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Hmm I thought this was supposed to be a year long 40k event.

This event is called "Gathering Storm". I can only hope there'll be one hell of a "storm" after Guilliman returns.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
This event is called "Gathering Storm". I can only hope there'll be one hell of a "storm" after Guilliman returns.

I dunno I dont think Guilliman can bri........OH MY GOD HERE HE COMES WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!

I am starting to get the feeling the storm will be the internal conflict within the Imperium.

On a simple branding level, you do not run a business with two main products, both wholly different, yet both called "Warhammer... Age Of..." That's just Trump-level stupid. Can't believe people give that rumour the time of day.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
On a simple branding level, you do not run a business with two main products, both wholly different, yet both called "Warhammer... Age Of..." That's just Trump-level stupid. Can't believe people give that rumour the time of day.

Trump was elected President. Your argument is invalid.

God, 4chan's tg has gone insane over some rumour a madman has made up. Seriously guys, 1st of april is supposed to be 44 days away yet and I see we have plenty of people falling for these things.

I don't believe that this Age of Emperor rumour is true, but the, this is the same company who tought their customers would like to fart, prance around and insult their opponents to get a re-roll, so I can't completely discount it.

 streetsamurai wrote:
I don't believe that this Age of Emperor rumour is true, but the, this is the same company who tought their customers would like to fart, prance around and insult their opponents to get a re-roll, so I can't completely discount it.

I've seen plenty of gamers do all three of those at once without the primise of a reroll, so you never know.

 Digclaw wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
I don't believe that this Age of Emperor rumour is true, but the, this is the same company who tought their customers would like to fart, prance around and insult their opponents to get a re-roll, so I can't completely discount it.

I've seen plenty of gamers do all three of those at once without the primise of a reroll, so you never know.

Quick question:


Someone I was chatting with said he heard that these triumvirate boxes come with the rules for the models in the boxes. Is this true, or are they only available in the books? If they do come in the boxes that would be kind-of new for GW (although they have done this a little in the past).

 Azreal13 wrote:
Know why?

Natfka on Faeit 212 - Total rumors: (420 TRUE) / (858 FALSE) / (78 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE) - Updated 1/10/2017

That's barely a 30% accuracy rate, without accounting for how many of that 420 were self evident, easily predicted or simple luck.

This has always bothered me. Isn't Natfka just an aggregator, reporting everything that comes out regardless of how wafer thin it might be? Seems somewhat unfair to call someone on their reliability when they're not trying to be reliable but rather just a font of all information, no matter how tenuous.

In other words, isn't Natfka less a case of "Here's what's happening next!!!" and more a case of "Here's what we heard what's happening next, do with it what you will.".

Taco Bell on the other hand get their rep from posting "fresh" rumours about 1-2 weeks after everyone else.

 Azreal13 wrote:
You'll notice Alpharius' warning calls for actual, verifiable proof.

And how does one get that? We don't get verifiable proof until the WD hits, and up into that we can say that all rumours are nonsense. Again, it seems unfair to say that if you cannot verify a rumour you can't talk about nor present it. Besides, a verified rumour is an oxymoron. If it's verified, it's not a rumour.

If we can't discuss rumours without someone going "You need proof! Citation needed mother fether!!!" then why discuss them at all?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Know why?

Natfka on Faeit 212 - Total rumors: (420 TRUE) / (858 FALSE) / (78 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE) - Updated 1/10/2017

That's barely a 30% accuracy rate, without accounting for how many of that 420 were self evident, easily predicted or simple luck.

This has always bothered me. Isn't Natfka just an aggregator, reporting everything that comes out regardless of how wafer thin it might be? Seems somewhat unfair to call someone on their reliability when they're not trying to be reliable but rather just a font of all information, no matter how tenuous.

In other words, isn't Natfka less a case of "Here's what's happening next!!!" and more a case of "Here's what we heard what's happening next, do with it what you will.".

Taco Bell on the other hand get their rep from posting "fresh" rumours about 1-2 weeks after everyone else.

There is one author, if another source is cited then Pretre attributes the accuracy to that source, therefore anything attributed to Naftka is invariably baseless nonsense that is written entirely to drive traffic with absolutely no regard to the accuracy of the content, ie clickbait.

 Azreal13 wrote:
You'll notice Alpharius' warning calls for actual, verifiable proof.

And how does one get that?

Not reheating the tepid vomit that is Faeit is probably a good start.

Davor wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:

Perhaps if you read it on an unreliable site, you shouldnt repost it in the first place

I consider it reliable or take the site for what it is, gathers rumours. I just know a few people get upset on here when ever that name or BoLS gets mentioned. I didn't want people chiming in about that. Didn't want to read posts on how bunk those sites are.

*edit*

I didn't see it as a problem. Someone asked a question if there were rumours of new fluff coming out. I answered what I read today. What is wrong in trying to help someone by answering their question? It was the first time I read the "Age of Emperor" actually being used as a title. Someone asked for rumours, I just mentioned what I read today. No foul was ment at all.

Problem is that's about as useful rumour as me claiming 8th edition will be called "Revenge of the Squats!". Either way made up junk.

edit: And the way nafka works wouldn't surprise me if that title soon pops up there as "from reliable anonymous source". They do love to create clickbait "rumours" for money.

 Azreal13 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Azreal13 wrote:
Know why?

Natfka on Faeit 212 - Total rumors: (420 TRUE) / (858 FALSE) / (78 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE) - Updated 1/10/2017

That's barely a 30% accuracy rate, without accounting for how many of that 420 were self evident, easily predicted or simple luck.

This has always bothered me. Isn't Natfka just an aggregator, reporting everything that comes out regardless of how wafer thin it might be? Seems somewhat unfair to call someone on their reliability when they're not trying to be reliable but rather just a font of all information, no matter how tenuous.

In other words, isn't Natfka less a case of "Here's what's happening next!!!" and more a case of "Here's what we heard what's happening next, do with it what you will.".

Taco Bell on the other hand get their rep from posting "fresh" rumours about 1-2 weeks after everyone else.

There is one author, if another source is cited then Pretre attributes the accuracy to that source, therefore anything attributed to Naftka is invariably baseless nonsense that is written entirely to drive traffic with absolutely no regard to the accuracy of the content, ie clickbait.

Exactly. One has to remember that Natfka has a habit of getting a rumour "from Anonymous" or saying "I've heard this..." without attributing it to anyone in particular themselves.
Because of that the rumour gets attributed to them, because they're the only discernible name attached to it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This has always bothered me. Isn't Natfka just an aggregator, reporting everything that comes out regardless of how wafer thin it might be? Seems somewhat unfair to call someone on their reliability when they're not trying to be reliable but rather just a font of all information, no matter how tenuous.

In other words, isn't Natfka less a case of "Here's what's happening next!!!" and more a case of "Here's what we heard what's happening next, do with it what you will."

This has always been Natfka's defense when grumbling over Pretre's tracker. The response is always: Cite your sources! He's just regurgitating bollocks with no attempt at filtering. If he really is just passing on information, he could do worse than to start filtering out those sources that always turn out to be inaccurate or outright false. Perhaps even keep his own internal tracker to see who is the more accurate...

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Hmm I thought this was supposed to be a year long 40k event.

It was more "There is something for every army this year" in that 2016 year end video.

There could be something else after Gathering Storm III. Maybe they'll have a short vignette about the Tau stumbling across some Necrons and then for 3 months, the Orks and...everyone? have anuvah go. Or maybe we'll go straight into the full 13 Black Crusade reaches Terra and all hell breaks loose!

Dunno yet. But Gathering storm is just 3 books according to February WD.

 kronk wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Hmm I thought this was supposed to be a year long 40k event.

It was more "There is something for every army this year" in that 2016 year end video.

There could be something else after Gathering Storm III. Maybe they'll have a short vignette about the Tau stumbling across some Necrons and then for 3 months, the Orks and...everyone? have anuvah go. Or maybe we'll go straight into the full 13 Black Crusade reaches Terra and all hell breaks loose!

Dunno yet. But Gathering storm is just 3 books according to February WD.

Well the storm gathers then their will be a tempest, then the full storm then the aftermath.

 kronk wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Hmm I thought this was supposed to be a year long 40k event.

It was more "There is something for every army this year" in that 2016 year end video.

There could be something else after Gathering Storm III. Maybe they'll have a short vignette about the Tau stumbling across some Necrons and then for 3 months, the Orks and...everyone? have anuvah go. Or maybe we'll go straight into the full 13 Black Crusade reaches Terra and all hell breaks loose!

Dunno yet. But Gathering storm is just 3 books according to February WD.

When a storm gathers, it has to break.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a short few months break with a new AoS campaign book series then back into picking up where the storm breaks.

 Theophony wrote:


Well the storm gathers then their will be a tempest, then the full storm then the aftermath.

That makes the most sense, yes, but has anyone actually said that they are going straight into the "full storm" at this time? They could do that now, or 6 months from now and do something else for a bit.

I don't know. Just throwing it out there.

Do not quote me here but isn't it confirmed it is a three part trilogy. Not gathering storm 1/2/3 only but like.

Gathering storm 1/2/3 , series two 1/2/3, series three 1/2/3

I thought that was mentioned but I may be off, think it was mentioned long ago in this topic. One was the gathering, one was the approach one was the ending or close to kinda like a rebirth.

As I've mentioned before, I think 8th Edition got pushed back from its original intended release. My guess is we'll see at least two more campaigns leading in to it.

And as far as quoting rumors from Nafka, it's kind of like using Wikipedia in a research paper. There's nothing wrong with getting some information there, but make sure to check the sources first and then link to the source instead.

 EnTyme wrote:
As I've mentioned before, I think 8th Edition got pushed back from its original intended release. My guess is we'll see at least two more campaigns leading in to it.

I think you're right, but I don't think it's necessarily them pushing it back.

And as far as quoting rumors from Nafka, it's kind of like using Wikipedia in a research paper. There's nothing wrong with getting some information there, but make sure to check the sources first and then link to the source instead.

That's not too far off, but I'd go a step further and say it's like doing a review of a TV show/video game/whatever by using a fanmade Wikia that doesn't source the submissions.

 cuda1179 wrote:
Quick question:


Someone I was chatting with said he heard that these triumvirate boxes come with the rules for the models in the boxes. Is this true, or are they only available in the books? If they do come in the boxes that would be kind-of new for GW (although they have done this a little in the past).

Yes, the stats and special rules for the trivumerate characters come in the boxes - at least it did for the first set.

The point I was going for was to NOT start up yet another "GW IS GONNA AOS 40K!!!`11~!!!1!!" firestorm, OK?

So until we know for sure that's going to happen - ha! - just DON'T go winding everyone up in various 40K threads about it happening for sure.

That's all!

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Quick question:


Someone I was chatting with said he heard that these triumvirate boxes come with the rules for the models in the boxes. Is this true, or are they only available in the books? If they do come in the boxes that would be kind-of new for GW (although they have done this a little in the past).

Yes, the stats and special rules for the trivumerate characters come in the boxes - at least it did for the first set.

It does not cover all the special rules for each character IIRC - eg not the ones that Celestine can grant to different unit types one per game

 Kanluwen wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 WrentheFaceless wrote:
Hmm I thought this was supposed to be a year long 40k event.

It was more "There is something for every army this year" in that 2016 year end video.

There could be something else after Gathering Storm III. Maybe they'll have a short vignette about the Tau stumbling across some Necrons and then for 3 months, the Orks and...everyone? have anuvah go. Or maybe we'll go straight into the full 13 Black Crusade reaches Terra and all hell breaks loose!

Dunno yet. But Gathering storm is just 3 books according to February WD.

When a storm gathers, it has to break.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see a short few months break with a new AoS campaign book series then back into picking up where the storm breaks.

Summer campaign maybe?

Orks vs tyranids, the result of which, tyranids ingest so much ork DNA, they become one force.

Joyboozer wrote:
Orks vs tyranids, the result of which, tyranids ingest so much ork DNA, they become one force.

Could be tyranids vs Necrons, tyranids assault a world with little life on it as a snack on its way towards xyz planet and it turns out to be a tomb world . The fight comes down to a last tyranids and a flayed one that won't give up its human skin jacket. Of course this idea might have been scrapped due to the whole P.E.T.A. thing a few weeks ago

How about a Crimson Fists v. Orks grudge match? Captain Cortez should be back with the Chapter by now. I bet he is itching to shove a grenade down an Ork's throat.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Quick question:


Someone I was chatting with said he heard that these triumvirate boxes come with the rules for the models in the boxes. Is this true, or are they only available in the books? If they do come in the boxes that would be kind-of new for GW (although they have done this a little in the past).

Yes, the stats and special rules for the trivumerate characters come in the boxes - at least it did for the first set.

It does not cover all the special rules for each character IIRC - eg not the ones that Celestine can grant to different unit types one per game

Yeah the rules in the box don't include Celestine's Saintly Blessings. I don't think they include the relics she unlocks either, but I'm not sure about that one.