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 jhnbrg wrote:
Orktober... in november?

I think this is just down to the weird way they do WD now. With it covering two weeks from two separate months. I suspect some Ork stuff will be up for preorder next week and they'll just have November WD dominated by the Ork release.

Going by their other releases, Orktober will start at 11:59pm on the 31st.

You get a showcase of some dude's modestly converted Ork army, isn't that plenty?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
You get a showcase of some dude's modestly converted Ork army, isn't that plenty?

It's a grot army.

last time they said "Orktober" it ended up "Novembork" instead.
Sooner the better but i am not expecting jack squat until november

 Vineheart01 wrote:
last time they said "Orktober" it ended up "Novembork" instead.
Sooner the better but i am not expecting jack squat until november

They both seem to follow Saltember for sure... :-/

13/20/27th will likely all be Ork related preorders.
(I won’t say the 6th as that would be in WD).

White Dwarf doesn’t mean anything on releases, many people have made the point on here about how magazines work, but there too many told you so’s and sarcastic ‘no Orktober’ comments for people to see the actual facts.

Just look at all other months what comes out and what’s in white dwarf.


I mean, it seems clear that they could do a whole issue packed with Ork stuff if they get the timing right, which I guess they are doing (next months WD we will see eh?), but it was never going to be the October WD, as it’s not how their magazine works. Doesn’t mean they aren’t releasing anything Orks.

I bet in the lead up we will get more community stuff on the Orks now too..

tbh I'm thinking we'll see a "next week" article containing Orks tomorrow. But we'll see.

JSG wrote:
tbh I'm thinking we'll see a "next week" article containing Orks tomorrow. But we'll see.

You would hope so.

GW have certainly said (in not so many words) they recognise that the Ork community's patience has long ran out.

 Vineheart01 wrote:
i am not expecting jack squat until november

Squats in November?

I think the whole "orktober" thing was a mistake. They just keep on teasing but never deliver.

However you spin it, they made a choice to not feature the alleged october Ork release in October WD.

Well, we might not get an actual release of Ork units until the middle of the month but I absolutely believe that we'll start seeing some previews in one form or another starting next week. It might be a slow drip of info, and in the grand scheme of things insignificant but I doubt that the first week of Orktober contains zero mentions of Orks.

At this point I don't mind being patient, it's the home stretch now and we'll have (at least most of) our units within the month

 lord_blackfang wrote:
However you spin it, they made a choice to not feature the alleged october Ork release in October WD.

but if the stuff had been in the October white dwarf it would have to come out in September, as pretty much all magazines including white dwarf run a month early

I wanted early month Orktober because my birthday is on the 12th :/ Speedfreakz would've been a nice present.

JSG wrote:
tbh I'm thinking we'll see a "next week" article containing Orks tomorrow. But we'll see.

I'm not. That's still part of october WD releases of which orks are. I'm expecting warhounds next week and then switch to orks. Warhounds are coming on week without orks as there's no orks in WD but there are warhounds. As warhounds didn't come to preorder THIS week it means they are NEXT week(you better hope or that push orks one MORE week ahead. But candinates for what's next week that's not orks or warhounds is pretty thin...).


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
However you spin it, they made a choice to not feature the alleged october Ork release in October WD.

That would require ork releases to be 1, max 2 weeks or have half the ork releases be in september....Or split ork releases for 2 WD.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Vineheart01 wrote:
i am not expecting jack squat until november

Squats in November?

Reset the clock!

JSG wrote:
tbh I'm thinking we'll see a "next week" article containing Orks tomorrow. But we'll see.

I don't think so in the warhammer underworlds news thread there's a picture of a page from white dwarf previewing the moon clan grot warband. Them showing up in white dwarf means that they will be coming out early October so it will more likely be the 2 new warbands for night vault.

One of the gw Facebook pages says tonight's what's next should be us.

Fingers crossed

rtb02 wrote:
One of the gw Facebook pages says tonight's what's next should be us.

Fingers crossed

Orks won't be coming on preorder next week. They don't appear in WD. Until everything in WD has come out no orks. It's already abundantly clear orks start on last half of the october.

tneva82 wrote:

rtb02 wrote:
One of the gw Facebook pages says tonight's what's next should be us.

Fingers crossed

Orks won't be coming on preorder next week. They don't appear in WD. Until everything in WD has come out no orks. It's already abundantly clear orks start on last half of the october.

We'll see crystal balls.

It's possible that it's the shadespire warband but they can be looted.

If it's something more exciting exciting I hope you're ready.

rtb02 wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

rtb02 wrote:
One of the gw Facebook pages says tonight's what's next should be us.

Fingers crossed

Orks won't be coming on preorder next week. They don't appear in WD. Until everything in WD has come out no orks. It's already abundantly clear orks start on last half of the october.

We'll see crystal balls.

It's possible that it's the shadespire warband but they can be looted.

If it's something more exciting exciting I hope you're ready.

It's going to be warhound and/or shadespires. There's no orks. GW doesn't make their monthly release schedule particularly secret. Especially what's coming first half/second half. You are better off hoping for both shadespire teams and warhounds as those coming out are pre-requisite before which orks can come. So preorders it's:

6th: warhound+shadespire
13: speed freak(+codex)
20: (codex)

So either codex comes on 20th or 27th depending on is it released together with speed freak box or not. If next week is only shadespire teams or warhound but not both push numbers week later...

GW tells customers how their monthly release system works, customers go instantly "no it doesn't work like that! It works like I want it to work!"

We'll see later.

Unsure why a gw Facebook page would comment if it wasn't happening.

I hope they prove you wrong as I'm fed up with your arrogance on the pages. Not terribly endearing.

If they say it's happening I believe them over you. Only possible link would be gobbo shadespire band however, they're gobbos not orcs.

It's possible they'll do a dual release. Not the first time they've done it.

In the meantime, pipe down.

rtb02 wrote:
We'll see later.

Unsure why a gw Facebook page would comment if it wasn't happening.

I hope they prove you wrong as I'm fed up with your arrogance on the pages. Not terribly endearing.

If they say it's happening I believe them over you. Only possible link would be gobbo shadespire band however, they're gobbos not orcs.

It's possible they'll do a dual release. Not the first time they've done it.

In the meantime, pipe down.

Where did they say it?

 ImAGeek wrote:

rtb02 wrote:
We'll see later.

Unsure why a gw Facebook page would comment if it wasn't happening.

I hope they prove you wrong as I'm fed up with your arrogance on the pages. Not terribly endearing.

If they say it's happening I believe them over you. Only possible link would be gobbo shadespire band however, they're gobbos not orcs.

It's possible they'll do a dual release. Not the first time they've done it.

In the meantime, pipe down.

Where did they say it?

It was on a gw from Georgia USA. Can't remember which but saw it this morning.

And they said what? That ork codex is coming next week?-) Doubtfull. They put preorder notes on sunday evening.

But hey keep going with your negative attitude. You can only be dissapointed with that. With my positive attitude toward this release I can only be positively surprised. Win-win either way. That's the rule in life. It pays off to be positive rather than negative

let set the "hype" straight

what does "orktober" mean? we didn't make this term up, GW used it to hype us up for our releases.

when blue big spez mahreens were released, did they name a whole month after a unit or the faction? nope. when the puss evil mahreens got a sweet primarch and new stuff, did they get a month named after them? nope. when the month of the release of "yet another gold marine chapter" happend, was the month named after them? nope. as far as i know there has been no other release of codex or new army where GW cheekily named the month after that release.

when GW itself is going out on a limb to say "orktober", it definitely sounds like dedicating that month to the green menace. they didnt say "orkwinter", or orktober/orkvember",nope they said Orktober. tomorrow is the start of the month of the ork, and what have they announced? non ork related starter box, white dwarf preview with only one "non codex" ork article and other stuff that is very not green.

at this point it seems GW is trying to get us unhyped for the release.

trying to claim that we were hyped for nothing is ridiculous, their words had us expecting big things in orktober. if they wanted to release stuff at middle or end of october maybe they should've said "mid or late october". from what we see they have already broken their word.

and no tneva, not all of us are aware of how whitedwarfs are set up. i can speak for myself, i dont buy any whitedwarfs, mainly because i don't expect any ork article in them at all. but when you name a month "orktober" then i was expecting a whitedwarf preview that would reflect that. not all of us are gifted with your hindsight, some of us take GW for their word (especially me, since Ive haven't been on this forum for the last month to apparently hear your prophetic predictions of unscrutinizable wisdom, i was busy getting ready for a tournament).

Going to requote this.

 RiTides wrote:
At this point, I'd like to ask folks to stop the back and forth bickering about what their expectations were for this month.

If there is no news on the upcoming ork releases, there's no reason to keep posting in this thread until there is. So, let's let it lie for a bit unless you're discussing news...

Thanks all!

tneva82 wrote:

So either codex comes on 20th or 27th depending on is it released together with speed freak box or not. If next week is only shadespire teams or warhound but not both push numbers week later...

GW tells customers how their monthly release system works, customers go instantly "no it doesn't work like that! It works like I want it to work!"

I love your feigned certainty on the order of releases from something as simple as a WD preview. Have you seen the full WD? Are you certain there are no Orks in there at all? You were claiming that you knew their release schedule and full contents of the WD from something as miniscule as a 2 page leak so forgive me if I don't take everything you say seriously.

Please also point me to where 'GW tells customers how their monthly release system works', I have never seen GW post anything about this.


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Reds8n

Hi everyone

New to the forum, just wanna say Waaaghhh

Restarting on the hobby, been a while, about 15 years or so but a tabletop player do not age, they get better with age

Poped into a GW store today, bought some starter set for Ork 40k and tools, so wish me luck.
Had a quick word with the salesman and he did confirm that new Orks codex will be released some time October.