Warhammer Day 2024

[Lord Marshal]

 

Ah the community site is back up!

 

Interestingly the new LI book will also have formations for pure titan and knight households. Really interested how those will work. 

 

 

I'm not saying I called it happening in the Mech book, but I called it. 

 

Threw up a standalone thread for the book, just cos we'll probably need one eventually. 

 

Edited October 6 by Lord Marshal

[01RTB01]

I'm assuming there are only 6 orks and 2 squigs in the box. The community site article clearly says 10 ratlings but skips the amount of orks. Twitter has said "more details soon" which is zero help and therefore I'm assuming just the 6.

 

Considering the scorpions are in boxes of 5 and their kill team release was 10.scorpions. I'll (unsurprised) but disappointed if there's just the 6 in there.

 

The only thing the.article adds is that these orks are larger. I'm assuming they're like ard Boy tankbustas.

[Urauloth]

Seeing actual Dark Mechanicum models is wild. Can't wait to see what else is in the works for them.

 

Those Tankbustaz look incredible too. I've been wanting a plastic update for that kit for a very long time, and it's even better than I expected. Worth the wait, I'd say.

[Xanthous]

 

I'm assuming there are only 6 orks and 2 squigs in the box. The community site article clearly says 10 ratlings but skips the amount of orks. Twitter has said "more details soon" which is zero help and therefore I'm assuming just the 6.

 

...

 

The only thing the.article adds is that these orks are larger. I'm assuming they're like ard Boy tankbustas.

They definitely look imposing, well-equipped, and quite grizzled; I could see them being something like a Marine-equivalent kill team for the Greenskins. If there were more than 6, even if they weren't specialists, they'd have probably shown them, as they did with the Aquilons and the Stingwings.

[Tastyfish]

6 Orks plus 2 squigs makes sense given that these guys are on the borderline for being a marine-like APL3 team.

Assuming they don't have an extra wound or two for being Ardboyz (got to be big enough so that the basic orks don't think they can steal your rokkits or hammer).

[01RTB01]

 

6 Orks plus 2 squigs makes sense given that these guys are on the borderline for being a marine-like APL3 team.

Assuming they don't have an extra wound or two for being Ardboyz (got to be big enough so that the basic orks don't think they can steal your rokkits or hammer).

 

Do scorpions function similarly? I love the minis but I'll end up waiting for separate release if there's "only" the 6+2 in the box. I'd just like confirmation which GW seem unwilling to do :(

[Orion]

Solved rumour engine image.

 

 

 

 

Funny that there was a pie and chicken there, and we just never noticed.

People thought it was Krieg, lol.

[Matrindur]

 

I'm assuming there are only 6 orks and 2 squigs in the box. The community site article clearly says 10 ratlings but skips the amount of orks. Twitter has said "more details soon" which is zero help and therefore I'm assuming just the 6.

 

Considering the scorpions are in boxes of 5 and their kill team release was 10.scorpions. I'll (unsurprised) but disappointed if there's just the 6 in there.

 

The only thing the.article adds is that these orks are larger. I'm assuming they're like ard Boy tankbustas.

 

They are for sure only 6 Orks in there, the question will be if each of those has the option to be build as a ranged or melee version so either Tankbusta or Breaka Boy or if these are fixed.

[01RTB01]

 

 

They are for sure only 6 Orks in there, the question will be if each of those has the option to be build as a ranged or melee version so either Tankbusta or Breaka Boy or if these are fixed.

The only reason for wonder is there are a lot of promo shots with more than the 6. I'm trying to be optimistic but not hopeful lol.

[Matrindur]

 

The only reason for wonder is there are a lot of promo shots with more than the 6. I'm trying to be optimistic but not hopeful lol.

I see now what you mean, there are 4 more in the trailer video. It's still the only promo material that shows more unless I missed something so likely just alternate builds. So just 2x sets of the same set so the trailer looks better.

But it does seem like the shoulder pads for all of these are different to the ones shown on WarCom so unless I'm mistaken here this could be a sign its additional ones? As additional shoulder pads would take up alot of unnecessary sprue space from GWs perspective and four additional Orks would make it another 10 man team.

Still think its only 6 in there because it would be strange of GW to just not tell us that.

 

The additional Orks are these two which look like additional Tankbusta Rokkiteers:

 

And these two which are additional Breaka Boy Fighters, the right one is different than the one on WarCom as the hammer goes downwards instead:

 

 

Edited October 7 by Matrindur

[01RTB01]

I think the "extras" are same minis but different heads/ posing bits.

 

I just hope the box has two lots of them.

[INKS]

I believe it's 6 mini's that can be built either as tank bustas or the other group. so it's a dual kit.

[Urauloth]

The resin kit it's replacing was 5 Orks + bomb squig iirc, so 6 + squig makes sense. It looks like they've been beefed up to be a more elite unit, too.

[TheMawr]

 

Solved rumour engine image.

 

 

 

 

Funny that there was a pie and chicken there, and we just never noticed.

People thought it was Krieg, lol.

Quite a lot had noticed the pie and chicken ( I thought it was turkey and we would get it as a Thanksgiving mini last year.. even though I completely ignored Thanksgiving is American, not British) its just that those wanting it to be krieg kept talking about the two rumor engines longer, and tried to see things in there that fit krieg more. ( there is another one that goes with this ). There are 2 99.99% certain krieg rumor engines left though from the Christmas daily ones.

 

The show solved 5 re's in total I believe, need to take a closer look at home. ( these 2, the sorcerers book, whu stormcast sword and whu skaven bomb ) 

 

[Cyrox]

The bullet ridden wall was also a rumour engine

[MagicHat]

 

 

They are for sure only 6 Orks in there, the question will be if each of those has the option to be build as a ranged or melee version so either Tankbusta or Breaka Boy or if these are fixed.

From the article:

 

Each Ork can be built in two or sometimes three ways for a range of specialists and weapons, or basic Breaka Boy Fighters.

 

So maybe not rokkits for everyone.

[-DonCorleone-]

Someone on Reddit spotted all the alternate builds between Tankbusta and Breaka Boy. I’m guessing the Nob can also be built as Breaka Boy Nob

 

Edited October 8 by -DonCorleone-

[Nephaston]

Article does confirm that options "abound".

"This being Kill Team, of course, both new teams come with oodles of build options. Each Ork can be built in two or sometimes three ways for a range of specialists and weapons, or basic Breaka Boy Fighters. Likewise, the Ratlings can be built as special operatives or as Ratling Snipers. Additional cosmetic options abound."

[jimbo1701]

Clever workshop, one options for the kill team players and another for the regular 40K players. I actually love the way they’ve used kill team almost as a little sibling to 40K and allowed adhoc updates of classic kits as well as new things, neither of which may have otherwise seen the light of day by now. 

[Matrindur]

Since we don't have a separate topic for the Battleforces, I'll post it here:

 

The 40k Battleforces article was updated with a note about the Knights box that clarifies the Questoris Knight can only be build as an Errant or Paladin. That means the box won't include the extra weapon sprue that has the thunderstrike gauntlet, avenger gatling cannon and the two carapace weapons. It also doesn't include the upgrade sprue for the Canis Rex/Knight Preceptor build.

The missing weapons for the Gallant/Warden/Crusader/Preceptor aren't great but what is really bad is that with 40k current point system you are at an absolute disadvante to not have carapace weapons on your Knights since they are free. 
So unless you already have other Questoris Knights you can split the second carapace weapon from, this box only gives you an objective bad Knight build.

 

This makes the previously best value battleforce into the arguably worst value one depending on your existing collection and how much value you give the missing sprues.

[Redcomet]

It is really really cheap and small by GW not to include the carapace sprue. It would be absolute peanuts to them. They are really obsessed with squeezing every pound out of the customers. Disgusting 

[Magos Takatus]

52 minutes ago, Redcomet said:

It is really really cheap and small by GW not to include the carapace sprue. It would be absolute peanuts to them. They are really obsessed with squeezing every pound out of the customers. Disgusting 

Shrinkflation strikes again sadly. Not as badly as that catastrophic Dire Avenger change years back, though.

[ZeroWolf]

I wonder that if it's tied to production issues in the sense that by having a machine freed up by not printing that particular sprue, they were able to allocate it else where like another kit or part of the group printing Lord of The Rings boxed games.

 

It's still penny pinching but more along the lines of wanting more bang for their buck (screwing us over is a happy bonus in this regard).