WFB 9th Edition Rumor Roundup

[Trojan66]

Morning all ! Hey Mr M...I was wondering how confident you were about my status as a liar, now the end is nearly upon us ?
I will gladly apologise for spreading false rumours should that prove to be the case...will you apologise for your misguided twaddle should I be proven correct ?

[Mr Mystery]

Oh absolutely, given you confirmed you made stuff up.

But hey, don't let those pesky facts get in the way

Also, no units dropped - lie from you about that.

Simplified game play 'simpler than snap' I believe you said? Well, that remains to be seen, but I'm confident that was another lie.

[Erik Setzer]

So hey, remember the people claiming that the books being pulled off the shelves but still being sold was because they'd totally go right back out there once AoS was launched, but for whatever reason they just decided to yank them for a month and hide them?

[url]http://natfka.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-end-times-for-warhammer-fantasy.html[/url]

So, yeah, they *were* just keeping them around in case anyone wanted them before they tossed them all in a dump somewhere. Which is just a smart move, because some folks will likely want to buy that stuff, and it's better than writing it off as a loss.

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Yeah. And there's still fun background in those books, even if you don't want to use them for continuity-8th edition or whatever. 'course, it'd be nicer if they put them all on reduced-to-clear sale, but hey-ho!

[quindia]

Truth or Troll?

[url]http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1560/643158.page[/url]

Half way down, someone spent a ridiculous amount of time coming up with fiction if it's not true...

[Erik Setzer]

Yeah. And there's still fun background in those books, even if you don't want to use them for continuity-8th edition or whatever. 'course, it'd be nicer if they put them all on reduced-to-clear sale, but hey-ho!

Strangely, they'd rather throw books away (after tearing off the cover at the very least, of course) than actually have any kind of sale ever.

[Mr Mystery]

Someone on Dakka has 'called him' on it already, and Mikhaila (who reported dual basing system thing) is a retailer (Confimed from my time on Dakka, which I otherwise try to forget).

Still, it's all very interesting.

[Erik Setzer]

Truth or Troll?

[url]http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1560/643158.page[/url]

Half way down, someone spent a ridiculous amount of time coming up with fiction if it's not true...

Holy smokes, I hope that's just a lot of time spent on fiction, because that sounds... well, just ridiculous.

As a new game, I *might* be open to it, though it sounds strange and almost like someone threw random stuff together to make a game.

But to replace Warhammer? A game of fantasy battles that's existed for 30 years? Wipe it out and replace it with literal Herohammer, with a completely different statline and set of rules? And that background... WTF?!?!?!?!? If they seriously renamed every race just to copyright their own version of fantasy tropes, that will be their serious "jumping the shark" moment.

No preorders for me, I want to see what the heck this thing is for real before I hand over my hard-earned money.

[Mr Mystery]

His own rumours have contradictions...makes reference to the game being in three books (ala 40k), then mentions 'the two books' twice...

No photos of new miniatures, except a couple which may be from the AoS box....the contents of which he then goes on to describe

Not conclusive like, but worth considering that any rumours which aren't even internally consistent are quite possibly shonky.

[quindia]

Yep, not saying I believe it, just pointing it out to readers here.

To play Devil's Advocate, some have pointed out that the poster is from Germany and likely reading/writing in his second language so they are probably translation errors. He is also writing from memory (which makes me wonder how he remembers all those names... I know I couldn't have done that).

Finally we all hear that retailers usually don't know any more than we do... Someone took the time to point out where Mikhaila had been wrong in the past after citing his retail insiderness...

Shrug... We'll know in a few weeks!