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True, they're just previewed in the wrap up to Oghram. Still, next box has Eldar in it from the last preview so any Terminator/Genestealer one would be pushing those units into 2024.
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
We also know that the 'Special Preview' that the community can unlock via the Battle of Oghram campaign will be decided on July 9th, which logically is the earliest day they can start to preview either of these codexes. Add, say, a week of 'special' previews, a week or two with normal previews, another one because Space Marines are special, and a preorder week and you're mid-August without even trying.
tauist wrote: I can see a new Tyranid Killteam (or two) coming in the next Season, would fit right in with the Jungle World theme of S3
But Terminators vs Genestealers? Nope, not seeing it. KT21 isn't 40K lite anymore, it's more like Xcom now, a game of specialist operatives duking it out
Eh. KT is one of those things that is what it is right up until GW changes its mind and it becomes something completely different.
This has not been my experience playing KT21 in the slightest. We must be playing a different game? Even in Ashes Of Faith, the missions played out during the campaign are played like Octarius missions for the most part, there's just some extra buffs introduced during the narrative Campaign. You can in fact play Ashes Of Faith even with Vet Guard vs Kommandos from KT21 Launch box, if you so wish,
"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
A new KillTeam, "Cult Of The Unshackled" is introduced in the latest White Dwarf, accompanied by a three player Narrative Mission called "Seize The Prisoner". Cult Of The Unshackled team consists of 1 Prisoner Psyker and 10 Thralls. Interestingly, the rules suggest using any spare models for the team, which presents fun new conversion/kitbash opportunities.
I could see myself adding Cult Of The Unshackled to my Ashes of Faith Campaign, for even more variety..
In other news, the TeamMate iOS app received a new update and now includes rules for all the currently released KillTeams (minus Cult Of The Unshackled), including Inq & Chaos Cult
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
Tastyfish wrote: True, they're just previewed in the wrap up to Oghram. Still, next box has Eldar in it from the last preview so any Terminator/Genestealer one would be pushing those units into 2024.
Personally, I think the Aeldari bit is being overblown for the first box.
Remember that the teaser was careful to emphasize that it was for the next season. WarCry has been giving us faction symbols for the past few seasons, this might be something to look forward to for KT.
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
In UK parlance, Autumn starts either on the 1st of September or the 23rd of September.
Autumn, in the northern hemisphere, is technically September 22 to December 21, but is typically considered to be September to November in less formal tracking.
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
In UK parlance, Autumn starts either on the 1st of September or the 23rd of September.
No offense, but could we please stop it already with that meteorologist season bs? It only serves to confuse people. GW aren't meteorologists. They use seasons the same way normal people do, solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice, depending on the time of year.
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Why is the rum always gone?
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
In UK parlance, Autumn starts either on the 1st of September or the 23rd of September.
No offense, but could we please stop it already with that meteorologist season bs? It only serves to confuse people. GW aren't meteorologists. They use seasons the same way normal people do, solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice, depending on the time of year.
GW are crazy britishers, it's probably something like 'From Michaelmas to Boxing Day' for them
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
In UK parlance, Autumn starts either on the 1st of September or the 23rd of September.
No offense, but could we please stop it already with that meteorologist season bs? It only serves to confuse people. GW aren't meteorologists. They use seasons the same way normal people do, solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice, depending on the time of year.
I've never heard of Equinox to Solstice (or vice versa) used for seasons outside of religious or scientific settings. If you say Autumn to most people in the UK they will understand you mean September 1st to November 30th. Most people don't even know when the equinox/solstices are so the year is divided into four equal three month chunks.
Tallonian4th wrote: If you say Autumn to most people in the UK they will understand you mean September 1st to November 30th. Most people don't even know when the equinox/solstices are so the year is divided into four equal three month chunks.
That's it precisely. Winter begins when you eat your first Advent calendar chocolate, and ends on that weird leap year day. Easy to remember!
Eh, I think both the colloquial seasons (1st of the relevant months) and official seasons (solstice/equinox, so 21st or 22nd of the relevant months) are well known in the UK. Things like BBC news often use the latter.
Although people also talk based on feeling- a cold November is an early winter for example.
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Haighus wrote: Eh, I think both the colloquial seasons (1st of the relevant months) and official seasons (solstice/equinox, so 21st or 22nd of the relevant months) are well known in the UK. Things like BBC news often use the latter.
Although people also talk based on feeling- a cold November is an early winter for example.
Somewhat going back to the start of this particular discussion, i don't think that GW and their release calendar give a rat's ass about any sort of coherent and consistent definition of any season, and just slot stuff into vague suggestions - late August can be 'Autumn' for them as easily as mid-November if they want it to be. That vagueness is the reason why they don't announce it by stating months or quarters or whatever else they could use, they want that ambiguity and wiggle room.
Voss wrote: Tyranid and Marine codexes are autumn, not July.
Autumn, or Q3? July is on one of those.
I'll look for the announcement to see what they said.
See below
I mean if Midsummer's day is the middle of Summer (because of couse it should be), then Autumn starts around the 9th of August, which would be around 4 weeks after the results of the campaign.
That feels like the right kind of distance to introduce the new codex...
In UK parlance, Autumn starts either on the 1st of September or the 23rd of September.
No offense, but could we please stop it already with that meteorologist season bs? It only serves to confuse people. GW aren't meteorologists. They use seasons the same way normal people do, solstice to equinox or equinox to solstice, depending on the time of year.
I've never heard of Equinox to Solstice (or vice versa) used for seasons outside of religious or scientific settings. If you say Autumn to most people in the UK they will understand you mean September 1st to November 30th. Most people don't even know when the equinox/solstices are so the year is divided into four equal three month chunks.
You're right, overwhelmingly people refer to the start of a season by date (21st of June and December, around the 22nd of September and March). It's effectively the same thing.
The point though was that, and this is going to sound more dramatic than I actually feel about it, I take exception to the idea that I have seen propagated in the recent past that GW's announcements or roadmaps cannot be trusted because it is not known what kind of system they use. Or, as the previous post posits, that they are willfully inconsistent. This has historically not been the case and any such claim only spreads misinformation and causes confusion. That's unhelpful and unnecessary.
GW does more than enough dumb stuff for which we can (and should, in my opinion) criticize them. Inventing additional issues does not agree with me.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Interestingly I got a call from my GW store today. They had a delivery of more Ashes of Faith this morning, so it is worth pestering your store. Ours were working their way through the list of people that were originally interested and didn't get one before putting them out.
Ashes is a sweet box, especially now since you can reuse the entire Chaos side in 40K 10th edition
My Palanite Enforcers kit arrived yesterday and my Valkyrie is almost built, hoping to start the Campaign next month during my holidays
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
And the random box SM heros product is now also a Killteam.
Really? Where are they published? I assumed they were just a tactical squad (heroes 1), or nurgle squad (heroes 2).
Is this a different box of heroes?
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endtransmission wrote: Interestingly I got a call from my GW store today. They had a delivery of more Ashes of Faith this morning, so it is worth pestering your store. Ours were working their way through the list of people that were originally interested and didn't get one before putting them out.
Any sign of the last KT space hulk box? Would really like the scatter and rulebook from that!
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New rumours regarding the Season 3 launch box. Again, Space Marine scouts and Aeldari (scorpions or exodites) are rumoured to feature all new kits. Still no intel regarding the new terrain, although the setting hints towards Jungle / Death world terrain..
Space Marine scouts getting a new kit just became semi-confirmed, since people have been spotting a new Scouts transfer sheet in the wild, apparently showcases Raptors chapter.. Could certainly see it dropping in the Season launch box
If S3 launches in August, we'll start getting more info during July
New SM Scouts might be a treat or an abomination, depending on how they will be rescaled.. Quietly hoping they'd look in-scale with the modern firstborn Marines such as MKVI and the upcoming MKII / MKIII
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"The larger point though, is that as players, we have more control over what the game looks and feels like than most of us are willing to use in order to solve our own problems"
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