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**CthuluIsSpy**

zamerion wrote:
Speaking about 9 age:

I gotta say, at this point I'm kind of hoping the rumors GW is relaunching Fantasy is true... at least I know that game will be fun...

I've heard it twice now from two seperate individuals who do such rumor hunting for fun, no clue where they heard it. But the general idea seems to be that after the massive success of Total War:Warhammer they think it's a good idea to bring it back.

Pag 48:
https://www.the-ninth-age.com/index.php?thread/34610-future-of-t9a-hotfixes/&pageNo=48

Of course not very credible, but i post..

I hope so. I missed rank and file warfare.
If they relaunch I might get dwarves. I would prefer Empire, but after grumbling so much dwarves might be more suitable.

There's even a copy-right friendly name they could give to them - the Dawi.

**Hanskrampf**

Chikout wrote:
I would be very surprised if fantasy comes back any time soon. The user base for AOS is still growing steadily. The guy who runs the tga forums is struggling to cover the running costs due to the increased membership and active users. The introduction of these new armies is only going to increase the player base for AOS further.
Shadespire has also been very successful. It is in the top ten collectible games on boardgamegeek (who do their rankings based on combination of the number and score of ratings). I am sure this will tempt more players into AOS in the long run.

Reintroducing fantasy now would only stall this momentum.
If they want to bring it back, the sensible thing would be to get forgeworld to do a game set during the war of the beard as a kind of fantasy Horus Heresy, but they shouldn’t do it for at least another three or four years.

I fully agree. All these "WHFB is coming back soon, because AoS doesn't sell, which I know because I don't play it" seems to always come from people who are still disgruntled about the End Times, and can't seem to grasp that 8th in combination with the GW prices was near impossible to get into as a new player.

**zamerion**

Maybe only is an add of some extra rules to the core rules. Nothing more.
I doubt lore changes.

Also:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/02/22/daughters-of-khaine-preview-part-4-the-khineraigw-homepage-post-3/

**Chopstick**

is it just me or there are no pictures of the model?

**CthuluIsSpy**

Hanskrampf wrote:
Chikout wrote:
I would be very surprised if fantasy comes back any time soon. The user base for AOS is still growing steadily. The guy who runs the tga forums is struggling to cover the running costs due to the increased membership and active users. The introduction of these new armies is only going to increase the player base for AOS further.
Shadespire has also been very successful. It is in the top ten collectible games on boardgamegeek (who do their rankings based on combination of the number and score of ratings). I am sure this will tempt more players into AOS in the long run.

Reintroducing fantasy now would only stall this momentum.
If they want to bring it back, the sensible thing would be to get forgeworld to do a game set during the war of the beard as a kind of fantasy Horus Heresy, but they shouldn’t do it for at least another three or four years.

I fully agree. All these "WHFB is coming back soon, because AoS doesn't sell, which I know because I don't play it" seems to always come from people who are still disgruntled about the End Times, and can't seem to grasp that 8th in combination with the GW prices was near impossible to get into as a new player.

Which could have been solved by releasing an edition that didn't favor hoard armies, give elite armies a reason to exist and not cost an arm and a leg to get into. 5 cavalry models should never cost 100 euros.
But no, GW's marketing department could never make mistakes. Its clearly because no one wants the game, not because of any fault of theirs.

**Leggy**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
zamerion wrote:
Speaking about 9 age:

I gotta say, at this point I'm kind of hoping the rumors GW is relaunching Fantasy is true... at least I know that game will be fun...

I've heard it twice now from two seperate individuals who do such rumor hunting for fun, no clue where they heard it. But the general idea seems to be that after the massive success of Total War:Warhammer they think it's a good idea to bring it back.

Pag 48:
https://www.the-ninth-age.com/index.php?thread/34610-future-of-t9a-hotfixes/&pageNo=48

Of course not very credible, but i post..

I hope so. I missed rank and file warfare.
If they relaunch I might get dwarves. I would prefer Empire, but after grumbling so much dwarves might be more suitable.
There's even a copy-right friendly name they could give to them - the Dawi.

I loved Fantasy, but I feel the game was unsuitable for the model range. You needed big units that ranked up easily. GW game us expensive and detailed models that stabbed each other in the bottom if you got them too close to each other.

If they wanted to rerelease a version of the Rank&File ruleset, I'd much prefer they used a smaller scale for minis, and left the current range for AOS.

**Inquisitor Gideon**

Yeah, lets not get into the whole WHF discussion on the rumour page please. It's dead and buried, let it go.

Damn, I was hoping for some better model shots of the Khinerai in that article.

**shinros**

Chikout wrote:
I would be very surprised if fantasy comes back any time soon. The user base for AOS is still growing steadily. The guy who runs the tga forums is struggling to cover the running costs due to the increased membership and active users. The introduction of these new armies is only going to increase the player base for AOS further.
Shadespire has also been very successful. It is in the top ten collectible games on boardgamegeek (who do their rankings based on combination of the number and score of ratings). I am sure this will tempt more players into AOS in the long run.

Reintroducing fantasy now would only stall this momentum.
If they want to bring it back, the sensible thing would be to get forgeworld to do a game set during the war of the beard as a kind of fantasy Horus Heresy, but they shouldn’t do it for at least another three or four years.

Yup I have said in the past that if it were to come back it would be under forgeworld. Plus at the end of the day I will believe it when I see it.

**Earth127**

Of course not , that should be 3 models for a 100.

**Knight**

As a result of the taint of Slaanesh, many aelven souls are permanently marred or twisted...

I'd really like to have a chat with the design team on the topic of how does the soul/AoS divinities behave and what are their restrictions. A "tainted" soul is rather vague term, does this mean that Slaanesh permanently changed much of the aelves population or will Tyrion and Teclis manage to remove those "impurities"?

**Ghaz**

Ask and ye shall receive...

**Earth127**

We'll probably find out at some point in the not too distant future.

**zamerion**

curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

**Geifer**

Knight wrote:
As a result of the taint of Slaanesh, many aelven souls are permanently marred or twisted...

I'd really like to have a chat with the design team on the topic of how does the soul/AoS divinities behave and what are their restrictions. A "tainted" soul is rather vague term, does this mean that Slaanesh permanently changed much of the aelves population or will Tyrion and Teclis manage to remove those "impurities"?

I guess with GW being somewhat responsive these days you could go to Facebook and suggest that as the topic of a future Warhammer Live stream. If enough people agree, who knows? This might be the time for it, with Slaanesh, the elves and Nagash making such a big deal out of it.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
So in all those pictures is that a hag craving attention or just the waitress trying to get everyone their drink. Doesn't look easy when your patrons are flying...

**HorticulusDK**

zamerion wrote:
curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

I also think the Aelf legs on the right of the picture really look like the Tenebreal Shard ones ...

BTW according to a French poster having the White dwarf http://www.warhammer-forum.com/index.php?/topic/231038-calendrier-des-sorties-aos/&page=157 ;
We'll get the 10 March (preorder the 3rd) a Realm of battle : Blasted Hallowheart 65€ (Moon Base Klasius + Ryza Pattern Ruin but AOS equivalent) with a Azyrite Ruins kit separately available for 22.5€. So this, but for AOS : https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Realm-Of-Battle-Moon-Base-Klaisus-2017

Fine for Skirmish !!

**Ghaz**

HorticulusDK wrote:
zamerion wrote:
curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

I also think the Aelf legs on the right of the picture really look like the Tenebreal Shard ones ...

Similar pose, but that's all. The Tenebral Shard is barefoot and the opposite leg is up.

**HorticulusDK**

Ghaz wrote:
HorticulusDK wrote:
zamerion wrote:
curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

I also think the Aelf legs on the right of the picture really look like the Tenebreal Shard ones ...

Similar pose, but that's all. The Tenebral Shard is barefoot and the opposite leg is up.

Yeah I was more talking about the black leather, the armor and the blades

**Kanluwen**

While the Daughters of Khaine aren't what I was hoping for in terms of new Aelfs...I'm glad to see them getting a fairly positive reception!

**EnTyme**

Ghaz wrote:
HorticulusDK wrote:
zamerion wrote:
curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

I also think the Aelf legs on the right of the picture really look like the Tenebreal Shard ones ...

Similar pose, but that's all. The Tenebral Shard is barefoot and the opposite leg is up.

It definitely looks like it was based off the same CAD design. I really like the overall Succubus aesthetic, though. Not sure why people keep calling them harpies other than DE having access to harpies in WHFB. Those are definitely demon/bat wings, not bird wings.

**Ghaz**

EnTyme wrote:
Ghaz wrote:
HorticulusDK wrote:
zamerion wrote:
curious that it seems only a cut piece of a complete picture.

Maybe there is something that they dont want to show us ..

I also think the Aelf legs on the right of the picture really look like the Tenebreal Shard ones ...

Similar pose, but that's all. The Tenebral Shard is barefoot and the opposite leg is up.

It definitely looks like it was based off the same CAD design. I really like the overall Succubus aesthetic, though. Not sure why people keep calling them harpies other than DE having access to harpies in WHFB. Those are definitely demon/bat wings, not bird wings.

You're not familiar with the old Dark Elf Harpy models? They had bat wings as well.

**EnTyme**

Okay, so GW mislabeled them. Now that makes sense. In traditional folklore, a harpy was a humanoid creature with birdlike features.

**Ghaz**

Not really mislabeled, as the original models definitely wouldn't pass as a succubus either! I believe they chose to call them harpies based on their original background and not what the models looked like.

**EnTyme**

No, it was definitely mislabeled if that's the original model. That thing is most definitely not a harpy by any traditional definition. It could almost pass for a winged Striga, though.

**Binabik15**

Those are beautiful. The grace, anatomy and poses. Beautiful.

Hard to believe that those are in the same material and from the same company as fyrslyr dorfs.

**GoatboyBeta**

Binabik15 wrote:
Those are beautiful. The grace, anatomy and poses. Beautiful.

Hard to believe that those are in the same material and from the same company as fyrslyr dorfs.

I have a suspicion that a lot of the kits released in the early days of AoS were originally designed with the old WFB ranked system in mind.

**Lord Kragan**

zamerion wrote:
Speaking about 9 age:

I gotta say, at this point I'm kind of hoping the rumors GW is relaunching Fantasy is true... at least I know that game will be fun...

I've heard it twice now from two seperate individuals who do such rumor hunting for fun, no clue where they heard it. But the general idea seems to be that after the massive success of Total War:Warhammer they think it's a good idea to bring it back.

Pag 48:
https://www.the-ninth-age.com/index.php?thread/34610-future-of-t9a-hotfixes/&pageNo=48

Of course not very credible, but i post..

Literally hot air. "Someone told me" is about as credible as hot air.

**zamerion**

- Melusai (x5) 40 €

- khinerai (x5) 35 €

**Hulksmash**

Huh, so;

-Melusai = $50
-Khinerai = $40-$45

I'll take it. And in packs of 5 no less. I'm good with it.

**CthuluIsSpy**

How many do you need though? If you only need 5-10 then it's not that bad. If its like WHFB 8th ed where they are only effective if you have 20 per block, then yeah, that's a problem.

**NinthMusketeer**

Knight wrote:
As a result of the taint of Slaanesh, many aelven souls are permanently marred or twisted...

I'd really like to have a chat with the design team on the topic of how does the soul/AoS divinities behave and what are their restrictions. A "tainted" soul is rather vague term, does this mean that Slaanesh permanently changed much of the aelves population or will Tyrion and Teclis manage to remove those "impurities"?

From what I understand the souls themselves are not tainted in the chaos corruption sense, rather their warped forms could be considered a 'scar' of their ordeal. Of course this isn't a scar from a stab wound or burn but rather being partly digested by a chaos god, so ya know. What we are seeing here is what Morathi did with the souls she got, so I'd say it's likely the proper gods were able to do more in the direction of re-Elfinating.

On the topic of the nuharpies, IMO including a tail to hold them aloft (I like hidden flying stands) was a good call even if they seem a little stiff. And dam that's nice paint work on the wings. Rest seems pretty straightforward, which is good and often underrated to have in an army. I think we've all seen plenty of GW oversculpting and I'm glad they seem to be dialing that back.