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schoon wrote:Excellent news. I wonder when the new rulebook will be released as a standalone product...

Aeneades wrote:Awww, bugger. Next Saturday at 10 I am doing to be part way through a 100 mile run in a complete dead zone for mobile reception. I had really hoped it would be the week after. Hopefully there are actually good stock levels so I can pick it up later in the day.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/15/sunday-preview-kill-team-hivestorm-drops-in/[/

Two week pre-order window and standalone core book.

Finally, the NL Kill Team comes out. Can make a start on my next Heresy army now.

Nothing really "must-have" about those direct only freebies this time, so I'll pass ordering from GW direct this time. Think I'll just grab this one at the FLGS on release day. Have to admit, the value proposition of this box will probably be most agreeable tho!

I wonder if those datacards will be available separately though? I dont want to rebuy my teams just to get their new cards..

As mentioned with each boxed set entry, the datacards are a separate purchase.

 tauist wrote:
Nothing really "must-have" about those direct only freebies this time, so I'll pass ordering from GW direct this time. Think I'll just grab this one at the FLGS on release day. Have to admit, the value proposition of this box will probably be most agreeable tho!

I wonder if those datacards will be available separately though? I dont want to rebuy my teams just to get their new cards..

The article does say that the datacards are separate.

Nice that I can buy the book and cards etc standalone without buying a launch box. I'm not going to but it's still nice

Ancient Otter wrote:

schoon wrote:Excellent news. I wonder when the new rulebook will be released as a standalone product...

Aeneades wrote:Awww, bugger. Next Saturday at 10 I am doing to be part way through a 100 mile run in a complete dead zone for mobile reception. I had really hoped it would be the week after. Hopefully there are actually good stock levels so I can pick it up later in the day.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/15/sunday-preview-kill-team-hivestorm-drops-in/[/

Two week pre-order window and standalone core book.

Two week preorder window is the same as it's been for everything for months. Preorders sell out on day 1 for most hot releases like this, so that's entirely meaningless.

 tauist wrote:
Nothing really "must-have" about those direct only freebies this time, so I'll pass ordering from GW direct this time. Think I'll just grab this one at the FLGS on release day. Have to admit, the value proposition of this box will probably be most agreeable tho!

I wonder if those datacards will be available separately though? I dont want to rebuy my teams just to get their new cards..

I thought the freebies were better than normal and pretty cool, though in practical terms the D6 markers are better than clicky bases.

I like how GW decided that those buying from them get to track wounds with dial bases and those buying from FLGS get to track wounds with dice boats.

And never the twain shall meet!

The separate core book looks decent, if it's a hardback and the tokens are a proper card sheet rather than a back-page.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I like how GW decided that those buying from them get to track wounds with dial bases and those buying from FLGS get to track wounds with dice boats.

And never the twain shall meet!

It's really not a surprise that GW would try & entice you to order from them direct by offering a better option.

BUT it's not like you can't just order acrylic life counter dials any day of the week from any # of sourcrs via Amazon/Ebay/etc....
Mine came from Litko.

ccs wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I like how GW decided that those buying from them get to track wounds with dial bases and those buying from FLGS get to track wounds with dice boats.

And never the twain shall meet!

It's really not a surprise that GW would try & entice you to order from them direct by offering a better option.

BUT it's not like you can't just order acrylic life counter dials any day of the week from any # of sourcrs via Amazon/Ebay/etc....
Mine came from Litko.

I prefer the dice counters. They look pretty nice and I can actually use them for any team and not just those models I glue to the dial bases

I'm trying to figure out what you're supposed to do with the wound dial bases. I assume you're not supposed to use them as model bases since you get a bag to put them in.

 solkan wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what you're supposed to do with the wound dial bases. I assume you're not supposed to use them as model bases since you get a bag to put them in.

you will get a set of 12 bases with wound-counter dials

They call them bases so yes you are supposed to use them as bases, the bag is probably meant for tokens afterwards

I doubt the intention is to glue them to bases, it’s more to place beside each mini to help you keep track of wounds as you go.

 solkan wrote:
I'm trying to figure out what you're supposed to do with the wound dial bases. I assume you're not supposed to use them as model bases since you get a bag to put them in.

 Twinoni wrote:

I doubt the intention is to glue them to bases, it’s more to place beside each mini to help you keep track of wounds as you go.

Sounds like they get supplied in the bag, as each base will come in 3 pieces each.

However this isn't the first time GW models have had wound dial bases availible, and if they weren't meant to be used on the models there wouldn't be any need to provide them in 3 different sizes.

That's a solid release weekend coming up.

Going to have to be "Johnny on the Spot" with timing!

Anyone got prices?

 Twinoni wrote:


I doubt the intention is to glue them to bases, it’s more to place beside each mini to help you keep track of wounds as you go.

I don't think they are meant to be glued to bases, they are meant to be used as bases. So you glue your models onto these and just have an inbuild wound counter in your base. They also have the same shape as normal bases and GW calls them bases so thats likely how they are supposed to be used.

Not that you need to do that, you can just place them near a model but in that case I would still prefer the dice trays as they have a pointer so you actually know which model they belong to

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Anyone got prices?

The prices for the team datacards seems too high IMHO, will not be getting them for anything other than my favourite team.

180€ is a bit more than I anticipated but understandable considering the amount of terrain in the box.

Regarding the wound dial bases, not a fan. I much prefer external wound counters, picking up a model just to adjust its wound count feels too fiddly to me, too easy to mess up your models position on the board

Cheers...

So Kill Zones are direct only I take it...

Scouts casually jumping £7.50 for no real reason stings.

Dudeface wrote:
Scouts casually jumping £7.50 for no real reason stings.

The frog boils slowly...

 tauist wrote:
The prices for the team datacards seems too high IMHO, will not be getting them for anything other than my favourite team.

Yeah, quite a high price. Also can't seem to see if datacards for the two new teams are included in the launch box? It was standard last season and they're not selling them separately, but don't seem to be mentioned as part of the box contents, unless I missed it.

Dudeface wrote:
Scouts casually jumping £7.50 for no real reason stings.

Do the KT boxes not come with lots of tokens as well? As covered they don’t include Datacards, but I’ve never opened such a box.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Dudeface wrote:
Scouts casually jumping £7.50 for no real reason stings.

Do the KT boxes not come with lots of tokens as well? As covered they don’t include Datacards, but I’ve never opened such a box.

All of them now come with unique token sheets so the base £2.50 everybody seems to have gotten increase seems fine but no idea why Scouts and Blooded had to go up an additional £5

Blooded were always more expensive, they get the Blackstone Commissar and Ogryn on top of a full squad sprue.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Blooded were always more expensive, they get the Blackstone Commissar and Ogryn on top of a full squad sprue.

Na at least in € Blooded were 51,50€ before, same as the Veteran Guardsmen, Novitiates, Corsairs, Farstalkers, Kasrkin, Hearthkyn, Elucidian Starstriders, Fellgor Ravagers, Navy Breachers and Exaction Squad.
Scouts, Necrons, Gellerpox, Phobos Squad, Legionaries, and Kommandos were 55€.
Then there are the Pathfinders at 47.50€ and the Hand of the Archon and Inquisitorial Agents at 44€ and the Blades of Khaine at 62,50€

Now Corsairs went up to 55€, Hernkyn Jaegers and Brood Brothers got added to 55€, Mandrakes to 62,50€, Kommandos stayed at 55€, Nemesis Claw with a new price point of 60€ together with Blooded which got raised up there and Scouts went up to 62,50€

So for the already existing squads Corsairs got +3,50€, Kommandos stayed the same, Blooded +8,50€ and Scouts +7,50€

So as said above the +3,50€ for Corsairs makes sense with the tokens and the same increase would be fine for the others but why did Scouts and Blooded get a higher increase instead? (Probably simply because people will still buy them at that price point but still)

Hmmm, datacards that are expensive, will be available online and will be already outdated 3 months later...

Thanks, but no, thanks.

3 months? Come on, they are going to have errors on them from day 0!