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Wow, all those rumors and anticipation feels like it happened years ago...

Not sure if that's a good or a bad feeling, though.

Oops forgot about that. Sorry Atia. Got anything new for us? As an Aos fan I feel like the designated driver at a party where all the 30k and 40k folks are getting plastered.

They apparently don't ever sleep, instead spending every waking minute painting, playing, and writing about AoS.

And that, my friend, is what we call being awesome.

http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/this-weeks-release-new-hero-revealed.html So not an alternate Lord Relictor but a Lord Verstand. Hopefully GW will give rules for matched play and maybe Silver tower on there website as well as the usual open play rules for this guy.

Verstand is German for 'mind'. Wizard do we think?

GoatboyBeta wrote:
http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/this-weeks-release-new-hero-revealed.html So not an alternate Lord Relictor but a Lord Verstand. Hopefully GW will give rules for matched play and maybe Silver tower on there website as well as the usual open play rules for this guy.

Where do you get that name from? From one comment?

Via Nero in the Brueckenkopf-online.de comments



Who would have thought?

Warhams-77 wrote:
Via Nero in the Brueckenkopf-online.de comments



Who would have thought?

Hah! This is great!

Haha amazing!

RazorEdge wrote:
They sould finally release humans ( "real" ones)!

This. This so hard. I don't care at ALL about super human glory boys, and knife eared elfs. I want that good old human blood, sweat, and determination of human endurance to protect home and hearth. It's the reason I loved and collected the empire in WHFB, and the lack of humans fighting ageist the impossible odds in AOS has me heart broken.

Warhams-77 wrote:
Via Nero in the Brueckenkopf-online.de comments



Who would have thought?

It was me, Nagash!

 Lockark wrote:

RazorEdge wrote:
They sould finally release humans ( "real" ones)!

This. This so hard. I don't care at ALL about super human glory boys, and knife eared elfs. I want that good old human blood, sweat, and determination of human endurance to protect home and hearth. It's the reason I loved and collected the empire in WHFB, and the lack of humans fighting ageist the impossible odds in AOS has me heart broken.

I don't know if you can place any stock in their facebook comments but I asked them about seeing more of the devoted of sigmar after the seasons of war and they gave me we will be seeing more of them soonTM. Considering we got a new warrior priest from sliver tower I suspect GW are planning something for them and he can use gryph hounds. Still don't expect it to come any time soon I think.

They are going with the "high" fantasy theme and I kinda feel devoted fits the bill along with still being normal humans so to speak.

Is that a "Ickle" Nagash?

If you look at the original tease there's a few differences with the staff and obligatory impressive bonnet.

Nice idea though, full marks for effort.

Are people really expecting GW to give you gritty "ordinary men" factions? Does that fit with the tone of AoS?

I think it far more likely they'll end up painting them either as brave but ultimately totally helpless and in need of saving by the Mighty Sigmarines, or brave and victorious only because they were so desperate to impress Sigmar in the hope he'll elevate them to become Sigmarines themselves.

That 'new Retro-Nagash' is probably going to be offered only during holiday seasons, aka the Morley's out Edition.

The new hero is a Lord veritant with gryph hound. Price will be $33 apparently.

 Yodhrin wrote:
Are people really expecting GW to give you gritty "ordinary men" factions? Does that fit with the tone of AoS?

I think it far more likely they'll end up painting them either as brave but ultimately totally helpless and in need of saving by the Mighty Sigmarines, or brave and victorious only because they were so desperate to impress Sigmar in the hope he'll elevate them to become Sigmarines themselves.

Considering how they wrote the fluff for bonsplitterz compared to ironjaw's and the general fluff of devoted of sigmar and certain events in a black library novel and campaign book where normal humans end up saving the stormcasts I will have to disagree with you. Plus in silver tower it was the new warrior priest that got everyone to work together to survive well all of them die in the end but I digress.

You can still have humans and fit them into high fantasy I think the devoted of sigmar show that quite well. Hell even stormcast use flagellants they are scary in a horde.

Can I have Mini-Nagash instead of a new Stormcast?

I'm probably kidding myself, since I've bought just about all the Stormcast heroes at retail...

 Mymearan wrote:
Hmmm looks like it might be a Stormcast?

Groan. I wish they'd stop shoving these stupid gold down our throats.

 mdauben wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Hmmm looks like it might be a Stormcast?

Groan. I wish they'd stop shoving these stupid gold down our throats.

It is their flagship line a la Space Marines. Expect it to be the focus forever.

Probably a wizard, as that is the only kind of hero missing from the Stormcast line.

 mdauben wrote:
Groan. I wish they'd stop shoving these stupid gold down our throats.

Anyone else read this and immediately start ad-lib silly stuff in place of ?

As a Stormcast player, we don't need another hero. We already have more heroes than actual army choices.

Though, that said, if it's a Stormcast Wizard, I probably end up buying it. I'd like to have some magic in the list while keeping my Stormcast allegiance.

Requizen wrote:
As a Stormcast player, we don't need another hero. We already have more heroes than actual army choices.

That's going to end up being the case with AoS, it seems. Fyreslayers and a few others are in a similar position.

Realistically, Stormcast as a faction suffer from a big issue in the form of everything being based off the Liberators or Paladins. The Judicators were a missed opportunity for lighter armored Stormcast Eternals or 'local' guerillas from within the Realms to use a preferred example I use when discussing why I'm not a big fan of the Stormcast.

Though, that said, if it's a Stormcast Wizard, I probably end up buying it. I'd like to have some magic in the list while keeping my Stormcast allegiance.

I would be really surprised if it's a Stormcast Wizard. That really looks like it is a Lord Relictor with different weapons to the standard one from the AoS.


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 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 mdauben wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
Hmmm looks like it might be a Stormcast?

Groan. I wish they'd stop shoving these stupid gold down our throats.

It is their flagship line a la Space Marines. Expect it to be the focus forever.

It isn't just a flagship line, it's a new line. There was nothing to be folded into the army or rebadged under the Stormcast Eternals nametag.

So yeah. They're getting a lot of releases here and there. The last Stormcast Eternal release was an exclusive from WHW in the form of the unhelmed Knight-Questor.

Stormcast really don't need mystic shield access within allegiance. Ditto on the overabundance of heroes, especially support-ability heroes (which is all of them minus lord-celestants and venator).

 Hanskrampf wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:
http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/this-weeks-release-new-hero-revealed.html So not an alternate Lord Relictor but a Lord Verstand. Hopefully GW will give rules for matched play and maybe Silver tower on there website as well as the usual open play rules for this guy.

Where do you get that name from? From one comment?

No from the text under the picture. The bit that says that the only other releases are the Baneblade and Shadosword books

Warhams-77 wrote:Via Nero in the Brueckenkopf-online.de comments



Who would have thought?

Might have to eat some crow, not bad. Then agin with GW and Stormcasts out the ying yang what else are we suppose to expect? Hopefully this is new things to come and all Stormcasts every other time will stop now.

No crow for you, friend. That's a fake Photoshop.

Gave me a really good laugh as 4th edition Nagash 2.0.

 nels1031 wrote:
Probably a wizard, as that is the only kind of hero missing from the Stormcast line.

 mdauben wrote:
Groan. I wish they'd stop shoving these stupid gold down our throats.

Anyone else read this and immediately start ad-lib silly stuff in place of ?

I hadn't before but I'm going to do that now. My ab-lib for that one is "sausages".

 shinros wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Are people really expecting GW to give you gritty "ordinary men" factions? Does that fit with the tone of AoS?

I think it far more likely they'll end up painting them either as brave but ultimately totally helpless and in need of saving by the Mighty Sigmarines, or brave and victorious only because they were so desperate to impress Sigmar in the hope he'll elevate them to become Sigmarines themselves.

Considering how they wrote the fluff for bonsplitterz compared to ironjaw's and the general fluff of devoted of sigmar and certain events in a black library novel and campaign book where normal humans end up saving the stormcasts I will have to disagree with you. Plus in silver tower it was the new warrior priest that got everyone to work together to survive well all of them die in the end but I digress.

You can still have humans and fit them into high fantasy I think the devoted of sigmar show that quite well. Hell even stormcast use flagellants they are scary in a horde.

Great comment but spoilers, dude!

Anyway, not sure if "So many Stormcasts" is warranted since it's been a long time since they got anything. Focus on the other factions will arrive, just give GW time.

GoatboyBeta wrote:
http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/this-weeks-release-new-hero-revealed.html So not an alternate Lord Relictor but a Lord Verstand. Hopefully GW will give rules for matched play and maybe Silver tower on there website as well as the usual open play rules for this guy.

When I googled the word "verstand" it came up with the german word for mind as the top result.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Stormcast really don't need mystic shield access within allegiance. Ditto on the overabundance of heroes, especially support-ability heroes (which is all of them minus lord-celestants and venator).

I think you'd be able to get dracoths on 0+ rerollable 1s armour!? (meaning -3 rend before you make a dent lol).

Maybe he'll have a good unique spell too.

Waz looking through the Stormcast battletome, noticed in the diagram of stormhost organization that next to Heraldor and Relictor ranks there is one called 'Valedictor' could that be what we are going to see?