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Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 11-03-2013 Spotted this and thought i would drop it here for you Fantasy players. Hi, while Harry still thinks that 9th edition comes next year, Hastings changed his mind and now is certain that it will come 2015, a year later. Here the Fantasy release schedule according to Hastings: 2013: High Elves Lizardmen 2014 Dark Elves Dwarfs Wood Elves 2015 Bretonnia Orks&Goblins 9th edition Harry is certain that 9th edition will be more than a quick fix, featuring big changes. A new wave of job openings in the design studio last month (rules, background, painters) could be a sign of things to come. Here some recent quotes from Warseer: 75hastings69 wrote: I was actually discussing with Harry about a month or so ago that next WFB is not till 2015. An extra year would allow all armies to get treatment before new edition in 2015. 2013 HE Lizardmen 2014 DE Dwarfs Brets(?) 2015 WE (?) Skaven (?) 9th edition Personally I'd swap WE & Brets around and change Skaven to O&G....... but that's just me Harry wrote: Avian wrote: NatTreehouse wrote: 9th edition rumors Major overhall and not like all the other "major" ones - radical rethink. Ricks gone so other people want to get their hands on it. All army books gone and Ravening Hordes replacement Timeline moves forward So many changes won't come out before 2015, not next year (Memphis got panties in a bunch about this) This is essentially a repeat of the rumours we had before both 8th edition and 7th edition. They are made up this time as well, which should be blindingly obvious from the suggestion that they are redoing all army books. Just nonsense. Move along. Says you. Based on what? Avian wrote: Yeah, the mention of 2015 wasn't the thing that made people realize it was an invented rumour. While I would hope that 9th comes soon to fix some of the problems I have with eighth It is not an invented rumour. 9th will be more than a quick fix. I posted months ago to hint as much. I first heard this last year. I have heard it a few times since. (...) When I said I thought 'it was 2014 but opinions vary' was because I was hearing different things from different folks. When it comes to rumours I almost always go with what hastings says ... as he is almost always right. So if his sources are saying 2015 ... then thats probably right. As for the 'big changes' stuff ... you may want to hold off on the salt a bit. Marked_by_chaos over at Warseer wrote: Every now and then I have a look at the job vacancies on the gw site out of interest. Recently the nature of adverts and types of jobs seems to have changed. There was in particular a big explosion of design studio jobs advertised at the end of last month. Seems like they are looking for everything from rules writers to background writers to army painters to video/hobby/painting presenters. Perhaps they're starting to a get a bit more professional about design studio recruitment i.e. not a weird in house Recruitment process but an attempt to recruit the most effective staff. Some of the jobs indicate a new direction in project work, particularly the split between a rule writer and background writer role. One can only hope for no more kaldor draigos. RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 22-09-2013 Spotted these rather tasty sounding rumours, 9th could be a big shake up for the fluff!- Harry wrote:I'm honestly not sure where my money is. I try to imagine one book like warhammer armies for third edition ... then I look at my pile of hardback, or even the old soft back army books. It's not going to work. Back in second edition they only had about 10 armies and they could fit the army list on a few pages. Now we have a few more and they are all fully fleshed out armies that fill a book on their own. Either they will have to leave a lot of stuff out and just include army lists and a bit of bestiary to explain special rules OR they will need to be more than one book. If they do fit the stuff they need in one book where are they going to put the rest of the rich history, background, bestiary, hobby section, etc, etc. I can't see them leaving all that behind. (Which means it may be exactly as described in the first post that Warhammer armies is one thing but full army books remain). When I heard about this it was still all up in the air.... I have no idea where the dust settled ... so just be sure that you are taking a chance. (...) I am not sure I have added any new information or even clarified the OP ... just re-stating what I said 10 months ago. The funny thing is this is not even the biggest change I heard about. (It's just what came up on the thread). Again I don't know the details as I heard this a while ago and I suspect it was still all up in the air and I don't know where it all came down again ... but ... I did hear that the timeline was going to move forward. Not just a few years either but a few hundred of years. I didn't mention this at the time because they had only just released Karl Franz. But unless the Empire's magic users have come up with some clever way of prolonging life he along with every other special character would be dead and gone. But that is not all that would change ... technologies would move on. What technological advances would the skaven have come up with in another few hundred years? The empire already have robotic horses for crying out loud ... (reminds me ... I must get on and paint that Clockwork Dragon.) The Dwarves have flying machines now .... presumably they will be entering the space race? (No ... I am not predicting the return of squats to 40K). I am just saying things could change a good bit. Empires could rise and fall. Cataclysm could have happened, comets could have returned, civilisations could be wiped off the map. The balance of power could certainly have changed. My sense of it was they were planning to take the opportunity to reset the clock and shake things up a bit. (and that's just the background!!! ) Lets just say when 9th edition comes ... Warhammer Armies will not be the only, or the biggest topic of conversation. RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - Agincourt - 22-09-2013 Hmmmm........ RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 22-11-2013 Quote:http://natfka.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/warhammer-9th-edition-rulebook-and.html RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 27-11-2014 WFB 9th Edition Latest Quote:via Steve the Warboss 11-25-2014 RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - Gareth - 27-11-2014 I heard from someone reliable that 9th was written, so I'm guessing that backs this up. I was being asked about ET and I had said I wished they had done the three remaining books first. I was told that they to expect them all completed during 9th, but seeing as ET has banded things together, they may not get the seperate releases they deserve. It's a shame, seeing as Beasts and Skaven could have just been tweaked a little (both were done with 8th in mind,) and I'm sure Brets wouldn't have been to difficult to do either. So close to getting a full set during an edition, but now we get to start again. RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 07-01-2015 Spotted this on Dakka and thought it might be of interest- Quote:Darnok wrote: AS i said yesterday in the other thread, Darnok has a pretty good rumour history..... But they are only rumours so take with salt! RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - jaqenhgar - 07-01-2015 Well I guess we can always continue to play 8th edition if it becomes something totally different. RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - manrogue - 07-01-2015 Thought i'd copy this quote across as it puts my thoughts on it better than me :p - Quote:the_Armyman wrote: If they do update all the army books as rumoured before 9th hits, leaving 8th playable for Vets and 9th as a new way of playing does make sense from a money making way. But it is a massive risk at the same time! RE: Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule - Gareth - 07-01-2015 Read it last night after club. PoV to be added after work. |