75hastings69 wrote:there is indeed a new de sorceress
(...)There is indeed a cygor/gorgon kit coming, but not afaik for storm of magic.

Eldargal wrote:I do know there is an Everqueen sculpt ready (from two sources within GW), but no one seems to know if/when it is going to be released. It may be with SoM, it may be with the next HE army book or they may decide not to bother.

Gabacho Mk.II wrote:WE are exactly one year away.

75hastings69 wrote:I just want to point out to any that have misunderstood, there aren't any large VC specific releases for SoM, these are later this year as part of a wave of VC minis. There's also a wave of Beastman minis, and then of course Oct-OGRE not a bad year for Fantasy IMO.

Oh and the dark coloured face from the teaser that people are saying is the black dragon or the abyssal terror I think you'll find is simply one of the Chimera heads (check out the tusk things coming out from the corners of the mouth - now look at the orangey type lion(ish) head it has them too - hint )

Frgt/19 wrote:

75hastings69 wrote:I just want to point out to any that have misunderstood, there aren't any large VC specific releases for SoM, these are later this year as part of a wave of VC minis.

interesting, this differs from what I heard.
things could have changed i guess (or i just got bad info )(...)
black boxes no longer exist. June was the last one (from what i was told)

Erazmus_M_Wattle wrote:Plastic kits, as I have heard it. The manticore and dragons come with multiple rider options. Awesome.

75hastings69 wrote:2 of the new plastic kits come with lord & sorcerer rider options

Scelerat wrote:If this means a plastic DE Sorceress I'm gonna have a heart attack.

ready the defib someone!!

BramGaunt wrote:Oh, now that everybody posts, I might as well spill my guts.. I intended to wait another week, but ah, swell...

Storm of Magic will be a full-colour hardcover book, about half the thikness of the Core Rulebook, and at the price of, well, apoximatly one Leman Russ Battletank.
It's due for release the second saturday of July. Previews start the saturday befor.

There will be a multitude of kits and gimmicks to acompany them.

Plastic Boxed Sets are:

Chaos Lord on Manticore
Dark Elven Lord on Black Dragon

Both Kits are the same price as a similar High Elven Ridden Monster.

The saddle, Rider and (in case of the Dragon) the armour are completly optional.

There is also a Kit labeled
Chimaera
and one labeled
Cockatrice
which are the same price as a 10 man Space Marines Squad.

There are also some Clampack releases:
Chaos Supreme Sorcerer
Supreme Sorcerer of Tzeentch
Vampirecounts Necromancer
Dark Elven High Sorceress

I don't know what these are made of. Since they are clampacked I guessed Finecast, but the price of, ah, well, lets say it in GBP: It's a one-digit-point-something Price lable.
Quiet affordable if it was finecast, but since hasitings said plastic sorceres... well... do the math.

Of course there is a whole bunch of playthings and gimmics aswell, like Vortex Templates (Like the Dark Eldar Wayportal template, only bigger), Dice, Battle Magic Cards (which apearently come in a cool box of sime Lost Arc style... with skulls of course...) and Focus Points (4 different ones).

Which brings us to rules.

Storm of Magic is for any Warhammer Fantasy Battle Army. It supports you with a alternative of Deployment, Magic and Army composition rules.

Game mechanics
While you place terrain, you deploy Magil Focus points. Think of these as landmarks inhibited with strong magics, like towers, magical stairs, Columns of Fire, or what ever. Each army starts with a designated number of Focus points, it depends of the scale of the game. 1 per army per 1000 points is, what I was told, suggested in the book.
You may place 1 Wizard including a mount on top of the Focus point, and one guarding unit within a limited space - enough to place about 30 standard base-sized miniatures, I was told. The rest of your army is deployed as usual.

The game is all about dominating these points, which grant great boni to your wizard while he stands atop of them. The Magic Phase is strongly buffed with 4D6 Power dice. In addition, you determine the ascending wind of magic at the beginning of each magic phase. (It's done randomly by some sort of tool, don't ask me what it is, I don't know, but apperantly it's not a dice.) Army book Lores are associated with Army book rules, for example if the Lore of Light is the Ascendand Lore this turn, High Magic is Ascended aswell (I don't know if High Lore is really associated with Lore of Light - it's simply a example of my understanding of the mechanics).

The Ascended magic gains a +4 bonus on attempts to cast their spells. You cannot change the Ascendend in any way, though it's determined new in every magic phase.

There is also a bunch of new spells which appearently give you the possibility not only to summon Monsters loke the Cockatrice, but also whole units from other armies. I personally didn't by this one. It was a long evening with a LOT of beer.

Take all of this with salt. And enjoy.

75hastings69 wrote:Plastic MOUNTED sorceress, the foot one is finecast

A mastercrafterd post good sir, with only to my knowledge 2 exclusions....

1. Arcane fulcrum scenery piece (a ruined floor with a magical vortex - of plastic - swirling upwards which you can place your wizard on top of.

2. The "garden of morr" scenery piece, basically a new fantasy graveyard - although I'm not 100% sure that this won't be held back until the VC wave later in the year.

Erazmus_M_Wattle wrote:Take this with the usual salt. I heard that the black dragon comes with a lord, a sorceress and a witch elf. Sounds odd but interesting.

BramGaunt wrote:

CME wrote:Just to point out one of the new "scenery pieces" is an cool undead graveyard

Ah, no. At least not for the initial wave... Or it's not a designated SoM release. It's not in my books anyway. There is no scenery at all, since I count the focus points as needed. while scenery is optional. There are four different Focus points, though, maybe you meant them. One's a throne, one's a gate, one's a stairway and ones a... magic-thingy-column. They come two for a space marine tac squad.

Poncho160 wrote:Any confirmation on whether this will be an expansion ala planetstrike or Apocalypse or and actual extension to the rules you can use anytime?

It's like Apocalypse. In many ways.

Tuatha Dar wrote:Or it could be meant to represent Crone Hellebron, and he mistook the Dragon for the Manticore.

The sets are labeled Chaos Lord on Manticore, and Dark Elf Highborn on Black Dragon. I don't think there are additional riders. It might be possible that the other Sorcerers to be released are compatible with the kits, though.

Zaonite wrote:Maybe it's a part of the SoM rules that Wizards can be given a mount not listed in their army book?
And I extend my thanks to BramGaunt for the awesome rumours. Now, I need to put a cockatrice on advance order... when I get it, it shall be painted golden yellow...

That is a possibility, but as far as I know, Army books stay untouched. Imagine the confusion you could create with a Slan on a Black Dragon. (...)
Well, thanks for all the positive feedback, everyone. About the scenery: I am unaware of these. It might just be that they were not on the same list, as they are scenery, and therefor unscheduled for it or to be released a little while later. Therefor sorry at CSE for correcting him, this scenery might have passed out of my LOS (Or maybe the fact that I drooled over the Manticore...)

Dysartes wrote:On the upside, nothing for Dwarves means not having to spend anything.

On the downside, nothing for Dwarves :(

Dysartes wrote:On the upside, nothing for Dwarves means not having to spend anything.

On the downside, nothing for Dwarves :(

And how come only the EVILLE races are getting releases with this?

lunarman wrote:I want to win games with arrows not magic!

Platuan4th wrote:Liking the monsters other than the Manticore. REALLY love the Cockatrice.

nectarprime wrote:

The dragon's tail is.... meh.