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I have a feeling that we're seeing Throgg removed because we might be seeing a plastic Chaos Trolls kit that can build him.

Didn't realize the beastmen battalion had gone last chance. Not gonna lie. It prompted me to use some of my existing store credit to grab 2 battalions. The set is great and makes an excellent basis for a KoW Herd army and rpg bad guys

Also unlike other boxsets you actually use everything in the Beastmen Battalion.

Yeah, Beast Battalion has decent savings too. Throgg is kinda surprising, he's been specifically mentioned in the new background material, albeit just in passing.

 Red_Zeke wrote:
Yeah, Beast Battalion has decent savings too. Throgg is kinda surprising, he's been specifically mentioned in the new background material, albeit just in passing.

Which is why I'm saying that we'll likely see a new Chaos Trolls kit that can build a beastin' Throgg.

Last Chance To Buy!? The real end times begins...

Looks like I might have to save up some money for any must have kits I want that could get marked as this.

It probable means "last chance to buy our old stock before we have to pay people to repackage them with round bases"

Crap.

Now I have to consider buying a Throgg and Galrauch, unless like you say, they are just about to ger re-based and packaged.

I've not seen anything else (that was just repackaged) hit the 'last chance' section so they may well be on the way out (or getting new sculpts)

although the individual sprues within the skaven and beastmen boxes will probably survive by themselves

Galrauch was mentioned in the End Times stuff. Has he been mentioned in AoS fluff?




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The lack of writing on Naestra and Arahan also dissapoints me.

Oh look. Old minis in new boxes.

That's so going to help AoS skyrocket its sales EVEN MORE.

RoninXiC wrote:
Oh look. Old minis in new boxes.

That's so going to help AoS skyrocket its sales EVEN MORE.

I thought reboxing was a pointless exercise. Then boxing day came, and everything in a white box was gone, and everything in the old red/gold boxes were still there, so, well, I'm convinced. Also, lizardmen sales were horrible at all 3 stores I frequent. Reboxing, and BOOM. Sales are great at two of them. Even the big, huge (super expensive) set sold.

I'm of half a mind that GW outsells its competitors in gaming stores simply because they have nicer boxes

Never judge a book by its cover... but what the heck, buy the one with the nicer artwork.

RoninXiC wrote:
Oh look. Old minis in new boxes.

That's so going to help AoS skyrocket its sales EVEN MORE.

What's your point? They clearly need to rebox everything for Age of Sigmar, and they're throwing in some discounted box sets while they're at it... there's really nothing to be negative about here.

Why do they need to rebox?
Bases do not exist in AoS.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Didn't realize the beastmen battalion had gone last chance. Not gonna lie. It prompted me to use some of my existing store credit to grab 2 battalions. The set is great and makes an excellent basis for a KoW Herd army and rpg bad guys

Also unlike other boxsets you actually use everything in the Beastmen Battalion.

I bought one specifically for Warhammer Quest. A lot of great stuff in there.


The Forsaken will probably get reboxed/rebased.

RoninXiC wrote:
Why do they need to rebox?
Bases do not exist in AoS.

Now you're being obtuse on purpose. They need to rebox because they use round bases for AoS, and because they need to have "Age of Sigmar" on the box instead of "Warhammer Fantasy Battles".

 Necros wrote:
It probable means "last chance to buy our old stock before we have to pay people to repackage them with round bases"

All Lizard Man kits were withdrawn and repackaged with round bases or put into several bundle packs with round bases.

It's obviously better for GW to be able to sell out a legacy army in the old package, because they save money and can sell you expensive round bases too.

If you hang on, though, all the legacy armies are likely to be withdrawn and re-released eventually, with good value starter boxes. But this will take time since they obviously plan to do it alongside new army books. In some cases, e.g. Dwarfadins, it looks like GW may replace the legacy kits with new, more expensive options.

 Mymearan wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Why do they need to rebox?
Bases do not exist in AoS.

Now you're being obtuse on purpose. They need to rebox because they use round bases for AoS, and because they need to have "Age of Sigmar" on the box instead of "Warhammer Fantasy Battles".

So they need new boxes, but not necessarily rebox from 5 to 10.

Or the coloured boxes cost much more than the plastic inside, than GW saves a lot of money if they put the stuff from 2 old boxes into 1 new

 kodos wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Why do they need to rebox?
Bases do not exist in AoS.

Now you're being obtuse on purpose. They need to rebox because they use round bases for AoS, and because they need to have "Age of Sigmar" on the box instead of "Warhammer Fantasy Battles".

So they need new boxes, but not necessarily rebox from 5 to 10.

Or the coloured boxes cost much more than the plastic inside, than GW saves a lot of money if they put the stuff from 2 old boxes into 1 new

Well yeah that's something they don't need to do. It's part of what seems to be a new strategy of lowering prices per model but forcing you to buy more of them to compensate. The bigger box sets have huge savings and these doubled up unit boxes seem to have smaller savings.

 Mymearan wrote:

 kodos wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

RoninXiC wrote:
Why do they need to rebox?
Bases do not exist in AoS.

Now you're being obtuse on purpose. They need to rebox because they use round bases for AoS, and because they need to have "Age of Sigmar" on the box instead of "Warhammer Fantasy Battles".

So they need new boxes, but not necessarily rebox from 5 to 10.

Or the coloured boxes cost much more than the plastic inside, than GW saves a lot of money if they put the stuff from 2 old boxes into 1 new

Well yeah that's something they don't need to do. It's part of what seems to be a new strategy of lowering prices per model but forcing you to buy more of them to compensate. The bigger box sets have huge savings and these doubled up unit boxes seem to have smaller savings.

Which would have been great back in WHFB but doesn't really make sense in AoS. Unless they are trying to turn AoS in to a large scale loose formation game in which case it's even less appealing than it was before

I think "last chance to buy" means those sculpts (or specific boxsets in regards to the battalions) are going the way of the dodo.

To be honest I thought the fat trimming would be much more severe to AoS but so far most of the range is making it through intact.

 Bottle wrote:
I think "last chance to buy" means those sculpts (or specific boxsets in regards to the battalions) are going the way of the dodo.

To be honest I thought the fat trimming would be much more severe to AoS but so far most of the range is making it through intact.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more things added to the "Last Chance" list or just eradicated outright without warning.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
I think "last chance to buy" means those sculpts (or specific boxsets in regards to the battalions) are going the way of the dodo.

To be honest I thought the fat trimming would be much more severe to AoS but so far most of the range is making it through intact.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more things added to the "Last Chance" list or just eradicated outright without warning.

I would be.
They could have gotten rid of the Chaos Knights with the release of Varanguard--but they're not.

We're still, IMO, too early on in AoS to say definitively whether they are discontinuing or removing things without replacements.
Of all the stuff listed? Throgg's Finecast, Galrauch is Finecast(and old+tiny), Tretch Craventail is metal, the Skaven/Beastmen Battalions could just be going away because of rebasing and reboxing potential, and Forsaken did not sell well ever.

Is there an easy link for their "last chance" section? Hard to find on a phone, although I could find any individual item in it. In general I think the site is insane to navigate now but would like to at least bookmark that section.

Also are items in it discounted further, and is there a way to tell by how much?

No discount or anything ritides. Just listing of things that when they eventually sell out will be gone most likely.

And yeah Killkrazy, I expect there to be a new starter style thing for both skaven and beastmen. Probably even relatively soon. But for me I wanted the beastmen battalion because I can use it all. I don't really need a big plastic monster or minotaurs (the only other plastic sets in the range). And I don't care for a lot of the skaven set so I'll happily wait to see if a "Get Started" set comes out for them without plague priests

Yes, a Skaven 'Start Collecting!' with Stormfiends included and we be rolling!

Given that we just got a whole listing of Skaven Clan related stuff, I think it might be more likely we'll see a Clan Pestilens "Start Collecting"

 Kanluwen wrote:

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
I think "last chance to buy" means those sculpts (or specific boxsets in regards to the battalions) are going the way of the dodo.

To be honest I thought the fat trimming would be much more severe to AoS but so far most of the range is making it through intact.

I wouldn't be surprised to see more things added to the "Last Chance" list or just eradicated outright without warning.

I would be.
They could have gotten rid of the Chaos Knights with the release of Varanguard--but they're not.

We're still, IMO, too early on in AoS to say definitively whether they are discontinuing or removing things without replacements.
Of all the stuff listed? Throgg's Finecast, Galrauch is Finecast(and old+tiny), Tretch Craventail is metal, the Skaven/Beastmen Battalions could just be going away because of rebasing and reboxing potential, and Forsaken did not sell well ever.

But Varanguard didn't really replace Chaos Knights did they? I thought they were more "mini-heroes" rather than just run of the mill Knights.

Obviously we're too early, I'm just saying I wouldn't be surprised to see other things added to the list or simply disappear. GW has never been good about telling us when things are going. Things sometimes disappear just before a new release (but not with any significant lead time), just slowly go out of stock (lots of LOTR stuff), sometimes parts of armies just go while other parts linger (Bretonnians). I can't remember what warning we got when Specialist games died, I just remember it being a mad rush.

 Bottle wrote:
I think "last chance to buy" means those sculpts (or specific boxsets in regards to the battalions) are going the way of the dodo.

To be honest I thought the fat trimming would be much more severe to AoS but so far most of the range is making it through intact.

I'm wondering how much trimming is to come. I'm particularly interested in what is going to happen to things like the Empire range (which no longer seems to have a place in the current fluff?).

Honestly the empire range, outside of a few things you could probably incorporate is meh anyway and since so many historicals fill it I think it'd be a good idea to go a different direction. Guess we'll see but I'd expect non-warmachine/monster stuff to go away.

I think I remember seeing a big photo of empire + sigmarines mixed together and painted in similar colors like they are all one big army, I think there was a war altar or 2 mixed in with some other models.

I'm sure they will just be repackaging the plastics eventually and giving them round bases and new names. I'd like to add some of those gryphon knights to my sigmarine army, but I'm gonna wait till they update the bases so everything will match. not like i don't have anything else to paint...