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KoS/N'Kari, new Fiends and a new ranged unit with a Herald option would be great.

 MothCult wrote:
What a wonderful note to get from a witch elf, well ignoring the threat of a gruesome death of course... but yeah, witch elves right.

As much as I don't care for Slaanesh (never have) I'm really eager to see his/hers update, its been a long time coming and GW have
done a pretty great job so far with the other three chaos gods in the Age of Sigmar setting. Now lets see if GW can temp me with
a Slannesh release at last.

*crosses arms*

Well, I'm waiting.

There is a quite a fun one in the new rule book - its a Freeguild soldier fighting alongside the DofK and he is mooning over them after seeing them in the arena etc etc, then he sees them slicing and dicing the Orcks. One gets knocked down and he goes to her assistance, she smiles at him as he helps her up, then stabs him to death

I'd expect totally new units along the lines of a new basic troop unit like the Bloodbound and how they compared to basic Marauders.

Wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of heavy infantry like Blightkings and the like as well.

I imagine Slaanesh will be used to herald 2019 like Nurgle did this year and Tzeentch before that. Probably will also kick off the aelven plot as Soul Wars concludes.

Biggest question, which got pointed out on it's respected thread, what's gonna happen to ShadeSpire (a city full of trapped souls and floating next to Slaanesh's prison) when Slaanesh breaks free? I imagine it's gonna be quite hungry after centuries of getting it's stomach pumped...

 Mr Morden wrote:

 MothCult wrote:
What a wonderful note to get from a witch elf, well ignoring the threat of a gruesome death of course... but yeah, witch elves right.

As much as I don't care for Slaanesh (never have) I'm really eager to see his/hers update, its been a long time coming and GW have
done a pretty great job so far with the other three chaos gods in the Age of Sigmar setting. Now lets see if GW can temp me with
a Slannesh release at last.

*crosses arms*

Well, I'm waiting.

There is a quite a fun one in the new rule book - its a Freeguild soldier fighting alongside the DofK and he is mooning over them after seeing them in the arena etc etc, then he sees them slicing and dicing the Orcks. One gets knocked down and he goes to her assistance, she smiles at him as he helps her up, then stabs him to death

That's a pity but predictable, he made contact with a berserker in the midst of their blood rage. Safer to feed a squig by hand which is covered in gravy.

Oddly, I think most people aren't actually reading what I'm saying. 

Yeah, sorry man, I completely misinterpreted what you were saying too.

No worries Klatz

Baron Klatz wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:


There is a quite a fun one in the new rule book - its a Freeguild soldier fighting alongside the DofK and he is mooning over them after seeing them in the arena etc etc, then he sees them slicing and dicing the Orcks. One gets knocked down and he goes to her assistance, she smiles at him as he helps her up, then stabs him to death

That's a pity but predictable, he made contact with a berserker in the midst of their blood rage. Safer to feed a squig by hand which is covered in gravy.

Honestly my impression is that Witch Aelves are not berserker's, instead I think they walk as close to the edge of pure joy and ecstasy in battle as you can get without falling to Slaanesh. They train endlessly for battle and revel in it when engaged showing perfect body control to dance their wild bloody dance for their god. They also see prowess in battle almost akin to an ork in that whoever wins is the greater and that is the goal (or at least one of them). So I'd say when they turn on allies is not so much a berserker madness that hazes their perception, but rather that they are fully within their element, living exactly as they have trained and desired and built their life up to this moment and within that moment martial prowess and fighting are key.

Chances are its only continual training that prevents them falling into fighting each other, that training side by side allows them to focus upon the enemy so that even though they've lost all rank and file, they can still work as a single force. Of course allies don't train side by side with Witch Aelves in the temples, thus in battle, when the rapture of fighting is upon a Witch Aelf, they are as deadly to allies as they are to their foes.

Ahhh almost forgot Gorbad is going on order this weekend. Would hate to miss him, one of the best sculpts and paintjobs GW has ever done fight me.

Such empty sprues for the Craven King while the ETB ones are stuffed close to bursting. Looks like a missed opportunity to give alternate heads and trappings for his heralds or more ghosts to swirl around him. At online discount prices everything new is tempting this week, but I don't know how to expand my ~1000 points of Nighthaunt yet. My starter arrived just an hour ago, I can't preorder more right away Especially after buying a box of Grimghasts yesterday.

If the rumoured Slaanesh stuff and the Grotz are as well done...have mercy. But my 6th ed Orc pieates might need a few new Gobbo friends. Or squigs?!

If Grotbag Scuttlers are anything like what I expect I'll be jumping on them for sure. A whole reboot for Grots in general would be great. Maybe like Legions of Nagash where there are multiple allegiances in the same book, just make them actual faction allegiances rather than free upgrades for no restriction (seriously generic Death allegiance may as well not exist anymore; Legions include nearly everything anyways).

Picked up Khalida, Settra, Gorbad and Zacharius. Waiting for more mto Tomb Kings now.

Listening to Callis & Toll: The Silver Shard audiobook while I paint the Chompyface Endless Spell.

Half way in and its been absolute fun. Currently just finished listening to some Scourge Privateers doing some monster hunting while they escort the titular characters to a trading port seemingly run by Kharadron Overlords. Its going to be interesting to see(hopefully) the Scourge Privateers interact with the KO.

 nels1031 wrote:
Listening to Callis & Toll: The Silver Shard audiobook while I paint the Chompyface Endless Spell.

Half way in and its been absolute fun. Currently just finished listening to some Scourge Privateers doing some monster hunting while they escort the titular characters to a trading port seemingly run by Kharadron Overlords. Its going to be interesting to see(hopefully) the Scourge Privateers interact with the KO.

Ahhh didn't even realise that was out, awesome!

That sounds like it would be an interesting interaction indeed.

Next week is back to AoS (along with Killteam)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/22/coming-next-week/

Pre-Order 28th July

Aventis Firestrike, Grand Magister of Hammerhal/ Lord-Arcanum on Tauralon (Lord Arcanum can be built on foot if you build Aventis)
Stormcast Eternals Sequitors

Black Coach
Chainrasps (Soul Wars push fit kit sold separately)

Every time I see that Tauralon model I keep hoping that GW revises some of the other mounts in the game - I'd really love to see the new sculpting team do some cold-ones (er draks) and heck give Daughters' of Khaine (or at least dark elves alliance block) some new awesome mounts (and yes I'm aware that one can already take some awesome eels and a huge turtle and a freaking shark)

I dunno, I think the Dark Elf Cold Ones are some of the best looking mounts GW has made, even as old as they are.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I dunno, I think the Dark Elf Cold Ones are some of the best looking mounts GW has made, even as old as they are.

They are good models don't get me wrong - but the poses are far less dynamic than some of the newer mounts. I also want to see GW introduce more mount/beast species for other factions. They've made a lot of noise in Sigmar about big monsters and beasts roaming the lands and its clear that they want to push Sigmar as being far more modern high-fantasy in terms of beasts and monsters and fantasy elements; whilst original Fantasy was actually fairly "low fantasy" in many respects (esp going back to its roots). Old High Elves were mostly spearmen, archers, bolt throwers, one dragon and a unicorn or two here and there. We saw changes near the end of fantasy with things like the deer riders - but Sigmar has really opened this up even more.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I dunno, I think the Dark Elf Cold Ones are some of the best looking mounts GW has made, even as old as they are.

Dorghar the horse says hello.

But seriously now, all this mess with uber-magical beasts and what not makes me wish severely for new models on actual horses.

Edit: or at least mounts that don't have the "here's a hyper magical beast on steroids we've just pulled out of our behinds with no actual connection to the world and lore and no range continuity and signature feel" air around them. Cold ones are cool though, and have (or rather had ) a special place in the dark elf range.

 DaveC wrote:
Next week is back to AoS (along with Killteam)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/22/coming-next-week/

Pre-Order 28th July

Aventis Firestrike, Grand Magister of Hammerhal/ Lord-Arcanum on Tauralon (Lord Arcanum can be built on foot if you build Aventis)
Stormcast Eternals Sequitors

Black Coach
Chainrasps (Soul Wars push fit kit sold separately)

I really didn't expect to see Chainrasps this quickly!

Nice, the Coach hits the day before I leave on summer vacation, so I'll have something to build in the evenings.

I'm still just waiting for the extra pack of dracoline riders :/. People didn't believe me at how long this release was going to stretch....well they do now. People claimed this was going to take up the whole month of June and that they would put off the 40k stuff. NOPE.

so that leaves ... 2 units for nighthaunt & 1 unit for groundamarines, as well as 1 hero missing for each.
... if we are lucky that's one week and we are done with it ... we need ork leaks direly af

 aracersss wrote:
so that leaves ... 2 units for nighthaunt & 1 unit for groundamarines, as well as 1 hero missing for each.
... if we are lucky that's one week and we are done with it ... we need ork leaks direly af

Nighthaunt will still be missing the following outside of the Soul Wars box

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed
Guardian of Souls
Lord Executioner
Bladegheist Revenants
Dreadscythe Harridans

 Ghaz wrote:

Nighthaunt will still be missing the following outside of the Soul Wars box

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed
Guardian of Souls
Lord Executioner
Bladegheist Revenants
Dreadscythe Harridans

the only reason they took the core out of the starter set was for the sake of giving an option to customers outside of paying full price just for core ... the rest might get individual blisters, but idk
,,, the executioner is getting a new different model so that's probably it for the one in soul wars, and the one with the lamp is getting a new one for store anniversaries

 aracersss wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

Nighthaunt will still be missing the following outside of the Soul Wars box

Knight of Shrouds on Ethereal Steed
Guardian of Souls
Lord Executioner
Bladegheist Revenants
Dreadscythe Harridans

the only reason they took the core out of the starter set was for the sake of giving an option to customers outside of paying full price just for core ... the rest might get individual blisters, but idk
,,, the executioner is getting a new different model so that's probably it for the one in soul wars, and the one with the lamp is getting a new one for store anniversaries

The Knight of Shrouds, Guardian of Souls, and Spirit Torment are all on the same frame. The Chainrasp Hordes are also on their own unique frame.

It wouldn't be unheard of for them to release the frame by itself as they did for Vandus Hammerhand and Khul and the Bloodsecrator. Hell, I'm actually expecting the Start Collecting set for Nighthaunts to include that frame and the Chainrasps.

Additionally for anyone interested:

That's the as yet unreleased Lord Executioner.

 Overread wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I dunno, I think the Dark Elf Cold Ones are some of the best looking mounts GW has made, even as old as they are.

They are good models don't get me wrong - but the poses are far less dynamic than some of the newer mounts. I also want to see GW introduce more mount/beast species for other factions. They've made a lot of noise in Sigmar about big monsters and beasts roaming the lands and its clear that they want to push Sigmar as being far more modern high-fantasy in terms of beasts and monsters and fantasy elements; whilst original Fantasy was actually fairly "low fantasy" in many respects (esp going back to its roots). Old High Elves were mostly spearmen, archers, bolt throwers, one dragon and a unicorn or two here and there. We saw changes near the end of fantasy with things like the deer riders - but Sigmar has really opened this up even more.

But Saurus Knight cold ones are so awesome looking!!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I dunno, I think the Dark Elf Cold Ones are some of the best looking mounts GW has made, even as old as they are.

They are good models don't get me wrong - but the poses are far less dynamic than some of the newer mounts. I also want to see GW introduce more mount/beast species for other factions. They've made a lot of noise in Sigmar about big monsters and beasts roaming the lands and its clear that they want to push Sigmar as being far more modern high-fantasy in terms of beasts and monsters and fantasy elements; whilst original Fantasy was actually fairly "low fantasy" in many respects (esp going back to its roots). Old High Elves were mostly spearmen, archers, bolt throwers, one dragon and a unicorn or two here and there. We saw changes near the end of fantasy with things like the deer riders - but Sigmar has really opened this up even more.

But Saurus Knight cold ones are so awesome looking!!

The Saurus Knight mounts really need to be rejigged--the riders too, I think.

 Overread wrote:
whilst original Fantasy was actually fairly "low fantasy" in many respects (esp going back to its roots).

Maybe in Oldhammer/Midhammer, but even the era most people are nostalgic for these days had stuff like Demigryph and Pegasus Knights

Will be interesting to see how the chainrasp are priced. I lapped up a ton of them on eBay prelaunch at around £14 per 20 posted and now own 160 of them.

The horde army that negates the big issue hordes have: blocking each other.

Not to mention bravery 10 and unmodifued save 5+. I've already played a couple of games where 80 of them just materialise , one or both get lucky with a 10+ charge and carnage ensues.

New Age of Sigmar FAQs:

Age of Sigmar Designer's Commentary

Battletome Stormcast Eternals Errata

Battletome Stormcast Eternals Designer's Commentary

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