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In the 'What next for fantasy' thread Eric of Grans wrote:

The next three releases for Fantasy battle are Skaven, Beasts of Chaos and an unknown new army, not in this order. There are vague rumours of Tomb Kings after these three, but they are largely based on certain items no longer being available in stores.

Now I'm not sure I completly believe that since Eric is from Australia, a nation known for being populated by criminals and the descendants of criminals but still it intrigues me.

Anyone care to share rumors or speculation? Can anyone even confirm there is something new in the pipeline?

Obviously there's always room for another spin-off army, people have talked about a Nagash undead army for years. Chaos Dwarfs are another possiblity.

Then there's the long-standing hopes for Araby, Cathay or Nippon.

Anyone?

Yes, all shall fear our boomerang launchers and kangaroo APCs!

In order of most unlikely Fishmen, Zoats, followers of Malal, and kid friendly Fimir.

Probably something along the lines of Tau for Fantasy.

You mean anime fan Robot-suit wearing communists?

Catgirl ninja's - in order to attract more children and perverts to whfb

Wear-wolves and elementals, due to a thread posted on here a while back.

I have it on good authority from a blue shirt (no more red shirts in the UK)

Fishmen.

The dirty old man in the alley next to GW Amsterdam said Tilea and Estelia, because Fantasy doesn't have enough human armies.

I'd hope it was 1 of 2:

1: Chaos Dwarves. A great mixed army of slow, armoured guys with warmachines, and lame horde fighters (hobgoblins and goblins and a lesser extent BOs). If they got an upgrading in the way that the Helcannon crew got, they would be beautiful.

2: Dogs of war, based around Tilea/Border Princes.
Great 'average' army that still works in the current tournament environment.

Dogs of War would be a nice "mish-mash" army. Man I remember seeing one in a store once with all those regiments of renown. Bright colours everywhere and it didn't look bad one bit.

They shouldn't do a new army until they've fixed all the problems with their existing armies.

oops...

And the Dogs of war would allow Arabian, Estalian and even a Cathayan unit.

But I'd like to see them primarily as a human based force, with ogres (as they are supposed to mercenary to everyone).

If it is Dogs of War, I shall have to scrape my trousers off the ceiling! Was thinking of doing them as an army before I lost my job...

However, a thread on Warseer seems to allude that the race is totally new, and somehow the opposite of the Chaos Gods. Not sure how much stock to put in those rumours though, but Brimstone (not sure...might have been another reliable one!) didn't exactly shoot it down?

BrookM wrote:Dogs of War would be a nice "mish-mash" army. Man I remember seeing one in a store once with all those regiments of renown. Bright colours everywhere and it didn't look bad one bit.

I certainly hope Dogs of War rumor is true, but I doubt it. I don't play much fantasy, but I love my pike regiments and pistol-skirmishers.

fishmen = fantasy tau.

I hope its a dogs of war list loved the regiments of renown feature back in one of the WD,yet somehow I think its going to be a race of cow people,cows always look at me funny!

I believe it will be Space Marines. A Chapter lost in the warp (a la Legion of the Damned) appears in another universe, in another time. Come on, we all know Games Workshop wants more Space Marines!

As for the source of that rumour, I got it from Warseer. Someone claimed to have seen an entire range of new models and a near-complete army book, but he did not reveal anything about it. All he said was that it was a completely new force, rather than a returning army (eg Chaos Dwarves) or a spin-off (eg Nagash). Everyone laughed, until Harry confirmed it to be true.

KHEMRI!

That's the new name of Tomb Kings.

Fantasy Pan-Fo!

I'll hope for something with humans. Good 28mm plastic humans have a thousand uses, a thousand and one if you play Warhammer Fantasy with 'em.

Another one? I doubt it... Fantasy had two new armies in a relatively short amount of time...

If GW releases a "brand new" army before Chaos Dwarves I think all that would be required is just to get one GW guy to admit that they finally dropped Chaos Dwarves, they just strung us along for what, 10+ years (just like they are planning to do with the Dark Eldar)? Besides didn't they say like 2-3 years ago that they would "never" release a new army until ALL pre-existing armies had been redone?

GW in china??
Asian themed army possibility??
Something that is equally cool to us AND to the chinese ??

Easy, i present you Pandaren (panda men)

Warcraft should have no influence here.

Blizzard steals from GW, not vice versa.

Besides, Pandas are losers of nature.

Yeah, grizzly bears can handle humans, why can't pandas?

Take your anime fan Blizzard rubbish elsewhere.

legionaires wrote:If GW releases a "brand new" army before Chaos Dwarves I think all that would be required is just to get one GW guy to admit that they finally dropped Chaos Dwarves, they just strung us along for what, 10+ years (just like they are planning to do with the Dark Eldar)? Besides didn't they say like 2-3 years ago that they would "never" release a new army until ALL pre-existing armies had been redone?

Though it brings a tear to my eye as I type it, I'll have to agree with you on this one.

A 'new' army to WFB?

The return of the Old Ones? Or, more likely, one of their vasal races?

Before the Chaos Dwarfs?

Blasphemy!

Well, gather your torches and pitchforks, assault the GW offices and prove the higher ups wrong.

It could be Dark Eldar all over, who are being pushed back and back until someone or something can resurrect it with the right input and ideas. It could be just like with the Adeptus Mechanicus, where the "new" Tech marines and IG Enginseers were used to see if there was much interest in any future Ad. Mech. releases.

Heh. Pandamen.

I think I've told this story before. Over 10 years ago, I was talking with Jervis J. at a GT. This was long before the gag order. Designers would tell you all kinds of things, especially if it was a personal conversation. Anyway, when asked about the chance of a Nippon or Cathay army, he said yes, they had some ideas, but with a catch -- it wasn't a human army.

I immediately thought about some kind of beastmen, although it now appears it might have been the thing that evolved into Ogre Kingdoms. Then again, maybe not. It wouldn't be the first time an idea sat around the studio for a long time before coming into fruition. Come to think of it, I swore there was a rumor going around a couple years ago either here or on Warseer about plans for a Cathay army with some monkey king themes to it.

Personally, I think it'd be hilarious if GW actually made fishmen. Even better...they should say the army's being released on April 1...and it actually is.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Yeah, grizzly bears can handle humans, why can't pandas?

Take your anime fan Blizzard rubbish elsewhere.

Its fine if you dont like the idea of it , why so rude?