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With the amount of possible preview days remaining it seems likely that we will get one revealed here.
Then the last at that other thing between now and July, I forget what..

We have like what, a week left until July, right?

Or is this going to be like Orktober where we actually start things in November?

Should I start saving up for August then?

They've already said that attendees of the Age of Sigmar Open Day on July 20th will get the chance to play Warcry.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
We have like what, a week left until July, right?

Or is this going to be like Orktober where we actually start things in November?

Should I start saving up for August then?

I think that's a fair bet. whenever I hear a gw release is in a particular month I Dave for.itnto.be at the beginning, but expect.it to.be a preorder at the end.

I don't know why people keep asking about Warcry's release date. It has been known for a while that warcry is coming in July which, as is always the case with GW, means perorder.
Then we have the info about the open day on the twentieth including one official email saying you would be able to 'pick up' the game on the day. That means preorder will either be the 13th or the 20th.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
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.

We’ve haven’t had a Warhammer Day like this before, and they haven’t mentioned previews for it. This is more like a celebration day. There may well be something shown, but I’m not getting my hopes up because they usually mention in advance when previews are.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
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.

We’ve haven’t had a Warhammer Day like this before, and they haven’t mentioned previews for it. This is more like a celebration day. There may well be something shown, but I’m not getting my hopes up because they usually mention in advance when previews are.

Not saying it is or isn't going to happen, but they have no reason to announce any preview because Warhammer Day is a decentralized event and they don't have that one show they want people to attend to preview stuff, do they? Or is anything special planned for Warhammer World on that day that they could take as an excuse to do a preview?

Chikout wrote:
I don't know why people keep asking about Warcry's release date. It has been known for a while that warcry is coming in July which, as is always the case with GW, means perorder.
Then we have the info about the open day on the twentieth including one official email saying you would be able to 'pick up' the game on the day. That means preorder will either be the 13th or the 20th.

pick the game the 20th?

I thought it was just playing.

so possibly pre-ordered will be the 6th, with 2 weeks of preorders.

Carlovonsexron wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
We have like what, a week left until July, right?

Or is this going to be like Orktober where we actually start things in November?

Should I start saving up for August then?

I think that's a fair bet. whenever I hear a gw release is in a particular month I Dave for.itnto.be at the beginning, but expect.it to.be a preorder at the end.

And when the pre-order isn't announced on 7/2, people will start accusing GW of lying.

Edit: scrapped my original post found the email from June 3rd

Join us at Warhammer World on the 20th of July! We've got a full day planned, with lots of things to see and do. It will also be the first chance you'll have to try out (and purchase!) Warcry, the fast-paced, skirmish-level game pitting bands of Chaos-worshipping warriors against each other.

So July 20th release preorders maybe 13th?

 DaveC wrote:
Edit: scrapped my original post found the email from June 3rd

Join us at Warhammer World on the 20th of July! We've got a full day planned, with lots of things to see and do. It will also be the first chance you'll have to try out (and purchase!) Warcry, the fast-paced, skirmish-level game pitting bands of Chaos-worshipping warriors against each other.

So July 20th release preorders maybe 13th?

Or 6th!
If apocalipsis are 2 weeks of preorders (or at least announced 2 weeks before).. warcry should be the same.

We will see this sunday, but i think that 6th will be for chaos knights.

Pre-order on the 6th would be shiny and chrome. Even that feels like an eternity, though.

I'm unreasonably excited for Warcry. Worst case it's a slew of really good models for Chaos and exotic Inquisimunda/Skirmish conversions. Best case it's a fun skirmish game with more depth than Skirmish.

I think that's how alot of people feel~ I'm certain to get at least three of these warbands for RPG use (some NPCs, other conversion fodder for PCs)

Looks like the teasing has begun.

My Skitarii partybarges arrived with the box having badges for:
Splintered Fang, Corvus Cabal, and the Ghur warband whose name eludes me.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Looks like the teasing has begun.

My Skitarii partybarges arrived with the box having badges for:
Splintered Fang, Corvus Cabal, and the Ghur warband whose name eludes me.

Excellent!

I hope this means Preorders on the 13th, I've been waiting for what feels like ages to get some more info on this game.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Looks like the teasing has begun.

My Skitarii partybarges arrived with the box having badges for:
Splintered Fang, Corvus Cabal, and the Ghur warband whose name eludes me.

Excellent!

I hope this means Preorders on the 13th, I've been waiting for what feels like ages to get some more info on this game.

This. Very much this.

I wish they would release images of the eye warband. I have a feeling I'm going to like the, and might find them the best conversion fodder for an RPG player character mini I have in mind.

I'm expecting to see the pre-order hint for next week being Warcry with pre order next weekend ready for the release on the 20th

Yeah we should know in 7 hours. As we haven't seen the last 2 warbands yet I think it will be a staggered release.

Looking at warcom, preorders for Killteam, was on 21th of july, with launch on 28. But the first article about KT was on 5th of july, with an article each day.



I expect and wish something similar for warcry. With the first article in 5/6 hours.

Warcry starter on the 20th, the other previewed bands early August and rules-only support for Non-Chaos stuff in the starter or an early add-on, please.

Though of my several potential warbands I've build or half built I have painted...2.5 dudes, so no rush! Except for the starter

 Binabik15 wrote:
Warcry starter on the 20th, the other previewed bands early August and rules-only support for Non-Chaos stuff in the starter or an early add-on, please.

Though of my several potential warbands I've build or half built I have painted...2.5 dudes, so no rush! Except for the starter

Speculation from you side of solid info by reliable source? Don't get me wrong, it's roughly the same time frame I would have guessed, but from my side it's pure speculation.

With the terrain looking good and the minis solving my, "what to buy for Frostgrave" problem, I am eager for this as well.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/07/07/coming-soon-something-for-everyone/

Lots of stuff including Sylvanath incoming!!

No Warcry though unless they do a separate article.

Bloodmaster wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
Warcry starter on the 20th, the other previewed bands early August and rules-only support for Non-Chaos stuff in the starter or an early add-on, please.

Though of my several potential warbands I've build or half built I have painted...2.5 dudes, so no rush! Except for the starter

Speculation from you side of solid info by reliable source? Don't get me wrong, it's roughly the same time frame I would have guessed, but from my side it's pure speculation.

Pure wish listing based on the snippet about it being available for purchase on the event 7/20 (open day?) and Shadespire's original release of starter set with quick follow-up release.

Edit: And I guess my wishes were not heard by the gods, I was JUST on the community page and the article had not been up then. Sad day for Warcry

I dont understand why GW dont give to warcry more importance.

it's a completely new game, and they should announce it with daily previews for at least 2 weeks. As they did with kill team, shadespire.. even apocalypse.

zamerion wrote:
I dont understand why GW dont give to warcry more importance.

it's a completely new game, and they should announce it with daily previews for at least 2 weeks. As they did with kill team, shadespire.. even apocalypse.

What are they going to show in those two weeks? Not much point showing the same four warbands we've already seen again.

A sensible guess at a week's worth of previews is how Chaos warbands play, how non-Chaos warbands play, what's up with critters, a general gameplay article and a campaign article. We will in all likelihood get the announcement for pre-orders a week from now, we're bound to see a week full of previews after that and that's immediately followed by the open day.

If the warband release is staggered, which it looks like it is, holding back the last two warbands to have something for the open day makes sense.

Overall GW has given Warcry ample attention, and I expect there will be more when the time comes. It's just that that time hasn't yet come.

they can divide the non-chaotic bands in little articles, as they did with kill team or apocalypse.

I hope that each one has a style of play.

only with that, they can have 13 articles.

+unboxing
+ lore
+basic gameplay
+ narrative rules/campaign
+tournaments games
+bands painted by members of the studio
+ideas of assembling the scenery or using another from AoS
...
many possibilities

I guess they could split warbands up like that, but I'm not sure that they would. For Kill Team they have established factions most of which are older than a good portion of GW's customers. Warcry's faction don't have that kind of recognition and established fanbases, so I'm not sure if GW sees the need to go into such fine detail.

Lore and unboxing are good points. I don't see the point in the latter, but they started doing that lately.

Tournament opportunities, studio members painting stuff and scenery ideas seem more like post launch articles to me to keep interest up.

Anyway, it's not like they don't have two weeks to spend if they want to. Announcement on the 14th, open day and pre-order on the 20th and release on the 27th gives GW a solid two week time frame, so if they want to do it that's easily possible.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just pre order on 20th (with a few lucky ones picking up at the day if they’re there).

I’m not so sure the preview articles will be about the non chaos stuff. I think they’ll focus on the actual game, and it’s actual warbands.
With info on them as they release the non chaos rules free online on release day.
They want to be hyping up the things they are selling, not the free rules for other stuff.