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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/10/26/celebrating-warhammer-day/. So.. No preview?

Yeah, I guess not. I was looking forward to some information on... anything, really. But I guess its 'tune in to people gibbering on about social media.'

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/10/26/celebrating-warhammer-day/. So.. No preview?

Only ones that said there would be previews were players so...yeah not a surprise.

tneva82 wrote:

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/10/26/celebrating-warhammer-day/. So.. No preview?

Only ones that said there would be previews were players so...yeah not a surprise.

Well to be fair that was mostly fuelled by the fact that GW can't really do much else right now. Normally it would be a day to encourage people to go to the stores to play games; compete in events; paint and display etc... along with some tournament or such at Warhammer World. Instead we are in Covid situations with regions like Nottingham and much of the North locking down to level 3 whilst Wales has totally locked down once more. So yeah its really not the time for GW to send the "go to the store" message.

Meanwhile get together and hobby is sort of what they did during the previous major lockdown and do most evenings with their twitch stream so its nothing new/fresh.

I'm sure they've got some stuff, but its likely going to be a more muted affair than in previous years. That said I'm sure we'll get some news in November considering how right now all we have are the few remaining 40K/Necron kits that we know about; the Bloodbowl that looks like it will be going up this weekend or next; Morathi and the duel army pack in November and a few other bits. Basically December and onward is unknown save for 1 teased Xenos codex for 40K

The weekend around 1st November is usually when GW reveal the Christmas Battleforce bundles so I wouldn't be surprised to see those appear as part of GW Day.

Wouldn’t they just reveal on Sunday.
That’s the usual GW reveal day for pre orders isn’t it?

Danny76 wrote:
Wouldn’t they just reveal on Sunday.
That’s the usual GW reveal day for pre orders isn’t it?

Last year the battleforces where shown at the end of October a month before their real preorder date at the end of November but they where also leaked beforehand so maybe that was just because of that and they won't show them until later

Danny76 wrote:
Wouldn’t they just reveal on Sunday.
That’s the usual GW reveal day for pre orders isn’t it?

They don’t usually go on sale until December but get previewed earlier as they are in promotional material like the Christmas gift guide.

For what it’s worth?

Those that hit the Big Spender reward? The rucksack is of solid quality!

Just got hands on Chaplain Tarentus. He's Easy to buily, no clippers required (like the prior Terminator Librarian and SM Heroes series models) Left crux is molded on top the combi-flamer arm, right pad is separate just like the librarian, so should be simple to drop a normal pad on top.

So the sprue pretty much confirms my theory that this was meant to be one of those Space Marine Heroes models. I had my suspicions since he had one of those scenic bases. And looking at the sprue, it has the same weird, rounded edges as the space marine heroes, and the head is one of the "slot" in heads, identical to the second wave featuring Terminators. Boo.

Also, at least you can swap out the right shoulder pad. No such luck for people wanting to make him deathwatch.

Yeah that’s what pissed me off about the MTO Librarian. It’s a SMH model marked up to $35 when $8 is already overpriced if we’re honest.

 zend wrote:
Yeah that’s what pissed me off about the MTO Librarian. It’s a SMH model marked up to $35 when $8 is already overpriced if we’re honest.

Honestly, since it's a character/unique, they'd definitely force him into a $65 dollar paint set, like they did with the standard bearer and the much nicer nurgle sorcerer.

Quasistellar wrote:
Most likely $35 USD. Don't see any reason it would be more..

Listed at $35 on miniatures market.
I was wrong.

Yah know for a day GW advertised and such I have to say - I'm not really "feeling" much of anything for Warhammer Day. If anything the only notable event for those not turning up to a store is the chaplain model for marines.

Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.




Not normally one to gripe much at their marketing and such days but it just seems so strange to have nothing to engage with remotely. Especially considering that everyone knew it wasn't going to be much of a store day (even if you do visit to spend to get the rewards - which seem to only be present in stores and not online - you can only turn up, spend and leave.

Have you been bombarded with Warhammer Day marketing? If so, I think you're the only one.

 Overread wrote:
This just appeared on facebook from a stockiest in Bedford. Appears that GW is using Warhammer day like their Store anniversary events in the past.
I'm aware that in the past for store events there was some wriggling room in the reward tiers and we've no details on if GW is going to do the same through their online store this time around - due to covid restrictions (esp seeing as some regions of the UK are locking down tighter).

Spoiler:

If that's the same bag they had last year then its a good bag - roomy too it will easily fit a standard "duel army new model release" box or new edition box or other similar boxes

Interestingly, when I went in I was told that it wasn't a case of just getting one of the rewards (unless you spent a silly amount of money), you got all the bits for each threshold you cleared. Ended up with the prints and a spare ammo tin - not that I've figured out what to do with the first one yet...

 Overread wrote:
Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.

Seems that "Here. Have a new model." is about the extent of GW's celebrations.

Ye to be honest I was kind of expecting something, last weekends previews felt more like "WARHAMMER DAY". They could have even saved the morathi book trailer for today.

I guess the sort of thing they'd want to do would involve more people at their stores, which is a little tricky at the moment - and that was before the news about a potential second English lockdown started to circulate.

We got a sneak peak at "something" https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/10/31/the-spookiest-models-of-the-year/

Though honestly that article feels less "Warhammer Day" and more "Halloween" material.

JWBS wrote:
Have you been bombarded with Warhammer Day marketing? If so, I think you're the only one.

Well there were all those articles GW put on their website about Warhammer Day coming and such. Sure it wasn't the same hype build up as a big preview event or a release like Indomitus. But GW chose to make "Warhammer Day" a thing; they marketed it and we all knew very few people (in comparison to normal) would be heading to the shops to celebrate (where, again, even if you can buy you can't often stay, socialise or play). So they sort of created and event for themselves and then, didn't do anything with it. I appreciate that normally it would be a big day of games and events in-person, but they knew well in advance this time that there wouldn't be that aspect. It just seems odd, even a few articles on "the year in review" type of thing would have been nice.

It's just a bit of a sense of a waste.

Yeah it was always going to be a bust, but I suppose they felt they had to schedule it anyway in case of an improvement, knowing it was likely to be a non-event. Year in review would have been good I agree but maybe that's still to come.

At least we got a pretty cool Termi Chaplain out of it.

Now to find a (or some) plain Termi shoulder pad (or pads) on eBay so he ain't packing a double Crux...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.

Seems that "Here. Have a new model." is about the extent of GW's celebrations.

Which is fine, honestly. If all they want to do is show off upcoming models or books, that makes sense to me.
Pictures of toast is just kinda weird.

ok conspiracy time, GW got word through grapevine of uk shut down, so did event to promote a last big visit to local stores before rules go into effect.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.

Seems that "Here. Have a new model." is about the extent of GW's celebrations.

"Have a new model"? To be precise, it was merely "Buy a new model!"; same as every week really.

They could at least have organized something on their Twitch - not a preview, that wasn't on the agenda, but some stream with hobby-related discussions, showcases, whatever, something compensating for the fact people won't be gathering at stores for obvious reasons. From what I can see, there wasn't any broadcast at all yesterday. Quite the celebration.

 Overread wrote:
Yah know for a day GW advertised and such I have to say - I'm not really "feeling" much of anything for Warhammer Day. If anything the only notable event for those not turning up to a store is the chaplain model for marines.

Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.




Not normally one to gripe much at their marketing and such days but it just seems so strange to have nothing to engage with remotely. Especially considering that everyone knew it wasn't going to be much of a store day (even if you do visit to spend to get the rewards - which seem to only be present in stores and not online - you can only turn up, spend and leave.

What exactly were you expecting in the midst of a pandemic? They can hardly throw a street party.

 JohnnyHell wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Yah know for a day GW advertised and such I have to say - I'm not really "feeling" much of anything for Warhammer Day. If anything the only notable event for those not turning up to a store is the chaplain model for marines.

Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.




Not normally one to gripe much at their marketing and such days but it just seems so strange to have nothing to engage with remotely. Especially considering that everyone knew it wasn't going to be much of a store day (even if you do visit to spend to get the rewards - which seem to only be present in stores and not online - you can only turn up, spend and leave.

What exactly were you expecting in the midst of a pandemic? They can hardly throw a street party.

Well it was an event they created and marketed and there's a host of things they could have done online:
1) A Twitch stream through the day with things like hobby painting; conversions; interviews; socially distanced games etc... Sure nothing "new" that they don't do already, but something done in spirit of the day

2) A few articles on the community page. Perhaps since Warhammer day is like the end and start of a warhammer year they could have done a year in reflection; perhaps show behind the scenes how they are keeping covid safe; perhaps go into what's come out this year etc...

3) Present more rewards for store purchases from the main store. Even if they couldn't do it all they could have offered things like the artwork that was offered in-store through the online store.

4) Have a few more unique items. For a day Celebrating Warhammer its odd that the only unique thing was a Chaplain for one army from one game. Again they could have done a promotion with the merchandise; done at least one AoS model etc....

5) If the GW team didn't have time/resources to do twitch streams and such they could have networked with content creators in the community and given them a show-case day through the official stream. Or even encouraged them to do "Warhammer Day" presentations and then linked them through the community pages

That's just a few rough ideas that doesn't require them to do anything "new" but does present something to engage with on "Warhammer Day". Again this isn't something just out of the blue, they chose to market it as an event and then didn't really provide anything; knowing full well in advance that many people would be unable to attend stores and that stores wouldn't even be able to hold games or do anything beyond take money. In the end Warhammer Day was great for those who attended stores - the bag, tin and art are all great items to get (heck the bag I got last year). But beyond that it wasn't really much of a celebration. Oddly on the GW Community page nothing really appeared to celebrate the day until the very end of the day (ergo the normal Saturday one-slot info release) and even then we technically got more excitement (the teased photo) from a Halloween branded bit of media than from the actual Warhammer Day.



Heck I know this is griping and like I said before I don't generally worry or both about the "best ever show/reveal/event" type marketing. But there's a difference between something happening and nothing happening and really for their online market (which is pretty darn large and quite dominate right now with lockdowns) it just felt empty. If anything a bit of a sore reminder on how many of us can't go out and engage with the hobby with friends.

 Overread wrote:
Yah know for a day GW advertised and such I have to say - I'm not really "feeling" much of anything for Warhammer Day. If anything the only notable event for those not turning up to a store is the chaplain model for marines.

Seems sort of odd that GW would make all that marketing noise and then not really have anything going on.


Not normally one to gripe much at their marketing and such days but it just seems so strange to have nothing to engage with remotely. Especially considering that everyone knew it wasn't going to be much of a store day (even if you do visit to spend to get the rewards - which seem to only be present in stores and not online - you can only turn up, spend and leave.

Well, it was 29th June in 2019. This year they tried to hijack Halloween. I guess everyone was busy.

Maybe GW would have made more money selling Warhammer costumes for Halloween. Obviously, named model costumes would cost more than basic troop costumes as you don't need to buy as many.

This all leaves me wondering if we will get another preview before the years over. I imagine they will want to show off the new AoS stuff that seems likely to be arriving in January and the new Kill Team (whatever it is) that will likely be releasing in January or February.