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I'm very disappointed none of the guys who got WD up until now didn't notice the alleigance ability of the KBB:

On the subject of the Skaven possibly being Tzeentch and/or Nurgle's creation.

I kind of like that idea.

'Hey Bro! Let's create a race together, patch things up between us. I'll give them my sneakiness, you give them your fecundity'

'OK Bro. I agree'

15 minutes later

'OH GOD WHY WON'T THEY STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER! Let's never do this again'

'It's your fault'

'No, it's yours'

'Yours'

'Yours'

Ad infinitum.

Lord Kragan wrote:
I'm very disappointed none of the guys who got WD up until now didn't notice the alleigance ability of the KBB:

Didn't read that bit yet Very cool that they're re-using the Khorne Bloodbound mechanic though, AFAIK 40k players really liked it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
On the subject of the Skaven possibly being Tzeentch and/or Nurgle's creation.

I kind of like that idea.

'Hey Bro! Let's create a race together, patch things up between us. I'll give them my sneakiness, you give them your fecundity'

'OK Bro. I agree'

15 minutes later

'OH GOD WHY WON'T THEY STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER! Let's never do this again'

'It's your fault'

'No, it's yours'

'Yours'

'Yours'

Ad infinitum.

Never understood why they never made the jump to 40K they would have been a great faction in Necromunda, and/or a cool idea for 40k campaigns that if on a world, the skaven would start to become troublesome you knew that chaos was about to invade.

Well, weren't the Hrud originally Space Skaven?

I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

In exactly the same way as the old fantasy armies faced down Dwarf gun lines, Skaven Jezzails and Warp Lightning Cannons etc?

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

In exactly the same way as the old fantasy armies faced down Dwarf gun lines, Skaven Jezzails and Warp Lightning Cannons etc?

Sorry. I didn't make my point clear. Some of the new AoS armies look like they have advanced technologically in the intervening years since the old world (as expected) but other don't. Much like sending a modern day army after say, vikings.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

In exactly the same way as the old fantasy armies faced down Dwarf gun lines, Skaven Jezzails and Warp Lightning Cannons etc?

Sorry. I didn't make my point clear. Some of the new AoS armies look like they have advanced technologically in the intervening years since the old world (as expected) but other don't. Much like sending a modern day army after say, vikings.

Again, same point still stands. In old fantasy the Dwarfs already had flying machines of various types and the Skaven could be argued to be the most "advanced" technologically. Even if crap did blow up regularly. And their primary opponent was usually Lizardmen and Orcs' who's most advanced weapons were most commonly blowpipes and clubs, bows etc.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

Ranges in AoS tend to be fairly short - so whilst a shooty army can be a pain to deal with, it's far harder for them to simply gunline you to death.

Me, I'm interested to see what the Clans Skryre have been up to, especially given the old technological triumvate....

Dwarfs - we invented it. We tested it. Extensively. This design is the optimal balance between effectiveness and reliability. Everything is measured. Everything is know.

Man - The Dwarfs invented it. We put more blackpowder in it because we need to hit hard. We'll test it on the battlefield.

Skaven - OUR THINGS! PUT WARPSTONE IN IT! MUCH-MANY KILL-SLAY! IF BLOW UP, BLAME UNDERLINGS! WE HAVE NO REGARD FOR THE SANCTITY OF LIFE!

Actually the visuals of a medieval army charging a high-tech dwarf Sky Fleet makes me want to have Brets back even harder. Imagine Pegasi knights cutting support beams from frigates, a Hippogryph eating the balloon dudes and massed knights charging a gunline while the earth trembles under the weight of horse and the impact of cannonballs.

A setting that wants to be over the top is incomplete until some guy goes "screw technology, saddle my horse" out of sheer conviction.

You fire your Rifle but I run you through.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

 Binabik15 wrote:
Actually the visuals of a medieval army charging a high-tech dwarf Sky Fleet makes me want to have Brets back even harder. Imagine Pegasi knights cutting support beams from frigates, a Hippogryph eating the balloon dudes and massed knights charging a gunline while the earth trembles under the weight of horse and the impact of cannonballs.

A setting that wants to be over the top is incomplete until some guy goes "screw technology, saddle my horse" out of sheer conviction.

My Ironjawz approve I'm curious to see what their fancy dwarven armor thinks of MASSIVE CHUNKS OF IRON

You know, I'm working on some WW1/Weimar Republic inspired "firefighters" to act as a non-combat battlefield rescue team that transports wounded to the care of a Ordo Hospitaler Sororita (that I found for dirt cheap right after I got the idea, that had to be destiny ) just to have team/use as a kill team. That made me buy Battlefield 1. And there the mechanics have a spanner-hammer combi-tool (an idea I stole for my guys). Now the Kharadron dudes have a spanner-axe weapon. And WW1 rifle-grenades. And bigass cross-hairs like WW1 AA guns.

It.all.fits.

It's like a grand conspiracy to take my money. Especially since I bought bits to finish my pirate Orcs (with steampunk stuff I haven't gotten around to build yet!) after ten years of cabinet dust-gathering just before the sky dwarfs were announced. And some of their bits would be just perfect to finish me mateys.

I still need new knights, though.

PS: The upcoming DG will help with that, though, more bits to convert my Nurgle demons into Knights since I'm almost out of Bret bits and Blight Kings are too obvious to source bits from.

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
On the subject of the Skaven possibly being Tzeentch and/or Nurgle's creation.

I kind of like that idea.

'Hey Bro! Let's create a race together, patch things up between us. I'll give them my sneakiness, you give them your fecundity'

'OK Bro. I agree'

15 minutes later

'OH GOD WHY WON'T THEY STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER! Let's never do this again'

'It's your fault'

'No, it's yours'

'Yours'

'Yours'

Ad infinitum.

Never understood why they never made the jump to 40K they would have been a great faction in Necromunda, and/or a cool idea for 40k campaigns that if on a world, the skaven would start to become troublesome you knew that chaos was about to invade.

That's a great idea! Kind of like geneCult, but for chaos!

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
I imagine the Skaven will be laden with guns much like the new flying dwarfs. How are the older more generic looking fantasy models (such as Lizardmen and Undead) going to fare against some very 40k-esque crossover armies?

In exactly the same way as the old fantasy armies faced down Dwarf gun lines, Skaven Jezzails and Warp Lightning Cannons etc?

Sorry. I didn't make my point clear. Some of the new AoS armies look like they have advanced technologically in the intervening years since the old world (as expected) but other don't. Much like sending a modern day army after say, vikings.

So chaos warriors versus dwarfs? Nah, they'll handle it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
On the subject of the Skaven possibly being Tzeentch and/or Nurgle's creation.

I kind of like that idea.

'Hey Bro! Let's create a race together, patch things up between us. I'll give them my sneakiness, you give them your fecundity'

'OK Bro. I agree'

15 minutes later

'OH GOD WHY WON'T THEY STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER! Let's never do this again'

'It's your fault'

'No, it's yours'

'Yours'

'Yours'

Ad infinitum.

This right here. This is how it needs to be.

I would have loved for the horned rat to be what the skaven call chaos, and have have it as a representative of the gods. Mostly Nurgle and Tzeentch but a little bit of khorne and slaanesh too.

Great ideas here too. I would love for clan skyre to go all hi tech. Meanwhile I do hope future human releases are more on the bretonian side than the empire.

Table of contents for Blades of Khorne, from the Age of Sigmar FB page:

That seems to be everything they have when it comes to Khorne as far as I can tell, or did they leave anything out?

I feel like the names for the Rules and Battalions are all the same as existing 40k Rules and Detachments/Formations haha. Not that that's a bad thing, it's consistent at least.

 Ghaz wrote:
Table of contents for Blades of Khorne, from the Age of Sigmar FB page:

Spoiler:

Doesn't look like any new lore for the Bloodbound. Disappointing, but to be expected. Can't wait to see the Blood Blessings of Khorne and the Skullfiend Tribe (how I painted my army, so no WYSIWYG complaints!) battalion!

Am I being blind, or is the Slaughterbrute not on that list?

SKULLFIEND TRIBE! WOO!

Yea, way too excited for that, but its my chosen tribe and it straight up is getting a battalion. Sweeeeeeeet!

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Am I being blind, or is the Slaughterbrute not on that list?

Nope. It's a Monster of Chaos, so it has to be summoned I think.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Am I being blind, or is the Slaughterbrute not on that list?

Weirdly those don't have any Khorne or Daemon keywords, I don't believe.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Am I being blind, or is the Slaughterbrute not on that list?

No, its not on that list just like the Mutalith Vortex Beast is not in the Disciples of Tzeentch battletome.

Slaughterbrute doesn't have the Khorne keyword so it's not part of the allegience, thematic or not. There may be a way to summon one, of course.

If my old Lore knowledge was correct, wasn't the Great Horned Rat a Great Demon of Nurgle that wanted to be his own chaos God and just maked a race of mutan rat beastmen to serve him?

And a Shame they don't put the Slaugtherbrute in this. I have one that I love to use in my khorne army

 Galas wrote:
If my old Lore knowledge was correct, wasn't the Great Horned Rat a Great Demon of Nurgle that wanted to be his own chaos God and just maked a race of mutan rat beastmen to serve him?

And a Shame they don't put the Slaugtherbrute in this. I have one that I love to use in my khorne army

There is no such Lore. It's all conjecture and supposition.

And that Book will make a player in my local group very happy.

sorry for what i am sure is a repeat question but what is blades of khorne?
something different than the boodbound book?

man GW loves them some khorne and this is coming from a khorne player...