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terry wrote:
the dark elf captain from the city of secrets is a woman, so its not that model

I'm not saying it's that specific character, since the Fleetmaster was released long before "City of Secrets"...simply stating that Dark Elf pirates have been a thing for a long while, and that we've seen them in Age of Sigmar proper.

I could see the Scourge Privateers getting a few new hero models whenever they get their book, but the designs for their stuff don't really match the preview shown.

My guess would be plastic Mandrakes or perhaps Grotesques as they are still resin. With the HUGE clawed fiend skull in the citadel skull box and WDs 2 month articles about that skull being a mystery and that it could be anything perhaps they are building up for a Dark Eldar release?

Missing from DE in plastics would be:
Incubi - Temporarily out of Stock Online
Mandrakes - Temporarily out of Stock Online
Beastmaster with all the beasts: Khymerae, Clawed Fiend, Razorwing flocks
Grotesque
The 4 old retinue options: Sslyth, Medusae, Ur-Ghul and Lhamaean

If they got the above their entire range would be plastic unless I'm missing something (yeah yeah FW).


Mandrakes are still resin so perhaps they are getting plastic models?


There than these the Wracks have similar weapons but they are already plastic.

Well it's ether Dark Eldar or the Undead Pirates teased. Also to those who say Cthulhu sea elves already exist the implication of the rumours from ages ago was the new faction would be sky pirate cthulhu elves to release as an antagonistic faction to the Khradron Overlords. However this could have been people taking it wildly out of context and I will admit I don't follow the AoS rumours with as much accuracy as 40k.

Can anyone update that track sheet? I feel like a lot of stuff has been identified and we're only down to a few little things.

I don't much like marking something as solved until the kit is up for preorder or release, for the sake of making everything as accurate as possible.

so new sanguinius???

Looks like him. Who is he fighting?

Oh yes. Now that is 40k art done RIGHT.

where is that from?

 Gamgee wrote:
Well it's ether Dark Eldar or the Undead Pirates teased. Also to those who say Cthulhu sea elves already exist the implication of the rumours from ages ago was the new faction would be sky pirate cthulhu elves to release as an antagonistic faction to the Khradron Overlords. However this could have been people taking it wildly out of context and I will admit I don't follow the AoS rumours with as much accuracy as 40k.

You're conflating multiple rumors again.

The "antagonistic faction to the Kharadon Overlords" is Grotling Sky Pirates.
This is the first mention of "Undead Pirates" for Age of Sigmar's lore, and there's looking to be no model release for it.
The "Cthulu Elves" is, again, people doing exactly what you're doing--taking one aspect of a thing(the original mention was "Lovecraftian Elves" and people started repeating it as "Cthulu Elves") and blowing it out of proportion. There was no mention of "pirates" with the Lovecraftian Elves initially. Once the Overlords were released, people started seizing upon some artwork in there of giant tentacled monsters fighting the Overlords as being part of the "Lovecraftian Elves". Once we saw the mention of the Grotling Sky Pirates, places like BoLS and Naftka started repeating the rumor of Cthulu Elves and added the "sky pirate" aspect.

The timeline of the Shadowkin(the "Lovecraftian Elves" in all likelihood, since their brief fluff mentions have them with some very interesting powers and some deep implications that their powers have a very dangerous source/background) rumors has been a textbook example of how rumors and gossip get altered the longer they are out and present.

Nice work there Kan - thanks!

(And at least he didn't make it Cthulhu Tau Elves! )

 ZoBo wrote:
where is that from?

Rulebook. First page

 aracersss wrote:

In the background is Eternity Gate, which has always depicted the Emperor fighting a giant serpent, the serpent representing Horus.

edit.

Eternity Gate:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Well it's ether Dark Eldar or the Undead Pirates teased. Also to those who say Cthulhu sea elves already exist the implication of the rumours from ages ago was the new faction would be sky pirate cthulhu elves to release as an antagonistic faction to the Khradron Overlords. However this could have been people taking it wildly out of context and I will admit I don't follow the AoS rumours with as much accuracy as 40k.

You're conflating multiple rumors again.

The "antagonistic faction to the Kharadon Overlords" is Grotling Sky Pirates.
This is the first mention of "Undead Pirates" for Age of Sigmar's lore, and there's looking to be no model release for it.
The "Cthulu Elves" is, again, people doing exactly what you're doing--taking one aspect of a thing(the original mention was "Lovecraftian Elves" and people started repeating it as "Cthulu Elves") and blowing it out of proportion. There was no mention of "pirates" with the Lovecraftian Elves initially. Once the Overlords were released, people started seizing upon some artwork in there of giant tentacled monsters fighting the Overlords as being part of the "Lovecraftian Elves". Once we saw the mention of the Grotling Sky Pirates, places like BoLS and Naftka started repeating the rumor of Cthulu Elves and added the "sky pirate" aspect.

The timeline of the Shadowkin(the "Lovecraftian Elves" in all likelihood, since their brief fluff mentions have them with some very interesting powers and some deep implications that their powers have a very dangerous source/background) rumors has been a textbook example of how rumors and gossip get altered the longer they are out and present.

Just to add on to this, I'm highly doubtful that the next army released will have any sort of nautical/ship theme. Two ship-based armies in a row would run the risk of shifting the overall theme of the game that way, and I don't think that's the way GW is going with this. We may eventually get these alleged Grotling Sky Pirates, but it'll likely be several releases down the road.

I dunno, itd be either cool or hilariously terri-bad to see the probably stunted and chunny sigmarine sky-trireme..

zamerion wrote:

 ZoBo wrote:
where is that from?

Rulebook. First page

...I've gotta stop painting and have a proper read through that thing

That is a very interesting piece of art that raises a lot of questions, such as:
Is that Sanguinius returned to life, fighting the Chaos serpent depicted on the door to the Emperor's Throne?
Has Chaos made it Terra once again?
Have Chaos Marines been upsized to their Primaris counterparts? (judging by the size of the marines fighting each other)

The angel and serpent fighting in the background could be symbolic, with the angel representing the Adeptus Astartes and the serpent representing Chaos as a whole, or perhaps the schism whose name eludes me that has torn the Imperium in two.

Also, at the outset of the Indomitus Crusade chaos was indeed once again on Terra.

It could merely be a stylistic representation of the last few "current" events of 40k, with in the top the destruction of Cadia, followed by new angels of death rising up to take the fight to chaos and bringing new hope, while the bottom depicting the war as it is now.


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Ooh, also, the two Reavers are an interesting fluffy choice, as there is always a pair of Reavers flanking Eternity Gate.

Ignore.

 BrookM wrote:

Spoiler:

The angel and serpent fighting in the background could be symbolic, with the angel representing the Adeptus Astartes and the serpent representing Chaos as a whole, or perhaps the schism whose name eludes me that has torn the Imperium in two.

Also, at the outset of the Indomitus Crusade chaos was indeed once again on Terra.

It could merely be a stylistic representation of the last few "current" events of 40k, with in the top the destruction of Cadia, followed by new angels of death rising up to take the fight to chaos and bringing new hope, while the bottom depicting the war as it is now.


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Ooh, also, the two Reavers are an interesting fluffy choice, as there is always a pair of Reavers flanking Eternity Gate.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
Well it's ether Dark Eldar or the Undead Pirates teased. Also to those who say Cthulhu sea elves already exist the implication of the rumours from ages ago was the new faction would be sky pirate cthulhu elves to release as an antagonistic faction to the Khradron Overlords. However this could have been people taking it wildly out of context and I will admit I don't follow the AoS rumours with as much accuracy as 40k.

You're conflating multiple rumors again.

The "antagonistic faction to the Kharadon Overlords" is Grotling Sky Pirates.
This is the first mention of "Undead Pirates" for Age of Sigmar's lore, and there's looking to be no model release for it.
The "Cthulu Elves" is, again, people doing exactly what you're doing--taking one aspect of a thing(the original mention was "Lovecraftian Elves" and people started repeating it as "Cthulu Elves") and blowing it out of proportion. There was no mention of "pirates" with the Lovecraftian Elves initially. Once the Overlords were released, people started seizing upon some artwork in there of giant tentacled monsters fighting the Overlords as being part of the "Lovecraftian Elves". Once we saw the mention of the Grotling Sky Pirates, places like BoLS and Naftka started repeating the rumor of Cthulu Elves and added the "sky pirate" aspect.

The timeline of the Shadowkin(the "Lovecraftian Elves" in all likelihood, since their brief fluff mentions have them with some very interesting powers and some deep implications that their powers have a very dangerous source/background) rumors has been a textbook example of how rumors and gossip get altered the longer they are out and present.

Hmm that I didn't know. Except the Grotling Sky Pirates. I know that. Good to know.

zamerion wrote:

The Silver Tower Elf has blades on him that looks just like that

Arbitres?

Arbites certainly sounds right, though this could also be a very blinged up Space Marine character, maybe a Primarch even?

Or an Aelf...

The Wanderers list gave us some new artifacts and traits that give them birds as "ranged weapons" essentially.
Would be nice to finally have a plastic Wanderer mage available.

Custodes!

Looks like it's painted with a metallic colour.

The next Primarch (Lion or Sanguinius perhaps, but a bird doesn't fit either of them really - maybe Dorn??!) or something Stormcast maybe.

May worth be noting the text that went along with the pic as they call it "PARTICULARLY awesome". Emphasis theirs. Don't think they've called it out like that before.

oof, who knows...that could even be a decorative feature on some new building terrain kit...

Detail for a Golden Throne mini?