This weekend was extremely busy, rumors, articles, and the new site. With everything going on, I had missed hard on wrapping up last week's news and rumors. I am going to skip the releases and jump right into what was being talked about, including early information on this week's pre-orders and the second release of the campaign; Shield of Baal.
Here is a wrap up of last week's news and rumors.
Releases Coming This Week
via an anonymous source on Faeit 212All up for pre-orders 29 November with a release on 6 December.
Warhammer 40k
Shield of Baal: Deathstorm $125 25 miniatures, campaign supplement and rules
New Bases
32mm Round Bases $4.95 10 bases online only
50mm Round bases $4.95 3 bases online only
170mm Oval Bases $4.95 1 base online only
Black Library
Space Marine Battles: Visions of War $50 Hardback 128pgs
Space Marine Battles: Flesh of Cretacia $24 Hardback 128pgs
Shield of Baal: Deathstorm by Josh Reynolds $24 Hardback 128pgs
Hobbit
Balin the Dwarf, Dwalin the Dwarf, & Oin the Dwarf $40 3 miniatures online only
Kili the Dwarf, Fili the Dwarf, & Bofur the Dwarf $40 3 Miniatures online only
Bombur the Dwarf, Bifur the Dwarf, & Ori the Dwarf $40 3 Miniatures online only
Nori the Dwarf, Dori the Dwarf, & Gloin the Dwarf $40 3 Miniatures online only
Thorin Oakenshield, King Under the Mountain, & Bilbo Baggins, Master Burglar $30 2 Miniatures
Latest News and Rumors
Shield of Baal: Exterminatus
via anonymous sources on Faeit 212 *****
two releases next week for 40k and the rest is hobbit and some bases.
Shield of Baal box set $125 25 miniatures, campaign supplement, and rules
Shield of Baal: Deasthstorm $24 hardback 125pgs
Contents of the box set
Small Rulebook with Blood Angels on Front
Campaign Supplement -40pages
3 missions, rules and dataslates for each model, two formations- Strike Force Deathstorm and Phodian Annihilation Swarm
Blood Angels Strike Force- 12 models
Captain Karlean, 5 terminators, 5 deasth company, and a death company dreadnought
Phodian Annihilation Swarm- 13 models
Spawn of Cryptus, 8 genestrealers, 3 warriors, and a carnifex
The Spawn of Cryptus is a very large Broodlord towering over the height of warriors. Both the Spawn of Cryptus and Captian Karlean are new models.
via an anonymous source on Faeit 212
next weeks back of the magazine says the following
Rules of Engagement
Sprues and Glue
On Deadly Wings They Come
via an anonymous reader on Faeit 212
Saw a pic of the new Blood Angels Tactical Marines box (yes, Tactical!). Probably out before Xmas.
Going by the pic, they seem to have grav weapons and a heavy flamer similar to the Sternguard version.
The Hobbit
via Steve the Warboss on Faeit 212
My sources give me more informations for GWs Tolkien Range
-The LotR Books & the Ring War Rulebook will soon Return in Stocks
-There will be two Battle of Five Armies Book.
-One Book for skimisher
-One Book for mass battles
End Times and Shield of Baal Books Sold Out
via Steve the Warboss on Faeit 212
I have two informations for you:
-Shields of Baal: Leviathan (and all later releases Expansions for 40k) will return in Softcover.
-Armybooks, Codices and Supplements will all come sometime next year in Softcover Versions with a lower price.
via alendrel on Faeit 212
Hi Natfka! I just talked to my local GW manager, who had just returned from a sales training event in Dallas, about the availability of Shield of Baal: Leviathan. He confirmed that a softback version of End Times I: Nagash was coming, that it is going to be direct-only, and will be an "always available" product, and that a reprint of SoB:L in some form would almost certainly happen at some point as well.
via an anonymous source on Faeit 212
I have just been speaking with a GW store manager on the subject of the recent endtimes and leviathan sell outs. Apparently Games Workshop's original plan was to make a certain amount of hardback books, that would eventually sell over a longer period of time and that in a year or so, they would release a paperback copy.
They put in the order with the print company for a specific number of units for ALL the endtimes books at once (meaning that any future endtimes books are already printed and sitting in a warehouse). It turns out that they completely underestimated the popularity of these books - since 45% of their sales come from 40k alone - and so they didn't have enough to supply the demand.
So they weren't intending for it to be such a limited run and therefore it will come as a blow to them to not be able to sell more of the hardback copies. This meant that they have moved forward the production date of the soft backs and being webstore only products stores are now asking around how many people want copies so that they can have a limited in store stock. (Shield of Baal: Leviathan will also be getting a paperback edition in the coming weeks as well).