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There currently seems to be a fair amount of worry flying around out there along the lines of there ending and little positive feelings towards there future.

anywho...this will likely become a disconnected rant so try not get to upset anyone and if you are prone to do so then good for you

what is the deal with it all ?
so far i have heard that the slann have thrown there hands in the air,proclaimed the great plan a failure, there is A exodus in progress,lustria is over run and in a generally bad way.
Across the ocean in the south lands are another smaller colony who are down to holding there last temple city with low saurus spawn rates so skinks do most the work and are trained to fight, they have generally less of everything over there,large dinosaurs are rare, they do have a large amount of horned ones that the skinks ride much alike saurus do cold ones and there are other slann over there.
I am most likely missing lots of information here.

I can not see why the conclusion has not been more solidly jumped at that they are going to be a combined force,the south will be zapped across the oceans and they will reclaim what is there's booting everyone out of there temples and rebuilding there empire,the great plan has been abandoned so theirs no reason for them to sit around slowly going extinct while they work diligently on some unseen/unknown grand scheme while there society crumbles around them.
i don't see a end, it is a beginning to the lizardmen as a empire and a great campaign of reclamation as they take back what they have lost.

surely there is no way such a popular army will be squished out and there are still plenty options to fluff out there army list in the future some large coatl model or a thunder lizard with a couple/few different war machines/mass troop transport-some kinda giant magic winged serpent somewhere between Quetzalcoatl and a chinese dragon in support a full battalion on the back of a giant dinosaur steadily crashing down the battlefield.
and there's likely easier things they could produce,light skink cavalry on horned ones,skinks lightly armed for faster moving regiments to back up the saurus warriors and move away at the same time from being skirmish units,skinks mounted on those giant birds i read about,more dinosaurs,
I strongly doubt GW are going to stop making something that makes them money and they can make new models to support with a little modification of existing molds,there a business after all and theres money still in this faction

Why would you think they would be squatted? It won't happen, the story line will progress them to be fine. Not a thing to worry about

 chiefbigredman wrote:
Why would you think they would be squatted? It won't happen, the story line will progress them to be fine. Not a thing to worry about

i accidently posted this earlier then i wanted to,was the point my wild rambling was getting to after reading to much maybe and drinking not enough or something like that

From an IP point of view, squatting lizardmen would be utterly stupid.

But moving them closer to the action, so they can be more a part of future products etc? For sure.

It took me a moment to work out what you were saying, but yeah, they ain't to get rid of the lizards. Leaving out all the story stuff, it just doesn't make sense.

And I'm glad, because I just started collecting a lizardman army earlier this year!

i dont think they will get rid of any armies, maybe combine books which to me is something people complain about to much as well i think some armies will really benefit from joined books and i bet you will still be able to play them as single armies due to the lords/hero choices you take or something like that.

lizardmen has always had alot of love from GW anyway they had thier own campaign book for a while as far as i remember going back like 12 years the only other army specific campaigns are chaos so its really doubtful that the will be dropped

Heyya! I am new to fantasy too just about to start my own army.I read in another post that gw has posted it will NOT be axing any armies so yyour fears are groundless as lizardmen are good to go!


Unless gw has a bad history of lying to customers?

 Micky wrote:
From an IP point of view, squatting lizardmen would be utterly stupid.

But moving them closer to the action, so they can be more a part of future products etc? For sure.

THank you. I am so happy to see someone else say this. GW's lizards are hands down one of the more easily defensible IP's in fantasy gaming. It's pretty unique ; Mayan / Aztec influenced lizardmen with Cultural Engineering / Brave New World overtones is pretty freakin' unique.


Add into the fact that LM are a beginner friendly, well selling army, and the liklihood of them getting squatted is just this side of non-existent.

But hey, in one book, in two paragraphs it said "the lizardmen are pulling back, regrouping, while Mazdamundi figures out their next step", and all hell breaks loose with "OMFG THEY ARE GOING TO SQUAT LIZARDS!".

Along these lines maybe "The exodus" an an exodus out of lustria to the old world.

 Shas'O Dorian wrote:
Along these lines maybe "The exodus" an an exodus out of lustria to the old world.

The Jurassic?

The "Old world" is basically Europ (Athel Loren, Worlds edge mountains, the empire, bretonnie, nehekara). They currently reside in the "new world (Naggaroth / Lustria)

So, if they did go to the Old World, where would they go? The whole jungle dweller thing seems so much an important part of their aesthetic; is there any place in the Old World part of the setting that would fit that?

This isn't serious speculation, I'm just curious.

 toasteroven wrote:
So, if they did go to the Old World, where would they go? The whole jungle dweller thing seems so much an important part of their aesthetic; is there any place in the Old World part of the setting that would fit that?

Afric- sorry i mean The Southlands.

I'm thinking they may be setting it up for a less unified more grimdark Lizardman book in the future; someone or something is going to blow up the Warp gates partway through the grand exodus, and the remaining Lizardmen are going to be left behind without the Slaan or the Old Ones' plan as guidance and fall into a disorganized mess where they have to try to figure out what to do with their society now that the guiding principle has left them to rot.

As others have said, they will end up in the Old World like the Elves, seems to be what GW are trying to do bring the playable armies closer together for the post End Times Warhammer landscape.

Something tells me Mazdamundi is going to make Lustria and Naggaroth disappear after they've gone.

Oh yeah, then he'll start pushing for genocide again. He does that.

Wishful thinking based on little more then looking at the map and if old Mazdamundi can reshape the land there seems no reason not to make a single super continent.

Crash Lustria up into the Southlands joining the spine of sotek to the worlds edge mountains,Hinterlands of Khuresh push over the kingdoms of ind and inclose the sea of dread, bringing together a grand Lizardmen empire with all the cities albeit shaken up accessible as a single landmass allowing for future campaigns of reclamation.
swing Naggaroth over Nippon and up into grand Cathay for a elven landmass and access to a different area of the world map.