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Sooo those necrons I was starting at the start of the year that never got anywhere...I might have to dust them off now!

Love the new warriors and yes that freaking glowy stick of plastic is gone (no more need to spend ages converting them with immortal gun barrel segments).

Trailer is fantastic - GW could have shown a bit more of the new stuff coming and the Silent King hint at the very end is terribly teasing!

That said I think they are holding back because they've already two whole armies to come out brand new for AoS - I figure this is again us feeling the Corona pinch and stealing thunder from what would have been a bigger news release; again being spread out into several smaller bite-sized chunks because chances are 9th age won't be around for a bit yet. So they want to keep some ammo locked up ready to throw at us later (though the sneak peak blurry potato picture makes me ever so excited).


Bit worried about Tyranids - tanks being able to move and fire against swarms and also heavy weapons doing max damage to swarms. That said they were only plucking 9 things for that video and swarms might have additional bonuses to counter some of those advantages. We've only seen one tiny bit of a side of the coin so far.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh my!

Silent King teaser looked cool, but was expecting more.

Well I was more like: "What the hell! Don't tease us week ahead to just show us a another teaser!"

3 model kits (5 if you include the 2x on the website).

Quite poor really tbh. I am a little confused why they have only shown 1x assault intercessor as well, the whole kit would have been nice.

I guess they are holding a hell of a lot back, but they could have shown a little more tbh.

I haven't caught a Warhammer Twitch live for a while, but my goodness there are a lot of entitled self interested wombles in the chat. Clearly the big reveal was a new edition, but there was just so much moaning going on. Not saying Dakka is immune to such things, but WOW people need to calm down :-)

Be interesting to find out dates etc, what with everything going on in the world, but new stuff looks good so far.

Iracundus wrote:
Silent King looks like a diorama piece rather than something going to the open battlefield.

Yeah, they seem to be doing one of those for each new army now- Sisters, Bonereapers. I expect the Cow Elves will get something squirrelly, if Teclis ruining a decent sphinx model with stage dive doesn't already count.

The trailer was mediocre, kind of stiff animations and st times lacking in detail. Most games today have far better cutscenes.

And the dialogue and voice acting....ugh.

Don't know how legit these leaks are:

 Asmodai wrote:

There’s been one thing we’ve been asked for more than anything else in the last three years (aside from the Lion riding a Thunderhawk): “Can my digital codex come bundled with my print version?” Well, Noble Hobbyist, yes. Yes it can. Whenever you buy a 9th edition codex, you’ll get the digital rules for that codex in the app for free.

One of the biggest quality of life changes with the new edition for me.

I missed that. That's amazing, I'm super happy with that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
And yeah, Silent King is another "Diorama" miniature. I was really worried that would become a trend...

 Arbitrator wrote:
Trailer was worse than the old Dawn of War 1 cinematic fifteen years ago.

Are you kidding me?

Why would I be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBgXH7eyRo4

Crisper animation, more weight to both movement and the fantastic sound design, FAR, FAR, FAR better proportions (the Sister comes to a Primaris' neck) and a more bittersweet 'excuse narrative', rather than 'Imperium thoroughly beats the NPC Faction because they're just the besist and barely suffer for it, except the Guard obviously'.

I like how the design team seem to have vigorously backpeddled on the whole 'Necrons don't want to surrender their bipedal organic forms' thing which they pushed with 5th...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
The big spider cron at the end looks like a Doom boss.

A Quake boss.

...You're not wrong

Well, that was fun, but I was in the middle of storming the walls of a High Elf fortress with Grom's mighty Gobbos when it began, so I have to get back to that...

 DeadEyeDuk wrote:
I haven't caught a Warhammer Twitch live for a while, but my goodness there are a lot of entitled self interested wombles in the chat. Clearly the big reveal was a new edition, but there was just so much moaning going on. Not saying Dakka is immune to such things, but WOW people need to calm down :-)

You don't immediately minimise the chat?

 godswildcard wrote:
So the 'Featured Factions' on the new website are Space Marines, Sisters of Battle and Necrons.

The armies in the new starter set, perhaps?

Or across different levels of starter set, so you might have both marines and sisters vs necrons in the big box (or a mix), then sisters vs necrons and marines vs necrons in the smaller sets.
Would be nice if rather than splitting the big box up, they tied this into the crusade rules with the aim that if you got all three sets it's a full army, with the characters upgrading as they go.

Wow, absolutely amazing. This was truly a huge update. I'm so excited for the game right now.

New reserve rules
New flyer rules (flying off the board!)
Can't bog down vehicles
New terrain rules
Less Soup - more pure lists (unlocking other codices with CPs)
ASSAULT INTERCESSORS!

And Mike Brandt as the new Event Lead for Warhammer Community! Exciting times! (Congrats MVBrandt!)

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
3 model kits (5 if you include the 2x on the website).

Quite poor really tbh. I am a little confused why they have only shown 1x assault intercessor as well, the whole kit would have been nice.

I guess they are holding a hell of a lot back, but they could have shown a little more tbh.

My thoughts exactly. Cool trailer but everything else was somewhere between ok and meh.

anyone have any snippets of the silent king? I missed that part.

endlesswaltz123 wrote:
3 model kits (5 if you include the 2x on the website).

Quite poor really tbh. I am a little confused why they have only shown 1x assault intercessor as well, the whole kit would have been nice.

I guess they are holding a hell of a lot back, but they could have shown a little more tbh.

To be fair, we have the leaks showing the full models. At least for the assault squad. Plus the grainy pic showing the silent king, the new monolith, the new c'tan shard of the nightbring (most likely), what looks like a new cryptek, what could be a new destroyer, and some weird floating things. Plus more space marine leaks

Iracundus wrote:
Silent King looks like a diorama piece rather than something going to the open battlefield.

Actually I'm deeply relieved that he seems to be riding a vehicle with his retinue rather than being one of those crappy diorama models.

Woefully empty preview compared to the leaks though. Certainly, I didn't feel like sitting through an hour and a half of dead air as they say vague milquetoast surface level things about game design and novels.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I like how the design team seem to have vigorously backpeddled on the whole 'Necrons don't want to surrender their bipedal organic forms' thing which they pushed with 5th...

Or have they?

Even in that edition, the non-humanoid Necrons were still available but they were portrayed as tools to be used to accomplish the goals of the still humanoid Necrons.

 Asmodai wrote:

There’s been one thing we’ve been asked for more than anything else in the last three years (aside from the Lion riding a Thunderhawk): “Can my digital codex come bundled with my print version?” Well, Noble Hobbyist, yes. Yes it can. Whenever you buy a 9th edition codex, you’ll get the digital rules for that codex in the app for free.

One of the biggest quality of life changes with the new edition for me.

Wow, that's great news! Might actually tempt me to try it rather than just sticking to 30k

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You don't immediately minimise the chat?

This. Maximize your window to take in the awesomeness and block out the whine.

Seems plausible that higher ranking Necrons can transfer their consciousness into specialist combat chassis.

 puma713 wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You don't immediately minimise the chat?

This. Maximize your window to take in the awesomeness and block out the whine.

You can also watch it on the actual Warhammer Community page and not have the chat be an issue at all.

Gryphonne wrote:
Don't know how legit these leaks are:

Bumped for those that might have missed it. Anyone know the source for these? Found them on FB.

The worse thing of this cinematic were the space marines proportions, but they never get those right. Just like in the Dawn of War 3 Cinematic.

For the first GW cinematic trailer it was pretty good. Not one of the best out there of course, but I'll give it a solid 6/10.

 RiTides wrote:

 Asmodai wrote:

There’s been one thing we’ve been asked for more than anything else in the last three years (aside from the Lion riding a Thunderhawk): “Can my digital codex come bundled with my print version?” Well, Noble Hobbyist, yes. Yes it can. Whenever you buy a 9th edition codex, you’ll get the digital rules for that codex in the app for free.

One of the biggest quality of life changes with the new edition for me.

Wow, that's great news! Might actually tempt me to try it rather than just sticking to 30k

Man, I've been wanting this for years. Great move, GW.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I like how the design team seem to have vigorously backpeddled on the whole 'Necrons don't want to surrender their bipedal organic forms' thing which they pushed with 5th...

Good. The necron lore in 5th ed was atrocious and killed any real menace or fear factor necrons had, basically turning them into quirky machine humans in space.
GW seems to be bring back the horror and menace aspects of them, which is an improvement.

 Arbitrator wrote:


Why would I be?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBgXH7eyRo4

Crisper animation, more weight to both movement and the fantastic sound design, FAR, FAR, FAR better proportions (the Sister comes to a Primaris' neck) and a more bittersweet 'excuse narrative', rather than 'Imperium thoroughly beats the NPC Faction because they're just the besist and barely suffer for it, except the Guard obviously'.

Astartes is the new gold standard. It's sad to see GW lagging behing fanmade art.

Overall a bit disappointed with no major new hints as to any new developments of the background beyond the Silent King returning. Maybe a Necron civil war?

No hint was made of any Imperial civil war. Worrying hint of the Indomitus Crusade being milked like the Horus Heresy for endless books. Hope it doesn't become just Guilliman crawling across the galaxy discovering just how messed up the Imperium is, while trouncing the local antagonist of the book.

 DeadEyeDuk wrote:
I haven't caught a Warhammer Twitch live for a while, but my goodness there are a lot of entitled self interested wombles in the chat. Clearly the big reveal was a new edition, but there was just so much moaning going on. Not saying Dakka is immune to such things, but WOW people need to calm down :-)

Be interesting to find out dates etc, what with everything going on in the world, but new stuff looks good so far.

That's why i shut down twitch chat. Good riddance, nothing lost