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Nippon would be cool.

Nippon and Cathay are never happening, barring some incredibly freakish coincidence of ridiculousness.

island of blood makes me think dark elves and lizardmen or high elves and skaven...

This is Blood Island.

I don't have a problem with the pulpy names, it's expected. If they used something other than what customers have come to expect they'd draw a lot more criticism than what people are throwing around here. If the formula's been working they're smart not to change it.

9th Edition Starter Set: Valley of Bones and Penises

Includes Slaanesh, with REAL daemonettes, against Tomb Kings

Cookie if your mind was childish enough, much like mine, to put it together.

If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Ok OK..... FIVE of them ;p

Superscope wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Ok OK..... FIVE of them ;p

Now THAT's thinking like a Skaven.

im thinking it might be a tropical island with lizardmen

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Ok OK..... FIVE of them ;p

Now THAT's thinking like a Skaven.

No, no, no.

Steal your friends' most distinctive clothes. Dress in them. Wait at dusk on the roof of your local GW for the smaller, weaker members of your species to emerge carrying boxes bearing the delicious warpsto... er, plastic. Leap upon them, lashing out with your poisoned blades. Take their stuff. Make sure someone sees the distinctive clothing as you dash off into the sewers with your prize. Chitter madly. Profit!

THAT is thinking like a Skaven, my friends.

Savnock wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Ok OK..... FIVE of them ;p

Now THAT's thinking like a Skaven.

No, no, no.

Steal your friends' most distinctive clothes. Dress in them. Wait at dusk on the roof of your local GW for the smaller, weaker members of your species to emerge carrying boxes bearing the delicious warpsto... er, plastic. Leap upon them, lashing out with your poisoned blades. Take their stuff. Make sure someone sees the distinctive clothing as you dash off into the sewers with your prize. Chitter madly. Profit!

THAT is thinking like a Skaven, my friends.

Pfft... I have underlings to do that for me.

That will then meet unfortunate "accidents" soon afterward, of course.

If I were to do it myself, I wouldn't be seen, striking from the shadows just long enough to stab and grab, then return to the darkness.

We should probably stop multi-box quote so it doesn't start getting out of control, I've seen it topple threads with the might of a thousand sea turtles.

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I think we all still know its Skaven and Helfs, I DID notice the lots of Skaven VS Helf fluff in the Skaven Armybook, so I guess it makes sense now.

It does make sense for it to be Skaven. Lizardmen couldn't do it, unless more fluff was added. Skaven really do fit here, as there is a Skaven have a colony or two in Lustria, right near the HElfs.

Platuan4th wrote:

Savnock wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

Superscope wrote:If the box includes skaven i'm buying one ;p

Only one?

Ok OK..... FIVE of them ;p

Now THAT's thinking like a Skaven.

No, no, no.

Steal your friends' most distinctive clothes. Dress in them. Wait at dusk on the roof of your local GW for the smaller, weaker members of your species to emerge carrying boxes bearing the delicious warpsto... er, plastic. Leap upon them, lashing out with your poisoned blades. Take their stuff. Make sure someone sees the distinctive clothing as you dash off into the sewers with your prize. Chitter madly. Profit!

THAT is thinking like a Skaven, my friends.

Pfft... I have underlings to do that for me.

That will then meet unfortunate "accidents" soon afterward, of course.

If I were to do it myself, I wouldn't be seen, striking from the shadows just long enough to stab and grab, then return to the darkness.

Okay, you win. Superior skullduggery skills!

Back on-topic, with the quality of the BfSP set, maybe we'll see High Elf spearmen that don't suck in this box. That alone would have me buying a couple.

The Good Green wrote:Nippon would be cool.

I would prefer Albion - if they were made celtic/barbarian.

What would be added with the skaven? My guesses are:

- A bucket of clanrats
- Plastic Seige teams of various sorts (Warpfire thrower, Ratling gun and those abus gun things)
- Plastic..... hell do we need anymore plastic stuff? Perhaps a plastic HQ of some sorts.. i don't know...

I really hope that if it is HE in the new starter set then they don't just add in new versions of what is already in their battalion box. That is one army that could do with some alternative plastics.
As for Skaven, do they not already have lots of plastics and a reasonably decent battalion box?
It doesn't make sense.
I would like to see HE Reaver fast cavalry, Lothern sea guard and one other of the current metal special infantry. The only thing good would be the rumoured Lord on Griffon(?) I am not going to be paying £45 for the hardback rule book or £50+ (probably 60 in the current pricing realm(!) for the cut down mini rule book and one special HE character on steed!
Looks like it's 7th edition for some time yet!
Lets hope, but I think GW is stuck in a (time) Warp....

Jin wrote:Bit of an uninspired name for the box, no?

Particularly if it's High Elves vs Skaven, as rumored.

Sounds like it should be Empire or Brets against Chaos of some flavor.

I like the continued Khornate theme. Presumably the 9th edition will be the Battle for the Plains of Splintered Bone.

/Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Throne of Khorne!

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Jin wrote:Bit of an uninspired name for the box, no?

Particularly if it's High Elves vs Skaven, as rumored.

Sounds like it should be Empire or Brets against Chaos of some flavor.

I dunno about that. It's probably referring to a bit of High Elf myth, specifically the Blighted Isle where the Blade of Khaine, aka "Widowmaker", rests until it's drawn forth again--which is a HUGE point of contention between the Shadow Warriors and the Dark Elf Shade Clans.


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That brings me to another thing...

They better have Alith-Anar redone and featuring in the box set somewhere.

The Blighted Isle is his hometurf.

Photo posted by The Baltimore Battle Bunker on their Facebook page; regular figures, but doth I see Skaven and HElfs on the demo table?

The skaven must be getting a new HQ model somewhere in plastic, all the Starter kits have an HQ and the only HQ''s in Skaven are metal, the High elves as well I think.

doubled wrote:The skaven must be getting a new HQ model somewhere in plastic, all the Starter kits have an HQ and the only HQ''s in Skaven are metal, the High elves as well I think.

Not ALL Skaven Characters are metal: Screaming Bell/Grey Seer and Plague Furnace/Plague Priest. Added bonus, whichever version you don't build, the other character type can be put on a regular base(with a little work needed for the Grey Seer).

That said, rumours point to a plastic Warlock Engineer and Chieftain if Skaven are truly in.

Le Grognard wrote:Photo posted by The Baltimore Battle Bunker on their Facebook page; regular figures, but doth I see Skaven and HElfs on the demo table?

Hmm... looks like High Elves and Skaven it is.

Pity, I was still holding out a small hope after first hearing this that it woukld have Beastmen. Been planing to start an army of them, and that would have definetly forced me to.

Lots of High Elf players will be excited. Not sure about the Skaven...

My son and I were first to arrive at the Baltimore Battle Bunker when they opened at noon today and we stayed all day. My son played the first demo of the day and the last using the setup shown above. He enjoyed the new rules quite a bit. I haven't played WFB since just before the current 7th Edition rules were released, but I'm very interested in trying out the new 8th Ed. rules.

Demo games today were run with High Elves and Skaven and both sides were able to win games. The game seems to play faster than 7th Ed., which we thought was a good thing.

So no warriors chaos? damn now i might not buy the starter set.....

BrassScorpion wrote:Demo games today were run with High Elves and Skaven

OK, I'll take that as confirmation of HE vs Skaven in the next starter. What were the demo armies?

Somebody got a list?

I wouldn't take it as 100% confirmation, John.

Unless they ran specific scenarios from a mini-rulebook or some such.

Skaven and High Elves make a kinda sense though, seeing as one is a horde of terrible troops and the other are more elite troops.

Skaven and High elves are what me and my group think, and if so, I'm in for a couple of boxes and revive my Skaven army