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Anybody know where this is coming from?

Edit: Nevermind found the source:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/02/12/announcing-the-australian-warhammer-championship-store/?fbclid=IwAR3eU9De6CFJWLrz3Quz5BebDzcyenP0wSeRn3ET8YMctJFhL1NRMrKIWs4

 Eldarsif wrote:
Anybody know where this is coming from?

Warhammer World Exclusive.

It's a Warhammer world exclusive (& I guess the Warhammer citadel café place in the USA too) chaos dwarf from forgeworld I think, that's now going to be available at the new Australian Championship store place

That looks pretty amazing. Now I want to see an AoS chaos dwarf army.

Voss wrote:
That looks pretty amazing. Now I want to see an AoS chaos dwarf army.

There's always the FW route. Expensive, but some nice models

I never knew there was such a Evil Sunz T-Shirt.. now I want 2.

 StygianBeach wrote:
I never knew there was such a Evil Sunz T-Shirt.. now I want 2.

I vaguely remember one from way back in the day (part of the skullz program rewards, maybe?). It was better than that. Bigger sun.

With a bit of dye and some stickers it also makes an excellent Def Skullz t-shirt.

In case no-one's noticed yet, Stormfiends got nerfed. No more tooling a whole unit out with the same weapon...

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:
In case no-one's noticed yet, Stormfiends got nerfed. No more tooling a whole unit out with the same weapon...

It makes them a bit of a motley crew and tricky to use; but in general it means that they are nice adaptable unit. It's an interesting move since many wargamers often push for elite style units that have a very singular function; so having a unit that is a generalist is going to be interesting. Sadly I got the kit today and the way they are put together you "can" magnetize them but its a bit of a nightmare and some (shock/flail) have so many little additional parts or pipes that connect on that the only way I can see to magnetize is to accept some losses and cut some pipes/tubes off the model so that they slip together easily.



I think the real weakness is that GW made the rules so that the only way to get units like fiends as battleline requires you to have the Entire army as clan Skyre Models. This is a big limit and limits as you can't then draft in a block of clanrats or something else. It's something that I hope gets clarified in an FAQ. Even if the rule remains as-is it would be good to clarify because its a very restrictive rule in a Tome that is otherwise quite open.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:
In case no-one's noticed yet, Stormfiends got nerfed. No more tooling a whole unit out with the same weapon...

Another victim of "Options for whats exactly on the box". Man, that sucks.

Well... I don't feel bad for that at all. Because really up until today the only stormfiends that really were seen where I am were the auto mass mortal wound version popping out wherever it wanted to on the table.

I feel bad for all the people that had the kits build one form and they they are screwed by GW.

Is the same thing that happened with the Kharadron Overlord "devastators". GW doesn't learn or something. Is not only a problem of removing choices and customization but about screwing people that have built things.

The solution is to balance the options better. This is a fast and horrible fix.

GW is shifting toward a more newbie friendly approach by "what's in the box". It's not a bad policy overall, it has some legacy issues for certain, but its not a bad policy.

Lets not forget Tyranids have had multiple "hero" models that appeared in one codex only to vanish in another then reappear again. Never having a model made it dead easy for GW to remove and add like that and it could mean that an army would have "models" that would never formally appear or have taken so long that they've been withdrawn as an idea!

It gives converters a distinct advantage and not everyone can or wants to convert (and lets not lie, converting can quickly get more expensive than buying new models if you want specific parts - esp if you're new and don't have 20 years of bits box to go through).


Stormfiends are left in an odd position in that they can't be made specialists; they are also not easily magnetizable as many have little detail differences and pile/tube connections so you'd either have to cut all those bits off or accept them flopping a bit; or go utterly crazy with magnets and very tiny ones.

Stormfiends got harder to use, but worse? I'm not so sure. Warpfire got better; they cannot snipe but can vaporize mid to large size units extremely easily, all things considered they are possibly the best in the game at doing so. Windlaunchers got better as well. More importantly there are a bunch of new tools in the army that can buff them to do considerably more damage more reliably than before. Coupled with an even lower point cost and IMO they have actually improved.


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Sidenote: Thanquol is trollolol levels of powerful.


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It also looks like FEC allegiance is reasonably overpowered even if most of the units aren't.

Two new Start Collecting sets up for preorder next Satruday February 23rd--they'll release on March 2nd.

The price points are 55GBP/$90USD) for Idoneth[saves you $35 compared to buying anything individually--and having a Soulrender with Namarti Thralls is just aces...though it'll see diminish returns after awhile, since he's also one of three with no native Command Ability] and 60GBP/$95USD for the Maggotkin[saves you $50 compared to buying everything individually] .

No surprises regarding content there, I think.

Bleh, the character and bumped price really hurts the savings on the Idoneth one. Without the character it saves you $10. Compared to a flat $30 savings before the character on the Blightlords one.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The price points were 55GBP(so $90USD).

If you mean the leaked price hike list, it was 60 for Maggotkin.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The price points were 55GBP(so $90USD).

If you mean the leaked price hike list, it was 60 for Maggotkin.

Thanks for the correction! I forgot Maggotkin was 60GBP, not 55.

Maggotkin isn't a bad price. Too bad I have plenty already painted and really only want the flyguys.

Maybe I'll flip the other bits and keep the mounted dudes....

Booooo, I wanted a Maggoth Lord in the SC :(

I would be interested in a KO start collecting box except that I’ve pretty much got all the KO I’ll ever need. Unless they bring out ‘endless weather’. That’s a different story.

Bad news all around then.
I have 9 storm fiends all with rattling gun setups.
Will have to convert 6 of them again I guess -_-

Then even more bad news with Ixion being made available again.
Kinda pissed about that one.
He's meant to be "exclusive" and was actually part of the reason why I attended games day in the first place.
I like to have a nice collection of these models and when they throw them out again, it starts to damage the value somewhat.

If this becomes a new trend I think I'll pass on anything exclusive if I don't have an army for it.
Until now I picked up 1 of each just as a keepsake.

He's "exclusive" to Warhammer World in the UK, Warhammer Citadel in the US, and the upcoming place in Australia.

That's still pretty damn "exclusive". Not sure why you're concerned about the "value" anyways.

Jackal90 wrote:
Bad news all around then.
I have 9 storm fiends all with rattling gun setups.
Will have to convert 6 of them again I guess -_-

If they are converted you can probably just call them something else unless they are really clear on the gatling look. I have 9x but 3 warpfire, 3 converted warpfire, 3 shockfist (converted weapons). So I'll just call the converted warpfire ratling cannons and the altered shockfists doom flayers. The glory of conversions!

Also, if you end up with more stormfiends thanks to the box set that makes it a bit easier. And they are straight-up 'spam to win' level now.

 StygianBeach wrote:
I never knew there was such a Evil Sunz T-Shirt.. now I want 2.

They were on sale during Spielmesse Essen last year
Not too far from where you live (if I estimated that correctly).

This popped up on TGA, try not to get too excited and make sure you have your salt at the ready.

For the record, it's probably a bit about Pete Foley telling Josh Reynolds to check his Direct Messages on Twitter after Reynolds had said that he would "give a molar to write background for a Free Peoples battletome".

 Kanluwen wrote:
For the record, it's probably a bit about Pete Foley telling Josh Reynolds to check his Direct Messages on Twitter after Reynolds had said that he would "give a molar to write background for a Free Peoples battletome".

Yup, so they are most likely coming soonTM. Which means whenever they are ready.