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Looking at the Malefic table, You can summon 3 bloodcrushers of Khorne (one plastic box) 3 screamers of Tzeentch (1 plastic box) 3 plague drones of nurgle (1 plastic box) or 3 Fiends of Slaanesh- individual finecast models, with 2 of the three designs No Longer available on the US site.

Seems rather logical for Fiends to be put out as a 3 pack in plastic.

After that, Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch all have GDs with a special character option that could be included. Slaanesh does not have a named greater daemon, so one would have to be created if they wanted to add a SC to the kit.

Lord of Change and Fateweaver kits are still quite good. Khorne is worst off appearance wise, especially compared to the plastic Balrog GW also sells.
GUO is nearly as bad.

Khorne and Nurgle are also probably the two easier daemons to do the aesthetic for.

So potentially 3 kits for 3 weeks? 3 pack Fiends, GUO/Kugath, and Bloodthirster/Skarbrand?

That would leave the other 2 GDs, Beasts of Nurgle, Hounds of Khorne, and Furies left to go in plastic, which would also be a good mix for the next codex release- 5 kits, with all 4 gods represented, 2 monster kits, a 3 pack large critter, a 5 pack beast, and 5/10 pack troop.

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Not sure if you're being serious, the thirster is possibly tied for worst of the four with the KOS, if not the outright winner, the lord of change is just about the only one that stands up without conversion, GUO is passable with a little work.

And all four of them were much better with their original heads. Why GW changed them I'll never know.

Bloodthirster
Keeper of Secrets
Great Unclean One
Lord of Change

I'm ok with the current bloodthirster. It could be better, but it's ok. Lord of change is easily the best out of the group. Keeper of secrets.....I don't even know what it's suppose to be. Great unclean one....just god awful.

Though with data slates, they could introduce new models with points and rules. Perhaps a named greater daemon for slaanesh. Why not? They did a mini WD supplement that added models not long ago.

If and when GW update the greater demons it's going to be interesting to see their approach. You look at the other 40k monstrous creatures they aren't single purpose models they either have options or two different units built from the same kit. It'd be neat to see a variety of heads. I just hope GW doesn't do anything stupid like trying to do a combined kit or a more generic Greater Daemon to cut down on the necessary effort.

 The Shadow wrote:
Even so, a Daemon wave makes sense. Good way for GW to capitalise on the summoning spells in 7th and sell lots of Daemons.

That's actually a really good point. Plus it would allow them to move more of the range into plastic - plastic Flesh Hounds and Fiends, 3 to a box, would be a great start.

 Ghaz wrote:

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Not sure if you're being serious, the thirster is possibly tied for worst of the four with the KOS, if not the outright winner, the lord of change is just about the only one that stands up without conversion, GUO is passable with a little work.

And all four of them were much better with their original heads. Why GW changed them I'll never know.

Bloodthirster
Keeper of Secrets
Great Unclean One
Lord of Change

GUO still comes with that head. You have the option of that head or the other one.

I thought it would have been something like;
Blood Angels,
Daemons,
Space Wolves. Not Daemons first, but they are awesome so I do not mind. More daemons to kill for me

 Ascalam wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Ignatius-Grulgor wrote:
Not sure if you're being serious, the thirster is possibly tied for worst of the four with the KOS, if not the outright winner, the lord of change is just about the only one that stands up without conversion, GUO is passable with a little work.

And all four of them were much better with their original heads. Why GW changed them I'll never know.

Bloodthirster
Keeper of Secrets
Great Unclean One
Lord of Change

GUO still comes with that head. You have the option of that head or the other one.

I'm pretty sure the Bloodthirster comes with that head as well. You get that god awful one and one that I think is better.

IIRC, the LoC that I bought a few years ago, and have yet to build, has both variant heads as well as both staff toppers in the box, don't know about the current crop.

doesn't matter how cool they make the thirster.... he's still the most useless model rulewise in the game....

oh bloodthirster, i love you so. hold that shelf down, make sure it doesn't run away!

Its hard to imagine GW putting out 4 large kits and possibly hounds + fiends in one wave.
At the same time i thnk gw would make a great profit on them all.

Greater daemons would probably not be huge kits though. More like the current daemon prince.

i really hope they're bigger. greater demon makes me think larger than the demon prince lieutenants of the army.

hoping they're slaughterbrute sized, id be happy to pay that price for a greater that sized!

Oh please, oh please, oh please...

I honestly don't mind the current Kipper, as long as it's built with the goatboy head - that S&M head is just plain nasty imho. The LoC is likewise not that bad a model looks-wise considering how old it is, but the thing is a massive PitA to put together!
Actually, the only one of the current Greaters that is remotely easy'ish to build is the Fat Man - the others all suck from a construction point of view.

If they finally give us a named Kipper, then my money is on N'kari as s/he's got a tone of background story already in Fantasy, and thus would only need some 40k'ifying work.

Not really sure if this is best faction for next month release. Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do. They've also had a release last year. There shouldn't be another before stuff like Skaven and BA get their update.

 sing your life wrote:
Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do.

Fiends, Beasts and Flesh Hounds. Get 'em out of FineCost and into plastic.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do.

Fiends, Beasts and Flesh Hounds. Get 'em out of FineCost and into plastic.

More importantly first off, get into plastic some GREATER Daemons that aren't left trying to headbutt Hive Tyrants in the knee...

I think you're both right... GWs trying to move everything to plastic. Fiends, beasts, flesh hounds... while I understand the need, I'd say GWs losing more sales by not making new greater daemons. If GW can't do it all in one release I'm more inclined to believe they'd save a greater daemon or two for later since they'd be easier to build a release wave around.

Experiment 626 wrote:
Oh please, oh please, oh please...

I honestly don't mind the current Kipper, as long as it's built with the goatboy head - that S&M head is just plain nasty imho. The LoC is likewise not that bad a model looks-wise considering how old it is, but the thing is a massive PitA to put together!
Actually, the only one of the current Greaters that is remotely easy'ish to build is the Fat Man - the others all suck from a construction point of view.

If they finally give us a named Kipper, then my money is on N'kari as s/he's got a tone of background story already in Fantasy, and thus would only need some 40k'ifying work.

N'Kari is already in 40K. It killed Anwal Thawn that first time before he went unlimited space-Jesus.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do.

Fiends, Beasts and Flesh Hounds. Get 'em out of FineCost and into plastic.

What the hell is "finecost"?

 sing your life wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do.

Fiends, Beasts and Flesh Hounds. Get 'em out of FineCost and into plastic.

What the hell is "finecost"?

Its what the Kool Kids say.

UltraPrime wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Apart from GDs I can't think of any models ideas GW could do.

Fiends, Beasts and Flesh Hounds. Get 'em out of FineCost and into plastic.

What the hell is "finecost"?

Its what the Kool Kids say.

I usually thought the Kools Kids by called things by their actual name. It's just so much kooler.

Bearing in mind GW moving to all plastic. The amount of metal models, removed from the web site.
Demons next could be right, as new models for 40k and WHFB.

 loki old fart wrote:
Bearing in mind GW moving to all plastic. The amount of metal models, removed from the web site.
Demons next could be right, as new models for 40k and WHFB.

Except a Daemons have no model that haven't been already converted to finecast, so I'm not sure what the phasing out of metal has to do with them getting a new release.

Blood Angels/Skaven, right? Because.... why, exactly? Scheduling? Being next in line? As opposed to any practical reasons? Tyranids got updated twice before orks, guard, or Space Wolves got their new update.

Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if it's purely a new model wave. Nobody's asking for a new Daemon dex. Doesn't mean they don't want to make money and gak out a new dex that everyone has to buy---but the model range right now reminds me of Two-Face. You have these nice plastic Nurglings and then you look at Epidemius' Palanquin... And of course the vomit-inducing THIRD EDITION greater daemon models. Seriously, that has become the elephant in the room for Chaos Daemons. I could ignore everything else, but not them. They're too integral to be ignored like this, they really are. Even Games Workshop sees this, they were just too full updating all the other models that needed to be updated. There has not been a Daemons update that I didn't like. But thinking back to 2010, they released a lot of models outside of an update. It's just Games Workshop's eclectic release policies that no longer let me hold expectations either way.

All that said, I think this rumor's fake

 sing your life wrote:

 loki old fart wrote:
Bearing in mind GW moving to all plastic. The amount of metal models, removed from the web site.
Demons next could be right, as new models for 40k and WHFB.

Except a Daemons have no model that haven't been already converted to finecast, so I'm not sure what the phasing out of metal has to do with them getting a new release.

Because GW has started melting metal models down. Because they're moving finecast to plastic.

So looking forward to this release as the greater daemons have always been my fave models fluff-wise, but have never quite been living up to it with the mediocre models out there.

when the greaters were originally released, my god they were mindblowing awesome!!! literally awe inspiring, they held up well over time, but you can definitely tell they are aging.

Personally I'd like to see this rumor prove true, I run a mostly Slaneesh themed CSM army and summoning with my sorcerers sounds really cool, but HOT DAMN do I think the Slaaneesh demons look ridiculous, I know they're trying to be all Slaneesh-y with all the girls with big titties and big hair but come on, I think they could be more creative with the God of Excess than the sexy angle. (Granted I haven't really read much into Daemon lore)

As for the Keeper of Secrets, I actually like the GW model, the FW model on the other hand is a little too graphic to be lying around the house.

I hope its a fake

I just want BA after Bretonnians, nuff said

I think that's some sort of law in the hobby. Once you assembled and painted a model you don't really like much but need in your army, GW is going to release a new, nice-looking kit.
If that whole shebang here is true, I'll be painting a second bloodthirster it seems...