Let's have a GW rumors and sneak peeks thread!

[Karantu]

Its apparently from some Spanish speaking website and seems pretty legitimate.

[Primarch]

Most of that lot look like stuff we had already heard rumours about. If anyone wants a Hive Tyrant or some Gaunts, pick them up before the price hike... er... I mean repackage.

[Karantu]

Yeah there have been a lot of other rumours floating around and this seems to line up with a lot of them.
The Hive Tyrant and Gaunt repackaging might not come with a price hike seem to repackage certain boxes along with rules updates sometimes and Nids are probably getting something in Blood of Baal. Just a shame that it doesn't seem to be new models, which probably means that not all factions are getting new models for Psychic Awakening.

[Primarch]

Well, right now Gaunts are 4700 yen for 12 and the Tyrant is 8300 yen. Let's see how it goes.
Just because they are getting reboxed doesn't mean Nids won't get new toys. They just won't be getting new Gaunts or Tyrants. The current Tyrant is a fairly new sculpt anyway (and a nice mini), so I can't see it being retired. I would guess we'll see all new 'Primaris' bugs if anything. GW doesn't want to sell new versions of current minis, they want to sell stuff that is better than the current minis, so you'll buy a while new core for your existing army, or a whole new army altogether.

[me_in_japan]

What the heck is WHU: Rivals? Some new Underworlds thing, to be sure, but it’s a real break in the way they’ve released so far to have a new...I dunno...play style? Add on? Whatever it is, it’s not a new warband. The two sleeves sets are for the warbands for Dreadfane, but even that isn’t available anywhere outside the US, so it seems odd to have sleeves for it listed on a Spanish site.

Interesting, nonetheless...

[The Other Dave]

My guess, from the name and the simultaneous release of the sleeves, is that Rivals is the international release of the Dreadfane warbands (just after I pick up a copy in the States, naturally), which were designed for, and legal in, the core game from the get-go. They’re a couple strong, nice-looking warbands, although the banshees have a models-not-designed-for-Underworlds problem of all looking pretty dang similar. I imagine they’re getting the unusual two-warbands-in-one-box release because making universal cards to release with them would mess with the general “8 warbands worth of universal cards per season” schedule.

I like all those models they showed at Spiel, and if I wasn’t already way over my limit in games being played and storage space for terrain I’d be sore tempted by the Necromunda set.

[The Other Dave]

Lots of new stuff shown off this weekend:

First, Sisters vehicles, which are going Full Sisters I tell you what.



(Plus a 40K chaos sorcerer.)

Then for AoS there's all-new, actually-dynamically-posed Chaos Warriors:



Which, if they release a card pack for WarCry I'm doomed.

Then some monsters for WarCry, including my new favorite, which I'm calling SmugCat in my head:


(Plus that cyclops thing that was shown earlier.)

[Karantu]

The new Chaos Warriors look pretty cool but I didn't see anything wrong with their old static poses. It made them look more imposing and disciplined in my opinion. Anyway I really don't need to start a 3rd AoS army before I properly start my 2nd and luckily that's probably all the new models they have for Slaves of Darkness for now.



They also revealed the new Chaos Sorcerer for 40k and I'm not too impressed. He just looks like an angry Librarian, if they have a helmeted variant I might consider it...



According to the community website PA2 seems to be about Black Templars, Night Lords, Alpha Legion, World Eaters, Emperor’s Children, Iron Warriors and Word Bearers. In other words, The Black Templars vs a whole lot of heresy. Since I play CSM I might pick it up for the rules since it's supposed to act as a supplement for all those factions.

[Jye Nicolson]

I am going to need to play a *lot* of 40k to justify the amount of Sisters tanks I'm going to buy. I hope their Codex is good...

[The Other Dave]

Yeah, that's why I didn't bother posting the sorcerer. He's an angry evil space wizard, all right! I mean, it's a great model of course, but surrounded as he is over the past few months by releases that pop, he just can't compete really.