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 brother marcus wrote:

NickOnwezen wrote:
Yeah that is also something I'm wondering about, unlike space marines we haven't heard the geneseed does not take on women type of excuse for why there could be no female stormcasts. I actually still need a picture of Valkia the bloody next to a Liberator or Prosecutor if anyone could swing that. Gonna convert me up a female stormcast if those dimensions work out a bit.

Nothing in the fluff says a stormcast has to be male. All it says is a warrior of great fighting skill or strong of heart who has rejected/hates chaos, or something along those lines. So a stormcast could be an ork, elf or hell even the lord relictor is a tomb king. So if you can think of a great female warrior who has died or will have died due to the generation gap then fire away dude

Inb4 wall of text

Which tomb king? The rumours (i havent read anything definite yet) i have read say he is Arkhan the black. I am skeptical about that but he is definately a highly placed undead (TK/VC) character.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
Aren't Stomcasts just the souls of dead heroes in magic armour?

No, they are usually people on the brink of death, saved by sigmar and use his power to reforge their bodies.

jaceimba wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:
Aren't Stomcasts just the souls of dead heroes in magic armour?

No, they are usually people on the brink of death, saved by sigmar and use his power to reforge their bodies.

Well they do sort of die when they get "reforged" (it's a pretty horrific process) but they do retain memories of their past lives.

Fezza213 wrote:

 brother marcus wrote:

NickOnwezen wrote:
Yeah that is also something I'm wondering about, unlike space marines we haven't heard the geneseed does not take on women type of excuse for why there could be no female stormcasts. I actually still need a picture of Valkia the bloody next to a Liberator or Prosecutor if anyone could swing that. Gonna convert me up a female stormcast if those dimensions work out a bit.

Nothing in the fluff says a stormcast has to be male. All it says is a warrior of great fighting skill or strong of heart who has rejected/hates chaos, or something along those lines. So a stormcast could be an ork, elf or hell even the lord relictor is a tomb king. So if you can think of a great female warrior who has died or will have died due to the generation gap then fire away dude

Inb4 wall of text

Which tomb king? The rumours (i havent read anything definite yet) i have read say he is Arkhan the black. I am skeptical about that but he is definately a highly placed undead (TK/VC) character.

I was thinking he might be Dieter when reading the novella.

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

Wow how awful sounding.


Pass.

migooo wrote:

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

Wow how awful sounding.


Pass.

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

It was Doobie. He lacks the ability to be anything other than sarcastic.

I thought he was describing the Khorne Wrathmongers

Were can I read this fluff on how Sigmarines are created? Since I plan to make mine all with normal human heads and not the helmets. Are Sigmarines really just like Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist? is there no living flesh inside the suit and its just hollow, thats why they dont take off the helmet?

Chopxsticks wrote:
Were can I read this fluff on how Sigmarines are created? Since I plan to make mine all with normal human heads and not the helmets. Are Sigmarines really just like Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist? is there no living flesh inside the suit and its just hollow, thats why they dont take off the helmet?

I thought there were pictures of them with their helmets off somewhere.


Edit: Found

Pretty sure that's Sigmar.

Yep, that picture is Sigmar. I don't think that there's been an image of a sigmarine without helmet yet.

Chopxsticks wrote:
Were can I read this fluff on how Sigmarines are created? Since I plan to make mine all with normal human heads and not the helmets. Are Sigmarines really just like Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist? is there no living flesh inside the suit and its just hollow, thats why they dont take off the helmet?

The book Gates of Azyr has the leader in the Boxed set taking his helmet off to talk to a human, and she recognizes that he's human, after initially thinking he was a demon.

edit: It also has tidbits about how they were created.

 nels1031 wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
Were can I read this fluff on how Sigmarines are created? Since I plan to make mine all with normal human heads and not the helmets. Are Sigmarines really just like Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist? is there no living flesh inside the suit and its just hollow, thats why they dont take off the helmet?

The book Gates of Azyr has the leader in the Boxed set taking his helmet off to talk to a human, and she recognizes that he's human, after initially thinking he was a demon.

edit: It also has tidbits about how they were created.

Yup, and during the battle, several of them are killed and they bleed. So, they are flesh and blood, not spirits. The book describes them as just below gods in terms of power; demi-gods. Think an army of Hercules.

If one of them is mortally wounded, their remains get revived by Sigmar's powers and the broken shell is put into a huge...steam-and-magic driven golem so that despite having their body broken, they can fight on and inspire their batte brothers.

 Sigvatr wrote:
If one of them is mortally wounded, their remains get revived by Sigmar's powers and the broken shell is put into a huge...steam-and-magic driven golem so that despite having their body broken, they can fight on and inspire their batte brothers.

... Ok, the moment they release Steampunk Dreadnoughts is the moment my wallet weeps.

Dreadnots. Dreadnoughts can't legally be copyrighted, or as GW calls it, copywrighted (patent pending).

Soon to be followed by the titanic Dreadlots. Led by the Hound o' war.

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
Were can I read this fluff on how Sigmarines are created? Since I plan to make mine all with normal human heads and not the helmets. Are Sigmarines really just like Alphonse Elric from Full Metal Alchemist? is there no living flesh inside the suit and its just hollow, thats why they dont take off the helmet?

The book Gates of Azyr has the leader in the Boxed set taking his helmet off to talk to a human, and she recognizes that he's human, after initially thinking he was a demon.

edit: It also has tidbits about how they were created.

Yup, and during the battle, several of them are killed and they bleed. So, they are flesh and blood, not spirits. The book describes them as just below gods in terms of power; demi-gods. Think an army of Hercules.

Or an army of Marines from Space.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:
If one of them is mortally wounded, their remains get revived by Sigmar's powers and the broken shell is put into a huge...steam-and-magic driven golem so that despite having their body broken, they can fight on and inspire their batte brothers.

... Ok, the moment they release Steampunk Dreadnoughts is the moment my wallet weeps.

Dread not, my child, Games Workshop is more than happy to help you. Sorry, I just couldn't resist the pun.

So, there are Sigmarine dreads? Alrighty, then. I'll just be over here, painting up some plain ol' Stormcast. Oh, and some Greatswords. The Stormcast are starting to grow on me, but, maybe they could tone down the SM parallels a notch? Hopefully they at least leave the mortals more separate from "IG with Bowlas, and the dreaded Russ Lee Steamtank."

Your Dreadnot wouldn't work, as there is nothing about storms, lighting, thunderbolts, comets, or Sigmar in the name.

While the Chaos equivalent will be full of blood, skulls, and wrath.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Your Dreadnot wouldn't work, as there is nothing about storms, lighting, thunderbolts, comets, or Sigmar in the name.

While the Chaos equivalent will be full of blood, skulls, and wrath.

Stormnought. Dreadstorm. Thundknight. Knightlight. Cometnought.

Bloodnought. Skullnought. Wrathnought. Wrathskull. Bloodwrath.

Dreadmarite. Deadknight.

Just saying that one of the books has a small shadow image of the steampunk dreadnaught you all speak off, I am not going to say which book so you will have to buy all of them... and find it --- ALL HAIL GW

migooo wrote:

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

Wow how awful sounding.


Pass.

Safe to say he was joking. though if you believe that well.....

This "slaughterpriest" I am going to guess is some form of khorne sorcerer yes i know khorne hates magic but he doesnt have to be magic. He could be some form of magic void. Funnily enough before this guy was rumoured I converted two sorcerers for my khorne stuff out the box renamed blood priests.

 Motograter wrote:

migooo wrote:

 Abadabadoobaddon wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

migooo wrote:
Slaughterpriest?

Yup, literally all I can give you is the name and that the "Geysers of Boiling Blood" special rule for Time of War and the Brimstone Peninsula allows for a player with one or more PRIESTS of KHORNE to choose to add or subtract 1 from your dice roll to determine which geyser erupts.

My source tells me he's armed with an Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxe in each hand! These are giant bloodaxes with bloodaxeflails attached to their bloodhafts (bloodaxeflails are bloodaxes on the ends of rageflails). This way at the same time he's bloodaxing you with the bloodaxe parts of the Exalted Bloodaxeflailaxes the bloodaxeflails are rageflailing around to bloodaxeflail you simultaneously!

Wow how awful sounding.


Pass.

Safe to say he was joking. though if you believe that well.....

This "slaughterpriest" I am going to guess is some form of khorne sorcerer yes i know khorne hates magic but he doesnt have to be magic. He could be some form of magic void. Funnily enough before this guy was rumoured I converted two sorcerers for my khorne stuff out the box renamed blood priests.

It was obviously a joke but it doesn't exactly sound implausible based on some of GWs Khorne releases and naming conventions. It probably isn't going to end up being too far wrong.

Sigaboltnought.

/mic drop

 TalonZahn wrote:
Sigaboltnought.

/mic drop

Sounds noughty.

It's probably not a good sign when people can't tell the difference between people taking the piss out of your stupid setting and the setting itself.

 AlexHolker wrote:
It's probably not a good sign when people can't tell the difference between people taking the piss out of your stupid setting and the setting itself.

Its hardly new with GW though. Its been like that for years

Stormcast reborn into new body= Stormwrought. Easy peasy.