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I wish I did not actually sit through an hour of this.

I'm going to ignore the 40k side of things as irrelevant (though I am shocked there was no new marine previewed!)

Warcry starter looks nice and if it's sensibly priced it might be a fun boardgame purchase.
Morathi's shadow elves are a nice departure from the bikini babe Witch Elves

Underworlds- we've seen absolutely nothing beyond some art, so yay...oh and we're getting new seraphon models finally, for the dying boardgame side of things, not the main game.

AoS proper- the starter set looks nice, the books fill me with dread remembering how bad the Realmgate wars were. I hope it's going to be more useful than Psychic Awkening at least?

Overall they showed almost nothing new of any substance.

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

Stuff was really cool. I’ll give it that. This big reveal seemed like a collection of typical reveal stuff, and aside from Slaanesh coming back into the spotlight, and possibly the newcron, I really don’t think it was worth the amount of hype GW nurtured. That could be partly because I have almost no interest in most of the revealed content though.

Also gotta agree with Overread, I’ve never met someone that actually bought a significant amount of terrain from GW. I see a lot of people that buy non-GW terrain occasionally or make it themselves and there really isn’t a whole lot of terrain they make that can’t be made using 3rd party bits, some relatively cheap materials, and a bit of ingenuity and creativity.


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Cronch wrote:
I wish I did not actually sit through an hour of this.

I'm going to ignore the 40k side of things as irrelevant (though I am shocked there was no new marine previewed!)

Warcry starter looks nice and if it's sensibly priced it might be a fun boardgame purchase.
Morathi's shadow elves are a nice departure from the bikini babe Witch Elves

Underworlds- we've seen absolutely nothing beyond some art, so yay...oh and we're getting new seraphon models finally, for the dying boardgame side of things, not the main game.

AoS proper- the starter set looks nice, the books fill me with dread remembering how bad the Realmgate wars were. I hope it's going to be more useful than Psychic Awkening at least?

Overall they showed almost nothing new of any substance.

They got a LOT of people blowing up their social media with “Please don’t release any more marines.” The Xenos players may have finally caught their attention.

Cronch wrote:
AoS proper- the starter set looks nice, the books fill me with dread remembering how bad the Realmgate wars were. I hope it's going to be more useful than Psychic Awkening at least?

Don't forget Realmgate Wars was a totally different beast. AoS at the time was a totally different game even where the attitude of designers was different. Meanwhile the writers were bound to mostly Stormcast stories and the setting was very new and fresh so authors were a bit out of their depth. Remembering that most BL novels are typically closer to adventuring stories than grand sweeping epic sagas with decades of planning and such.

I fully expect these new books to be superior in almost all respects; heck from the get go we know this book is going to focus on Morathi so not even the Stormcast. I think whilst it might have started with the idea; the AoS team has moved fully away from the idea of making/forcing Stormcast into being the "new marines" in terms of driving the narrative forward with them alone. There's a much bigger effort to have all factions with their own stories and identity and heroes and the like. Heck even Orruks and typically "monster of the week" type armies are getting more general attention story wise (slowly but surely).

 Overread wrote:

Cronch wrote:
AoS proper- the starter set looks nice, the books fill me with dread remembering how bad the Realmgate wars were. I hope it's going to be more useful than Psychic Awkening at least?

Don't forget Realmgate Wars was a totally different beast. AoS at the time was a totally different game even where the attitude of designers was different. Meanwhile the writers were bound to mostly Stormcast stories and the setting was very new and fresh so authors were a bit out of their depth. Remembering that most BL novels are typically closer to adventuring stories than grand sweeping epic sagas with decades of planning and such.

I fully expect these new books to be superior in almost all respects; heck from the get go we know this book is going to focus on Morathi so not even the Stormcast. I think whilst it might have started with the idea; the AoS team has moved fully away from the idea of making/forcing Stormcast into being the "new marines" in terms of driving the narrative forward with them alone. There's a much bigger effort to have all factions with their own stories and identity and heroes and the like. Heck even Orruks and typically "monster of the week" type armies are getting more general attention story wise (slowly but surely).

That's one thing I like about the AOS setting, Stormcast are the poster boys/girls but they don't consume the setting. There is other stuff going on and each alliance/faction gets their time in the sun in order to tell interesting new stories about the new warzones we can play in.

ERJAK wrote:
Is your head where it is for the warmth?

He's not wrong about this being a thinly veiled attempt to enshrine only official Citadel™ Terrain™ Kits™ as part of the required rules.

There are 18 weeks left in 2020, realistically 16 weeks in which new products will be sold. Here is a list of what has been officially previewed and is still unreleased:

I mean, there's no guarantee this is all going to be quarter 4. What we know for certain is Lumineth is September, Necrons and Marines in October, Shadow and Pain in November and Bloodbowl in December. I'd expect at least some of this stuff to bleed over into the new year.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/08/22/pre-order-today-underhive-blades-and-tiny-blood-bowl-terrors/

Escher Death-maidens and Wyld Runners and Ogryns are now up for Pre-Order.

Edit: wrong thread i'm stupid

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

Not sure where you're suggesting mine is, but i'm guessing yours is lodged firmly between GW's cheeks.

I like the slaanesh stuff. Might try and grab some to kitbash into my emperors children kill team.

 Arbitrator wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

Not sure where you're suggesting mine is, but i'm guessing yours is lodged firmly between GW's cheeks.

Heh. You made the same joke he did. But you flipped it, so that he was the butt and not you. Nice

JWBS wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

Not sure where you're suggesting mine is, but i'm guessing yours is lodged firmly between GW's cheeks.

Heh. You made the same joke he did. But you flipped it, so that he was the butt and not you. Nice

I'll be here all week.

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

If you think he's anything but 100% correct, you're smart enough to be the next US president.

Surprised not a single marine previewed. Pleasantly.

Dissapointed there was nothing for 40k(apart from one necron) considering they dropped a new edition.

Happy for veryone else though.

Seriously getting tired of seeing Warcry but not Kill Team in these previews. Can't they at least humour us with the long overdue Craftworlds faction set? And its not like they couldn't have done something to coincide with the whole Indomitus thing.

Otherwise, not a bad preview for the games concerned. Going to assume the Broken Realms is a prelude to a new edition of AoS in a similar way to the Psychic Awakening series was to 9th edition? AoS is a pretty cool game, having an entire faction of Tigris of Gaul fans and a Medusa appreciation society. The Morathi book looks real nice...

 lord_blackfang wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

If you think he's anything but 100% correct, you're smart enough to be the next US president.

Low blow dude. I’m trying to take a break from being angry about the political climate of the US by being angry about 40k. But that was a sick burn.


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Also I am half joking as of a week ago I decided to try to be as positive as possible about 40k and I actually feel good about the overhaul of profiles and what not.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Plus none of my friends own any terrain. They come to me for everything. So what the feth are they meant to do?

They are meant to buy official GW terrain and then paint it to a battle-ready standard, using GW paints and GW brushes and all that, of course.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Plus none of my friends own any terrain. They come to me for everything. So what the feth are they meant to do?

They are meant to buy official GW terrain and then paint it to a battle-ready standard, using GW paints and GW brushes and all that, of course.

GW really feels like a Discworld guild...

"Can't have you playing ANYWHERE unless you are using Citadel plastic glue!"

*sigh* another "greatest preview ever" full of nothing but disappointment.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:

tulun wrote:
Any bets tournaments are going to 100% ignore this bring your own terrain nonsense?

By 'bring your own terrain' it probably means official Games Workshop(tm) terrain pieces, not build-your-own with cardboard and plaster. In that respect I imagine most will follow it to the letter, along with making the DLC mission packs a mandatory purchase.

Is your head where it is for the warmth?

If you think he's anything but 100% correct, you're smart enough to be the next US president.

So what you're saying is that hundreds of large events across the country will all switch from whatever store of terrain they have to expensive, not particularly easy to assemble or paint GW kits because of a supplement book very few people will buy?

If you believe that I have a bridge I can let you have for cheap!

If you're talking about the book itself, you're wasting your breath. Of course it'll only be GW standard issue terrain, that's why no one's going to buy it.

fething duh.

 Togusa wrote:
*sigh* another "greatest preview ever" full of nothing but disappointment.

Speak for yourself. There was a lot of fun stuff in there.

That new Slaanesh character is really cool but just sort of rubs salt in the wound of not having any mortal infantry for the Hedonites.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
*sigh* another "greatest preview ever" full of nothing but disappointment.

Speak for yourself. There was a lot of fun stuff in there.

Yeah, I mean there wasn't too much 40k related but new models for anything means more models for standins and conversions and bitz.

Omg, this prevew was AMAZING for me. My main loves are Slaanesh and DOK - I need that dual box! I really, really hope it won't be another that sells out in seconds as that makes it less likely I'll be able to get one, and both my armies could do with what's inside.

The new warcry starter box looks great and may tip me into starting warcry, and I can't wait to see those new underworlds slaanesh models. Then the next stage of AOS being focussed on aelves and slaanesh? Yes please!

Ashaar wrote:
Omg, this prevew was AMAZING for me. My main loves are Slaanesh and DOK - I need that dual box! I really, really hope it won't be another that sells out in seconds as that makes it less likely I'll be able to get one, and both my armies could do with what's inside.

The new warcry starter box looks great and may tip me into starting warcry, and I can't wait to see those new underworlds slaanesh models. Then the next stage of AOS being focussed on aelves and slaanesh? Yes please!

Truer words have never been spoken.

Preview new eldars vs EC for 40k and then I will be interested again in 40K release...

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
*sigh* another "greatest preview ever" full of nothing but disappointment.

Speak for yourself. There was a lot of fun stuff in there.

Yeah. While it was dumb to make the first "reveal" something we already knew about, this one was pretty good.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Togusa wrote:
*sigh* another "greatest preview ever" full of nothing but disappointment.

Speak for yourself. There was a lot of fun stuff in there.

Yeah, I can see some of the disappointment with a few of the earlier previews, but this one had quite a lot of content. A new Warcry starter box with a new game mode/new warbands and a new season of Underworlds are pretty big news. The new Necron is pretty cool looking, the 40k terrain box will definitely be useful for some, new Night Lords terminators are pretty fun. I’ve heard several people say how excited they are for the new AoS battlebox.

I really only play Warcry of those games, but I thought it was chock full of cool/interesting stuff.

Friendly reminder here that Rule Number One is Be Polite! Thanks!

Did they say anything on twitch about the next preview?

Nova open should be in a couple of weeks, but since it has been canceled I don't know if there will be a preview.