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The faceplate on the Mistweaver is a different design than that guy. Although, I wondered if they had a design in mind for the Deepkin that far back.

It reminds me of Dark Eldar Wracks. Likely meant to evoke the same style.

Mistweaver & Shard are not part of deepkin.

Still a lot of awesome units in this. The art is fantastic, and I can't wait to get my hands on those flying sharks!!

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

 daemonish wrote:

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

Spoiler:

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

The shark is a model, that we’ve seen in the trailer. What leviathan/kraken tease?

The leviathan is the big turtle. Don't expect to see much more of these, it's a big enough release as it is.

A whole slew of different heroes. Hero on seahorse. Avatar of the sea god, eel riders, shark riders, infantry with different weapons and giant turtle. Oh and a scenery kit.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 daemonish wrote:

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

Spoiler:

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

The shark is a model, that we’ve seen in the trailer. What leviathan/kraken tease?

I went back to the video and rewatched, yeah that model doesn’t look as cool as the art. The artwork has some text at the tail end of the turtle that references a “Leviadon” but all you can see is a couple of tentacles

 daemonish wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 daemonish wrote:

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

Spoiler:

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

The shark is a model, that we’ve seen in the trailer. What leviathan/kraken tease?

I went back to the video and rewatched, yeah that model doesn’t look as cool as the art. The artwork has some text at the tail end of the turtle that references a “Leviadon” but all you can see is a couple of tentacles

The Leviadon is the turtle.

Mathlann! Mathlann!

So these elves are likely to be descended from those from Cothique, Lothern, and Corsairs?

Moar

There's a character in there!

Lotann, Warden of the Soul Ledgers...apparently that's the dude with the Battle Octopus.

Here's the two page spread that Cataphract had posted:

The Namatri infantry have separated female/male arm so it look like you can't give any weapon to any torso you want.

I think I like the infantry? Strong echoes of the Electropriest sculpts / sculptor, which isn't necessarily bad, I dig the warskirt + shirtless combo.

We haven't seen prices, right? Totally going to come down to that for me, knowing how other Elf infantry have been priced / boxed.

- Salvage

 Boss Salvage wrote:
I think I like the infantry? Strong echoes of the Electropriest sculpts / sculptor, which isn't necessarily bad, I dig the warskirt + shirtless combo.

We haven't seen prices, right? Totally going to come down to that for me, knowing how other Elf infantry have been priced / boxed.

- Salvage

We haven't seen prices or dates as far as I've found.

Elf stuff can be a crapshoot. I'd expect things to be okay priced though.
Guessing something like $60-$70 for the turtle, $60 for the weird fish-mounted lord, $50 or so for the eel riders, $40 for a set of 10 infantry, $25 for the various character blisters($30 for the guy with octopus since he's named apparently), $50-$60 for the Mathlann Avatar, $30-$35 for the shipwreck scenery, and $30-$40 for the shark riders.

Well, reading the lore of each hero really shows how much of an abomination those elves are

Why are the hands on the Namarti so huge? Is that a fluff thing? Or are gw elves just forever cursed with ham hands?

 ImAGeek wrote:

 daemonish wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 daemonish wrote:

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

Spoiler:

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

The shark is a model, that we’ve seen in the trailer. What leviathan/kraken tease?

I went back to the video and rewatched, yeah that model doesn’t look as cool as the art. The artwork has some text at the tail end of the turtle that references a “Leviadon” but all you can see is a couple of tentacles

The Leviadon is the turtle.

Yup I missed that, guess I will just keep waiting then eventually I am sure something will tempt me.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Boss Salvage wrote:
I think I like the infantry? Strong echoes of the Electropriest sculpts / sculptor, which isn't necessarily bad, I dig the warskirt + shirtless combo.

We haven't seen prices, right? Totally going to come down to that for me, knowing how other Elf infantry have been priced / boxed.

- Salvage

We haven't seen prices or dates as far as I've found.

Elf stuff can be a crapshoot. I'd expect things to be okay priced though.
Guessing something like $60-$70 for the turtle, $60 for the weird fish-mounted lord, $50 or so for the eel riders, $40 for a set of 10 infantry, $25 for the various character blisters($30 for the guy with octopus since he's named apparently), $50-$60 for the Mathlann Avatar, $30-$35 for the shipwreck scenery, and $30-$40 for the shark riders.

Are those in USD? I'm thinking closer to 100+ for the turtle, 70-80 for the deepmare (seahorse) rider, 50-ish for the eel riders and 50 for the namarti, along with 30 each for the characters (45 for the octopus guy). Then 70-80 fr the Eidolon of Mathlann and probably 40 for 1 shark.

drbored wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Boss Salvage wrote:
I think I like the infantry? Strong echoes of the Electropriest sculpts / sculptor, which isn't necessarily bad, I dig the warskirt + shirtless combo.

We haven't seen prices, right? Totally going to come down to that for me, knowing how other Elf infantry have been priced / boxed.

- Salvage

We haven't seen prices or dates as far as I've found.

Elf stuff can be a crapshoot. I'd expect things to be okay priced though.
Guessing something like $60-$70 for the turtle, $60 for the weird fish-mounted lord, $50 or so for the eel riders, $40 for a set of 10 infantry, $25 for the various character blisters($30 for the guy with octopus since he's named apparently), $50-$60 for the Mathlann Avatar, $30-$35 for the shipwreck scenery, and $30-$40 for the shark riders.

Are those in USD? I'm thinking closer to 100+ for the turtle, 70-80 for the deepmare (seahorse) rider, 50-ish for the eel riders and 50 for the namarti, along with 30 each for the characters (45 for the octopus guy). Then 70-80 fr the Eidolon of Mathlann and probably 40 for 1 shark.

It's really going to depend upon what prices they decide to do(Obviously--but sometimes they go reasonable, sometimes they go crazy). I'm going at this with the idea that they've learned from past mistakes(Fyreslayers, Sylvaneth, and Stormcast) and instead going off some more successful prices (Tzeentch Arcanites and Blades of Khorne).

I would be genuinely surprised to see the Namarti(either the skirmishers or the thralls; they're two separate kits) at $50. Sylvaneth's Spite/Tree Revenants at $37 for 5 did not seem to go over too well, nor did the 5 Auric/Hearthguard Berzerkers at $40 or the Fyreslayer characters at $30 each or Stormcast characters at $36 each.

Eel Riders I'm hedging my bets towards them being at $35 for 3 if I'm going to be honest.
Avatar at $50-$60 because they're apparently able to be taken in multiples within the army and I'd compare them, relatively in terms of size, to the Grundstok Gunhaulers.
Turtle I'd put at closer to $80-$90 in an afterthought and I'm staying roughly firm on that Deepmare rider at $60(puts it in line with Drycha), Shark Riders might be a bit more than I expect but since it seems to be a single "unit" per box, I'm gonna stick with my guns on the $30-$40.

 daemonish wrote:

 Knight wrote:
The lore for these guys and girls is striking all the right strings with me. The diabolical octopus in the background is just sweet cheery.

I was really excited about this release, I am a massive fan of atlantian/aquatic mythos, but the initial tease failed to grab me. Some of its cool but some of it is a bit meh. Saying that this little snippet has 2 things in it that I have my hopes up again. The shark and the giant leviathan/kraken tease, if they are just lore and not models I will be very disappointed and this be a no go for me. If they are done right then I may dip,into AOS after all this time.

What are you talking about? We've already seen the models for every single unit in the pic you posted. You're about 3 weeks behind the curve friend.

As it was with the DoK, the prices will make or break this release for me. 40-45 bucks for a ten man battleline unit is okay, but push it towards 60 or over and I feel like i'm really not getting my moneys worth in models (looking at you witch aelves). This could end up being my first venture into regular AoS instead of Shadespire but we'll see if GW stumbles on the basic unit prices again.

Gotta say though, kinda hoping the shark has an alternate hammerhead build...or another head option so not every one is a duplicate.

Witch elves were at a kind of nuts price before DoK came out and they basically just kept their price. The bonus is that the cauldron and elves kit is still up for sale (back in stock on the GW website uk at last) and with all the combos and heros you get in the cauldron it actually works out a lot cheaper than many other armies (if you assume at least around £10 for a single hero and the cauldron comes with several)

I'm so stoked for this release!

Im just hoping that down the road human mortals will get a Greek styled release as well.

I got the WD, no info on model prices. Some alternative builds on the pics. Mostly background info. Next month has the designer's commentary.

https://malignportents.com/story/descent/

 Overread wrote:
Witch elves were at a kind of nuts price before DoK came out and they basically just kept their price. The bonus is that the cauldron and elves kit is still up for sale (back in stock on the GW website uk at last) and with all the combos and heros you get in the cauldron it actually works out a lot cheaper than many other armies (if you assume at least around £10 for a single hero and the cauldron comes with several)

The Cauldron + Elves kit is indeed great value, but the problem is you need way more Witch Elves than you need Cauldrons + heroes. At the very least you need three units of Witch Aelves to fill your battleline (and possible way more to get good sized units), but three Cauldrons is overkill.
A Start Collecting would be great, but all the heros are on the Cauldron sprue, so they can't really make a SC box with Witch Aelves, some Melusai or Khinerai + a hero (not that they usually put one out so early after the release anyway).

Black Library just posted a bunch of new book covers on twitter, including one that essentially confirms the new starter set being between wizard stormcast and nighthaunts. Soulwars by Josh Reynolds.