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Wish they would just give us a clue.

You know- Hi everyone, we hope to have LI out for you before Xmas, so get writing those lists. Or
Sorry to say, we estimate LI will now be early in 2024.

Is it that hard to talk to customers rather than 'sooner than you think'?

I have Xmas money to allocate somewhere soon, it will go elsewhere if I think LI isnt coming out before Xmas. If I know its coming out, ill save it for that.

VAYASEN wrote:
Wish they would just give us a clue.

You know- Hi everyone, we hope to have LI out for you before Xmas, so get writing those lists. Or
Sorry to say, we estimate LI will now be early in 2024.

Is it that hard to talk to customers rather than 'sooner than you think'?

I have Xmas money to allocate somewhere soon, it will go elsewhere if I think LI isnt coming out before Xmas. If I know its coming out, ill save it for that.

When they said it would be delayed they also said it would be out this year so there is your "we hope to have LI out for you before Xmas"

VAYASEN wrote:
Is it that hard to talk to customers rather than 'sooner than you think'?

It's "harder than you think"

VAYASEN wrote:
Wish they would just give us a clue.

You know- Hi everyone, we hope to have LI out for you before Xmas, so get writing those lists. Or
Sorry to say, we estimate LI will now be early in 2024.

Is it that hard to talk to customers rather than 'sooner than you think'?

I have Xmas money to allocate somewhere soon, it will go elsewhere if I think LI isnt coming out before Xmas. If I know its coming out, ill save it for that.

Umm if they say it comes before christmas how you plan to write lists any better than if they said early 2024?

And what stops you from building lists now? Please don't say lack of rules because you wouldn't have those if they said before christmas anyway.

And beside how different "before christmas" is to "before end of year"? Saturday's this year are 23.12 and 30.12. We can be PRETTY sure it's not going to be either of those so 16.12 pretty much latest I would expect and "before end of year" and "before christmas" both covers that anyway.

Christmas lists is what he meant. If we know it's coming for christmas we can put it on our christmas lists.

Well we know it comes before end of year(provlded nothing else goes wroing. Nobody can ever quarantee anything from future). Whether its november or december another thing.

We have known that since gw announced delay.

tneva82 wrote:
Well we know it comes before end of year(provlded nothing else goes wroing. Nobody can ever quarantee anything from future). Whether its november or december another thing.

We have known that since gw announced delay.

We know its coming out this year? Local store told me they think it will be next year (although they had no real idea)

The last word from GW is before the end of the year. They haven't said anything since then. Could they have secretly changed it? Of course. But chances are that they were pretty confident about the "before end of year" timing when they said it, given they've already embarrassed themselves once.

As for any other announcements - they always announce at a set amount of time before release. Since they haven't announced the release yet, the only thing we absolutely 100% know is that it's at least two weeks away.

It's frustrating, but keeping people in the dark is just their hype-style. Speculation drives conversation, conversation drives discovery, discovery brings new people into the loop/hobby.

And ultimately, with how borked things have been shipping-wise, from global shipping issues to epic being delayed to 50% of all 40k kits being out of stock for MONTHS, trying to put down any sort of date, even an estimate, is a dangerous game to play. GW doesn't want to attract the kind of attention that video game devs get when they have to delay a video game and get death threats from grognards that have nothing better to do with their lives.

I honestly don't think they would have published a battle report if the game was only arriving next year.. what would be the point?

Also, I would much rather they do release previews than not know, as at least I can save some money and plan. Do you remember a decade ago or so when there was no marketing at all and you only found out about a release when you walked into a store? And GW used to sue fan or news sites that showed leaked images? It was awful.

VAYASEN wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Well we know it comes before end of year(provlded nothing else goes wroing. Nobody can ever quarantee anything from future). Whether its november or december another thing.

We have known that since gw announced delay.

We know its coming out this year? Local store told me they think it will be next year (although they had no real idea)

That's what gw said they are aiming.

Of course no quarantees. As li shows nothing ever certain or it would be already out.

If you want certainty look for fantasy world. Real world nothing except death is certain(and timing of that too is uncertain)


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 Pacific wrote:
I honestly don't think they would have published a battle report if the game was only arriving next year.. what would be the point?

To not have to bin printed magazine and skip month of wd over 1 article that isn't even erroneous?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/10/19/heresy-thursday-deliver-dreadnoughts-and-shield-generators-with-more-drop-pods/

Dreadnought drop pods!

 xttz wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/10/19/heresy-thursday-deliver-dreadnoughts-and-shield-generators-with-more-drop-pods/

Dreadnought drop pods!

4 per box same as the normal drop pods and also a new shield generator variant:

These shield pods are new to me, and add an interesting tool for the rapid assault toolbox!

Have these shield pods ever had a 28mil version?

There are no shield pods in 28mm HH

4 to a box

They say the Leviathan is a tight fit, but wouldn't the Deredeo's guns be more of an issue?

Interesting. Seems the Palisades only protect other Drop Pods from the wording.

Feel like they could’ve been in one article with the normal drop pods.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Interesting. Seems the Palisades only protect other Drop Pods from the wording.

Since it says "and their contents" it should also protect the units that are deployed and if thats the case I don't think they wouldn't protect other units just because they didn't arrive in a drop pod

Oh? well that makes them a lot less interesting then

Look pretty good to me, would be interested to see if these shield pods are considered essential for infantry slogging up the board, if the wording is incorrect of course about protecting other pods and their content.

 Matrindur wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Interesting. Seems the Palisades only protect other Drop Pods from the wording.

Since it says "and their contents" it should also protect the units that are deployed and if thats the case I don't think they wouldn't protect other units just because they didn't arrive in a drop pod

Depends if they’re “one and done” defences to protect the deployed units the turn after they’ve arrived, or if they’re a persistent effect.

I was thinking these'd be a godsend for giving additional protection to vulnerable units mid battle, if they can only be protecting the deepstriking unit it drops with, its gonna be lot less useful

As others have said, I’d caution about putting too much stock in what WarCom puts in the wording. They’ve been off before, and it’s easy enough to read too much into a single sentence.

They could be mentioning the Intent of the rule, and not the Limitation of the rule

They look great, I am guessing they are pretty large actually, comparing to the size of a dreadnought. Might explain why they are relatively few to a box.

For the life of me I can't remember how drop pods of that sort worked in previous versions.. I remember there was one that launched templates, another that shot, another that was a troop transport, but I didn't ever field them.

 Pacific wrote:
They look great, I am guessing they are pretty large actually, comparing to the size of a dreadnought. Might explain why they are relatively few to a box.

For the life of me I can't remember how drop pods of that sort worked in previous versions.. I remember there was one that launched templates, another that shot, another that was a troop transport, but I didn't ever field them.

Didn't one edition have you drop scraps of paper and you deployed them were they landed? Maybe I'm misremembering a home brew rule to something official.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Interesting. Seems the Palisades only protect other Drop Pods from the wording.

More GW units need some protection from the wording

 Mallo wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
They look great, I am guessing they are pretty large actually, comparing to the size of a dreadnought. Might explain why they are relatively few to a box.

For the life of me I can't remember how drop pods of that sort worked in previous versions.. I remember there was one that launched templates, another that shot, another that was a troop transport, but I didn't ever field them.

Didn't one edition have you drop scraps of paper and you deployed them were they landed? Maybe I'm misremembering a home brew rule to something official.

2nd Ed. Numbered Tokens, which you’d assign to each Pod being Dropped. Put the tokens on a blast template, hold it X cm above the board, and tip away! They land where they land.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Mallo wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
They look great, I am guessing they are pretty large actually, comparing to the size of a dreadnought. Might explain why they are relatively few to a box.

For the life of me I can't remember how drop pods of that sort worked in previous versions.. I remember there was one that launched templates, another that shot, another that was a troop transport, but I didn't ever field them.

Didn't one edition have you drop scraps of paper and you deployed them were they landed? Maybe I'm misremembering a home brew rule to something official.

2nd Ed. Numbered Tokens, which you’d assign to each Pod being Dropped. Put the tokens on a blast template, hold it X cm above the board, and tip away! They land where they land.

3rd does that too. It's really fun.

You see? Warhammer can be fun!

SamusDrake wrote:
You see? Warhammer can be fun!

INQUISITOR! I found the Slaaneshi cultist!