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Unless I'm totally missing the concept of Warhammer Day, it's not the type of "event" where we're likely to get any further information about the future of AT.

What is the next big convention where we're likely to get news?

No idea, but they've talked enough at Warhammer Fest and now just need to get on with it.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warhammer-40-000?N=1125463923+3155674414&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AGB_gw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_GB_gw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1562241360000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1562241360000%5D

reaver weapon cards and command terminals are on last chance to buy for those who picked up the kit but didn't get round to getting the rest yet

They've been LCTB for a while. And they will be restocked in time.

The upcoming White Dwarf will feature "Crusade Titan Legions"....

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/07/04/white-dwarf-preview-julygw-homepage-post-3fw-homepage-post-3/

...which is make your own Legio.

If it truly is a method to make your own Legio rules, then big thumbs up!

My concern is that it will be about the theory behind Legio creation without the rules to support it.

They should at least cover "Traits, Stratagems and Wargear".

Unless you have some spectacular options to pick I reckon it'd probably be better to just proxy your legio as some other existed one.

Chopstick wrote:
Unless you have some spectacular options to pick I reckon it'd probably be better to just proxy your legio as some other existed one.

That has always been the way; you trade a certain amount of raw power for the flexibility of greater customisation.
The best path is of course to come up with your own Legio with full background and custom rules than head up to Warhammer World and play test it wit the devs, while simultaneously launching a charm offensive to get your Legio published as an ‘official’ one.

We don't know yet. Of the existing legios, very few actually have good traits, strats, wargear and princeps abilities. For example Astorum have awesome traits and a good stratagem, but no wargear and awful princeps traits - and they are one of the best legios.

So it could very well be possible for homebrew legios to be better than any of the established legios without any of their individual abilities being especially strong. You'd just need to pick abilities in every "slot" that actually did something - anything - and you'd be better off than a lot of the written legios.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/07/07/coming-soon-something-for-everyone/

Scroll down for Acastus Knights Porphyrion as well as a several packs of cards. It seems there's a "hero" pack and two packs of tactical cards, one for Imperials one for Heretics.

Two hero packs; one loyalist, one traitor, to match the stratagem cards and dice sets.
Also, the generic Acastus terminal set too.

Ooooh nice, I think I may have to pick up some chonky bois. 2 to a box I assume.

Might actually be one per; they are quite chunky as you say. But then they start to look Titan-priced which would be bad. We’ll see on Saturday I guess.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Might actually be one per; they are quite chunky as you say. But then they start to look Titan-priced which would be bad. We’ll see on Saturday I guess.

Warhounds are two to a box and Porphyrion’s are slightly smaller, I suppose I’m basing my assumption from there.

Thank gawd for that! It was late coming, but super happy for the Acastus' release, along with the dice sets of which I'll get one set and the other later on.

Nice to see the Thousand Sons set! Not a chaos player, but the Tzeentch range is stunning - especially Ahriman - so I think that'll be one for the following month. I take the Tzaangors are the AoS set with two upgrade sprues?

OMG, An Eldar dude who looks cool too! I'll have to sneak him in somewhere...


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 Nostromodamus wrote:
Ooooh nice, I think I may have to pick up some chonky bois. 2 to a box I assume.

Looking at the points on the Command terminals, its 90pts for a banner, so if the Cerastus is 130 pts for two models...I've got a feeling he'll be on his own, assuming they sell them on a "minimum banner" basis(Qs 3, Cs 2, As 1). Also, its sprue indicates a complete, single model.

That said, it would be cool if they do a double pack with discount!

Acastus will be 2 per box (2 sprues, 1 per sprue), it was confirmed during the Warhammer Fest when they were initially shown iirc.

How nice of them to release the Porphyrion. I was afraid the wait was going to be longer.

Hope the next batch of FW weapons are coming this Friday then. The first two were launched the same week as the last AT release.

Sooooo....look like they save that Questoris upgrade pack to quench the content drought for some other time.

Mendi Warrior wrote:
Acastus will be 2 per box (2 sprues, 1 per sprue), it was confirmed during the Warhammer Fest when they were initially shown iirc.

Ah, if thats the case then it'll be interesting to see how much they cost. £35 would make sense as they share packaging, but if £40 then they might as well do them singular.


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Chopstick wrote:
Sooooo....look like they save that Questoris upgrade pack to quench the content drought for some other time.

Possibly released at the same time as the Reaver carapace weapons?

I'd hope for £30 or under for the Porphyrons. More than that is into warhound territory. Hounds are actually about twice as many points as a Porphyron.

Two per box is actually a bit annoying, as you'll probably want to field a lance of three most of the time.

Chopstick wrote:
Sooooo....look like they save that Questoris upgrade pack to quench the content drought for some other time.

I suspect we'll see that launched alongside the Warlord and Reaver carapace weapons FW have previewed.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Chopstick wrote:
Sooooo....look like they save that Questoris upgrade pack to quench the content drought for some other time.

I suspect we'll see that launched alongside the Warlord and Reaver carapace weapons FW have previewed.

I doubt that, actually. Those are going to be resin guns so they'll likely be on FW's site along with the quake and macro gatling. They'll be released on a Friday with FW's schedule.

The knight sprue is plastic so it'll go out on a Saturday and be sold through the main site, like everything else. And apparently it might be used in a reboxing of the questoris knights.

RRP - £30 for two Acastus. £15 for the terminals, £15 for the dice.

Do we have a sauce on those prices?

I hope that translates to 40€ for the Knights.

That price translate into 50-60 USD Somebody should make an in dept documentary on why shrinking existing model, skipping the design process lead to substantially more expensive kit compared to Blood Bowl or Necromunda, I'm dumb.

That's still cheaper than buying 2 box of questoris knight, so great, i guess.....

Chopstick wrote:
That price translate into 50-60 USD Somebody should make an in dept documentary on why shrinking existing model, skipping the design process lead to substantially more expensive kit compared to Blood Bowl or Necromunda, I'm dumb.

That's still cheaper than buying 2 box of questoris knight, so great, i guess.....

Few factors:

1) Design work. Just because a model exists doesn't mean there's a "reduce scale 400%" button that works. Even if there was, you have a model designed for 28mm resin production that has to be translated to 6mm HIPS production which has different requirements. While it can be likened more to an edit than a full-out creation due to the existing template and assets, there is still a ton of design work and engineering to be done.

2) Production scale. This is speculation, but Blood Bowl likely has a larger following than AT given that the former has been played continuously while the latter kind of was subsumed by Epic which was not a Titan-focused game and then recently re-launched. Thus GW likely expects to shift more units of any given Blood Bowl team. While AT has sold well, we don't have access to the overall production numbers. It could very well be that BB production runs are 10x what an AT product gets, thus meaning an economy of scale.

3) Because they can (which is probably the primary reason). I have a feeling they intend for Blood Bowl and Necromunda to be pitched as "casual" games to attract random people who might happen upon them in a store and thus they want to keep the price point low. Hewitt has mentioned in interviews how GW intended for AT to be marketed to more "veteran" gamers. I'm fairly sure that's corporatespeak for "people who are used to paying a lot". The relative cost of the starter sets certainly alludes to this idea. They aren't really trying to draw in the random observer directly, and so they're pricing at what they think they can get and not what would draw people in.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Do we have a sauce on those prices?

Sweet Chilli. Or I can do BBQ!

It's from a trader email.