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What will you be doing at Midnight Tonight?
January 27, 2012 by warzan
UPDATE 1:09am: So things are either running late or we were wrong, perhaps we will find out soon enough...
Further to our news on the 6th Edition Heresy Rulebook yesterday… today we can bring you another little bit of possible insider news from the mighty GW Citadel!
So, what will you be doing at midnight tonight? (GMT We Suspect!)
Well I’ll tell you what you should be doing… hovering your finger over this button that's what!!...
That’s right, our GW spidey sense has told us that tonight is the night when there could be a big and brand new 'something' from the mighty Workshop.
Beasts of War will be waiting with baited breath to see what will turn up. After the announcement, some of us will be in the BOW Chat (down there in the bottom right hand corner of your screen) to chat and gossip about the latest 'something'.
But what could the new 'something' be… perhaps one of these…
- Games Workshop are getting those long overlooked Tau ready for their Codex!
- Those cool Necron jetbikes and that monstrous death ray are ready for release…
- Games Workshop has a certain group of Dwarves, an Old Grey Wizard and a bloke from The Office to show us… that of course would be elementary! 😉
- Games Workshop are finally launching a model of the Emperor… and it looks like Tom Kirby!
- All of the Vampire Count models are being recalled because they heard we’re doing a Vampires Week and mentioned Mantic Zombies are better…
- Games Workshop has finally seen sense and will be releasing Fishmen!
- [ED NOTE] Or it could be a hoax or we've buggered up our 'interpretation' which will be a bit embarrassing to say the least 🙂
I know which one I want, but what do you think… what would you like to see?
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Maybe they’ll announce that they are going to do the sensible thing and realease 4 army books a year, 4 codices a year and return to normal price bracket.
Hmm maybe not
Although the ‘something’ could easier by released in one go, I’ve heard a rumour that there will be 2 parts…
Im hoping for the fishmen personally.
I’d love a fishmen army – units of deep ones, shoggoths on chariot bases and Lvl4 wizards using the lore of “Esoteric Order of Dagon”, signature spell “moisten all units in 12 inches of the caster”. One spell would be “innsmouth eyes”, when cast on a unit 1d6 models turn into fishmen. Characters include “Captain Marsh – special ability summon deep ones” and “Ephraim Waite”.
I got an idea for a Fishman spell! Bioluminescent Lure – choose 1 enemy unit within 12″ and move them 1D6 in any direction. Normal movement rules apply.
I can just picture the champion saying “Everybody… move towards the light!”.
Would be good for stopping enemy units from charging you. :p
Plastic Thunderhawk! Although knowing my luck it will be that they’re going into administration…
Hobbit news of course, would be great to see some sneak peeks of what models could be happening in the future.
Of course, a surprise announcement that they are suddenly releasing the Dwarfs as 8th Edition would be fantastic.
BoW Ben
Wait… it’s last Friday of the month. It’ll be that White Dwarf is out.
I heard somewhere a lotr special wd was in the works…or is that out already?
no that is whats coming out, and is probably what this announcement is… its just that most other forums have already received all the scanned pics 😛
We probably won’t know because their website will be overloaded at that time. But anything they might be announcing would be either disapointing (finecast, dreadfleet, etc)… or something we already know (6th edition coming soon !). I’m losing faith in GW 🙁
If it turns out to be the announcement of the hobbit game I’m gonna be disappointed with a capital F.
who said finecast
SQUATS RETURN!!!!!!!
DWARVES IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
Mantic are buying GW …..
The new race is Skullmen (In Spaaaaaaace) who fly skullships and use guns that fire skulls and use skull shaped templates with embossed skulls and dice shaped like skulls …..
My money is on an an announcement to the effect that “Finecast has proved such an overwhelming success and its unique bubbly formula is so popular, that GW is now going to cast all non-plastic models in marshmallow and aero chocolate, for maximum customer satisfaction”.
After all, the models as they are are no use for wargaming, so making them out of something that is actually fit for eating rather than just chucking straight in the bin is the obvious step forward!
6th Edition uses Bloodbowl dice ….
You can only play in tournaments if you own a copy of Dreadfleet …
FISHMEN. Seriously. When will some manufacturer come out with some sweet fishmen models. Does Wargames Factory still do that thing where they’ll build miniatures based off of votes? I thing we should start a fishmen (with guns) campaign on that site.
I agree, I want some really nasty, gory, mutated looking ones to do a Deep Ones army!
if its those bloody dice advertised in the leak version, I’m going to be annoyed!
PS , its going to be LOTR stylee hobbitness I should think.
Or some 25th anniversary reprint of Rogue Trader like they did with warhammer.
ITS GOING TO BE THE NECRONS!! Had an inside tip from someone i know who works for them and if he got it wrong hes getting a slap!!! ha ha
probably just the new LOTR stuff that was recently leaked : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/425444.page
I wouldnt get your hopes up if you are hoping for that rumoured tyranid/necron 2nd wave or whatever….
Be nice to be wrong though.
They’ve put a “No Returns” policy on Finecast
If you phone customer service and complain you get banned from all GW stores
If you play or shop in GW stores you’re not allowed to go on the internet – ever
Non current minis are not allowed in stores or tournaments
GW paints are switching to B&Q emulsions
OK I’m done now 🙂
B&Q emulsion you say? Well that would be a step in the right direction
maybe they will make a model for EVERYTHING for a change.
if its a necromunda or mordheim re release (box scenery, new minis) I would give a ‘special hug’ to everyone in GW HQ, if not, then meh
Necrons please…but maybe it’ll be something bigger…
Its probably the LOTR stuff, look at most forums and you’ll find all the details
GASP
WAIT
A re-release of Warhammer Quest – if it is count me as a fanboy again 🙂
Maybe their sales training squad will tell the shop staff not to pounce on every single person and coax them into buying stuff they don’t want. I hate GW with a passion now.
Ahh, you have to have the right technique for that.
Answer the guy buy shouting at him the first time he speaks to you, pretending your deaf, and shout you are just browsing. You wont be bothered again, guarantee it.
I let them waste their time and dont buy anything. thankfully I think I look old and grumpy enough that I havent had the sales rep issue for 10 years. Plus I tend to do flgs rather than gw stores
I heard its a brand new Eldar Codex coming out 😉
And all the Eldar minis are Finecast ……
Romain video has made gw see the light
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I am sure it will not be worth the effort whatever it is.
Don’t believe the hype!
I am sure they they want to grape us even more…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh1RkRxnAOs&feature=related
…. including the vehicles ….
On a more serious note what do you think the reaction would be if they announced that there would NOT be a yearly scheduled price rise in 2012?
They come out with a new offer of ‘buy 1 box terminators and 1 get one free’
But if GW ever did something like that it would be something pointless like ‘get this space marine predator tank and receive a gretchin’
Hmmm BOGOF where you buy a 40k box and get a WHFB box free perhaps …
They are slashing the prices by 60% and cancelling finecast. Returning to a hybrid of 6th and 2nd edition and redoing all the codex for a release in 3 months. Removing shipping ban, pictures ban, firing ip over zealous lawyers, restoring all the bgg content, returning White Dwarf to how it started as a games mag and re releasing Epic, Necromunda, Mordheim, Heroquest, Blood Bowl, Space Hulk and all the other stuff that made GW great
of course I may just go to bed as I have an early start and Im just dreaming
more chance of winning the euro-mills 2night
WOOOOOOOOOP. Games Workhop are doing an across the board price reduction!
they are going into administration as the fact 99% of gamers who worshipped them now wouldn’t pee on them if they were on fire?
well you could pee on them, just avoid the bits that are flammable 😉
I’d pee on them and then relight them lol
I disagree their are scores of lifeless cherry go no where gamers who will still lay down and beg GW to piss on them instead…
it had to be LOTR stuff, if we look on their site we see alot of the books are no longer available, but still on site http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat450005a&rootCatGameStyle=lotr
guess I wont be staying up
could detective skills.
Have they repackaged their LOTR plastics yet, giving you less models but jacking up the price?
I’ll eat my hat if GW don’t do that.
That’s a canny yet unfortunate premonition you have had there 🙁
Accurate too
http://www.beastsofwar.com/games-workshop/war-of-the-ring/forces-mordor-grow-stronger-war-rings-release/
depressing. I always thought GW plastic LOTR were nicely priced.
And a very, very stupid move as well. Marking LOTR cheaper than Warhammer and 40K makes perfect sense as you’re brining in, on the back of the LOTR/Hobbit franchise, lots of new gamers who will without a doubt be put off by expensive prices.
Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is quite obvious! It is the announcement of the 25th Anniversary model that will go along with the 25th Anniversary of Warhammer 40K. The picture of the model has already been circulating on the web, they will just be making it official is all 🙂
Will it be Finecast though …..
I’ll get me coat ….
Yes, it will be finecast. It is the old Rogue Trader cover art beakie Crimson Fist. It looks stupid – sweet! (Crimson Fist player)
Tau and Black Templar Codexes are both available to buy.
Hmmmmm The Finecast Hive Tyrant isn’t available anymore on the GW website…. Hmmmm
Plastic Models???? YAY
Still available at the UK website?
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
@warzan, we know your secretly hoping it’s the Finecast Tom “Emperor” Kirby model, tell the truth now 😉
It’s not going to be a new model or 6th ed! They will announce that warhammer world in nottingham will be closed for 6 months while they refubish the place to look like a giant skull. I hear theres going to be so many skulls Tony Robinson and the Time Team crew are doing the grand reopening in way of a time team dig looking for the giant body of said skull..
Of course it could just be 25th annerversary mini
I’m hoping it’s the former, that’ll make it worthwhile staying up then 😉
nearly all the lord of the rings models have been taken off the site – looks like lord of the rings are going to get some attention 🙂 about time
All new codex’s will now be Hardback well a nice Finecast cover to be precise
A re-release of “Oi! Dat’s My Leg!” with the hilarious accompanying tape remastered in Finecast?
6th edition 40k written by Jervis and he’s bringing back Squats.
3,2,1… HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY 40K!
What a moment that will be!
Horus Heresy maybe?
Nope LOTR and New Hobbit stuff it is then… 🙂
I’m with the half a dozen others that are saying its LOTR, next months WD is building up the LOTR rerelease like its the second coming of the emperor or something.
http://natfka.blogspot.com/2012/01/necron-battleforce-and-lotr-february.html
Personally tho im hoping its anything but 😀
lord of the rings is awesome , I think more people should try it and not expect more 40k or fantasy stuff to be released all the time
Come on guys it’s easy, due to the massive success of finecast ALL plastics will now become finecast and because of this the sets will be halved but the prices will stay the same!
Or it will be something like: HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY, the new white dwarf, the new lotr models along with the decrease of models in the box sets, and finally the anniversary model.
why tempt fate …
isn’t there a paint line relaunch due very soon? seems odd that would be what the tip is about but it would be interesting at least
As interseting as watching paint dry in your pot?
I bet it’s some sort of Delicious Biscuit!
With all the leaks it’s just going to be them “surprising us” with the announcement of 6th Edition. Just like they “surprised us” with the necron videos and “sneak peaks” that came out weeks/months after pictures & concrete rumours were all over the internets. I would get my hopes up but with GW’s track record I’ll not be surprised if it’s a big let down.
Are they planning the retcon the 40k Emperor into LOTR as a rival to Sauron …
Just had a random thought that made me chuckle. “Press this button at midnight” – an elaborate community DoS attack against The Great Oppressor? 😉
Okay, so its well past midnight GMT. I don’t see jack shit.
Or quite possibly, I’m just plain stupid. +1 hour for me, not them…
False alarm everybody. Move along, nothing to see here!
Okay. _Now_ i don’t see jack shit.
I do not think anything will change on the website until tomorrow at 8 in the morning
I’m gonna push the button now
last minute conspiracy…boW got rick rolled
30 mins till we find out (more or less)
Blood Angels getting a new codex ?
Again? That would be lower even than my expectations on GW.
Matt ward in an orange jump suit has been sat down in front of camera
that sword looks sharp
im waiting……
Nothing so far
Yup… a whole load of nothing atm
ahhhhh nobody is at that office at this time ….. i guess we will wait till monday……….back to work…….
sigh
Aston Kutcher just called. He’s taking you mom out and you’ve been punked.
I hope someone inside GW head office (that they have maybe long suspected of having loose lips in regards to the nondisclosure act they signed when hired) didn’t just get fired for taking the false bait and leaking disinfo to BoW. That would be a pretty sucky anticlimax.
ah well, rumors will be rumors, whatever is hidden away will come to light eventually.
cant blame the team cause starshiptroopers is on the tv in the uk…… maybe that was the thing …
its the good bits now..check it out…
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sorry guys, I think it was me I pushed the button to early…….. it was just so big and green and shiney
Well this is lovely.
Yup you should hop into the chat, discussing buying GW at the moment lol
On my iPad lad, I don’t think the chat works here. 😉
I think BoW just got punked by GW? Revenge anyone?
It’s up
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat450002a&rootCatGameStyle=lotr
It’s Live. And it’s Lord of the Rings.
OH NO… Did GW give out individual false info to each member of staff in the hope of weeding out the leak(s) ….
meanwhile, GW use to sell a plastic LOTR model for a tasty 85 pence each.
I went to their site after reading what Warren from BoW posted above and now a GW plastic, standard model will set you back… wait for it … £1.12 each. Early price hike, as a nice present from GW 😉 enjoy
In every GW related article I see you spit poison at them, whether warranted or not. Got anything better to do?
P.S. I won’t retort any further as I assume you will blow over this and start arguing.
If that’s true then why did I try my best to advocate buying Finecast and stick up for it?
Someone seemed to even suggest me and the handful of others who liked Finecast were GW plants.
‘can’t catch a break.
price hike is old news. Especially for GW u might say 😛
Heheh, tabletop gaming business counter-espionage. It’s ‘Metal Soldier, Sailor, Spy’.
That’s it? Good grief. Lord of the Rings, huh? I’ve never even heard of anyone playing that game.
it came out 2 and a half hours late but oh its LOTR, which i’ve already seen the pics of haha. Ah well. Some good stuff there.
Wow lotr!I can’t wait to get my hands on… all the money I’ll save but not buying that stuff.
Lol I don’t mind that it’s ol dnews, some people might not browse forums, but yous have already shown the pics of this stuff 😛
Gw are obviously prepping themselves for the coming of the tiny people…no not hobbits but kids fresh from seeing the hobbit who now want to play it and see their favourite characters between their grubby little fingertips. Well played GW. Poor mums and dads is what i say…literaly. Seems a bit better doing packs of just 10 models as games like 40k have been doing this for ages as that is like a minumum squad size, so fair enough really and come on guys…..we all know how much work is put into these models, i still own models from the 80’s and its amazing how far the detail has come so yeah we are obvioulsy going to have to pay a premium for this. They will never charge us too much as the only reason they excist is down to us buying their stuff, so if the prices went too high and we stopped buying it they would soon drop the price back down or risk going bust. In a day and age where Kodak, a major big time company, can go into liquidation, maybe some of the bigger boys need our support more than ever…IMAGINE FOR A SECOND….A WORLD WITHOUT GW…WOULD TOTALY SUCK WOULDNT IT!!!!
“We at GW would like to celebrate the 25th aniversery of our most popular and best selling system by releasing a bunch of stuff for a movie licence that we basicly recycled the warmaster rules for, that while just popular enough to support itself has been the obvious third wheel in our stores since about a week after the last movie came out on DVD.”
Has no one seen this?
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat440160a&rootCatGameStyle=wh40k
Yep and its just as disappointing as it was a few days ago when we first saw it, only now it has a price tag…
Oh dear, how behind the times am I ! Still, at least it ha a pretty box! Tehehe.
Oh Lord of the Rings got attention again, was that an octopus…
GW executive – i got an idea! let’s take our least popular game system, and poor a shit load of money into it…what? 40k? screw that! no one wants that. i know what the people want…high prices, defective finecast, and codex entries with no models. i’m a genius!!
A lot of former players, I noted via blogs etc, dumped Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 due to GW’s pricing and general treatment of its consumers etc. But they happily played the original LOTR game, from what I read, saying because GW did not bother to “update” it (i.e. ruin it), it stayed a classic game, at a good price. So despite not playing the two main games, they kept playing the original LOTR game.
From what I read on the blog Plastic Legions, it is rumoured that they haven’t changed the game much, which is good from a players point of view.
40K is getting a 6th edition this year. So it will probably be the Warhammer players that are underwhelmed this year.
At midnight tonight I will play Skyrim… what else!? 🙂
I’m quite fond of the original LOTR game when it came out, It got my son into wargaming for a start (someone on tap to play games with …priceless).
I tried WOR as we have quite a lot of figures but I couldn’t get on with it.
If they are pushing strategy again I’ll certainly give it a go, it can be quite a fun game, I’d reccomend it. the figures are cheap as chips on auction sites if you don’t have any.
I must be mad! Why do I do this to myself. I place hopes on GW will come out with something big, but no. All it is, is a game I will never get into and for the past 3 years he seen not a soul play it at my local GW store. Even when WOTR came out it just sat like a lump on a log.
I know there must be some people that play it but I have yet to see them. God help them, they need it.
We hold on to that false hope that they’ll change cos we’ve invested ourselves in the product too long to give up over a “little thing”, then one day we realise how all we seem to do with GW is complain about the thousands of “little things” then along comes a bigger thing(or several little things in the form of one big cluster-thing) that makes you look elsewhere for your plastic crack, but we’ll always look back at GW just in case.
mmmm Fair point but there is a bigger story here. Last time the LoTR franchise, caused quite the bubble of growth, so really its anyone’s guess as to how it will go this time round.
While the game/topic may not appeal to everyone, the only comparable type of ‘story’ would be if GW suddenly announced that it was taking on the star wars licence, or Gears of War etc.
So while this may not be your cup of tea, it will be interesting to see if it has any/or lasting impact on the industry 🙂
Licensing other peoples IP probably isn’t the way to go for long term success looking at star wars and starship troopers ventures onto the tabletop…
The bad blood between the 40k/squarebase hardcore and the LoTR line stems from the resources its taken- whether real or imagined- and while other more visibly popular games like Bloodbowl, Mordheim, Gorkamorka and Necromunda got stuck into specialist games with a new release every other year between them or through Forgeworld, LoTR stays as a core system with new stuff practically every month, even if it was slow coming it was still there, claiming a third of the page space and ever diminishing content in white dwarf.
What I think GW(and the industry in general) needs is something that’s all in one box in a nice friendly package to set up and play in an hour or two Like Space hulk or dwarf kings hold(though some models there need glue) PP could do like a trench warfare game about how Magnus got set up etc, then work on getting these into argos and WH smith etc., and in the box you put a little leaflet which showcases the expansions and next step up when you get a starter set of 40k/warpath/WFB/KoW/warmachine etc and look kids you can use the models in this game to start you off!
I Loved the books and enjoyed the films, the figures were sculpted by 2 of the finest. It will grab more people into or back into gaming which can’t be a bad thing
If I were running GW, I would release Space Hulk permanently. Ultimately, GW want wargamers to take to their main systems, and there’s no better way of doing that than having a simple, cool looking board game to get the ball rolling. Lord of the Rings is the simplist system, but eventually people delve further into what else GW do, start 40k or Fantasy, and never look back (I know, that’s what I did). It’s probably too late to just withdraw LOTR completely, for there are people who do still play, and they’ve spent too much money just to scrap it, but they probably could have released these in bits alongside releases from the other 2 systems, for those are the most popular and what the majority of people want to see evolve and expand.
but but but GW can’t see the light it’s that terrible customer service and quality control that makes the GW we all know and love i think they’re gonna have another price hike to show us just how much they love us