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Title says it all here's the one stop thread for all your news and hints from the day - if you find info on a blog, photos or you're there yourself (have fun!) then throw it in here.

One thing not yet mentioned but which I've seen on Firestorm Games webstore is that GW is opening up more models to be ordered by 3rd party stores. Mostly a big chunk of 40K stuff but a couple of kits for AoS as well. It includes things like upgrade kits and metal models, even some sisters like the Penitent Engine



Box art (showing contents) for the next terrain expansion for Warcry is on show, looks like the full shattered realms mega kit in the box along with likely a base to play on.



Orruks - a combined Tome that features 3 sets of alliance abilities; one for Ironjawz, one for Bonesplittesr and one for a combined WAAARGH of the two forces.

Cities of Sigmar meanwhile is a massive mish mash of humans, dwarves and elves -a Last Alliance ready to stand against the dark lor...no wait that's not AoS. Anyway a big mish mash and also options to take several other separate armies as part of the core force not just as allies (no allies limit). It's a massive soup Battletome so will be interesting to see how it handles internal balance and balance with the rest of the game.

What are the tomes in need of an update?

And, not to state the obvious, but when you say "all game not just AoS", we're still taking AoS-related games (Warcry, Underworlds, etc.). In other words, we shouldn't expect the next great shocking revelations for 40K in a new campaign book announcement or anything like that?

I assume Seraphon are in need of an update, especially in terms of models. But I expect these two tomes to be basically endless spells, dice and the book, maybe one hq model. Seraphon really need a plastic slann, razordon/salamander dual kit, but honestly even their basic infantry kits are showing their age, in terms of detail and stuff they only barely hold up.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What are the tomes in need of an update?

And, not to state the obvious, but when you say "all game not just AoS", we're still taking AoS-related games (Warcry, Underworlds, etc.). In other words, we shouldn't expect the next great shocking revelations for 40K in a new campaign book announcement or anything like that?

Well its more thrown in there because GW could reveal anything - heck already there's a load of 40K stuff going on 3rd party pre-order this weekend (as noted in the first post). I just figured if there was any non AoS news that came out it was easier to throw up a title like that and avoid confusion

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/773473.page
That thread notes the current state of Battletome support for AoS.


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And full details on the two new Tomes are up!

Once again GW restrict to warhammer world something almost every player wants.

YES! Freeguild! Be still my beating heart!

reds8n wrote:

Spoiler:

Once again GW restrict to warhammer world something almost every player wants.

Even the food has GW pricing!
Also the images in the spoiler tags above are broken (for me at least).

I spy a Centaur for Bestgrave....

I guess the new Wood Elves are whatever this turns out to be.

Looks like there's a Wardancer's hair...

And a Wild Rider.

I AM SO IN!

 reds8n wrote:

Spoiler:

Once again GW restrict to warhammer world something almost every player wants.

That burger is perhaps the most American thing to come out of England since, well, America I guess.

The wood elf looks like a satir, with beast legs.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
YES! Freeguild! Be still my beating heart!

Did your heart still when you continued on and got to the removal of units from the range?



@EnTyme- though to be fair, when Americans talk about a 15 pound burger, that isn't what they mean.

zamerion wrote:
The wood elf looks like a satir, with beast legs.

You can see a vague outline of boots done up in the style of the Waywatcher/Waystrider.

Voss wrote:

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
YES! Freeguild! Be still my beating heart!

Did your heart still when you continued on and got to the removal of units from the range?

@EnTyme- though to be fair, when Americans talk about a 15 pound burger, that isn't what they mean.

More likely they are cutting down the Elf line as they probably want to take a turn with them more similar too the Idoneth or the Daughters of Khaine. So I'll end up grabbing what Freeguild/Empire units I never ended up getting during 8th.

zamerion wrote:
The wood elf looks like a satir, with beast legs.

Where is that from, is it a conversion?

Given all the greenstuff (particularly below the knees)... yes.

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Commodus Leitdorf wrote:
YES! Freeguild! Be still my beating heart!

Did your heart still when you continued on and got to the removal of units from the range?

@EnTyme- though to be fair, when Americans talk about a 15 pound burger, that isn't what they mean.

More likely they are cutting down the Elf line as they probably want to take a turn with them more similar too the Idoneth or the Daughters of Khaine. So I'll end up grabbing what Freeguild/Empire units I never ended up getting during 8th.

There's not much more they can "cut down" from the Elf line.

If I had to guess?
-White Lions
-High Elf Chariot
-Dark Elf Chariot
-Swordmasters, unless they have a plastic kit ready for them because they really need one if they're sticking around.

Dispossessed will likely lose:
-Unforged
-Warriors(this lets them 'refocus' the generic Duardin into heavily armored barring their support units of Quarrelers/Thunderers)

Freeguild currently have a lot of extraneous hero sculpts that I could see being ditched, especially since several are in resin.

Is that it then? They’ve literally shown us one new model. I know there’s been a couple of teasers, but they’ve actually only shown us one new model.

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:
Is that it then? They’ve literally shown us one new model. I know there’s been a couple of teasers, but they’ve actually only shown us one new model.

And a whole new season of Underworlds.
And they have WarCry for people to go hands on with.
And they teased a new campaign event.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 MonkeyBallistic wrote:
Is that it then? They’ve literally shown us one new model. I know there’s been a couple of teasers, but they’ve actually only shown us one new model.

And a whole new season of Underworlds.
And they have WarCry for people to go hands on with.
And they teased a new campaign event.

Yes, they’ve potentially teased a lot but actually shown very little...

... and shown us one new model

Yeah, I'd want to see new thing rather than a video and some paragraph saying "new stuff is coming"

This Tithe of Bones thing, do we think we might be getting a new Mortarch? Or perhaps a redesigned/ reimagined old Mortarch, the “Mortarch of Bones” perhaps?

It's probably a Deathrattle book or some new faction that's mostly skeletal Warriors or Skeletal Constructs.

What a lame set of previews. They could have teased one of the remaining Warcry warbands, a model or two from WH:Underworlds season 3 or Endless Spells that will accompany the new armybooks. Instead we were shown one unrelated Ogre model and zero information teaser for something that sounds even more boring than Forbidden Power. Breaking news indeed.

Don’t forget we’re going to get the Tithe of Bones and the Feast of Bones. GW taking inspiration from George R R, with his Iron Throne, Iron Bank and Iron Islands

Well, some neat stuff.

I’m hoping most of my dwarfs make it into the free guild book.

Glad to see they’re combining the orks back together again. I hope this includes some of the ‘normal’ orks, like boar chariots & such. Is there still a faction just called ‘Greenskins’?

I like the new tyrant model, and I hope this heralds a combined ogre faction as well.

New underworlds sounds cool, anxious to see more.

Would love to see them add more monsters for warcry. I want to have big beasties to battle. So many nice models they could make available as threats.

Chaos dwarfs now pwease!

 skullking wrote:
Glad to see they’re combining the orks back together again. I hope this includes some of the ‘normal’ orks, like boar chariots & such.

From what the Warhammer Community article says I feel you'll be disappointed.

 reds8n wrote:

Spoiler:

Once again GW restrict to warhammer world something almost every player wants.

that’s why we have the loot group

So at the end of the day it was a powerful slew of releases! The new Orruk Battletome is sounding great, we got a good tease of Ogors getting a new model and likely a new duel kit which with the launch of the new teaser video could even come hot on the heels of a new Death Faction.

In addition there's a lot of complexity with the new Free Cities battletome and whilst I was hoping Destruction would get lots of attention, I'm kind of more interested to see how GW balances and makes the Free Cities tome work - its certainly a very big "soup" based tome but then again it could be very unique compared to many others.

About the only thing I felt a little disappointed with was that we only got a teaser for the new Underworlds releases. Mostly because we already knew it was coming so having a teaser for something we know is coming is sort of a bit of a waste. The new silhouettes are interesting and the setting moving to the land of beasts makes many think we'll see some more orruks and ogors appearing. But in the end we really don't know anything more than what we knew yesterday.

Then again there's apparently another big event in 10 days or so so this could just be teasing out the data. Also its important to remember that there's still 2 dry weeks for AoS whilst Warcry is on its big pre-order run.