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I'm suspecting GW will find a way to release another SC hero, even when elves get their turn. 

Meh, maybe. More likely I think they'll settle for a alliance though, something like a Shadelight formation with the knight-azyros or the like.


On another note anyone interested by that Coalescence narrative event for Malign Portents?

I like the event list ideas.

* One List where all models fit into ONE battalion (Your Stronghold List)
* One Path to Glory List + 5 additional rolls on the tables.
* One Skirmish Warband that equals at least 75 Renown

I have to say, while it's yet another Stormcast, it's an actually visually interesting Stormcast and I might actually get one. If the Shadespire ones were more like him I'd buy a set for myself...especially if the Reavers were replaced with Darkoath warriors. Him being a pricy SC hero is the only thing that might stop me from buying my first golden boy not included in some set.

Yes, GW's refusal to give us normal humand is maddening. Yes, I want the designs and races the Old World had supposedly to be blown up for to include.

But I disagree that he, standing in his own, is in any way boring. IMO the fact that there are way too many other bland, faceless, almost robotic dudes wielding two hammers in the same faction is a problem of the faction, not of a mini that actually looks like it has a purpose and theme for those tools (of war).

The sc isn’t a very good architect or designer if he’s making rickety things like skullvane manse lol.

Pariah-Miniatures wrote:
The sc isn’t a very good architect or designer if he’s making rickety things like skullvane manse lol.

Quite the contrary. If he is capable of designing buildings like that and not have them collapse, he is either a wizard or a genius .

Also he's got Dispossessed(dwarfs) working under him which means he could even make something like this work.

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/polygon/2014-e3/fable/Brightlodge_V2.jpg

Like a lot of other folk, the most exciting thing about this is the chance we'll see the discontinued terrain kits again. The Stormchitect is...OK? It's a Slightly Different Stormcast like all of their characters are.

Maybe it's just the way his eyes are painted, but for some reason I get a serious anime vibe off that model - which is appropriate, I suppose, a lot of the AoS stuff looks like it could have stepped right out of a Final Fantasy cinematic.

I'm a little miffed at ANOTHER Stormcast hero but also because Lord-Castellents were already supposed to fill that roll in the fluff, so it makes it seem even more like a pointless because-poster-boys hero release.

I agree this seems a bit of a pointless release. Plenty of other pieces which need filling vs another SC hero.

At this rate I will be buying the 3rd edition of SCE in the first edition of AoS.

That might be my least favorite SC model to date, it looks like they stuck a head from the old world empire aesthetic on a stormcast body. Just a clash of styles that doesn't work IMO. Wake me up when they reveal what this is instead:

 Thargrim wrote:
That might be my least favorite SC model to date, it looks like they stuck a head from the old world empire aesthetic on a stormcast body. Just a clash of styles that doesn't work IMO. Wake me up when they reveal what this is instead:

See you in 2019?

Eh, maybe but I'm willing to bet later this year if Nurgle and Death are the only releases thus far.

If the four champions bring armies of wraiths, Moonclan, marauders and builders(the architect seems to work with humans and dwarfs only) then yeah, definitely 2019.

Baron Klatz wrote:
Eh, maybe but I'm willing to bet later this year if Nurgle and Death are the only releases thus far.

If the four champions bring armies of wraiths, Moonclan, marauders and builders(the architect seems to work with humans and dwarfs only) then yeah, definitely 2019.

There's nothing suggesting that the new Stormcast guy "works with humans and dwarfs only". It says that he has work gangs of Dispossessed but it also stresses that he's a Stormcast.

Okay the "only" was pushing it but between his description and the video it looks that if he had an force behind him it would be dispossessed/freeguild or a mix(in the Grand Alliance book free guilds get described being a mix of races).

He'd could also probably have a force like the Firestorm kits with a mix of Stormcasts and city dwellers as well. Mortals he leads to build the structures and his fellow knights to protect the workers.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly the idea, as it seems Malign Portents is going to be pushing Firestorm stuff.

Here's hoping!

Stormcast can ally into any Order faction, so that's not much of an issue (fortunately).

Maybe he is the first “fallen” and the Knight Primaris will have a dirty secret they can’t tell anyone...

I definitely like the model, I was just really hoping to get something else for the Order herald for this event. This guy could have easily been saved for a different release. It also breaks the pattern established by the other heralds of giving a model to factions that hadn't yet received a battletome (Moonclan Grots, Nighthaunts, and Slaves to Darkness).

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I'm a little miffed at ANOTHER Stormcast hero but also because Lord-Castellents were already supposed to fill that roll in the fluff, so it makes it seem even more like a pointless because-poster-boys hero release.

Nah

Lord Castellants do it on the hoof as the battle/campaign. These chaps however come along after the battle to do the planning of a city.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I'm a little miffed at ANOTHER Stormcast hero but also because Lord-Castellents were already supposed to fill that roll in the fluff, so it makes it seem even more like a pointless because-poster-boys hero release.

Nah

Lord Castellants do it on the hoof as the battle/campaign. These chaps however come along after the battle to do the planning of a city.

Why are they even stormcast then? In the books and tomes castellans were in charge of military fortifications during a campaign and after it. I get it - these guys are civil engineers, but for me they are both redundant and out of place. Stormcast were reforged to do battle, but now they are being reforged to do civil stuff aswell. Stormcast clercs coming soon ?

 CoreCommander wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I'm a little miffed at ANOTHER Stormcast hero but also because Lord-Castellents were already supposed to fill that roll in the fluff, so it makes it seem even more like a pointless because-poster-boys hero release.

Nah

Lord Castellants do it on the hoof as the battle/campaign. These chaps however come along after the battle to do the planning of a city.

Why are they even stormcast then? In the books and tomes castellans were in charge of military fortifications during a campaign and after it. I get it - these guys are civil engineers, but for me they are both redundant and out of place. Stormcast were reforged to do battle, but now they are being reforged to do civil stuff aswell. Stormcast clercs coming soon ?

Well, there's the logister chamber...

As for these guys: lord castellans build the barricades, the ordinators the forts (it seems). But it's the castellan that mans the fort AND the barricade, all while keeping the realmgate stable too.

Probably because that way you can't lose the skills and knowledge of the builders?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Probably because that way you can't lose the skills and knowledge of the builders?

Then I guess Sigmar should aswell start reforging clercs ASAP 'cause these taxes won't gather themselves and the time for integrating into the existing administration will be severely cut as they'll bring their book keeping skills with them to serve Sigmar for all eternity

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I'm a little miffed at ANOTHER Stormcast hero but also because Lord-Castellents were already supposed to fill that roll in the fluff, so it makes it seem even more like a pointless because-poster-boys hero release.

Nah

Lord Castellants do it on the hoof as the battle/campaign. These chaps however come along after the battle to do the planning of a city.

You wouldn't know it from looking at the pose.

Cripes, Lietpold the Black looks more like the Logister's description than this guy does.

I had hoped for a Free People hero, but as Stormcasts go this one is pretty interestig. It is most radical departure from the original look we've seen thusfar, and i have to say it looks really good. Miles better than many of their previous heroes with their ludicrous amount of extra bling on their golden armours. I wish we would see a Stormcast unit with similar lighter armour, I think the Stormcast archers and crossbow troops would have visually worked better with this sort of armour rather than the full plate they got.

 CoreCommander wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Probably because that way you can't lose the skills and knowledge of the builders?

Then I guess Sigmar should aswell start reforging clercs ASAP 'cause these taxes won't gather themselves and the time for integrating into the existing administration will be severely cut as they'll bring their book keeping skills with them to serve Sigmar for all eternity

Don't forget about all the Stormcast servants we need too. You can't run a realm without people to take care of menial tasks, and Stormcast just do it way better than mortals. Can't wait for my Stormcast stableboy and Stormcast butler models

 Crimson wrote:
I had hoped for a Free People hero, but as Stormcasts go this one is pretty interestig. It is most radical departure from the original look we've seen thusfar, and i have to say it looks really good. Miles better than many of their previous heroes with their ludicrous amount of extra bling on their golden armours. I wish we would see a Stormcast unit with similar lighter armour, I think the Stormcast archers and crossbow troops would have visually worked better with this sort of armour rather than the full plate they got.

Truthfully, the Vanguard would have looked amazing with the quilted tabards in lieu of breastplates and leather boots in lieu of the massive greaves.

YASS QUEEN!

Seems about right.

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Hmm. Maybe we've been interpreting the name of the event wrong then. Could be that "Malign" is being used as a verb, and GW is literally instructing us to talk about the previews. If that 's the case, the internet seems happy to oblige.