Diskussion - Diverse Gerüchte Warhammer Fantasy

Von Warseer:
1. WH Fantasy sales in the US are down 40% since the release of 8th edition. (Which is sad IMO, because I think that 8th edition is the best edition GW has ever had.)

2. GW is releasing the 9th edition of WH Fantasy early next Summer.

3. It is a 2 year time-span from the beginning to release to update an army/codex book. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like anyone has begun working on either the Wood Elves or Bretonnians which would not give them a release in this edition.

4. If you count out the months until 9th edition drops next summer and consider that the Space Marine codex will come out next month, that basically leaves us with 9 months worth of releases... Assuming that one month will be dedicated to The Hobbit, and half of the months will be dedicated to 40k releases, that really only leaves time to release 4 more WH Fantasy books... My guess is that those will be Dark Elves, Dwarves, Skaven, and Beastmen. (And I assume that to be the order of the releases.)
 
Warseer:
Any rumors of Wood Elves and Brettonians in the next year are bunk. A local who made it out to Games Day North America was able to talk with upper management on some issues. Was told the studio still works on a "update what interests them" and Brettonians and Wood Elves don't. The manager added the note that it had been three months since he was in the England and visited the design studio, so that might have changed. However, there is a minimum 2 year cycle for start to release of a book. So if they are working on either, it won't be well till after 9th is launched that we see them.
 
Von Warseer:
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Originally Posted by Slaine Mac Roth
- Dwarfs concept is going to change significantly, mainly because they will now be existent in the magic phase, but not the same way as other armies (???)
- New hero character will be availlable, giving 1 of 3 possible buffs to the unit he is in. One of those buffs is ASv reroll, and the other is kind of antimagic. The characte has an access to lore of metal (this might be the new concept of runesmiths and runelords, couldnt clarify this because of language barriers)
-anvil striking bound spells
-Throne of power as a lord upgrade, giving unbreakable.
-Army-wide rule making all dwarf units steadfast as long as they have any rank bonus.
-Lord makes unit he accompanies stubborn.
-Warmachines nerfed, engineers more important. WM upgrading mechanic availlable for engineers, with some kind of chart to roll for.

regarding new units:
Several concept had been playtested, for example:
Mechanical upgrades for miners and ironbreakers (monstrous infantry in combined units?)
Mount option for rangers. (??? i might understood it wrong)
Large machine with 2 different purposes.

No idea what has been finally accepted.

...

Anyway, I was told about lore of metal caster lv1, and english translation of this character is "blacksmith" but maybe it is just runesmith/runelord.

One more thing: Dwarfs will have default MR.
He's still tipping 2013 for release (want) but I can accept Q1 2014 as previously suggested.
 
- Dwarfs concept is going to change significantly, mainly because they will now be existent in the magic phase, but not the same way as other armies (???)
Bisher haben sie jede Armee mit der Brechstange auf die konventionelle Magie zurechtgebogen (Khemri, Oger). Den Zwergen jetzt wieder eine Ausnahme gestatten wäre sinnfrei.

----Red Dox
 
via Tim the Thief on Faeit 212
New Rumors for the 9th Edition of Warhammer Fantasy

Release
-All Softcover Armybooks will obsolet with the new release.
-The Starter Box will released at the same time as the Hardback Rulebook
-The Set will include a Book called "Armies of Warhammer", this Book will handle simplified Armylists for ALL avaitable Armies.
-Armies of Warhammer will give Player a little view of all Armies and they Units, also it will be a transitional solution for the obsolet Armybooks
-Armies of Warhammer will be a part in the Hardback Rulebook
-The Rulebook in the Set will be a simplified "Starter Rulebook"
-A smaller complete Hardback Rulebook will released too, called "Warhammer - The Rules"

Rules
-The ruleset will chance again, GW has recognized the last Edition was an hard inpact for sells of Warhammer products
-The number of special rules will reduced
-There will be no releases of Fantasy Suppliments, the books will contain more background. Page numbers up to 150 pages are possible!

WAHAHAHAHA!!!! Deswegen nimmt die Seite keiner mehr ernst.....
 
Naja das eine neue Fantasy-Edi im nächsten Jahr rauskommt war jetzt nicht so schwer zu erraten. War jetzt schon öfters das es nach 4 Jahren eine neue Edi gab.

Hoffentlich gibt es das Regelbuch nur in der Starterbox und nicht einzeln, dass jeder gezwungen ist, sich die Starterbo plus Minis zu kaufen. Zum Glück war früher alles besser und billiger.😛
 
Ich hatte se auch ausgelassen. Obwohl ich sagen muss, das ich die 8.te gefühlt sehr gut fand. Doch die realität sah anders aus. Bei den horden hat mich schon beim Zusammenbau die Motivation verlassen. Und die Magie hat in den testspielen Ihr Übriges getan.

Ich fand es mal wieder sehr traurig, das in den Regeln der Magischen Waffen drin stand, das nicht viele Individuen jemals eine magische Waffe zu Gesicht bekommen aber die Punkte für die Sachen so überzogen billig waren. Zumindest im Grundregelwerk. Die MW in den Armeebüchern waren dagegen total überteuert.....
Soviel zu fluff und Spiel.
Die Preise haben dann Ihr Übriges getan und das es keine Überarbeitungen mehr gab sondern nur noch neue Großmodelle.
GW hat es selber geschafft sich sein System kaputt zu machen. Aber das wollen se nicht wahrhaben, das keiner mehr bereit ist für eine Armee 650+€ auszugeben.....