The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Major_Gilbear]

@ zemjw:

I think he's a May release.

Also WD didn't ever really stop doing exclusive minis, rather they just sort of petered out like WD itself did. With the re-launch of the current WD, they simply re-purposed the 8E WHFB plastic Trollslayer for AoS, and this power-armoured dwarf is therefore the first new "WD" model for a little while.

As for the material... Hard to say. Some of the details do look like they have been sculpted with plastic in mind, and GW may well decide to make him in plastic if they think they can sell enough or get enough return from his pricing. However, I suspect it may end up being resin, just because the recent SoB Canoness and Chaos Warrior were both resin, and I would think this is a similarly limited model.

I've seen a price of £17.50 bandied about, but I have no idea if he'll actually be more or less than that; nor do I know if his purchase requires a WD subscription, or if he'll be on "open sale" for a limited time.

[zemjw]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it.

They used to be WD only, but the last few I've just bought over the counter at the Warhammer shop, so fingers crossed.

Price is silly as ever, but I view these as display pieces rather than gaming pieces, so I don't mind so much (I still mind, just not as much as paying £15+ for a plastic chaos champion bloke )

I'm hoping for plastic. The limited edition figures I have in F***Cast haven't been too bad, but I'm sure my luck will run out.

[beefcake]

People could use him as a short Space Wolf. Not sure if the genetics would allow that though.

[Humorous_Conclusion]

For those people keen to see the back of the "meta" stuff, I don't think it's going anywhere any time soon. GW have just posted an article discussing the different army builds you can use for the new Kharadron Overlords in Age of Sigmar.

Simplifying the basic rules in AOS seems to have shifted a lot of the complexity onto the unit special rules and the meta remains alive and well. I wouldn't expected the new 40K to be any different.

[Major_Gilbear]

By shifting the detailed rules to the units, and by releasing free unit rules, it does give GW the opportunity to change units in the light of player feedback though. This could in turn give them a continual release schedule, rather than needing a new edition every few years, which I imagine would also see less disruption to their sales.

I'd prefer to see far fewer unit special rules in both games (and most of those that remain should really be universal rules which could be put on a crib sheet), but I guess we'll see.

[Andym]

People could use him as a short Space Wolf. Not sure if the genetics would allow that though.

One where the Gene-seed has gone wrong! He's been short all his life, but developed a Napoleonic Complex and makes up for it by trying harder!

[Predatorpt]

These civilian vehicles look brilliant


They'll be available to pre-order tomorrow, from the GW (but are available already on GW's New Zealand version of the site, ). Plus more Sector Mechanicus terrain and the White Dwarf in power-armour 

[Dr. Zombie]

Oh wow those are great! They could also be used in a fallout setting with a minimum of conversion work.

These could actually tempt me to give GW some of my money.

[beefcake]

These civilian vehicles look brilliant


They'll be available to pre-order tomorrow, from the GW (but are available already on GW's New Zealand version of the site, ). Plus more Sector Mechanicus terrain and the White Dwarf in power-armour 

Well there's a plus side to having to pay exhorbitantly inflated Southern hemisphere prices.

[Predatorpt]

Well there's a plus side to having to pay exhorbitantly inflated Southern hemisphere prices.

You can say that indeed. I was doing some conversions to see how much would they cost and I was appalled by the difference in prices

[nic-e]

They snuck those out! not even a sniffter of a rumour!
They look great. I want to convert ...something ..not sure what.

[horridperson]

I like that retro vibe.  20s/30s mining kit powered by space juice; Very cool!

[Mason]

 
I MUST have them!
 

OK, GW, you win.....

[3 fingers]

Oh wow fusion powered crawlers I need those 

[Andym]

I MUST have them!
 

OK, GW, you win.....

Yeah, I'm trying to squeeze them in to any current projects, but I can't manage it!

Honest to god, it's like someone at Gw has gone "Wow! Did you guys know there's a World Wide Interweb out there?!? There's all these people we could be getting money off of, saying stuff about us!" Suddenly nearly every single new GW has peaked my interest and I haven't played 40K in donkeys ages!