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They release both for both settings. When Khorne was making its rounds we had Daemonkin. When Tzeentch ran its rounds we had the Thousand Sons.
(Made its rounds referring to AoS).

In other words they push the specific gods in both games together for release, which makes total sense

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If anything it is more focused on the Nurgle daemon side and will most likely be tied with a Nurgle battletome excatly like Tzeentch and Khorne were which were meant to be around the same time so both systems can benefit with new army rules, units etc
It's not stupid, lazy or the pathetic notion of running out of ideas it's designed to kill 2 birds with one stone so you have 40k players buying the new DG stuff whilst AOS players can pick up the new Nurgle stuff

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I don't really find this weird or bothersome from a release standpoint - Chaos Daemons are one faction that's shared across both games, so they might as well focus on Nurgle in both games.

 

The 40K background supporting it is ugly, blunt, obvious hack work, but all of 40K's background in 8th has been ugly, blunt, obvious hack work, so I don't see this as requiring any specific call-out.

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They literally added Space Marines to Fantasy and you think Nurgle having matching releases is point their unoriginality peaked?

Stormcast are NOT space marines, have you even read an AOS book? 

 

On topic, why not?  You give people an army that they can use for both gaming system.  More money and more players. 

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I don't really find this weird or bothersome from a release standpoint - Chaos Daemons are one faction that's shared across both games, so they might as well focus on Nurgle in both games.

 

The 40K background supporting it is ugly, blunt, obvious hack work, but all of 40K's background in 8th has been ugly, blunt, obvious hack work, so I don't see this as requiring any specific call-out.

...There is nothing for 40k in this?! Unless you mean just actual Daemons in both settings, in which case you're going a lot further back than 8th?
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Posted (edited) · Hidden by Brother Casman, September 6, 2017 - off topic
Hidden by Brother Casman, September 6, 2017 - off topic

 

They literally added Space Marines to Fantasy and you think Nurgle having matching releases is point their unoriginality peaked?

Stormcast are NOT space marines, have you even read an AOS book? 

 

On topic, why not?  You give people an army that they can use for both gaming system.  More money and more players. 

 

 

They're not as brainwashed as Space Marines and can be women/non-humans. Oh and they can be resurrected. That's about where the differences end.

 

They're designed by The Emperor/Sigmar to be his greatest warriors and reclaim the galaxy/Mortal Realms from the forces of Chaos/Chaos, make for excellent shock-and-awe troops but leave long-term administration and holding ground to the Imperial Guard/Free Guild. They're organised almost identically to Chapters, completely with a sub-structure like chapters, they run around with crossbows that look like bolters, have their own version of Assault Marines, they're taller, stronger, faster and just the bestist ever compared to mortal men. They have giant pauldrons and the best armour ever. Every unit is based off the core of 'is a Stormcast in full PAULDRON armour' unlike the diversity of other factions (just like Space Marines). They literally deep strike via lightning, rather than drop pods. Games Workshop also focuses about 75% of their attention on them, including new releases, fiction and promotional material.

 

Oh right, but because they have more emotions than Space Marines they're totally different.

 

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