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Question - has the Wood/High Elf MTO happened yet?

Turns out the Cathay battalion is not a FOMO box:

* CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the Grand Cathay Battalion would only be available while stocks last. This is incorrect – it is actually an ongoing product. The editors responsible have submitted themselves for appropriate servitorisation.

 Dysartes wrote:
Question - has the Wood/High Elf MTO happened yet?

Yup. It run from May 31st to June 9th.

Sathrut wrote:
Turns out the Cathay battalion is not a FOMO box:

* CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the Grand Cathay Battalion would only be available while stocks last. This is incorrect – it is actually an ongoing product. The editors responsible have submitted themselves for appropriate servitorisation.

Praise be!

I'll definitely pick up those metal Beastlords. I regretted selling mine years ago, lovely models.

Edit. Woops, wrong thread.

Cathay is cool but I wait for some more.

jullevi wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Question - has the Wood/High Elf MTO happened yet?

Yup. It run from May 31st to June 9th.

Ah, OK - I blame UK Games Expo brain fog for missing it, then

jullevi wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
Question - has the Wood/High Elf MTO happened yet?

Yup. It run from May 31st to June 9th.

It came & went already?! Damn, I missed out on the Warhammer Quest Elf

Man I really thought Cathay would release later in the year. Especially with Horus Heresy releasing this summer.

Considering how much they previewed and with HH being in the middle I'm not surprised. GW are doing a big Old World push right now to get it all out before Horus Heresy steals the middle of the year.

OW does feel FAST compared to other lines, but at the same time it kind of needs it when there's so much legacy material about and when a lot of the lines are returning kits not totally new kits. Esp when some were sold under AoS until not all that long ago (High Elves and more recently Beastmen even a good many of the Wood Elf plastics too).

Sathrut wrote:
Turns out the Cathay battalion is not a FOMO box:

* CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated that the Grand Cathay Battalion would only be available while stocks last. This is incorrect – it is actually an ongoing product. The editors responsible have submitted themselves for appropriate servitorisation.

Oh thank God, now there's no hurry. I don't need to grab it on release. My wallet just breathed a sigh of relief.

 BorderCountess wrote:

 warboss wrote:
This was previewed before but the preview reminded me that I really like the ogre cannon loader and will have to pick one up on the secondary market. Looking forward to it! I know I have a(n ogre) problem...

Spoiler:

Thank you for reminding me that Cathay is giving me serious cannon envy...

You have a keen eye for quality then... They do look cool and put the (calibre of) Empire cannons to shame.

Those giant statue chaps look rather fetching. If they're reasonable with discount I would like one of those...

Yeah the statue guys are the standout kit for me too. Pretty much since the TWW3 trailer actually.
But I really mostly want the book. I have been after the Deep Lore of Cathay since 4th edition. I really hope they have some cool tidbits about Ind and Nippon too.

Design article on Cathay appearance. They openly admit that they want to attract a Chinese audience, but the article is very interesting in their thoughts on what things they changed, added or avoided.

ALSO good news!

"Please note that the recent Sunday Preview article erroneously claimed that the Grand Cathay Battalion would only be available while stocks last. This is incorrect, and it will actually be available on an ongoing basis."

The comment about skulls is interesting, yes skulls are seen as scary and upsetting in Chinese art, I remember them trying to get skeletons cut from World of Warcraft.

But it's worth noting skulls were transgressive in Anglo-American culture too, which is why metal albums put it on their covers and why a scrappy lil'British company made so much use of them in their art as they tried to snatch market share from TSR.

New article on the designing and sculpting the hierarchy in the range

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/aglktgbi/old-world-almanack-sculpting-the-cathayan-expeditionary-force/

Very interesting to see this at the very bottom

The team will be back tomorrow to discuss how they created the Sky Lantern, Cathayan Sentinel, Shugengan Lord, and Miao Ying herself. On Saturday you may pre-order everything for the first time – except Miao Ying, who is soaring into pre-orders later in the year alongside a second Arcane Journal.

Second Arcane Journal within six months. I've eaten my words before, but never so quickly.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
New article on the designing and sculpting the hierarchy in the range

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/aglktgbi/old-world-almanack-sculpting-the-cathayan-expeditionary-force/

Thanks for the link! I'm glad to see an alternate pose for the ogre cannon loader with some extra options. I hope the gut plate is a separate piece and so interchangeable (even if with some conversion/effort/putty) with the others.

The guy holding the rocket looks like John Belushi dressed up as his SNL samurai character.

Lol, that's a deep cut... You sound like a wild and crazy guy!

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
New article on the designing and sculpting the hierarchy in the range

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/aglktgbi/old-world-almanack-sculpting-the-cathayan-expeditionary-force/

Very interesting to see this at the very bottom

The team will be back tomorrow to discuss how they created the Sky Lantern, Cathayan Sentinel, Shugengan Lord, and Miao Ying herself. On Saturday you may pre-order everything for the first time – except Miao Ying, who is soaring into pre-orders later in the year alongside a second Arcane Journal.

Second Arcane Journal within six months. I've eaten my words before, but never so quickly.

Till Christmass they will get it, with a lot of new toys aswell not just Miao Ying.

Also some highlights from the article:

- Second Arcane Journal is not just Miao Ying most likely there are more units also
- Jade warriors can be built with male or female heads
- The head of the Jade Lancers horses are awfully reminding me of the Empire Knights horse heads
- Gate Masters of the Celestial Cities can be built as all the BSB and General kit, which is cool ( now only the dwarfs need a such kit )

I love how all the war machine crew have alternate poses save for the pointing and shouting one, who refuses to change!

Looks like the army has a lot of special rules (more cognitive load required to play). A bit less elite than I had originally thought, perhaps even undercosted.

Folks on reddit are having a meltdown saying the faction is busted and they will dominate tthe meta

Well based on the reaction to most new armies they were either going to be

The Most Power EVER
or
The WEAKEST ever

There's never really a middle ground for some people prone to hyperbole and you can bet many youtubers and content creators will run with similar titles or questioning titles because of how google algorithms work today.

GW hardly ever match a middle ground, usually with the argument of "new Edition in mind"

and content creators make a living with hyperbole for GW stuff

but the game did not have a good faction balance before and if the designers tried to solve the initial problems of the core rules by giving out special rules for the new army, it will be stronger than everything else

Sky lantern is 135 points but costs 160$. I think if I were to collect this army i'd avoid including any and lean into the sentinels instead.

I originally ordered 2 but scaling back to 1 and adding another battalion and longma

What, no - you gotta order 6. 1 for a magistrate, 2 for strategists, 1 for special, 2 for rare.