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

[Jye Nicolson]

I apologise to everyone in advance for buying and using those awful Sisters dice.

[The Other Dave]

I apologise to everyone in advance for buying and using those awful Sisters dice.

I'd suggest you use a random mix of them, the Idoneth dice, and the Squig dice when playing an actual game, but I'd prefer you didn't get bludgeoned to death with a folding chair.

[Karantu]

Those Sisters dice are an eyesore despite being an interesting concept. I own the Ork dice so I can't really complain too much.

The Primaris Shadowsun is further proof of the technology exchange program between the Tau Earth Caste and Cawl. The extra arms are supposed to be an exoskeleton like we see in modern powersuits. They're usually meant to help carry heavier loads but since she's already in a battlesuit it seems rather redundant and I would have preferred detached extra arms instead. The aesthetic is slightly different from current suits but it's not too outlandish.

Other than the fact that she can be used in any Sept now, they haven't really said much about her in-game stats. The light missile pod is new and the Flechette Launcher is probably a pistol type weapon. Their wording on the bit about the Fusion Blasters is concerning though.

and the choice of tank-busting high-energy fusion blasters or Space Marine-melting dispersed fusion blasters.

Hopefully the writer got it wrong and it actually means that it has two firing modes instead of us having to pick one loadout during list building.

The drones have some potential too so hopefully they reworked them.

[Primarch]

Wouldn't a tank busting fusion blaster also melt a space marine?

[Karantu]

They probably mean a high strength/damage mode for anti-tank and a high rate of fire mode for anti space Marines.

[Primarch]

Some scuttlebutt floating round the net after the Open Day. I've edited it a little to group info by games.

via Vogon on B&C

I had chats with various people and sat in on a couple of the seminars, which were basically just Q&A sessions.
A few interesting things of note in no particular order.

AOS
Lizard men will be getting their own battle tome in the future but not soon.
There are plans for more campaign books for AoS and 40K

AT/AI
There will be new Adeptus Titanicus stuff coming out soon - check the community website in a couple of weeks.
They will be going Warhound size Ursus Claws. Now they have all the core weapons they will be able to make the more esoteric stuff.
When I asked about Eclipse class interceptors Andy said that they put things like that in the books so they can expand later, mentioning Aeronautica Imperialis so we may see models yet.
On the subject of AI and AT there are certainly plans afoot to expand on them in the seminar they mentioned there are 10,000 years of history to explore and the war of the beast and gargants could be one place to explore. They also said they would like to add tanks and ground troops (basically bringing back Epic) but this was a long way off. If they did it would likely be in the Heresy Era because that it the domain of specialist games and they can do what they like with it without having to defer to the main studios.

30K
While chatting they dropped serious hints about a book covering the shadow crusade in Ultramar and the legions involved.
The Heresy train is not stopping any time soon. Next book will be coming up and the “Road to Thramas” will be on the community page for all to see.
Dark Mechanicum will be getting their own book eventually. Once they started putting it together they realised there was way too much content for cramming into another book. There will be demonically possessed machines and all the good stuff from the Black Library books.
When I spoke to Andy Hoare in the main hall we did talk about the war in the web way and the possibility of that being a campaign book. He says he wants to but that he’s not sure how.

WFB
Warhammer old World is still a good couple of years out but they talked about the whole process of how it came about and why. Interesting but this post is already getting too long.

BFG
Battle Fleet Gothic is still on the to do list but nothing has been started yet. Once they do it will be a multi year project before we see anything. They don’t have the resources to devote to it right now.

How much of this pans out, I can't say, but fingers crossed that some of it does. I could see Dark Mechanicum being a big seller. (Still wish FW would move away from resin though). All of the FW HH books have been fantastic in terms of lore, background and inspiration, so a dedicated DM book would be spectacular.
More toys for epic, er... AT sound good if you are into that type of thing. A return of BFG and WFB would probably gain some attention I guess, but it does seem like they are currently maxed out on what GW/FW can produce and maintain. I know that the GW site in Nottingham was getting a big upgrade as they had maxed out their capacity there. I guess once that is finished they will be able to ramp up production a bit.

[YellowStreak]

New Jes Goodwin High Elves? (It doesn't matter how many times GW say it, there is no 'A' in Elves) I am provisionally interested in such an occurrence. But do I really need to buy a High Elf army for the third time?

I'm going to hazard...'yes'?

[Primarch]

New Jes Goodwin High Elves? (It doesn't matter how many times GW say it, there is no 'A' in Elves) I am provisionally interested in such an occurrence. But do I really need to buy a High Elf army for the third time?

I'm going to hazard...'yes'?

You know me too well.

[The Other Dave]

In the space of about 15 minutes I've gone from not knowing what an Ursus Claw is to wanting like three of them.

[Karantu]

Given that Shadowsun isn't supposed to be coming out for another months, I'm surprised that there's leaked box art but it looks legit. Maybe the Tau book is coming out sooner than I expected.
Anyway, it seems like there's two different variants of Fusion Blasters which is what I was afraid of. Also the Advanced Guardian Drone is new if I'm not mistaken.