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Tacitus_

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shockthrill said:
When Roboute goes into the Emperor's chamber in "Rise of the Primarch"

he comes out and says "i got everything i need"

I think it was complete silence and the realization that the Emperor is pretty much dead and truly gone, and that Roboute has to create a new future for the Imperium
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That theory got proven wrong in Dark Imperium.

He had approached the meeting with dread, fearing what he would find. Would his father be dead? Would He be insane? Would they even be able to talk? When he had been admitted to the throne room and approached the Golden Throne, he had done so as he had approached his foster father Konor’s funeral, willing it all to be right, drowning in certain grief. Between the time of the Emperor’s ascension to the throne and Guilliman’s own death, the Emperor had spoken to no one. How could anything have persisted for ten thousand years, he had thought. There was the wizened corpse surrounded by banks of groaning machinery, His sword upon His knee. Sorrow suffused everything. The sacrifice required to keep the Emperor alive sickened the primarch. If He were alive. He appeared dead. Guilliman had expected nothing.
But He spoke.
With words of light and fire, the Emperor had conferred with His returned primarch, the last of His finest creations.
A creation. Not a son.
The living Emperor had been an artful being, as skilled at hiding His thoughts as He was at reading those of others. What remained of Him was powerful beyond comprehension, but it lacked the subtlety He had had whilst He walked among men. Speaking with the Emperor had been like conversing with a star. The Emperor’s words burned him.
What hurt most deeply was what went unsaid.
The Emperor greeted Guilliman not as a father receives a son, but as a craftsmen who rediscovers a favourite tool that he thought lost. He behaved like a prisoner locked in an iron cage who is passed a rasp.
Guilliman had no illusions. He was not the man who brought the rasp; he was the rasp.
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And with the return of a primarch comes the return of daddy issues.
 
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GarthVaderUK

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GW's CEO Kevin Rountree continues to right the ship with sales and profits up bigly during the past financial year (and it doesn't include 8th edition 40K sales):
https://19485-presscdn-0-14-pagely....t/uploads/2017/07/2016-17-Press-statement.pdf

Review of the year

It has been another exciting year building on the progress we made last year.

I am pleased to report a significant increase in constant currency sales, profit, cash generation and returns to shareholders. I have been impressed, but not surprised, by the continued support, commitment and contribution from all of our employees around the world. Thank you.

Our endless energy and focus have delivered profitable sales growth across all of our sales channels. Together, we have focussed on documenting and executing an exciting global operational plan covering all areas of the business. Driving improvements in product quality, providing the highest levels of customer service - our new marketing team has added a delightful and fun social media presence.

We finished 2015/16 with some encouraging signs of improving sales trends, and these have continued throughout the year we are reporting. Our operational plan is designed to give us the best chance to succeed every month so it was particularly rewarding to finish the year to May 2017 with 11 out of 12 months of Group sales growth. Sales growth for the full year at constant currency by channel finished retail 21%, trade 22% and mail order 20%.

Gross margin improved in the year (2017: 72.4%; 2016: 68.3%), benefitting from sales volume growth and, as always, it is affected by the sales mix of new and existing product: (34% of sales from new releases and 66% of sales from existing product). We continue to offer a broad range of price points and we have maintained our policy of aiming to only increase the prices of our new releases to reflect the necessary investment in our product quality. The annual impact of this increase on our UK RRP price list is an average increase of 3%. The step increase in volume across all channels has been a significant challenge for our factory and warehousing teams this year. They have met this challenge without any fuss and with only the necessary increases in resources. They have a flexible and agile structured resource plan to meet any future volume changes.

Costs have increased in the year. This has been driven by investment in our store opening programme, which has partially helped us to deliver organic sales growth by expanding into new geographic locations, and our centrally managed marketing team, which has enabled us to communicate better with our customers and staff through both online and offline channels.

As a direct result of our significant sales and profit growth, we rewarded all of our staff with a £1,750 discretionary payment in addition to a £250 profit share payment each (total cost £3.4 million). We also honoured our commitment to pay 20% of any sales increase to our retail store managers (total cost £1.8 million) who achieved growth whilst maintaining costs broadly in-line with last year — an impressive achievement, well done to you all!
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We seek out our customers all over the world. We believe that our customers carry our Hobby gene and to find them we apply our tried and tested approach of recruiting customers in our own stores, by offering a fantastic customer experience. Our retail business is supported by our own mail order store (it has the full range of our product) and our independent stockist accounts and trade outlets across the world.

These independent accounts do a great job supporting our customers in parts of the world where we either have not yet opened one of our stores or where it is not commercially viable for us to have one of our stores. The long term goal is to have both channels (retail and trade) growing in harmony. We will always have more independent accounts than our own stores.
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We are increasingly focussed on engaging with our customers. During the year we invested further in some key tools to allow us to communicate with more of them more often.

Launched in November 2016, warhammer-community.com serves as a hub for a wealth of Warhammer content and the gateway to the depth of our IP. The tone is fun, honest, engaging and informative. We've also updated our home pages at games-workshop.com with more content to help guide new and existing customers through our product ranges, characters and worlds.

We've added more videos to Warhammer TV to really showcase the passion and enthusiasm our staff have for their work and our products. The team has also done a great job creating a personal connection with our customers at third party and live streaming online events.

In response, our customers have been fantastic. This year has seen them loyally support us and help grow the Warhammer hobby around the world.
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Tom Kirby, former CEO and source of many of GW's bad decisions in past years, is now retiring from his non-executive chairman position:
https://investor.games-workshop.com/2017/07/25/retirement-of-tom-kirby-as-non-executive-chairman/
 
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shockthrill

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GarthVaderUK said:
GW's CEO Kevin Rountree continues to right the ship with sales and profits up bigly during the past financial year (and it doesn't include 8th edition 40K):
https://19485-presscdn-0-14-pagely....t/uploads/2017/07/2016-17-Press-statement.pdf





Tom Kirby, former CEO and source of many of GW's bad decisions in past years, is now retiring from his non-executive chairman position:
https://investor.games-workshop.com/2017/07/25/retirement-of-tom-kirby-as-non-executive-chairman/
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Kevin Rountree continues to be the best thing to ever happen for GW
 
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Tacitus_

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shockthrill said:
The Emperor was really a scumbag it seems
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ShadowSwordmaster

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GarthVaderUK said:
GW's CEO Kevin Rountree continues to right the ship with sales and profits up bigly during the past financial year (and it doesn't include 8th edition 40K):
https://19485-presscdn-0-14-pagely....t/uploads/2017/07/2016-17-Press-statement.pdf





Tom Kirby, former CEO and source of many of GW's bad decisions in past years, is now retiring from his non-executive chairman position:
https://investor.games-workshop.com/2017/07/25/retirement-of-tom-kirby-as-non-executive-chairman/
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One day, I will make an Age of Sigmar community thread.
 
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shockthrill

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I honestly feel like Roboute Guilliman will be the only loyalist primarch to come back

I just don't think they will bring anyone else back.
 
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ShadowSwordmaster

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Greigor The Fellhand said:
yes and no, you just need the correct equipment to blast the heck out of em and they fall apart. its better than the previous editions when a tank would explode turn 2
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This is a big plus for me.
shockthrill said:
I honestly feel like Roboute Guilliman will be the only loyalist primarch to come back

I just don't think they will bring anyone else back.
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I can see the Khan or Corvus coming back.
 
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BreezyLimbo

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Greigor The Fellhand said:
yes and no, you just need the correct equipment to blast the heck out of em and they fall apart. its better than the previous editions when a tank would explode turn 2
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For Tyranids, what are good tank killers? I'm too scared to charge tanks because then they fire like 20 shots and half my units get wiped out(IE Genestealers)
 
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Greigor The Fellhand

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BreezyLimbo said:
For Tyranids, what are good tank killers? I'm too scared to charge tanks because then they fire like 20 shots and half my units get wiped out(IE Genestealers)
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I honestly dont know, when I get another chance I can look through index xeno 2 if they are in there.

anything thats high STR, large AP-, perferably multi DAM.

I think the pyrovore is for anti heavy infantry

while the Exocrine is for anti vehicles?

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uhhhh

carnifex is sold out?
 
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BreezyLimbo

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Greigor The Fellhand said:
I honestly dont know, when I get another chance I can look through index xeno 2 if they are in there.

anything thats high STR, large AP-, perferably multi DAM.

I think the pyrovore is a plasma artillary unit for tyranid, no? (check this' no one in my group plays nids)
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Pyrovore is the flamer unit

Biovore is the spore artillery, but at max it does D3 mortal wounds. I could have a huge unit of Biovores...but it wouldn't tear through a tank. The Hive Guard however do have a Shock Cannon. So HIve Guard might be my next get?

I did see a Carnifex box browsing my local store, isn't there a box that has 2 though?
 
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SillyEskimo

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Vincent Alexander said:
Unfortunately, it is going to change here and there. But it seems my most common opponents are going to be a Space Marine (Salamander) and Tau army. Tau guy has big units like Riptides and some others I don't know name of. He brings drones along to protect them. Space Marine opponent uses dreadnoughts, a rhino, and a detachment of some marine unit guys he loves to get in your face, complete with flamers and some character unit with a mean spear.
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Maybe I'm projecting my inner Blood Angel, but I'm a huge fan of drop pods and storm ravens dropping off dreadnoughts and assualt marines. It doesn't sound like either of your opponents are necessarily ready to deal with air power. Furthermore, drop pods allow you to dictate when and where the action occurs easier than sitting and waiting for the enemy to come to you. It sounds like a good way to avoid your friends killer squad.
 
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Mindwipe

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shockthrill said:
The Emperor was really a scumbag it seems
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The Emperor makes more sense when you don't think of him as a singular being tbh. His origin is the melding together of thousands of souls of assorted shamans etc. If you look at him as being this collection of fragments that are bound together and are sometimes inherently contradictory but generally pushing in the same, rather brutal but necessary direction he tends to make a lot more sense.

It also lets you have an Emperor who is using the Primarchs as tools and is a loving (ish) father at the same time.

The inference in 40k lore has always been that, tied to a decaying body on the Golden Throne, that the Emperor's soul is beginning to split apart at the seams a bit and he's a lot more fractured than he ever was.
 
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