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Chopstick wrote:
I wonder what's inside the Malign Potent hero box that make it so big? Did they also have a deck of card, a comic book or something :d

Likely it's just that they wanted a fancy presentation box and to keep everything on as close to a single sprue as possible.

 reds8n wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Possible to get the 2018 treatment for this thread too?

Cap it off and start anew with the latest freshness, like just happened with the Infinity thread?

...other people like/want this ..?

I'd like that. Most of the early rumors from 2017 and previews don't tend to have such a heavy weight and it's always good to declutter.

..

..okay, we'll, probably, leave this thread for today/this weekend and kick a new one off on Monday.

Any pictures of the GUO alongside Glootkin?

From somewhere in this thread




Tale of Painters (FW and GW GUOs are of similiar size)

Hmm, the battle tome version of Grand Alliance Death with rules for all the lovely models models we've been able to buy for ten years. I really hope GW does better than that.

Has any sort of time frame for the Malign Portents release come out of the open day? I haven't seen much coherent coverage of the event. I hope we don't have to wait for the characters until after Custodes are released.

One thing I've just noticed that's been weirding me out recently with non-human GW plastics - what's up with the pignoses? All the new Orc/k models have the same thing, but the difference is really obvious there when you look at the FW GUO's face by comparison.

Orks and GUO have always looked like that afaik. Other models don't have them, fungoid shaman has nose armor even.

 Yodhrin wrote:
One thing I've just noticed that's been weirding me out recently with non-human GW plastics - what's up with the pignoses? All the new Orc/k models have the same thing, but the difference is really obvious there when you look at the FW GUO's face by comparison.

Eh, that's actually a fairly old thing, my old boyz kits (for either setting) have those pignoses.

I was checking price for those two (Glottkin and GUO) and there is reasonable price difference. I mean new greater deamon is great but I would rather buy Glottkin get three characters and buy more stuff.
Special mention has to go to Wayne England references all over the new model. Really nice way of giving credits to one great artist and person who shaped Warhammer image with other great names like Blanche, Miller, Gibbons...

From design and overall shape I would prefer this face expression over weird smiling one (watch out Whoville) but overall very nice model with not so nice price tag.

Sorry if it was posted

... but if we finally get our "shadow Elves" in May, I know where my tax return is going.

No mention of Nagash battletome in those rumors, so either it's not coming out til the summer (doubtful) or they don't have full/any information.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
One thing I've just noticed that's been weirding me out recently with non-human GW plastics - what's up with the pignoses? All the new Orc/k models have the same thing, but the difference is really obvious there when you look at the FW GUO's face by comparison.

Eh, that's actually a fairly old thing, my old boyz kits (for either setting) have those pignoses.

They actually don't. By which I mean, they have blunted snout-like noses, but not the modern version of that which came in later where they look like actual pignoses - the Flash Gitz were a kind of intermediary stage that had the flatter & more prominent front but retained the more angular overall shape. The Orks & Orcs from the 3rd Ed/6th Ed plastics have a slightly triangular or diamond-shaped snout(expression dependent) and similar nostrils, often with a bit of an angle inwards from the "tip", and a septum that blends into the top lip, while a lot of the newer releases have a very round and flat-front, with rounded nostrils, and a strong definition between the bottom of the nose and the top lip(compare the AoBR Warboss with the Orruk Megaboss, for example).

I get that it's a fairly minor change for most people, but for some reason it just really bugs my eye.

Requizen wrote:
No mention of Nagash battletome in those rumors, so either it's not coming out til the summer (doubtful) or they don't have full/any information.

I'm pretty sure the Legions of Nagash tome comes in february, which he, in his full comment, lists as "largely unknown". We will see.

Two full new armies for AoS, and two new codices for 40k all released in two months?
Seems to me GW releases follow a lot slower pace than that.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Two full new armies for AoS, and two new codices for 40k all released in two months?
Seems to me GW releases follow a lot slower pace than that.

Dibs are on the Harlequins and Drukhari only getting dexes. It's been actually a fairly standard pace, considering that they've released 2 dexes a month plus something more (mainly primaris and DG).

Requizen wrote:
No mention of Nagash battletome in those rumors, so either it's not coming out til the summer (doubtful) or they don't have full/any information.

He said that February did not know very well. (he forgot thousand sons codex too)



Hit daemons was easy.

But hit custodes with codex and new kits was very difficult.


As always a lot of

zamerion wrote:

Requizen wrote:
No mention of Nagash battletome in those rumors, so either it's not coming out til the summer (doubtful) or they don't have full/any information.

He said that February did not know very well. (he forgot thousand sons codex too)



Hit daemons was easy.

But hit custodes with codex and new kits was very difficult.


As always a lot of

True. I wish this were true, means I may eventually get my Necrons, and means I can start working on Death sooner than later.

Ah, so the two aelf army rumor gets more plausibility.

Calling it that the rumor engine arrow fletches are for one force and the little wyrm around the arm is for the other Aelven army.

(With how close the AoS rpg is coming up I think the AoS summary video, fluff detailed Nagash book and now two armies to shed more light on the realms of light and shadow are likely why Cubicle7 held back the rpg release for more content they could use. )

 Yodhrin wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
One thing I've just noticed that's been weirding me out recently with non-human GW plastics - what's up with the pignoses? All the new Orc/k models have the same thing, but the difference is really obvious there when you look at the FW GUO's face by comparison.

Eh, that's actually a fairly old thing, my old boyz kits (for either setting) have those pignoses.

They actually don't. By which I mean, they have blunted snout-like noses, but not the modern version of that which came in later where they look like actual pignoses - the Flash Gitz were a kind of intermediary stage that had the flatter & more prominent front but retained the more angular overall shape. The Orks & Orcs from the 3rd Ed/6th Ed plastics have a slightly triangular or diamond-shaped snout(expression dependent) and similar nostrils, often with a bit of an angle inwards from the "tip", and a septum that blends into the top lip, while a lot of the newer releases have a very round and flat-front, with rounded nostrils, and a strong definition between the bottom of the nose and the top lip(compare the AoBR Warboss with the Orruk Megaboss, for example).

I get that it's a fairly minor change for most people, but for some reason it just really bugs my eye.

I'm not seeing the difference between this: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Orruks and the recent Ironjawz. The detail is sharper maybe?

Lord Kragan wrote:

Requizen wrote:
No mention of Nagash battletome in those rumors, so either it's not coming out til the summer (doubtful) or they don't have full/any information.

I'm pretty sure the Legions of Nagash tome comes in february, which he, in his full comment, lists as "largely unknown". We will see.

At least one week of the second half of February is Gang War 2, Orlocks, FW Bounty Hunter models, and maybe the Escher FW weapon packs.


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I described the evident if minor difference in detail in the post you quote.

zamerion wrote:
Sorry if it was posted

Two new elves army in such a short span!!!! Salt overdose

 streetsamurai wrote:

Two new elves army in such a short span!!!! Salt overdose

This is rumour also from that same guy (supposely) on disqus:

2 new Elf faction :

- Water elves cthulu rider.

- An all female elf cult worship the snake deity, who will had 2 kit in both snake and human from, which surprise me that would be the snake rumour pic (and not Fulgrim)

Chopstick wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

Two new elves army in such a short span!!!! Salt overdose

This is rumour also from that same guy (supposely) on disqus:

2 new Elf faction :

- Water elves cthulu rider.

- An all female elf cult worship the snake deity, who will had 2 kit in both snake and human from, which surprise me that would be the snake rumour pic (and not Fulgrim)

If true, that deity thing will make for good Slaanesh Daemon Princes.

If they follow the current GW trend for multi builds I could see GW releasing two Elven factions over two months. The Kharadron have six kits plus five solo characters, while Fyreslayers have even less with only three kits and four solo characters. Not to mention the new armies could make use of existing kits and absorb some of the existing Elven mini factions to fill out there ranks.

Chopstick wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

Two new elves army in such a short span!!!! Salt overdose

This is rumour also from that same guy (supposely) on disqus:

2 new Elf faction :

- Water elves cthulu rider.

- An all female elf cult worship the snake deity, who will had 2 kit in both snake and human from, which surprise me that would be the snake rumour pic (and not Fulgrim)

That sounds very much like something made-up by looking at unsolved rumor engine pictures. It doesn't line up with the Age of Sigmar fluff we've seen so far.

Two elf armies, on the other hand, I could totally see. One for the realm of shadow (Shadowkin, which we know for sure are an Aelf faction), and one for the realm of light. I could even imagine kits being dual-build across armies with a shadow build and a light build.