Halandaar

Calgar's portrait is included in the "Campaign" view in the trailer, so he (and presumably other named characters) will be there. Maybe there's an option for each faction for a "build-your-own" legendary lord, a bit like the Daemon Prince in TW:W3, so you can make your own Chapter Master (or whatever) for your custom-painted army. That would allow that to make narrative sense while still allowing the majority of Legendary Lords to be established lore characters.

That is very much an "I'll believe it when I see it" situation for me. Edit - Dunno if just burned by prior experience here, but the confirmation of no Pre-Order DLC doesn't reassure me that Chaos will be included in the base game. If anything it makes me think they'll be held back as paid DLC.

Haven't LoV in trailers been voiced in a non-specific Scandinavian accent before? Or did I imagine that? That's certainly a better fit for their naming conventions than Scottish would be, and marginally less tropey overall. EDIT - Anyway, no point whatsoever in getting fixated on future factions, given if this plays out like the Fantasy games we could be looking at an 8 year wait and two further games for the final factions to be added.

Inevitable Day-1 DLC (or "pre-order bonus") just like Warriors of Chaos were in the first Total War: Warhammer game

There are a lot of Ork kits I like in isolation (Kommandos, Flash Gitz, most of the vehicles) but the idea of trying to put them into a single collection makes me twitch

Sure, but Space Marines have a lot of baggage/customer expectation tied to them that the majority of factions (including Stormcast) don't have; SM players demand customisation options, and the simple fact is a 5-man pushfit sprue for the core unit in the most popular faction they produce in any game system just won't be good enough, whereas I don't think anybody really cares with something like Necron Warriors because homogeneity is kind of the point of them. I guess they *could* sit on a redone Intercessor kit for a year, I would just question why they'd bother and what that achieves versus just getting it out and available when the main hype for Space Marines is there.

Suppose it depends if they are aiming for the actual anniversary period (i.e. October 2027) so they can make Warhammer Day about it, or whether they call the entire year of 2027 as the anniversary period. In the case of the former, I just can't see them sitting on an upgraded core unit for a year after the Codex comes out. I think a special model feels more likely - Primaris version of the 25th Anniversary model (based on the Rogue Trader cover) would be in line with similar recent nostalgia-baiting.

New Intercessors is so inevitable that people have been talking about it for years already - the Stormcast Liberators getting re-done in Skaventide last year was the thing that sealed it because that was the "proof" that GW was prepared to fully replace a core unit for the system's biggest faction despite them only having been introduced 3 editions ago. So the only way this would be surprising is if it genuinely is a 10th Anniversary kit and comes out in 2027, rather than in 2026 alongside 11th Edition.

Wargaming has always just been a front for the one true hobby - complaining about *everything*

Realised I didn't update the pricing information since the GW increases earlier in the Autumn, so the savings offered by individual issues are a little higher than they were before. I've updated from batch 17 onwards to show the correct amounts saved.

Seems to have become a license to print money for Hachette so almost certainly there will be another magazine about 12-18 months after 11th Edition launches. I guess the question will be whether they continue with the Combat Patrol format or move back to bigger, more focused collections. With the upcoming AoS Spearhead collection they've ditched the extra models for each faction and just added more factions, for 12 Spearheads total. Assuming they did the same for 40K they could use the below factions and the only repeats with the current collection would be the ones we're expecting to be the 11E starter factions (Marines & Orks) IMPERIUM >Marines< Adepta Sororitas Adeptus Mechanicus Adeptus Custodes Imperial Agents CHAOS Emperor's Children Death Guard Thousand Sons XENOS >Orks< Drukhari Necrons T'au Empire Not to say they definitely wouldn't repeat any (Spearhead is repeating Sylvaneth and Gloomspite Gitz from the previous AoS collection), the point is more that there are so many factions that they *could* still expand to 12 and have no repeats apart from the starter set armies.

IMO the phones are a bigger part of it - the video games were around when we were kids too (the first Playstation, N64 and Saturn were contemporaneous with 40K 2nd Edition, as were a lot of classic PC games like Command & Conquer, Doom, Warcraft etc), the difference now is the engagement machinery around video games. It's not just that they're increasingly designed to keep you playing (and spending) as long as possible with battle passes and stuff like that, there's also an entire media ecosystem around them with stuff like Twitch and that content being served up in bitesize chunks via TikTok and so on. It feels like in our day video games and physical games were on a more even footing, in that they were both a bit niche and you needed to go a bit out of your way to participate in them. Nowadays it must be so difficult for something like Warhammer to cut through when kids' attention is just saturated by video games and game-adjacent social media. Space Marine 2 obviously did a good job of bringing the world of the hobby into the videogame mainstream, but it still feels like for recruiting younger players, getting a Space Marine skin into Fortnite would be the best marketing move GW could make by a wide margin.

For me the more specific issue is that Warhammer Quest Darkwater is imminent, so Battleforces are competing with that for the same wallet slot.

Think it's more to do with overlap between the three sets and the short time span between them, to be honest. Three army bundles in the space of ten months is a lot when there's only seven kits in the range (one of which is a special character you wouldn't want a second copy of). It means none of them are different enough from the others to feel particularly compelling.

Given that's the same price as the Terminator Captain and Terminator Chaplain I'd have been surprised if it was anything different.