GW News: BIG N' SMALL WAAAGH! COMIN'

@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl

Bit late, but I’m not a fan of the Gorger models. Not that they’re bad particularly, just seems like a rehash so no desire to change from what I have.

 

These rules look like they will be fun to play

Grrr, !mrahil

 

Enjoy your day in the sun. You've certainly waited long enough for it!

Crew on side-mounted howdahs... where have I seen that before?

https://www.lustria-online.com/thre...haos-dwarfs-challenge-67-9.20456/#post-210245

I agree with you. It's a very small improvement in the overall model diversity of the faction, but I suppose even a small improvement is better than none at all. As they say, beggars can't be choosers.

This 100%

I feel the exact same way. In the context of the larger WHFB Dwarfs army, they were one of the coolest units / sub-factions. At some point I even thought they would have made for a great stand alone army, but in practice they turned out to be extremely underwhelming. Too much of the same.... plus, those runes look rather gaudy.

 

Apparently the bacon truck is only $80 USD?

 

Games Workshop isn’t a little hobby company anymore. It’s a corporation.

 

Honestly, what bothers me more than the outreagous prizes and arbitrary paywalling is what she mentions at the very start. Stuff becomes obsolete so absurdly fast, given the time investment needed to paint your new models, build a list, and then actually play a game.
Exorbitant prizes are awefull enouh on their own, but exorbitant prizes on rulebooks that go out of date by the time you've played a handfull of games is just silly.

It makes me curious how many games GW expects the average hobbyist to play before a new update hits.

 

One of the main reasons why I am "pessimistic" about TOW. If the last couple of years are anything to go by, you simply can't trust GW. How many of these issues will be incorporated into the new game? The company that produced the game I love is long gone.

I couldn't agree more with you. Imagine buying those data cards, only for them to be completely invalidated 3 months later. It's always on to the bigger, newer and better thing. Sadly, I don't think we've hit rock bottom yet; things will get worse before they get better.

 

That YouTuber was correct though - they are constantly sold out. If people aren’t voting with their wallets then nothing will change.

Time will tell with TOW, I’m still excited.

 

"Voting with your wallet" has rarely actually achieved much since you hold extremely little power.
Both in the sense that your individual vote simply doesn't hold much power when there are millions of potential customers, and also in the sense that predatory price nonsense is designed in such a way to manipulate people as much as possible.

Take this whole codex debacle. Even if all current players agreed it's overpriced, new or returning players won't know that, so there'll still be plenty of people to buy it. You can't reasonably expect those new players to be aware of the issues and vote "correctly".

Meh, it's less that they're voting and more that they don't activly realize what's going on.
Or they are sensitive to these kind of manipulation strategies, and just can't resist for whatever reason.
Or they simply have more money than sense.

 

Could some part of it be "after market" dealers who buy up datacards/books/minis to resell on their online store or on eBay.

To that point, though, datacards are the most trivial of purchases. Maybe newer Warhammer players don't know that GW updates/changes info often.

 

+1

Exactly, GW has no reason to change. In fact, they incentive to hold their current course or even make things worse.

Bud Light and Gillette would disagree.

Except, who's getting new players into the hobby? In my experience, most people who enter the hobby do so because someone they knew got them into it. There are of course exceptions, but I'd wager most people are brought into it by a family member or friend who is already engaged in the hobby.

Agreed.

Luckily for me, I don't really need GW at this point.

 

So, there is a new dwarf in town....



Not quite my favorite. I don't get why they picked such a new faction to celebrate their 40th anniversary.
Misted opportunity to do something cool, if you ask me.

Grrr, !mrahil

 

That face reminds me of the old Garbage Pail Kids from way back in the day.

Awful.

 

Hahahahaha! That's great.

 

Who stuck Cal Kestis in CMC power armour?

 

To be honest it's a nice change from the awful Stormcast, Primaris or Vampires they usually churn out for these sorts of celebrations, and it's good to see they haven't forgotten the Votann after their first release. I'll be interested to see what GW come up with for their second wave (if only to see if I can get any closer to proxying a Votann army with Mantic's Forge Fathers ).

I'll agree that the bare head is a pretty bad sculpt (the main flaw with the Votann as a whole - their faces in particular aren't Dwarfy enough and are rarely sculpted well), but the model can be given one of two helmeted heads which look significantly better (and continue to poke fun at Blizzard's StarCraft Terrans). Interesting that they've chosen a stag as the animal head on the crest of this one, stags aren't normally associated with Dwarfs, or Vikings as a whole (they're much more associated with Celtic symbolism).

 

half-helmet looks the best by far, it’s giving strong StarCraft Terran vibes this one. Needs a cigar…”Hell, it’s about time…”

also good to see GW doing something that isn’t a space marine.