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New Verminlord looks pretty cool to say the least, and alot cheaper than I was expecting which is a pleasant surprise. At this rate I
might have to finally bite the bullet and give Fantasy a try, between new skaven units and the awesome blight-kings (which would make
great rat ogres) how can I resist.

So the new Storm Fiends?

This does kinda look like a big bulky skaven shooting a flame gauntlet, and the pattern work on the armor closely resembles the new
Vermin lords, especially the lattice work on the vambraces.

rtb01 wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

Unless the physical manifestation of the great horned rat? Come on worlds fastest and most intelligent, you knew that!

Whoosh!

TiamatRoar wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

They are daemons of a god named The HORNED Rat, just so you know.

Whoosh!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

Or stand on two legs and wield various balded weapons.

So unrealistic!

I mean, seriously!

Really, really like the Vermin Lord as a whole, but the "I'm resting my foot on my spear" pose looks really stupid, in my opinion. The dual-wield weapons are very cool, though. I might have to pick one of these up, even though I don't play Skaven. They'd make for a very, very cool Nurgle Greater Daemon. An alternative to the bloated Great Unclean One. Maybe a count-as Nurgle Bloodthirster?

 Rolt wrote:

New Verminlord looks pretty cool to say the least, and alot cheaper than I was expecting which is a pleasant surprise. At this rate I
might have to finally bite the bullet and give Fantasy a try, between new skaven units and the awesome blight-kings (which would make
great rat ogres) how can I resist.

So the new Storm Fiends?

This does kinda look like a big bulky skaven shooting a flame gauntlet, and the pattern work on the armor closely resembles the new
Vermin lords, especially the lattice work on the vambraces.

Wait a sec. Could this also be the jetpack skaven? Unlikely maybe but please god let it happen.

The flames are pointed at something though so probably not.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Rolt wrote:

New Verminlord looks pretty cool to say the least, and alot cheaper than I was expecting which is a pleasant surprise. At this rate I
might have to finally bite the bullet and give Fantasy a try, between new skaven units and the awesome blight-kings (which would make
great rat ogres) how can I resist.

So the new Storm Fiends?

This does kinda look like a big bulky skaven shooting a flame gauntlet, and the pattern work on the armor closely resembles the new
Vermin lords, especially the lattice work on the vambraces.

Wait a sec. Could this also be the jetpack skaven? Unlikely maybe but please god let it happen.

The flames are pointed at something though so probably not.

Handflamers?

Sorry i'm just hoping against hope skaven also get some jetpack flyers.

Thanquol model is no longer available with a notice saying will not be back in stock.Pretty much confirms he's getting some new threads. Interestingly the old Vermin Lord just had the temporarily out of stock stamp.

MonumentOfRibs wrote:
Interestingly the old Vermin Lord just had the temporarily out of stock stamp.

US site showing as still available.

 Ozymandias wrote:

rtb01 wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

Unless the physical manifestation of the great horned rat? Come on worlds fastest and most intelligent, you knew that!

Whoosh!

TiamatRoar wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

They are daemons of a god named The HORNED Rat, just so you know.

Whoosh!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ozymandias wrote:
They should tell him rats don't have horns either...

Or stand on two legs and wield various balded weapons.

So unrealistic!

I mean, seriously!

Ozymandias is a character from watchmen (your user id...) And was the smartest guy on the planet.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sorry i'm just hoping against hope skaven also get some jetpack flyers.

I have a feeling we'll see that before we ever get an update for the Bretonnians.

 Breotan wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sorry i'm just hoping against hope skaven also get some jetpack flyers.

I have a feeling we'll see that before we ever get an update for the Bretonnians.

Well wood elves got an update so all hope isn't yet lost. If in a couple years you don't see anything then that's when you should worry. As soon as this end times stuff is done either bretonnia or skaven should be next. Skaven are the 2nd oldest book and FAQ'd to hell at this point.

I will admit though armored rat ogres with warpfire thrower gauntlets would be so boss. It's about time our weapons teams weren't so stupidly fragile at toughness 3, heavy armor and 1 wound (and a 4+ ward save if you are within 3" of the parent unit).

Alternatively what if these rat ogres became a weapons team mount for a weapon team crew? Now that would be awesome.

Hopefully that picture wasn't of ikit claw but the rumors do say new rat ogres with armored rat ogres so one can only hope the armored version gets the gauntlets.

Oh and hopefully last edit but skaven need a fast unit. Even wolf rats would be nice or just allowing giant rats to be on their own. Perhaps give them both the swiftstride rule or allow a packmaster to ride a wolf rat with the giant rats (it's not like skweel is the only one to ride a wolf rat). There's also the issue of warlords and their mounts. No war-litter and no mounts of any kind have hit the board. Then we have the issue of some models not having a model outside of the island of blood kit (like the poisoned wind mortar which you can only get with the set).

So thanks to Dakka I can hope for armored flamethrower jetpack rat ogres?

If we have anything less than that, I'm going to be disappointed. Although a weapon team boxset would be a godsend, considering that new jezzail bundle I doubt that's something we'll see happening any time soon.


Flipping through the WD, it looks like the new vermin lord stand about as tall as Nagash's Mortarchs.

Having never seen those guys in the flesh (outside of a box), how big is that approximately?

Pretty big actually Tamburlaine...

Not mine but gives you an idea.

That is fairly large.

That's like Darklands- sized large. Will look pretty normal on my shelf then!

I think this is the first GW release I've been excited about since the updated Carnosaur model.

Now about those jetpacking flamethrowing armored rat ogres... I guess slapping a giant rat head on a chaos marine would probably give me a similar effect.

Sprue pics for you all

The biggest question now is; which do I build?!

 ImAGeek wrote:
The biggest question now is; which do I build?!

I think i'll go with the eshin one (the deceiver) if only because those fast elf magical cavalry and shooting armies are giving me more trouble than anything else. I'll see if the magical powers of the others are worth it. There's also been some speculation on what's happening to the skaven lores of magic if anything. They are fairly outdated lores as it stands. I may use them as a stand in lore till the skaven army re-release happens.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The biggest question now is; which do I build?!

You're a Skaven player. What part of "all of them" escapes you?

 Breotan wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
The biggest question now is; which do I build?!

You're a Skaven player. What part of "all of them" escapes you?

Hahaha, an excellent point well made. Okay then, which one first?
I really like the Eshin one, Pestilens one and the Warbringer one.

The Eshin one seems most valid for the game right now or at least against all this elf fast cavalry avoidance nonsense.

The Warbringer might be my favorite model though. Gotta love that huge punching dagger.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
The Eshin one seems most valid for the game right now or at least against all this elf fast cavalry avoidance nonsense.

The Warbringer might be my favorite model though. Gotta love that huge punching dagger.

Yeah and the giant Stormvermin helmet. Thing is I don't really have a 'local meta' so I don't know if I'll be against avoidance lists when I actually find a gaming group.

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sorry i'm just hoping against hope skaven also get some jetpack flyers.

I have a feeling we'll see that before we ever get an update for the Bretonnians.

Skaven are the 2nd oldest book and FAQ'd to hell at this point.

Skaven don't have "© 2007" in their army book. I should just paint my army as redheads and albinos and give the horses buck teeth.

 Breotan wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:

 Breotan wrote:

 flamingkillamajig wrote:
Sorry i'm just hoping against hope skaven also get some jetpack flyers.

I have a feeling we'll see that before we ever get an update for the Bretonnians.

Skaven are the 2nd oldest book and FAQ'd to hell at this point.

Skaven don't have "© 2007" in their army book. I should just paint my army as redheads and albinos and give the horses buck teeth.

Bretonnia are older than that aren't they? They haven't had a new book since I started and that was in...2005? I think. White Dwarf 300 was the first issue I got so whenever that came out. Bretonnia do interest me as an army (they pretty much all do) but I'm waiting to see what happens with them.

Skaven are 2009 I believe.

It was 2009 when the ratties were redone. Everything since, awesome. Everything prior, bar giant rats, needs a redo

New Artwork (poster?) - Thanquol on Boneripper

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=205236&d=1420285729





Archibald_TK - who seems to have the next White Dwarf (10th of January) - is posting lots of interesting bits on Warseer

Some info that may interest you:

- The Verminlords are the big model release, Boneripper is big but not that big. It is cheaper (in real money) as well.
- It's the thirteenth and most powerful Boneripper ever created.
- Boneripper has two weapon options. First one is a set of 4 Flamers looking a lot like the drawing on the GW blog.
- Second option is a CC one and it's four of these ball smoke plague dispenser thingies that skavens use, you know like on the alternative build of the Screaming Bell kit?

- Spoiler alert -

- Apparently Ikkit successfully manage to poison the halls of that Dwarf Slayer City.
- A massive Skaven army is laying siege to Karaz-a-Karak
- Skavens activate some kind of machine, causing a meteoric rain to annihilate Itza. It is said that the Slaans start the Exodus at that point.
- A massive fleet is spotted from the North. Archaon is finally making his move.

Archibald_TK continued answering various questions

Originally Posted by silverstu
Bone ripper looks huge in that illustration- his head is as big as Thanquol- could be a similar size to Glotkin.
Edit- apparently not. As a dwarf player that fluff looks grim as expected… bloody rats…

From what I can tell it's smaller than a Maggoth Lord (in the WD they show them next to each other and they look the same size but it appears that its base was put at a higher elevation to look that way).

Originally Posted by Decadence
Thanquol's staff in that image is identical to the new Grey Seer's, is it possible that Boneripper is an option in the new Stormfiends kit and that you can combine it with the clampack to make T & B?

Nope, Thanquol is its own model.

Originally Posted by silverstu
Cheers -sounds like a good kit. More worried about what is going to happen to the dwarfs in this- but perhaps that is for the background forum..

I think it's fine, there is always ample fluff discussion on N&R. Also I'm pretty sure the LM players must also be thinking about the implications of what's happening.

[Spoiler]
Regarding the Dwarfs:

Ungrim is battling outside the city when it happens (it's actually the reason why it happens). So not all hope is lost. They actually don't tell how the battle end in the WD but since apparently Ikkit is also present later at the siege of Karaz-a-Karak...

Originally Posted by Dr.Zahnfleisch
Sounds amazing. Thankfully Boneripper won't be another oversized blob.

Don't worry, it isn't a blob at all. Also it has two head options, one with it head apparent but covered in chainmail, the other where it is hidden by a Gas mask.

Originally Posted by Warpsoul
Those Karaz A Karak rumours would make this a pretty good time to release plastic Slayers. If they ever existed at all, that is.

Well I sure hope I'm not messing up the name of the Dwarfs Strongholds because they all sound the same to me and I'm going from memory. But I'm pretty sure to remember that it is Karaz-a-Karak.

Originally Posted by RTB01
Thanks for the info archi assuming boneripper is a separate kit entirely to the armoured rat ogres?

Yup, nothing but him and Thanquol in the box.

Posted on Warseer, some (low quality) pics, taken from the Verminlord teaser video. Darnok confirmed these are showing the following new models

Greyseer
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=205192&d=1420248991

Stormfiends
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=205189&d=1420248940
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=205190&d=1420248942
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=205191&d=1420248943

Source http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?403583-End-Times-Thanquol/page36



Darnok also added:

As far as I'm informed (see the OP) there is only the clampack Warlord unseen by this point. The Stormfiends and Greyseer deserve some better pictures of course.

Looking at the links the second URL for the stormfiends is a bunch of doom wheels all bunched up, the third one however, now that is interesting!

Thanks a lot Warhams for that compilation.

Listening to 'wake the white wolf' when reading that Archaon is now on the move properly. Hype levels rising dangerously.


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I really hope there will be a large section on Lizardmen, that little tidbit has me wondering about the Exodus even more.

You're welcome. A pic of the new 'T-Bone' mini should be out soon as the next WD cover was seen by one of early leak blog authors (the spanish or italian one) acccording to his post on Warseer

Shame you can barely make out the stormfiends. Boneripper sounds pretty awesome though!

 ImAGeek wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
What the hell is the thing on the home page where you enter your email address to subscribe? Looks like some armored warpfire thrower.

Yeah I saw that too! I can't tell what it is, but probably something awesome, it is Skaven.

Could that be Boneripper ? He had a gun / cannon once, and it looks like under the helm there is some bone. Maybe Thanquol put some armor on him, and changed out the cannon for a warpfire thrower ?


EDIT: meh, now that i caught up with the rest of the thread, doesn't look likely. Probably something to do with Storm Fiends.