Incoming: Orcs and Goblins!

[heychadwick]

This in from GW:

For years uncounted, before even the Empire existed, and Men were little more than barbarous and primitive cave-dwellers, the Orcs & Goblins have haunted the mountains and deep forests of the world. Extremely aggressive and savage creatures, Orc & Goblin tribes rarely suffer a peaceful moment in their unending lust for battle and inexplicable urge to pillage and despoil.

Once roused to war by a powerful or charismatic leader, a greenskin Waaagh! on the march can rapidly snowball into a seemingly endless tide of rowdy Orc and Goblin warriors, scuttling creatures and lumbering monsters as neighbouring tribes flock to join the gathering masses, or capitulate in defeat. The haphazard nature by which Orc & Goblin armies are mustered results in a huge variety of unruly mobs of squabbling warriors and a wide selection of creatures both great and small. Such huge diversity ensures that greenskin armies are by far the most unpredictable to face in battle.

March 2011 will see the release of Warhammer: Orcs & Goblins, an essential guide to fielding a greenskin host on the tabletop, and a veritable font of knowledge detailing the complete rules, background, artwork and enormous range of miniatures available to a budding Warboss.

To support this exciting release, we will also be unveiling a genuine feast of new miniatures that would sate even the most ravenous Troll. All will be revealed in time, but keep up to speed on developments by checking out White Dwarf and the What's New Today blog on the website. If you haven't already done so, make sure you sign up to the Games Workshop newsletter to learn of any news as soon as it is released.

With this in mind, if you have ever fancied starting your own legion of greenskins, or are looking to ensure that your tribe is the biggest and nastiest around, remember that the Orcs & Goblins are already blessed with a plethora of multi-part plastic kits. The selection of fantastic sets below are the best way to get your army up and running, safe in the knowledge that they will not be replaced in March. So, gather up some Boyz and grab your favourite choppa because now is the time for WAAAGH!

What it shows next are:

Orc Warboss
Orc Warriors Regiment
Night Goblin Regiment
Goblin Regiment
Forest Goblin Spider Riders
Black Orcs
Orc Boar Boyz
River Trolls
Warhammer Giant

What it could mean comes next are:

Savage orcs (confirmed)
Arachnarok Spider (confirmed)
Savage Boar Boyz (practically confirmed)
Stone trolls
Gigantic spider
Goblin Wolf Riders
Squig herds
Squig Hoppers
Gobbo Warboss kit
Shaman kit
Rock Lobbas
Spear Chukkas
Doom Divers
Wolf Chariots
Boar Chariots


So, they come out in March. April 1st is Adepticon. I was really hoping to bring the new book to the events at Adepticon. Does anyone know how Adepticon handles new books? What are the chances of them allowing the new Greenskin book?

[Chris M.]

They use current Army books, so the new O&G book will be the one to use at the event.

[heychadwick]

Wait....the CURRENT book will be the one to use? Or the one that comes out 15-30 days before the event is the one to use?

[Chris M.]

I modified my post, sorry LOL

If the book comes out in March it will be the current edition army book for O&G making it the only playable choice at adepticon.

[heychadwick]

Sweet! Much appreciated.

[heychadwick]

Crap! I got a reply from Adepticon:

All events have a 30-day prior to event release policy. So as long as the new Orc & Goblins book is released prior to March 1st, 2011 - it will be a valid choice.

It will be tight for both the new Orc & Goblins book and the Grey Knight Codex for 40K. I can't imagine they will come out at the same time, but it hard to say if either will make the cutoff.

They offered to refund my money if I wanted to back out. I just might. I want to go with a decent list and I'm tired of the current OnG book. It just needs Waaagh! more often than not.

[Erik Lindley]

Well, if they follow past protocol, _some_ folks will get the actual book about a month prior to it being available widely in stores. That would give you plenty of time to plan an army list around the new rules. You have plenty of models in your force to be flexible imo.

Here is the problem htough:
If the release date is in March, then I doubt that it will be available for A-con. A-con will go by the official release date, not the earliest someone could get a book. I doubt that will be 30 days prior. So my guess is that they will use the old book.

I think it was Chicago GT 2006? when the Wood Elves came out. Well, I played in that tourney and they allowed BOTH lists(new and old WEs) to be played. It was ultra stupid. The 30 day rule is a good one imo. we use it for the BB also.

I think you would be fine either way Jim, but of course, it is up to you :>

-Erik

[Chris M.]

Blahh that sucks... Use the new book IMHO... but hey its the adepticon rules so whatever... The guys that put on the tourneys are all comping sissys anyway LOL....I kid I love those guys as they put on a hell of an event.

[heychadwick]

Ugh....I don't know. I'm so tired of the current book. I've played it to death and done almost every combo I can think of with it. The one unit I don't have any done right now is squig herds. There is a guy at the Alamo GT who got a perfect battle score with an army that had two big units of squig herds in it. I could go through and try to get a lot of squigs to seriously change my army. That might be a decent enough change. It would cost some serious cash, though. There might also be new squigs in the new edition, too. So, I don't know. Maybe if I can get some squigs cheaply.

I think it also depends on where my enthusiasm for the game goes, too. The local area is just dead for Warhammer. It doesn't help. Then again, I've been on crutches and haven't been able to get any game in. Well, one game for the League that was a completely downer. My last two games have been crushing defeats and not in small part due to just bad luck.

[Chris M.]

Dec 7, 2010 8:55:28 GMT -5 heychadwick said:

Ugh....I don't know. I'm so tired of the current book. I've played it to death and done almost every combo I can think of with it. The one unit I don't have any done right now is squig herds. There is a guy at the Alamo GT who got a perfect battle score with an army that had two big units of squig herds in it. I could go through and try to get a lot of squigs to seriously change my army. That might be a decent enough change. It would cost some serious cash, though. There might also be new squigs in the new edition, too. So, I don't know. Maybe if I can get some squigs cheaply.

I think it also depends on where my enthusiasm for the game goes, too. The local area is just dead for Warhammer. It doesn't help. Then again, I've been on crutches and haven't been able to get any game in. Well, one game for the League that was a completely downer. My last two games have been crushing defeats and not in small part due to just bad luck.

If your going to get some squigs to form a few herds I'd seriously consider ordering from Neil at the Warstore. I bought my whole Daemon army from him and got a fantastic deal. Roughly I have 3k points and only spent $500. As a glaring contrast when I bought my beastmen (yes I'm crazy) I was supporting my friend who is the manager at the local GW store. The price was over $1000 for the same points. There are more models with the beastmen, but still if I had ordered through Neil, the price would have been around $250 - $300 less. Google him and you will be happy you did.

[jormiboced]

Yeah last year the new Beastmen army wasn't allowed as it came out in March.

[heychadwick]

Well.....with me going to A-con, I have very little cash to use. Even a 50% deal would cost too much for me, really.