This will not be the release date, its just the date that it’s going to be revealed. White Dwarf is due out on the same day. Expect to be able to pre-order from 23rd, with release on the 30th or 7th depending on how they do it, I hope its the 30th cause I’m getting married on the 7th and I don’t think the other half will be best pleased if I’m nipping to my local Games Workshop o the way to the church!

I suspect this will be a pre-order date, but I could be wrong kinda depends on what other trailers we see, as they obviously plan on more. As for expectations, I want it to be good but believe it will have the issues that have hounded recent releases – ambiguety, balance issues and destruction of established fluff. In which case I may not even buy it. If it goes the way of fantasy, the rules will make the game more dynamic at the cost of tournament play. I like the current fantasy system, but it has major issues in my… Read more »

@Happybowler, the dynamic feel is why I like the 8th, makes for a fun flowing game as opposed to the very precise and accurate manover focused previous edition.

I hope 40k follows suit. However as a system for competive play its sub-standard and if that follows into 40k I can see a lot of upset tournament players, and they are the guys that will switch armies and spam units – therefore buy more models.

Anyway thats off topic, I wonder when the next trailer will be

All rumours I have heard for the starter is Chaos v Deathwing- inc a chaos Dread and possibly ravenwing bikes, maybe cultists and a while back I did hear plague bearers.

I am sure they will release a whole raft of unnecessary crap and market it as essential 😛

Do we have any information about how well 8th WFB actually did? I’ve heard conflicting reports, some LGS owners tell me 8th was a flop because of the ridiculous rules price and just general increase in the price of everything. Others tell me it’s sold just as well as the previous edition. I know that GW’s quarterly reports showed revenue gains over last year, but were those gains increased sales figures or largely the result of their annual price increases? How many times can GW increase their prices beyond the rest of the industry before their customer base literally runs… Read more »

2 weeks at most after offical announcement I would say. Months would be nonsensical and go complete against the stated policy of announcements only when you can pre-order the product, never been more than 2 weeks since this started.

Big question is when the starter box will ship

GW always seem to do a major release just around my birthday in September, which is great for me but not so great as we will have to wait a couple of months after the reveal to get our hands on it. I think the main reason they release around September is due to Games Day as it gives them a chance to show it off at the show and tell people all about it. Our gaming group has just took some new members on and has only just finished getting them up to speed on the 5th edition rules… Read more »

Yeah September would be the norm but with rumours of a 25th Anniversy edition Blood bowl box I think it might change. As with 40k 6th ed starter, Bloood bowl and whatever the hobbit release gets that is looking like a lot of boxes in one year, especially if none of them see light til September. I cannot see GW wanting to put them out in competition with each other

Apparently limited release with 4 special teams in the box, Chaos All Stars would be awesome (All rumours of unverfied legitimacy) Any hoo quickly back to topic Tanks, big guns, grim dark etc. Seriously though I never understood why box games got released after the school holidays, I know its normally a Games Day thing but have been keytime there is so much stuff a store could run over the holidays that keys off a starter box, and would help shift the things – buy this and over the next 6 weeks we will be doing ……. translates to keeping… Read more »