GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

The Starpriest and the Oldblood are included in the app since thy launched it, yet it's nice for collectionist (or resellers) out there.

Yet, because of the printed hero cards, I would'nt really expect another hero bundle. At least not without an actual new Warhammer Quest game.

Oh, I skipped something else: a Silver Tower "mega-bundle"; it's in the official page, but there is some kind of inconsistency: the base game, the expansion packs and the cards for 180 pounds (the total price), but the spanish and french versions also says that they include 13 3 ml paint pots, which are actually free considering collectionprice. Weird.

Now, this week the official blog posted some good ideas to make your own objective markers using some spare bits:

- https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Webstore-Blog/2016/09/28/Warhammer-40-000-Objective-Markers
- https://www.games-workshop.com/en-W.../30/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar-Objective-Markers

So, this week GW finally launched a battle mat, made of neoprene 4x4 and at 50 pounds, not so big, either overpriced, which is good:

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Warhammer-40000-Battle-Mat-City-Ruins

It's not a generic desing, it shouts loud "Imperium of Man", so it is, obviously, adecuate for urban battles. They also say that you can iron it (Pro tip: Bad idea. Unless this is the next gen neoprene).

Will AoS get something similar? well, let's see Warhammer TV on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=260817424313243

 

Three weeks of Genestealers, but there's nothing new for AoS community yet.

Althought, the new texture paints have been released, I have to say that they look quite good, I'm looking towards Sitrland Battlemire and Martian Ironcrust: https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Blog/Textured_Paints.pdf

This week, the Salisbury GW shop also announced this:

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There is nothing more specific, but there is a good chance to see some folks returning...

Lastly, it seems that Blood Bowl will make its return this November 25th.

Have a great week everyone!

 

This monday, 2 big surprises arrived on AoS and 40K pages on Facebook. I you missed them:

AoS: What appears to be yet another Sigmarine, but the silhouette is quite smaller than the previous heroes. Speculation says that this time the hero could be a wizard, a variant from another hero, or maybe even a female Sigma...nun? Time will thell, but I'm particullary interesed on the last one.



WH40K: A massive new sneak peek and, well, you have to watch the last part of this video. If you are aware of what they are talking about, you WILL enjoy it.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=266256350436017

Have a good week everyone!

 

Was just about to start typing about this before I looked up!

So excited! I might finally get my hands on Oxyotl or Tehenhauin!

 

I must say gw have supriced me latly in actuly being kind of nice it would be great if they updated the systers of battle. By the way Magnus looks asome

 

WHAT? Dang its been a long time.

Burn the heretics.

 

I mean, that Sororitas mention at the end is a joke, but surely at the moment: Skitarii, Cult Mechanius, Harlequins, Deathwatch and now Genestealer Cults, all of them released on the last two years. GW have a year window to release plastic Sisters. If not, well, there will be a witch hunt.

Aaaand the Blood Bowl Season begins now!: http://www.bloodbowl.com/

And there is also an unboxing video from Warhammer TV too, with 50% discount vouchers for Blood Bowl 2 (the video game)!:

Gotta be honest: I'm not particularly excited for the game. But those orcs looks AWESOME. I can't wait to see what they will do with Lizardmen.

If GW keep up this win streak, we could even get good discounts all over their ranges for December!

 

Ok, there are many thing happening right now:

- Made to Order program:

This program had the potential to bring back the models on plastic or resin, but ALL the Imperial Guard range put on restock were metal. But they added this on Facebook today:

Maybe this could mean that GW will try to re-release this models on plastic since they were so demanded.

- Webstore updated: What it sound it's what you get, the webstore now has 6 catalogues: News & Exclusive, AoS, 40K, The Hobbit, Painting & Modelling and Boxed Games. AoS, 40K and LotR not only includes the armies (now ordered alphabetically) but also their respective scenery pieces. Painting & Modelling now can browse paints by type and COLOUR. And now there is also a display for their games; that's cool, I'd like to see them finally bringing a good number of boxed games compatible with they wargames, that opens the company to new costumers, by introducing them via accesible games.

- New Sigmarine, the laziest model in a loooong time:

The new model is basically a Witch Hunter (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Lord-Veritant), but its almost identical the lamp on foot Sigmarine (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Stormcast-Eternals-Lord-Castellant).

Well, at least everyone and their dogs love the gryph-hounds.

And now... oh boy, the big big rumors:

All extrated from: http://www.miniwars.eu/2016/10/novedades-gw-navidades.html

This might be true, I mean, miniwars was one of the very first sites that showed the first Start Collecting boxes back on December last year (http://www.miniwars.eu/2015/12/rumor-rebajas-40k-age-sigmar.html), and this is kinda happening right now: Slaves to Darkness and Flesh-Eater Courts had big sets was roaming around since months, and right now they are no longer available; this could also happen to the Beastclaw Raiders' Icewind Assault Box, and there was a big bundle back when the Pestilens clans had their AoS release, but the prices are not as low as they are saying right now: 52% off!

Oh man, the wonders I could do with those Premium Start Collecting boxes...

 

Thanks for this post(s), it's nice to hear about all these things! GW is doing a good job in my opinion, with some occasional exceptions...

... and speaking of exceptions, you're right saying the Lord Veritant is awkwardly lazy, but let's not forget about this:




[Can't wait to hear about Blood Bowl's Lizard... wait... Seraphon!]

 

YES!!!!

Love these news!! Specially the premium SC and the pigmentes and the sales and the scenery!!!
O gosh excellent to try out my (will be after christmas) new airbrush!!
Love it!

 

Nope, because this Grombrindal is not even a new model.

Speakin about the model, today AoS page on Facebook posted this little demostration of Lord-Veritant capabilities versus a Necromancer, a Vampire Lord, a Daemon Prince and Archaon; go check them by yourself, there is a little mention about the gryph-hounds popularity on one of the images.

And Blood Bowl is on his own, parallel universe (I mean, the Reikland Reavers are the human team of the starter box), so nope, we still (had to) have Lizardmen.

In any case, it's better to start saving up right now. This time GW seems to be making proper Black Friday/Christmas deals.

You done me proud, Kevin.

 

Winter is coming...

GW is now ASKING for what they should put on Made to Order via Facebook, from two options:

Miniwars has fresh details about the bases and scenery kits that will be out for Christmas, and apparently will be showed on the next White Dwarf: http://www.miniwars.eu/2016/10/peanas-escenografia-citadel.html

Finally, November White Dwarf will include a gift card for Total Warhammer; this includes a code to get Grombrindal, the White Dwarf as a legendary lord. And if you don't have the game yet you will get a 20% off. The game looks amazing, and it's quite good, yet you have to have a high performance PC to run it properly.

 

For those who like their magicians levitating above the battlefield in an epic style it appears that the Balewind Vortex is back as an independent kit. GBP 10, USD 15

http://pro.bols.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Balewind-Vortex.jpg

 

So, what do we have this month? Well, everything Miniwars said is happening: http://www.miniwars.eu/2016/10/white-dwarf-noviembre.html

And there are even more photos (credits to MisterArmarnis): http://imgur.com/a/FgJZ4

This is what we'll have:

- The hero bases fo 40K and AoS; 40K are exactly what Miniwars described, while for AoS there are 2 stone steps (different heights), 1 Chaos altair, 1 Chaos debris, 1... Arcanabulum? destroyed gears, 1 broken column/wall, 1 broken Sigmar faience, 1 tree tunk (hey, I could put a Skink Chief there!) and 1 rocky base. Just, a rocky base. [Disappoint evident]
- Haemothrope reactors works pumping martyr blood mixed with promethium. But that's not the only scenery piece this month, for Balewind Vortex and Magewrath Throne return!, each on their own box at only 10 pounds (yet, the original stone skulls are missing now. I have mixed feelings about this; I really liked the skulls as seperate pieces, but I'm also glad that GW is using some less skulls on their products).
- Oh, and I almost forgot it, there will be "wound trackers" too; simply 10-sided dices. Each pack includes 8 and came on 6 different colours, which are in 2 designs: "units" and "tens" (for particularly large models).

But wait, there is more! Some guys on DakkaDakka already have their WD issues, and they shared with us some new products too:

- Silver Tover heroes now will be sold separately at 15 pounds (https://postimg.cc/image/5fo3wd9qt/).
- The new tint set, extra concentrated pigments that will let you reinforce colours, intensify black and make subtle and drastic transitions for your paints, and can be mixed to even whole pots (https://postimg.cc/image/u1a10ihsl/).
- Khorne battle mat, and a Citadel repair tool. It's a little keyring with a little Citadel mouldline remover. And a little canister to carry a little glue tube!
It only costs 12 pounds. [...] Yeah, I hope it includes the, oh no wait, no, it does not include the glue tube... [unintelligible Khornate roars]
- And some Christmas gift ideas; some boxed games, some scenery bundles (just look at that sweet Tau Tidewall Rampart, it's almost 25% off compared to the individual prices) and two special paint sets: the ultimate paint set and the project paint set (https://postimg.org/image/z6zff5wyj/).

Well, we're almost there guys! Have a great one!

 

Well, I was expecting them for late November, not right now.

The Ultimate Paint set and Ultimate Project set is out, the first costing 440 pounds, and the second costing 140.

Seems expensive? yes, they are, especially the Ultimate Paint set, but both still offer some savings:

The Ultimate Paint set comes with 189 (listed as: 35 Base, 15 Shade, 31 Dry, 75 Layer, 8 Edge, 4 Glaze, 11 Texture, 10 Technical paints), one of each normal paint on their respective pots (including the large ones from the recently released Texture paints), and their cost separately should be around 533.95 pounds (certain paints are a bit more expensive, like Retributor Armor), saving around 93.95 pounds, which is not bad at all, considering the box itself is, on their own words "an extremely hard-wearing, rigid box" for storage.

You are not willing to spend the price worth of a regular laptop on paints? No problem, there is also the Ultimate Project set at 140 pounds. This includes 49 paints, the Project Box and 4 brushes (M Shade and 3 Smalls; Dry, Layer, Base). The paints (

Spoiler: The paints included are:

Layer:

Eshin Grey
Dawnstone
Ushabti Bone
Screaming Skull
Yriel Yellow
Flash Gitz Yellow
Evil Sunz Scarlet
Wild Rider Red
Skrag Brown
Deathclaw Brown
Altdorf Guard Blue
Calgar Blue
Cadian Fleshtone
Kislev Flesh
Gehenna's Gold
Auric Armour Gold
Warboss Green
Skarsnik Green
Ironbreaker
Runefang Steel

Shade:

Reikland Fleshshade
Nuln Oil
Seraphim Sepia
Carroburg Crimson
Biel-tan Green
Casandora Yellow
Agrax Earthshade
Drakenhof Nightshade

Dry Paint Set:

Longbeard Grey
Necron Compound
Kindleflame
Etherium Blue
Underhive Ash
Hexos Palesun
Tyrant Skull
Golden Griffon
Eldar Flesh
Praxeti White

Base:

Leadbelcher
Macragge Blue
Waaagh! Flesh
Bugman's Glow
Mephiston Red
Mournfang Brown
Abaddon Black
Ceramite White
Zandri Dust
Averland Sunset
Balthasar Gold

) come in regular pots, so they should costs 124.95 pounds, and the overpriced brushes costs 15.1 pounds together, so you are basically getting the Project Box for free (it costs regularly 42 pounds).

Unfortunately, while the paints included work wonder for, say, Ultramarines or Evil Sunz paint schemes, it has no paints for classic Seraphon skin, Spaces Wolves armor or Farsight Tau schemes. Well, that just affects me personally on that regard, but I can see people saying "hey, but I can't paint Pink Horrors with this paints!". Still its a good bundle, as I said before this box is perfect if you are looking to paint Evil Sunz Orks.

The new Tint Set is also here (and, in fact, the WD page that highlight them too!: https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Paint/Citadel_Tints_ENG.pdf), at 30 pounds; it has 10 pots of 3 ml and 3 texture tool. Those tools costs 5 pounds alone, so I would say it is a fair price.

We also got the new Khorne battle mat (and look quite good TBH) the Hero Bases (8 for 40K, 11 for AoS), the Haemontrope Reactors (25 pounds for 2), the returning Balewind Vortex and Magewrath Throne (both at only 10 pounds) and the wound trackers (10-sided dices).

Of course we've got no-saving bundles for mats with some scenery, the shamelessly priced Repair Kit.

The past week the 6 heroes from Silver Tower got their individual releases, each model costing 15 pounds, but while nice to see them on their own sprues, I'm pretty sure that only an extremely small minority will want to get one of them on their own, instead getting the full box. I mean, Silver Tower costs 95 pounds, and the 6 heroes on their own costs 90 pounds...

Well, so basically everything with some relevance for AoS is already out, just in the first week of November. Seriously, I can't imagine what else could happen on this month now.

Until the next time!

 

Wanna know when Blood Bowl will be ready for pre-order?

Spoiler: Look here

Price? from DakkaDakka:

Also, there is a new rumor about the "Premium Start Collecting!" boxes, yet is not exactly from a reliable source (http://www.tga.community/forums/topic/217-the-rumour-thread/?page=55#comment-41034), so be careful:

Now, I'm trusting completely on this post, I mean, it would be awesome to have that Sylvaneth bundle, but only they for Order, when the poster boys of the game are almost exclusively Sigmarines? Frankly, I doubt it. Still it makes sense to have one box for each Alliance.

I do think that is quite certain that we will get "returning" expansions for AoS Starter Set, the ones that lasted some months back on the first half of this year, just renaming the box. The was one for Stormcasts and one for Bloodbounds, so there is already a preceding for covering Order and Chaos.

Meanwhile, I don't know what to expect from Death: Flesh-Eaters? they already had a box like that befor the smaller Start Collecting, and the rest of the factions are really small to make them a bundle, the next biggest are the Vampires/Soulblight, but it could be mixed, just like the Start Collecting Malignants and Skeleton Horde. Meanwhile, Destruction obviously will use Orruks, the safer bet are Ironjawz (I'd LOVE to get one like that), but Bonesplitterz also got an update, and also allegiance abilities.

Meanwhile, Warhammer 40,000? Tau, obviously. Maybe Eldars, Orks, and Chaos Space Marines, but who knows? Necrons and Imperial Guard also have a good chance.

Gotta work overtime, right? I'll see you later.

 

Ah, this was the biggest Saturday GW has had on this year. And maybe even on few years.

Blood Bowl is the biggest success on this year. Granted, I don't have any actual stats to share with you, but since yesterday on late night I've been keeping an eye to the new sales and, guys, BLOOD BOWL IS (almost) OUT OF STOCK OR SOLD OUT IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. This only happened with Tau's Start Collecting on January and few Space Marines releases.

There was a major, one-click bundle for all the Blood Bowl new stuff, available on 4 languages, at just 107 pounds, including the game itself, Death Zone Season One booklet, a Skaven team, and Skaven BB dices. Those bundles and dices are no longer available. There are other bundles, cheaper with Blood Bowl box and Season One booklet, but they are out of stock by now, except for the english game, but I'd say that its because GW didn't expected such massive reception in non-English speaking countries. And still, the english version should be out of stock in the next hours.

The Season One booklet will aslo include rules for the next teams: Skaven, Nurgle, Dwarf, Elven Union, High Elf, Dark Elf and Wood Elf.

Want some more good news? FREE Fast delivery on Blood Bowl Pre-orders. Order by midnight Wednesday 23rd November and receive your copy on Friday 25th November!

Damn it, I wanted to get a Kill Team box first, but free fast delivery? Awesome!

Everyone, have a great season!