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 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised there's been no Lord of the Rings when we know a Dale supplement is coming. Not like there wasn't space to cram it in elsewhere.

Tomorrow is probably nothing but Orks since they're presumably getting more than Sisters.

I'm also starting to believe Saturday is just going to be showing off animation and maybe the Eisenhorn casting announcement.

Anything Eisenhorn will have to drop on an article the day it happens.
I don’t think GW would be able to keep that out of news outside of the geek circuit.
There’s a lot in the tv/movie fandom that do research and follow studios and all that, so I think the news would come out there.

I’d just like an announcement of a network picking it up, as that’s the best first step.

Is part of the AI Eldar the recently OOP FW flyer ? the dubs giveth the dubs taketh

and of course CRAB BATTLE !

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I knew GW would give us crabs eventually

Especially with the return of Slaanesh

Danny76 wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised, I thought they'd given up on Aeronautica.

They got funded for a whole season, this is the last release for the season. This game release come with more kit this than the usual Specialist Game, and the pacing of the release was much faster than Titanicus.

Where is tat info from?
That it’s funded for a season, and what a season entails?

They got funded for 5 factions : Imperial (AM + Navy), Ork, Tau, Eldar, Space Marine. So this is the final release (Eldar and SM probably still got 1 or 2 more plane to come) before GW would decide to continue the game or not. This game cost more to produce than Blood bowl, Necromunda and LoTR combined.

Where is that info from? Interview/GW livestream. where is interview? Somewhere in the AI thread

Oh snap. I was catching up on todays reveals through this thread and yall really trolled me with all those "plastic thunderhawk!" comments hehehe

Guess its the bonkers amount of sprues the real thing would require which is holding them back on doing a 28mm scale plastic 'hawk..

 Sledgehammer wrote:
You can't reasonably expect people to be able to afford multiple Titans from forge world, then drag those to a game store and then find multiple pieces of 3 foot tall terrain and play.

Yeah, don't think anyone would ever buy Superheavies for Apocalypse sized games just for a gaming night at the end of an Edition
but if those units would be useable in regular 40k, there might be enough people buying them so we can get a plastic kit at least for the smaller ones, like Baneblades or Knights......

The Facebook pics...

Aw yeah, Storm Eagles and Xiphons for my Epic force is just groovy. Might get some Hawks one day as well, though I've already got three

 Ghaz wrote:
The Facebook pics...

Spoiler:

Stolen! Thanks for helping, Ghaz.

When I look at those Nacht-Ghuls, all I can think of is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPOlk22eftg

Chopstick wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised, I thought they'd given up on Aeronautica.

They got funded for a whole season, this is the last release for the season. This game release come with more kit this than the usual Specialist Game, and the pacing of the release was much faster than Titanicus.

Where is tat info from?
That it’s funded for a season, and what a season entails?

They got funded for 5 factions : Imperial (AM + Navy), Ork, Tau, Eldar, Space Marine. So this is the final release (Eldar and SM probably still got 1 or 2 more plane to come) before GW would decide to continue the game or not. This game cost more to produce than Blood bowl, Necromunda and LoTR combined.

Where is that info from? Interview/GW livestream. where is interview? Somewhere in the AI thread

You've read into it a bit, they never said they were "funded for five factions" just that they had five factions planned - that could mean that they were only funded for 2 factions initially and then were funded for three more later, it could mean they had funding for eight factions but only had 5 in development while they figured out the other 3, or any number of other scenarios. Given production and design times involved, etc. the decision to fund anything beyond the additional 5 factions would have already been made long ago.

Also, worth pointing out that Space Marines could also be considered Imperial (just like how Guard and Navy are one faction), which means there is possibly still one more faction to be released.

Danny76 wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised there's been no Lord of the Rings when we know a Dale supplement is coming. Not like there wasn't space to cram it in elsewhere.

Tomorrow is probably nothing but Orks since they're presumably getting more than Sisters.

I'm also starting to believe Saturday is just going to be showing off animation and maybe the Eisenhorn casting announcement.

Anything Eisenhorn will have to drop on an article the day it happens.
I don’t think GW would be able to keep that out of news outside of the geek circuit.
There’s a lot in the tv/movie fandom that do research and follow studios and all that, so I think the news would come out there.

I’d just like an announcement of a network picking it up, as that’s the best first step.

I've been thinking Saturday would be announcement of a new LOTR starter and AoS3.

I'm still feeling that guess.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster has some rather nice Matrix vibes to play off
Against the general dark City feel of the big Ds

 Mr. Grey wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
Horus Heresy is ultimately a pointless game. You can already fight space marines with space marines in 40K. It is crazy to have a whole another game dedicated to that.

Aeronautica Imperialis is ultimately a pointless game. You can already play aircraft vs aircraft in 40k. Seems crazy to have a whole different game dedicated to that.

Adeptus Titanicus is ultimately a pointless game. You can already play Titans vs Titans in 40k. Seems crazy to have a whole different game dedicated to that.

I see the point you make, but both Aeronautica and Titanicus are games that require a game of vastly different scale. HH and 40K marines are at least compatible in that sense.

tauist wrote:Oh snap. I was catching up on todays reveals through this thread and yall really trolled me with all those "plastic thunderhawk!" comments hehehe

Guess its the bonkers amount of sprues the real thing would require which is holding them back on doing a 28mm scale plastic 'hawk..

Not as many as you'd think

chaos0xomega wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised, I thought they'd given up on Aeronautica.

They got funded for a whole season, this is the last release for the season. This game release come with more kit this than the usual Specialist Game, and the pacing of the release was much faster than Titanicus.

Where is tat info from?
That it’s funded for a season, and what a season entails?

They got funded for 5 factions : Imperial (AM + Navy), Ork, Tau, Eldar, Space Marine. So this is the final release (Eldar and SM probably still got 1 or 2 more plane to come) before GW would decide to continue the game or not. This game cost more to produce than Blood bowl, Necromunda and LoTR combined.

Where is that info from? Interview/GW livestream. where is interview? Somewhere in the AI thread

You've read into it a bit, they never said they were "funded for five factions" just that they had five factions planned - that could mean that they were only funded for 2 factions initially and then were funded for three more later, it could mean they had funding for eight factions but only had 5 in development while they figured out the other 3, or any number of other scenarios. Given production and design times involved, etc. the decision to fund anything beyond the additional 5 factions would have already been made long ago.

Also, worth pointing out that Space Marines could also be considered Imperial (just like how Guard and Navy are one faction), which means there is possibly still one more faction to be released.

Unfortunately I don't think AI was a big success so I'm not expecting much if anything after this. It makes me sad because the original AI game was really fun and with some minor tweaks could have been a good quick fire tournament game. Unfortunately they really messed up the rules when they compressed the scale and put it on a hex board such that it's no longer a terribly engaging game.

Hopefully they do another run but with the rules the way they are, even as an aircraft enthusiast I'm mostly buying it for the models rather than to play games.

SamusDrake wrote:

 Mr. Grey wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
Horus Heresy is ultimately a pointless game. You can already fight space marines with space marines in 40K. It is crazy to have a whole another game dedicated to that.

Aeronautica Imperialis is ultimately a pointless game. You can already play aircraft vs aircraft in 40k. Seems crazy to have a whole different game dedicated to that.

Adeptus Titanicus is ultimately a pointless game. You can already play Titans vs Titans in 40k. Seems crazy to have a whole different game dedicated to that.

I see the point you make, but both Aeronautica and Titanicus are games that require a game of vastly different scale. HH and 40K marines are at least compatible in that sense.

Sure, and my reply may have been a bit facetious. But I do feel like it's a bit demeaning to dismiss Horus Heresy out of hand "because you can just play space marines vs space marines in 40K." I mean, I guess I could, except that there aren't any rules for the space marine legions in 40k, and Horus Heresy as it's own game system already has a huge library of existing rulebooks. Nevermind that in my opinion, 9th has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and lacks a lot of the nuance and granularity that makes 30K a fun game for me to play.

 Flinty wrote:
The Flying Spaghetti Monster has some rather nice Matrix vibes to play off
Against the general dark City feel of the big Ds

Dang, now I really want to make a Delaque gang with really shiny black leather coats.
Does anyone make a Richard O’Brien look-alike head in 28mm scale?

Glad we finally get marines for aeronautica, will buy a bunch to go with my epic space marine chapter. Maybe, just maybe we get plastic thunder hawks as well (even if they are tiny ones)

Whoever did the cover art for the Wrath of Angels box seemed to think they were painting a Battlestar Galactic fighter. That does not look like the same plane as the model, even allowing for a liberal side perspective rather than overhead.

Today, it’s the turn of our boxed games and we have MASSIVE reveals for:

Massive. I don't think that word means what you think it means. Granted, this was the biggest preview so far, but that's a _really_ low bar.

Chopstick wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised, I thought they'd given up on Aeronautica.

They got funded for a whole season, this is the last release for the season. This game release come with more kit this than the usual Specialist Game, and the pacing of the release was much faster than Titanicus.

Where is tat info from?
That it’s funded for a season, and what a season entails?

They got funded for 5 factions : Imperial (AM + Navy), Ork, Tau, Eldar, Space Marine. So this is the final release (Eldar and SM probably still got 1 or 2 more plane to come) before GW would decide to continue the game or not. This game cost more to produce than Blood bowl, Necromunda and LoTR combined.

Where is that info from? Interview/GW livestream. where is interview? Somewhere in the AI thread

Damn shame if they don't do Chaos and I guess necrons opposite them. The Forgeworld chaos fliers are great.

 Tamereth wrote:
Glad we finally get marines for aeronautica, will buy a bunch to go with my epic space marine chapter. Maybe, just maybe we get plastic thunder hawks as well (even if they are tiny ones)

Half of the reveal video was spent showing off the plastic Thunderhawk…

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Tamereth wrote:
Glad we finally get marines for aeronautica, will buy a bunch to go with my epic space marine chapter. Maybe, just maybe we get plastic thunder hawks as well (even if they are tiny ones)

Half of the reveal video was spent showing off the plastic Thunderhawk…

Yep...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Boxed Games: The only other real wildcard outside of the Saturday thing, we're going to see Delaque stuff and... who knows what else? Probably the Fish Elves for underworld.

GW are becoming too predictable.

Nice to see AI stuff though. That actually is a surprise, and the Eldar minis are very cool.

New Delaque stuff is all kinds of awful.

Agreed. Delaque is a mess.

Anyone been able to find out the base size of the Gaunts Ghosts minis?

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

Chopstick wrote:

 Arbitrator wrote:
Surprised, I thought they'd given up on Aeronautica.

They got funded for a whole season, this is the last release for the season. This game release come with more kit this than the usual Specialist Game, and the pacing of the release was much faster than Titanicus.

Where is tat info from?
That it’s funded for a season, and what a season entails?

They got funded for 5 factions : Imperial (AM + Navy), Ork, Tau, Eldar, Space Marine. So this is the final release (Eldar and SM probably still got 1 or 2 more plane to come) before GW would decide to continue the game or not. This game cost more to produce than Blood bowl, Necromunda and LoTR combined.

Where is that info from? Interview/GW livestream. where is interview? Somewhere in the AI thread

You've read into it a bit, they never said they were "funded for five factions" just that they had five factions planned - that could mean that they were only funded for 2 factions initially and then were funded for three more later, it could mean they had funding for eight factions but only had 5 in development while they figured out the other 3, or any number of other scenarios. Given production and design times involved, etc. the decision to fund anything beyond the additional 5 factions would have already been made long ago.

Also, worth pointing out that Space Marines could also be considered Imperial (just like how Guard and Navy are one faction), which means there is possibly still one more faction to be released.

Unfortunately I don't think AI was a big success so I'm not expecting much if anything after this. It makes me sad because the original AI game was really fun and with some minor tweaks could have been a good quick fire tournament game. Unfortunately they really messed up the rules when they compressed the scale and put it on a hex board such that it's no longer a terribly engaging game.

Hopefully they do another run but with the rules the way they are, even as an aircraft enthusiast I'm mostly buying it for the models rather than to play games.

From what I've heard AI has done decently well. It wasn't the home-run success that Adeptus Titanicus was which supposedly outsold its projected annual sales in a matter of minutes, but the murmurings I've heard suggest AI was profitable.

 Mr. Grey wrote:


Sure, and my reply may have been a bit facetious. But I do feel like it's a bit demeaning to dismiss Horus Heresy out of hand "because you can just play space marines vs space marines in 40K." I mean, I guess I could, except that there aren't any rules for the space marine legions in 40k, and Horus Heresy as it's own game system already has a huge library of existing rulebooks. Nevermind that in my opinion, 9th has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer and lacks a lot of the nuance and granularity that makes 30K a fun game for me to play.

Agreed. I suppose one could ask should Kill Team share the same rules as Necromunda or vice versa? One has battle hardened warriors that focus on military focused goals while the other has gang members who could crack under lesser conditions but have more freedom to use their initiative.

chaos0xomega wrote:

From what I've heard AI has done decently well. It wasn't the home-run success that Adeptus Titanicus was which supposedly outsold its projected annual sales in a matter of minutes, but the murmurings I've heard suggest AI was profitable.

That’s heartening and I expect Eldar and Marines to be big sellers. Marines especially with the Heresy crowd and the possibility of players coming up with extended campaigns using different systems. Expect to see those marine aircraft in legion colours! Definitely looking forward to these. For me, this has been the best for reveals so far, with the Delaques included.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Boxed Games: The only other real wildcard outside of the Saturday thing, we're going to see Delaque stuff and... who knows what else? Probably the Fish Elves for underworld.

GW are becoming too predictable.

Nice to see AI stuff though. That actually is a surprise, and the Eldar minis are very cool.

New Delaque stuff is all kinds of awful.

I thought they were pretty unique. Why do you not like them? Though I guess I'm focused more on the guy with the heavy cowl and the matrix thing.