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They do… sort of. There’s an occasional glitch where the email gets sent out before the item goes live on the site, which is weird.

There's also the occasional glitch where you get notifications for the wrong country.

Considering the site asks me to select my country almost every time I look at it ... that one doesn't surprise me

chaos0xomega wrote:
You guys seem confused, this is an old world thread, not an AoS thread.

And almost all of the new Skaven releases will work just fine in The Old World. Don't even need a "counts as".

Notifications have never worked for me. By now I've bought all the new model that I wanted, but all of them by checking the website often. Only once did i get a noticification for one of the models and that was after a few hours when they were already gone again.

 SgtEeveell wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
You guys seem confused, this is an old world thread, not an AoS thread.

And almost all of the new Skaven releases will work just fine in The Old World. Don't even need a "counts as".

Some very welcome updates to the range also from a TOW perspective for sure, though also a few changes that make cross-compatibility a bit trickier, which will presumably get increasingly difficult as AoS moves away from TOW (assuming Skaven won't be featured properly there any time soon).

Some things of note: Plaguepack could provide a Plague Priest and/or counts as a Censer Bearer unit; unfortunately not a practial source for a full new-look Plague Monk unit, and Censer Bearers are not otherwise available at the moment.
Stormvermin no longer have shields provided. Looks like they could rank up on TOW's 25mm bases potentially, though probably not in any configuration - good time to number some bases!
Clanrats have moulded-on shields and barely any spears (and the ones they have are tiny).
Can confirm Jezzails should fit on 25x50 bases (I've assembled mine on individual 25mm bases per rat, so same idea).
Ratling Gun/Warpfire Thrower look similar enough, so would expect them to also fit on 25x50. Unfortunately no Poisoned Wind Mortars and the Warp Grinder is far too big, but perhaps the new "Warpvolt Scourgers" could proxy as the latter (since they also have some pointy warpstone bits on the front). Difficult to say how wide the Doom-flayers are, but they at least have a limited contact point to the base, so perhaps flexible...
Rat Ogres are on 50x50, so size-wise perfect for TOW. Now of course come without Packmasters - or Giant Rats. But at least they finally have decent looking multipart models!

 SgtEeveell wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
You guys seem confused, this is an old world thread, not an AoS thread.

And almost all of the new Skaven releases will work just fine in The Old World. Don't even need a "counts as".

Until you look at the prices and realize how much it'll cost you. The best thing about TOW is the general affordability of it. $84 for 32 chaos warriors... or I can spend $200 (really $250) for the same number of AoS minis.

And here I am buying Skaven for Kings of War

Honestly pretty happy with how far my money goes there, of course with multibasing being the norm I can use 3 Jezzails on a 5-wide base, etc, maybe throw one of my many Island of Blood Engineers on the base as an officer to fill some space. My only regret is that some very good GW models don't have a KoW profile they could reasonably represent.

Which ones?

I thought they'd changed the web store listings so that "The Old World" was moved under "more games"? It seems it has its own thing next to 40k and AOS once again.

Yeah it keeps moving back n forth it seems

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah it keeps moving back n forth it seems

I'm imagining the different design teams alternately sneaking in and bribing the web guys to hide and unhide it, since they're so keen on segregating the profits of the two games

I think it's more likely the marketing and branding coffins are having a tough time figuring out how they want to position the games that aren't 40k/AoS on the market.

Made to order chaos coming up next weekend

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/08/sunday-preview-a-soupcon-of-chaos-in-the-old-world/

Gonna get me a Daemon Prince with sword and a Spawn for sure!

boyd wrote:

Zenithfleet wrote:


For comparison, in the Bretonnian MTO I didn't place my order until the last few days of the window, and it took two months to arrive.

I'm still waiting to receive mine. I ordered min on Monday so day 3 of the made to order window and it's been more than 3 months. I've only ordered 2 items via made to order and both have taken 4+ months to arrive. I ordered Rogue Trader 10 minutes after it went online for sale and it still took just over 4 months. I don't have the luck to get stuff quickly and I think the US gets their items after the U.K. Just because it's easier to produce and ship things locally.

I got my Bretonians on 8/25. Kept reaching out to Customer Service for an update because I got the on day 208 instead of 190. Still got them though.


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 Skywave wrote:
Made to order chaos coming up next weekend

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/08/sunday-preview-a-soupcon-of-chaos-in-the-old-world/

Gonna get me a Daemon Prince with sword and a Spawn for sure!

I'm getting 2 spawn and the Prince with the Axe. I was hoping for Azazel, Arbaal, or VanHorstmann. I've wanted the spawn though for a good 20 years.

Can’t wait to get the Metal Daemon Prince with claw that goes on preorder this Saturday!

chaos0xomega wrote:
I think it's more likely the marketing and branding coffins are having a tough time figuring out how they want to position the games that aren't 40k/AoS on the market.

might just be that the one game with recent new releases/pre-orders is moved up

I could (price dependant) have been persuaded by a Prince, but the one I already have is a mixture of parts from these two, and I'd rather not duplicate him.

boyd wrote:

 Skywave wrote:
Made to order chaos coming up next weekend

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/09/08/sunday-preview-a-soupcon-of-chaos-in-the-old-world/

Gonna get me a Daemon Prince with sword and a Spawn for sure!

I'm getting 2 spawn and the Prince with the Axe. I was hoping for Azazel, Arbaal, or VanHorstmann. I've wanted the spawn though for a good 20 years.

The Spawn is such a fun model. I got mine around ten years ago when my local store auctioned off a box that had refused to sell.

Poor Stumpy had such a hard life. First he sat alone and unloved on a shelf, and when he finally found a home those stupid Skinks tried to murder him over and over and over like there wasn't any other target in my army. The fiends!

I do find it a bit strange that the made to order for chaos is mostly for units that are not otherwise available, and haven't had their old plastic kits announced to be returning at some point. (Unless I have missed the WarComm notice)

I'm glad to be able to pick up the Daemon Princes and I don't have that specific spawn either, but had really expected the chaos MTO to have been for perhaps some of the marauder era chaos stuff to tie in with the undivided faction lore they have gone with this time round.

No offence, but you need to be really hooked on nostalgia to appreciate that spawn and the daemon princes today.

For some reason I had (well, still have in the attic) both those princes just with the weapons swapped around. Im just confused why, because I didnt play chaos back then, and didnt have the funds to buy stuff like that. Weird.

I think the Spawn is good - give it a different paintjob than the studio and It will still look decent. The Demon Princes are a classic style taste. Some will like them some won't for me they are up there with the early dragons in that they are designs that I can see elements of them I like, but the overall sculpt and proportions just don't work for me at all.

Now that Chaos Sorcerer on the other hand I "might" go for

"We have Nazgul at home" sorcerer is pretty ok.

The metal spawn was worse when it came out than the previous metal spawn it replaced ( https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:ChaosSpawn1998.jpeg )

Ohh that one is very "The Thing" gnarly!

I had one of those. Then it got raided for conversion parts. Then I didn't have a Spawn miniature anymore. Conclusion: it serves its purpose as a Spawn poorly. That makes Stumpy the superior Spawn model.

 Geifer wrote:
I had one of those. Then it got raided for conversion parts. Then I didn't have a Spawn miniature anymore. Conclusion: it serves its purpose as a Spawn poorly. That makes Stumpy the superior Spawn model.

Yeah, I'm not sure anyone used that Spawn for anything other than as a conversion bits pack. I bought two and never actually used them as Spawn.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
I had one of those. Then it got raided for conversion parts. Then I didn't have a Spawn miniature anymore. Conclusion: it serves its purpose as a Spawn poorly. That makes Stumpy the superior Spawn model.

Yeah, I'm not sure anyone used that Spawn for anything other than as a conversion bits pack. I bought two and never actually used them as Spawn.

I think I still have the body somewhere – I recall using the heads for something but stuck a chaos knight torso on the neck joint instead, as though some unlucky knight champion and his unluckier horse got fused. Might still be in the Big Bitz Box.

Saying that, I actually like the intermediate one. Yeah the picture is a bit naff but once again that’s due to GW somehow picking the worst possible angle to photograph it from. The extended mouth is actually a distended and warped human mouth; you can see what’s left of the guy’s skull/face on the top of the body.

I love the old metal Chaos Spawns. I think I still have five or six of them. My biggest complaint was that I could only two at time in most games.

I even converted one for 40K in case one of my Iron Warriors characters got screwed over by an Eye of the Gods roll:



I got one box of the plastic ones and used the excess bits to bling up my old metal ones

I agree that the metal spawn in the MTO holds up well.

But having all the spawn models in the same force is equally reasonable. By their very nature every spawn is different.

 Haighus wrote:
But having all the spawn models in the same force is equally reasonable. By their very nature every spawn is different.

But they convert so easily, that they're like potato chips (you can't have just one)