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Wow. Is that the entire Slaanesh release? And it's not being dragged out for the entire month?

Tiny shame that the DoK dice are a bit plain and not even marbled with red and black or such, like the Slaanesh are marbled. That said I'm not worried as I've the dice from before.


Great week for me, Slaanesh and DoK battletomes are a must; after that I'll have to see what I can budget for - since I sort of want it all but can't in no way afford it all. If nothing else I'll have to get some of the new seekers.

Surprised the Ironscale is missing actually. Seems random to leave her out when the Lord of Pain is seperate now.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Surprised the Ironscale is missing actually. Seems random to leave her out when the Lord of Pain is seperate now.

I'm more surprised the Lord of Pain is out now. I get that its a slaanesh release (DoK release too, technically) but they usually take their time releasing the HQs from boxsets. The Archregent took almost a year to drop

I've often felt that the sometimes year long wait for duel box new models is a poor move on GW's front. Esp since those boxes will either sell out in the week or two from sale or they won't. Plus even if the model goes on individual sale the box itself still offers a good saving and discount.

I'm pleased to see a fast turn around; its great for both those on budget and also those who already have an extensive collection and don't want/need the additional content from the duel box.


Duel boxes always strike me (when its not all new content) as ideal for those new or growing an army; but not good for those on very tight budgets or those with extensive forces already.





It might just be a photo omission on the part of the Ironscale and the DoK warscrolls.

 Overread wrote:
Tiny shame that the DoK dice are a bit plain and not even marbled with red and black or such, like the Slaanesh are marbled.

I'm not a fan of the specialty dice, but those are oddly bad. There's no character to them at all beyond switching the six. They might as well have come out of a $3 dice replacement pack for Yahtzee. They're also the most cartoony 'blood-red' I've ever seen.

The slaanesh ones, on the other claw, are pretty nice, and manage to be reasonable, functional (ie, no double special symbol, and simple pips rather than a hodgepodge of runes) and attractive.

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On the Slaanesh side, most of those units consist of really amazing models. But... they look frighteningly mono-pose, with a lot of detail that will make conversion difficult.

Wow is all that really up for preorder next week?

I suppose it makes sense when you look at the calendar. That means the actual order/buy date would be the 20th, meaning that following week would be the previews for drukhari with their preorder date being the 27th with a release of March 6th.

Time is just flying by.

On the subject of dice, those Slaanesh ones may be one of the first things I buy from GW in a while.

Are they still an arse to get hold of unless you sit hitting F5 for them to go live, or can I reasonably expect to order them from a LGS in my own time?

 Red Corsair wrote:
Wow is all that really up for preorder next week?

I suppose it makes sense when you look at the calendar. That means the actual order/buy date would be the 20th, meaning that following week would be the previews for drukhari with their preorder date being the 27th with a release of March 6th.

Time is just flying by.

And they'll hit the stores in the EU sometime in April, judging by how long it's taking Death Guard to arrive.

As to the preorder, all depends on prices. If they're like Lumineth release, and myrmidesh are just chaos-warrior equivalents, that makes the army incredibly unattractive, just like with the alarith hammerelves being 5 for the same price as 10 pike-elves for no real reason.

 Azreal13 wrote:
On the subject of dice, those Slaanesh ones may be one of the first things I buy from GW in a while.

Are they still an arse to get hold of unless you sit hitting F5 for them to go live, or can I reasonably expect to order them from a LGS in my own time?

Dice do generally get sent to 3rd parties and gw stores, however how fast they vanish depends on how popular the army is; the price and how many GW orders and puts up for sale online. Online sales DO tend to get hit hard right now in countries with widespread lockdowns.

That said its really hard to say; I would say if you want them try and get them on launch day. They shouldn't sell out as fast as, say, a limited edition book; but a lot of customers are now using the direct store who weren't before so things to tend to move at a fairly fast pace.



I would estimate the DoK dice don't go anywhere fast. As said above they are so plain they don't feel special; even just the marbling that the slaanesh dice have makes them nice.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Surprised the Ironscale is missing actually. Seems random to leave her out when the Lord of Pain is seperate now.

 GaroRobe wrote:
I'm more surprised the Lord of Pain is out now.

Both of these statements ring true.

Lord of Pain this early is great, but it makes little sense to not release the Ironscale given that their book (and everything else) is coming out that week.

Readable Dice AND the Lord of pain is coming on release?

In all seriousness, this is a great release. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a copy of the book.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Surprised the Ironscale is missing actually. Seems random to leave her out when the Lord of Pain is seperate now.

 GaroRobe wrote:
I'm more surprised the Lord of Pain is out now.

Both of these statements ring true.

Lord of Pain this early is great, but it makes little sense to not release the Ironscale given that their book (and everything else) is coming out that week.

My working theory is that GW doesn't want to give the illusion that characters exclusive to boxsets will be released separetely in a short time period. Otherwise, people may not be incentivized to buy the ever more expensive boxsets

Got to be fair, the Shadow and Pain box was actually very good. Sold the Slaanesh half, ending up paying just under £40 for the complete Daughters side.

For those in the US, Shadow and Pain is back up (as of 3:46PM Eastern) on the US webstore.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Got to be fair, the Shadow and Pain box was actually very good. Sold the Slaanesh half, ending up paying just under £40 for the complete Daughters side.

You found the DoK's side? I've always found the least favorable half ends up ebay, but not the side that has the better models or deals (DoK, Bonereapers, etc). Fingers crossed that the upcoming DE vs SoB has the latter for sale at a decent price

Shadow and Pain was almost a perfect box for me as I collect both armies. The only real excess was Khinerai and that's mostly because I bought quite a few of them already as I love the models.

It's one of the few that I bought and didn't sell half the box on (the last time I did that was the Khorne and Slaanesh box years back).

Adore those Slaaneshi dice - will be picking up a few sets for sure.

Do we know what the slaanesh archers will cost?

They have a sword and sorcery vibe that I like.

 Gallahad wrote:
Do we know what the slaanesh archers will cost?

They have a sword and sorcery vibe that I like.

My guess is $70 CAD for a box. usual price for units like that.

The DoK release seems about as phoned in as possible. Bad dice, no seperate melusai ironscale and just endless spells. They did the bare minimum for them, go figure.

 Thargrim wrote:
The DoK release seems about as phoned in as possible. Bad dice, no seperate melusai ironscale and just endless spells. They did the bare minimum for them, go figure.

Community release info has missed things before from time to time. Honestly the only minor disappointment are the dice and that's really minor. DoK are just getting a small update, which suggests these might well be 3.0 battletomes since there's no real reason to update a battletome with so little if its still just for 2.0. Endless Spells don't even need anything to work bar a warscroll so a rework of the faction suggests 3.0 on the horizon or at least a 2.5 remastered edition of the rules.

Every time new battletomes come up with the new way GW does things, some are big revamps like Necrons and Slaanesh, others are modest updates and a few things here and there. DoK are getting one of the latter, Slaanesh one of the former. There are winners and losers each time, but all win in that battletomes are updated quicker for an edition. DoK are not left waiting until 4.0 for their next battletome and model update. DoK might also still get more models in time just as drip fed models here and there instead of a big update all in one go.




Right now DoK appear to be missing Warscroll cards, Ironscale and the AoS release for Shadowstalkers. Of those 3 things only the cards are totally unavailable right now; Ironscale and Shadowstalkers are both on the market in some form.
Thing is all 3 of those could just be missing from the community update. We'll find out for sure in the coming week.

The one interesting thing about the dice is that they're more square than the dice GW typically sells, right? Or at least compared to the one's I've bought or had a close look at before. Different manufacturer? As a stylistic choice, I'm not sure it makes sense with the faction per se, so that seems an unlikely explanation.

Sigvald 42.50
Glutos 90
Archers 40
Slaangors 40
Mymidesh 45
Seekers 55
Other heroes 22.50

(euros)

A bit weird pricing, but roughly in the same ballpark as LRL, so...expensive as heck.

Sigvald is cheaper than I expected.

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
The one interesting thing about the dice is that they're more square than the dice GW typically sells, right? Or at least compared to the one's I've bought or had a close look at before. Different manufacturer? As a stylistic choice, I'm not sure it makes sense with the faction per se, so that seems an unlikely explanation.

They’re very inconsistent with the dice designs. There’s definitely been square ones like that in the past.

My gods gw why are you pricing cavalry models so freakishly high all of a sudden?

They seem to add on £3-5 to anything that's a duel kit over usual cost. I just hope its easy to magnetise options for the seekers as the bodies seem tied to certain mounts with the only alt parts being head (bottom or turban appears to be body moulded as is shoulder pad) with arms swapping at the armpit.

The infantry prices aren't obscene for my purposes and I probably won't resist buying one of each for the models and conversion possibilities, but I'm not sure I'd be tempted to start an army of Slaaneshi mortals with Chaos Warrior equivalents for that price.

The Slaanesh dice are nice, though. If I can find a pack (unlikely though it is), I'm going to buy it no questions asked.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Coenus Scaldingus wrote:
The one interesting thing about the dice is that they're more square than the dice GW typically sells, right? Or at least compared to the one's I've bought or had a close look at before. Different manufacturer? As a stylistic choice, I'm not sure it makes sense with the faction per se, so that seems an unlikely explanation.

They’re very inconsistent with the dice designs. There’s definitely been square ones like that in the past.

Indeed. The Marine dice I have as well as the previous Daughters dice have pointy corners. The latter is actually nice since they'll fit with the new ones (unattractive design of the new ones notwithstanding).

It's much the same as packing. GW has the dice tubes Marine dice often come in, plastic boxes with cardboard sleaves like the previous Daughters and Custodes dice for instance, and blister packs that cropped up recently.

GW seems to be switching between these things based on what manufacturer they have to make them dice on time for release.

 Overread wrote:
My gods gw why are you pricing cavalry models so freakishly high all of a sudden?

Popularity deserves punishment?