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 gorgon wrote:

artific3r wrote:

 gorgon wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

Plastic titans? There was that mystery lords of war entry on the roadmap...

It's possible. I mean, if we're going to overanalyze that little teaser, the amount of units you see could easily represent a regular 30K battlefield.

What regular 30k units have long stick bases like that?

Didn't we just cover that a couple of pages ago? They aren't bases, they're military map symbols.

I think this *probably* is some kind of small-scale something, but it's still possible that some of you are setting yourself up for disappointment here.

If you want to get pedantic about it fine, but in the context of GW games, have they ever used that style of military map symbol for anything other than regimented blocks of models with square bases?

Yes! I think I saw a 40k batrep in a white dwarf, back in the days when ork stick bombaz was a unit. A big unit of those was represented by a rectangle!

poretty sure I remember WD battle reports for Space Marine where units were depicted as Napoleonic style rectangles with arrows a few times

at a guess because such was quite easy to draw

Yes they were, very similar to that with individual units (titans, super heavies) as circles.

So were WHFB battle reports though, so perhaps one indicator is that it is a 'base' of units. Are we setting ourselves up for a fall here? New Apocalypse 30k, where you get movement trays for your squad of 20 Mk6 marines

Oh Jebus Crisps, how could we have been so short sighted...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/17/skulls-2023-returns-next-week-with-rahul-kohli-as-host/

...its going to be an amazingly crap mobile game!

Don't even joke about it like that!

I'd be up for a Final Liberation II

Hi there. Well to my point of view...if they are going to remake epic...then it should use all factions even primaris...to sell more products and make a community like kill team...but if we are basing just in horus (that looks like marines painted in two colors) then it could be just a board game.

Theres even a web who posted the supposedly contents of the boxes and just pure marines (if you paint it yellow then are good guys and if you paint it red are bad guys...yay)

And i hope is not a stupid video game lol i preffer tiny units than big ones....hell i stop playing 40k becouse primaris screw my 10k point army of bluemarines....

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I'd be up for a Final Liberation II

OK good point - and actually, so would I!

 Alpharius wrote:

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
I'd be up for a Final Liberation II

OK good point - and actually, so would I!

Yes, but not unless it looks significantly better than that teaser trailer.

Some big weight there with Boltgun, if they are headlining that above Space Marine 2 and the new Total War, which will probably be one of the biggest PC games of the year!

I don't get Boltgun, it feels like a small indie game but yet is drummed up like they are expecting it to be a AAA title?

Personally, I have zero lust towards reteo games such as Boltgun.. if I want to play retro games, I fire up my emulators

 tauist wrote:
I don't get Boltgun, it feels like a small indie game but yet is drummed up like they are expecting it to be a AAA title?

Personally, I have zero lust towards reteo games such as Boltgun.. if I want to play retro games, I fire up my emulators

It’s entirely possible they just really enjoyed it themselves. I mean, Doom gone 40K has an appeal being retro, because even today, Doom 2 remains a fun run and gun FPS.

It's got top billing because it's out next week and sales in the first week or two are where game studios make the majority of their profit. I'm amped for it, it looks like a lot of fun and it's reasonably priced.

 tauist wrote:
I don't get Boltgun, it feels like a small indie game but yet is drummed up like they are expecting it to be a AAA title?

Personally, I have zero lust towards reteo games such as Boltgun.. if I want to play retro games, I fire up my emulators

I think it's simply that you can buy Boltgun now, while you can buy Space Marine II sometime later, i.e. not-now. Nothing prevents them from doing a hype event for SM2 later, but with their general approach they always favor the one bird in the hand over two in the bush.

Tsagualsa wrote:

 tauist wrote:
I don't get Boltgun, it feels like a small indie game but yet is drummed up like they are expecting it to be a AAA title?

Personally, I have zero lust towards reteo games such as Boltgun.. if I want to play retro games, I fire up my emulators

I think it's simply that you can buy Boltgun now, while you can buy Space Marine II sometime later, i.e. not-now. Nothing prevents them from doing a hype event for SM2 later, but with their general approach they always favor the one bird in the hand over two in the bush.

yeah, fair enough.. at GW, the product coming out next is always the "best thing ever", so only logical the same would apply to licensed games

It’s only fair to their third parties too - get your game to release, you get your time in the sun.

MaxT wrote:
It’s only fair to their third parties too - get your game to release, you get your time in the sun.

In the gaming industry you get extremely short windows for making your sales anyway if you're not a triple-AAA title mainstream press and streamers can't shut up about - a couple of weeks when your reviews are somewhere on the front pages of magazines and portals, and that's it. You can later do tentpole DLC or sales, but the period immediately around the release is still the most important by far, and that's when you need all the PR you can get.

Sadly, I've derailed the thread but...

...Boltgun looks like the dog's *******s!

Epic will be... Epic, just Epic....

Interesting snippet-

“The work on Epic 30k began in 2018. Epic Horus Heresy was the last production by GW with Jervis Johnson involved. Before he left GW in 2021, he was one of the Designers and an important advisor for those who continued to work further on the game. He also was the biggest advocate within the company to bring Epic 30k back. This new Epic is his Baby like the past “Editions” were and will be part of his legacy.”

Grzzldgamerps5 wrote:
Interesting snippet-

“The work on Epic 30k began in 2018. Epic Horus Heresy was the last production by GW with Jervis Johnson involved. Before he left GW in 2021, he was one of the Designers and an important advisor for those who continued to work further on the game. He also was the biggest advocate within the company to bring Epic 30k back. This new Epic is his Baby like the past “Editions” were and will be part of his legacy.”

Unfortunately that also comes from Faeit212, aka Fake101 The chance that it's just straight made-up is very high.

Events, on which they could show more:

- UK Games Expo (June)
- Nova Open (August / September)
- Gen Con (September)
- Spiel (October)
- Warhammer Day (October)

RazorEdge wrote:
Events, on which they could show more:

- UK Games Expo (June)
- Nova Open (August / September)
- Gen Con (September)
- Spiel (October)
- Warhammer Day (October)

I made a more comprehensive list: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/810015.page

 Alpharius wrote:
Don't even joke about it like that!

Do you guys not have phones?

 Shakalooloo wrote:


Do you guys not have phones?

We haven't been using the phones, you see...we use pens!

Let's be honest, if / when this does come.out there is a 50 / 50 chance only seven people and another 100 bots actually get a copy.

Can't see a "permanent" Starter Set for Epic would become FOMO and get scalped.

A starter set would presumably be reprinted as necessary. In any case, if this is a new game roll-out as expected, the components will be available separately as well, which means that the starter box won't be required.

Eumerin wrote:
A starter set would presumably be reprinted as necessary. In any case, if this is a new game roll-out as expected, the components will be available separately as well, which means that the starter box won't be required.

Unless you wanted to get them at a massive discount in the way of a boxed starter, lol...