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Huh. Well...that looks like a decent possibility to me. That's almost 90% accurate. I'll take it. As much as I run a screamer star every game...I'll be crossing my fingers that kind of thing disappears in 8th! From EVERYBODY.

Not intended as a rumour-spreading but more anecdotal backup; when I went into a shop recently and was being rather hesitant about a Gathering Storm-related purchase, the chap behind the counter was at pains to emphasise that it should be valid for at least 3 months. That exact wording, which I thought an odd way of putting it but as I'm hardly a religious forum visitor I just put it down to being something I'd maybe missed.

Or he could have been simply providing reassurance to make a sale. Who knows?

I remember reading something like this a few weeks/months ago. It had all dates for 2017. I think they had one in February or March I though as well as June and can't remember the other two. Maybe one was in September or November.

Isn't June when Rogue Trader was released? If so June does look like a good time to coincide with 30th anniversary of Rouge Trader/40K.

April sees the release of Adeptus Titanicus.

The red dates (dates when staff cannot book holiday due to large releases) have been moved around a few times but the next big managers meeting is late May with the expectation being that it will be the get the new edition out and play with it.

June 3rd pre orders with teasers throughout May and not a lot of 40k till then (but the AoS Duardin, Adeptus Titanicus and perhaps Generals Handbook II to keep people busy) rings true for me.

But bear in mind we are already in March with the White Dwarf giving us the releases for the first half of this month and telling us Adeptus Titanicus is next month and not mentioning 40k. AoS Duardin in May takes us to the new 40k edition in June.

Ben2 wrote:
April sees the release of Adeptus Titanicus.

The red dates (dates when staff cannot book holiday due to large releases) have been moved around a few times but the next big managers meeting is late May with the expectation being that it will be the get the new edition out and play with it.

June 3rd pre orders with teasers throughout May and not a lot of 40k till then (but the AoS Duardin, Adeptus Titanicus and perhaps Generals Handbook II to keep people busy) rings true for me.

But bear in mind we are already in March with the White Dwarf giving us the releases for the first half of this month and telling us Adeptus Titanicus is next month and not mentioning 40k. AoS Duardin in May takes us to the new 40k edition in June.

could be, and gathering storm is from everything we've heard a GREAT place to start a new edition

Ben2 wrote:
April sees the release of Adeptus Titanicus.

The red dates (dates when staff cannot book holiday due to large releases) have been moved around a few times but the next big managers meeting is late May with the expectation being that it will be the get the new edition out and play with it.

June 3rd pre orders with teasers throughout May and not a lot of 40k till then (but the AoS Duardin, Adeptus Titanicus and perhaps Generals Handbook II to keep people busy) rings true for me.

But bear in mind we are already in March with the White Dwarf giving us the releases for the first half of this month and telling us Adeptus Titanicus is next month and not mentioning 40k. AoS Duardin in May takes us to the new 40k edition in June.

I thought the last information about Titanicus was it is delayed indefinitely until a production slot opens up.

As for Duardin I was under the impression there fans were a little like 40k SoB fans and ever next release is theres on the thinest evidence. For example pretty much every maximum zoom in teaser image shown has been claimed as duardin.

So not sure your timeframe holds up

AT could have been delayed, digital White dwarf does not mention it



spanish white dwarf

" A tale of four Warlords".

A Warlord:



Could it be...?

GunSmith wrote:
" A tale of four Warlords".

A Warlord:



Could it be...?

Do do do do do doo

Davor wrote:
I remember reading something like this a few weeks/months ago. It had all dates for 2017. I think they had one in February or March I though as well as June and can't remember the other two. Maybe one was in September or November.

Isn't June when Rogue Trader was released? If so June does look like a good time to coincide with 30th anniversary of Rouge Trader/40K.

Rogue Trader was released around WD issue 93 (teaser in #92) back in September 1987



40k's 25th anniversary was celebrated in early 2012 though, and GW may take a more liberal approach again.

June sounds fine, several 40k and WFB editions were released in summer

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What a time to be alive.

3 editions in 5 years.

You think they'd know what they were doing by now.

 Hulksmash wrote:
From what I hear it's going to be a fairly significant shift. Think 2nd to 3rd vs. 5th to 6th.

Here comes the AoS'ening of 40K's rules.

Awww man, what did you do?!

Now we'll get all the humourless posters up in here saying they're not AOSing 40K because everything isn't exactly the same as when they did that to WHFB!!!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What a time to be alive.

3 editions in 5 years.

You think they'd know what they were doing by now.

The current edition is a bit of a big mess. It needs a 2nd to 3rd style reboot on the rules side ideally with more modern mechanics.

I don't think that is what will happen though, just a lot of fine tuning. Hopefully making the game easier to get into and removing barriers to entry.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
From what I hear it's going to be a fairly significant shift. Think 2nd to 3rd vs. 5th to 6th.

Here comes the AoS'ening of 40K's rules.

Can't wait to use my Tyranid MC's again. Maybe they'll be able to kill stuff in melee!

GunSmith wrote:
" A tale of four Warlords".

A Warlord:



Could it be...?

Would be nice, but it's likely the article/blog of 4 gamers starting new armies they currently have going...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What a time to be alive.

3 editions in 5 years.

You think they'd know what they were doing by now.

 Hulksmash wrote:
From what I hear it's going to be a fairly significant shift. Think 2nd to 3rd vs. 5th to 6th.

Here comes the AoS'ening of 40K's rules.

You mean tanks finally get to be useful? Well, my basilisks all of a sudden a re a bunch of happy chaps.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What a time to be alive.

3 editions in 5 years.

You think they'd know what they were doing by now.

 Hulksmash wrote:
From what I hear it's going to be a fairly significant shift. Think 2nd to 3rd vs. 5th to 6th.

Here comes the AoS'ening of 40K's rules.

You mean tanks finally get to be useful? Well, my basilisks all of a sudden a re a bunch of happy chaps.

Or the game is fun again. That could happen too

I heard 8th is going to simplify the hell out of the game?

is this true?

I don't care if it looks like AoS, infinity, or a mule's hindlegs. 40k as it is is an almost unplayable game due to their method of solving issues (aka: cranking more USRs and intensifying the needed book-keeping) and relentless power-creep. Meanwhile look at AoS. The powerboys got nerfed but got to add more variety of viable builds to adjust the powercurve.

I love how vague that that image is in the OP.. No actual point of reference except of 2 dates that could be for any month.. past or present

GodDamUser wrote:
I love how vague that that image is in the OP.. No actual point of reference except of 2 dates that could be for any month.. past or present

Well, it specifies June, but not WHICH June

GW preorder/releases are on saturday

3rd june 2017 is saturday
17th june 2017 is saturday

And the White Dwarf with the release stuff will be out on the 2nd.

Now to make this rampant speculation even more hard to take. Apparently there will be teasers this month from GW about upcoming products and I recall that some of them won't be released for months or perhaps even until close to the end of the year.

So if 8th is happening. What will be released between it and after it this year? What race will get the honors of the first big release of 8th?

It's all a big race now.

Edit
When do we expect GS3 ending spoilers to drop?

I really hope it's 8th.

 Gamgee wrote:

Edit
When do we expect GS3 ending spoilers to drop?

These already dropped didn't they?

Ben2 wrote:
The current edition is a bit of a big mess. It needs a 2nd to 3rd style reboot on the rules side ideally with more modern mechanics.

I don't think that is what will happen though, just a lot of fine tuning. Hopefully making the game easier to get into and removing barriers to entry.

I (mostly) agree with you. I don't think it has anything to do with 'modern mechanics' though. They could take the game back to its 3rd Ed roots, create a robust and extensive system of universal special rules that rather than constantly making special case rules, ditch the fething formation nonsense completely, and it would work. No need to reinvent the wheel.

But yes, burn and churn for the current state of the game. That is required, and sadly, as you said, I don't think it'll happen.

Ben2 wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:

Edit
When do we expect GS3 ending spoilers to drop?

These already dropped didn't they?

Link?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I (mostly) agree with you. I don't think it has anything to do with 'modern mechanics' though. They could take the game back to its 3rd Ed roots, create a robust and extensive system of universal special rules that rather than constantly making special case rules, ditch the fething formation nonsense completely, and it would work. No need to reinvent the wheel.

But yes, burn and churn for the current state of the game. That is required, and sadly, as you said, I don't think it'll happen.

See I disagree with the Formations things here.. The idea of formations are awesome and is meant for you to make more fluffy armies

Its just the select few that are too strong that make people rue them

Ben2 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
What a time to be alive.

3 editions in 5 years.

You think they'd know what they were doing by now.

The current edition is a bit of a big mess. It needs a 2nd to 3rd style reboot on the rules side ideally with more modern mechanics.

I don't think that is what will happen though, just a lot of fine tuning. Hopefully making the game easier to get into and removing barriers to entry.

Agreed. There are a ton of good things about AoS. And how they are handling that game is amazing for GW. The game plays fast and fun and is solid competitively. And they adjust the competitive level regulary. So "AoSing" rules wise would actually be amazing. I don't think it's going to go that far but let's be real. If they'd released points and the match play book when AoS started it would have taken off like a rocket. The fact that it is growing pretty fast at a competitive level now in the US indicates they're doing something right.

40k is a poop show right now of rules bloat and games that don't finish. I welcome our 8th edition overlords under NuGW.