Dawn of war miniature rumours

[jimbo1701]

From chapter master Valrak - rumour originated on 4chan I think. Looks like a self contained set with the Space Marines: Honoured of the Chapter set included. 
 

 

Edited Monday at 06:14 PM by jimbo1701

[Jalleo]

Video also includes a picture of the new drop pod sprues....

[darkhorse0607]

I'd expect if it's any time soon (and leaked sprues would point to semi soon), we will hear about it at the Skulls event this month. If it's still this month, they haven't mentioned it which is odd

[Jalleo]

Relic had a game release 4 years ago and then 2 years ago (Remembering from a conversation about it recently). Age of Empires 4 & Company of Heroes 3 respectively. It would make sense for their next full game to release this/next year if the Hyenas debacle in Creative Assembly didnt cause too many cuts in Relic last year. (Later allowed Relic to buy themselves independence this year most likely)

 

Spoiler

Company of Heroes 3 was a rushed project and had issues since launch. That may have delayed Dawn of War if it was using the same main team. Dont raise your hopes for a good game.

 Sorry for posting a second comment so quickly

Edited Monday at 05:59 PM by Jalleo
Spelling mistake

[HeadlessCross]

Not at all what I was hoping to see when I opened this thread. 

[redmapa]

I would be really surprised if a whole new Dawn of war came out, with how fast GW seems to be ready to support DoW with this sprue I think it's more possible that Relic is just remastering the old DoW games to be released sooner than later.

[jimbo1701]

15 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

Not at all what I was hoping to see when I opened this thread. 

I’ve edited the title now 

[nodnol88]

Either they were super lazy and just edited existing artwork…or that’s a photoshop of an image you can find on Displate.

 

Drop Pod sprue looked legit but calling on the DoW one. 
 

 

Edited Monday at 07:35 PM by Dr_Ruminahui
Removed swear dodge

[ZeroWolf]

36 minutes ago, darkhorse0607 said:

I'd expect if it's any time soon (and leaked sprues would point to semi soon), we will hear about it at the Skulls event this month. If it's still this month, they haven't mentioned it which is odd

I thought Skulls was a June thing?

[MoriyaSchism]

Dawn of War Blood Raven characters would be a real treat. I was looking for an excuse to build the insanely broken special weapon Assault Marines from Dawn of War 2's campaign. Also that drop pod looks horrible.

 

[TheVoidDragon]

Someone mentioned on Reddit, the "Dawn of War" art appears to be a photoshopped/edit of this:

 

  https://displate.com/displate/6929992

 

 

Makes me think it might be fake.

 

They do re-use artwork in other places, or make slight adjustments to the background and such, but outright editing an existing piece of art to be something else? I can't recall them ever doing that before.

There's also that one of the Sprues is just the "Honoured of the Chapter" sprue, but red.

That this only appeared *after* the Chaos Knight was revealed too also is something seems a bit odd.

 

And just the terrible quality of the whole image for no apparent reason is something that definitely doesn't add any credibility.

 

Edited Monday at 06:48 PM by TheVoidDragon

[Paturabo]

That is definitely the 'Hounoured of the Chapter' sprue colored red (with the Indomitus sculpts for the Judicar, Chaplain, Bladeguard, and Bladeguard Ancient)

 

[Marshal Reinhard]

I can more or less swallow everything presented, except the altered artwork. Taken together it comes off as rather fishy.

 

What speaks for it I guess, is that it's quite a lot of effort for fake of something that's not even particularily earth shattering, a non new sprue rereleased. Of course, the promised possibility is that it could be a tie in to a new Dawn of War game, but as other's have mentioned it could just be re-release of (with some polish?) of older titles.

 

Or again, it's just all fake.

[Dark Shepherd]

Sprue being red makes me think its legit, a dawn of war boxed game.maybe exclusive to Target or Kwikemart or whoever

 

It also seems like a lot of trouble to go to when its alongside legit sprues

Edited Monday at 07:10 PM by Dark Shepherd

[Mechanicus Tech-Support]

The older titles still have a pretty dedicated playerbase considering how old they are, I could very well see this and a remaster of an older title to try and bring in some cashflow/gauge interest for the rumored new DoW

[AppleCrumble]

GW have reused slightly altered artwork before for the Barnes and Noble style board games, and those tend to use reappropriated sprues, and also tend to be announced around the UK Games Expo, so I suspect this is one of those. 
 

Which is a shame, as we don’t get them in the UK for some reason (you would think they would sell them into Waterstones, but the closest we have ever got is GAME). 

[CL_Mission]

It would be a real shame if these are exclusive to somewhere like target. It feels a bit cheeky to just see these games as a way to get models cheap but I could really go for an Honoured of the Chapter set for less than what GW currently asks.

[TheVoidDragon]

14 minutes ago, AppleCrumble said:

GW have reused slightly altered artwork before for the Barnes and Noble style board games, and those tend to use reappropriated sprues, and also tend to be announced around the UK Games Expo, so I suspect this is one of those. 
 

Which is a shame, as we don’t get them in the UK for some reason (you would think they would sell them into Waterstones, but the closest we have ever got is GAME). 

 

"Slightly altered" in the same way of way as this, though? They tend to adjust backgrounds or use something for a compilation, but this is a complete change to an entirely different chapter to use it for a setting/theme that the original artwork as nothing to do with. You can even still see the red and white of the Primaris Lieutenant's helmet, strangely.

Edited Monday at 07:32 PM by TheVoidDragon

[Valkyrion]

Eeeesh. I only know of Valrak from posting on here, which I like, but if that is the style of content he puts out then I'm best away from GW type youtube as it's clearly not meant for folk like me. SHOUTY NEWS! Can't abide. 

 

[Craig]

1 hour ago, TheVoidDragon said:

 

"Slightly altered" in the same way of way as this, though? They tend to adjust backgrounds or use something for a compilation, but this is a complete change to an entirely different chapter to use it for a setting/theme that the original artwork as nothing to do with. You can even still see the red and white of the Primaris Lieutenant's helmet, strangely.

Sounds like something that can be done quite easily with AI nowadays. Rather than commission a new piece of art just get AI software to turn something you already own in to another chapter.

[Chapter Master Valrak]

4 minutes ago, Valkyrion said:

Eeeesh. I only know of Valrak from posting on here, which I like, but if that is the style of content he puts out then I'm best away from GW type youtube as it's clearly not meant for folk like me. SHOUTY NEWS! Can't abide. 

 

 

I do get myself worked up over the little things, no skin off my nose, mate 

[TheVoidDragon]

50 minutes ago, Craig said:

Sounds like something that can be done quite easily with AI nowadays. Rather than commission a new piece of art just get AI software to turn something you already own in to another chapter.

I can't see GW themselves doing something like that.

[Indy Techwisp]

I was really excited to see new Blood Ravens stuff, but IMO this doesn't look real.

[TheMawr]

1 hour ago, Craig said:

Sounds like something that can be done quite easily with AI nowadays. Rather than commission a new piece of art just get AI software to turn something you already own in to another chapter.

 

It was easy before AI as well, though you had to pay a human being to do it :p 

 

GW has done it before btw, wich ones mostly spring to mind is the artist who now does all the Malifaux art. ( I think its 6th edition era ?) sometimes the same art was colorshifted and markings adjusted to represent different subfactions ( for tempestus scions, dark eldar and I think harlequins at least, I know he did some spacemarine art too, but afaik there it was always unique.)

 

there is also the two variants of prince yriel

 

Though I dont know what codex the red one is from, its 1:1 the original black and white artwork though. Im also not sure it really counts for you because I think a lot of old art made this same transition from black and white to a reddish coloring, to a digital rerendering of the art with new colors. ( I only know the latter usually, as both the black and white and red/yellow art of this era where at a time I wasnt much occupied with GW/40k.)

 

They are not all exactly the same examples, and afaik they usually dont do it anymore, though they do indicate GW is not adverse to changing the colors of their art I think.

 

edit : I also think this one is not the original colors and is the changed one to match colors to the Fracture of Biel Tan plot ( but cant find the original so might be mistaken.) 

 

Edited Monday at 10:11 PM by TheMawr

[TheVoidDragon]

9 minutes ago, TheMawr said:

 

It was easy before AI as well, though you had to pay a human being to do it :p 

 

GW has done it before btw, wich ones mostly spring to mind is the artist who now does all the Malifaux art. ( I think its 6th edition era ?) sometimes the same art was colorshifted and markings adjusted to represent different subfactions ( for tempestus scions, dark eldar and I think harlequins at least, I know he did some spacemarine art too, but afaik there it was always unique.)

 

there is also the two variants of prince yriel

 

Though I dont know what codex the red one is from, its 1:1 the original black and white artwork though. Im also not sure it really counts for you because I think a lot of old art made this same transition from black and white to a reddish coloring, to a digital rerendering of the art with new colors. ( I only know the latter usually, as both the black and white and red/yellow art of this era where at a time I wasnt much occupied with GW/40k.)

 

They are not all exactly the same examples, and afaik they usually dont do it anymore, though they do indicate GW is not adverse to changing the colors of their art I think.

 

 

 

Doing a quick search, I'm pretty sure that red version is not actually from GW. That exact one shows up on a deviartart page from someone who has just coloured (quite a lot of) Warhammer art themselves.