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I'm veeeeery looking forward to the faction with the "eye" symbol being previewed.

Yeah, I wonder how/when they're going to preview the remaining warbands. The AoS open day is a bit late to preview anything. Are there any more events between now and then that GW attends/hosts?

 Geifer wrote:
Yeah, I wonder how/when they're going to preview the remaining warbands. The AoS open day is a bit late to preview anything. Are there any more events between now and then that GW attends/hosts?

I don't think all the Warbands will be out at launch, so they could show the last two at the open day.

I try not to consider that possibility.

However, I like the Ghur guys best so far so at least I won't have to wait if that turns out to be the case.

 Geifer wrote:
I try not to consider that possibility.

However, I like the Ghur guys best so far so at least I won't have to wait if that turns out to be the case.

So far i've come to terms with the fact i'll probably be getting all of them, so I could do with them being spread out!

I'm basically relying on no model no rules and the idea that with the way GW showed off all warband symbols right from the start, the rulebook will have the full rules for all six warbands. That in turn means they'll have to have all six available for purchase within a reasonable timeframe. If not on the initial release day, then within, say, two weeks of it.

Hopes and speculation, of course, but I'm not seeing GW proper use the same release model as Necromunda or Blood Bowl and so far I didn't get the impression the rules were card based like Shadespire, allowing GW to spread out the bands over months and still start out with a core box at launch.

It'll definitely be interesting to see what kind of format they chose.

Sooo, it looks like a full month still until we get more of an idea how Warcry works, eh? Bummer.

I started to use some of my "Skirmish" warband BoC conversions as test dummies for Contrast paints, but knowing if I should also work on my Sigmarite witch hunters would be nice.

PS: And I started to watch Spartacus again, now Splinteres Fang edged out the crow dudes on top of my wish list...but why choose when you're just, uh, supporting the positive depiction of animals in wargames as capable fighters with your purchase, right? Is that a good excuse to splurge on both?

the best reason to splurge on both is to send a message to GW that cool models will sell.

 Binabik15 wrote:
PS: And I started to watch Spartacus again ...

Yeppppp just starting my rewatch too

It is a bummer that War Cry is being held off so long, but I do suppose we have Apocalypse to get through first

I'm wondering if perhaps War Cry has fallen foul of the same issues that hit Sylvaneth?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I'm wondering if perhaps War Cry has fallen foul of the same issues that hit Sylvaneth?

It was supposed to be hitting in July. Not June.

Yes. And most of the hype on WarCom was about contrast, and now about Apoc.

Also, they already showed many figs (probably more than what will be available at release). Usually they only preview the game mechanics when the release date is nearing. So I expect we won't get any news until the week before it goes on pre-order, when we'll get a daily article.

It feels a bit weird that they heavily previewed its models long in advance and then stopped, though. They're usually so shy about showing models way in advance thanks to their gear of copycats, but here we have FOUR warbands shown and zero idea about gameplay.

 Boss Salvage wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
PS: And I started to watch Spartacus again ...

Yeppppp just starting my rewatch too

It is a bummer that War Cry is being held off so long, but I do suppose we have Apocalypse to get through first

There it's worthy of song when blood rains from angry skies...in the Mortal Realms it was Tuesday.

 Binabik15 wrote:
It feels a bit weird that they heavily previewed its models long in advance and then stopped, though. They're usually so shy about showing models way in advance thanks to their gear of copycats, but here we have FOUR warbands shown and zero idea about gameplay.

 Boss Salvage wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
PS: And I started to watch Spartacus again ...

Yeppppp just starting my rewatch too

It is a bummer that War Cry is being held off so long, but I do suppose we have Apocalypse to get through first

There it's worthy of song when blood rains from angry skies...in the Mortal Realms it was Tuesday.

It’s a new game, they show them further in advance usually from what I remember. And there hasn’t been a preview event since they showed the last one. Gameplay stuff will be shown in the build up to the actual preorder.

They will probably be doing a preview article every day the week before it goes on pre-order, plus a number of them during the month. So I suspect they have plenty of slots to fill.

It's unusual, yes. By the time the game releases we'll be four months past the announcement. GW's hand hasn't even been forced by a leak. They decided when to start advertising this one all by themselves.

As for heavy advertising, I think the big thing for me is that they showed a warband per event, which is all good and well, but now we have a span in June where nothing happens even though two warbands are still unknown. We had a kind of deluge, and then a whole lot of nothing. Compare that to the Battle Sister Bulletin. For all its lack of truly new content, at least you know you'll get something on the same day every other week during your months-long wait. It's a much steadier approach, and I think if GW advertises Warcry so far in advance (which I approve of, by the way), maybe a similar approach wouldn't go amiss.

Rules? Yeah, GW is still very conservative there and we'll have to wait around another month in all likelihood before we get anything. Eh, what are you going to do?

Look at the example of apocalypse.

Advances of rules and factions 2 weeks before the pre-orders.

I think the same thing happened with killteam.


Now the question is, preorders will be on 6 with 2 weeks of preorders, on 13 with one week (and you will be able to buy it on warhammerfest) or preorders on 20..

I'm sure Ms Scott has been roped in to doing a "How to Play Warcry" video that will be released the week beforehand

 Flashman wrote:
I'm sure Ms Scott has been roped in to doing a "How to Play Warcry" video that will be released the week beforehand

Just as we are all sure her excitement level will be at a 12 on the 1-10 scale.

I thought she was considerably less cringey in the Apocalypse video than in her earlier GW gigs. Still prefer being taught the game by someone who knows how to play the game rather than someone reading off a teleprompter, so I'll wait for Ash to review it on GMG.

Yes, I thought she was actually surprisingly tolerable in the Apocalypse video. The thing ruined that was the terrible music.

 Geifer wrote:
It's unusual, yes. By the time the game releases we'll be four months past the announcement. GW's hand hasn't even been forced by a leak. They decided when to start advertising this one all by themselves.

As for heavy advertising, I think the big thing for me is that they showed a warband per event, which is all good and well, but now we have a span in June where nothing happens even though two warbands are still unknown. We had a kind of deluge, and then a whole lot of nothing. Compare that to the Battle Sister Bulletin. For all its lack of truly new content, at least you know you'll get something on the same day every other week during your months-long wait. It's a much steadier approach, and I think if GW advertises Warcry so far in advance (which I approve of, by the way), maybe a similar approach wouldn't go amiss.

Rules? Yeah, GW is still very conservative there and we'll have to wait around another month in all likelihood before we get anything. Eh, what are you going to do?

Eh, they announced Underworlds and had a playable Demo at Adepticon 2017, a full 7 months before the release that October. I think for new games they like the slow drip hype buildup.

 Flashman wrote:
I'm sure Ms Scott has been roped in to doing a "How to Play Warcry" video that will be released the week beforehand

Something def to look forward to.

A clear concise summary of the game by a enthusiatstic pretty girl - what could be better.

 Mr Morden wrote:

 Flashman wrote:
I'm sure Ms Scott has been roped in to doing a "How to Play Warcry" video that will be released the week beforehand

Something def to look forward to.

A clear concise summary of the game by a enthusiatstic pretty girl - what could be better.

Duncan in full chaos lord regalia, doing a clear concise summary of the game

 Mr Morden wrote:

A clear concise summary of the game by a enthusiatstic pretty girl - what could be better.

A clear concise summary of the game by two enthusiastic pretty girls?

Or just one pretty girl who isn't annoying and insufferable?

My hope is we see a new warband this weekend along with getting a concrete date. Maybe some more videos.

I'm getting antsy for this one.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
My hope is we see a new warband this weekend along with getting a concrete date. Maybe some more videos.

I'm getting antsy for this one.

I’m not expecting any previews this weekend. They haven’t said there’ll be any so not getting my hopes up.

Ugh. I'll be pretty disappointed if that's true- I really really want to see what the "eye" warband is all about design wise.

I thought they tend to have previews of upcoming stuff at the Warhammer Days, no?

It seems like a perfect opportunity to get a captive audience salivating even more over what you've got coming soon.