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New app update is here. Azyr 99 cents and so worth it so far to build armies. Scrollbuilder is nice but now I have scrolls there with list in once place.

Azyr is $1.49 for me...

Same for me, Hulksmash. I wonder if it's just a conversion error or something, holding off on purchase for now.

Still has the old Azyros and Vexillor Warscrolls on the app too...

Vorian wrote:
So much of the fluff? Such as?

I don't know, godbeasts finale for sure isn't a funny moment, if it's over the top.

Requizen wrote:
Same for me, Hulksmash. I wonder if it's just a conversion error or something, holding off on purchase for now.

Still has the old Azyros and Vexillor Warscrolls on the app too...

And old Venator too...

motski wrote:

SeanDrake wrote:

Or more likely that noise you can hear is the barrel being scraped as they desperately try and come up with some original designs they can TM and copyright the living daylight out of.

Age of Trademarks has all ready produced some "classics" whirling anvil hammer heads and Fyreslares with yourgold"they were not kiding at those prices either" being some of my favourites.

A KoW/Mantic fanboy complaining about originality. Oh the irony.

Where did you see me mention Mantic?
You also managed to miss my point entirely in your charge to white knight.

I will try again my my point is not that AoS is not original, but it certainly is not as a whole.

It is that a lot of AoS seems to have been designed with the main design brief being make somthing we can TM/Copyright first and foremost no matter how derpy it ends up being. This has lead to some very "original" ideas that should have been binned shortly after they came up in the pub rather than actually being produced.

This also why almost eveyones 1st thought on the idea of flying ballon dwarfs in AoS is the same a poor dwarf with a dozen ballons fastend to his belt wildly swinging an axe.

Sometimes an original idea is only original as no one else was daft enough to use it

Really? My first thought was mini-airship tied to a armored dwarf's back and using either a blunderbuss or rifle to be a mobile and hard to kill firing platform. Then you turn that into a brigade and watch the skies turn red.

Lord Kragan wrote:

Vorian wrote:
So much of the fluff? Such as?

I don't know, godbeasts finale for sure isn't a funny moment, if it's over the top.

Indeed but he may have meant that the setting allows anything to happen. I'm not sure how the Old World differed in that respect but oh well.

Somebody has to have pictures by now, this may be my in for age of sigmar if they are what I am imagining they will be like.

Im going to guess GW will give us a good teaser or preview once this weekend is over and everyone is settled with GS. All we got coming from this weekend will be the Prospero repackages so it would be a good time to give us a taste of what's coming next week. That is of course if the Duradin are even coming next.

Most guesses are we'll see something by the 18th.

Baron Klatz wrote:
Really? My first thought was mini-airship tied to a armored dwarf's back and using either a blunderbuss or rifle to be a mobile and hard to kill firing platform. Then you turn that into a brigade and watch the skies turn red.

Lord Kragan wrote:

Vorian wrote:
So much of the fluff? Such as?

I don't know, godbeasts finale for sure isn't a funny moment, if it's over the top.

Indeed but he may have meant that the setting allows anything to happen. I'm not sure how the Old World differed in that respect but oh well.

That's what I was imagining as well, floating shooter troops rather than dwarf assault marines. As for the fluff I would go further but it's somewhat off topic for this thread.

A monthly subscription to make army lists?

Apparently all the pens and all the paper in all the world have vanished. And every version of Excel deleted itself overnight.

I'll take a look.

I have been making a lot of lists planning future armies but I would like an easier 'touch and done' approach rather than typing everything up or doing formula myself. Price isn't bad for what it is. I think it's a nice addition. Just makes it easier.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A monthly subscription to make army lists?

Apparently all the pens and all the paper in all the world have vanished. And every version of Excel deleted itself overnight.

Well I think its more about having the point for the models on hand if you dont want to buy the books. Though I think you already knew that and just wanted to vent.

Gonna dive in to it, love that it lets you name units and put pictures to it. For someone who loves converting and creating personalised units this sounds great!

Edit: Already loving it. cheers for the shout lads.

This has been posted?

Hastings on Disqus/War of Sigmar (quotes via gw-fanworld.net)

As for the image, well I believe I MAY have already posted a week or so ago about what this could well be (of course I could be totally wrong, but it looks like what was described to me as the new Aelves faction for AoS, with a very deep one/cthulu feel - I do still feel that the eyes are very much Tau, but we never really got to see the facial features of the mistweaver from AoS ST did we?)

No more than everyone else really, I know there's at least one airship, other than that I "assume" they'll look similar in many ways to the cogsmith model aesthetically, but I guess a little more OTT and steampunkish. Quite looking forward to seeing them. As for exact release date I was expecting end of March, I was told they would be "NEXT" for AoS.

If the Aelves have a deep ones/ Cthulhu feel I'll be all over it.

Hastings earlier comment (quoted here by Shinros two weeks ago)

BTW Bob have you guys heard anything about the slightly Cthulu/Deep One elves (Aelves) due out later this year? (After Steamheads, which I think are next - oh and there's chat of some skaven stuff too iirc)

Chopxsticks wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A monthly subscription to make army lists?

Apparently all the pens and all the paper in all the world have vanished. And every version of Excel deleted itself overnight.

Well I think its more about having the point for the models on hand if you dont want to buy the books. Though I think you already knew that and just wanted to vent.

A dollar a month to not have to deal with Excel or Pen and Paper seems like a pretty good deal to me(though admittedly there isn't a real compelling reason to use it over scrollbuilder as of yet). But let's be real, it's H.B.M.C.; it could pay YOU a dollar a month and he'd complain it didn't come with a complimentary handy-j.

Not sure how useful this info will be but I had a confirm from the manager at my local that 'GW have their hands full with Age of Sigmar releases right now and we'll be seeing a lot of new stuff soon'

Chopxsticks wrote:
Well I think its more about having the point for the models on hand if you dont want to buy the books. Though I think you already knew that and just wanted to vent.

Not at all.

This is the third time GW has released army building software.

Don't remember the first two times? I don't blame you. They came and went like a thief in the night, unsupported and outdated within a year, tops.

Indeed, I remember the 40K CD-ROM you could get from them in I think, early 2000s.

Though I think this time around, it will be different.

I keep hearing 'Cthulhu feel' but what does it mean? They have octopuses for heads? They sleep in giant underwater cities? Deep ones? GW have finally brought out that fishman army?

And the facial features of Pointy McShardingspike don't count...?

I'm hoping it means appearance rather than text inspired, imagine the cosmic horrors of lovecraft style names crossed with GW trademarkable spellings, we'd never be able to pronounce anything with confidence!

 Vermis wrote:
I keep hearing 'Cthulhu feel' but what does it mean? They have octopuses for heads? They sleep in giant underwater cities? Deep ones? GW have finally brought out that fishman army?

And the facial features of Pointy McShardingspike don't count...?

I think that cthuluesque is a catch-all term for the lovecraftian stuff. Maybe they are octopus-like, maybe they are horrors from beyond we just don't wanna know about. Maybe they are insurance sellers *shudders*. Who knows right now.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 Vermis wrote:
I keep hearing 'Cthulhu feel' but what does it mean? They have octopuses for heads? They sleep in giant underwater cities? Deep ones? GW have finally brought out that fishman army?

And the facial features of Pointy McShardingspike don't count...?

I think that cthuluesque is a catch-all term for the lovecraftian stuff. Maybe they are octopus-like, maybe they are horrors from beyond we just don't wanna know about. Maybe they are insurance sellers *shudders*. Who knows right now.

IMO, in recent times, it has become more of a marketing sell word than describing anything actually related to the Lovecraft mythos or Sandy Peterson's expansion on it. I feel that nowadays it is usually used for horror stuff featuring disfigured monsters. As such "Cthulhu elves" doesn't mean anything to me without additional context (as "Cthulhu" no longer carries it)

I would not put too much weight into Hastings calling it a 'slightly cthulhu'-appearance, it seems more of a style than a definition

It makes me think of this


combined with elements of

which may resemble what he has heard or may be completely off and they will be something entirely new

it would be cool if they expand the scourge privateers

Well so far the Shadowkin in the Silver Tower have shown affinities for causing madness, eldritch tentacles and using shadows and mist. Mixed with Malerion's terrifying appearance and the realm of shadows I think we can expect models to actually hit the mark of being called Lovecraftian.

Funny enough this will give Order two Lovecraft-inspired armies with Seraphon being the second as eldritch entities amongst the stars with enigmatic plans.

How many settings can boast having that for the good guys? M

Maybe they are insurance sellers *shudders*. 

I'm 95% sure that's what's chasing the Tyranids.

RyanAvx wrote:
Not sure how useful this info will be but I had a confirm from the manager at my local that 'GW have their hands full with Age of Sigmar releases right now and we'll be seeing a lot of new stuff soon'

Music to my ears!

 Vermis wrote:
I keep hearing 'Cthulhu feel' but what does it mean? They have octopuses for heads? They sleep in giant underwater cities? Deep ones? GW have finally brought out that fishman army?

And the facial features of Pointy McShardingspike don't count...?

Well if you read the darkling coven faction lore these guys are pretty much a cthulu cult in a sense. They are lead by aelf queens and sorceress who betwitch and enthrall other aelfs and practice dark magic to take back their home land and they don't want to actually live with the other order factions in sigmar's cities they want to return to Ulgu. They also refuse to bow to the the eldritch council of aelf wizards and have secret bases in the shadows etc. Let's not also forget the ritual blood sacrifices to power their magic and the executioners etc. Lore wise they are pretty much a cthulu/deep one cult faction. The grand alliance order book notes they are just allied by proximity than anything else.

Also the new aelf heroes of sliver tower are pretty Cthulhu themed shard is literally jumping off a tentacle.



Also the mistweaver has metal like fins on her arms growing/sticking out of her skin and going by the sliver tower novel her magic also deals in madness and illusions. She tells the group if she wanted to she could drive them insane to the point they would tear out their eyeballs and rip of their skin also both models have bird skulls.



As baron said the scourge privateers are pretty obviously deep one themed in the city of secrets novel. I shall spoiler tag this.



Also this bad boy. Their monster pretty clear themes going on here.




Now it's still a rumor but Hastings is pretty reliable. Also malerion being the god of shadows, secrets, hidden truths and maddening secrets etc and he can block the sight of the chaos gods as well. Do also remember the newer fantasy kits including the dark elf stuff was made for AOS in mind since it was in the planning since 7th edition if I recall correctly. Now they may not go full blow cthulu craziness but they are most likely going to be made in that "style".

Malerion.