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Interesting, isn’t it. A Fellblade is an expansion for an existing popular army while a Warhound is the effective core of a different, less popular army that potentially might become noticeably more popular if its core kit was cheaper.
It’s an interesting equation to try and balance, particularly with the hidden costs of tooling and design behind it.

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There's also potential that the Warhound will get a LOT of talk of people wanting to own one; but which translates into a lot less actual purchasing. Even if its part of the larger game (40K) and can work in both 40K and 30K, it's still going to be a very high ticket item in all respects.

Meanwhile the Fellblade might not be as uniquely hot an item, but could translate into more sales as its more practical to afford and put on the table.

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 Mr_Rose wrote:
Interesting, isn’t it. A Fellblade is an expansion for an existing popular army while a Warhound is the effective core of a different, less popular army that potentially might become noticeably more popular if its core kit was cheaper.
It’s an interesting equation to try and balance, particularly with the hidden costs of tooling and design behind it.


Huh? Every HH army and all 40k Imperial and Chaos armies can take a Warhound.
   
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Basically any army can take a Warhound as long as its not a 40K Xenos

Mechanicus, Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle, Chaos, Chaos Demons etc... Granted for some the points limit goes up because it has to be an ally unit and thus you need a bigger game to get a bigger allies allotment of points, but yeah basically unless you're a 40K Xenos army you can probably legally take a Warhound.



It still doesn't get around the fact that if it happened it would still be a very very high priced model; and very large and very high in points costs so you've a good chunk of barriers against it being a popular high-selling item.

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 Overread wrote:
Basically any army can take a Warhound as long as its not a 40K Xenos

Mechanicus, Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle, Chaos, Chaos Demons etc... Granted for some the points limit goes up because it has to be an ally unit and thus you need a bigger game to get a bigger allies allotment of points, but yeah basically unless you're a 40K Xenos army you can probably legally take a Warhound.

It still doesn't get around the fact that if it happened it would still be a very very high priced model; and very large and very high in points costs so you've a good chunk of barriers against it being a popular high-selling item.


This is why I think that if a plastic warhound does happen, it will be marketed much more towards 30k than 40k.

40k has been shying away from super-heavy scale kits in recent years, with many xenos models being removed from the range. It would be odd to push 40k Apocalypse again after dropping Eldar titans, Hierodules, etc.

Meanwhile in heresy imperial titans can be used by any player, and 3.0 recently revised the core rules for titan-size models to encourage them.

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I also suspect that these days HH players are the biggest spenders when it comes to buying centrepiece models & obscenely large collections for a single faction

   
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Are warhounds really “only” 1,100 points? That’s what I’m getting from the app.

That’s still a huge chunk of your army, but it’s not like they are 3k, so would impossible to fit into a 2k list. Just probably unadvisable.

   
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 Nevelon wrote:
Are warhounds really “only” 1,100 points? That’s what I’m getting from the app.

That’s still a huge chunk of your army, but it’s not like they are 3k, so would impossible to fit into a 2k list. Just probably unadvisable.


They're only 750 for the base BS version in Heresy so that they fit the max 25% requirement for the standard 3K lists.

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 Platuan4th wrote:
 Nevelon wrote:
Are warhounds really “only” 1,100 points? That’s what I’m getting from the app.

That’s still a huge chunk of your army, but it’s not like they are 3k, so would impossible to fit into a 2k list. Just probably unadvisable.


They're only 750 for the base BS version in Heresy so that they fit the max 25% requirement for the standard 3K lists.


Well, yes. But with BS3. I guess 3,5K is the better game to field one.
   
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I mean, I'm running Auxilia, BS 3 is my usual. Even with BS3, it's been a pretty significant presence on the field.

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