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For the most part, Gorkamorka played a lot like Necromunda and Mordheim. The primary difference was the use of vehicles. Instead of having rules for the number of occupant in a trukk, one simply had to have enough space on the actual model to place the miniatures on. While this means that vehicles could be huge and hold a whole mob this generally resulted in crashing into everything and being immediately crippled by template weapons. As well, consider the risk of relying on one or two large vehicles: your gak will get countered hard by the other players in the campaign and one bad roll that leaves your vehicle broken at the onset means being gimped or losing a match before it even begins. Its best to have as many specialized vehicles as possible, with back-ups and spares as needed. It should noted that the base of Gorkamorka model are different. Rather than using a standard circle base seen in standard Warhammer 40k, Gorkamorka used these strange egg shaped bases. The idea was that the bases would be small enough so that the players could jam as many models onto a truck. You can't get these bases anymore but custom-cut plasticard bases work just as well.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Gorkamorka

Maybe those are the strange bases?

Nah. Gorkamorka had tiny bases, rather than the round slottas of the era.

Someone put a tremendous amount of effort into not taking photos of everything. Bravo.

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
Doesn't anyone else think this is all a little too coincidental?

Yesterday we had Phil Kelly harping on about Orks going off to race in a video supposedly about "lore for a boxed set of GSC vs SW". The Orkish races have also been mentioned in articles.

The same damn day someone leaks pics of a Gorkamorka 2.0 boxed set called Speed Freeks?

Am I the only one who thinks this is all a brilliant intentional marketing technique employed by GW? In which case they have a video ready. Just as they did for Rogue Trader....

I think a number of the out of focus, shaky pictures that has leaked lately is by GW marketing.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Someone put a tremendous amount of effort into not taking photos of everything. Bravo.

Exactly!

 An Actual Englishman wrote:


Am I the only one who thinks this is all a brilliant intentional marketing technique employed by GW? In which case they have a video ready. Just as they did for Rogue Trader....

I can tell you explicitly that Rogue Trader was not supposed to leak so early, it really did force their hand. From what I've been told, most leaks are anticipated (whether it's a GW staffer or someone further down the supply chain) but some are meant to be kept locked away (Rogue Trader). The RT one in particular spawned a pretty heavy internal investigation AFAIK.

 Eiríkr wrote:

I can tell you explicitly that Rogue Trader was not supposed to leak so early, it really did force their hand. From what I've been told, most leaks are anticipated (whether it's a GW staffer or someone further down the supply chain) but some are meant to be kept locked away (Rogue Trader). The RT one in particular spawned a pretty heavy internal investigation AFAIK.

Well, that probably explains why the bloody thing is still not released. Feels like I've been waiting for it forever.

These leaked photos are amazing. Why could someone not just turn over the box and take a clear picture of the back of the box? As for rogue trader, that looked like it leaked out of the studio, given how early it was. That is a much more serious problem.

Chance they may not announce owt until the weekend with Warhammerfest Europe?

 Eiríkr wrote:

 An Actual Englishman wrote:


Am I the only one who thinks this is all a brilliant intentional marketing technique employed by GW? In which case they have a video ready. Just as they did for Rogue Trader....

I can tell you explicitly that Rogue Trader was not supposed to leak so early, it really did force their hand. From what I've been told, most leaks are anticipated (whether it's a GW staffer or someone further down the supply chain) but some are meant to be kept locked away (Rogue Trader). The RT one in particular spawned a pretty heavy internal investigation AFAIK.

This. Why would they leak shaky photos days before big trade show and burn one big surprise they had? Think people, GW gains nothing from leaking 2 terrible photos, most likely someone just snapped a quick pic when no one was looking. Effort to 'not photo everything'? Maybe, just maybe, he made a picture of the big thing and wasn't obsessed with every unimportant thing inside...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Someone put a tremendous amount of effort into not taking photos of everything. Bravo.

I know... obviously GW. If it was a real leaker he would have flipped through everything. I mean even showing "Beast" and cutting it allmoff with an easy to remove base makes this look staged. Anyway, it doesn't matter who leaked it. A a leak is a leak.

 Irbis wrote:

 Eiríkr wrote:

 An Actual Englishman wrote:


Am I the only one who thinks this is all a brilliant intentional marketing technique employed by GW? In which case they have a video ready. Just as they did for Rogue Trader....

I can tell you explicitly that Rogue Trader was not supposed to leak so early, it really did force their hand. From what I've been told, most leaks are anticipated (whether it's a GW staffer or someone further down the supply chain) but some are meant to be kept locked away (Rogue Trader). The RT one in particular spawned a pretty heavy internal investigation AFAIK.

This. Why would they leak shaky photos days before big trade show and burn one big surprise they had? Think people, GW gains nothing from leaking 2 terrible photos, most likely someone just snapped a quick pic when no one was looking. Effort to 'not photo everything'? Maybe, just maybe, he made a picture of the big thing and wasn't obsessed with every unimportant thing inside...

Also if he was snagging a picture with his phone in a warehouse enviroment it's possiable he needed to take a pic well dodging securty.

we'll never know, but I've always assumed a lot of the leaks we've gotten from GW was marketing, this certainly explains why leaks suddenly ground to a near halt when GW started communiating via marketing better

 Irbis wrote:

This. Why would they leak shaky photos days before big trade show and burn one big surprise they had? Think people, GW gains nothing from leaking 2 terrible photos, most likely someone just snapped a quick pic when no one was looking. Effort to 'not photo everything'? Maybe, just maybe, he made a picture of the big thing and wasn't obsessed with every unimportant thing inside...

And yet he took the time to rummage through the box and take a photo of the bases and a partial sprue pic, instead of the back of the box which would show everything in 1 go.

Looks like the box is part of a display (for Warhammer Fest Europe, presumably). Easy to get a quick shot like that, not so easy to lift up the box without everything falling out.

Well, the real question here is: Are these two separate kits, or one kit repeated ~3-4 times? Will this box set just be three identical new deffbuggy kits?

Haha, yeah... in the time it took to open the box from its seal he could have jist looked at the back and said "oops, it fell over so I was picking it up"

Great to see the sprues - this looks fantastic. Is it just me or are the yellow and red sprues different? Can’t see that big rectangular piece on the red sprue?

 Irbis wrote:
This. Why would they leak shaky photos days before big trade show and burn one big surprise they had? Think people, GW gains nothing from leaking 2 terrible photos, most likely someone just snapped a quick pic when no one was looking. Effort to 'not photo everything'? Maybe, just maybe, he made a picture of the big thing and wasn't obsessed with every unimportant thing inside...

I just find it hard to believe that, particularly for RT, GW are able to pull out a pretty high quality video within hours (not even days) of a leak happening. I could get it with this 'leak' as GW will no doubt have a video for WH Fest (if that was the intended release announcement) but I find it a bit weird they'd have a video previewing RT just ready to go for no reason.

GW has quite a lot to gain from leaks like this too - now everyone is pumped up and excited about the product. We can't wait to hear more, whether it's from WarCom or at War Fest. They are building hype. I've never seen a phone camera as bad as the one this leaker is using.

Perhaps the announcement at WarFest will be even more mind blowing?! Perhaps they have another trick up their sleeve and this is a sneaky ploy to take our minds off what might be announced there?

 Oguhmek wrote:
Great to see the sprues - this looks fantastic. Is it just me or are the yellow and red sprues different? Can’t see that big rectangular piece on the red sprue?

Correct, the buggies from the artwork on the front of the box are the same as the sprues. It looks to me like there's 3 or 4 different buggy kits in here, possibly 2. They definitely aren't the same though.

 lolman1c wrote:
Haha, yeah... in the time it took to open the box from its seal he could have jist looked at the back and said "oops, it fell over so I was picking it up"

Do you think that's what he did? As opposed to snapping a pic of a box that as already sitting open in a cabinet?

the_scotsman wrote:
Well, the real question here is: Are these two separate kits, or one kit repeated ~3-4 times? Will this box set just be three identical new deffbuggy kits?

Definitely at least 2 different buggy models, the red and yellow sprues each have 4 wheels but a different layout.

the_scotsman wrote:
Well, the real question here is: Are these two separate kits, or one kit repeated ~3-4 times? Will this box set just be three identical new deffbuggy kits?

At least two different kits. Look at the layout of the wheels on each,

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
I've never seen a phone camera as bad as the one this leaker is using.

Not super bright enviroment, bit of zoom and quick movement to not raise suspicion. Voila.

Particularly zoom kills it if he can't use foot zoom for whatever reason.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Irbis wrote:

This. Why would they leak shaky photos days before big trade show and burn one big surprise they had? Think people, GW gains nothing from leaking 2 terrible photos, most likely someone just snapped a quick pic when no one was looking. Effort to 'not photo everything'? Maybe, just maybe, he made a picture of the big thing and wasn't obsessed with every unimportant thing inside...

And yet he took the time to rummage through the box and take a photo of the bases and a partial sprue pic, instead of the back of the box which would show everything in 1 go.

yeah, my money is this is GW marketing. they stoke intreast with a early leak, and then at the big games show do the full reveal. we'll proably be talking about this and speculating madly until then.

It's also possiable this is reaction the pressure from Orks on the facebook group. they've been pretty vocal about wanting news, so the community team may have gotten permission to leak something early to give them something.

He’s also never seen my own photos.

Crap-o-vision guaranteed.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Do you think that's what he did? As opposed to snapping a pic of a box that as already sitting open in a cabinet?

It doesn't look like the pics are taken of a cabinet display though? It looks like they're from someone in a hotel room to me.

I went back and looked again; you're right, in that it's not a cabinet. Other than that, I couldn't say. Could be a hotel room, could be a work space.

Damn. Easy to build kits. Look at the red sprue. Two of the wheela are molded right into side panels, with no gap.

That doesn't mean easy to build.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

the_scotsman wrote:
Well, the real question here is: Are these two separate kits, or one kit repeated ~3-4 times? Will this box set just be three identical new deffbuggy kits?

At least two different kits. Look at the layout of the wheels on each,

True, though I suppose they could be dual sprue kits.

It would be cool to have buggies as a kit of two small vehicles, but compatible so you can mix-n-match to make different looking buggies.

I still say that 4 vechiles in 1 box has me hopeful for some good value. Would be ni e to have a cheap speed freaks army with a few of these boxes.