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Oh yea that makes sense, I was wondering what was with the empty week.

GW is really dropping the ball on releases. If they keep this up, I'll have to actually paint my backlog.

Not sure how they will manage to rehype this a few months down the road..... It's possible they just killed legiones imperialis. I hope not as I was hoping lots of folks would get into it so I would have someone to play against.

Boosykes wrote:
Not sure how they will manage to rehype this a few months down the road..... It's possible they just killed legiones imperialis. I hope not as I was hoping lots of folks would get into it so I would have someone to play against.

Oh step away from the keyboard already, and go touch some grass. Yes, this sucks. No, GW's not ditching this much work on finished plastics tooling alone just because of some setback or two somewhere else in their supply chain.

It'll come.

Hi folks,

Just got back from GenCon. Warhammer had quite a booth. Sadly there was no LI on display and no demos. I did find one guy from GW that said there was a chance for LI demos at Nova. So that would be the end of the month/early September. No one talked about why the delay, just that there was.

I also found zero AT or AI stuff anywhere in the exhibition hall. Even the GW booth didn’t have anything. Kill Team seemed to be getting a lot of love and demo time however.

That is all I have. Sorry not to have more info.

The fact there is nothing up for preorder next week except a forgeworld release and a made to order basically confirms LI was supposed to be up on Saturday but since they didn't have anything else moved up to replace it, its also very likely they only found out and delayed it last week or shortly before. Not counting christmas and two week preorders I think this is the first week since the pandemic problems in 2021 without any plastic release. (except the contrast range expansion in 07.22)

I'd've thought they'd bump up the Cities of Sigmar pre-release box, but I guess not.

Just an empty week.

TBH it would be good for GW to get in the habit of having weeks with no releases. The absurd content treadmill of needing a major release every single week is why we have short editions, product lines getting dumped into legends, etc. Quality over quantity is a thing.

Normally the last weekend of any given month is usually the "off" week.

No One Important wrote:
GW is really dropping the ball on releases. If they keep this up, I'll have to actually paint my backlog.

Let's not do anything too hasty


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 ThePaintingOwl wrote:
TBH it would be good for GW to get in the habit of having weeks with no releases. The absurd content treadmill of needing a major release every single week is why we have short editions, product lines getting dumped into legends, etc. Quality over quantity is a thing.

I agree completely.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I'd've thought they'd bump up the Cities of Sigmar pre-release box, but I guess not.

Just an empty week.

Logistically you don't just push a button and it comes. You can decide but do cargo transports comply?

and pre-orders exist

GW could without a problem shift everything they have one week earlier with the pre-orders and keep the original shipping/release date for those
instead of a 2 week window having a 3-4 week one until LI is ready and can be fit in

they decided not to do it it that way, which also indicates that it is not just weeks were can expect but months

 kodos wrote:
and pre-orders exist

GW could without a problem shift everything they have one week earlier with the pre-orders and keep the original shipping/release date for those
instead of a 2 week window having a 3-4 week one until LI is ready and can be fit in

they decided not to do it it that way, which also indicates that it is not just weeks were can expect but months

Ya I think oct/nov/dec and if proves to be earlier, awesome, all the better

 kodos wrote:
and pre-orders exist

GW could without a problem shift everything they have one week earlier with the pre-orders and keep the original shipping/release date for those
instead of a 2 week window having a 3-4 week one until LI is ready and can be fit in

they decided not to do it it that way, which also indicates that it is not just weeks were can expect but months

So have multiple 2 week preorder items that generally aren't well received being sold out and then 2 week wait?

Not exactly optimal.

And if reason for delay is indeed reprint of books several month is indeed bare minimum. Any re-do is.

Remember that AT18 also had a delayed release (for the better), so I wouldn’t worry too mach about this one.

I imagine with the delays due to their current warehouse upgrading, they're taking full advantage of a week with no new stuff to get a little extra catch up time!

The only folks that really know the cause and duration of the delay are GW (and even they might not fully know the latter).

And they're not being forthcoming.

As trying as it is, we'll just have to wait and see.

I think GW will probably do another splurge of marketing to build up hype before the release again once the new date is set - that will pick up all the magpies.

A friend of mine is printing a complete Tau army (the Lazy Forger set, which look absolutely awesome https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-the-tech-army-bundle-166776 so I'm just giving him a hand to get the rules sorted for them. We might use as a Great Crusade 'random alien' army to play them against my Crusade-era World Eaters.

Nothing really interesting has been released after Leviathan IMO. GW is sleeping, must be the holidays..

Normally I wouldn't mind them spreading out releases, gives me more time to save money, but now it's looking like all of the releases I'm personally interested in will get crammed into Q4/23.. KT21S3 launch box will open the floodgates, followed by MKIII resculpts, followed by MKVI Assault squad, followed by Legions Imperialis... xmas gift budget is looking bleak hehehe!

Solar Auxilia faction focus

Interesting that we still got another article. Maybe just to finish up the faction focus but maybe its not as far away as we thought?

 Matrindur wrote:
Solar Auxilia faction focus

Interesting that we still got another article. Maybe just to finish up the faction focus but maybe its not as far away as we thought?

They probably don't have anything else to post, given how much they've posted about the game.

Well this is actually a very informative article.



Well besides the fact that you can get 10 Leman Russes, I wonder what is "Explorator Adaptation" special rule on Leman Russ and Baneblade. Scout perhaps?

Looking at the photoshopped pict in the article, are these new 28mil models? Not familiar with FW's Auxilia vehicle range..

Honestly they look like 3d models to me.

one thing about those unit cards with the stats

nowhere does it say what the model actually has - e.g. the vanquisher and battle cannon are together and not seeing anything (yet) that says you have one or the other but not both

that implies the standard battle tank and the vanquisher have the same cost, but surely somewhere there will be a description of the two vehicles individually stating what each carries?

also given we have seen other weapon options for tanks the lack of costs related to alternative equipment is slightly worrysome

I could see a "Leman Russ Battle Tank Squadron" of three for x pts and a "Leman Russ Vanquisher Tank Squadron" for y pts (or the same value) but presumably they are different?

or is this a bit like a British WW2 Sherman unit, a firefly and a few others?

same with the baneblade, nothing to say what the thing actually as, just a list of what it could have and a fixed point value

nice to see though that larger units get a slight discount over MSU

 tauist wrote:
Looking at the photoshopped pict in the article, are these new 28mil models? Not familiar with FW's Auxilia vehicle range..

GW said recently that the first step in designing Epic scale models is to make a 'full size' version in CAD, then decide which details to preserve when shrinking it down.

Even if they don't plan to release a 28mm plastic Auxillia baneblade, they very likely have CAD assets to render one for artwork like this.

lurch wrote:
Honestly they look like 3d models to me.

All HH illustrations of this style are traditionally photoshopped photographs of actual models. I am quite certain we are looking at new models here

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
Solar Auxilia faction focus

Interesting that we still got another article. Maybe just to finish up the faction focus but maybe its not as far away as we thought?

They probably don't have anything else to post, given how much they've posted about the game.

Ya true, and they can always just re-cycle and re-post these article again closer to release.

 tauist wrote:

lurch wrote:
Honestly they look like 3d models to me.

All HH illustrations of this style are traditionally photoshopped photographs of actual models. I am quite certain we are looking at new models here

Looks more like a render than an actual model that's been photoshopped. I know they use photos of models quite often in their artwork, but they also use renders (Aeronautica stuff comes to mind).

leopard wrote:
one thing about those unit cards with the stats

nowhere does it say what the model actually has - e.g. the vanquisher and battle cannon are together and not seeing anything (yet) that says you have one or the other but not both

that implies the standard battle tank and the vanquisher have the same cost, but surely somewhere there will be a description of the two vehicles individually stating what each carries?

also given we have seen other weapon options for tanks the lack of costs related to alternative equipment is slightly worrysome

I could see a "Leman Russ Battle Tank Squadron" of three for x pts and a "Leman Russ Vanquisher Tank Squadron" for y pts (or the same value) but presumably they are different?

or is this a bit like a British WW2 Sherman unit, a firefly and a few others?

same with the baneblade, nothing to say what the thing actually as, just a list of what it could have and a fixed point value

nice to see though that larger units get a slight discount over MSU

Maybe they noticed that too and thats the reason its delayed