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The rim at the top of the blade bears a resemblance to a khopesh so I'm going way out on this limb over here to tentatively suggest that it might possibly be for Tomb Kings.

If it’s dark eldar, I’m thinking a Grotesque’s cleaver.

Looks like some credibility to the Ossiarch Bonereaper Warcry rumor.

Isn't there already a leg like that in the RE?

Cool, an undead chicken standing on a Fimir skull.

The elusive non horned plaguebearer skull 😳

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Isn't there already a leg like that in the RE?

We’ve had a tattered, boney wing which is quite possibly part of the same whole.

That's Flesh Eater Courts for sure!

 Astmeister wrote:
That's Flesh Eater Courts for sure!

Has FEC had anything skeletal though? They’re not really undead/necromantic

I guess zombie dragons and terrorgheist?

Either undead something for AOS/Warcry/Underworlds or some animal for Necromunda.

Someone pointed out that FEC is the only AoS faction missing in 3rd edition.

Flesheater Courts are insane vampires - they do have skeletal units such the zombiedragon and terrorghast. In theory they can access almost anything Soulblight can, save for a lack of professional armour smiths and any ghosts.

The other thing is that because some kits are shared with Soulblight, an update on something like a Terrorgast would update both armies

Valraks rumour for Old World- a Liche riding a dragon for the tomb kings set- could work with the wings etc..

 Astmeister wrote:
Someone pointed out that FEC is the only AoS faction missing in 3rd edition.

Yeah, and we know it's coming. We also had an entire unit leaked for them via a literal sprue.

There's a WarCry release coming in the winter, with Order and Death being the 2 factions noted.

Out of the Death factions? Only Ossiarchs and Nighthaunt are missing a warband now. Bonereapers are the most likely culprit for this model, as there's been a rumor for awhile of them getting "skeletal bowmen"...and a bird to go with them wouldn't be remiss!

Although they could throw an entire curveball, and have it be a warband of Deathrattle Skeletons. There's a mention of "grim skeletal woodsmen" in the most recent Gravelords book.

I assumed this was a Tzeentch unit since it's a bird leg and standing a plaguebearer skull.

 silverstu wrote:
Valraks rumour for Old World- a Liche riding a dragon for the tomb kings set- could work with the wings etc..

The problem with that being that the Tomb Kings in WHFB haven't had a dragon since they were spun off from the combined Undead list.

Doesn't mean that one can't be added, of course. But I find it odd as a roll-out item, which is where Valrak believes it will appear.

 Scottywan82 wrote:
I assumed this was a Tzeentch unit since it's a bird leg and standing a plaguebearer skull.

It's definitely avian-ish in terms of build, but Tzeentch isn't known for bone?

Didn’t the TK of old have a zombie vulture unit?

It potentially could be a new carrion, but that Fimir-looking skull under foot makes me think otherwise.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Didn’t the TK of old have a zombie vulture unit?

It was reimagined as an endless spell for Bonereapers

KROOOOOOOT!

Yea just pulled out my Blackstone Fortress guy, that thing is 1000% Kroot.

And since we already have Kill Team Kroot, this is probably a main game release.

Defo Kroot gun

Krootox could do with a plastic update...

All the Kroot could, though you can use the kill team kit as regular warriors I suppose.

Despite the singular lack of anything to properly judge the scale by?

I am thinking Krootox Krootgun. It looks chunky, and unlike an infantry rifle, the blades are conspicuous by their absence.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Despite the singular lack of anything to properly judge the scale by?

I am thinking Krootox Krootgun. It looks chunky, and unlike an infantry rifle, the blades are conspicuous by their absence.

Also it appears to be double-barrelled which might be a callback to its old basically-an-autocannon rules.

I would still love to see GW do to Kroot what they did to Genestealers. Keep a core of Kroot models in the Tau army; but then take those same models and separate them out into their own army complete with even more alien allies for them.

With how diverse and dominant, but visually and mechanically, the battlesuit style Tau have become; it just makes so much creative sense to let the Kroot become the core of a Xeno allied force of other races working with the Tau. Far more than squeezing them into the army and ending up with it overloaded.

Hopefully a Kroot HQ unit.

 Overread wrote:
I would still love to see GW do to Kroot what they did to Genestealers. Keep a core of Kroot models in the Tau army; but then take those same models and separate them out into their own army complete with even more alien allies for them.

With how diverse and dominant, but visually and mechanically, the battlesuit style Tau have become; it just makes so much creative sense to let the Kroot become the core of a Xeno allied force of other races working with the Tau. Far more than squeezing them into the army and ending up with it overloaded.

I was thinking more along the lines of harlequin