Warhammer (with the models and everything)

I do not. Bugger.

If anyone's interested, Warlord have released a tribute mini for Paul Sawyer for Bolt Action. All proceeds go to the the Brain Tumour Charity.

store.warlordgames.com/products/sergeant-sawyer-charity-figure

I’ve just had a quick read up on him. Sad news. I really was very very young when I got into second edition and jumped away before third, so sadly I don’t have many memories of his stuff. I am envious of you vets that got to be influenced by his like in the more characterful age of it all.

Thanks mate. Yes it was me - excited for this to be my first game box. Will keep my eyes firmly on the pre-order site around then.

Danno

Used your airbrush yet? Shamefully, mine is still sitting in the box.

Looks like the new rulebook has all the co-op / solo stuff in it too, so think I’ll probably just go for that and some updated data cards for some of my existing kill teams. Neither of the teams in the box are quite doing it for me for some reason. The Kroot ones are giving real Attack of the Clones vibes…

I’m a bit like this - the scenery stuff looks fantastic though. I don’t know if the Scions have a bit of a duff paint job even that’s not selling me on them. I can’t really afford it at the moment so the price will determine it. £120 FLGS or less and I may just bite for the sake of it.

Auspex has a vid up on Hivestorm including pricing. In the UK apparently RRP is £145. I think this will equate to around £125 at FLGS prices but of course it’ll be a crapshoot buying one.

It also looks to me judging from the pics that the Core Book in the box is a paperback with the one sold separately being a hard back, but I can’t find solid info on that.

The teams which I think I remarked had disappeared from the web store have all been repackaged with a predictable bit of a price increase. I’d expect the remaining old boxes in the wild to start to sell out now, but there’s then a thing of whether you will need unique tokens for them which may or may not be boxed with them.

I’m not sure if I’ll move on this. It looks like a really nice set and I do like that scenery. But I feel like I’d be buying it for two reasons:

1. FOMO - which I need to get a grip over
2. To have the scenery for 40K - which I never play. It’s also *more* stuff in the painting queue.

On the other hand if I did manage to get into this as a game system I’m set up with two teams - albeit with one that inspires me only to a minor extent.

Again if you could have bought a box with everything but the teams and had a bundle deal with two separate teams, I’d have probably picked it up with Novitiates and either a Chaos faction or the Kommandos without passing go and without collecting £200.

I could save the money, and continue to have enough models to paint realistically until next summer at a minimum, or could potentially spend that money on adding to my sisters collection or even looking at Legions Imperialis which I’ve always fancied.

Not sure what to do - and of course when it sells it out in 2 minutes flat the choice is likely taken out of my hands.

Somebody has a box and has posted photos of everything. They have annoyingly not posted the cover of the Core Book, but it looks more paper than hard.

www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/s/6mCeXYXddx

Don't get me wrong, I prefer soft covers for general use, but I find they end up in a really dog-eared state. Most of my well-used soft covers have loose pages falling out where the binding has gone over time.

Just have to get a nerdy squatter in the attic, boom, solved.

Very old time Warhammer collector here... What is the gist of Kill Team? Is it like Necromunda?

I was looking at the latest edition of Necromunda recently as I was thinking of getting back into it to play with a friend. But it Kill Team is newer/better etc, maybe that's a way to go?

They're both 10 model skirmish games. They're both much more like 2nd edition rules. Where they differ is that Kill Team is geared more towards being a balanced pick up game you can play at tournaments. Necromunda has leant much more into being a narrative game to fuck around with, with your mates. Much more modelling your minis with bionic arms because someone ripped your gang leaders arm off so you then called a hit on their gang leader.

Blood Bowl is in the middle these days. They literally mark teams as hard to win as (gnomes) that exist purely to have a laugh with your friends over. But you can make tournaments as well.

fwiw all my favourite memories of gaming as a kid are stuff like original Necromunda where they worked almost like a structured RPG than anything else.