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Sold out on the US site, it looks like.

Though, as stated that could change.

That seems weird when it's actually listed as sold out rather than temp. Although i remember the krieg box suddenly appearing all over the third parties after the initial wave for some reason.

This is a FOMO limited launch box. They were pretty up front with it being a one amd done, then gone.

They may mess with allocations and/or find a few more cases in the warehouse, but I’m not surprised it’s sold out.

Warhammer Weekly’s review of the Soulblight Battletome is up on youtube, for those interested.

 Nevelon wrote:
This is a FOMO limited launch box. They were pretty up front with it being a one amd done, then gone.

They may mess with allocations and/or find a few more cases in the warehouse, but I’m not surprised it’s sold out.

What it actually is is that they hold copies in reserve to cover damages/replacements, etc. After a certain holding period they release those back to inventory.

chaos0xomega wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
This is a FOMO limited launch box. They were pretty up front with it being a one amd done, then gone.

They may mess with allocations and/or find a few more cases in the warehouse, but I’m not surprised it’s sold out.

What it actually is is that they hold copies in reserve to cover damages/replacements, etc. After a certain holding period they release those back to inventory.

That makes sense.

I’m sure the mechanics of production, shipping, warehousing is a lot more complex then we realize. “We found a few more boxes” is a lot easier to convey to the layman the “we’ve successfully fulfilled a significant percentage of outstanding orders without product loss or shipping issues so that we can now release our safety reserve for order”

Although one perk of GW owning their own stores is that if something is collecting dust in one but sold out in another, they can shuffle product. Although noboby wants to ship the same thing multiple times.

Image from TGA rumor thread. Take with some salt, as anytime I see "anonymous" and this website format (is it 4chan?) I get highly skeptical. Kind of wishlisty and also looks too on the nose for what FS players want. A special character, lil magmadrake cav, war machine and non-FS duardin. The pre-amble about building out the faction makes sense, but I have my doubts. I want to believe, as the Grombrindal stories hint at something big coming, but it looks too good to be true.

We'll see if the upcoming KO release backs this up. I think May 22 is the next reveal for AoS, which may give us some more clues.

Interesting. But that is 4chan however, so incredible amount of salt to be given. Biggest issue is that it goes against the more reliable rumour of no book this ed. Unless of course that is true and this is all for next ed.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Interesting. But that is 4chan however, so incredible amount of salt to be given. Biggest issue is that it goes against the more reliable rumour of no book this ed. Unless of course that is true and this is all for next ed.

Who knows, maybe they'll be the good guy launch faction for the next edition in place of Stormcast!

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Interesting. But that is 4chan however, so incredible amount of salt to be given. Biggest issue is that it goes against the more reliable rumour of no book this ed. Unless of course that is true and this is all for next ed.

Who knows, maybe they'll be the good guy launch faction for the next edition in place of Stormcast!

vs. Gloomspite! It'll be the AoS version of the WHFB 7th Edition "The Battle for Skull Pass" boxed set.

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Interesting. But that is 4chan however, so incredible amount of salt to be given. Biggest issue is that it goes against the more reliable rumour of no book this ed. Unless of course that is true and this is all for next ed.

Who knows, maybe they'll be the good guy launch faction for the next edition in place of Stormcast!

GW feels pretty committed to shoving Stormcast down our throats.

Someone received re-cut Deathrattle Skeletons with old Spearhead. Looks like legs and shield are now integrated to other parts, making the models less fragile. Also, two gravestones for base decoration have been added onto the sprue.

Having the shields attached will make them slightly more irritating to paint. But as someone who is currently working the old ones across my workbench (and have 10 more to build) I approve of stability boosts.

They look like they match the aesthetic of the last ones (and the CC ones) which is the important part. Still look cool.

 Nevelon wrote:
Having the shields attached will make them slightly more irritating to paint. But as someone who is currently working the old ones across my workbench (and have 10 more to build) I approve of stability boosts.

They look like they match the aesthetic of the last ones (and the CC ones) which is the important part. Still look cool.

So what's the actual difference? I only ever got the cursed city ones and they seemed pretty fine all round.

I'm also hoping someone does a nice side-by-side of the new Skeletons and the Cursed City ones because I didn't realize there were such issues with the previous kit.

The cursed city ones were 2 part (mostly) push fits. Look basically the same as the other kits. Multiple fronts would match with multiple backs for some nice variety despite duplicate sprues.

Trying to get the fronts and backs of the torsos wrapped around the pelvis/legs (which was mostly hidden) made building that kit a major PITA. It added basically nothing visually, but structurally hurt the model.

Cursed City:
https://www.warhammer.com/app/resources/catalog/product/920x950/60220799019_WHQCursedCitySprue5.jpg?fm=webp&w=920&h=948

(Having problems with the image link)

Ah i see. Yeah, can't see how anyone thought making seperate pevlises/legs was a good design idea. Almost as bad as the previous skeletons.

Having just recently built the previous skeleton kit this looks way easier to build. The biggest issue I had with it was legs getting stressed when clipping from the sprue, I even used single bladed nippers and noticed some legs would be very… wiggly. I only had 1 pair of legs completely break and it was the commander models, got it glued back on with sprue goo, but it ended up at a strange angle. No big sweat since it’s a skeleton with weird limbs angles anyway. The spears were pretty fragile on the old kit as well but nothing seems to have been done about that.

Another benefit of the new kit is it looks like about half the heads don’t have sprue connection points on them compared to literally all of them before. Hard to tell from the image how exchangeable the arms are, previous kit would allow any shields on any mini, and it seemed like some arms could be swapped but I didn’t try to since it was my first box of them and all bodies had two load outs.

Comparison pic of Cursed City vs. the soon to be replaced modern kit:


(ignore the musician, he stole a horn from the black knight kit)
CC are the front rank.

Edit for better pic:

CC top row

Well, in the time since I posted that 4chan screenshot about Fyreslayer rumors, apparently 4chan has been decimated.

It might’ve been hackers, as the establishment media is claiming.

Or, and “I’m just asking questions” here, was it the sudden rush of Fyreslayer, Kharadron Overlords and Chaos Dwarf enthusiasts rushing to the site to glimpse the original post, and maybe glean more knowledge from the guy with the leaks which overloaded the servers? We may never know now.

 nels1031 wrote:
Well, in the time since I posted that 4chan screenshot about Fyreslayer rumors, apparently 4chan has been decimated.

Good. Fething. Riddance.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/downloads/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/

Battletome Points, new Legends document(with rules for a Vyrkos army), and new Spearhead rules are up.

I think they mucked up the points document - random highlighted colours on some parts; the whole table just changing colour on the second page and the * for "unit has an alternate name" appears to be thrown in almost everything randomly

Oh wait its better - the table is split into two random separate tables each of which is alphabetical

You can also see artifacts from copy and paste on the Legends document, these were definitely rushed out.

Hopefully they can tidy it up - good to see base sizes reappearing on documents!


Oh wait I was wrong the two tables are different - the first is leaders the second is everything else - which also really bluntly highlights how kinda crazy gw are right now for the leader slot in options in AoS ;P

 Overread wrote:
Hopefully they can tidy it up - good to see base sizes reappearing on documents!


Oh wait I was wrong the two tables are different - the first is leaders the second is everything else - which also really bluntly highlights how kinda crazy gw are right now for the leader slot in options in AoS ;P

Seems like what once would have been four types of leader, each with a bunch of options, is now one separate sheet for each bit of optional equipment.

Legends are not a pure copy/paste.

I checked the vyrkos blood borne (as I have them in my PtG list) and their move ability was changed from end of any turn on a 3+ roll to end of enemy turn, but automatic.

Might be other little changes

 Nevelon wrote:
Legends are not a pure copy/paste.

I'm talking about the actual pasting to the background, not rules. Look at the upper right corner of the stat blocks.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Legends are not a pure copy/paste.

I'm talking about the actual pasting to the background, not rules. Look at the upper right corner of the stat blocks.

Woops. I see that now. I was caught up in the game mechanics, and read “artifacts” like items of power (and thought I had missed those being c/p’d into the new docs) and not a layout issue.

Yah, that is a little sloppy.