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Kroots are beautiful. Cannot wait for the Gnarlocs.

I wonder if Kroot pistols will be a thing now, despite having a plastic model for 20 years?

 Matrindur wrote:

Tau will get a big release for Kroot, either new combat patrol or new launch box with 20 new kroot, 2 new characters, cavalry and a big gun all dedicated to kroot. One of the kroot characters is riding something. [CORRECT]
Also a melee ethereal seems to be a commemorative series model, could be the new store birthday model for next year? [CORRECT]

Space wolves will likely take until the end of the edition but should be getting big things. [UNCONFIRMED]
Blood Angels with new Sanguinary Priest and Sanguinary Guard but no idea when they will release [UNCONFIRMED]
Dark Angels, in addition to the old rumours about Deathwing stuff they will get a new combat patrol: five hellblasters, ten intercessors, three bladeguard and gravis captain. [UNCONFIRMED] There will also be a new upgrade sprue [CORRECT]

Valrak looking good these days. Please keep the summary posts coming, I don't want to watch his videos

With the supplement out soon, I'd expect to hear about the DA CP box in the next couple of weeks. Perhaps this Monday.

Arguably the point about the Kroot army set should read mostly correct, given neither character in it appears to be riding anything.

 Dysartes wrote:
Arguably the point about the Kroot army set should read mostly correct, given neither character in it appears to be riding anything.

This is the only wobbly bit as he admits to knowing very little of some armies ranges. He was told that there was a kroot character riding something (which does look to be the case still) leading a unit of kroot cavalry which were completely new. If he doesn't know what a krootox is and hasn't seen the army shot, you can see how he'd reach that conclusion.

Hmmm Space Wolves at the end of the year you say?
How comically nonsensical will they be this time?
Lord Wolfington clad in tactical lupine armour and armed with the fang claymore powered pointy killy sword thingy and riding into battle on Ralph, his loyal megawolf with monstrous were fangs?

All honesty I'm pretty hyped, Dark Angels have been updated very well from a model perspective so I think we're in safe hands now(!)...

 Dysartes wrote:
I thought he'd converted some form of flat-bed Rhino to use as a transport for his Dreadnoughts - possibly using the VDR kit, back in t'day - but I could be wrong on that.

If so, you could argue that eventually evolved into the Impulsor...

Very early in the 2nd edition of the game (or was it third?) A Rhino could take 1 dreadnought. But that was in the brief window of the 'getting started' army lists and vanished pretty quickly.

Love to finally see kroot expanded. That krootox is a thing of beauty.

 xttz wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:

Tau will get a big release for Kroot, either new combat patrol or new launch box with 20 new kroot, 2 new characters, cavalry and a big gun all dedicated to kroot. One of the kroot characters is riding something. [CORRECT]

Valrak looking good these days.

LOLwhat?

This was comically wrong, no characters riding anything, no big gun, no details of anything, random kid on 4chan could make this "prediction". 20 troops, like oh, every other new army box, cavalry (super low hanging fruit, because every army gets one these days, and krootox are a big thing in kroot armies that desperately needed transition from resin, but the "prediction" is so low detail he didn't even namedrop them), and multiple characters, again, like every other new army box. Just look at boxes as different as Lumineth, Lizardmen, and the most recent Deathwing one - they ALL fit this pattern! This is not a "prediction", this is calling water wet

You can make "prediction" of 2x troop box (20 models is safe guess, but can be 10 or 6 depending on army), multiple characters, and cavalry/elite infantry/vehicle (depending on faction flavor) about any GW army box and it will be correct 95% of the time. It's only starting to get 'correct' when you give either loadouts or unit names, and V does it only when he manages to steal the rumor from actually good source. Funny that.

That clown "predicted" new Deathwing Knights in Vashtorr/Azrael box (oops, turned out to be old models), then 10th edition starter (oops, turned out to be generic terminators, so fanboys excused him as being unable to distinguish them from DK), then finally GW randomly dropped teaser of them without warning, and I rolled my eyes when his fanboy brigade claimed he was cOrReCt only oh, year late, 3 wrong boxes later, not predicting massively changed loadouts or anything, getting Belial (another trivially easy guess) look and gear wrong (but doing it multiple times with slightly changed details in several videos so you could cherrypick most "correct" one then claim he was "right" much like people hamfistedly pick Nostradamus poems to fit whatever event X he "foresaw") - such prediction, much wow, about as "impressive" as the above one

Ditto with his Solar Auxilia guess (virtually all details wrong besides the above pattern of contents being kinda sorta right), and I somehow don't saw him predicting blind seeres with black wings, or beauty/beast Deathgorge team, or any of the new models that would be actually new and not just trivial guess - funny that. For some reason he never makes these unless he manages to steal info from earlier rumordump from actually reliable people (and his fanboy groupies also ignore the fact 8/10 of his "predictions" that aren't just trivial guesses turn out to be laughable drivel that never turns out to be correct, thankfully for him no one has time to sift hours and hours of his babbling to point these out, so his blinkered fanboys can just ignore these and focus on trivial guesses anyone can make and claim he was rIgHt - but I still remember how he "predicted" plastic warhound titan, 40K Dorn, plastic Deredeo, plastic mk 2 marines, and lots of other nonsense dozens if not hundreds of times since 2016 - oh wait, my bad, GW finally released plastic Deredeo seven years after his "prediction". Guess usual clowns can credit him for pReDiCtInG it now too! )...

I love how worked up some people get when Valrak is right.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how worked up some people get when Valrak is right.

I know, I enjoyed the "got the contents of the SA box sorta kinda right". The main said 20 infantry a command squad, a sentinel, a russ and some kind of transport. How much more right can someone need to be. Regards kroot, the only thing he got wrong was the mounted character which if you don't know kroot is an easy mistake and/or saw the new year preview mini alongside the box and thought they were together.

Wow that sure is a post

Valrak himself has always seemed a bit gormless to me, he's very loud and proud in not knowing much outside the Sons of Dorn, but his source is usually on the money, if you can decipher what's actual second-hand information inside the rambling format videos he needs to make to maintain an audience.

If you've ever seen the comments on a WarhammerTV stream (I'd advise keeping chat closed), a guy not knowing what a Krootox is still rates pretty well in the community at large.

The lack of AoS/Warcry/Underworlds prediction is a moot point really, as he hardly ever details anything outside of 40k in videos.

He evidently has a very strong source, and he hardly ever is getting the information as images as well to verify himself.

I suspect Valrak being a hype/rumor outlet for GW marketing, knowingly or not. His source is likely someone drip feeding upcoming designs in various degrees of accuracy before GW decide what goes into which boxset. So he's always kinda right insofar as to what is coming, but ne never nails the exact context in which it is released. In any case, he has established himself as a fairly reliable source for what one can expect to see down the line.

 BertBert wrote:
I suspect Valrak being a hype/rumor outlet for GW marketing, knowingly or not. His source is likely someone drip feeding upcoming designs in various degrees of accuracy before GW decide what goes into which boxset.

I'm not convinced by this, that kind of thing tends to be decided a very long time in advance and a lot of his specific information tends to be a few months before release.

Personally I'd bet his source is someone involved in packaging / distribution. They're seeing the stuff getting designed or boxed up then starting the telephone game effect of passing details along.

Personally, I have trouble believing thst Valrak is so "gormless" (learned a new word today, thanks!!) that after like a decade in the hobby he has no idea what a krootox is.

Actually, I can believe that because the krootox isn't often seen on table and us kinda obscure, but it's not just the krootox. There's a long long list of things which he's professed unfamiliarity with, which would only be possible if he was living on an island with two other space marine players and had never played a game against another opponent.

When your whole schtick is built upon being knowledgeable about the lore, it comes across as...interesting.

Assuming Valrak is playing games on a regular bases and not just collecting and painting IF

Right for those wanting to get the termis watch out because element games posted

"A Notice Regarding Warhammer 40,000: Deathwing Assault.

We are disappointed to report that stock allocations are very low for this release. Therefore we will not be able to offer them for online sale, and will have very limited stock in our physical stores. We have also been made aware that there will not be a re-stock of this item.

Kind regards, The EG Team"

I have to say this is the 3rd Comms in a row from Element, started with Christmas bundles and seems to be the new trend there. Not sure whats going on.

chaos0xomega wrote:
There's a long long list of things which he's professed unfamiliarity with, which would only be possible if he was living on an island with two other space marine players and had never played a game against another opponent.

Well, he's British, so I think he does live on an island???

 Dysartes wrote:
Arguably the point about the Kroot army set should read mostly correct, given neither character in it appears to be riding anything.

He didn't say that character riding something was in the box. There is a box, with contents, and also a character riding something.

In the online rumour monger stakes.

As someone who once had some proper insider scoops? It’s hard to be a reliable rumour monger and not come across as smug. Because genuine excitement and smugness, especially in the written form easily blur.

What were my early rumours? Well, many many many years ago. Like, probably 20 or more? I was the one to provide genuine, solid info that post-3rd Ed, Assault Cannons were no longer crap. Because they had rending.

This was on Portent/Warseer. And I still remember some utter, utter nerk saying I was talking out of my posterior, because the shooting version of Rending was aCtUaLlY called Reaping.

Caused a mild hoo-ha, for all of the few minutes it took me to upload a picture of the shiny new rule book

Sorry, I forgot where this anecdote was going.

MDG - Do you speak the same way you type?

Referring to your proclivity for posing questions that you answer yourself. Not calling you out/just curious, I actually find it terribly endearing (platonically), something I noticed the other day and which has popped into my head a few times randomly away from dakka.

 Shadow Walker wrote:

I wonder why GW bothers sending sets out to reviewers when they have so few to sell that everywhere is sold out before people have a chance to even watch the free marketing from reviewers

They are listed as "Temporarily Out of Stock" rather than "Sold Out", but I imagine that's just the high quality GW site being high quality and saying the wrong thing.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
I wonder why GW bothers sending sets out to reviewers when they have so few to sell that everywhere is sold out before people have a chance to even watch the free marketing from reviewers

They are listed as "Temporarily Out of Stock" rather than "Sold Out", but I imagine that's just the high quality GW site being high quality and saying the wrong thing.

It really is weird that they insist on a 10am GMT embargo time for this review content when that's well after Australia, Europe, etc have gone on sale and UK customers often get barely a minute to read reviews before the products are sold out. Barring leaks it's only really a benefit to US & Canada who get up early enough.

I don't understand why they can't just lift the embargo on the Sunday/Monday when the preorders are confirmed.

New Dark Angels Combat Patrol from the codex:


Contents exactly as rumoured before,
Grav captain
10 intercessors
5 hellblasters
3 bladeguard vets

I still thought there might have been some mistake as the Gravis captain can't lead anyone here but seems like they don't care for the Combat Patrol gamemode.
Wondering if there is at least an upgrade sprue in here, since it wouldn't even be good value if there isn't.
Would only be 18% discount vs on average 25% on the new Necron/Admech ones and 36% on average for the 9th edition CPs

Nice to see lots of Deathwing Assault boxes on eBay for a hefty mark up.

For non UK, the UK press recently had articles reporting that eBay would be required to hand over details of sales to our Revenue and Customs and that those selling over £1000 per annum 'could' be facing a tax bill.

There is small print. If you are selling second half stuff on for less than was originally paid would be unlikely to be chased.

I wonder, however, if private sellers, maybe scalpers, who are buying product then immediately shifting it on for a profit could find themselves in the taxman ctosshairs if there is a definite pattern to their eBay activity.

I wouldn't cry if serial scalper received a hefty tax bill.