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Gw has track record of not changing releases due to leaks

It's already been a year? since the heresy box pics leaked, and GW is in no rush to get it to market are they?

And gw didn't even change preview schedule for that.

Leaks come. Gw doesn't go haywire over it. Certainly not enough to rework production schedules over it. That just costs money.


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Speaking of gw not caring about leaks nh tome got fully leaked yet gw continues own previews showing no surprlses

On the one hand I definitely view leaks because I am interested in the topic and need to stay up to date in regards to managing my local community, on the other I wish they weren't happening. The reveals have more impact when GW is able to do them with high quality images, trailers and such.

Apparently GW's new Tennessee printing house is a leaky ship. I feel like pics of finished pages/whole books have really ramped up since they changed where the books were printed.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:
It's already been a year? since the heresy box pics leaked, and GW is in no rush to get it to market are they?

There may have been supply chain issues in getting all the contents together with most printing done in China for GW.
Then transport to other countries to allow simultaneous release.
Random releases are not appearing in Australia and NZ as a couple of shipping containers have been delayed 'somewhere'.
So the warhammer underworlds releases didn't appear Saturday, but the Necromunda releases is all in stock and being shipped.

Tyranids still aren't in Australia (for everyone except me! ).

I mean yeah maybe they rearrange releases.

As in, this StD release was meant to second or third release for Winter, and they bring it forward to the first.

They can move things around when they are that far out sure, but with other stuff that far out, not just say like oh shall we drop them in June?

If any movement happened, it happened before they posted that schedule and was even further away before that (as we know painted minis were completed up to two years prior for some releases, so could have been a release for next April or anything etc)

Assuming that tomorrow's AoS preview is as beefy as the 40K one was today, what are we expecting to see unveiled? What are you all hoping for?

In sticking with the Chaos theme, I'm hoping for Chaos Dwarves. Otherwise anything that get's shown off will be welcome news!

 Togusa wrote:
Assuming that tomorrow's AoS preview is as beefy as the 40K one was today, what are we expecting to see unveiled? What are you all hoping for?

In sticking with the Chaos theme, I'm hoping for Chaos Dwarves. Otherwise anything that get's shown off will be welcome news!

Skaven and Sylvaneth. The closest we might get to Chaos Dwarves is the Horns of Hashut Warcry warband on Friday.

My biggest hope is that at least one existing army in AoS gets either

1) A big range update. Eg skaven getting old metals and plastics upgraded to modern plastics

2) A big range addition for a smaller army. Eg Flesheaters, Ossiarchs, Fyreslayers etc... getting a meaty wave of models added to their line.



Right now the Ogres might be in luck as a good number of their Maneater models are listed as sold out and gone. So that could mean a new kit in plastic.

It would also be good to get more details on the new Daughters of Khaine book - I'm not expecting any new models (after the duel army pack added a leader already); but an idea on if they are going to formally do anything with the Dark Elf block of models or not would be good.


I do not expect to see a brand new army reveal for any Grand Alliance.

Obviously at least one new Sylvaneth model as we can tell from the rightmost silhouette in the preview title image. Hoping for some Slaven updates to older kits & resins though.

 Togusa wrote:
Assuming that tomorrow's AoS preview is as beefy as the 40K one was today, what are we expecting to see unveiled? What are you all hoping for?

In sticking with the Chaos theme, I'm hoping for Chaos Dwarves. Otherwise anything that get's shown off will be welcome news!

We have seen a silhouette for a Sylvaneth model. And I saw rumors elsewhere. - totally unconfirmed - of a new Deathmaster and Nightrunners for Skaven. That would all be welcome in my book.

For Skaven specifically, I would love new plastic kits for the Warlocks, Arch Warlocks, and the various weapon attachment units.

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Dawnbringer Crusade

Despite the usual bitching, good reveal i'd say. Rats still need a severe redo however.

I needs those Orgroids,

dr tree octopus is pretty funky (tho i could do without the oversized head banner thing)

and those bugs are what the 40K Vespids should look like (but with lasers & stuff)

Am I really going to start a third (or fourth?) Mordheim Skaven warband because of one Skaven miniature?

I think I am.

Also, while those Ogroids are excellent, how close they are to what Minos should look like is a bit worrying. I don't want my angry cows redesigned, or possibly phased out in a future Beasts release.

I certainly love the new assassin, particularly how it looks less 'ninja' and more 'skaven' if that makes sense. No other minis makes me think there are more reveals to come, but I am prepared for the Skaven book to just get that however disappointing it would be.

Speaking of, I was excited when I saw the headline for black library heroes but those two are certainly near the bottom of what I expected or wanted. I feel like when GW (or anyone, for that matter) tries to hype up a new character as a big deal before they are a big deal it almost always falls flat.

The rest of those reveals though, awesome. Loving that the Lady of Vines is getting a mini, loving that there is a whole unit of flybug-backpack bois, and cavalry too! They look great and round off the Sylvaneth roster well. More importantly the release is mostly UNITS and not single characters! And the ogroids are sweet, good to see a return of monstrous infantry for warriors of chaos. AND the announced project to fill out regular people of the mortal realms has me more excited than anything, I am so glad GW has recognized that need and is revving up for a suitably large release to fill it.

You can play those flying units today!

 CMLR wrote:
You can play those flying units today!

Ah yes, the ripperdactyls! Hey at least GW could keep names to one word back then

Just hoping cos revamp doesn't invalidate old models completely. At least logical count as units i can live with. Ideally new units and updated versions.

Would also suck for cos to go from one of the most varied force to small selection of units.

Huh. The Ogroid banner gives very strong "krule boyz" vibes, with the angry face and little trinkets.

Maybe they stole it?

They did use to be a destruction faction. Hmm

tneva82 wrote:
Just hoping cos revamp doesn't invalidate old models completely. At least logical count as units i can live with. Ideally new units and updated versions.

Would also suck for cos to go from one of the most varied force to small selection of units.

That's assuming that this is, in reality, a "Cities of Sigmar" revamp and not "Human models" revamp.

"It’s time for that to change, as we reimagine the forces of common humanity and the Cities of Sigmar."

"Organising the fractious Free Cities is no easy task"

Sure sounds like cos.

But they could be just add some new units and update some units. If there's sword and shield humans with new look that doesn't invalidate my existing models from being still used.

What he means is if it will be actual mixed-race/faction CoS like we have now or if it will be 'Humans of Sigmar' in actuality.

Well even then as long as there's logical count as options i can live. Humans with 2 handed weapons? Phoenix guard. Super well armoured humans? Ironbeakers.

Would be pity if gw burned existing fluff for marketing reasons though

tneva82 wrote:
And gw didn't even change preview schedule for that.

Leaks come. Gw doesn't go haywire over it. Certainly not enough to rework production schedules over it. That just costs money.

Speaking of gw not caring about leaks nh tome got fully leaked yet gw continues own previews showing no surprlses

That is kinda new behavior, tho. They used to ruin their carefully planned campaigns over leaks in last few years, even revealing stuff from big events early because someone dumped a terrible blurry photo a few hours earlier instead of just waiting half a day and releasing it when it was originally planned (especially given the fact usual clowns then would whine 'nothing' was revealed at event ignoring what happened just before it)...

Revealing a preview a few days early isn't really going to mess with the release schedule at all. Heck the Slaanesh Fiend got previewed early because one sprue wound up in a consignment sent to a 3rd party for ebay selling and it went wild around the net. GW did a preview, but the kit and the duel army pack wasn't rushed forward or anything.

GW isn't going to change releases because of leaks; they will be annoyed at the loss of control over their marketing, but its not a vast disaster.
Now its true over the last 2 years or so GW has moved things around a lot, but that had nothing to do with previews or leaks and everything to do with locksdowns, corona, massive shipping disruption and more.

Given the appearance on the distant horizon of The Old World, I would expect there is a move to distance AoS from the old warhammer factions that did not entirely port over, such as Empire, to avoid too much blurring of these slowly distancing IPs' aesthetics.

 Kanluwen wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
Just hoping cos revamp doesn't invalidate old models completely. At least logical count as units i can live with. Ideally new units and updated versions.

Would also suck for cos to go from one of the most varied force to small selection of units.

That's assuming that this is, in reality, a "Cities of Sigmar" revamp and not "Human models" revamp.

The barely awake presenters seemed to think it was just humans and not "other factions"