Warhammer fantasy 9th edition rumours and rumoured release schedule

[Gareth]

The book in both £40 and £100 versions survived 4 minutes before its no longer available.
So unlike 40k where the rules are published to sell the new models, WFB has seen rules published in the interests of creating a gaming world. For years there has been talk of Brettonians being dropped due to poor sales, but the same was true of Wood Elves. And yet when the Woodies actually did get a new book, what did GW see happen? They sold out of every copy of every book they had, had printed, around the Europe before they got any to independent retailers. Wayland, Element Games, Firestorm Games in the UK, independent stores got zero copies. US independents got a grand total of ONE copy of the book. This from a core book (not one of their limited sub-codices such as Waaaagh Ghazgkull,) had never happened before, and additionally all WE kits sold out, including Glade Guard models which were around when the game was in 6th edition. Additionally it took them 3 months to be able to get Citadel Woods in stock. Since then we have had the End Times products all of which have sold out, and due to demand has seen them forced to go back to soft covers. And the latest book that has seen their greatest print run yet (because they had time to see the Nagash sales numbers before Khaine went to print,) didn't even see out 300 seconds before sold out around the world, via their web-store.

Latest demand from a system that some people in GW believes cannot sell, has seen the webstore explode globaly. I spent over one hour frantically reloading their website before I got my copy in the bag.

This is whats happened on my twitter feed, when WFB players get something decent.

A friends housemate, who works for the GW web team.


The view of the website from the UK.


What the US got at 8.15GMT