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just checked GW website, looks like Tomb King army book is not available. Anyone can explain why?

Well just an update on something I noticed:
New web bundle out (maybe its been out for a while?)

Warlord is no longer available
French army book no longer available (maybe means new army book in the near future?)
Few things currently out of stock I.e plague monks but I don't see that being a big deal

Also read there will be these new models (although I'm skeptical)
Thanqoul and boneripper large kit
Vermin lord large kit
Nurglitch kit
Skrolk kit
Grey seer kit
Rat ogre kit
Plague censor/globadier dual kit

I think that thanqoul and boneripper will be one kit same with the vermin lord. They will have to have a warlord kit (since the current one is no longer available) maybe they will do something similar to the mortarch kits? Not sure.
Dual kit would be nice tho but I have my doubts.

Pretty sure the web bundle has been up for a while now. There's no savings to it; it's a bundle not a box set.

The ET 4 release will probably start with the WD issue released on the 3rd of January 2015. The next WD (27th of Dec) has the following on its last page

Forge World
Color splash
They come from the depths

The pics of this WD are from: http://waaaghgaming.de/white-dwarf-48/

And a translation can be found here: http://spikeybitsblog.com/2014/12/first-look-white-dwarf-48-leaks.html


TLDR The upcoming WD issue contains a 40k minigame, some FW releases and a review of 2014 - but no Skaven/ET release yet

Warhams-77 wrote:

They come from the depths

Sounds a whole lot like skaven to me.

 jojo_monkey_boy wrote:
On a totally OT note: When did rumours get so serious? Rumour tracking? Whatever happened to, "Wow, if this turns out to be true, it will be exciting! If it doesn't, oh well."

In 2012 things got serious after a spate of complete jerks who made up a bunch of crap to become internet famouse (Ghost21, TDG, etc.) A lot of people got their hopes up after these folks came through and nothing they said was even remotely close to true. What this means is that it is nice to know that when Lords of Wargaming says something it is probably true and you should get excited. When Natfka/BOLS say something, feel free to roll your eyes and yawn, however.

 Desubot wrote:

Warhams-77 wrote:

They come from the depths

Sounds a whole lot like skaven to me.

or

Darnok has given the following information on Warseer today

End Times: Thanquol

Quote Originally Posted by Birdy

10th (preorders Fri 2nd) is a blood angels army box with perhaps a new clam pack character in called the sanguine strike force for 105 GBP don't know contents though plus the new vermin lord.

17th Thanquol end times book and mini

24th new unit, armoured rat ogres called stormfiends plus clam pack warlord and grey seer and re release of old I think in metal oddly warlock engineers

Merry Christmas-Christmas.

Darnok is usually spot on with his rumors so that is how the End Times IV release should look like

This could be an epic release. Wonder if the stormfiend will be a dual kit with regular rat ogre, since the current kit is rather poor.

Darnok on Warseer - source seems to be the first White Dwarf in 2015, released on January 3rd

Re: End Times: Thanquol

Oh, I just got another message!

Quote Originally Posted by Another Birdy

Seen white dwarf for 2 weeks time and it had the vermin lord in there, it is the same size as Nagash, leaping up off the base, and has 5 different variants, one for each of the clans, eshin, pestilence etc. looks absolutely amazing!

This sounds pretty good to me. If this is accurate, I guess a lot of Skaven players will be parted with their money soon.

This is from fiet or however you spell it haha

"Plastic Vermin Lord to make 5 different kits in white dwarf 49.

white dwarf 2 weeks from now will feature the release of a plastic
vermin lord kit, will make 5 alternate models with different themes. 1
Eshin, 1 Grey Seer, 1 Warlord, 1 Moulder and one supposed "Vermin King".

Eshin one can be skitterleapt and gets re-rolls to cast skitterleap, grey
seer one always gets 6 on the d6+1 part of warp lightning casts. No further
information about the others or point costs, but alledgedly he's going to

be about the same dimesnsions as Nagash"



Now I assume the vermin king will just be another vermin lord model. If it ends up being a 5 in 1 kit I'm wondering what the variations are going to look like especially if they all have some sort of mount? Regardless I'm excited to get new skaven stuff and hopefully some pictures come out soon!

Pics should be out soon, as magazines are usually shipped in advance between holidays and new year to prevent late arrival

Why in the world would the Vermin Lord, an emissary of the Great Horned Rat himself, take up the mannerisms of a skaven clan?

That would be like a Great Unclean One showing up differently for Chaos Daemons vs Nurgle aligned Chaos Space Marines vs actual Death Guard.

 streamdragon wrote:
Why in the world would the Vermin Lord, an emissary of the Great Horned Rat himself, take up the mannerisms of a skaven clan?

That would be like a Great Unclean One showing up differently for Chaos Daemons vs Nurgle aligned Chaos Space Marines vs actual Death Guard.

They might be making the Vermin Lord closer to something like the Eldar Avatar in terms of background, where a member of the Craftworld sacrifices themselves to become the vessel...

Or something like that.

 streamdragon wrote:
Why in the world would the Vermin Lord, an emissary of the Great Horned Rat himself, take up the mannerisms of a skaven clan?

That would be like a Great Unclean One showing up differently for Chaos Daemons vs Nurgle aligned Chaos Space Marines vs actual Death Guard.

Yeah it makes no sense, but not like the sales department cares.

 streamdragon wrote:
Why in the world would the Vermin Lord, an emissary of the Great Horned Rat himself, take up the mannerisms of a skaven clan?

That would be like a Great Unclean One showing up differently for Chaos Daemons vs Nurgle aligned Chaos Space Marines vs actual Death Guard.

You're forgetting GW's new paradigm; where once they wrote cool fluff that made you want things, then made those things, now they figure out ways to sell the most of any given new box, then arbitrarily change the fluff to include the result. When the new box is for a completely new idea, the intent is disguised, but when it requires them to change existing material it's patently obvious.

New vermin lord looks great.

Dunno what the problem is. Each clan most likely venerates a different aspect of the GHO. I think it's rather cool that the form of the Vermin Lord matches said aspect.

UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote:
New vermin lord looks great.

Where have you seen him?

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Dunno what the problem is. Each clan most likely venerates a different aspect of the GHO. I think it's rather cool that the form of the Vermin Lord matches said aspect.

Yep

Even though I doubt that it will make 5 variants of the Vermin lord, i would be very happy if it's the case. It would give a lot of variety and a distinct look for each clan, rather than seeing the same sculpt everytime

Again, the Vermin Lord has nothing to do with the clans. Nothing. He is a Daemon. A servant of the Rat God. The only ones who CAN summon him are the Grey Seers, who exist outside of the skaven clan structure.

Although as someone noted, that's going off existing fluff. I suppose it's theoretically possible for various clans to have gotten their claws on the secrets of summoning a Vermin Lord or something else. None of it explains why they would aspect differently.

Do Chaos Warriors summon a different Bloodthirster from a Chaos Marauder cult? Is it a different Bloodthirster than the Chaos Daemons have? No, they're daemons.

Bloody hell, that looks immense! :O

May pick one up just to paint... may even start a small Skaven force if there are any other nice models like that one, phowar!

They've certainly got the 'horned' bit sorted out at any rate!

he's epic

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 streamdragon wrote:
Do Chaos Warriors summon a different Bloodthirster from a Chaos Marauder cult? Is it a different Bloodthirster than the Chaos Daemons have? No, they're daemons.

A Bloodthirster already represents an aspect deity of chaos.

Even if we have never seen an Eshin Vermin Lord, it actually makes sense for one to exists if only because Eshin is so different to Moulder who are so different to Skryre, etc.

Edit - why does he stand on his own weapon? I mean, the miniature looks very cool, but that weird pose really bugs me.

Oh jesus those dancers legs.

Okay, I guess there's something else for him to stand on in other forms, right?

Right?

Too many horns for my taste, but maybe when a non-GW "artist" paints it up it'll look better.

His legwarmers look cozy. Gotta keep your calves warm so you can double dutch jump rope with your tails. Gotta do something to keep warmed up for your pole-vault.