I'd love are release of the lotr 24 man boxes
Agreed, if GW brought those back they would be great. They were changed to 12-man boxes in February 2012 to take account of the rebranding of what was then just the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game into a new format that involved groups or 'warbands' of troops each being led by a single hero. You could have heroes not leading troops but you couldn't have troops without them being led by heroes. This was the hideous 'warband format' ruleset that was purely done to get people to buy more hero models in my eyes, and during this time I simply refused to play any games in GW larger than around 500-1000 points (so that I wouldn't need to buy any more heroes specifically for those events) and otherwise played the game using the previous ruleset. About 6 years on and it looks as if this horrid army selection format is finally being retired, as the army contents in Battle of the Pelennor Fields would be deemed illegal according to that format and GW wouldn't dare to put an illegal army in a boxed game, much to my relief, and it would be the perfect time to bring back the 24-man boxes for £15 that we all knew and loved. However, I think it would be too much effort for GW to go back to reboxing all the plastic minis into 24-man boxes as they would have to redesign the packaging again, especially as the Hobbit ones were all released during the reign of the 'warband format' and were specifically made as boxes of 12.
Anyway, from recent events I have found that I can put together a reasonably accurate prediction of what is on its way from GW for the rest of the year:
This week: Space Wolves and Tooth and Claw (Confirmed)
Next week: Battle of the Pelennor Fields and new edition of Middle Earth (Got to be as next week will be the last week in August and GW definitely confirmed that Battle of the Pelennor Fields would be released in August)
September: Moonclan AoS release (May alternatively be Darkoath but Moonclan would fit in really nicely with Orks coming in October due to the shared Greenskin theme - GW has acted on themes before with DoK and Idoneth being released in consecutive AoS release months and having the obvious Elf theme)
October: Orks and Specialist Games releases for Quarter 4 (The former is confirmed, the latter should be occurring either in October or December as November will probably be another AoS month - we already have been given a peek at yet more stuff for Blood Bowl so I imagine that will be released at this time - and there will also be a preview of the next batch of 40K Codex releases once Orks have been updated)
November: Darkoath AoS release (interchangeable with Moonclan as I've said before but Chaos only got their last tome and army release in January with Maggotkin whereas Destruction's last tome and release was Beastclaw Raiders two years ago - if GW has any sense of justice they will release Moonclan first)
December: Genestealer Cults, possibly World Eaters, maybe some additional Specialist Games releases (The former is practically confirmed, GW needs to catch up with Khorne in 40K so that would be a good time to give World Eaters a Codex and possibly some new minis after GC and I imagine any specialist games stuff not released in October - Necromunda Delaque Gang comes to mind as GW haven't given us preview shots yet due to Cawdor being released very recently - will probably be released at the end of December to round off the 2018 releases).
