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Chikout wrote:
Those Bonereaper prices are less than I was expecting, especially the Harvester and Katakros himself. Maybe they are smaller than they look.

Harvester is smaller - if you look at the photos its closer to a carnifex or dreadnought - which honestly is still plenty big but "modest" by today's standards. Meanwhile the crawler looks to be huge, though will have a variable height depending in what position you put the arm. I'm hoping it might even be possible to practically magnetize the joining spot for the arm so that you can move it into different firing positions. For transport arm down is best, then during the game having it up in the air firing.

Are the cav skellis 3 or 5 to a box? 20 skellies would be a good enough proce and I'll get a harvester to use as...something, but 45 for 3 cav when your sample list has 35 of them would be, uh, fun. The catapult being so expensive is not a surprise, but still a bummer, if it was cheaper I'd get one as a more knightly plagueclaw count-as.

 Binabik15 wrote:
Are the cav skellis 3 or 5 to a box? 20 skellies would be a good enough proce and I'll get a harvester to use as...something, but 45 for 3 cav when your sample list has 35 of them would be, uh, fun. The catapult being so expensive is not a surprise, but still a bummer, if it was cheaper I'd get one as a more knightly plagueclaw count-as.

Looks like 5 - 5 shown in the preorder image and all 5 mounts are different.

Chikout wrote:
Always a lot of conspiracy theories about these box sets. Gw doesn't limit supply to drive up demand , they do it to limit risk.
The last time I remember reading numbers for these sets was that they do a run of 10,000 copies each time. That number may have increased recently but probably not by much.

From gw's point of view it is far better to produce 10,000 copies and sell them all, than to make 20,000 and sell 17,000. These are big boxes that cost a lot to ship and stock. They also take up a lot of shelf space in stores. Gw has had warehouse issues recently. They don't want stuff lying around taking up valuable warehouse space.

There are lots of stories about companies going out of business after making too many copies of something. The landfill full of et games springs to mind. I can't think of a single famous case of a business going bust by selling too few copies of a popular product.

Sorry to say I think your estimate is inaccurate. Look at their limited edition stuff, usually under 1000 units. I think you would be surprised at the actual number of units GW makes of these not limited/ yet limited release sets. I bet you GW won't answer that one for a reason. They use it as a gimmick and a cheap gauge to see how much of additional units they need to produce for said army.

There is no way GW had 10000 of these to sell look at the pure math. Selling out in less then an hour at most countries I dunno. While I think there are 10,000 people out there who would drop the money on the set, I don't think GW produces it. It is more of a loss for them anyway as it is more of a gimmick to drive up sales and prices. It works well. Driving up the prices of the box and making people believe they get a deal, causes them to sell out. They release contents of box and now can raise the prices as they already got your mind set that it is a savings reguardless of the prices they charge. And you have to buy it or else you can't get it again. So rather then people boycotting them, they get into a panic that i need it. Thus filling GW's pockets, not on the box set.. but on all the other purchases the box set mania creates. GW is like a kardasian, they can be rediculous as they want but cause anything they sell to turn to gold. It is pretty sick to be honest but true how easy the consumer is to manipulate. Create a little fake demand and people go crazy. It is the let 10 people in line in the club effect, so the masses wait outside the doors. Smoke and mirrors. Create the demand, however you can, through lack of supply is a great economical way... then you can charge what you want.

There's no way this box had a print run of more than a few thousand. 10,000 boxes would be obscene. You'd be tripping over stacks of them on clearance in every Warhammer store and comic book shop.

 Overread wrote:

Chikout wrote:
Those Bonereaper prices are less than I was expecting, especially the Harvester and Katakros himself. Maybe they are smaller than they look.

Harvester is smaller - if you look at the photos its closer to a carnifex or dreadnought - which honestly is still plenty big but "modest" by today's standards. Meanwhile the crawler looks to be huge, though will have a variable height depending in what position you put the arm. I'm hoping it might even be possible to practically magnetize the joining spot for the arm so that you can move it into different firing positions. For transport arm down is best, then during the game having it up in the air firing.

You can build your Mortek Crawler in a loading or firing position, or, if you like, leave the arm free to pivot on its own.

From the pre-order preview article.

 Sqorgar wrote:
There's no way this box had a print run of more than a few thousand. 10,000 boxes would be obscene. You'd be tripping over stacks of them on clearance in every Warhammer store and comic book shop.

Not at all. Gw has more than 500 stores world wide and a much larger number of independent stockists. That means less than 10 copies each leaving 0 for gw online.
Element games in the UK shares their stock numbers. They got 200 copies, so we know some places got way more than 10 copies.
Another way to look at it is that gw made £240 million last year not counting royalties. That an average of 41,000 Mawtribes per week.

Chikout wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
There's no way this box had a print run of more than a few thousand. 10,000 boxes would be obscene. You'd be tripping over stacks of them on clearance in every Warhammer store and comic book shop.

Not at all. Gw has more than 500 stores world wide and a much larger number of independent stockists. That means less than 10 copies each leaving 0 for gw online.
Element games in the UK shares their stock numbers. They got 200 copies, so we know some places got way more than 10 copies.
Another way to look at it is that gw made £240 million last year not counting royalties. That an average of 41,000 Mawtribes per week.

Well with looncurse they each got 2. A lot of vendors canceled their 100 plus preorders... most of the ones who sale online. So I highly doubt most stores got 10. Maybe some of the bigger stores in certain locations.

200 orders is not 200 copies. GW didn't care about fulfilling orders before and they won't now. The idea isn't to sell as many as they can, it is to sell X amount and make sure they sell out as fast as possible to get people to buy more and so they can justify price increases... All gimmics. Any other place that failed as miserable as GW did in fulfilling preorders for Carrion Empire wouldn't have heads after what happenend with Looncurse, unless it was intentional.

 DaveC wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
Are the cav skellis 3 or 5 to a box? 20 skellies would be a good enough proce and I'll get a harvester to use as...something, but 45 for 3 cav when your sample list has 35 of them would be, uh, fun. The catapult being so expensive is not a surprise, but still a bummer, if it was cheaper I'd get one as a more knightly plagueclaw count-as.

Looks like 5 - 5 shown in the preorder image and all 5 mounts are different.

Wow, I managed to completely overlook that article between all those faction previews and other pieces about the bonedudes.

With 5 to a box I might get a box one day for more exotic mounts for Nurgle knights.

I'm wondering if the trebuchets legs might work on a plagueburst crawler hull, will be interested to see how the sizes match up when the local store gets them in

Was reading the article Bonereaper list building and at the bottom was this gem:

"Help”, your enemies will cry, “I want to get off Mr Arkhan’s Wild Ride”.

I never thought I'd see the day when the Warhammer Community site references a meme, especially something kind of obscure like Mr. Bone's Wild Ride. Its nice to see GW having more fun with these articles.

GaroRobe wrote:
Was reading the article Bonereaper list building and at the bottom was this gem:

"Help”, your enemies will cry, “I want to get off Mr Arkhan’s Wild Ride”.

I never thought I'd see the day when the Warhammer Community site references a meme, especially something kind of obscure like Mr. Bone's Wild Ride. Its nice to see GW having more fun with these articles.

I thought they were referencing Mr Toad’s Wild Ride

Cataphract wrote:

GaroRobe wrote:
Was reading the article Bonereaper list building and at the bottom was this gem:

"Help”, your enemies will cry, “I want to get off Mr Arkhan’s Wild Ride”.

I never thought I'd see the day when the Warhammer Community site references a meme, especially something kind of obscure like Mr. Bone's Wild Ride. Its nice to see GW having more fun with these articles.

I thought they were referencing Mr Toad’s Wild Ride

I highly recommend going through Mr. Bone's wild ride:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Wxzbl


I do like the look of the Arkhan list. I'm not big on the core skeleton units, but they don't look terrible when they lack noses. And I like the harvesters. They're derpy but not the worst thing this army has.

GaroRobe wrote:
Was reading the article Bonereaper list building and at the bottom was this gem:

"Help”, your enemies will cry, “I want to get off Mr Arkhan’s Wild Ride”.

I never thought I'd see the day when the Warhammer Community site references a meme, especially something kind of obscure like Mr. Bone's Wild Ride. Its nice to see GW having more fun with these articles.

Obscure? That meme is a classic. Much better than stupid fortnite dances and 420 blaze it.

New WHC article about Bonereaper tactics
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/29/ossiarch-bonereapers-tactics-from-a-progw-homepage-post-2/
Which mainly leaves me with the big question of "where the heck is my bone fortress?"

New terrain, some of which we haven’t seen before.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/31/happy-halloween/

Although it looks like something that should be on sale, I think that it was revealed a while back that this was just studio-made stuff and not for general release.

Sadly...

 nels1031 wrote:
New terrain, some of which we haven’t seen before.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/31/happy-halloween/

On Facebook they've said it was built by their Armies and Battlefields team. It's not new terrain kits.

Ah snap

Looks like tomorrow we will be seeing details on the STD releases given their AOS FB Page just put up the Chaos Undivided Star...

fresh from bation games (twitter: @games_bastion)

What the hell is that majestic beast?!

I have no idea but I want one (at least). I just really hope I can use it in a Slaanesh/Slaves army!

That Humanoid with the horns looks like the Ogre Thamaturge, so I hope it's some more of those, and not a new design for Warhammer Minotaurs (they need to not have such a human face IMO). That 'elegant beast' doesn't seem very chaotic. Looks more elven, or perhaps Sylvan (wood Elfy)? Perhaps both are for some new army based on the Kurnothi Hunters from Beastgrave?

The Ogroid looks 100% chaos, but I also agree that the majestic champius creature of glory could potentially be Light Aelf which would make me cream slightly. I really hope it’s not just for some random side game.

Note that these are most likely Warcry releases:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/30/warcry-the-future-of-the-eightpoints/

Well the ogroid is literally on the cover, so that answers that...

:C

They’re definitely Warcry releases, one of the uncropped photos shows ‘new Warcry Monsters revealed!’ as the video title.

weren't there supposed to be reveals this weekend?