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Why would Arkhan turn up? YOu're asking that question, seriously?

Did you neevr wonder where Arkhan came from?

I've read the books Nosferatu, and Arkhan was Nagash's main man for a long time before he became disgraced. Then he threw his lot in with the Queen of Lahmia.

Point is, he's always been a enemy of Khemri and never their ally. Makes no sense he's an IC in a TK book.

Thunderfrog wrote:I've read the books Nosferatu, and Arkhan was Nagash's main man for a long time before he became disgraced. Then he threw his lot in with the Queen of Lahmia.

Point is, he's always been a enemy of Khemri and never their ally. Makes no sense he's an IC in a TK book.

lol can he take the vampire lores?

Thunderfrog wrote:I've read the books Nosferatu, and Arkhan was Nagash's main man for a long time before he became disgraced. Then he threw his lot in with the Queen of Lahmia.

Point is, he's always been a enemy of Khemri and never their ally. Makes no sense he's an IC in a TK book.

Might just be a simple case of ret-conning then.. I mean GW owns the fluff they can do what they want (Im looking at you Matthew Ward)

There is a rumor that in the second wave they are replacing the core skeleton model. If GW has made a mistake anywhere this would be it. How do you build your new/old TK army without buying skeletons? I plan on buying several battalions and just putting the new skeletons in front.

Meanwhile to answer your question directly, everyone who makes models makes skeletons, it is one of the most base models out there.
http://www.reapermini.com/

Or if you just like cool figs:
https://www.crocodilegames.com/index.cfm

Or mantic? Their skeletons are cheap and MUCH better than GW

They're certainly cheaper but better is a bit of a preference thing.

I have 60 mantic skellies, but tbh i probably prefer the old GW skellies with TK bits, especially when using the new Tomb Guard swords. I think its those goofy eyebrows that put me off the most (and there are a few areas that are flat esp. the shields)

However, this has been discussed before so i shall leave it there, apologies for going OT.


Really excited now, just finished getting up to the last page (86!) on Warseer but cant be bothered to post everything.

Frgt/10 wrote:Quick update from me:

There are a few more models to be shown: the necrotect, prince apophas, and the ushabti with great bows. All are metal models. These are more than likely the week three...

Ushabti sculpts are similar to current but not the same. Prince is made of scarabs, can fly and has a S2 breath weapon apparently.

Also note that the Bone Giant isnt represented picture-wise in the new book.

Hierophant has Regen 6+ and gives it to the unit hes in.

I think the stalkers look creepy and intimdating, great models! The knights, on the other hand, look incredibly goofy mainly due to the crazy-looking riders, as has been pointed out. But at least they are not simply boring and plain...on a snake.

> TK now has a VC ability

I've been an Undead payer since before the VC/TK split and back then the WS-boosting ability was a TK thing, not a VC thing. If anything, we're getting our ability back from the Nagash-lovers.

> Arkhan appearing

Awesome. I'm genuinely pleased to see him, we can kill him again. He uses our army list? Well yeah, that's no surprise given that Nagash and the TK basically had the same kind of forces. It's kinda like a Daemonhost-heavy radical *cough heretic cough* Maleus army being built from the same codex as a pure Grey Knights force.

My LGS got the models, but no army book.

Kirasu wrote:

Thunderfrog wrote:I've read the books Nosferatu, and Arkhan was Nagash's main man for a long time before he became disgraced. Then he threw his lot in with the Queen of Lahmia.

Point is, he's always been a enemy of Khemri and never their ally. Makes no sense he's an IC in a TK book.

Might just be a simple case of ret-conning then.. I mean GW owns the fluff they can do what they want (Im looking at you Matthew Ward)

The thing is, the Nagash Books are from the very recent Time of Legends series, so it's not like they're changing 10 year old fluff (Well, they're changing that too, but still). Just odd that they're doing something that would be roughly equivalent of letting a Space Wolf army play with Ahriman.

So GW put a a video of Cruddace talking about the tomb kings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qipsvd75y8&feature=player_embedded


Question: I think someone mentioned Ushabti with Bows. If you look in the Video there is a unit of what looks like Ushabti on the upper left hand side of the board.

I do not know the tomb king range well, but it appears that two of the ushabti are holding weapons in one hand with the weapon vertical.
The pictures online of the ushabti all have them holding two handed weapons Mostly Horizontally.

Could this be a sneak peak at the Ushabti with Bows?

you can see the codex, it came with the black box

Currious about something now. On GW's Whats new for today, Where it mentions Kalida, and says she makes the archers all have poison.. could it be she still gives that to all archer units, not just one she joins?

I always loved the ushabti models, I just wish they woulda plastified them instead of making the snake thingies.. although I don't mind the regular snakes, but the skeleton surfers look kinda silly.

Can't imagine ushabti archers though, I prefer them being hard hitting great weapon statue things.

stratassj wrote:Currious about something now. On GW's Whats new for today, Where it mentions Kalida, and says she makes the archers all have poison.. could it be she still gives that to all archer units, not just one she joins?

It doesn't say that. It states "since she can make my archers' arrows Poisoned" which is kind of sad.

Necros wrote:I always loved the ushabti models, I just wish they woulda plastified them instead of making the snake thingies.. although I don't mind the regular snakes, but the skeleton surfers look kinda silly.

Can't imagine ushabti archers though, I prefer them being hard hitting great weapon statue things.

I think that you can see the new Ushabti Archers in the video for the What's New today. they are on the upper left of the board.

I went up to my LGS and all they have is the Sphinx sprue. No army book or Knights/Stalkers sprue yet.

LazzurusMan wrote:Hey, this might sound heretical, but does anyone know where i can get alternative skeletons for TK? I love the new models and rules, but i can't stand the old skeletons. Can anyone help???

Mix old skeletons with new tomb guard bits.

you can see the codex, it came with the black box

That is usually the case, but not this time. The books are held up in customs and did not make it into the Black Boxes, at least not in the USA.

Amaya wrote:Has anyone even seen the codex yet?

Magus Nebula wrote:you can see the codex, it came with the black box

There is no Codex Tomb Kings, only an army book. And it hasn't been with the Black Box in Germany and USA.

Kroothawk wrote:

Amaya wrote:Has anyone even seen the codex yet?

Magus Nebula wrote:you can see the codex, it came with the black box

There is no Codex Tomb Kings, only an army book. And it hasn't been with the Black Box in Germany and USA.

People use the terms interchangeably because both describe materials that are essentially the same.

Kroothawk wrote:
There is no Codex Tomb Kings, only an army book. And it hasn't been with the Black Box in Germany and USA.

Add Finland to that list also, checked the local GW today and no army book there either.
What's the situation in the UK?

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edit: typo

Sorry guys, I had intended to call my local shop earlier, time got away from me. I shall call in the morning and update.

Amaya wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:

Amaya wrote:Has anyone even seen the codex yet?

Magus Nebula wrote:you can see the codex, it came with the black box

There is no Codex Tomb Kings, only an army book. And it hasn't been with the Black Box in Germany and USA.

People use the terms interchangeably because both describe materials that are essentially the same.

It's still wrong, though.

kirsanth wrote:

stratassj wrote:Currious about something now. On GW's Whats new for today, Where it mentions Kalida, and says she makes the archers all have poison.. could it be she still gives that to all archer units, not just one she joins?

It doesn't say that. It states "since she can make my archers' arrows Poisoned" which is kind of sad.

Ahh yes but he then goes on to say he would include her in a unit of tomb guard, hinting that she does make all of the archers have poisoned arrows.


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Also on the video I think the two models to the right of the screen on the skull scenery are new Liche(sp?) priests and there's an IC at the front which might be the guy that gives constructs regeneration (cant remember what they are called)
Oh and also I'm guessing the ushabti archers are in metal? as they pointed out the new plastic kits.
Unless there keeping the other releases we haven't properly seen yet under wraps.

Good catch. . .here is to hoping you are correct. She was my first Tomb Kings model, and I am building an army around her anyway.

Yeah she was my first TK model too haha, an excellent one to say how long ago it was sculpted too.

Anyone that's seen the sphinx for reals know if it's something that you could magnetize, like swap the beasty head for the big torso, and swap the wings for the howdah on the back? Kinda looks like there's a separation right above the front legs where you could swap stuff around

I wouldn't see why not, might just need a lot of magnets, not entirely sure though because iv never tried it before