Goodbye Stormcast!!
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/04/whats-leaving-the-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-range/
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The Great Purge
Goodbye Stormcast!!
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/04/whats-leaving-the-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-range/
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lmao but also lol at the potential future re releasing of
>Return to the 1st Age of Sigmar with this limited edition rerelease
Too bad about the various chaos cults though, they're neat models and did cool things to show a wide range of chaotic influence.
Losing Cypher Lords hurts big time.
Think they will still be useable for Warcry?
No idea. If I were stereotypical marketing and sales I'd keep them for 1 edition but make them less good rules wise so people stop liking them then drop them in the edition after that.
This is good.
This is sad.
It’s really sad to lose BoC too, very fun army to play in 3rd.
>did cool things to show a wide range of chaotic influence.
Losing this is sad. What does it have left?
Chaos purge is probably the worst to me. At least Beast of Chaos players will still get to use them in the old world. I liked having different takes on Chaos worshipers.
I genuinely consider these warbands to be some of the ugliest, most tasteless models GW ever made. It seems they agree with me.
>admitting to having taste equally as bad as GeeDubs themselves
Sort yourself out.
Yeah, some of them are absolutely fricking dire...
Corvus Cabal, Savagers and Tarantulos Brood are nice though IMO
>GW wont even support a line for 5 (FIVE) years
40k getting End Times'd soon and all specialist games will be changed in the next 5 years sorry Epic scale gamers.
I remember Aeronautica, so yeah they won't.
This sucks. These warbands were great and it was so cool seeing GW themselves explore various chaos cults.
>removes all the good cults
>promotes darkoath, the most basic warband and the least interesting sculpts
James has some really bad tastes.
>James has some really bad tastes.
GW is specifically promoting Dark Oath because it is basic and generic.
Basic and generic sells more than niche since more people are likely to buy it.
It's like b***hing about why GW didn't just update the Blood Angels or the SW model range first when they released primaris, and instead released just generic primaris models.
Answer is that generic marines sell better because every single faction can use them without problems or modifying.
frick, I might try to pick up the unmade and corvus just for kitbashing fodder
I got the corvus guys for conversion bits but I ended up keeping the leader untouched just because I liked him so much. The unmade are also great models, sad that they are going.
>retiring from the range
I quoted this in the AoSg and some people think they'd still be on sale for Warcry.
Warcry is ending up like Kill-team, ie stealth releases for Bighammer.
Losing Corvus Cabal, Cypher Lords and Iron Golems is truly dire
I can't understand which kind of moronic market decision could justify this move and for me it's truly infuriating.
Managed to snag a Horns of Hashut box from a store right after I read this
I get the first edition ones, but why Horns of Hashut?
>Beasts of Chaos lore non-existent in AoS
>GW just axes the entire faction like they never happened
LEL, Sigmar did the ethnic cleansing?
>AoS getting gutted
>ToW getting back miniature ranges
We eating good Old Chads
>we're good eating Old Chads
You're just the first part of a cycle. They've had a full decade of people buying AoS, which preps them for nostalgia buys later as those kids grow up and have disposable income. Ye Old World will be cancelled again like it was before and repeated as long as you keep buying their shit.
Cope harder
...what do you think that's coping about even?
Cry more. Bow before the once and future king
I don't play the games. I just like old GW models and not paying 200 dollars for one of them on ebay or having to do a days worth of homework to find who sells them in russia.
bro nobody is gonna have nostalgia for age of sigmar lmao
Just wait. Its been around long enough 12 year olds who got the starter box are in their 20s. Humans can't help that shit, it'll happen. I run into people who are nostalgic for 4e dnd, which ever gen of pokemon they got as a kid, etc.
Not even 12 year olds bought the starter box.
It'll happen and you'll be wrong. See you in a decade.
I can safely say no one is going to miss this shit. Maybe the memes from the very start where you could do stupid shit like pink horror spam or when GW actually though "oh yeah just bring what you think is fair" was a good fricking idea for balance.
AoS is shit, the game is meh, the setting and glue that hold it together is bad, and no one will miss it.
People can have nostalgia for anything, even objective garbage, so long as they grew up with it. I once saw a homosexual express wistful memories for fricking Dawn of War Soulstorm.
>I once saw a homosexual express wistful memories for fricking Dawn of War Soulstorm.
lol must be a dark eldar or sisters player
There are people out there who have nostalgia for the Twilight books.
And if you, dear reader, just thought 'well, yeah, they're old, so what?', then you've just proven the point.
People will have nostalgia for ANYTHING.
People have nostalgia for Twilight because they enjoyed Twilight more than whatever they are being offered today.
You may not have enjoyed Twilight because it wasn't written for you, in the same way 40k wasn't written for women and other people who don't enjoy wargames.
I didn't enjoy Twilight, but that's ok, not everything has to be to my enjoyment. But allow me complain when they shovel things I don't enjoy into things I do.
>Nostalgia
>AoS
>Nostalgia
Bro no one is going to miss AoS most of the people who play it could not tell you shit about the lore outside of the macro concepts.
The only thing people will miss from AoS, is how sad people who defended it were.
The churn is getting waaay to high now
>nuGW spent most of the last decade pulling bullshit so most people couldn't use their miniatures from the 90s and 00s in nu40k and AoS
>now that isn't enough and the FOMO cycle is getting rid of stuff from 2018-2022
Who is going to be left to keep up with this bollocks? The whalest of whales????
It's a real shame that GW can't sell such cool sculpts like the Warcry warbands or Blackstone Fortress for 10-20 years like in the past. Everything has to be now. A behemoth.
Thanks uncle Josif, you make our world better place.
Sacrosanct utterly destroyed.
>as late as last week, people on /tg/ and DakkaDakka claimed the Bonesplitterz and Beasts would never get squatted
>this happens
>mfw
>they bring back the Squats as Votann
>then they do this
it's like GW is consciously trying to torture us
>it's like GW is consciously trying to torture us
Why wouldn't they when you keep enabling them?
You threatened his ideology. Therefore, you must be coping.
Ironic, really.
>shitcan sacrosanct
>keep vanguard
Vanguard is probably being kept around just because it has all of the best ranged units in the stormcast army.
They're saving the Vanguard refresh for 5th edition (at which point they will squat all the Dominion models)
That seems to be most, if not all, of the first stormcast release. That in itself strikes me as pretty unusual, since it's not like the models are particularly old and you don't normally see what should be the core units of the faction discontinued. Like you wouldn't expect to see tactical/assault/devastator marines discontinued if it wasn't for the primaris being released as the replacement version (and the last time I checked GW hadn't retired tactical marines entirely even with the primaris ones being essentially a replacement for them). A tacit admission that the original stormcast look wasn't as well-liked as they hoped and they're fully replacing them with the later, better looking types of stormcast?
If I had to guess they’re trying to cut down on bloat. They probably saw the new SCE selling at the same rate as the old ones and decided to just say frick it. The range on the table/rules is just as bloated. If they actually fix the SCE problem of having a shit ton of units and only 5 of them actually do anything then it’s all but confirmed in my head this was cleanup. The fact that tacs are still a thing is a matter of time at this point to me. No one who actually likes Tacticals doesn’t already have one, same with the boxnoughts. The only reason they’re still there is nostalgia tacs and Intercessors pretty much suck the same way on the table and no one has as much bloat as SM. SCE barely scratched the halfway point
You have the right general idea but the wrong order of some things. Sacrosanct was the 2e Stormcast release, and 4e's Stormcast are going to be a redo of the 1e ones but with the newer proportions introduced by 3e (in lore justified as a development of thunderstrike armor that is getting rolled out to the various chambers).
>Stormcast Eternals
>Look inside
>Temporary
SCE have never been truly immortal, as they die and get reforged they slowly lose their humanity until they're basically rubric marines filled with lightning instead of dust. And just about every other faction has been developing ways to prevent SCE from being reforged, to varying degrees of success.
Hope Marinepiggies are ready to rebuy their armies AGAIN when James puts out truescale Firstborn or shits out Secundus Marines or something gay like that
>truescale Firstborn
They have an entire system and setting for that.
Won't stop the pigs from selling out whatever 40k equivalent GW shits out.
>They have an entire system and setting for that.
While they are good minis, HH fails at capturing the spirit of early editions marine armies by focusing on horde armies so much.
They're not truescale though. They made them bigger but not big enough in relation to human minis, because GW don't give a shit about scale and leave it up to the individual sculptor so long as they get roughly in the right ballpark.
>not big enough
size queens need to burn in hell, and larger minis make for shit games.
Are the "size queens" in the room with you right now? Maybe you'd encounter them less often if you shut down your dozen /gif/ BBCspam threads and operated your computer with both hands.
not my problem you're stuck on hierarchic scale and still think like someone from 5000 years ago.
>they've gotta be bigger bc they're important reeeee
if you want a good game, large models are objectively worse. if you want to jerk off over muh six gorrillion greebles and pretend detail is a substitute for good design, be my guest.
lol what a gayit, the only people obsessed or stuck on anything are the ones who instantly have a massive spergrage and start spewing their buzzword salad whenever the subject comes up. My models will be the *correct* size, and my games won't just be good they'll be great both because using the *correct* sized models is part of crafting an engaging tabletop experience and because, unlike yours, they're actually real.
Have fun seething forever gayit.
>> Actually real
>> Zero models posted
Nice army crop, when is the harvest due?
They're not that different in size to primaris.
They're about a full head shorter once you account for pose anon, that's about 5mm.
>in 2025 half of the Blades of Khorne line get squatted
>then same for Disciples of Tzeentch
>in 2026 it's Maggotkin and Hedonite's turn
>the few remaining minis are folded in the Slaves to Darkness battletome/list
Search your feelings, you know it to be true
Damn that kind of sucks
GW clearly fricked up by making way too many Stormcast kits but this is punishing the players now
What are you monkeys on about.
They're just gonna remake most of those kits in thunderstrike.
They literally previewed the new liberators yesterday, the trailer had a guy on the exact same mount as a master of the sacrosanct, etc.
its so funny because this schizo sigpig was spamming how TOW would have to use AoS models for beastmen.
Now GW just moved the beastman range back to TOW
Absolute Shitmar tard humiliation
skaven are next. mark mark my words.
Skaven are the 4e starter box army you moron
>he still doesnt get it
e-girlng at your tiny brain AoS fool
Even if Skaven are killed off some time in the future, there are several remaining WHFB lines for them to kill first before that
>Dispossessed
>Elves and dark elves
>Ogres
All of these are at much higher risk of squatting than an army literally months out from a major refresh.
they killed off the classic Skaven line for AoS. They are making a new super sigmar Skaven line for AoS.
This means classic Skaven can easily be moved to TOW
No idea how this can be explained to you any other way.
what the frick is a dispossessed
is this one of the moronic names they gave everything? like lizardmen into seraphon or space marines into Athletus Footstartes???
It's their name for the classic dwarfs. They took it from Mordheim
NO it is FRICKING NOT the name for the classic dwarves is DWARVES
>Warhammer
>Dwarves
>not Dwarfs
Way to out yourself as a secondary.
sure fine whatever but Im not calling them fricking 'dispossessed' or 'dwawi' or some other copyrightable bullshit and neither should anyone else
OK, but the name 'dawi' is legitimately probably older than you are.
How old is it. Im assuming it was a lore term before they did the dumb frick rebranding thing.
Actually it's Dwarfs
FOR NOW!!!!
dude you always seem like you're burning with impotent rage even when you're supposed to be happy
anything GW produces with the word "cast" in it is cursed and doomed to failure
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We fight the long war, not through vain notions of duty and honour, but through a far purer purpose: hatred. At the height of our glory we were betrayed and cast out by our kin. Kirby, Johnson, Thorpe - these are names I curse. Preistly, Pirinen, Cavatore - these are names I revere, names I would follow to the very end. It is this hatred that has sustained me through the long decade. I tend it with bitterness. I nurture it with the deaths of my former brothers. For I know that when the end is upon us and Warhammer is returned, then the false Sigmar shall be cast down from his sepulchral Age, and we shall take our rightful place at the side of Warhammer, the true Game of Fantasy Battles.
I'm sad to see fatcast go tbh. They embody the concept of superheavy magic infantry better than the new sculpts, even if it took an edition for GW to figure out wizards fit with them better than archers. I think they would have gone over better if they hadn't been married to a poorly-written system with a highly controversial introduction.
I'm keeping mine fat wherever possible for sure. I don't care about any incongruence. Skinny Libs with no tower shields are just wrong.
Even ignoring anything else surrounding the game, the fat c3p0s are just really bad models. From the archers that physically can't reach their quivers or see over their own shoulder pads to the guy with the horn he can't blow. Just dreadful models.
Why is everyone going for the chinese mobile game art style?
If you want fricking Ground Marines, why not just play 40k and get a Space Marine army?
What else will they squat when it suits them? Churn marines around ? IG tanks? Epic dick move by geeduba
Well it couldn't go on forever.
They can't support infinite miniatures, infinite games and so on. I'm waiting for it all to crumble and go back to being a very niche hobby with very few updates to the stuff I like.
Eventually they're going to sell blind bags of named characters and then at the end of the season they all get their storylines progressed and new ones released, and the old ones squatted.
At least I archived all their store pages.
OWARI DA
Did the fricking stormshits really need +25 character models? Did they ever sell that well enough for GW to keep them in stock indefinitely? We all groan when they release a Primaris Lieutenant but at least there we know Space Marines are keeping GW afloat
>the Stormcast salt is quite a sight to behold.
>Some Stormcast players are saying they'll move to Kings of War.
I mean they technically can play their stormcast miniatures in Kings of War. Someone did it as ogres.
Still I would imagine that a lot of proxy memory would be necessary on top of rules. A paper with images and text of the unit and its corresponding proxy would be necessary. It would most likely be such a headache.
ok they did it with old world, primaris and now AoO, but surely they won't do it again in 5 years
Stormcast always sounded wrong anyway. Like fantasy stormfront.
>One of the largest miniature ranges in Warhammer history
Arr rook same...
lel
This is a prime example of why nuGW id fricking moronic and wastes money.
Almost every single one of those models could have been rendered down to a single, maybe 2, multiple build kits they would have sold as a single or maybe 2 spru die. Then sold an upgrade blister pack for like custom bits and weapons but know they had to make like fricking what? 15 different single blister sprue molds. JFC remember when GW would just make basically 1 or 2 base kits then sell upgrade sprues to them and it was all multi pose, and easy to convert?
How the frick did he manage to revert so hard.
Wait I know the answer CAD shit
>the answer CAD shit
The answer is chapterhouse. GW doesn't want to make modular kits anymore because that open the door to third party bits producers to take a slice of the pie. They want warhamster players to be stuck 100% in their own ecosystem.
Which is so fricking stupid because people like chapter house and pop goes the money we're filling s voice GW could not financially compete with.
No matter how much they want to, GW would never be able to make a profit on a plastic die for something right handed chain scimatars, the market for that is way to fricking small, but people like chapter house and pop goes the monkey can do that made to order. Gw does not lose money because it's a market they can't compete it.
I wish Gw would understand the concept of "if you create a good platform people will want to buy your platform to work off of." All these companies like chapter house popped up because GW models were amazing to work off of but now they suck ass to work off of and it's harder for people to want to make their dudes.
But that doesn't really work, because modular kits, bits or even entire model versions of their models very much exist and widely sold.
I understand removing old marine stuff. It was 20-30 years old in some cases. Now they could have been nice and just made primaris new models and add a few new unit types. Having the same effect but without fricking up people collections. The beasts of chaos are old too. Savage Orcs are newer, but kit selection is small. Doesn't make them being gone any easier for the players. But what they did with SCE is just moronic. Some of the models are less then 6 years old. GW thinks that with an army paint/collecting taking up 2-3 years, many people are going to invest in to FULL price GW originals, just to have them legended 2-3 years after you get a full army?
What GW do is litteraly driving people in to the arms of recasters. What person is going to spend 800$, not counting time spend on painting, if they can get the same army for 1/3ed or half the cost?
>What GW do is litteraly driving people in to the arms of recasters.
Normies can't be fricked to get in touch with Chang and normies are the majority of the consumer base now.
My view is skewed because ivan/chang has his printing farm two blocks(as in litteral buildings) away from. Well good luck to the western players/collectors. I hope they don't get burned out like the MtG players.
there are new modular kits, just didn't bother doing it for stormshits
Painting it a different haplogroup doesn't count as modularity
good thing the image is showing more than that, ya little penis
Modular/10
You distended neovegana
>Removes the old stuff that used to be OP but isn't now.
>Will replace them with stuff that is OP now
I fail to see how this benefits us.
>old stuff that used to be op
I don't think there's been a point in AoS ever that shit like Prosecutors or 'random foot character number 32' was even good, let alone OP.
Goodbye Stoaermcaeaeaeaeaeaeasts!
I told you this was gonna happen and you didn't listen.
Told you the Soupening was gonna happen but you didn't listen.
Next time le grognard decides to grogner, you fricking listen.