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 Argive wrote:
Do we know what the Eldar looking ruin rumour was for yet ?

Not yet.

Horn rumor engine solved. Kurnothi Warband for Beastgrave.

Cross-hatched bit solved as well.

Christopher Walken is a beastelf in AoS?

 Kanluwen wrote:

Horn rumor engine solved. Kurnothi Warband for Beastgrave.

Cross-hatched bit solved as well.

Isn’t the cats tail a rumor also? Can’t look back right now to see.

The Beastmen also solve one of them:

And I suspect the back of the big beastaman will solve another.

 Theophony wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Horn rumor engine solved. Kurnothi Warband for Beastgrave.

Cross-hatched bit solved as well.

Isn’t the cats tail a rumor also? Can’t look back right now to see.

Yeah, but that was solved earlier in the year when they first announced season 3. They literally gave us the picture of the battlecat.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Horn rumor engine solved. Kurnothi Warband for Beastgrave.

Cross-hatched bit solved as well.

Isn’t the cats tail a rumor also? Can’t look back right now to see.

Yeah, but that was solved earlier in the year when they first announced season 3. They literally gave us the picture of the battlecat.

Sorry, thought the previous cat pictured was the one from Untamed Beasts.

From today's rumour engine:



More eldar ruins?

Could be a damaged Aquila terrain piece and/or scenic base element?

Or a mere flesh wound on an Armo(u)red Squig.

 Alpharius wrote:
Could be a damaged Aquila terrain piece and/or scenic base element?

Or a mere flesh wound on an Armo(u)red Squig.

With the rebranding I foresee the new hammer logo as a damaged terrain piece and the rays off of this being the winged back of the hammer.

That or Warcry specific terrain for the calculators or whatever they were called (Egyptian headdress group).

Looks related to the tombstone rumor engine from a couple weeks back.

Looks like a slot for something to fit in there. Something standing on the wings of an Aquilla

That looks like the chunk of jade statue Grimaldus’ servitor lugs around. Plastic Grimaldus incoming?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
That looks like the chunk of jade statue Grimaldus’ servitor lugs around. Plastic Grimaldus incoming?

makes sense to me. in fact it could even be a grimaldus inspired primaris grav chaplain. assuming the new litanies are done up in the same was dark apostles are, chaos dark apostles will have those minons they can cart around for bonuses on their role, but marines won't.

perhaps a new rumor engine resolved .. on the las las fusil eliminator

That would explain why it looks like a suped-up hotshot lasgun power pack; it’s actually a baby-lascannon power pack….

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I’ll be honest, if they made a “free people’s” unit that is the 5 characters from Vermintide, I’d buy it. And quickly.

That would be insanely cool. I really hope they will do exactly that.

As a firemage player myself I never noticed her footwear, nice catch on (or with?) the spiky boots

today's image:

Hat Squig.

Well, we know Ogors are coming....I'm going with their scenery piece.

It's a fancy Ogor delicatessen.

Lore: "Once a Stormcast dies, they and their armor are transported into Azyr in a flash of lightning to be reforged, only the strongest magic can hold their bodies or armor back"
Design team: "Add bits of Stormcast armor like it's christmas tree tinsel!"

Why do I see a Blood Angels death mask...

Cronch wrote:
Lore: "Once a Stormcast dies, they and their armor are transported into Azyr in a flash of lightning to be reforged, only the strongest magic can hold their bodies or armor back"
Design team: "Add bits of Stormcast armor like it's christmas tree tinsel!"

Maybe he's not dead. They could have captured him.

 Albino Squirrel wrote:

Cronch wrote:
Lore: "Once a Stormcast dies, they and their armor are transported into Azyr in a flash of lightning to be reforged, only the strongest magic can hold their bodies or armor back"
Design team: "Add bits of Stormcast armor like it's christmas tree tinsel!"

Maybe he's not dead. They could have captured him.

It's right there in why he's complaining about it.

"The strongest magic".

 Albino Squirrel wrote:

Maybe he's not dead. They could have captured him.

I suppose, but there's a disturbingly high number of randomly hostaged stormcast presumably kept solely so their captors can keep displaying their hats, pants and other bits and bobs, if models (especially Destruction) are to be believed

Also from what I can tell in the lore there's a few other bits too to Stormcast being recaptured before death.

1) Armour that they wear is worn, its not magically grafted to them. Thus when the lightning bolt strikes to return them to Sigmar, if their helm has been knocked off or removed or they simply didn't pick it up after putting it down, then they might well not return with it. So its perfectly possible to steal bits of their armour; bash it off; knock it off; remove their limb etc.... The armour returning with the stormcast is more a product of the bolt of power that strikes when they fall which will hit a reasonably decent area around them.

2) As noted above, and a few times in the lore, stormcast can be prevented from returning to Sigmar by powerful magics and spells, auras and possibly even specific regions of the Realms.

3) Peddlers - get your authentic Stormcast Helms! Impress your girlfriend, stir your pot with it, cast fear into the eyes of your enemies! Get your own authentic Stormcast face helms here!
I'm serious if you're any kind of self respecting and powerful Ogre you're going to want your own trophies to show off and if you can't get a Stormcast one then you can sneakishly buy one that you're sure is authentic (its all yellow!).

4) Fallen Stormcast. In Inferno (2 or 3 I forget which) there's a tale of a fighting pit where a Stormcast is held hostage and has lost all faith in Sigmar. A Stormcast who has reached such a point might well abandon their armour and weapons. Broken and unable to feel like returning to their brothers. Stormcast are not perfect warriors, they have flaws and faults and can mentally break.

but isn't that before the necroquake released all this extra magic into the world leading to endless spells rampaging around the place etc

I like 3, I'll take it

Scenic base for Yabbadabbadon, the ancient forerunner of Abbadon