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Are the helmet plumes the actual hair of the dwarves, pulled through a hole?

This is how early Samurai did it, though they did not arrange their hair into Greek style manes.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Are the helmet plumes the actual hair of the dwarves, pulled through a hole?

This is how early Samurai did it, though they did not arrange their hair into Greek style manes.

Yes they are. The WD made it clear several times which I'm glad they did because just a look at pics or even the fluff for rune-chaos-dwarf-shaved-upper lip character guy can be misleading concerning his double crest. The BL book as well fortunately corroborates.

I like the samurai inspiration though for a cool conversion idea

 Thunderfrog wrote:
Shadowkin and Gloom tribes?

o.O;

Tell me more!

So the gloom tribes are apparently a group of peoples indigenous to Shyish who paid a Lodge of Fyreslayers to slay the Vampire Queen Cyssandra who lorded it over them. There is a battleplan that tells the full story in the new battletome apparently (I am just reciting White Dwarf here). We don't know if the gloom tribes are people or something else, but it is a glimpse of an "NPC" faction as it were. These little factions are starting to fill the stories of the Mortal Realms (similar tribes have appeared in BL fiction).

It is something I am a fan of because I have criticized the setting for being too empty on quite a few occasions. I am glad to see GW make the effort to bring the Mortal Realms to life - even if they are doing it very slowly.

Oh, we know the Gloom Tribes live underground and apparently the battleplan takes place in a dungeon where the Fyreslayers attempt to slay the Vampire Queen. (Sounds fun, I love dungeons! And let's get a rumour mill turning: dungeons can only mean a return of Warhammer Quest amirite!? ;-)

With the "Shadowkin" mentioned in the painting guide previewed on the last page - we get more information on them from the associated Fyreslayer Lodge of Caengan. White Dwarf states, "...the Caengan lodge have learned to survive amid the swirling mists to find the ur-gold hidden there. The Warriors of their grand fyrd have mastered the subtle art of war as practiced by the Shroudling Kings, enabling them to survive against the murderous denizens found in the Realm of Shadow. Their lodge icon (right) also has more than a little of the "aelf" to it..."

Pictured to the right, the icon looks like Chaos Dwarves meets Dark Eldar or something lol. (An angry dwarf face with lots of curved blades making up its facial hair).

It's little snippets like this that I find facinating.

I still think GW could write much more interesting source material though. I would like to read about Fyreslayer women and how the Lodge trades with other peoples in its locale. Do they trade metals for food? Is the warrior caste an elite? What about the other jobs like the artisans who build their cities and axes?

If the White Dwarf fluff is anything to go by, nothing like the above will be covered though and it'll just be the same FIRE, UR GOLD, KEYS, RUNES, AXES, LAVA etc arranged in a variety of sentences.

You might be able to find some of that information in "Legends of the Age of Sigmar: Fyreslayers" story collection.

I'm going to thumb through it at my local GW on Saturday, assuming Snowmageddon doesn't screw me over or screw the shop out of getting its deliveries, and hope like hell it has something about the Shadowkin(first faction I'm GENUINELY EXCITED FOR!).

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Are the helmet plumes the actual hair of the dwarves, pulled through a hole? This is how early Samurai did it, though they did not arrange their hair into Greek style manes.

Sorry, but no they did not (despite what Turnbull's silly claims).
There are a few drawings of samurai with their black (and probably damp with sweat) eboshi beanie through the tehen hole to create a bit of aircondition - but to pull hair through the tiny AC-hole would have been utterly stupid (as well as uncomfortable as f..k).

This said, the AoS Dwarfs obviously do it - using a much bigger hole.
I like it but would have preferred them eithout any armour running around butt naked - Pict style

I really like the Magmadroth model, just need to find a way of getting it into 40k. Salamanders Land Raider?

Spyro_Killer wrote:
I really like the Magmadroth model, just need to find a way of getting it into 40k. Salamanders Land Raider?

That would be an awesome salamander conversion Via the last scene in Deathfire if you've read it. No spoilers if you haven't.

I can really imagine the fifteen salamanders marines hanging off the side laughing in a game about how they can't be shot at

The release info for next week

Dark Warrior on the GW-Fanworld.de Forum

I had a first look at the White Dwarf issue which will be released on January 30. The new things are:

Repacks of many Chaos Warrior models - Knights and Marauder Cavalry are now 10 per box - the others have not changed, prices were not mentioned.

There is a new army box, Lord Heldrath's Chaos Deathtide, two Charriots, 5 Knights, 10 Marauder cavalry, 16 Warriors, Lord on Manticore. 145€.

The next campaign book, Balance of Power. 304 pages. 60€.

Also Wardens of the Everqueen, a Novella, and the Space Wolves Audio [book] Parting of the Ways.

Everything is for Age of Sigmar, including the campaign book.

The teaser says: After 10,000 years the lost brothers return.

Warhams-77 wrote:

The teaser says: After 10,000 years the lost brothers return.

Referring to the Space Wolves 13th Company.

There is a new army box, Lord Heldrath's Chaos Deathtide, two Charriots, 5 Knights, 10 Marauder cavalry, 16 Warriors, Lord on Manticore. 145€.

Dont play AoS / WHFB9th - this a good deal overall?

I dunno. Regular warriors boxes are pulled from the website.

Seems like it though.

For some reason.. I recall..

Warriors - 12 for 32
Chariots - 1 for 30
Knights - 5 for 24
Marauder Cav - 12 for 24
Lord on Manticore - 60

So it seems like a bit of a deal, if I'm close to accurate.

I imagine the Chaos warriors and a few other kits will be up for "preorder" as reboxed kits tomorrow.

Looks like some big changes are going on in the webstore. Noticed the metal slayers are now gone, and lots of the chaos has been renamed (for example the excellent "Chaos Khorne Lord" is now another "Exhalted Deathbringer".)

 Bottle wrote:
I imagine the Chaos warriors and a few other kits will be up for "preorder" as reboxed kits tomorrow.

Nope. The only Chaos preorders for this week are all Khorne (Bloodthirster, Bloodcrushers, Bloodletters and the Skull Cannon/Blood Throne). Those are next week's preorders (January 30th).

 Bottle wrote:
I imagine the Chaos warriors and a few other kits will be up for "preorder" as reboxed kits tomorrow.

Looks like some big changes are going on in the webstore. Noticed the metal slayers are now gone, and lots of the chaos has been renamed (for example the excellent "Chaos Khorne Lord" is now another "Exhalted Deathbringer".)

Villitch the Curseling is now just a 'Curseling, Lord of Tzeentch'.


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Also, whoever called Thunderscorn as being Dragon Ogres was right, ditto with difference between Brayherds (Bestigors, Gors, Ungors) and Warherds (big monsters and 'Bullgors', formerly known as Minotaurs).

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:
.. ditto with difference between Brayherds (Bestigors, Gors, Ungors) and Warherds (big monsters and 'Bullgors', formerly known as Minotaurs).

Note that the Jabberslythe, Razorgor and Centigors were moved to 'Monsters of Chaos'.

Many of these changes have been present on the warscrolls since the onset or for quite a while, if one looked at the keywords. The exalted deathbringer change, for example, was made with the bloodbound book release when that model got the option to be sword & axe as well as the greataxe & punchy-thing option.

 Bottle wrote:
(for example the excellent "Chaos Khorne Lord" is now another "Exhalted Deathbringer".)

That's been the case for months. I picked one of those up with the Garden of Morr (to reach the free shipping threshold) in November.

Thanks for the clear up everyone. Still think there has been some other renaming. Ikit Claw is called an "Arch-Warlock" for example.

I guess with the release of the grand alliance books (if more are coming) we'll likely see this shake-up again to move models into keyword factions. For example Death would have Deathrattle, Mordant, Dead Walkers and Malignant perhaps.

Chaos Knight re-packs also confirm the Varanguard were never intended as replacements for them, to clear up some of the fearful speculation in these threads during their release.

The website is going to need a little more sorting out though. Currently clanrats and storm vermin don't seem to have a home in any of the factions either.

Bottle wrote:the Vampire Queen Cyssandra

The Warriors of their grand fyrd

Urg.

One with a random vowel replaced with a Y, in a completely lazy way of looking 'alternative' and 'kewl'. The other with a proper, generally accepted Y, but still completely lazy. Do we wait for fyreslayer huscarls and thegns to show up? Swinging a few dan... er, dyneaxes around?

If the White Dwarf fluff is anything to go by, nothing like the above will be covered though and it'll just be the same FYRE, UR GYLD, KYYS, RYNES, YXES, LYVY etc arranged in a variety of sentences.

Fyxed that for you.

But otherwise I think you're right. AoS's background wasn't designed for subtlety. Despite whatever hints are turning up, it arguably fits the IN THE GRIM DARKNESS OF THE FAR FUTURE THERE IS ONLY WAR bit better than 40K.

 Vermis wrote:

Bottle wrote:the Vampire Queen Cyssandra

The Warriors of their grand fyrd

Urg.

One with a random vowel replaced with a Y, in a completely lazy way of looking 'alternative' and 'kewl'. The other with a proper, generally accepted Y, but still completely lazy. Do we wait for fyreslayer huscarls and thegns to show up? Swinging a few dan... er, dyneaxes around?

I disagree, it is actually GW's way of looking 'altyrnatyve' and 'kywl'. Soon we will see fyreslayer huskyrls and thyns, throwing dynayxes.

But more seriously, GW has been this bad about naming for a while now. And many of the names are borderline; they wouldn't seem quite as bad if our attention wasn't drawn to them by those that are really bad. But names this bad are nothing new, and I would at least take a y-switchout over another 'ripperdactyls' or murderfang's murderlust causing him to murder people with his murderclaws. Of course, just having decent names would be ideal, but with market research being otiose that's really too much to ask for.

Looks like Death is getting on the scene in the new campaign book.

Some very tiny pictures and info: http://www.spikeybits.com/2016/01/breaking-aos-balance-of-power-campaign-pictures.html

coldgaming wrote:
Looks like Death is getting on the scene in the new campaign book.

Some very tiny pictures and info: http://www.spikeybits.com/2016/01/breaking-aos-balance-of-power-campaign-pictures.html

Oooooo exciting! I have Neferata unbuilt, maybe this will be motivation to build her. And this may be the first AoS book I buy.

from Adeptus Astartes on facebook

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
from Adeptus Astartes on facebook

Want.

Getting excited for this one...

Ohh Neferata

doing the rounds on Facebook :

Another discount box set! GW are really going all out to bring in more sales, which is pretty awesome.

Curious on the repackage price. The resized units for the Lizardmen (Saurus Warriors & Temple Guard) both got fairly significant discount on a per model basis. So I'm interested to see if there is any change for the Calvary, Warriors, or Marauders.

Also interested in seeing how much that larger expansion is. I don't need 2 chariots (only one) for my KoW list but the rest is all stuff I was considering purchasing separately.