World Championships of Warhammer Preview

[Orange Knight]

The Emperor's children range was released this year, wasn't it?

 

I think it's best to go into these shows with no expectations. To do otherwise is to invite the disappointment. 

[soviet1337]

3 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

I was hoping to see something today that I could actually use and for what's been touted as yet another "Year of Chaos" we've had even less than last time.

This time the Chaos was represented in the sound quality 

Adam and Eddie are still the best presenters, I hope the technical issues don't cause GW to go back to the cheesy prerecorded previews we had for a while 

[Indy Techwisp]

2 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

The Emperor's children range was released this year, wasn't it?

 

I think it's best to go into these shows with no expectations. To do otherwise is to invite the disappointment. 

 

I went into this show having had everyone and their mother regaling us about yet another wave of Ultramarines on the way and I guess an idealist part of me had the thought that it might just be more Generic Marines in an Ultramarines colourscheme.

But no, it's Titus 2 and his Backup Dancers.

[darkhorse0607]

Really torn on the Ultramarines stuff

 

On one hand, trailer good. 

I hated the old Titus model, so a new one is good

 

On the other

 

They change the captain for the second more than I change paints and honestly, I really dont love the idea of Titus becoming the face of the Ultramarines instead of a more legacy character. 

Also as much as I love Ultramarines, the second command squad didn't need to exist, would have much rather had Tyrannic War Veterans, Cassius or Telion

[Scribe]

8 minutes ago, Orange Knight said:

The Emperor's children range was released this year, wasn't it?

 

I think it's best to go into these shows with no expectations. To do otherwise is to invite the disappointment. 

 

Hope and roads, and all that.

[Osteoclast]

10 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

I was hoping to see something today that I could actually use and for what's been touted as yet another "Year of Chaos" we've had even less than last time.

The audio certainly counted. 

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

7 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

11th Captain is already held by Decimus Felix. My vote is on dreadnought acheran with a kilt.

 

Felix was promoted out of the 11th Company in the same book he and the 11th Company first appeared in.

[Nephaston]

1 minute ago, Lord Nord in Gravis Armour said:

 

Felix was promoted out of the 11th Company in the same book he and the 11th Company first appeared in.

Iirc there was no 11th company, he was just 11th captain. Also all the other tetrarchs still hold their original offices, though admittedly in his case it might've just been a holdover to get him to the tetrarchy. 

 

Either way, our boy acheran has no more people to spare it seems.

[Lathe Biosas]

Did I miss something? I don't remember any mention of WarCry or Kill Team.

[Blindhamster]

2 minutes ago, Lathe Biosas said:

Did I miss something? I don't remember any mention of WarCry or Kill Team.

Neither were meant to be there and neither were 

[Lathe Biosas]

2 hours ago, Blindhamster said:

Neither were meant to be there and neither were 

 

Thanks!

[Borbarad]

Nice show, love that they throw a bone to the armies without a major release wave with a few characters.

 

Miniatures wise, Fantasy / AoS again impressed me more. Fells like they have much more creative freedom to than 40k designers.

[HeadlessCross]

6 hours ago, Tastyfish said:

Leftmost one is Red Corsair Hunters according to Valrak's livestream. Reckon the guy in the middle is the daemonprince in Warhammer Quest

Well that turned out to be untrue, unless there's more to be revealed for some reason?

[Nova-V]

Well I'm glad I didn't stay up for that!

 

Yet another character for the Ultramarines who have characters coming out of their ears and just had a decent release wave is a kick in the teeth for many other factions.  So many factions have lost options in 10th or have ranges that don't  yet cover all the unit roles.

 

Agents need a generic Inquisitor so let's put design work into human hangers on for Marines.  Three of the Chaos monogod factions a barely half a range but Ultramarines could do with another character?  Only upside 40K wise was the Xenos models which are fantastic across the board.

 

A kinda weird fill in reveal for Necromunda but as always the models themselves were great.  That squats range seems to be getting to a point you could proxy it for Votaan which would be great to see as it's aesthetic is spot on.

 

I'm amazed 30K wasn't Talons they have been teasing it since the release of 3rd and now it looks like they won't make it this year or even early next.  Smacks of some production issues and shuffling.

 

 

[Burni]

What’s left from before this preview that’s been announced but not released? I don’t think it’s much if anything is it?

 

So could start seeing release announcements from this show as soon as tomorrow maybe? Wonder what’ll be first out of the gate (selfishly I’m hoping the LI stuff!)

[Jalleo]

The stream itself was a mess the reveals were nic.e I didnt expect to see the necron destroyer flayer model that looks cool.

[Dark Shepherd]

It felt like one of the better sets of reveals to me as it was billed as Darkwater plus the rest, so didnt feel like an underwhelming amount of 30 and 40k

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I can't quite gauge how large the new Tau suits are. Nevertheless, they look very nice. I just wish they had done a crisis suit update in this style. Those old ugly suits are the weak point of the army, and they're rather central so you really cannot just no take them. 

 

And overall, I am a bit bummed by the recent hyperfocus on special characters. Like the Titus's command squad with the human advisors is objectively super cool, but frankly I'd much rather have generic human advisors that could be use in any marine army, instead of just in this specific chapter with this specific character. Same with the squat berserker character, I'd rather have it as a generic character with some options. It relates to how customisation and personalisation seems to be vanishing from the game. It is no longer "your dudes" it is "the canonical GW dudes in their canonical configuration with locked wargear." 

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Crimson Longinus