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For some reason I thought Looncurse was going up for pre-order today. Is it next weekend?

 Dakka Flakka Flame wrote:
For some reason I thought Looncurse was going up for pre-order today. Is it next weekend?

It's up on the UK site now.

So in other news, very excited about the mercenary option. Been saying for a while it would be great to hire units from the clearly mercenary factions (Fyreslayers, Maneaters, etc) into factions outside the same grand alliance, quite happy to see that become a thing. Also Battletome: Dogs of War confirmed.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

Who is that looming in the background?

Willing to bet that it is some creature/being locked away that Olynder is trying to get out and CP is trying to keep in. The story will end with the Stormcast getting a narrow victory and the prison remaining intact, but damaged such that it is implied the being could break out in the future.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
So in other news, very excited about the mercenary option. Been saying for a while it would be great to hire units from the clearly mercenary factions (Fyreslayers, Maneaters, etc) into factions outside the same grand alliance, quite happy to see that become a thing. Also Battletome: Dogs of War confirmed.

I don't know about overt mercenary factions alone. I always thought it would be fun to field living and dead alongside each other in a Shyish army.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

Who is that looming in the background?

Willing to bet that it is some creature/being locked away that Olynder is trying to get out and CP is trying to keep in. The story will end with the Stormcast getting a narrow victory and the prison remaining intact, but damaged such that it is implied the being could break out in the future.

The stormvaults are supposed to hold awesome things you want to get your hands on and... not so awesome things that Sigmar thinks are better left alone. That's probably the latter, with Olynder going after it and the Sigmarine trying to stop her.

JSG wrote:

 Dakka Flakka Flame wrote:
For some reason I thought Looncurse was going up for pre-order today. Is it next weekend?

It's up on the UK site now.

Thanks, I just checked the U.S. site and it's there too.

For some reason I was being dumb and checked Warhammer Community instead of the actual GW store.

 John Prins wrote:
GW's terrain is better priced than their miniatures, FWIW.

No it isn't. A single Sector Imperialis building costs as much as the old Cities of Death Imperial Sector box that had 4 buildings in it.

App got updated with a few things.

Most notable is the keywords on the Sylvaneth Looncurse items(and only them unfortunately! Well them and Hedonists. ):

Tree-Revenants have "Households".
Arch-Revenants and Kurnoth Hunters both share a "Free Spirits" keyword while lacking "Households".

My negative stance comes from mostly playing fantasy on a skirmish level and for that this terrain does almost nothing for me (though, aesthetically it looks fine). I hope, and it looks like, this will be remedied with the terrain released with warcry.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 John Prins wrote:
GW's terrain is better priced than their miniatures, FWIW.

No it isn't. A single Sector Imperialis building costs as much as the old Cities of Death Imperial Sector box that had 4 buildings in it.

I shudder to think what a Loonshrine-sized normal model would cost though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 John Prins wrote:
GW's terrain is better priced than their miniatures, FWIW.

No it isn't. A single Sector Imperialis building costs as much as the old Cities of Death Imperial Sector box that had 4 buildings in it.

That's not the comparison I made. A better comparison would be, say, a Feculent Gnarlmaw vs a ETB Redemptor Dread, which are similar in size and weight - and cost. And most people consider the ETB kits to be the more reasonably costed kits GW produces. The Basilicanum is 120 CAD while an Imperial Knight is 170 CAD, for roughly the same amount of sprues and weight of plastic.

People are less willing to pay money for terrain than miniatures, and GW can't charge as much for terrain. I wouldn't have my Imperial ruins and Sector Mechanicus stuff if not for the Kill Team bundles.

Those trees have legs (and feet). They're a walking forest the Sylvaneth must bring with them or summon - look like it's game over McDeath!*


*Incidentally this is the origin story of Tolkein's Ents. He was severely let down by the 'walking forest' in Macbeth given it did have witches it in it, so decided to fix that in his book.

If you compare the two side-by-side, the leaves on the "new" trees look to be different to those found on the old Citadel Woods kit. The leaves do look like they are plastic though. I think that could well be a new kit!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
So in other news, very excited about the mercenary option. Been saying for a while it would be great to hire units from the clearly mercenary factions (Fyreslayers, Maneaters, etc) into factions outside the same grand alliance, quite happy to see that become a thing. Also Battletome: Dogs of War confirmed.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

Who is that looming in the background?

Willing to bet that it is some creature/being locked away that Olynder is trying to get out and CP is trying to keep in. The story will end with the Stormcast getting a narrow victory and the prison remaining intact, but damaged such that it is implied the being could break out in the future.

I’ll have to go back and look.
I just thought it was Natasha watching over the scene powerfully

 Haighus wrote:
If you compare the two side-by-side, the leaves on the "new" trees look to be different to those found on the old Citadel Woods kit. The leaves do look like they are plastic though. I think that could well be a new kit!

Yeah I’ve built enough of the Woods I don’t need them side by side to see these leaves are different. The tops are more rounded.

Tastyfish wrote:
Those trees have legs (and feet). They're a walking forest the Sylvaneth must bring with them or summon - look like it's game over McDeath!*


*Incidentally this is the origin story of Tolkein's Ents. He was severely let down by the 'walking forest' in Macbeth given it did have witches it in it, so decided to fix that in his book.

Nah, I think it's exposed roots.

That said, of course it would be new trees the day after I cracked open several unopened boxes from my Wood Elf days.

The "new" Trees in the website banner look very close to ones in the 40k Deathworld terrain, but slightly taller and with thicker trunks. IIRC GW used the same kit as the basis for coral terrain in some of there Idoneth army photos. They could be new but I'm leaning towards a combo of paint job, different assembly, light conversion and photo angle rather than a new sculpt.

These battle boxes are dangerous. I had been considering a gloomspite gitz army but no intention of anything Sylvaneth. Fast forward to Looncurse and I have ordered the box and figure that Sylvaneth are such an easy army to paint so why not keep them? Add to that the incoming battletome and I may as well wait and see what that brings.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:
These battle boxes are dangerous. I had been considering a gloomspite gitz army but no intention of anything Sylvaneth. Fast forward to Looncurse and I have ordered the box and figure that Sylvaneth are such an easy army to paint so why not keep them? Add to that the incoming battletome and I may as well wait and see what that brings.

That's basically GW's (and any other company's) plan for every battlebox. Make it cool enough you buy for one half the army, and a good percentage of people will keep the other half and expand that force as well.

There's also those who buy a box intending to sell one half who end up never selling it and starting an army too.

Esp with GW now pushing several smaller game formats too its very easy to start a new force with not very much and have fun games. Which is working just as GW wants; not only is that helping retain existing customers, but get new ones in through the front door.

The secret is you buy the half that you want on ebay. 80$, free shipping last time I checked. Very hard not to order them, but I can't afford them. Yet...

GaroRobe wrote:
The secret is you buy the half that you want on ebay. 80$, free shipping last time I checked. Very hard not to order them, but I can't afford them. Yet...

Or find someone to split with before you buy. The insidious thing about battleboxes is that they're priced so that if you bought the half you wanted separately, you'd be paying only slightly less, or slightly more, than the cost of the entire battlebox.

I must say I really like these big boxed sets. This one is a bit low in model count, but the miniatures are really lovely. I like those tree revenant things, and the mini-treemen are cool too. And of course, plastic squigs and squig hoppers are a must! I will be putting them on 20mm squares to go with my big Night Goblin army, but can't wait to paint them up. I love the leader models as well, especially the Sylvaneth one.

For what it's worth: in Germany both versions of the set (German and English) are now sold out online.

 Darnok wrote:
For what it's worth: in Germany both versions of the set (German and English) are now sold out online.

When the guy who does orders for the flgs advertised the preorders he warned that quantities might be limited.

 AduroT wrote:

 Darnok wrote:
For what it's worth: in Germany both versions of the set (German and English) are now sold out online.

When the guy who does orders for the flgs advertised the preorders he warned that quantities might be limited.

Well, the GW online store states them as "while stocks last", so yeah. I just did not expect them to sell out that fast.

Element Games over here sold out of their initial stock in the first half hour of Saturday. When I asked them about it, they said they were doing what they could about getting a second allocation. Annoying, but I guess "yay" for the health of the game.

The Warscrolls for the Sylvaneth stuff finally got updated on the GW site.


Arch Revenant

Really liking this stuff. Warscroll Builder is currently down so they're updating it most likely.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Element Games over here sold out of their initial stock in the first half hour of Saturday. When I asked them about it, they said they were doing what they could about getting a second allocation. Annoying, but I guess "yay" for the health of the game.

I noticed that but part is of me wonders if there is an issue between E.G. And GW as other sites, selling it cheaper, took far longer to sell out , and two other f those are equal in size in terms of popularity. Element has had similar supply issues with shadowspear, carrion throne, etc

Goblin and Outpost were same price but free shipping. Both offer free reward points as well.

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Warscrolls for the Sylvaneth stuff finally got updated on the GW site.

Spoiler:

Arch Revenant

Really liking this stuff. Warscroll Builder is currently down so they're updating it most likely.

its up again and yes it has been updated, atleast the Slaanesh part

Well these Looncurse boxes got sold out pretty quick in Belgium too. Looks like people got the lesson from Carrion Empire and didn't take any risk. Oh well, nevermind for me.