Even more new releases are on the way from GW from Horus Heresy, to Lizardmen for AoS, Titanicus and everything in between. Here’s the latest rumors.
Warhammer Community previewed a ton of new Sisters of Battle, Tau Shadowsun, and more Beastgrave and Age of Sigmar for 2020!
2019 was an incredible year for Warhammer, with new games, new armies, and the first of the new plastic Sisters of Battle. Today, we’re at the New Year Open Day, getting a sneak peek at what’s coming in 2020 for the Mortal Realms and the grim darkness of the far future…
RUMORS: GW New Releases First Half of 2020
Vogon on B&C went to some Q&A sessions at New Years Open Day and had the following to say about the upcoming Specialist Game releases and AoS going into 2020.
I had chats with various people and sat in on a couple of the seminars, which were basically just Q&A sessions.
- Lizard men will be getting their own battle tome in the future but not soon.
- There are plans for more campaign books for AoS
- Not much was given away about upcoming stuff in the AoS seminar but there were some fascinating insights into how the games get made.
- I asked about the Goregrunta mounted characters in the display hall and Jervis said that things like that were up to us lot to house rule that is part of the fun. If the designers make a model for it they will write rules for it.
- Warhammer old World is still a good couple of years out but they talked about the whole process of how it came about and why. Interesting but this post is already getting too long.
- There are plans for more campaign books for 40K
- When I spoke to Andy Hoare in the main hall we did talk about the war in the web way and the possibility of that being a campaign book. He says he wants to but that he’s not sure how.
- I didn’t go to the 40K seminar, too much other stuff to do.
- There will be new Adeptus Titanicus stuff coming out soon – check the community website in a couple of weeks.
- They will be going Warhound size Ursus Claws. Now they have all the core weapons they will be able to make the more esoteric stuff.
- On the subject of AI and AT there are certainly plans afoot to expand on them in the seminar they mentioned there are 10,000 years of history to explore and the war of the beast and gargants could be one place to explore. They also said they would like to add tanks and ground troops (basically bringing back Epic) but this was a long way off. If they did it would likely be in the Heresy Era because that it the domain of specialist games and they can do what they like with it without having to defer to the main studios.
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- The Heresy train is not stopping any time soon. Next book will be coming up and the “Road to Thramas” will be on the community page for all to see.
- While chatting they dropped serious hints about a book covering the shadow crusade in Ultramar and the legions involved.
- Dark Mechanicum will be getting their own book eventually. Once they started putting it together they realised there was way too much content for cramming into another book. There will be demonically possessed machines and all the good stuff from the Black Library books.
- Massed ranks of Custodes would be cool. Zephon might get his own model
- When I asked about Eclipse class interceptors Andy said that they put things like that in the books so they can expand later, mentioning Aeronautica Imperialis so we may see models yet.
- Battle Fleet Gothic is still on the to-do list but nothing has been started yet. Once they do it will be a multi-year project before we see anything. They don’t have the resources to devote to it right now.
Looks like it’s not just 40k and Age of Sigmar with releases this year. All hands are on deck at Games Workshop as every new release week holds a certain amount of mystery and fun.
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