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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else

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 ImAGeek wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Nurgle has 2. Blightkings and Pusgoyles. Khorne has 3 or 4, and Tzeentch has 3 including Tzaangor stuff.

Slaanesh has 1 basic non-mounted troop choice, and only 1 choice full stop if you don’t want to go Daemons.
Forgot about them because they are just worse plague drones

Khorne has like 50% more dedicated warscrolls than Nurgle or Tzeentch so he's kind of off on his own level.

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Ok, so how come GW can't give us a blight king like troop? I mean nurgle has a mounted option and foot option. I would be happy with just that since you could fill the rest of the gaps with the new daemons.
They could, and it would be nice. It sucks that mortals did not get a new dedicated unit.


So would it be unrealistic to at least expect ONE new mortal troop choice? GW are the ones who set the precedent due to the previous god releases.
   
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 shinros wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Ok, so how come GW can't give us a blight king like troop? I mean nurgle has a mounted option and foot option. I would be happy with just that since you could fill the rest of the gaps with the new daemons.
They could, and it would be nice. It sucks that mortals did not get a new dedicated unit.


So would it be unrealistic to at least expect ONE new mortal troop choice? GW are the ones who set the precedent due to the previous god releases.
It would not be unrealistic, and I am surprised they did not do any new mortals.

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 Overread wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


The only one people seem to be disappointed about is that there’s not a new mortal troop. No one is asking for a Gloomspite sized release, just a new unit. Tzeentch got 3 new units alongside their ‘not small fry’ greater daemon.
   
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 ImAGeek wrote:
 Overread wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


The only one people seem to be disappointed about is that there’s not a new mortal troop. No one is asking for a Gloomspite sized release, just a new unit. Tzeentch got 3 new units alongside their ‘not small fry’ greater daemon.
Which I think is fine. What I find ridiculous is getting 4 brand new models, a resculpt, endless spells, a terrain piece, a new battletome with all the artifacts/traits/battalions that entails and the response is only complaining about a lack of mortals. Even a non-StD, mortal-only player still gets the benefits of a battletome at the very least.

Also note that while Nurgle and Tzeentch can be run as non-StD, mortal-only, they are not actually viable that way barring a Glottkin/Blight Cyst. Mono-daemon Nurgle is poor too, whereas Tzeentch can reasonably do mono-daemon and Slaanesh has the best set of daemon options. Khorne is the only god that can go both ways, which come to think of it is rather ironic...

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 ImAGeek wrote:
 Overread wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


The only one people seem to be disappointed about is that there’s not a new mortal troop. No one is asking for a Gloomspite sized release, just a new unit. Tzeentch got 3 new units alongside their ‘not small fry’ greater daemon.
Which I think is fine. What I find ridiculous is getting 4 brand new models, a resculpt, endless spells, a terrain piece, a new battletome with all the artifacts/traits/battalions that entails and the response is only complaining about a lack of mortals.


New unit variety is obviously a dealbreaker for some, regardless of what else we got. Don’t see a problem with that, new characters and stuff is cool but if the core of the army doesn’t appeal and there was a chance it was gonna be expanded on, I can understand disappointment. Hell, they even showed art with new mortals in, and said there was more coming, and it just turned out to be the alternative build of the KoS.
   
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 ImAGeek wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 ImAGeek wrote:
 Overread wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


The only one people seem to be disappointed about is that there’s not a new mortal troop. No one is asking for a Gloomspite sized release, just a new unit. Tzeentch got 3 new units alongside their ‘not small fry’ greater daemon.
Which I think is fine. What I find ridiculous is getting 4 brand new models, a resculpt, endless spells, a terrain piece, a new battletome with all the artifacts/traits/battalions that entails and the response is only complaining about a lack of mortals.


New unit variety is obviously a dealbreaker for some, regardless of what else we got. Don’t see a problem with that, new characters and stuff is cool but if the core of the
army doesn’t appeal and there was a chance it was gonna be expanded on, I can understand disappointment. Hell, they even showed art with new mortals in, and said there was more coming, and it just turned out to be the alternative build of the KoS.


Honestly I think when they get around to EC they are most likely going to give the AOS army their cultist options. Like how thousand sons got the Tzaangor options.
   
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I am mostly happy we now have updated Greater Daemons for all four Gods in plastic. I remember reading about them back in Codex Imperialis in the 90s, and these models do a pretty good job of representing what I imagined back then.

   
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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 ImAGeek wrote:
 Overread wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 shinros wrote:
So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


The only one people seem to be disappointed about is that there’s not a new mortal troop. No one is asking for a Gloomspite sized release, just a new unit. Tzeentch got 3 new units alongside their ‘not small fry’ greater daemon.
Which I think is fine. What I find ridiculous is getting 4 brand new models, a resculpt, endless spells, a terrain piece, a new battletome with all the artifacts/traits/battalions that entails and the response is only complaining about a lack of mortals. Even a non-StD, mortal-only player still gets the benefits of a battletome at the very least.

Aside from the Keeper, I don't have much use for the rest of it. Endless spells and terrain are more a laugh to me than anything else, and the new characters aren't... appealing. Honestly not sure how to parse multi-character single models. The 'prince' would have been better solo.
GW releases this year have been pretty heavy on character models, and less so on units. I can see why, as they make a lot more off the absurdly overpriced characters. But the armies lose a lot for that character focus, and for me, drives the appeal down massively.

And again, an army book without an army serves no purpose. I'm also not sure how it benefits a mortal-only player at all? None of their models are going to be in the book or use its rules.

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I'm a bit disappointed that the Keeper's three heads revealed so far are all very samey except for the hairstyles. I'd have preferred to have head options that are reimaginations of the bovine and tentacle like heads of the classic Keeper of Secrets, like they did with the plastic Great Unclean One and Lord of Change.

 
   
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auticus wrote:
Mortal armies have largely been ignored or given bad rules.

To be honest, feth mortals.

Daemonic warp-life is superior in every way.
   
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According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
   
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Very disappointed in the lack of mortals. Really takes some of the excitement out of this release.

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 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.

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This whole thing feels a bit strange. AoS is a game that can do a bit more with new units compared to 40k though, so maybe there's a plan coming that way?
   
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Voss wrote:
And again, an army book without an army serves no purpose. I'm also not sure how it benefits a mortal-only player at all? None of their models are going to be in the book or use its rules.
First, the book has an army. Undeniably. I made it quite clear when I listed off the four dozen units it has access to. Artificially reducing it does not change that. Second, the battletome benefits the Slaanesh keyword and all marked units will benefit heavily. Every other god book has had dedicated command trait and artifact tables specifically for mortals that can be used with any marked characters. So the second claim is also false.

It is frustrating to be hoping for mono-Slaanesh mortal kits and get none. I expected to see them, and wanted to. Same for when Nurgle got their battletome. I wanted BoC to have kits for at least one of Pestigors, Khornegors, or Slaangors. I want each god to be able to run a non-daemon force that is viable with multiple ways to do so. The frustration at lacking that is entirely justified. Making false statements to exaggerate the situation is not.

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Maybe reboxing.

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Dakka does have White Knights and is also rather infamous for it's Black Knights. A new edition brings out the passionate and not all of them are good at expressing themselves in written form. There have been plenty of hysterical responses from both sides so far. So we descend into pointless bickering with neither side listening to each other. So posting here becomes more masturbation than conversation.

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.


Not sure how much faith I'd put into artwork at this point, considering the same article has a picture with mortal followers gathering around a defeated Keeper. I'll hold out hope, I guess, but it's not something I see them simply repackaging.
   
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 Tim the Biovore wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.


Not sure how much faith I'd put into artwork at this point, considering the same article has a picture with mortal followers gathering around a defeated Keeper. I'll hold out hope, I guess, but it's not something I see them simply repackaging.
The context is different. The mortal followers are an accessory to the main focus (the keeper) and could easily be marked marauders. The lord on boobsnake is the center of the art, and prominently so. The picture was also the article preview image on the headlines for the past week. In the realmgate wars books (and a novel) there was a character who used that model, and they mentioned that character specifically in the article. As it stands the boobsnake lord is metal and still boxed with a square base; I think the reasonable assumption here is reboxing.

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Artwork is like BL stories - its inspiration material and never confirmation of a model.

Also its clear that the marketing team only knows "some" of what is to come and that production/design/upper management/whatever does not read them into the full details of a release. So it could be they just pulled 3 or 4 bits of "modern slaanesh art" from the vault and its bad luck that the hero on a mount was one of those pulled up and shown.

Certainly if you were in charge of marketing you'd not want to show art of a current model that was being removed from sale - its just bad practice.


That said if its shown "out of sale" then the best might be that its being repackaged, its artwork on its UK store page still has it on a square base. Otherwise its removal would be a huge shame.

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 Overread wrote:
Artwork is like BL stories - its inspiration material and never confirmation of a model.
That hasn't been true in quite a while.

The Urban Assault artwork is where we first saw the Venomcrawler and the exact pose the big boxed set's Asp Champ would be. The last Vigilus book has the new Dark Apostle and new Lord Discordant in poses that match the miniature. Everyone guessed BSF would get an Ambull expansion because of one piece of card artwork.

There has been a trend in recent years that has seen no model/no rule expand to artwork. You can see examples back in 7th Ed, and probably before that if you went looking.

Artwork doesn't mean it exists, but these days it's a real good bet.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 Overread wrote:
Artwork is like BL stories - its inspiration material and never confirmation of a model.
That hasn't been true in quite a while.

The Urban Assault artwork is where we first saw the Venomcrawler and the [i]exact pose[i] the big boxed set's Asp Champ would be. The ladt Vigilus book has the new Dark Apostle and new Lord Discordant in poses that match the miniature. Everyone guessed BSF would get an Ambull expansion because of one piece of card artwork.

There has been a trend in recent years that has seen no model/no rule expand to artwork. You can see examples back in 7th Ed, and probably before that if you went looking.

Artwork doesn't mean it exists, but these days it's a real good bet.


The artwork is the only reason why I am holding out, it might be likely that GW gave the facebook guy a rubbish gag response if they are asked about them which is causing the wave of salt.

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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.


I’m pretty sure that’s not new art, I think it’s from one of the old campaign books. Not sure which exactly, but I just found it posted in a thread on /tg in February 2016, so it’s at least that old.
   
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Whelp, I'm super disappointed about no mortals, but since I primarily play daemons, I'm happy. And with no official mortal models outside of StD, I can happily go about converting mine. A shame nonetheless, but let the hobbying continue.

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 ImAGeek wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.


I’m pretty sure that’s not new art, I think it’s from one of the old campaign books. Not sure which exactly, but I just found it posted in a thread on /tg in February 2016, so it’s at least that old.


I think he is talking about the art displaying the new KOS, the one with the boob snake is from the realmgate wars campaign books.
   
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 shinros wrote:
 ImAGeek wrote:
 NinthMusketeer wrote:
 Tim the Biovore wrote:
According to the Australian webstore, the Slaanesh Lord on Daemonic Mount is now no longer available. Given this apparent lack of support for Slaanesh mortals, I don't expect to see it come back, so might be worth picking up now if you want it and haven't already.

Disappointing, quite frankly. The Keeper of Secrets is still as nice as it was the day they previewed it, but I'm not feeling much of an excuse to pick one up.
Doubt its going away, given it is in new art shown in the fluff article earlier this week.


I’m pretty sure that’s not new art, I think it’s from one of the old campaign books. Not sure which exactly, but I just found it posted in a thread on /tg in February 2016, so it’s at least that old.


I think he is talking about the art displaying the new KOS, the one with the boob snake is from the realmgate wars campaign books.


No, they were talking about the boob-snake. The Lord on Daemonic Mount.
   
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 Overread wrote:
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So what if I don't want to play a daemon army or slaves to darkness Ninth? I mean with the other gods you have that option why doesn't slaanesh?
You can? Hellstriders are battleline with allegiance as I recall. And before you say it, Nurgle also has only one dedicated mortal troop. Also, you just got a terrain piece and who knows how many artifact/trait/battalion options. But go ahead and make yourself unhappy.


Aye whilst I think many wanted a Gloomspite sized release for Slaanesh and it is a shame that there was no new demon/artillery/monster/mortal core troop; the update is still huge plus there's a Battletome!

Also I think many forget that the Keeper and Prince are BIG models - not small fry. Throw in a big udpate to Slaves to Darkness and Warcry and this summer is chock full of Chaos releases to keep most happy. I think its mostly frustraition coupled to the long period of time that slaanesh wasn't focused on. Then again it never got quite as bad as for Necrons or Dark Eldar; the former running around with 3 or 4 models to its name for a lot of years and the latter running around 2 editions behind everyone else


This. I totally understand that frustration. But then, for GW it's not about how long you wait, it's about how much money they think they can make off of the release. Case in point: the Chaos Marines was a huge release spread out across a whole month. Slaanesh is a decent sized release, but it's being crammed into one week to make way for whatever is coming next, and whatever comes next may appear to many as being a much smaller deal than Slaanesh.

Then, of course, you have people comparing Slaanesh to the treatment of the other Chaos Gods. Nurgle got a year and a half of releases spreadinga cross AoS, 40k, and even Bloodbowl. Khorne just got its 3rd battletome update for Age of Sigmar and has always had a presence in just about every game they've put out, including Underworlds, where they have 2 warbands.

You can't keep comparing Slaanesh to the other Chaos Gods, though. The bottom line is that it just doesn't make as much money for GW, and that will continue to be the case unless something dramatic changes. Khorne and Nurgle and to a lesser extent Tzeentch are simply more popular. Slaanesh just has a very LOUD though SMALL fanbase.
   
 
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