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Well plans have been... advanced.

And on that bombshell.

23 May, 7pm British Summertime?

Dropsite Preview. We already knew this, but some posts deserve to be lost in the mists of time.

Will it be just the Saturnine box, or will other stuff be shown? Some of the missing tanks? Rapiers? Las/heavy bolter tarantulas?

Who knows! I’m going to assume not, and hope to be pleasantly surprised.

Wait and see I guess. With any luck theyll also preview the next wave of LI too, but that may be me getting my hopes up.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Siege of Terra seems to be a "break in case of emergency" narrative gate as far as game expansion goes. It seems to be set up as tbe settings "End Times" scenario, looming on the horizon but forever out of reach. Its a line that will be crossed potentially once other ideas are exhausted and The Scouring remains the only path forward for continued ROI and profit.

Then again, Saturnine WAS the title of one of the Siege of Terra books, so *shrug*

The very first Campaign book is concurrent with and past the Siege timeline wise, they're just covering events randomly as they want. I doubt even if they do a Siege campaign that they'll run out of other theaters to cover or make up at whenever in the timeline they want.

They're starting to do the SoT characters already too.

Horus, Fulgrim, Angron done. Valrak was talking about a new Dorn too I think? Not sure how solid that was though.

Finally, the Summer of Fliers

 Platuan4th wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Siege of Terra seems to be a "break in case of emergency" narrative gate as far as game expansion goes. It seems to be set up as tbe settings "End Times" scenario, looming on the horizon but forever out of reach. Its a line that will be crossed potentially once other ideas are exhausted and The Scouring remains the only path forward for continued ROI and profit.

Then again, Saturnine WAS the title of one of the Siege of Terra books, so *shrug*

The very first Campaign book is concurrent with and past the Siege timeline wise, they're just covering events randomly as they want. I doubt even if they do a Siege campaign that they'll run out of other theaters to cover or make up at whenever in the timeline they want.

Doesnt Siege of Cthonia being during/just after the Siege of Terra just prove my point? Theyll do everything but the big event itself.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Finally, the Summer of Fliers

Oh you’ve cursed it now!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Finally, the Summer of Fliers

Oh you’ve cursed it now!

Plastic Thunderhawk confirmed. Need a centerpiece model for the new edition after all.

Stop maiming it worse!

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Finally, the Summer of Fliers

Oh you’ve cursed it now!

Plastic Thunderhawk confirmed. Need a centerpiece model for the new edition after all.

Nah, we need a BIGGER bigger bigger dreadnought. Ideally something about Knight sized, but a little bigger, that I can model as a Castraferrum wrangling a Knight, standing on top of it with reins and a cowboy had and a multimelta pointed at the throne hatch and actually I don't need GW at this point. I just need another knight kit.

Oh my sweet summer child, with ribbons in your hair!

I’m a Dreadhed. Dreadnoughts are cool. No, cooler than that,

I’ll pay good honest money for a Knight sized Dread!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh my sweet summer child, with ribbons in your hair!

I’m a Dreadhed. Dreadnoughts are cool. No, cooler than that,

I’ll pay good honest money for a Knight sized Dread!

...wouldn't that just be a Knight, then?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh my sweet summer child, with ribbons in your hair!

I’m a Dreadhed. Dreadnoughts are cool. No, cooler than that,

I’ll pay good honest money for a Knight sized Dread!

Surprisingly not that much money

https://www.joytoy.com/products/imperial-fists-leviathan-dreadnought-with-cyclonic-melta-lance-and-storm-cannon

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh my sweet summer child, with ribbons in your hair!

I’m a Dreadhed. Dreadnoughts are cool. No, cooler than that,

I’ll pay good honest money for a Knight sized Dread!

Surprisingly not that much money

https://www.joytoy.com/products/imperial-fists-leviathan-dreadnought-with-cyclonic-melta-lance-and-storm-cannon

Amazingly that is $10AU or about $6.60US cheaper than buying the actual leviathan kit from GW....

 Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
Amazingly that is $10AU or about $6.60US cheaper than buying the actual leviathan kit from GW....

"Why yes, tell me again how affordable GW kits are"


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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Well. We didn’t see this coming. How could we? We’re not mind readers. Rumour has it that the psychic phase is making a return, and that there’s a Psychic Lore for EACH INDIVIDUAL LEGION.

...yeah, that screams "2.5 edition, just small fixes" to me >_>

If it’s even true

The only way to celebrate the Horus Heresy is to release a new Titan. Adeptus Titanicus was the game that introduced the era after all.

You might not be wrong...the wording seems to imply previews for more than just the Horus Heresy game, definitely feels that there will be something for LI and perhaps even something compatible for Titanicus...

A 'host of games' seems a stretch for just two, but add in Aero and Titanicus (and the RPG) and that feels about right.

No way it'll be HH 3rd Ed and Battlefleet Heresy though

Maybe that new animation is a precursor to a plastic Warlord Titan?

[/sarcasm]

 BorderCountess wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Oh my sweet summer child, with ribbons in your hair!

I’m a Dreadhed. Dreadnoughts are cool. No, cooler than that,

I’ll pay good honest money for a Knight sized Dread!

...wouldn't that just be a Knight, then?

Well, they have a nearly titan-sized Knight, so...

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If it’s even true

Well, yeah, who knows at this point xD

I'm kind of expecting they'll change it enough that you need to buy it, though, like they do with every other edition of their games, so I don't expect it will just be the same rules with a sane layout and organization...

 Tastyfish wrote:
You might not be wrong...the wording seems to imply previews for more than just the Horus Heresy game, definitely feels that there will be something for LI and perhaps even something compatible for Titanicus...

A 'host of games' seems a stretch for just two, but add in Aero and Titanicus (and the RPG) and that feels about right.

No way it'll be HH 3rd Ed and Battlefleet Heresy though

With GW continuing to include AT rules support with LI kits and even update the FAQs (as recently as this week), I've been half-hoping half-expecting that AT will get something new. While I highly doubt that will be an entirely new edition, an updated starter box certainly isn't out of the question. They could throw in some of the more recent kits like Dire Wolves or Mechanicum knights as a soft relaunch of the game system.

Ultimate copium is of course a new titan kit... and I wouldn't put it past GW to release that first and follow up with the discounted AT starter box some months later.

Apologies if splitting hairs? But AT has received new units in the shape of the Dark Mechanicum Walker things.

Not exactly Titans, and not a branded release, but added all the same.

I guess they could annoucne the next LI Expansion which also Returns to Istvaan.

One hour is awfully long for just introducing 3rd edition and Saturnine box. I bet other systems will be getting reveals as well (AI is the least likely one to see new stuff though)

That Joytoy levi is an interesting one, and again makes me think its proportions are subtly refined by the Joytoy design team, kind of like how the Joytoy Redoptor Dread looks better than the GW model as well..

RazorEdge wrote:
I guess they could annoucne the next LI Expansion which also Returns to Istvaan.

Coordinating the focus does seem like a good hook to encourage gamers to play both systems if they don't already, and sell a multi-game system campaign supplement.

They can absolutely spin the contents of that box out to an hour, but odds are good they'll show a couple of short teases for upcoming kits too. Would expect it all to be horus heresy though, shoeing in LI stuff would muddy the water