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Hastings himself has said it!? Holy jeebus. This is a big game changer than. I need to brace myself. Even if I don't like how they look I still have Khardarin Overlords. Probably going to be butchering the spelling for awhile on that lol. If it's true Hastings has said it then May time we will be having sky wars. Far cooler than the lesser ground based wars of the non-flyers.

Micheal Eisner: They look like ants from up here.
Bill Gates: They are ants Micheal. They... are... ants.

 Barzam wrote:
Wow! I don't think I've ever been hyped for fantasy dwarves before. Those guys are really cool. I love that there's no exposed flesh. I might even consider getting some of these guys.

I hear that Shadowkin are supposed to have airships as well? If true, I hope they go for a similar dive suit look for them. Fully sealed, armored environmental suits with Dark Elf aesthetics would be absolutely bad ass!

Shadowkin are, as far as we know right now?

We've seen two of them. The Tenebrael Shard and Mistweaver Saih in Silver Tower. Nothing about them has suggested airships or anything.

The Reavers(corsairs) do have something similar though from what's been said. They raid between the realms.

This:

Warhams-77 wrote:
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.

Which made people look closer at other minis to see this (tentacle on base):



And combined with older minis like this



And now this



It's certainly plausible.

Vorian wrote:
Cthulu elves (aelves) was a Hastings rumor, not BoLS nonsense.

...OhmygodYES.

If we see 'Cthulhu Aelves', I would expect to see them in the Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire release.

 Ghaz wrote:
If we see 'Cthulhu Aelves', I would expect to see them in the Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire release.

Wait what if its Death vs Cthulu Aelves?

Any rough idea when we might see some rules leaks? Hopefully won't be too long, it's gonna be a long wait til April

 unmercifulconker wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
If we see 'Cthulhu Aelves', I would expect to see them in the Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire release.

Wait what if its Death vs Cthulu Aelves?

Then my body (more like wallet) likely couldn't take it.

 RoboDragon wrote:
Any rough idea when we might see some rules leaks? Hopefully won't be too long, it's gonna be a long wait til April

For Disciples of Tzeentch and Stormcast, they had a sneak peek on stream a week or so before the release. There won't be anything until after Adepticon for sure, though.

Never been a dwarf fan and probably won't buy these.
But they look good.
With Sylvaneth and the Tzeentch stuff this is moving me towards eventually getting into AoS.
Just waiting on a couple more armies (Cthulu Elves would be great as would something for Death) to give an informed choice.

Still not sold on the rules but I expect third edition might bring what I need. So I reckon another 12-18 months.

 Barzam wrote:
Wow! I don't think I've ever been hyped for fantasy dwarves before. Those guys are really cool. I love that there's no exposed flesh. I might even consider getting some of these guys.

I hear that Shadowkin are supposed to have airships as well? If true, I hope they go for a similar dive suit look for them. Fully sealed, armored environmental suits with Dark Elf aesthetics would be absolutely bad ass!

Personally i hope they oppose the dwarf look with exposed , leath and fur armour and spears,hooks and all manner of barbarous boarding tools.

I hear that Shadowkin are supposed to have airships as well?

Well, there's no telling yet but you're probably thinking of the Exiles not the Shadowkin.

Exiles are Dark elves that work with Order and pretend to serve Sigmar while operating smuggling rings, piracy and Khaine cults in the dark parts of his cities. As such they do own airships as well as other vessels to ply their trade.

Shadowkin openly serve Malerion and are very mysterious in their intentions. The fact that any army that goes to their home, the realm of shadows, disappears without a trace is a good indicator that they're best left alone.

Or that they throw really good Tea parties and everyone totally loses track of time.

Man I can't wait to see some Squat conversions from these.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Or that they throw really good Tea parties and everyone totally loses track of time.

Parties in general, dont they have Slaanesh locked away somewhere there? Maybe (s)he isn't locked up, just having too much fun.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
So not to take away from the talk about the Skypirate Dwarves, which I think are rad, but whats this I've seen about Lovecraft Elves? Something from a book or just a random rumor?

Take runesmiths and isolate them to their logical extreme = Fyreslayers
Take engineers and do the same = Kharadron Overlords
And now do the same with Scourge Privateers.

Given the Silver Tower fluff it seems inevitable.

Observations that I think fit here:

Firstly; I thing it is safe to say that the updates for pre-existing models (i.e. legacy) will be paper rather than plastic (like flesheaters and beastclaws). New models will be in new factions and from ideas unique to the mortal realms.

Second. It appears that GW is going for rather "hit or miss" designs that take their concepts "up to 11". As if they realised that every army does not need to appeal or even liked by every player.
This also means that armies are getting a wide range of tones and themes, all with pronounced personalities that earn devoted fans rather than wide regard.
Which is an argument in favour of a Cuthulu themed release, as there are people who would LOVE it, even though there would also be many who would not care for it.

So, what's going to happen is that GW is going to sell a zillion of these through pre-orders.

Then, when people start picking up their Get Started boxes they'll find a bit of fluff inside that lets them know that's it's actually a faction of Night Goblins wearing mecha dwarf armor suits.

Okay, probably not, but I can dream.

Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

 deathstalker013 wrote:
Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

AOS is not medieval fantasy though I feel the aether/steam punk fits the setting hell they use airships for trade in ashqy.

Vorian wrote:
Cthulu elves (aelves) was a Hastings rumor, not BoLS nonsense.

Vorian wrote:
Cthulu elves (aelves) was a Hastings rumor

Vorian wrote:
Hastings

Right, I think GW spoiled me, I'm still recovering from the shock of the awesome sky-dwarves, and I'm already getting excited for Cthulhu Elves.

I guess the plan is to only buy the Kharadron Overlord's battletome for the fluff and try to keep my wallet safe until we get some more CE's news.

I think these past two days have increased my interest in AoS by an order of magnitude.

Well, that's interesting. Count me in the 'much more like squats than a fantasy race' camp, but they're interesting.

n0t_u wrote:Really not a fan of the armoured ping pong ball balloons, these would look so much better with rotors and propellers.

I think I could handle them better if they strapped alchemical fire throwers to their backs for jump-packs...

frozenwastes wrote:Cavorite FTW!

... though FrozenWastes soothes the irritation a bit.

DarkBlack wrote:Then why are you here?

Presumably because this place hasn't turned into Warseer. Yet.

TonyL707 wrote:
That was you enjoying it?

There are other reactions to GW models besides 'Eeeeee take all me money oh me wallet'.

Scary but true.

Brometheus wrote:I think last year before Summer Sad Panda (sorry for misquote) mentioned that GW is attempting to do more deliberate crossovers [of AoS and 40k useable miniatures].

Get away.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:So in a way, AoS has brought Fantasy back to it's roots - it's now a single system catering to any and all Fantasy tropes (if not manufacturers for the most part)

Ironically trademarkable 'generic fantasy'. Still not a fan of what prevents that being a full circle - less 'these are rules for your minis', more 'these are (highly priced) minis for our rules'.

 shinros wrote:

 deathstalker013 wrote:
Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

AOS is not medieval fantasy though I feel the aether/steam punk fits the setting hell they use airships for trade in ashqy.

Ok it's just my opinion, like I said it looks like I'm alone. I know AOS is not medieval, I don't even know what era it would be close to. But I imagine it as more R R Martin/Tolkien time whereas these look more Jules Verne. We have archers, swords men etc, I know there are a few guns already ( never really liked that ) but these...one has a Gatling gun, it just reminds me of the end of the last samurai. Even the Stormcasts have always reminded me of Roman legionnaires. Like I said just my opinion 40k maybe AOS no, age of Cthulu definitely.

 deathstalker013 wrote:
Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

Warhammer left medieval fantasy behind in the Old World. The Mortal Realms are OTT epic fantasy.

I mean come on, there's an assault cannon, thunder hammer, chainsword, a tech priest one even has a bolter!!!

 deathstalker013 wrote:
I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns!.

Dwarves already had basic guns in Warhammer Fantasy. In AoS, they've had several thousand years to develop from where they were in the Old World.

 deathstalker013 wrote:
Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

Believe me, you're not alone.

WHFB died for this gak.

 insaniak wrote:

 deathstalker013 wrote:
I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns!.

Dwarves already had basic guns in Warhammer Fantasy. In AoS, they've had several thousand years to develop from where they were in the Old World.

They are now in their renaissance of technology. I find that inspiring honestly. Everyone else is depending on magic and they go and magitech the gak out of all their problems.

Ruin wrote:

 deathstalker013 wrote:
Oh dear, seems I may be alone here, but I really don't like these new Dwarves. Don't get me wrong they're cool models, but not for Warhammer. I just don't feel they fit in with the time, they all have guns! One has a top hat! They're more Victorian steampunk than medieval fantasy. I think they would even fit better in 40k.

Believe me, you're not alone.

WHFB died for this gak.

WFHB died because no one was buying it. It's coffin was already bought and paid for by the dwindling sales.