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Yeah I'm super hyped for Skaven! I like the teams with more finesse, and they look like they're going to be tricky and nasty for sure.

Do we know what kinda tricks skaven are going to get yet?

im super stoked.

I thought I read somewhere that they would have ranged shenanigans, and there are two rats armed with spears, so I would imagine there'll be a good deal of hit and run tactics in the air.

If I were to wager a guess, I'd say they'll look similar in defense to Khorne: 2-3 wounds on the dudes, 4 on the boss, Dodge defense. I wonder what their Inspire mechanic will be, that's often a big swing for Warbands.

Requizen wrote:
I thought I read somewhere that they would have ranged shenanigans, and there are two rats armed with spears, so I would imagine there'll be a good deal of hit and run tactics in the air.

If I were to wager a guess, I'd say they'll look similar in defense to Khorne: 2-3 wounds on the dudes, 4 on the boss, Dodge defense. I wonder what their Inspire mechanic will be, that's often a big swing for Warbands.

I want to guess it will have something to do with rolling support dice since skavens shtick is power in numbers.

 RiTides wrote:

 Binabik15 wrote:
I haven't played a single game yet but already have a team of Skaven Stormcast built

Is this a typo? If not, I must see it

I agree the Skaven are a must-buy, and I'd also love to see your Sepulchral Guard! Be warned for when you do game, though, they're not an easy one to start out with . Hopefully the Skaven will be!

I only have crappy cell phone pics I took while building them, but, yes, I built some Scryre Skaven-Eternals over the holidays. They're count-as conversions though, not Skaven wearing literal SC armour, so probably not what you wanted to see.

One is based on the Silver Tower Skaven with a 2-handed knock-off Fellblade and a very basic servo-array as the leader guy, a BB blitzer with a mechanical...mace with whirly blades and an electrified buckler made from his daggerfist and little lightnig ornaments from a SC backpack as the "hammer and shield lady" and a Blood Island rat ogre with the biggest hammer I could cobble together from the bits I had laying around, mechanical arm and tail and a ton of spikes.

My goal is to have all teams built as a Skaven version. Maybe even the Skaven team So far I was thinking Reavers -> Plague Monks with a priest and a censer bearer; Sepulchral Guard -> Clan Moulder with a pack master with thing catcher as the leader, an assistant with whip as reaper, a disfigured fat Skaven mutant and maybe a wolf rat or some other monster to complete the elites and giant rats as supplicants OR Skaven Slaves for that endless swarm feeling; elite Stormvermin as the Orcs and a big unknown for the dwarfs...maybe Eshin would fit or another Moulder band with baby rat ogres. No idea what the dwarfs will be like rules-wise except probably pretty lacking in the armour department.

Holy cow, that sounds awesome!

There was a rumour a while back from some guy who claim he talk to a guy at one of the GW event so he got a little sneak peak.

-Skaven : Strong leader, inspire after successful support action, increase speed (iirc)

-Khorne : 3 dude (2 axex, axe +fist, glaive) + 1 doggo. Inspire after kill, turn attack from sword to hammer.

-Vanguard : 3 hex gun, increase speed when inspired.

-Dorf : nope, nothing.

Dorf : nope, nothing.

Haha, part of the Fyreslayer special abilities. You need to draw the Ur-gold card to get them to do any actions.

I think Warhammer Community mentioned or implied Skaven specializing in attacking models that have no support - i.e. picking off stragglers. Seems appropriate

Maybe something that means you can shove another Skaven in front of your leader to take the hit/s.

Chopstick wrote:


-Khorne : 3 dude (2 axex, axe +fist, glaive) + 1 doggo. Inspire after kill, turn attack from sword to hammer.

I really hope this is the case. If so, I could use these, a few extra bits from my Wrathmongers sprue, plus this to make the Warriors from the starter set into a 10-man squad.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/18/warhammer-underworlds-card-library-now-livegw-homepage-post-1/

Aaand there it was

I’m really glad that GW are taking efforts to support deckbuilding and stoke the competitive nature of the game, I think it’ll help attract that crowd of gamers, who might not be interested in a GW game proper (sorta-kinda like me). I hope we see some proper meta popping up as well!

I still don't know what happen to the Fyreslayer team that GW refuse to show a sneak peak for them. Even though they are suppose to be released in Feb.

Chopstick wrote:
I still don't know what happen to the Fyreslayer team that GW refuse to show a sneak peak for them. Even though they are suppose to be released in Feb.

I think they keep it to show it in the open vegas next week.
Maybe with new AoS army or something else.

The same witht some heresy horus/necromunda and blood bowl things (to shown in forgeworld open day)

Am I missing a way to build / save decks? I'm viewing it on mobile and don't see the example decks like the pic above...

I was really hoping for that in addition to a library. Great anyway, but that would make it fantastic!

Chopstick wrote:
I still don't know what happen to the Fyreslayer team that GW refuse to show a sneak peak for them. Even though they are suppose to be released in Feb.

Nothings happened to them, we just haven’t seen them yet.

From the Shadespire Facebook group (not sure on original source). Finally a view of a dwarf!

The dwarf looks cool, i'm surprised they haven't teased them in a little video clip yet...probably really soon then.

I've been wanting more Fyreslayers and didn't feel like painting the same 10 guys in 2 or 3 different stances, so the Shadespire band is perfect.

Now if only I can get it back on the table...

Thargrim - yeah, I feel like this has to have leaked a little early by mistake. Kind of refreshing since most rumors are actually planned GW announcements now

In the top left of the pic, you can see the curve of the page - so probably a teaser from the new White Dwarf

 RiTides wrote:
Thargrim - yeah, I feel like this has to have leaked a little early by mistake. Kind of refreshing since most rumors are actually planned GW announcements now

In the top left of the pic, you can see the curve of the page - so probably a teaser from the new White Dwarf

It might also be from the prize support for tournaments and the like. There's an event happening at the Las Vegas Open if I remember correctly.

That is actually the pose of the Runefather from the art. I can see people might want to buy this for a Runefather replacement, or play with the new rule if they're good.

Finally, Dwarfs! He looks cool. What’s he standing on, a giant skull?

 Insane Ivan wrote:
Finally, Dwarfs! He looks cool. What’s he standing on, a giant skull?

Maybe he’s a giant slayer too, they are known for decomposing down to bone really quick.

Didn't want to dip into Fyreslayers, but for skirmish they're going to be great.

Kanluwen - Yes, I saw some speculation that they might be waiting to announce/reveal at LVO (as otherwise they're quite late in doing so with the dwarfs!). The event is this weekend, so hopefully that guess is right and we'll have more info soon

Both look awesome, and I don't like Skaven.

Those are both solid.

I'm quite looking forward to the Skaven!

Hmmm.

Wonder if the Skaven will have high-risk tactics available, as befits the most unhinged of species? After all, if you've not bumped off half your own army when trouncing the enemy, or indeed done your enemy's job for them before they can even turn up, are you even a Skaven?