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So 2019 saw it's share of surprises, both Battle Sisters and Enforcers got plastic kits, and... ambots?! Other mini companies continues to press into plastics with Wargames Atlantic and Fireforge putting out some cool plastic sets. 3D printing became mainstream and will be interesting to see how that impacts miniature gaming.

So with this in mind... what are your completely false and made up 2020 rumors?

1 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a new education line including Warhammer Science, Warhammer History and Warhammer Math books.

If a unit of 5 Howling Banshees charges a unit of 10 tactical marines what is the chance of them destroying the Marines before they can strike back? What are the odds of breaking the Marines and forcing them to flee?

2 - April will GW reveal that the plastic battle sisters were in fact an elaborate April Fools joke. Models from the boxes set spontaneously crumble into dust.

3 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a new line of fully-licensed Nerf guns and swords.

4 - GW will respond to the threat of 3D printers and protect their valuable IP by suing major printer makers insisting they modify the firmware so that printers are incapable of producing models with skulls.

5 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a line of licensed Paw Patrol models. However the line will fail when GW realizes that other than the Paw Patrol and Kitty Katasrophy Krew there really aren't any more factions.

6 - Hasbro buys GW, Disney buys Hasbro, Sanginius is the newest Disney Princess.

7 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a line of GW coloring books and Citadel Crayons. Citadel Crayons start at US$5 a crayon.

8 - GW wraps up the Horus Heresy with the Siege of Terra Book 5: The One Where Sanguinius Dies. They immediately announce they will follow up with an all-female reboot of the Heresy.

The Age of Darkness is over as the Empress and Primas spread their light across the Galaxy. But can even the Imperia survive when Hora betrays her?

9 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a line of chibi- wait a second!



So what have all you guys got?

Squats! The Demiurg leave their mining ships? and lay claim to tracts of the galaxy cut off by whatever rift is current.

Tonka sized war engines in plastic are complimented by Stompa quality rules.

Also more ceramic bowls to shock unsuspecting shoppers will be released.

It's actually not a false rumour but honest truth.

GW will replace their Sigmarine statue with Sly Marbo. Can you smell the napalm in the morning?

Fact:

GW will release female torsos and heads for imperial factions.

They will have fully enclosed helms/helmets and bulked by armour/munition pouches etc.

Released April 2020.

The Tallarn Rough Riders return! As the newest auxiliaries of the Tau Empire.

Vect, the Baron and Lady Malys return as playable special characters! All the rules you need to play these special characters can be found in the new Orks vs Dark Eldar box set, in which they clash with 3 mighty Stompas in fierce battle. Grab one now before they fly off the shelves! RRP £400, Stompa rules sold separately in Codex Orks

All the small non-primaris spacemarines get retconned to be female space marines. Lore be damned.

Chaos players will get a Codex they’re happy with.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

3 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a new line of fully-licensed Nerf guns and swords.

How great would a Nerf boltgun be???

BFG gets relaunched with proper good rules and nicely costed spacesheeps, I'm forced to not say anything bad about it

Dark Future get re-released, its not very good so us Gaslands hipsters lure a few out of the GW bubble

Steamforged release the last Minor Guilds for Guildball nearly on time, then give up the idea and merges them with the proper teams

I agree with Doc at least twice

Deathwatch will finally get access to Vanguard marine units.

In a surprising move GW boxed game starter sets will continue to be produced AND be sold separately from add ons.

GW will Re-release the Watchtower and Sigmar chapel as terrain pieces for a mini summer campaign for AoS revolving around one of the Free Cities.

We'll see the merging of 40k and AoS into a single game at the end of 2020 just as with Warmachine and Hordes.
The models and units will remain valid but the rules will be adapted accordingly.
The greatest overhaul in the history of GW.

GW releases 40k branded beer and pretzels.

Mandatory consumption will be FAQed in once Legal determines the profit margins outweigh the lawsuit costs.

 JohnU wrote:
GW releases 40k branded beer and pretzels.

Mandatory consumption will be FAQed in once Legal determines the profit margins outweigh the lawsuit costs.

Bheaer and Preat' Sel.

GW start adding fermentation vats and Stills to miniatures as iconography - Diageo et al can therefore no longer brew alcohol.


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Trolls in the Pantry gets a full boxed release.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Chaos players will get a Codex they’re happy with.

Don't be ridiculous. Can you please keep these things somewhere in the possibility of even a rumor?

Like:
Custodes are revamped, all the dinky not a faction factions (inquisition, Sisters of silence, etc) are put back into one book and you are told to play them all together so they're an actual force.

As Gamesworkshop and Disney are at a standoff to aquire each other, they will have no choice but to merge, resulting in the new Necromunda themepark at Nottingham, and the introduction of Smurfmarines in Phase 5.

GW releases another set of 54mm Inq models. No explanations will be provided.

34 - My New Years eve is going to be totally lit, wine women and song! Certainly not just putting the kids to bed then faffing around on the internet.

Nope. Not this year.

Well #@#$. Happy 2020 everyone.

New world eaters models and new emperors children mods in a 'return to skalathrax' box set!

Part of me secretly hopes this happens. It would be awesome.

GW announces another new legacy boxed game: Trolls in the Pantry.

GW begins a talent search for the new Duncan Rhodes, and we discover that Will Wheaton can paint like a mo-fo, but is an inveterate brush-licker and has an allergic reaction to Contrast paints.

GW introduces a new painting goal, past Battle Ready or Parade Ready called Just Paint the Damn Things, supported by a line of spray paints that lay down three colors at once.

To help painters working with batch painting, GW releases the Citadel Painting Handle Painting Handle. It holds five Citadel Painting Handles for easy squad painting.

GW reveals that the Primaris weren't supposed to be any bigger than the old marines, and fixes it by producing new rulers and tape measures which are slightly bigger!

Kid Kyoto number 6. Yes. Sanguinious, you now have a cameo in Toy Story 5...

GW releases PA 9-99, each with a single character model.
PA 100 is considered "first breakfeast after awakening" , to celebrate this they offer a linited edition model of a reborn Malacador....

Gw skips 9th edition and moves straight to X edition, “All marines all the time”. The likes of Tau, Eldar and Tyranids are retconned as realizing how powerful Space marines are that simply adopt power armor - but keep their old paint schemes so they can easily be identified. Necrons? Turns out they were Rubicae all along.

Seraphon will get a fully revamped line of models

GW releases a Lost and the Damned Codex of Traitor Guardsmen.

To simplify the Necromunda card experience GW will release a new deck to replace the fragmented mess with a new, easily to shuffle set of only 400 cards.

(Depressingly this would still be an improvement).

Print Codexes will still be full of errata, but GW will issue the corrected PDFs straight to 4chan.

To kill two birds with one stone, the Squats will get a Thunderhawk.

And yeah, I would buy the gak out of a nerf boltgun.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

3 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a new line of fully-licensed Nerf guns and swords.

7 - Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line with a line of GW coloring books and Citadel Crayons. Citadel Crayons start at US$5 a crayon.

I'm down for a NERF boltgun and 40K versions of those adult colouring books. Definitely third-party crayons for me though.

And in further rumours:

Continuing the trend of returning to old background material, GW will announce that the AoS realms exist within the warp rift which now spans the 40K galaxy.

Trapped on the wrong side of the galaxy-spanning warp rift, the Blood Angels will turn to Chaos.

GW will release new Primaris Legion of the Damned marines. They will be undeniably cool, twice the price of ordinary Primaris marines and their rules will only be available in an obscure ebook format nobody uses.

Games Workshop will build on the success of their kid-friendly book line by writing more of them.

 Turaxa wrote:

Continuing the trend of returning to old background material, GW will announce that the AoS realms exist within the warp rift which now spans the 40K galaxy.

Whoa. Realm of Sigmar is actually the Great Rift?! That is officially my head canon from now on.

In other news:

GW will respond to the popularity of Mantic, 9th Age and other Oldhammer hold outs by announcing the return of the Olde Worlde but then not actually releasing anything for years and... WAIT A SECOND!

GW will respond to the popularity of Total War Warhammer by announcing the return of the Olde Worlde but then not actually releasing anything for years and... WAIT A SECOND!

GW will respond to the popularity of Fireforge and other old school plastic fantasy by announcing the return of Classic Elfs but then not actually releasing anything for years and... WAIT A SECOND!

GW will respond to the popularity of Fireforge and other old school plastic fantasy by announcing the return of Classic Elfs

Where? Cause Pointy Elves will be aos, not the grog world.