The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Khusru2]

I can see all those WWE and UFC fighters being offered roles. They all seem Orc size these days. Perhaps The Rock as a warboss?

[Daeothar]

Actually The Rock would be perfect as a Salamander Space Marine. Somehow the CGI Sally in Pariah Nexus strongly reminded me of him...

[Lost Egg]

The plastics from 4th Ed. 40k are coming to Made to Order...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/24/sunday-preview-return-to-the-battle-for-macragge/

The terrain is still pretty sweet and its a fairly nice and simple collection of minis.

[zemjw]

Tomb Kings and Bretonians up first for old world release

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/26/warhammer-the-old-world-the-tomb-kings-of-khemri-revealed/

There is no single launch box for Warhammer: The Old World. Instead, there are two separate – and massive – core army boxes, each containing a full 1,250-point army with dozens of all-plastic miniatures each. On top of that, you get a complete 352-page hardback Warhammer: The Old World rulebook, a four-page reference sheet, 20 D6 dice, one six-sided scatter dice, three weapon templates, two classic red plastic measuring sticks, and transfer sheets.

I hope they plan to re-release individual boxes as well, as these do not sound like cheap options.

No date or prices just yet, got to build the tension...

[Lost Egg]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/26/whats-coming-to-warhammer-40000-in-2024/

Looks like kroot are back...either a single rider or a unit, about 40s into the video.

[Elbows]

What I find more than slightly amusing is that one of the biggest issues with Warhammer Fantasy was that to really play the game you generally needed large armies, and the buy-in cost was pretty eye-watering - and that's 10+ years ago.

So they re-launch it with two army boxes which I can easily see being $300+ a pop...strong strategy.

[Lost Egg]

I was kind of surprised at the size of those two armies given they were 1250pts each...I'm sure back in 4th they'd have been half the size.

I'd be interested to have a flick through the books but its the return of some old plastic sets that I'm interested in but the new kits make it a pain. No wonder Stargrave, Frostgrave & Oathmark kits are so popular.

[Basementboy]

I have to agree about the kit selection feeling rather muddled- if they’d re-released the old range I would’ve bought it for nostalgia’s sake, and if they made a new line of lower fantasy miniatures I would likewise have bought them… but now that they’re trying to do both there’s clearly going to be some serious scale creep, and the proportions on some of the new plastics look positively ridiculous due to their attempts to fix that…
I’m still happy that we might be getting some new lore and art for WFB though, and it’s nice that the community around the old game is getting recognised by GW
All in all, I won’t be buying any models, but I’ll probably pick up some books on EBay and give them a look

[Mammoth miniatures]

The plastics from 4th Ed. 40k are coming to Made to Order...

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/12/24/sunday-preview-return-to-the-battle-for-macragge/

The terrain is still pretty sweet and its a fairly nice and simple collection of minis.

This was the first new starter set from my childhood and for once I was sorely tempted to give in to nostalgia. But £90 is too rich for my blood.

[Belligerentparrot]

I was kind of surprised at the size of those two armies given they were 1250pts each...I'm sure back in 4th they'd have been half the size.

That strikes me as a good thing, given the restriction on major heroes is roughly 1 per 1k points. It makes a 1k battle look like it might involve a number of interesting units and hardly any big kill-everything heroes.

I've no nostalgia for the Macragge box. 2004 wasn't an era I enjoyed much.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

This was the first new starter set from my childhood and for once I was sorely tempted to give in to nostalgia. But £90 is too rich for my blood.

And you have to wait 180 days....

[Mammoth miniatures]

Interesting that some of the older kits GW are bringing back into production are still metal. Presumably it's simply economically sensible since they'll have retained the moulds and likely kept some spincasting machinery in storage, But given how much of a deal they've made about getting old kits back up to snuff, and the new kits being made in forgeworld resin, I'm surprised they didn't make a switch to resin for the old stuff.

[voltan]

It might just be a temporary solution till they update figures to new materials or sculpts.

Otherwise it seems like almost everything's out of stock now, even with the couple of resellers I looked at.

[dickiegranthum]

It might just be a temporary solution till they update figures to new materials or sculpts.

Otherwise it seems like almost everything's out of stock now, even with the couple of resellers I looked at.

Here as well.

It’s always that way - impossible to get what you want to order on day one, and then only sporadic restocks for North America. Horus Heresy is just as bad.

Super frustrating. I forgot all about it until this morning, and it’s gone, everywhere.

Well done, GW. Idiots.

[zemjw]

I got the email just after 10am (uk) time yesterday, and popped on to have a look. The queueing time was over an hour, so I didn't wait

I looked again about teatime and got in with no problems, but the place was cleaned out. I tried to get on to check something later on, but the queue was back, although only 4 minutes. I still didn't wait.

I too wondered about the metal. I'm curious to see what a generation that has grown up on plastic makes of it, especially if it's still the same white metal, as that stuff was brutal to work with.

The prices were less than I had expected, but still a lot of cash for not that much stuff