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I wouldn't expect a pre-order until those remaining territories online stores are open again. Certainly USA and Canada would need to be back up and running before any big physical releases.

Or maybe they already have timescales for those and it's just a matter of logistically ensuring the warehousing agrees with each country's pandemic regulations. I don't know.

All I know is we're next and I would expect pre-orders sooner rather than later. Certainly wouldn't expect to see any other articles about models and releases go up. Hell, there's no more PA stuff to announce, no other releases they've teased other than lumineth and they must have run dry on Black library fluff and other periphery articles to push in the interim by now.

Certainly working from home has saved me a fortune in travel and lunch expenses so I have a bunch saved up for admech and knight models

But that's the rub...no, Szeras isn't some magical exception to the rule. He got a rules preview because the Pariah preview (which was still part of the Adepticon preview apparently) had one. We've gotten previews like that from events before.

Engine War was slated to release on April 11th, preordering on the 4th. They manually turned off the previews for Engine War, but kept going with Lumineth previews via Lowdown(which is worth mentioning that they would have released by now as well, thanks to the Lumineth Lowdown ending).

One rule really isn't a rules preview unless you're trying super hard to be technical about it. He's a much bigger model with a different weapon, so there's literally nothing we know about how he operates outside two key factors:
1. We know he'll probably have the same buffing mechanic, but we don't know if it'll be the same.
2. He has the anti-psyker aura, which we already deemed useless in the Necron Tactica.

Engine War discussion only here please.

On Facebook they've mentioned AdMech getting a swathe of reinforcements soon, so hopefully the pre-order preview machine will be fired up again tomorrow.

Thank the Omnissiah, the Adeptus Mechanicus are about to receive a swathe of new reinforcements, but which of their current awesome models is your favourite?

That would be sweet! Super desperate for that book.

Are they going to prevent the US from buying it when it comes out, like they haven't turned on the Web store yet?

Wouldn't be shocked if they might just not post it until all their warehouses are open or their stores have started limited openings/functionality.

They probably have gotten slammed with fairly heavy orders to start with right now.

My FLGS is getting set to re-open their retail space soon, and said GW was taking orders again. This tells me that once they get stores caught up, they can re-open the web store.

No pre-orders yet, but the upcoming week will finally see some more Engine War previews.

Woooooooooooooo!

So probably Admech first to showcase the new units? Then maybe Daemons?

Is there an expectation of new daemon units?

Weren't more reveals supposed to happen today as part of Preview 4?

I can't find info on it but I recall mention that the Adepticon information had been split into 4 previews, each two weeks apart.

Voss wrote:
Is there an expectation of new daemon units?

No, probably just rules.

 Dentry wrote:
Weren't more reveals supposed to happen today as part of Preview 4?

I can't find info on it but I recall mention that the Adepticon information had been split into 4 previews, each two weeks apart.

We were told to look for more information early May so I'd guess in another week or two it'll happen.

 Dentry wrote:
Weren't more reveals supposed to happen today as part of Preview 4?

I can't find info on it but I recall mention that the Adepticon information had been split into 4 previews, each two weeks apart.

The first two were a week apart, and then 2 weeks between 2 and 3. And they were on Saturdays. I don’t think they said there’d be 4, just that after the first 2 they’d shown half of the Adepticon stuff. Given how much more there was in 3 than the first two, I think they’ve done all the Adepticon stuff now, and the next one will be Warhammerfest stuff (which was meant to be this Saturday). The next one is some point this month anyway, whichever event it’s drawing from, but we don’t know when exactly yet.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Dentry wrote:
Weren't more reveals supposed to happen today as part of Preview 4?

I can't find info on it but I recall mention that the Adepticon information had been split into 4 previews, each two weeks apart.

The first two were a week apart, and then 2 weeks between 2 and 3. And they were on Saturdays. I don’t think they said there’d be 4, just that after the first 2 they’d shown half of the Adepticon stuff. Given how much more there was in 3 than the first two, I think they’ve done all the Adepticon stuff now, and the next one will be Warhammerfest stuff (which was meant to be this Saturday). The next one is some point this month anyway, whichever event it’s drawing from, but we don’t know when exactly yet.

There’s another preview in May, I’d go find the article but the Warhammer community page is not the easiest to navigate so I can’t be bothered... It might be mentioned at the bottom of the last preview? We do have one more though to come.

No date was given for the next preview.

And so, this Warhammer Preview comes to an end. But don’t be sad, because there’s more to come. Yep, although we’ve given you three looks into the future, we have even more to show you.

Keep an eye on the Warhammer Community website in early May for more information about when you can expect the next preview****

**** Yes, this is the preview equivalent of releasing a trailer for a trailer. No, we’re not ashamed.

It'd probably be the Preview that was due for the UK games expo, so that would have been last weekend in May.

 BrookM wrote:
No pre-orders yet, but the upcoming week will finally see some more Engine War previews.

Yaaaay!

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Voss wrote:
Is there an expectation of new daemon units?

No, probably just rules.

I sincerely doubt we'll see new daemon units in this book, or any kind of useful rules for daemons. For how terrible daemons' rules are currently for 40k, they have a really pretty extensive plastic roster at this point. only a couple of remaining finecrap options, and most of their stuff is pretty recent plastic.

the_scotsman wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

Voss wrote:
Is there an expectation of new daemon units?

No, probably just rules.

I sincerely doubt we'll see new daemon units in this book, or any kind of useful rules for daemons. For how terrible daemons' rules are currently for 40k, they have a really pretty extensive plastic roster at this point. only a couple of remaining finecrap options, and most of their stuff is pretty recent plastic.

Khorne is the current big Daemons loser in my uninformed opinion. So Slaanesh and Nurgle will likely get token rules and relic gestures, tzeetnch and Khorne are what needs the most love imo. I don't think there's likely to be any new units, but they certainly need a better realisation of their daemon 'mechanic'.

Same story for knights of both flavours, points reductions on some of the knights and most definitely reductions to armigers would be the biggest benefit. They can do their jobs they just die too easily for their points at the moment.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/04/additional-armaments-for-adeptus-mechanicusgw-homepage-post-1/

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/04/additional-armaments-for-adeptus-mechanicusgw-homepage-post-1/

Weapon profiles for all the new units.

Deep-strike and a 12" flamer weapon for the worst-named unit

Just so we're clear:
We didn't actually get "weapon profiles for all of the new units".
We got the Sulphurhound 'flamerface' for the mount(which is a Pistol flamer effectively--and they get a rule for firing Pistols even after having Advanced) and the Archeo-Revolver is specifically for the Raider Alpha. So we don't 'know' exactly what the riders for both are using.

And we got nothing on the flyers, of which we know the bomber at least has new weaponry.

I like the 12" flamers, but I feel like that unless Sicaran Infiltrators get some kind of special rule, that they will be 100% invalidated by this new unit.

And, let's be clear here: Sicaran Infiltrators (and Ruststalkers) are bad already.

I like pretty much everything. The new flamer profiles mixing phosphor and flamers is really great, the flyers even have 12" on that one. The advancing pistols is really fluffy, cool and practical. The big iron archeotech pistol is great. The talons were foreseeable, but have a nice little +1S on the charge for fluff. The only thing I find weird is the Flechette Carbine, they are way too similar to the infiltrators, except they trade melee weapons, pistol profile for more movement and range.

Archeo-Revolver

Welp. Everyone, prepare your butts for Big Iron Inquisitors!

Quasistellar wrote:
I like the 12" flamers, but I feel like that unless Sicaran Infiltrators get some kind of special rule, that they will be 100% invalidated by this new unit.

And, let's be clear here: Sicaran Infiltrators (and Ruststalkers) are bad already.

Infiltrators and Ruststalkers need to get the Killclade rules back as a Stratagem or something. Expanded aura range when they're within range of each other, run+charge once per game, etc.

Ruststalkers definitely need their grenades back too.