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I don't think that ladder would support the weight of the majority of 40k troop size models, stop destroying my immersion GW!

I hope the Shadow Wars has good support for Inquisition and Ad mech factions. This could be an official ruleset for Inquisimunda.

What I'd like to see an ability to recruit and equip models individually, unlike in the Killteam. If it is based on Necromunda, this will probably happen.

Even if they wouldn't produce new Necromunda models for the time being, I think it would be wise to offer rules for gangs as free download or something. It would be a pretty easy way to garner some good will.

H.B.M.C. wrote:What??? A single big terrain piece and general 40K units/races is a "successor" to Necromunda?

You're just not forging the narrative hard enough.

Bull0 wrote:Yeah! Hang on... both those examples work. There's still no Gestapo Workshop stopping you playing WFB. And the community rules for Necromunda and Inq28 are fething fantastic

Every time I say something like that, someone turns up to say that they can't get anyone to play it. It's frustrating, but it happens, and 'just play Necromunda' doesn't fix everything.

 Ghaz wrote:
I wonder how well that terrain piece will link up with some of the existing terrain kits.

The machinery looks like it's designed to match the pipes sets perfectly.

 Dryaktylus wrote:
Of course this is not Necromunda - that would be Specialist Games/Forgeworld's terrain. SW:A seems to be another option for skirmish 40k, that's not a bad thing per se.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

Also, anyone think that Shadow Wars could be a series title

Thought about that too. A deathworld setting would be a logical choice for another game.

Love to have a skirmish game on a chaos world. It would be a bit like AoS but with autoguns.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:

Also, anyone think that Shadow Wars could be a series title

Thought about that too. A deathworld setting would be a logical choice for another game.

Oh gawd not with those recently-released tree blob things though...:-D

But combined with the plastic Catachans it would become a top seller!

Screw the orks and blood angels, I want that terrain

 Bull0 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Just play Necromunda if you want to play Necromunda.

Just play Warhammer Fantasy Battles if you want to play Warhammer Fantasy Battles.

See how that doesn't work?

Yeah! Hang on... both those examples work. There's still no Gestapo Workshop stopping you playing WFB. And the community rules for Necromunda and Inq28 are fething fantastic

Wait, you guys dont have that? Guess I'll need to report you to Gestapo Workshop HQ. An Agent will be deployed.

Biggest question by far is the rules, because supposedly it comes with rules for the different factions.

If each faction requires their own rules to play it. . . how different ARE the rules?

Because if this is a detailed squad skirmish game, then it gets really interesting. . .

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 JohnnyHell wrote:

Also, anyone think that Shadow Wars could be a series title

Thought about that too. A deathworld setting would be a logical choice for another game.

Oh gawd not with those recently-released tree blob things though...:-D

But combined with the plastic Catachans it would become a top seller!

Nah, you get the Wayne Rooney scouts instead...

Well this is certainly a new way to release terrain Really interested to know more about the rules and what other factions are in the book(fingers crossed for GS cults).

The subtitled name looks like this could become a series if it does well enough.

 insaniak wrote:

Chikout wrote:

Yeah, sounds strange but this info comes from the same person who originally posted the pic. He said he was told that the terrain is modular so the picture shown is not the only configuration.

The terrain being modular doesn't mean that there is more of it not shown...

I know, but he also said he was told that this is not all the terrain. That info may be wrong of course, I am just passing on what I read on the war of sigmar blog from a seemingly reliable source ( he provided the picture).
The thought that just occurred to me was with this box being Shadow war: Armageddon, why not have specialist games make Shadow war: Necromunda when they are ready?
I understand the frustration of the fans of the original game but GW seems to be dividing up the way it makes products and specialist games is the nostalgia department. It is 100% clear that they are not going to just stop when Adeptus titanicus is out and Necromunda is a very logical next step.

 Insectum7 wrote:
Biggest question by far is the rules, because supposedly it comes with rules for the different factions.

If each faction requires their own rules to play it. . . how different ARE the rules?

Because if this is a detailed squad skirmish game, then it gets really interesting. . .

Will likely have racial bonuses to start. So you're average Guardsman will be cheap and unremarkable. Orks may be immune to pinning checks. Scouts may have some sort of Stealth skill etc.

But that as ever is only supposition!

Finally, Rogue Trader 2.0! (Or the game we wanted Necromunda to be but never was.)

I feel like the next tease for both 40k and AoS might be another daemons release. Maybe Slaanesh or Nurgle since chaos covers both

The Rogue Trader thing is a good point.

If you can field an Inquisitor, they're relatively easy to adapt to be a Rogue Trader.

Allow gangs/squads etc to be mixed with home brew restrictions of some kind and you're 90% of the way there.

Hmm, the terrain makes it seems like GW is going for something bigger, but I can't get rid of the feeling it will be a small stand alone game like their previous board games.

This could be the greatest thing ever, but I have no faith in current GW to bring us anything more than a game which has a few interesting mechanics but is too simplistic. ST and GOC had a lot of potential imo, but the rules were not developed enough (especially the campaign rules). I expect the same here

Well, I'm cautiously optimistic about Shadow War. The terrain looks good at least. All the recent boxed games I've actually played (Overkill, Execution Force, Betrayal at Calth, Silver Tower) have been pretty good (Silver Tower has some serious flaws with balance, but is still a decent example of it's genre).

Can't really tell from the blurry image but I believe that the models are old ones. If they were doing new plastic orks, surely it would have made sense to make them more thematic kommandos rather than generic boys? A real shame, because decent looking scouts and plastic kommandos would have boosted sales considerably, I suspect.

Your standpoint on GW games is well known by now, streetsamurai!

So where's all the other pics? And indeed products?

Come on Interwebs! Get on it!

After looking at the box art, was I the only one hoping for new Scout/Ork models? :(

What is the aos news?

This Shadow Wars thing looks FREAKING AWESOME

This looks great - if the rules are reasonably simplified, it will be perfect to play with my 7-year old.

So far? New Starter Set, complete with battlemat, and the inside of the box doubles as a piece of terrain - so literally everything you need to play.

Marxist artist wrote:
What is the aos news?

A smaller-scale version of the current AoS starter set being released (without the big models like Khogorath etc.)

Couldn't find the post to quote but was there a few pages back

Khorograth is in - Drake Rider and Chaos Lord aren't.

That terrain looks to have pipe works. I would assume that it is compatible with all the existing pipe work terrain and blood reactors.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Your standpoint on GW games is well known by now, streetsamurai!

yeah, and I'll continue to say it when I feel it add something to the discussion. If you're not happy with it, fell free to press the ignore button