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Malarion, Malerion? It does not matter to me.

The true name to me is always, Male#### (sued by Disney).

I have a feeling the dark elves are sitting in the position squats did way back in 40K, nobody has got any real idea or passion about what to do with them

(and maybe the person who did and the initial hints etc were intended to set up has either left/moved away from AoS or just lost an internal power play and isn't getting to run with the intended vision)

Was the Warcry warband shadow elves?

 ingtaer wrote:
Was the Warcry warband shadow elves?

That was more units for Morathi, who shares the same realm of Shadow, but her forces are always described as being tiny. Even when she claimed a City of Sigmar she is still a minor player. She mostly comes to the fore because of how she entered the world through Slaanesh's belly and also because she, and her faction, are perhaps second only to Stormcast in their fevered hatred of Chaos and desire to fight. Plus Morathi backstabs everyone first chance she can get. So the Daughters of Khaine keep being at the forefront of the battle whilst their leader keeps going things that upset everyone as she claws for as much power as she can get.

Honestly after Sigmar and Nagash, she's the most active "god" against Chaos. Many of the others are kind of in a limbo/hiding/waiting/passive phase where they still fight but they aren't pushing their peoples and themselves to the forefront of the fight unless it comes to their door directly.

And then GW had to throw in the Morai-Heg curveball, as if they didnt have enogh lose ends in the old Dark Elf range.

 Overread wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Malarion

Malerion

Look until GW release him and plaster his name all over the place for my brain to catch on - I'm changing his name

*Malekith

Spent ~$100 on the Stormcast half. Maybe overpaid, but there's some nice stuff in there and good for some projects I have in mind.

I put my name down for a Skaven half, but with all the praise for rules, especially Spearhead, I'm now worried I might regret not getting the rules.

And here we go:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/06/23/sunday-preview-skaventide-approaches/?utm_source=CUSTOMERS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WH_23rd_June_Preview_&utm_content=&utm_term=

Was Leviathan a limit 1 per person? I don't remember.

Then just hope flgs get them in time. Well situation has been improving. Few months ago new release late was default

Won't split as have both armies. Finally jezzails and more rat ogres always welcome. Then dread what damage my collection suffers with lost units

Any price rumors yet?

chaos0xomega wrote:
Any price rumors yet?

Cba to dig it out but it's not a rumour, GW gave the value in competition T&Cs a while ago.

Edit: $275/£160

275 american!? Holy hell that's steep. Dominion was what, $200? And Leviathan was $250? AoS has traditionally been priced lower than 40k, that's tough to believe

chaos0xomega wrote:
275 american!? Holy hell that's steep. Dominion was what, $200? And Leviathan was $250? AoS has traditionally been priced lower than 40k, that's tough to believe

Like I say, it's from their competition price values so it's definitely the price. I felt it was a worse box with worse variety than leviathan and was told to shush lol

chaos0xomega wrote:
275 american!? Holy hell that's steep. Dominion was what, $200? And Leviathan was $250? AoS has traditionally been priced lower than 40k, that's tough to believe

I think those walls included are probably increasing the price. Leviathan was an amazing deal and probably hard to beat.


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Dudeface wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
275 american!? Holy hell that's steep. Dominion was what, $200? And Leviathan was $250? AoS has traditionally been priced lower than 40k, that's tough to believe

Like I say, it's from their competition price values so it's definitely the price. I felt it was a worse box with worse variety than leviathan and was told to shush lol

Not from me since I share same opinion.

 NAVARRO wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
275 american!? Holy hell that's steep. Dominion was what, $200? And Leviathan was $250? AoS has traditionally been priced lower than 40k, that's tough to believe

I think those walls included are probably increasing the price. Leviathan was an amazing deal and probably hard to beat.

The separate book for Spearhead(Fire and Jade)is probably bumping the price too.

Dudeface wrote:
I felt it was a worse box with worse variety than leviathan and was told to shush lol

Same

It has two hardcover rulebooks and 4 terrain pieces tho, and apparently Spearhead is good.

And some card decks for Spearhead, and a board, etc. If you've no intention of playing Spearhead I think it's a relatively tough sell. Having watched some videos of people enthusing about how well it plays though I'm pretty interested in Spearhead so I'm in

I'm at that awkward point where I'm interested in the Skaven models and curious about Spearhead and I'd take the core book whatever, but unless I'm going to sell off the set of Stormcast myself I'm probably right on the line of it costing around the same to buy the parts I want split out by somebody else.

Dudeface wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Any price rumors yet?

Cba to dig it out but it's not a rumour, GW gave the value in competition T&Cs a while ago.

Edit: $275/£160

You've added $10 USD extra, it's $265.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/may-2024-newsletter-prize-draw-terms-conditions/

The value of the contents of each prize is GBP £160 (one hundred and sixty) / AUD $450(four hundred and fifty) Australian Dollars/ USD $265 (two hundred and sixty five US dollars/ EU €210 (two hundred and ten) Euros.

 Platuan4th wrote:

Dudeface wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Any price rumors yet?

Cba to dig it out but it's not a rumour, GW gave the value in competition T&Cs a while ago.

Edit: $275/£160

You've added $10 USD extra, it's $265.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/may-2024-newsletter-prize-draw-terms-conditions/

The value of the contents of each prize is GBP £160 (one hundred and sixty) / AUD $450(four hundred and fifty) Australian Dollars/ USD $265 (two hundred and sixty five US dollars/ EU €210 (two hundred and ten) Euros.

That was prior to the recent price increase though, that only went live this month. I'd not be surprised if we see a 11% increase on this set too.

Its a little annoying they are bundling the spearhead stuff with it knowing full they are charging for it, but at the same time it will still likely be cheaper than buying the model contents separately. I just want the models for other editions/games as this point. These FOMO launch sets are kind of annoying, even if they do still work out cheaper over all. It just feels like it creates a lot of waste for me.

Can't do that or they're breaking competition rules.

Also it's annoying that they're not personally catering this box to you?

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Can't do that or they're breaking competition rules.

This. If the price was increased, they would have changed the terms. It was priced with the increase in mind.

I'll wait until its sitting alongside Dominion at $125.

GrosseSax wrote:
I'll wait until its sitting alongside Dominion at $125.

I dunno - Skaven are darn popular, this one could sell out at better rates than Dominion

If anything we might even see the Stormcast halves being the more easily obtained compared to Skaven which I'm betting will sell really well.

 Overread wrote:

GrosseSax wrote:
I'll wait until its sitting alongside Dominion at $125.

I dunno - Skaven are darn popular, this one could sell out at better rates than Dominion

If anything we might even see the Stormcast halves being the more easily obtained compared to Skaven which I'm betting will sell really well.

As a commission painter that builds/paints/sells armies on the side, the Skaven Half is already pricing out around $20 more than the Stormcast Half.

$65/$85 respectively.

New Skaven are definitely going to drive sales on this.

Doesn't surprise me.

Stormcast are in a strange spot - poster-boy of the game but at the same time a lot of this set is repeat models replacing models that were not really that old before. Cool models, but not the same fire as there will be for Skaven adding new things and replacing some REALLY old models. Even if those models aren't in the box, the spark is lit and Skaven fans will go nuts for that box.

Oh plus Skaven are a swarmy army whilst Stormcast are elite, so that's even more reason for individual skaven fans to get hold of more copies.



Split set wise I expect to see prices rise from now till when the sets release. At that point I expect a lowering of value, esp on trader sites like FB.
Then as the actual stock starts to get bought up I'd expect one of two things

1) Rising prices as sets sell out at retail.

2) Stable or dropping prices if sets remain on shelves.

Noting that each army might react differently Eg stock might sell out and skaven might still be doing really well price wise; but stormcast might have a flooded market.

if i can pick up a copy or two of the stormcast side for cheap, i'll be happy. i'd also like the skaven stuff, but it's far from a priority, so if people are buying for that and dumping the second half, i'll still take it

GrosseSax wrote:
I'll wait until its sitting alongside Dominion at $125.

I wouldn't. I imagine GW may cut back on production #s for those one after the glut of Dominion boxes. There's also a *lot* of TOW players who are going to try buying the box for skaven that may make it higher demand.