru wrote:
GW at Insomnia gaming festival

https://insomniagamingfestival.com/2015/07/14/i55/announcing-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-at-insomnia55/

Taking a hyper casual tabletop game to a super competitive video game festival seems like a really poor idea.

On the contrary, a piece of casual entertainment pie with a beer or two after a hard session of competitive gaming is what most people look for to wind down.

Where Insomnia does have its competitive element it's more, from the times that I have been, about the Youtubers and meet and greets. The past few times that I have been they have had a rather busy table top and board game section. I can see AoS actually doing quite well there and if GW had more of a presence I would likely go more often.