https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/13/a-new-warhammer-preview-online-airs-next-saturday/

If you want to play Guess the Silhouettes...

Left - Looks to be mounted. You can vaguely see a lance with a wrapped pennant around it. Blood Knight?

Centre - Ad Mech Character already teased.

Right - OBR archer? Underworlds Warband character most likely.

More images etc. on Page 7 - Ghaz is a good person and my ill health ridden excuse of a functioning organ of a body thanks him.

Ranges being covered....



House Cawdor book preview almost a given I’d say.

AoS - Soulblight?
Warhammer 40,000 - Ad-Mech, Sisters?
Underworlds - Ossiarch Bonereapers
Necromunda - Cawdor book.

Anything else likely? They've shown us everything and its dog for Lumineth already...

Name is Faith and Damnation which is a strong hint.

Never would have picked that silhouette to be a lance with a pendant on my own, but now I can't see anything else. Looks like a traditional bat wing helmet in that cluster of spikes too.

If the Wight King is a fair indicator, this is going to be a gorgeous preview.

Huh. Don't know what it is with WarCom, but sometimes it just doesn't show the new articles. Can follow direct links without a problem, but its still weird.

Glad to see we're finally getting over the Dark Eldar roadbump and moving on. Worried about the amount of detail on the 'lancer' silhouette.

Don't expect any CSM out of this, but look forward to seeing potential sisters stuff

Voss wrote:
Huh. Don't know what it is with WarCom, but sometimes it just doesn't show the new articles. Can follow direct links without a problem, but its still weird.

The articles usually show up in a Facebook post first before they show up on Warhammer Community proper.

Is there any hint as to what the new Adeptus Mechanicus character is for? Would seem a bit odd if there isn't more than just the 1.

I think already it is going to be one of the weaker previews in terms of model reveals unless they go ham with vampires for AoS, I can't imagine the 40k models will be more than the characters partially revealed for admech and sisters, and the necromunda will be the alternate specialists set, and well, underworlds is not my thing anyway so...

These just don't stop coming do they? At least that's a new sexy AdMech character there

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Is there any hint as to what the new Adeptus Mechanicus character is for? Would seem a bit odd if there isn't more than just the 1.

I mean, we did get what would have likely been a huge range revamp for Skitarii back with Engine War.

Finally I get my Skitarii Primus!


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 endlesswaltz123 wrote:
I think already it is going to be one of the weaker previews in terms of model reveals unless they go ham with vampires for AoS, I can't imagine the 40k models will be more than the characters partially revealed for admech and sisters, and the necromunda will be the alternate specialists set, and well, underworlds is not my thing anyway so...

To be fair, Sisters already got previewed pretty heavily because they're part of the upcoming battlebox with Drukhari.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Is there any hint as to what the new Adeptus Mechanicus character is for? Would seem a bit odd if there isn't more than just the 1.

1 character to accompany codex isn't that unusual. It's bigger than that thats oddity

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Is there any hint as to what the new Adeptus Mechanicus character is for? Would seem a bit odd if there isn't more than just the 1.

Why? Preorders for the Dark Eldar codex are going up the same day with just the one character. In a Versus box.

Plus, Ad Mech got a pile of stuff just last year, so another big wave would seem unlikely.

Yeah I’d assume just the single character for the Ad Mech book. And maybe sisters character with their book?
One underworlds warband. One cawdor set.
AoS could be the big one with Vamps.

Though I suppose it could be a big army revamp for 40k too. The Damnation part could be anything I guess. Vampires, Cawdor, something not listed at all.

I don't expect to see the Palatine with their book, since she's in the battlebox with Lelith.

I'm hopeful that the AdMech character is not in a battlebox. I need that Skitarii character but do not need more Skitarii.

Damnation likely is referring to the Ossiarchs and Vampires though.

Sidenote: Darkstar, are you planning on keeping the OP updated for the day? If so I would highly suggest waiting until after two sections have passed between each preview. That's when the Community page will be updated with the 'best' photos you can really get day of.

Primaris Lieutenant with bad hair day, Primaris Lieutenant with cog hat and skirt, Primaris Lieutenant with pelvis bow. Right?

jullevi wrote:
Primaris Lieutenant with bad hair day, Primaris Lieutenant with cog hat and skirt, Primaris Lieutenant with pelvis bow. Right?

Almost. You forgot the primaries Lt being rode on the left.

Danny76 wrote:
Yeah I’d assume just the single character for the Ad Mech book. And maybe sisters character with their book?

Sisters character is in the Versus box going up for pre-order next week.

The real question for them is when their War-stilts are coming.

AdMech Versus box next?

For 40k probably announcing the AdMech codex, then the next War zone and Sisters and Orks books.

Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Neat stuff.

I'd go on a limb and say the silhouette on the left is for Necromunda. Some sort of Cawdor character or something. It could be soulblight but we'll see.

I'm really hoping that we see more Sisters models. If all we're getting are the controversial Paragon Warsuits, then I'll be a little disappointed. Here's hoping they lean hard on the 'Faith' part of Faith and Damnation and give us a proper extra wave of models that we can sink our teeth into.

There might be no Sisters at all, Cawdor covers Faith just fine.

No Lord of the Rings is a bit surprising considering the Easterling reveal.

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Yeah, I wouldn't get hopes up. Or we would have had a Tree-Revenant archer unit by now.

 Kanluwen wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Yeah, I wouldn't get hopes up. Or we would have had a Tree-Revenant archer unit by now.

I mean we did get a Slaangor unit after getting a Slaangor in Underworlds, so It's always a possibility

drbored wrote:
Neat stuff.

I'd go on a limb and say the silhouette on the left is for Necromunda. Some sort of Cawdor character or something. It could be soulblight but we'll see.

I'm really hoping that we see more Sisters models. If all we're getting are the controversial Paragon Warsuits, then I'll be a little disappointed. Here's hoping they lean hard on the 'Faith' part of Faith and Damnation and give us a proper extra wave of models that we can sink our teeth into.

The neck armour type looking thing seems like the vampire style though really.
So I’d say it’s defniitely them.

Good point Blackfang, Cawdor covers faith, so yeah no sisters I’d say unless it’s just the Codex (With walker coming at same time I guess).
But generally it’d make sense for the Codex to come later after the box has been out a while so they can sell the character with it.
Unless I suppose it is like I said before and they get a character and a book

Hopefully they'll give a road map for more codexes than just the next couple, although that will probably be dependent on whether or not they can return to their previous release schedule.

Cawdor and AdMech both cover faith.

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Yeah, I wouldn't get hopes up. Or we would have had a Tree-Revenant archer unit by now.

I mean we did get a Slaangor unit after getting a Slaangor in Underworlds, so It's always a possibility

Still waiting on those Scuttlings from Silver Tower.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Yeah, I wouldn't get hopes up. Or we would have had a Tree-Revenant archer unit by now.

I mean we did get a Slaangor unit after getting a Slaangor in Underworlds, so It's always a possibility

Still waiting on those Scuttlings from Silver Tower.

That's Quest, not Underworld. Plus, we did get a scuttling shaman as part of the gobbapalooza

 GaroRobe wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Yeah, I wouldn't get hopes up. Or we would have had a Tree-Revenant archer unit by now.

I mean we did get a Slaangor unit after getting a Slaangor in Underworlds, so It's always a possibility

Still waiting on those Scuttlings from Silver Tower.

That's Quest, not Underworld. Plus, we did get a scuttling shaman as part of the gobbapalooza

My point being just because we see it in a side game doesn't mean anything.

Yeah, there isn't any cause and effect here.
Slaangor happened in both systems because GW wanted a Hedonite warband as well as army. One didn't predicate the other.

Underworlds is basically moving through the list of factions. Sometimes they happen to coincide, other times deer-elves and gobbo wolf riders are abandoned to be all lonesome.

I wish they would give us some more warcry goodness. I'm eager to see what the next step for the setting is, if they are going to go wide with new warbands, or tall and develop the ones we have with special characters and things.

(I will admit that I would love to see some new warbands from cults already dedicated to a single chaos god. But I'm also intrigued if they might take a step forward based on warhammer quest and develop some more non storm cast humans)

Let's hope it's as meaty a preview as the last one.

Really just want to see the next 3 codexes for 40k. Not interested in any of the other stuff.

Wonder what the Faith reveal will be.

For Sisters, we already have:
*Palantine (confirmed preorder March 20th in a boxset, but could be released separately too)
*Sister walkers
*Echlisiarchy Priest (based on previous rumor engines)

But we also have ad mech being revealed too...

But faith could also refer to the Redeemer. The WarCom has hinted we could (will) get models for that in the near future too

Do you mean Redemptionists? Maybe its the day, but I'm drawing a blank on a Warhammer thing called 'the Redeemer.' I'm bouncing off Protectorate Warjacks.

Voss wrote:
Do you mean Redemptionists? Maybe its the day, but I'm drawing a blank on a Warhammer thing called 'the Redeemer.' I'm bouncing off Protectorate Warjacks.

Klovis the Redeemer, one of the Redemptionist special characters? I assume that's who they were refering to.
So yeah, Redemptionists

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Hopefully (what I'm assuming is)the Bonereaper archer silhouette is a herald for a new unit outside of Underworlds.

Probably not - but there is a simple solution if you really want him that badly and hate how the generic Warbands function as units - use them as Anvil of Apotheosis characters - it being narrative most decent opponents will let you work a bow into the rules.

A roadmap for forthcoming 40K codices and a more sensible entry point for Necromunda would be good right now.

Maybe Tyranids for the next 40K xenos codex and hopefully a revised Underhive set that doesn't cost £175...

Voss wrote:
Do you mean Redemptionists? Maybe its the day, but I'm drawing a blank on a Warhammer thing called 'the Redeemer.' I'm bouncing off Protectorate Warjacks.

Old Necro comic, he got a BL mini IIRC.

drbored wrote:
I'm really hoping that we see more Sisters models. If all we're getting are the controversial Paragon Warsuits, then I'll be a little disappointed. Here's hoping they lean hard on the 'Faith' part of Faith and Damnation and give us a proper extra wave of models that we can sink our teeth into.

There will definitely be more Sisters later this year. The article accompanying the preview that first showed the warsuits stated:

"We’re just getting started for the Adepta Sororitas – in 2021 your faith will be rewarded even further."

Given that that's already 2 months ago by the time this preview shows up (23rd of Jan), I'd imagine all or most of the other Sisters/Ecclesiarchy could indeed also be shown in this preview.

 bullyboy wrote:
Really just want to see the next 3 codexes for 40k. Not interested in any of the other stuff.

They have enough codexes already, they can slow down a little and see how the meta develops before they release the less important ones.

Cronch wrote:

 bullyboy wrote:
Really just want to see the next 3 codexes for 40k. Not interested in any of the other stuff.

They have enough codexes already, they can slow down a little and see how the meta develops before they release the less important ones.

Hard disagree. The gulf between 9th ed books & 8th ed is significant, they should be pushing ahead to equalise the playing field, not shunning "less important" armies

Not sure we will really have a big reveal on sisters this preview...to me, "faith" can be applied to Cawdor and the Adeptus Mechanicus, and I wouldn't be surprised if they just showed one miniature for 40k and a book while the "big reveal" would be for Necromunda the Cawdor book and new miniatures.

Honestly, for sisters, they could just show the cover of the 40k v9 codex and be done with it. We already know there are the Parangon battlesuits coming, and I'm not so sure the ministorum priests will be redone in plastic (the rumors we saw could easily be for Cawdor redemptionits...and to be honest, if that's the case, they'll make very fine ministorum priests already).

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Hopefully they'll give a road map for more codexes than just the next couple, although that will probably be dependent on whether or not they can return to their previous release schedule.

Well 3 months ahead is max they will reveal


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SamusDrake wrote:
A roadmap for forthcoming 40K codices and a more sensible entry point for Necromunda would be good right now.

Maybe Tyranids for the next 40K xenos codex and hopefully a revised Underhive set that doesn't cost £175...

With new sku's upping price yeah it wouldn't cost 175. More like 185.

Sarouan wrote:
Not sure we will really have a big reveal on sisters this preview...to me, "faith" can be applied to Cawdor and the Adeptus Mechanicus, and I wouldn't be surprised if they just showed one miniature for 40k and a book while the "big reveal" would be for Necromunda the Cawdor book and new miniatures.

Honestly, for sisters, they could just show the cover of the 40k v9 codex and be done with it. We already know there are the Parangon battlesuits coming, and I'm not so sure the ministorum priests will be redone in plastic (the rumors we saw could easily be for Cawdor redemptionits...and to be honest, if that's the case, they'll make very fine ministorum priests already).

Potentially yeah.
I would say the big reveal could be the Soulblight for Damnation.

No aeronautica imperialis, sadface.

Danny76 wrote:

I would say the big reveal could be the Soulblight for Damnation.

I'm leaning toward this. We've seen a lot of items be discontinued for them recently as well as at least 2 character models, one of which was a leak. Considering that they did a double release with Hedonites and DoK, I'd not be surprised to see another one in the future. Or at least back to back big releases since the last 4-5 months of 2020 was 40k heavy.

tneva82 wrote:


With new sku's upping price yeah it wouldn't cost 175. More like 185.

For Dark Uprising yes, but not for Underhive if they revised that set. That would be about £100.

Actually, looking at Catacombs lets make that £125.

tneva82 wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Hopefully they'll give a road map for more codexes than just the next couple, although that will probably be dependent on whether or not they can return to their previous release schedule.

Well 3 months ahead is max they will reveal

Exactly. So if they're still constrained to one codex per month due to production limitations and the absolute mess international shipping currently is then we'll see three tops, but if they can return to two codexes per month we'll probably see more.

Chopstick wrote:
No aeronautica imperialis, sadface.

tbh I think this is going to be the MO for a lot of the sidegames. Aeronautica, Warcry, Blood Bowl, Titanicus... we're lucky to be getting as many Underworlds warbands as we are, and fortunate that the WarMaster Titan made it in.

Hopefully when the distribution stuff gets sorted and improves, we'll see more of the side games coming back out.

Just show me the damn Lictors, GW.

 Ktulhut wrote:
Just show me the damn Lictors, GW.

Silly you.

You can see Lictors!

I don't know if I can wait until Saturday.

I'm wondering if we are going to see more sisters stuff. I would not be shocked if we see a few more Sisters units previewed, and they are one of the next dexes after Ad Mech.

I really hope they announce the AdMech book along with this fellow!

Also, cool to be getting a potential “military” based character. My regiment of Skitarii are an abducted guard regiment, so having an Alpha to lead them would be quite cool for my fluff

 Tiberius501 wrote:
I really hope they announce the AdMech book along with this fellow!

Also, cool to be getting a potential “military” based character. My regiment of Skitarii are an abducted guard regiment, so having an Alpha to lead them would be quite cool for my fluff

"Abducted"? You seem to have misspelled conscripted

 Tiberius501 wrote:
I really hope they announce the AdMech book along with this fellow!

Also, cool to be getting a potential “military” based character. My regiment of Skitarii are an abducted guard regiment, so having an Alpha to lead them would be quite cool for my fluff

I think it's pretty safe bet that the ad mech is next codex.

 alextroy wrote:

 Tiberius501 wrote:
I really hope they announce the AdMech book along with this fellow!

Also, cool to be getting a potential “military” based character. My regiment of Skitarii are an abducted guard regiment, so having an Alpha to lead them would be quite cool for my fluff

"Abducted"? You seem to have misspelled conscripted

I think you mean inducted with retrospective voluntary consent.

Requisitioned Omnissiah blessed equipment and assorted support elements necessary for proper functionality.

Oh whoops, did I say abducted? I meant Volunteered

Another sneak peek for the preview this weekend, Mir Kainan from Kainan's Reapers for Direchasm:

Damn. He's cool.

He looks... dead hard


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And the fish elf faction has been greatly improved by removing the elf

What are those things hanging from that guy's belt?

Same things wots hanging round his neck.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What are those things hanging from that guy's belt?

I think they're for storing souls.

JSG wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What are those things hanging from that guy's belt?

I think they're for storing souls.

They're pretty common in the army. Mortisans (of which the executioner is one) usually have them being actively used with the models. The chicken walker throne guy is summoning a spirit out of one. And the soulreaper looks like he's trapping a spirit with his. Since they gave this guy an actual unit name, I'm guessing he'll be a unit or at least a character in the future. So many the archer will also get a full unit, unlike the Underworld revenant with a bow

more sister vehicles?

Repulsor was that one called, wasn't it?

By the Emperor’s Holy Jockstrap, what is that???

 Shadox wrote:
Repulsor was that one called, wasn't it?

it was called a repressor

Uh oh. Another Sister tank. And I haven't finished my exorcists AND I may get an immolator with the upcoming boxset.

Shoutout to them giving the sister on the turret a backpack. The exorcist has one, but the immolator doesn't.

Near the back, you can see it has the same lil antennae that all rhinos have. Hopefully this isn't just another deimos pattern rhino (ie, same exact hull as the other sister tanks)

It looks like a Repressor, maybe?

Looks a hell of a lot bigger than a Rhino Chassis.

Whatever it is? It's large...but it also has some kind of extraneous bit on top behind the gunner. That seems to bulk it up a bit more than the actual chassis would be.

Which is the same size.

 ImAGeek wrote:
Which is the same size.

I swear to God it wasn't until I went and edited the post.

It's 100% a Rhino with a looot of stuff bolted to it. Look at the standard tiny antenna at the back.

I'm pretty sure we can see the treads at the bottom, so it's not floating. I checked and Repulsors don't look like that at the bottom.


Though, given the new mech suits, maybe Cawl decided to give some love to the sisters.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
Which is the same size.

I swear to God it wasn't until I went and edited the post.

I’ll take your word for it

What if it turns out to be a Redemptionists flame wagon?

I hope they also give love to the ecclesiarchy

What's left for sisters, tankwise? An actual dedicated transport unit?

The old Forgeworld Repressor was mentioned



Which was also used by Adeptus Arbites as a riot control vehicle..

But what kind of tank is needed (sorry, no idea what a repressor does in game)?
Rhino covers transport, immolator covers hybrid. Exorcist is the firepower.

What else needed?

 bullyboy wrote:
But what kind of tank is needed (sorry, no idea what a repressor does in game)?
Rhino covers transport, immolator covers hybrid. Exorcist is the firepower.

What else needed?

Absurd McDonald’s box style update with three times as many guns as anything should have.

...It's totally an Adepta Sororitas vehicle. Based on the same hulk than the new Immolator and Exorcist (the torches are those who are on the sides of the vehicle).

I'd lean towards the new incarnation of the Repressor, just more gothic and covered with relics.

Ok, seems like they will reveal more of the sister V9 codex in the end...

Sarouan wrote:
...It's totally an Adepta Sororitas vehicle. Based on the same hulk than the new Immolator and Exorcist (the torches are those who are on the sides of the vehicle).

I'd lean towards the new incarnation of the Repressor, just more gothic and covered with relics.

Ok, seems like they will reveal more of the sister V9 codex in the end...

It also has the identical wooden poles at the end of the guard rail (in the immolator, they were sometimes painted metallic.)

It definitely looks like it has treads, so I'm not sure how Repulsor-y it can be

I really think this is a single tank in the pic, and not a Rhino chassis.

Yes, it appears to have the little nub aerial bit. But that doesn’t in itself mean Rhino chassis confirmed.

None of the rest seems to match up, and at the bottom, there seem to be tracks closer in look to the Baneblade’s chassis. Certainly they look nothing like the Rhino chassis.

Up top? I reckon that’s a Heavy Bolter, with an Aquila, rather than the Rhino/Landraider hatch half. Like a lectern. And on the right hand side of the pic, I reckon that the front of the tank, rather than another tank.

Still looks better than Primaris floaty tanks.

The more I'm looking at it, the more I'm thinking "reimagined Repressor" than anything else.

It definitely looks like there's a 'raised' element to the upper hull. Whatever weapon is being wielded by the gunner looks to have a gunshield as part of it.
If you look behind the gunner though? There's that "lectern" bit...which looks to be a smaller, raised almost bier-esque piece rather than the armored fighting compartment the Arbites styled Repressor of old had.

It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

I think the angle is being seen/viewed incorrectly.

To me it looks like it's driving left to right and slightly away, not towards us.

It absolutely looks like a new version of a Repressor to me..

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

Don't think so. It's not a turret, it's a sister out of a hatch and handling a weapon. It's clearly not a heavy weapon like those of a Predator. And I don't think it has weapons on its sides.

Sarouan wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's literally just a Predator with a frilly railing at the back of the turret.

Don't think so. It's not a turret, it's a sister out of a hatch and handling a weapon. It's clearly not a heavy weapon like those of a Predator. And I don't think it has weapons on its sides.

It's a turret with a manned pintle bolter. You can't see the main gun.

You can see the sponson optic right next to the brazier.

It sorta looks like a mini-mastadon.
(forgeworld model is nearly double the size if that is a silhouette of a sister in a cupola)

Here is my mspaint mockup

Don't know how to make it any clearer

You can see something next to the brazier...but it looks more like a loudspeaker than a targeting optic to me.

How could you not see a main gun for a Predator styled tank though? You can see the barrel of a pintle bolter but not an autocannon or lascannon or whatever gun it's got?

Whatever the hell this thing is, it's definitely got a pronounced slope to the rear hull and it almost looks like part of the track assembly is coming out from the panelling.

Going off your image comparison though...that hatch would have to be bigger than the Sister to be up like that. I'm still leaning towards that piece being a stylized gunshield. And the slope on that rear hull is fairly significant compared to anything else the Sisters have gotten so far. You can see the 'bump' of where the trackguard is, that antennae you've pointed out, and then what looks to be part of the track assembly actually extending out of the back of the track housing.

That's why i think it's facing the other way.

What he has circled as front left, I think is actually the front right. The W angle of the hatch opening also indicates this.

You can't actually see the front of the turret in this silhouette.

 Kanluwen wrote:

How could you not see a main gun for a Predator styled tank though? You can see the barrel of a pintle bolter but not an autocannon or lascannon or whatever gun it's got?

Do you... do you understand how silhouettes work? You can't see the main gun on the Predator that I posted just beside it if you black out the whole tank.


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Anyway I see this is pointless, I'll be back to quote myself on Saturday.

Honestly, it just looks like we're seeing it from an extremely bizarre angle.

It looks like we're seeing it from a lower angle than where the model was actually placed for the photo. If one looks at the 'shadowed' background? You can tell that there's not some huge turret assembly on the top and the 'hatch' seems to be flattened out along with the bolter rather than the hull in the image.

Can you tell what this is?

Yea, it's a tank facing the wrong way.

if it does turn out to be a predator/razorback variant. the lore might as well be "primaris dont need these tiny tanks, so gave them as hand-me-down's to the sisters"

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Can you tell what this is?

Without having seen the original image? No, probably not. It would just look like a vehicle of some kind.

But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's part of.

Which is, again, the whole reason I've harped on it being a weird design and a weird angle. We only see one brazier as the other would likely be folded into the silhouette. We only see one weird protruded laudhailer/sponson optic-y bit as the other would likely be folded into the silhouette.
We can make out one thing you're calling a hatch in perfect detail that would have to be taller than the Sister manning the gun on the pintle and that I'm calling a stylized gunshield as the other part of the hatch should be visible breaking up the Sister's silhouette.
We can definitely see the hallmark 'tiny antennae' at the back but it's over a weird design for the rear tracks seeming to extend out of the back of the track housing giving a much steeper angle to the back of the vehicle.

I tried to extrapolate a few of the lines. There are some similarities to the rhino chassis, but the tracks are shaped different, and the section on top has some odd angles. The fence lines go in directions that I wouldn't expect, and it even looks like there's a sponson or some raised area where the brazier is.

We'll see this saturday, but maybe this'll help illuminate some areas.

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yeah, now that I look at this image, the similarities to the Predator are pretty straightforward. You can see the target finder over the sponson, the exhaust pipe is where the brazier would be, and the turret is entirely within the shape of the silhouette so you wouldn't see it.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said "if I had not seen the original image".

While the presence of a pintle bolter on top would not affect the sponson optic or brazier...the angle would have to be extremely strange for none of the turret itself or the weapon attached to it to be visible in silhouette but the sponson optic to be, unless it was a huge optic.

Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
But I'm not the one claiming that there's a pintle mount on top of a turret with a hatch(all of which are clearly visible) that somehow magically leaves a sponson optic and brazier visible while hiding a weapon that would likely be extending from a turret that the pintle's on top of.

You know for a fact that the Predator has a main gun you can't see, and the presence of a pintle bolter on top doesn't affect that.

Yes, which is why I explicitly said "if I had not seen the original image".

While the presence of a pintle bolter on top would not affect the sponson optic or brazier...the angle would have to be extremely strange for none of the turret itself or the weapon attached to it to be visible in silhouette but the sponson optic to be, unless it was a huge optic.

see this handy little photomanip:




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 TalonZahn wrote:
Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

Y'know what, yeah. Now that I've seen this, I don't think I can un-see it. Very sharp eye! Well done!

A bloody good point well made!

 TalonZahn wrote:
Still think you guys are looking at the wrong angle..... but meh.

That would be a reasonable interpretation if not for the obvious left to right tracks at the bottom of the pic.

I maintain it still doesn't feel right. We'd see the other hatch part at least!
The whole reason I'm thinking "Repressor reworked" is that it, conceptually, would be the tank most open for a rework into the new Sisters aesthetic. It had a pintle mount, a remote weapon system, and the raised 'viewing slots' that are in about the right place for where that railing is.

But hey, you guys do you. I'll just keep feeling like I'm taking crazy pills.

To me, the tell is the backpack and the open hatch.

If it's going the way everyone else is pointing out, they are crooked as nuts.

Going the direction I see it, they are straight and where they should be.


Damn GW and their optical illusion pics!

Looks like a Repressor to me. And since SoB have had Repressors before but not Predators....

Remeber that the pintle mount can free rotate, it could actually be mounted on a weird angle to the rest of the tank.

 TalonZahn wrote:
To me, the tell is the backpack and the open hatch.

If it's going the way everyone else is pointing out, they are crooked as nuts.

Going the direction I see it, they are straight and where they should be.


Damn GW and their optical illusion pics!

Oooh. That makes more sense. To be honest, I couldn't figure out your yellow lines. They looked like they were coming out towards the camera, not boxing in the shape of the tank, so I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Definitely optical illusion territory.

Anyway, Sisters getting a new rhino chassis tank is unexpected, but so were the stilt-walkers. Hopefully its closer to the rhino price than the immolator or exorcist.

I can actually imagine SoB having Predators but I somehow doubt it.

So I am going to bet on repressor but I also have strong reservations when it comes to new transport.

Edit: Okay, I somehow missed all of the comparision pictures. So Predator it is.

I’m glad we’ll know for sure in a few days...

Sure would be a shame if it were just a conventional Sisters tank.

I hope it's an updated Repressor.

I can see it being either, sisters dont have a up close pure battle tank, they have transport, exorcist and the immolator as middle ground. Repressor kind of steps on the design space of the immolator as it is, or functions as just a better rhino. Personally I think either the Repressor is being updated to be a more upgunned heavily armed transport or its a predator/main battle tank for sisters.

Its probably going to be similar sprue set up to exorcist and immolator as those have unique rhino sprue with different tops.

Honestly my sisters wishlist for next wave is
-Upgunned repressor
-ecclisiarchy rabble/imperial cultists
-sisters foot combat troop unit (chainsword and bolt pistol or shields)
-generic living saint

Rules wise give some of the more side units in the elites slot the death guard 3 in 1 rule for hospitallers.

If it's a Predator, it's a new turret design. The overlayed version shows the Sister much more forward than the current Predator turret would allow.

There are a few things I worry about.

If it's a Repressor, I worry that GW will naff up the rules and give it a lot of restrictions or janky ways that a unit would shoot out of it, or just not give it that rule at all, invalidating it.

It would also be our 3rd transport, which is a bit overkill in my mind. If it's better in any way than the Rhino, people will just use the Repressor. If the Rhino is better in any way, people will just use the Rhino. It'll compete for transports, which... is excessive. The only case in which people will prefer the Rhino will be if it's cheaper, and loaded up with Repentia, since they don't have any shooting weapons.

The other thing is that, aside from the Exorcist, the Sisters have no long-range or dedicated battle tanks. APCs and mobile artillery platforms, yes, but no battle tanks like the predator. It doesn't have to be exactly like the predator either, it could have multi melta or flamer turrets instead of the traditional autocannon/lascannon loadouts. This would give us hopefully a more dakka option than the Immolator without paying a premium for transport capacity. In this case, however, the Immolator may go by the wayside in favor of this battle tank. If it's a heavy slot like the Exorcist, it also runs the risk of competing for that slot, which is already really competitive with Retributors, Mortifiers, and the Exorcist.

The last option is it's a totally new tank with a bunch of weird weapons and rules we haven't seen before. Ideally, it'd be in the Fast Attack slot, which at the moment isn't very competitive, so it'd fit easily into a Battalion...

Time will tell!

Hoping for a repressor revision much more than a nu-predator, IMO the melta-immolator is already a better middleweight MBT than any predator variant anyway. Mobile bunker with improved dozer blade is different enough that it doesn't compete too much with the other transports to be an issue for me.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Sure would be a shame if it were just a conventional Sisters tank.

I hope it's an updated Repressor.

I never bothered to follow Forge World, but I've noticed Sisters players often treat the Repressor as some sort of mythical revered artifact. What's the difference between a Repressor and a 'conventional' Sister's tank?

The occupants can fire out of the tank as it zooms around the table.

Friend of mine has about 4 of them, and they can make Retributors and Dominion units very, very scary.

 Platuan4th wrote:
If it's a Predator, it's a new turret design. The overlayed version shows the Sister much more forward than the current Predator turret would allow.

It would be anyway, as that’s a separate sprue for it. Which would I guess be the one removed and sister sprue added..

If you zoom right in and look at the backback.
You can follow its shape that makes sense for us being at the back right of the tank.
Tried not to colour over it, so you can see the rough shape though. The head silhouette takes up where the right thruster part of the pack would be..
The hatch fits perfectly from this angle..

Then looking at the second image of it in the background (where it’s green) I think that further shows it.


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Save the picture and zoom in where you can see the quality of the back image more I’d say..

Both angles look convincing. I wonder who's gonna be right? Anyone care to spice it up? Like, by saying you'll eat a shoe, on video, if you're wrong? (that's just a suggestion, a different hazardous or amusing act would also be acceptable). : )

I mean... the other angle only looks convincing because they've cropped away the tracks that are clear as day pointing right.

Those don't look like tracks to me, they're not that even and look too much like the torn paper edge that also goes up the back. Assuming you mean the pattern at the bottom.

However the angle of the rank if you got to the 360 spin (especially the chaos or sisters one where you can change inclination too), it's clearly pointing towards the bottom right. The single antennae is the thing that gives it away for me, as well as the track blocks.

However I definitely think it has the Repressor's extended hull and perhaps a bit more upfront, like a vindicator. There's an extended passenger section with a pintle weapon, and clearly no turret gun.

Finally a workup of the outline that make me think this really is a Repressor. We have the small turret weapon. The raised passenger department. The general shape of a Rhino. If it's not an actual Repressor, it is looking like a spiritual cousin.

JWBS wrote:
Both angles look convincing. I wonder who's gonna be right? Anyone care to spice it up? Like, by saying you'll eat a shoe, on video, if you're wrong? (that's just a suggestion, a different hazardous or amusing act would also be acceptable). : )

Needs a cork board, red yarn and thumbtacks at this point. Don't get me wrong, some good analysis here, but we're pretty solidly at 'Sisters tank variant on Rhino chassis or very similar' and with the reveal 4 days away, we don't really need much more depth than that.

I don't think it'll be a Repressor because of what GW said when they previewed the Mobile Suit Nundam:

Sisters have been around for ages, but despite the massive release they received, they've not received any truly new units. They've had some similar units based upon existing designs (Zephyrim and Mortifiers), but nothing new.

A Repressor isn't new.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:


A Repressor isn't new.

Could be a dual-kit, a Repressor and another new unit

Seeing the different angles you guys came up with for the tank tease hurt my brain. But I am also on the repulsor bandwagon, though I still feel like it has treads at the bottom. The new tank would have to be on par with the exorcist to get my attention though, and I'm not sure what church-y elements are left to exploit. Bells, maybe, but I doubt this one has it

Edit: I keep flip flopping. I feel like the tank is facing us. As lots of people have said, you can see the little antennae on the back which Rhinos all have. Its always the same bit in the same place. And it doesn't look like its on the Repulosr, so idk.

I'm just glad I could get people to see the tank 2 different ways confusing everyone even more!


MUAHAHAHHAHA


I have no idea what's going on anymore.

Isn't there an optical illusion that works this way? Where you can't tell which way something is facing because it's done up in silhouette?

Anyway, I'd be thrilled for a dual kit, or at least a tank with lots of different options. If it's truly a Repressor, then the only thing I foresee it having options-wise would be a different pintle-mounted gun. The old repressor just had two pintle-mounted bolters and I think one could be a combi-weapon or something.

They could go the way they've done it with the other sister's tanks and shove a Heavy Bolter in the front, but even then...

I also can't shake that it's going to have sponsons. The shape on the side, with the little box-looking thing resembles so much the predator sponsons targetting system. That'd honestly be great! Even if it's a Repressor, having the option to take some heavy bolters on the side for extra dakka would be a lot of fun.

The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced we're seeing it from the top, looking down on it moving top left to bottom right.

And it has tracks.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced we're seeing it from the top, looking down on it moving top left to bottom right.

And it has tracks.

Yea, but you're upside down in AUS anyway.

I think the sponson targeter silhouette really sells it as a sisters version of a predator. I can imagine a sisters variant with some sort of long range melta weapon we have seen with the latest primaris units and then perhaps HBs or flamers on the side, or maximum melta style with MMs on the sponsons too. I think GW will photograph things at weird angles for the rumor engine, but for these type previews they have been more straightforward. I think it is clear it is rhino based, or very rhino derivative at very minimum. My first thought was repressor as a number of folks have said, but I think the argument for predator type is compelling. If this was AOS I would believe the more outlandish guesses over the reasonable. I believed the Lumineth were getting camel cav (a weird idea) when we first saw the recent silhouette previews, but I don't think anyone guessed they were getting kangaroo archers (even weirder).

Maybe the Blood Angels have finally shared the Baal Predator STC with the Sisters? Twin assault cannon, Flamestorm cannon, and some sort of thermal spear would fit the trinity. .

Looks like a Rhino body to me. And one thing that's consistent across all the existing variants(SoB and Marines) is the stubby antenna on the righthand rear of the body. So unless GW have flipped the image, its facing to the bottom right of the frame and viewed from slightly above.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I don't think it'll be a Repressor because of what GW said when they previewed the Mobile Suit Nundam:

Sisters have been around for ages, but despite the massive release they received, they've not received any truly new units. They've had some similar units based upon existing designs (Zephyrim and Mortifiers), but nothing new.

A Repressor isn't new.

Wouldn’t it be crazy if that text turned out to be about the suits previewed that same day that were super new, and not a model they hadn’t even rumoured yet? I think your logic leapt somewhat, there.

Acknowledged key point: New SoB vehicle.

Acknowledged point: Some form of hatch with a pintle-mounted weapon

Acknowledged point: Random brazier present on hull

Anything other than that we'll find out on Saturday, and I can wait for that.

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Wouldn’t it be crazy if that text turned out to be about the suits previewed that same day that were super new, and not a model they hadn’t even rumoured yet? I think your logic leapt somewhat, there.

That's not a leap of logic. It's idle speculation. But nah, take a dig at me like I'm a crazy person, for whatever reason you have.

I’m not actually convinced it’s a sisters tank.

If you look at the outline it looks more like a Primaris Lieutenant sitting on a cardboard box

So... Sisters of Battle Predator? If thats the case, a little boring but ey, thats what imperial players like, ugly metal bawkses.

Zombies.

More Zombies, excellent. I was not a fan of all the zombies having the Tombstone on them.

Very cool, more evidence toward Soulblight.

"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart."

Sotahullu wrote:
"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart."

Boo for quoting the lyrics and not the Vincent Price monologue, just for the coincidence of 'the funk of 40,000 years'

I really hope those are rat tails and not branches. Just think: zombies covered with mutant rats.

Sotahullu wrote:
"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart."

Price tag of upcoming zombie box?

Good ol' zombies finally getting an update.

We'll see how it goes, but this pretty much confirms the two things I was hoping to see in this: Sisters of Battle and Soulblight.

jullevi wrote:

Sotahullu wrote:
"It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark. Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart."

Price tag of upcoming zombie box?

Good one

Since the zombies all have vines and roots, I feel like they'll have to redo the still fantastic corpse cart. May need to pick one up asap (especially if the new one turns out to be a $100+ center piece model)


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 Sacredroach wrote:
I really hope those are rat tails and not branches. Just think: zombies covered with mutant rats.

Sure looks like the dude in the center is holding a rat

Looking forward to seeing what they reveal for Sisters. I hope the tank looks cool. Sisters have always had such a limited vehicle pool.

Root zombies? I hope that's the extent of it. Cutting off roots is an easy enough fix. If they carry entire tree stumps on their back, that's a different matter.

Priestly Priest Priesting.

Hmmm, Arch Zealot or door to door book salesman?

That I do not know.

But the weapon in his right hand (our left) might actually be a flail made of flamers...

Valhallan Flame Priest.

Wonder who gets the servo skull, since it doesn't look like Book Burner gets one

Preacher is likely going to be for the Necromunda, but the SoB could use a new sculpt for some of the ministorum stuff.

Firey Preacher Squig with the book of recipes all of which tell the squigs to eat their food while still twitching and screaming.

Arch zealot for sure, that flaming head is a dead giveaway

Isn't that the servo-skull from the Skitarii dude?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Hmmm, Arch Zealot or door to door book salesman?

In 40k its quite possibly both

Thanks god that the zombies are not the atrocious ones from wq. Really hate that concept

 streetsamurai wrote:
Thanks god that the zombies are not the atrocious ones from wq. Really hate that concept

Similar to the relief I felt when they didn’t run with the Silver Tower Spider Grot idea for Gloomspite Gitz...

They've already shown we're getting Redemptionists, so that's a pretty easy pick from that.

Still, these models will make great preachers/priests/missionaries/cultists in other factions.

Excited for any inquisitorial or cawdor goodness, and that Sisters tank looks like a nice design - as much as painting rhino chassis drives me insane, I love looking at all the variations haha - AND without anything too wacky and out-of-universe like the nundam walkers! <3

Kinda... worried about the zombies. While ya boi in the front may be holding a rat, it looks like his pals in the back do have... stuff??? coming out of them. Might be swirly gak, might be roots, might be whatever the hell those spikey bone/mushroom/horn things they had sprouting out of the poxwalkers was meant to be?


I would kill for just... Zombies. Like, 40k zombies, fantasy peasant zombies. Poxwalkers were such a swing and a miss for me - I loved the clothing, the improvised scrap weapons, the bloated bellies and rictus grins, but there was just too much there with the extra tentacles, bug hands, weird punch-o fist hands, and the nondescript spike thingies.
GW house style just zombies would be killer, I'm sure they could do a ton with details, and even customization if they put their minds to it, and really just blow their competitors out of the water in terms of quality, style and popularity.

Instead... are we gonna get Spookybranch Dreadhaunted FleshwalkersTM? With every 10th zombie in the zombie horde holding his rat? And like another every-10th-zombie with a shovel? Because it looks like they're going the IP protection route and it's just so safe and lame and disappointing.

To be fair, I think they're holding potatoes*, not rats.


*well, ok, or clods of earth pinned to their hands because of root systems. But I like the idea of potatoes for dead Samwise jokes.
'Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew.'

 posermcbogus wrote:


I would kill for just... Zombies. Like, 40k zombies, fantasy peasant zombies. Poxwalkers were such a swing and a miss for me - I loved the clothing, the improvised scrap weapons, the bloated bellies and rictus grins, but there was just too much there with the extra tentacles, bug hands, weird punch-o fist hands, and the nondescript spike thingies.
GW house style just zombies would be killer, I'm sure they could do a ton with details, and even customization if they put their minds to it, and really just blow their competitors out of the water in terms of quality, style and popularity.

Here ya go buddy. Now go, and kill no more.

https://fireforge-games.com/living-dead/364-living-dead-peasants.html

Either way, you'll have choice. Hell, even just in boardgames, you find easily zombies. Zombies everywhere !

And I approve the Fireforge fantasy zombies. They look great next to other AoS miniatures

It's weird to me to be afraid of how these GW zombies will look...they're zombies, in the end. GW make plastic zombies anyway, so if you don't like vines coming out of some parts, there's nothing a good modelism knife can't fix.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 posermcbogus wrote:


I would kill for just... Zombies. Like, 40k zombies, fantasy peasant zombies. Poxwalkers were such a swing and a miss for me - I loved the clothing, the improvised scrap weapons, the bloated bellies and rictus grins, but there was just too much there with the extra tentacles, bug hands, weird punch-o fist hands, and the nondescript spike thingies.
GW house style just zombies would be killer, I'm sure they could do a ton with details, and even customization if they put their minds to it, and really just blow their competitors out of the water in terms of quality, style and popularity.

Here ya go buddy. Now go, and kill no more.

https://fireforge-games.com/living-dead/364-living-dead-peasants.html

Urge to kill only slightly abated...

 Sasori wrote:
Preacher is likely going to be for the Necromunda, but the SoB could use a new sculpt for some of the ministorum stuff.

What is the Redemptionists box if not just a box of Ministorum Priests waiting to be converted?

Yeah those are insta priests for sob if you need one

We do have an actual priest coming, based off the previous Christmas rumor engines. Something in line with BSF's Thaddeus and the dead dude on Illuminor S' base. Though you can't have too many priests

 GaroRobe wrote:
We do have an actual priest coming, based off the previous Christmas rumor engines. Something in line with BSF's Thaddeus and the dead dude on Illuminor S' base. Though you can't have too many priests

I dunno man. As much as I'd love to see that, it could just be part of the Red kit.

 posermcbogus wrote:
Has anyone ever actually painted those things in a way that's like "ahh, yeah, no, that's what those protrusions were meant to be all along, I get it now, makes total sense"? Because I deadass have never.

Back when I had my Death Guard I painted those protrusions on the Poxwalkers like Cordyceps fungus - you know, the zombie fungus that grows out of dead insects in freaky protrusions....

Always been a bit fond of the Mantic zombies myself.

Yeah, up to now they’ve certainly been a good shout.
Cheap but still look good.


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 posermcbogus wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 posermcbogus wrote:


I would kill for just... Zombies. Like, 40k zombies, fantasy peasant zombies. Poxwalkers were such a swing and a miss for me - I loved the clothing, the improvised scrap weapons, the bloated bellies and rictus grins, but there was just too much there with the extra tentacles, bug hands, weird punch-o fist hands, and the nondescript spike thingies.
GW house style just zombies would be killer, I'm sure they could do a ton with details, and even customization if they put their minds to it, and really just blow their competitors out of the water in terms of quality, style and popularity.

Here ya go buddy. Now go, and kill no more.

https://fireforge-games.com/living-dead/364-living-dead-peasants.html

Urge to kill only slightly abated...

Not for me, they have too many unique looking pieces, in a big horde they’ll stand out every bird head or shovel etc.

Mantic and GWs both fit the mass horde where no one really jumps out at you. GW just doesn’t have good looking ones compared.
Hopefully that all changes, but for me it’s gonna be how likely the possibility of removing roots are it seems.. again it makes them stand out if every 5 or 10 has that same angled root coming from the same place. We will see in that..

Cursed City got another article today about its warscrolls (for everything but the swarms, I think? I'm not in the mood to translate AoS namification signators into simple English names.)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/19/you-can-use-all-of-the-cursed-city-models-in-warhammer-age-of-sigmar/

Makes me hope we'll see a release date announced either tomorrow or Sunday.

Im always scared of using 3rd party minis because what if, one day, i want to play it in an official GW tournament?

I don’t think I ever will so not too worried about it.
At most if fantasy came back I’d have to get 120 zombies and 40 GG. And maybe 30 ghouls.
That’s all Mantic.

But I’m probably fine as a) I won’t be doing their tournaments 99% sure and b) fantasy isn’t really likely to get tournaments for OW I wouldn’t think anyway. And who knows how much of armies will still be usable - though undead are hardly time sensitive there..

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Im always scared of using 3rd party minis because what if, one day, i want to play it in an official GW tournament?

If you are ever gripped by sudden bout of madness it's best to sit down, count to ten, and wait for it to pass. Why *would* you ever want to play in an official GW tournament? Besides, GW is all about changing meta every edition, for all you know zombies will be unusable in competitive gameplay at that point. In fact, buying any GW models is a gamble, because GW might make their rules trash in a year...

Was there any "one day till reveal" teaser or was yesterday's Redemptionist the last one?

Nope. Would probably just be an Ossiarch though.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Was there any "one day till reveal" teaser or was yesterday's Redemptionist the last one?

There was not one, and there should have been. Facebook+Instagram went down for awhile today so that likely affected it, which kinda sucks.

Mostly wanting to see what the Priest is holding in his right hand. Because it really does look like a flail made from flamers.

Just an hour to go lads and lasses.

Don't forget that the preview starts at the hour, the time before is just prepping/recap.

Almost looks like a floating servitor like buddy and maybe not even in his hand. But I don’t know what he’d have with him if so.

Remembered my big teevee has interwebtubes on it, so watching in style!

It's starting!

Mmmm! Undead!!!!!

I’m in love. Simply stunning stuff. Except the Vampire on foot, which remains a bit derpy.

Good lord, that's a hell of a start.

New deathrattle?

Jumping right in with good stuff.
Zombies
New skeletons
Fell bats
Blood knights (eh... but I think some of that is the paint job- though the horses are great)
Vampire lords previously seen

Yup. And Zombies, Fellbats and Bloodknights.

So good glad the new Skeletons are in the CC style (even if I have 30 the current ones to paint that I probably never will now) and the Zombies look good the roots aren't overdone.

Pretty much vampire counts. Nice looking models

Vampires are coming way sooner than I thought they would!! And some great updates in there- Bloodknights, new bats, new zombies!

Plastic Blood Knights.

Marking this down:

AUD$165

This is the current price of Blood Knights. Will fully plastic ones be more expensive than that.

Those are gorgeous, absolutely top notch stuff.

Though probably a good time to get the current, perfectly fine Skellingtons.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Plastic Blood Knights.

Marking this down:

AUD$165

This is the current price of Blood Knights. Will fully plastic ones be more expensive than that.

I bloody hope not. They’re £61.50. So one hopes plastic wouldn’t be quite that expensive.

Skeletons will have options of handweapons or spears.

Zombies.

At least they haven’t got hands the size of their chest. I mean, that’s a start.

I don't know how I feel about the zombies. They're better than the kit, and similar enough to the corpse cart. But eh...

I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose. They don't really look very customizable, though they did say there were weapon options- hand weapon or spear.

2 of the zombies have the gravestone backs...
Also look monopose.

I love those Bats. Just a really nice, simple execution.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I love those Bats. Just a really nice, simple execution.

Yeah I really love the landed one. It's nice seeing variety in flying sculpts like that

Voss wrote:
I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose. They don't really look very customizable.

2 of the zombies have the gravestone backs...
Also look monopose.

There were zombie poses in the video that aren’t shown in the group shot. Hopefully it’s 20 to a box.

Fell bats are top notch. Wonder how much they will be? Unless they're packaged with another unit, like stormcast birds

Voss wrote:
I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose.

None of them are. It's modern GW.

Voss wrote:
I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose. They don't really look very customizable, though they did say there were weapon options- hand weapon or spear.

2 of the zombies have the gravestone backs...
Also look monopose.

Yeah, the god damn grave stones..
Even one I’d be a bit like damn...
But two!

Overall, lovely to see updated Wet Dead, without being entirely AoSifiicated.

New Zombie Dragon perhaps? if the cover is anything to go by.

We're in the Age of Monopose. New Hedonite of Slaanesh kits didn't have any assembly options or interchangeable parts except for choosing to build an unit champion or not :(

MUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Khurnoth?

Broken Realms: Kragnos!?!!

How many times did I say it wouldn’t just be three broken Realms books because of a new edition..

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Voss wrote:
I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose.

None of them are. It's modern GW.

Yeah. Its weird- Adam Troke is currently yammering about having a hundred skeletons, but... everything so far (especially the bats) looks like it will be very repetitive in large numbers.


Wait... was that. Hmm. Broken Realms 4: Kragnos (shouldn't 2 happen at some point?) Ah. Teclis preorder next weekend, official now

Beasts of chaos????

Voss wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Voss wrote:
I'm not sure the skeletons aren't monopose.

None of them are. It's modern GW.

Yeah. Its weird- Adam Troke is currently yammering about having a hundred skeletons, but... everything so far (especially the bats) looks like it will be very repetitive in large numbers.


Wait... was that. Hmm. Broken Realms 4: Kragnos (shouldn't 2 happen at some point?)

Broken Realms: Teclis goes on pre-order next weekend.

I’d be ok with Dragon Ogres in Destruction.


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Loving the Ossiarch warband.

Mir Kainan is a big model.

Great warband. Wish the cool guy with the helmet and totem didn't have a nose though. The only part I have an issue with

Kind of a big Underworlds Warband, isn't it?

Ok, wow... the main dude in that warband is huge!

Voss wrote:
Kind of a big Underworlds Warband, isn't it?

for this season I suppose.
But in general I wouldn’t say so.

So far another solid preview in my book.

So, Necromunda

The 'priest' is a redemptionist, and the weird contraption in his right hand is a flamer-chainaxe combo.

Really liking those Redemptionists. They look proper mental.

Oh hell yes. Exterminator autoguns!

Just a shame if you want the Cawdor without the redemptionist slant, you’re just limited to the main box..


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Well, 4 things previewed and only 25 minutes in..

There better be tons of options on that sprue, because there are only 3 models there (repeated).

I guess they went for big hair instead of the hoods. Understandable. But I'd rather have some different heads. Hopefully FW will make some upgrade heads for them

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
There better be tons of options on that sprue, because there are only 3 models there (repeated).

I wonder if they're treating this as a gang expansion box- those tend to have 6 models, and 0-4 pets.


Oh. New starter set. Do-over time for rules.
Hive War- Fake Delaques vs... Escher*. A few 3d terrain bits.

*why repeat a boxed set gang already?

New starter!

Going back to the zombies, I think we're underestimating the kit. Looking at the trailer, they've got a ton of different arms, heads, poses, etc. Unlike the skeletons, it shouldn't be super hard to have a large unique horde

Oooh. Hive War.

Unexpected, but not necessarily unwelcome.

Will be interesting to see the price point on the new Necromunda set, to see how disappointed GW were by Dark Uprising's weak sales.

There are definitely options in the zombie box. I can see two different torsos on the same pair of legs. There is also a zombie with a pitchfork.

Voss wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
There better be tons of options on that sprue, because there are only 3 models there (repeated).

I wonder if they're treating this as a gang expansion box- those tend to have 6 models, and 0-4 pets.

I think they definitely are.
The other boxes have been 2 sprues of 4/5 models.
This is 2 sprues of 3.

And HB, yeah their options are two per body. And we’ve seen it all
I would like to think maybe three options each as it’s a gang starter box as well as expansion, but..



The new box is nice. Shame it isn’t two new gangs. (Orlock And Cawdor outdo have been a good one for me)
I guess because that other box was too expensive..?

Ad Mech preview video
Leader guy and codex... and... nope that's it. Kind of fair, given they had an actual release during PA.

Oh that is gorgeous.

AHHH! I love it!

The first skitarii with a sword.

Also, what was that on the cover? I assume its the 8 armed guy

Lots of great stuff so far

Squad Leaders have a power sword option too.

Strong hints of Vader in the face.

Sigh... just sitting here, waiting for the screen captures.. you guys are making me jealous..

Flexing my patience muscles I guess

Just go on WarCom. It’s there and better quality

There you go. Skitarii Marshal.

AdMech codex cover is frigging awesome.

Gonna put up as my background.

Danny76 wrote:
And HB, yeah their options are two per body. And we’ve seen it all
I would like to think maybe three options each as it’s a gang starter box as well as expansion, but..

Firstly, the 6-man box will cost as much as the full gang kits, just 'cause.

Secondly, it's weird that this plastic box has fewer variations than the original metal gang - a gang, I might add, that had fewer models than any other gang with the exception of Spyrers.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Danny76 wrote:
And HB, yeah their options are two per body. And we’ve seen it all
I would like to think maybe three options each as it’s a gang starter box as well as expansion, but..

Firstly, the 6-man box will cost as much as the full gang kits, just 'cause.

Secondly, it's weird that this plastic box has fewer variations than the original metal gang - a gang, I might add, that had fewer models than any other gang with the exception of Spyrers.

same as the full gang kits? Nah, this will be the point they decide to increase the cost on the boxes, this one first

Yeah, really hope that as it’s three models, it has like 3 if not 4 options each.
So you could buy 12 and have them all different.

SISTERS GOT A TANK!

Ooooooh!!!! That is lovely!

BOOOOO!

It uses the same hull as the exorcist and immolator.

So many identical hulls. You can't even swap out the statues in the little outcoves...

That tank looks so heckin' goofy.

Sisters predator

Why does it have to be a She-Predator? They couldn't think of anything more original than that?

 GaroRobe wrote:
BOOOOO!

It uses the same hull as the exorcist and immolator.

So many identical hulls. You can't even swap out the statues in the little outcoves...

Bloody Imperium all over that, never innovate do they..

Weapon options, lovely!

Sisters predator annihilator?

I am intrigued by the guy on the Admech book with all the arms. Probably just a generic Magos or something, but I love me some models with too many limbs!

Danny76 wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
BOOOOO!

It uses the same hull as the exorcist and immolator.

So many identical hulls. You can't even swap out the statues in the little outcoves...

Bloody Imperium all over that, never innovate do they..

Innovation is one thing haha. But from experience, the Deimos hull is a pain to put together, since its pretty gappy (I blame them trying to get multiple different kits out of one base)

The statues being the same is a bit annoying, but at least the exhaust briars are different this time, since they don't have flames at the top.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why does it have to be a She-Predator? They couldn't think of anything more original than that?

Fun fact in some species the females are the largest members.

And i think it's the most armed predator variant i know with even a front mantle weapon.

Well, turret weapon options anyway.

Well. Option.

Zombies are ok. I would still take the Fireforge Living Dead Peasants kit befre them (not to mention way more cheaper).
Skellies have too much armor on them for my taste.
I like the Bats.
Skitarii guy is pure awesomeness.

At least it's a tank.

OH MY GOD SNAKEBITES!!!!

I just besmirched my trousers!

Snakebites!

WAAAAAAGH!

Also, rumor engine solved on the big boss

Squig CAV!

That Snakebites video was hilarious. Also Squig cavalry!!!

Love the Sisters tank and Ork Cybsquig cavalry - hell yeah

That is fantastic!!!!

 Overread wrote:
Squig CAV!

Squig Hog Boy!

"Beast Snagga"

Not Snakebite.

 Lord Perversor wrote:
Fun fact in some species the females are the largest members.

Which has all of nothing to do with the originality (or lack thereof) with just giving the Sisters a Predator.

Squig Hog would fit right into AoS as well!

 Shadow Walker wrote:
That Snakebites video was hilarious. Also Squig cavalry!!!

Seems it’s a new clan.
Beastsnagga’s

The heads are a bit AOS orruky, but that's fine

Hmm. The Blood Knights look okay, maybe better, not sure yet. I wouldn't mind a unit or two for 9th age.

Zombies look awful, skellies are bland, even for basic undead infantry- not as nice as Mantic's, IMO. I do not care for the fell bats. At all. Especially the one clinging to a rock with its wings- they are far too close to winged/transformed vampires for my taste. I would also be happier with plain flight bases.

I gotta say- I hate "SoUlblIght graVelOrds." One of the worst instances of unnecessary faction renaming.

I think I just heard ork players...

Danny76 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
That Snakebites video was hilarious. Also Squig cavalry!!!

Seems it’s a new clan.
Beastsnagga’s

I think it is rather a sub-clan of the Snakebites which focuses primary on the Squig breeding.

Soulblight to me seems one of the better ones considering what some of the others were.
Each to their own.

Beastsnagga’s are savage Orks in 40k I guess.
Not quite snakebites.

Sotahullu wrote:
I think I just heard ork players...

 Shadow Walker wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
That Snakebites video was hilarious. Also Squig cavalry!!!

Seems it’s a new clan.
Beastsnagga’s

I think it is rather a sub-clan of the Snakebites which focuses primary on the Squig breeding.

Beast version of Speed Freaks in my opinion.

The last preview was quite a bit better than this.

As someone who adores the Reds, I am bitterly disappointed to find out that they managed to design 3 miniatures with two weapon sets per miniature... and that's it. And them, to top that off, the great new Sisters unit is just a slightly different Predator.

Blastaar wrote:
I gotta say- I hate "SoUlblIght graVelOrds." One of the worst instances of unnecessary faction renaming.

Now with "Deadwalker Zombies". Is there a prize for redundancy in naming schemes?

 Shadow Walker wrote:

Danny76 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
That Snakebites video was hilarious. Also Squig cavalry!!!

Seems it’s a new clan.
Beastsnagga’s

I think it is rather a sub-clan of the Snakebites which focuses primary on the Squig breeding.

Yeah for all intents and purposes could be..

"What about Xenos?"
"Lol go pre-order the Dark Eldar codex"

Ouch.

The Not-Vampire Counts stuff looks genuinely good though, although as has been said I prefer the Mantic ones.

Yeah, Eddie called them Snakebites, and while they've made mistakes before, it seems like this is a sub-culture that goes beyond being a bit traditional and views squigs as the solution to every problem

Sounds like an excuse to be able to run them with any clan, frankly, but I'll accept it