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 Shadow Walker wrote:
New Rat Ogre could be some Hero allowing for pure Rat Ogres army?

Rat Ogres are normally down in the slave/animalistic level of intelligence. More tools used by other smarter rats than ones that are leading their own ideas.

 Overread wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
New Rat Ogre could be some Hero allowing for pure Rat Ogres army?

Rat Ogres are normally down in the slave/animalistic level of intelligence. More tools used by other smarter rats than ones that are leading their own ideas.

Normally yes but that one has a twin sharing his body who could be a brain there

 Overread wrote:
My first thought was it could be a new duel kit which also serves as the foundation for a new Boneripper, but the Thanquol And Boneripper kit is already plastic and fairly modern.

Certainly looks to be the same size class

Hedonites https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/06/12/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-faction-focus-hedonites-of-slaanesh/

 Matrindur wrote:

Spoiler:

New rats leak

big big fan

Hedonites looking spicy. Particularly Shalaxi

I feel like the Fane should have a longer range on its ability, kind of makes it an early game or ranged defensive option most of the time.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
To be honest, Thanquol himself has only faced off against Gotrek once, in Elfslayer.

His reaction to discovering Gotrek and Felix have no idea who he is, and their repeated foiling of his plan has indeed always been a matter of bad luck is superb,

Gotrek and Thanquoul face off again in the 2nd AoS Gortrek audio drama and Gotrek definitely remembers who he is, even referring to him by name.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
To be honest, Thanquol himself has only faced off against Gotrek once, in Elfslayer.

His reaction to discovering Gotrek and Felix have no idea who he is, and their repeated foiling of his plan has indeed always been a matter of bad luck is superb,

Gotrek and Thanquoul face off again in the 2nd AoS Gortrek audio drama and Gotrek definitely remembers who he is, even referring to him by name.

Hmm I've managed to entirely forget that scene.

 Matrindur wrote:

Spoiler:

New rats leak

"Be strong, Clarence. Be strong for mother."

Oh look! They responded...

Oh damn, wasn't expecting the leak reveal that fast. And damn the Azyros is nice..wasn't expecting a Tornus alt build either

Rat one wins.

the azyros is a damn gorgeous model

The article accidentally referring to the Brood Terror as a Brood Horror at one point has made me accept the latter isn't coming back

Big fan of this though

The Skaven are cool.

The Azyros is... really weak. I don't know what's happening with this set of Stormcast. The silhouette makes it look like he has no legs, and just stood in mid-air rather than flying or dynamic. It's way worse than the old one. The lantern is bland, the head looks like it's copy/pasted from other models, there's no dynamism. How does he land without tripping over his robes? I still hate the flaming wing design.

I dig them both. It's a bit odd that the robes on the Knight Azyros are so long, though. How does he ever walk?

Not a fan of the new Azyros. Its so static compared to its previous incarnation.

Cool to see Tornus get some love. I always liked the concept that Champions of Chaos can be redeemed and actively fighting against Chaos, which is a narrative flip on so much of previous Warhammer lore.

The art of Tornus reborn as a Knight-Venator in the back of the Realmgate Wars book was probably my favorite art from early AoS.

Really lazy to not include an "alternative build" for the named guy. Looks like there is options for helmet/face and sword/spear (probably the same rules, right), but none of those seems to be specific to the dude. So I guess the Hallowed Knights coulours are it?

I mean, his lore's the only thing special about him?

The swordstaff is the weapon for both versions.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I mean, his lore's the only thing special about him?

The swordstaff is the weapon for both versions.

Nah, there's a regular sword and bare head in there for the normal Azyros build.

So there is. It looks too similar I feel.

Yeah but the normal version was also shown with the spear and helmet

Chunky Skaven Lad!

Nice to have a stage between Rat Ogres and the Hellpit Abomination.

The new Azyros is at least more practical, but wouldn't go out of my way to replace the older one.

"Tornus, how did you come to join our noble cause?"
"This dude hit me with a hammer really damn hard."

He said he’d slap the Chaos out of me. And…then did it.

 Gert wrote:
"Tornus, how did you come to join our noble cause?"
"This dude hit me with a hammer really damn hard."

He got some sense knocked into him?

That Skaven Brood Terror looks huge and bulky. At least twice as tall as a Rat Ogre? Would it compare height wise to a mancrusher gargant? Not sure what size base it's on.

lost_lilliputian wrote:That Skaven Brood Terror looks huge and bulky. At least twice as tall as a Rat Ogre? Would it compare height wise to a mancrusher gargant? Not sure what size base it's on.

The height can be seen in this leaked image here. Looks slightly below double the size of the new rat ogres to me.

Matrindur wrote:

Spoiler:

New rats leak