https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/26/26th-dec-gloomspite-gitz-revealedgw-homepage-post-1/

I have to say that I'm glad to see these guys get a proper force and I hope that they are potent enough to be playable.

auticus wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/12/26/26th-dec-gloomspite-gitz-revealedgw-homepage-post-1/

I have to say that I'm glad to see these guys get a proper force and I hope that they are potent enough to be playable.

How many years does it take to make a goblin codex?

Have a look at those dice! If they don't look the most awesome thing ever!

But they look super awkward and nearly unrollable....

Also, SQUIGS!

The squig dice are also ... pretty rad lol.

well, i wanted to make a pure squig army, guess its soon time.

I like 'em. The sguigs riders could be a little less... hoppy, i think, but that's me. I mean, i know they're supposed to be hoppy, but not one of them has a foot on the ground!

but the squigs themselves are great and i want one of my very own.

Pancakey wrote:

How many years does it take to make a goblin codex?

Do you have to make a pointless comment in literally every thread?

My GF plays goblins in kings of war and blood bowl using GW models. This new release will probably add to that collection (and we do play AOS in the fall league/campaign so they will be broken out later in 2019 for that)

I’ve been waiting for gobbos to drop since AoS began. I even bought the old totem from Battle For Skull Pass over a year ago in anticipation of their release.

Yea I'm definitely making a pure squig army now thats for sure.

The only problem is I can't do the black and yellow color scheme as

A: black robes is boring and I'd like more color
B: I literally play 40k bad moonz, so I already use that color scheme ))

Hopefully the book has some cool alternate clan ideas.

I quite like these. They fit with the same old school look as the originals but will have the advantage of being in plastic. Are these going to be back to the same scale as the old plastic Night Goblins box set, or the tiny size of those that came with the Skull pass starter?

The only thing I'm still not fond of is GWs overuse of making models look like they're flying or jumping in the air by using whispy thin tendrils. Not so good for transporting or fitting in cases.

I love that cave, but dread to see a price.

 Don Savik wrote:
Yea I'm definitely making a pure squig army now thats for sure.

The only problem is I can't do the black and yellow color scheme as

A: black robes is boring and I'd like more color
B: I literally play 40k bad moonz, so I already use that color scheme ))

Hopefully the book has some cool alternate clan ideas.

do the robes in dark blue, purple or grey then.
one of thouse options is what im going to go for.

I will definitely pick up a box or two of the hoppers and herders. They look fantastic. If we get a nice looking big squiggy monster I will probably grab that as well.

 Da Boss wrote:
I will definitely pick up a box or two of the hoppers and herders. They look fantastic. If we get a nice looking big squiggy monster I will probably grab that as well.

FW allready have 2 of them.

Yep I just got both the giant and collossal squig from FW for my girlfriend's goblins.

GW just showed armored squig riders with lances!

nagash42 wrote:
GW just showed armored squig riders with lances!

I’m getting antsy waiting for these gobbos.

There are even more models to come too.

Every AOS model release has been pretty stunning for a long time.

Look very closely at the new Fanatic’s ball:

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I love that cave, but dread to see a price.

Just guessing but I would imagine it to be around the same price as a herd stone, $30 American.

Ha! that's a fun little touch. Either some soft metal or a very hard head, I guess.

 amazingturtles wrote:
Ha! that's a fun little touch. Either some soft metal or a very hard head, I guess.

It’s a Stormcast!

Any word yet on the dice being limited atall?
I usually just stick to normal dice and avoid painfully expensive ones, but these look too good to pass up.
If they are limited though, bad times.
The skaven warpstone dice were bad enough.


Either way, I'm gonna throw a couple of armies on eBay for funds.
Christmas cleaned me out but I've been waiting years for plastic squigs.
Finally have a long term army.

It looks like this release is going to be bigger than we thought...

 Future War Cultist wrote:
It looks like this release is going to be bigger than we thought...

Well, the WH community mentioned there would be more models coming in the new year. Most people guessed mangler squigs and new trolls, which all look fantastic. I'm a bit more interested in that sneaky guy in the troll pic.

When all is said and done, this will be one of the biggest armies in AOS, since it will include the spiderfang grots as well as all the troggoths. I think only Stormcast will be bigger, and even then it will be pretty close.

Those Trolls are looking awesome. Damnit.

 Da Boss wrote:
Those Trolls are looking awesome. Damnit.

Looks like the perfect time for you to get into AOS eh?

 Future War Cultist wrote:

 amazingturtles wrote:
Ha! that's a fun little touch. Either some soft metal or a very hard head, I guess.

It’s a Stormcast!

Yes indeed, and i love it.

Jackal90 wrote:
Any word yet on the dice being limited atall?
I usually just stick to normal dice and avoid painfully expensive ones, but these look too good to pass up.
If they are limited though, bad times.
The skaven warpstone dice were bad enough.

The way it works is they're "limited" but only kinda/sorta?

They'll be available until they're not. Usually it takes a year for them to run down.


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Now, for the business of the new stuff that is not available for preorder this coming weekend. They go up for preorder on Saturday, January 12th.

Those are all really cute! I really like the potion spider goblin with 4 legs. The one on the mushroon walker is also neat.

How do the trolls fitt into the new stuff? Are they just allies because the get on swimingly?

Truffle squigs?

Truffle squigs!

Ok maybe i will have to get some of these.

 Niiai wrote:
Those are all really cute! I really like the potion spider goblin with 4 legs. The one on the mushroon walker is also neat.

How do the trolls fitt into the new stuff? Are they just allies because the get on swimingly?

No real clue yet beyond likely the idea of the Troggoths liking the Gobbos more than they like the Orcs.

Loving the lore on the Dankhold Troggoths:

Antisocial and reclusive, these behemoths dwell in the darkest… well, dankholds, where they slumber away the decades, awakening only to feast on the magical fungi that grow upon the realmstone deposits in the roots of the Mortal Realms. Such raw magic doesn’t kill the Dankhold Troggoths as it would lesser creatures, but instead mutates them into the vast, lumbering monsters you see here. This gigantic plastic kit comes loaded with spare bits, enabling you to make a boulder club-wielding Dankhold Troggoth with a variety of alternatives. We’ll be showing you each in detail in the near furture.

Yeah I am definitely going to try to get a Troggoth pure army when this thing drops. Loving those models.

that'll be interesting if the trolls are battleline.

Someone leaked a warscroll battalion of pure troggoth. Troggothherd? It’s pg 183 of the AOS news and rumors.

 Jjohnso11 wrote:
Someone leaked a warscroll battalion of pure troggoth. Troggothherd? It’s pg 183 of the AOS news and rumors.

Yeaah...but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can run it as Battleline.

More likely than not, however, the biggun can turn Troggoths into Battleline.

Good call. We’ll have to wait and see I guess.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. A goblin army. With no goblins.

 Jjohnso11 wrote:
Yeah I am definitely going to try to get a Troggoth pure army when this thing drops. Loving those models.

In the designer video they say you can take a troggoth army.

It's not the army of Goblins that worship the Bad Moon, it's the Bad Moon with its followers' army.

GW just keeps killing it with new AoS lines and this is the best one yet.

I really like this release as well. It's a good evolution from the old WHFB army into a very solid battletome. Not by splitting things into useless subfactions, but by combining them into a coherent force with solid visual tie-ins.

Endless spells and terrain are a given now, but it really adds a neat special flavor to new armies.

Seriously, I would have never thought that an army of Warhammer goblin to be really interesting, but I really, really like those guys. In my opinion, them and the Idoneth Deepkin are the nicest range so far in the Age of Sigmar line. Now, I just need some good old knight models to be fully statisfied with the range.

I love the addition of an army specific terrain piece. While I still largely play 8th edition Fantasy, I still bought the herdstone for my beastmen. These are very nice addition!

Well the bad moon allegiance ability is inntresting, buffs your dudes and hurts your enemy as it rotate table corners.

It’s simple and thematic, so I like it!

I already have a Rogue Idol for my Ironjawz, that army is being put back on the shelf for their tiny cousins.

Bring out the Mini WAAAAAGH

Think I’m gonna go all in, and do pure Squigs.

Anyone know what the tournament standard army size is?

it varies depending on your location. You'd want to hit up tga and ask on there since a lot of those guys are tournament guys in your area of the world.

dat damage table!!!!!

I've heard a few people now say that the book revolves around doing epic amounts of damage but that it dies easily so thats how its "balanced".

Well, onus is on the opponent to take advantage of unreliable movement, and pick their targets carefully.

Defo all in for Squigs!

So I’ve got my grot order in. Now I play the waiting game...by which I mean Simcity 3.

 EnTyme wrote:

Pancakey wrote:

How many years does it take to make a goblin codex?

Do you have to make a pointless comment in literally every thread?

Why do you gotta be the fun police in every thread?

Going shopping next weekend.

Three boxes of Squig Hoppers methinks.

I picked up the terrain piece, battletome and warscroll cards. No intention of playing them at the moment, but want to paint up some new scenery and read up on what they are packing.

I pledged to not start any new armies this year, so I'm just picking up the terrain piece for terrain for now and probably the book. I'll go all in after they get a Start Collecting or a Battleforce for sure.

I'd love to get one of the squig herds. There's no reason for me to have one but i'd love it just the same.

I have so many armies that desperately need attention in both 40k and AoS.... but I want them so bad. The troggoths are so cool, and dem little Squig Knights!

auticus wrote:
I've heard a few people now say that the book revolves around doing epic amounts of damage but that it dies easily so thats how its "balanced".

Glass cannon then? I mean doesn’t one of the troggoths throw mortal wounds? At least games will go a little faster. I’m excited to watch some battle reps or read about how the army does live.

I was counting and looks like I have 10 armies throughout 40k and AoS now. Not even close to done on my Beasts of Chaos, but crap! Now these guys come out and make the Beasts look boring. I think I would also enjoy the Troggoths as they're lower model count and I like caves. The squig-boingers supposedly do mortal wounds on the charge though, so an army of those guys might be in order too. I think getting the tome is warranted for investigation first. Then the Endless Spells for pure fun on shelf display. Then later, maybe, models. I know I'm not getting into Slaanesh, so that's a relief.

 Malathrim wrote:
I was counting and looks like I have 10 armies throughout 40k and AoS now. Not even close to done on my Beasts of Chaos, but crap! Now these guys come out and make the Beasts look boring. I think I would also enjoy the Troggoths as they're lower model count and I like caves. The squig-boingers supposedly do mortal wounds on the charge though, so an army of those guys might be in order too. I think getting the tome is warranted for investigation first. Then the Endless Spells for pure fun on shelf display. Then later, maybe, models. I know I'm not getting into Slaanesh, so that's a relief.

I know the feels. I'm going to grab the tome on Saturday and read through it and pick up maybe Skragrott because he's awesome. But I'm sitting on so many armies as it is to rush into them.

I'm sure by the time all the models are out I'll have a 2000pt list.

Lady Atia finally has her REVIEW of the battletome posted.

I love them already!

the loonshrine is going to be my only purchase from this release....going to be the centerpiece to my table

Cool to see Grotbag Scuttlers getting a little cameo in a lore snippet. They helped a Gloomspite army attack and take over a Kharadron Overlord sky-port. Hopefully a sign of things to come!

I love their fluff. Love the eager sniffer Squigs leading them around and how they give out goodies to people for fun. The models are awesome too, quite cute.
Also 2 wounds per model is nice too, 12 wounds for 6 models is great on a unit like that, especially for the points cost

 nels1031 wrote:
Cool to see Grotbag Scuttlers getting a little cameo in a lore snippet. They helped a Gloomspite army attack and take over a Kharadron Overlord sky-port. Hopefully a sign of things to come!

Where can i see it?

Super hard for me to resist the smorgasbord of Gobbo goodness right now, having to stare at my grey pile of Ironjawz shame to keep me from getting my grubby green hands on them.

zamerion wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Cool to see Grotbag Scuttlers getting a little cameo in a lore snippet. They helped a Gloomspite army attack and take over a Kharadron Overlord sky-port. Hopefully a sign of things to come!

Where can i see it?

I read about it in Mengel Miniatures review of the Battletome.

Link to blog: http://www.mengelminiatures.com/2019/01/review-battletome-gloomspite-gitz.html#more
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The timeline section of the book has some really cool and fun snippets of story. Everything is covered from the origins of the Moonclan and Spiderfang, through the Age of Chaos, and into the Soul Wars. One of my favorite stories is of a Kharadron Overlord fleet which is overrun by the Gloomspite hordes when they attempt to find plunder amongst their ancestral Karak. The grots then fly this hijacked fleet back to the skyport of Barak-Khazzar, crashing the ships into the port and offloading the Gloomspite hordes into the streets. The Kharadron begin to fight back, but are overrun once a fleet of Grotbag Scuttlers arrive to assist their Gloomspite cousins. The skyport is now named Da Moon City and is now a floating Gloomspite fortress. I also like that the Grotbag Scuttlers are mentioned again, twice actually.

As a Kevin Adams aficionado I never really liked the greenskin that came after (especially the orcs :() But I have to say that some of these guys are really really...rad. I hope they do well for GW.

The New Zealand pre-orders are up. These units look amazing, the pictures they've been showing off haven't been doing them justice, can really get a sense of their dynamics in the 360's.

Have you guys tried out the Squig Dice? Just got my pack and these are quite literally one of the worst dice I have ever had the chance of throwing. A friend of mine bought two packs and ended up selling me one because they are unusable in normal play.

They’re better for being wound/turn markers rather than actual game dice.

Also, my first Gloomspite Gitz mini:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
They’re better for being wound/turn markers rather than actual game dice.

Also, my first Gloomspite Gitz mini:

Hey that’s a really cool model, is it a conversion?

Bagpipe Squig is legit

 Tiberius501 wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
They’re better for being wound/turn markers rather than actual game dice.

Also, my first Gloomspite Gitz mini:

Spoiler:

Hey that’s a really cool model, is it a conversion?

No. It's from the old WHFB Battle for Skull Pass box.

 Eldarsif wrote:
Have you guys tried out the Squig Dice? Just got my pack and these are quite literally one of the worst dice I have ever had the chance of throwing. A friend of mine bought two packs and ended up selling me one because they are unusable in normal play.

I tried to warn people about that. They're cool as a collector's item, but they looked to be in no way functional as gaming dice.

What I like about the new lore:

- Loon asylum is dark, horribly dark background. Insane wizards turning into mushrooms with mouths.
- God - spider and her brood that defies Nagash in their own way.
- The rats tried to blow up da bad moon.

There is a reference to Skarsnik in the lore too.

The Bad Moon has a satelite that erractically orbits it, and one of the legends is that its “a warlord that conquered eight mountain peaks” and was blessed to accompany the moon on its rampages through all time.

Glad they kept the model too.

Does anyone have a photo of loonking next to a miniature human-sized standard?

I don't have a picture because it's too dark now but measuring him earlier, he's about as tall, if not slightly taller, than your average free peoples soldier, taller especially if you take his glorious crown into consideration. So pretty big for a Grot

So got the book and i found one sad fact... the regular (non) hero dankhold troggoth can be killed by the sylvaneth woods ability if he runs or charges into it and proceeds to roll of a one of the wood’s ability... because he lacks the hero or monster keyword.

He should avoid sylvaneth woods like everyone else then lol.

CommissarClay wrote:
So got the book and i found one sad fact... the regular (non) hero dankhold troggoth can be killed by the sylvaneth woods ability if he runs or charges into it and proceeds to roll of a one of the wood’s ability... because he lacks the hero or monster keyword.

Looking at the online warscrolls, neither the Fellwater or Rockgut Troggoths have the MONSTER keyword either (although they are smaller than the Dankhold).

Just put together the first of my new GSG sets, the fungus fanatics. There’s a squig skeleton - that’s getting reserved to be a Bonerattle familiar. I got two sets’ worth of the 7ed gobbos and was not expecting a massive release wave for them after the Fungoid shaman dropped last year!

Also finishing rebasing and repainting my Fellwater Troggoths up with my stone trolls to follow, I picked up Throgg when he went made to order and he’ll be my Troggboss. Small for it, but I’ll put him on a tall base. Definitely want to add the Troggoth Hag and cast them as Grendel & Aglæca leading their tribe

I don’t actually play much AoS, but the main thing that put me off was fielding my Night Goblins and (1) characters getting shot up very quickly, and (2) fanatics seeming to serve no purpose other than easy roadkill. The core and unit rules have largely mitigated this and I’m going to give it a try. I’m prepared for things to be very different to my old method... I used to take loads of unreliable units and write off everything that fell over or bickered and focus on getting things done with the ones that reached the enemy, it seems the GSG game is more about stacking buffs? Interesting.

Main use I’ll be getting out of them will be Warhammer Quest, though. I’ve got a scenario written for my friends’ heroes, going to DM it soon and start a blog. It’s a road test for some homebrew rules for watery dungeons; Fellwater Troggoths will be dopey and passive on land, but get in water in them and it’ll be like fighting a Great White Shark crossed with a Crocodile

...in the entrance of the dungeon will be the Fanatic who’s puking his guts up

Something that surprised me was that Gitmob Grots were mentioned and prominently enough to say that they are definitely not being squatted. There was a clear reference to three grot factions: gloomspite, grotbag scuttlers, and gitmobs. Gitmobs were referenced as being based out of the realm of light, preferring to ride around on open plains. So implied cavalry/chariot focus there.

It'd be neat to see a similar treatment to wolf riders, i think

I always liked the 'scrappy wood construction' look of various goblin stuffs (the metal gnoblar scraplauncher is among my favorite miniatures ever), I would jump on an army of that immediately. I already know I'll be on the hook for grotbag scuttlers when they come out, might be on for gitmob as well.

At this point it wouldn't surprise me terribly if gitmobs and greenskins - got recombined into a "Classic Orcs & Goblins" tome.

Gitmobs I've also heard are based around the mongolion hordes. Will be interesting to see this realized in tome format.

nagash42 wrote:
GW just showed armored squig riders with lances!

Pics?

They are on warhammer-community. You'll have to dig a page or so back.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:

nagash42 wrote:
GW just showed armored squig riders with lances!

Pics?

They've already been released. They're a dual kit with the Squig Hoppers and you can see them in the online store.

 SlaveToDorkness wrote:

nagash42 wrote:
GW just showed armored squig riders with lances!

Pics?

They're an alternate build from the Squig Hopper box. Probably my favourite looking unit of the whole range next to Skragrott and the rock troggoths.

Oh, damn! Cmon willpower....work dammit, work!

- My Wallet

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Something that surprised me was that Gitmob Grots were mentioned and prominently enough to say that they are definitely not being squatted. There was a clear reference to three grot factions: gloomspite, grotbag scuttlers, and gitmobs. Gitmobs were referenced as being based out of the realm of light, preferring to ride around on open plains. So implied cavalry/chariot focus there.

Well, that's good news. I'm still of the opinion that we're unlikely to see any factions fully "squatted" without good reason.

Same boat, but Gitmobs were my one exception given they have afaik the most dated line of miniatures across any faction, and a lot of those miniatures are metal, and a lot of those miniatures simply look so bad they could not be reboxed (as opposed to chaos warriors for example).

I'm a little disappointed they didn't make a new Doomdiver, they could likely make a pretty awesome model given how neat the new kits are. Maybe have the rider attached to a giant mushroom that splat and drops spores everywhere.

 Fajita Fan wrote:
I'm a little disappointed they didn't make a new Doomdiver, they could likely make a pretty awesome model given how neat the new kits are. Maybe have the rider attached to a giant mushroom that splat and drops spores everywhere.

The Doom Diver was a Gitmob Grots unit. The Gloomspite Gitz battletome only covers the Moonclan and Spiderfang Grots. Seeing the Doom Diver in the battletome wasn't really a realistic expectation.