Black Library Preview - 09/12/2023

[Lord Marshal]

 

Exactly what it says on the tin.
 

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There’s a festive treat for Warhammer fiction fans this Saturday, as the annual Black Library Preview returns with huge new titles, author interviews, miniature reveals and more.
 

It all kicks off at 2pm on Saturday the 9th of December – with appearances from such literary luminaries as John French, Jude Reid, Mike Brooks, Guy Haley, and Marc Collins.
 

We’ll have more surprises along the way, as we reveal new tales from Warhammer 40,000, the Horus Heresy, the Age of Sigmar, and the World of Legend.

 

Edited December 4, 2023 by Lord Marshal

[Joe]

It'd be nice if we could get something that isn't 40k / HH-related miniature-wise for 2024. The weighting is wack right now.
 

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[40k]  - Eisenhorn (2018)                
[40k]  - Severina Raine (2019)
[AoS]  - Gotrek Gurnisson (2019)
[40k]  - Valerian and Aleya (2020)
[40k]  - Uriel Ventris (2021)
[HH]   - Dominion Zephon and Fafnir Rann (2022)
[40k]  - Captain Vitrian Messinius (2023)

 

[Craig]

Hoping for the next black legion book but expecting to be disappointed again.

[LSM]

Is "the World of Legend" a term for WHFB, or something else? (Funny that they wouldn't just say "The Old World", for consistency in branding if that's the case...)

[TrawlingCleaner]

Callis and Toll (CoS) are probably the best odds for getting this year's minis, I think. They've had some of the better BL books, plenty of mentions in Battletomes, campaigns and WH+  Hammer and Bolter episode. Them or maybe Trayzn? There doesn't seem to be any 40k characters that get consistent focus recently?

[Lord Marshal]

Callis and Toll definitely seem to be the obvious pick this year, unless they drop another Heresy model to coincide with The End and the Death Part III... though for some reason I doubt it.

 

8 minutes ago, LSM said:

Is "the World of Legend" a term for WHFB, or something else? (Funny that they wouldn't just say "The Old World", for consistency in branding if that's the case...)

 

I don't know what else it could be honestly. 

 

Edited December 4, 2023 by Lord Marshal

[Indy Techwisp]

2 minutes ago, LSM said:

Is "the World of Legend" a term for WHFB, or something else? (Funny that they wouldn't just say "The Old World", for consistency in branding if that's the case...)

 

I thought WHFB was "The World that Was"?

 

5 minutes ago, Joe said:

It'd be nice if we could get something that isn't 40k / HH-related miniature-wise for 2024. The weighting is wack right now.

 

Well, this year was the 20th anniversary of a certain well beloved Commissar (and his friend with poor hygiene).

My bet's on Caiphus Cain being the Miniature reveal ('cause we've already got Gaunt's Ghosts as book characters on Tabletop, might as well get the other famous Commissar as well...)

[Chapter Master Valrak]

Waitng for that Glorious Pandemonium teaser.

[crimsondave]

Need at least an idea of the next Lion lore 

Edited December 6, 2023 by crimsondave

[TrawlingCleaner]

18 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

Well, this year was the 20th anniversary of a certain well beloved Commissar (and his friend with poor hygiene).

My bet's on Caiphus Cain being the Miniature reveal ('cause we've already got Gaunt's Ghosts as book characters on Tabletop, might as well get the other famous Commissar as well...)

 

Just from personal taste, I really hope it's not another Commisar or Space Marine. There's so much to the setting than giving a marine a Half cape or a commissar sideburns and a melta gun pal.

No shade to the people who like those, it's just not my jam!

[sitnam]

I’m betting we get a Robert Rath Trazyn novel with a new Trazyn mini, which is why he wasn’t removed from the Necron codex like the other resin characters

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

A book starring the Imperial Fists. They are the best and should have a lot more BL material. The BL miniature should be an Imperial Fist too. 

[Aramis K]

Cain

Cain: Hero of the Imperium

And valet, with a picnic on the edge of a minefield

 

[01RTB01]

Really want to see an Ufthak Blackhawk mini...

[Joe]

Getting a new Cain would certainly be nice, and reason enough for me to accept another Warhammer 40,000 BL Celebration figure before AoS has another one.

 

That said, the dream is for AoS, 40k and HH to all get one every year, although I could earnestly see them belting one out for Old World given BL Celebration and the TOW release being so close to each other in 2024.

[Marshal Rohr]

They would be crazy not to do Trayzn

[Noserenda]

Didn't they do that Vampire and Kharadon mini for new Black library series' a while back?

 

The problem is 4ok and Horus heresy novels are most of BLs sales even when they do try to push AoS or whatever.

 

Read more books kids :P

 

 

[Subtleknife]

Hopefully we get a bit more on the Lion, maybe getting to meet the Gman  

[Joe]

My (safe) predictions thus far are;

• Next Dawn of Fire novel
• Official reveal for the leaked Eidolon novel for the HH Character Series
• A tie-in novel for the Old World release
• Sa'kan miniature for Black Library Celebration

[Son of Carnelian]

Would love to know what AD-B is up to next. Just re-read the Night Lords trilogy and it still hits. 

[Scribe]

13 minutes ago, Son of Carnelian said:

Would love to know what AD-B is up to next. Just re-read the Night Lords trilogy and it still hits. 

 

I'm rereading Echoes of Eternity, and at this point I'm wondering how I can bribe the man to just write more.

[Joe]

41 minutes ago, Son of Carnelian said:

Would love to know what AD-B is up to next. Just re-read the Night Lords trilogy and it still hits. 

 

To be honest, finishing off the third Black Legion book, as he posted the character page list a while back.

 

That said, I know ADB has discussed his mental health issues quite a bit and the impact it's had on him, so it may be that he's taking a much needed sabbatical.

[Xin Ceithan]

In all seriousness, I’d love them to do miniatures for  Symeon Noctis and Rho-1 Lux from Flesh and Steel.

 

 

 

 

[Nephaston]

40k really has a bunch of options regarding book characters old and new, but the foremost for me would probably still be Honsou.

 

 

[Bev'an]

Emperors Spears sequel wheeeeeen