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I hope it’s not more Stormcast. Seriously, why not some Free People’s if you must have order-aligned humans?

 Mr_Rose wrote:
I hope it’s not more Stormcast. Seriously, why not some Free People’s if you must have order-aligned humans?

Free peoples would be nice, but we already saw card art of evocators so i'm betting the initial box will be stormcast vs nighthaunt/or moonclan grots. It kinda sucks, but stormcast are the poster boys of AoS so expect them to continue getting a lot of love just like space marines in 40k.

Is there an actual expectation that Free Peoples will actually be a proper AoS goal at some point? I was of the assumption they'll be left to fade into nothing. Are there rumours about a re-release of them?

One of the Artworks that released with the new edition also featured some humans in non-stormcast attire. That might be it.

And I agree with Mr Rose. I would prefer some other race to feature against the Moonclan. Kharadron, Darkoath, Free Peoples, any would be prefereble. Have something like Isle of Blood with themed expansions featuring rivalries.

Is it just me or does anyone else the Dwarf/Greenskin rivalry. It seemingly dissapeared in AoS.

Pretty sure on the card they show a Bladegheist revenant.

 Insane Ivan wrote:

This bruiser will be smashing his way into Warhammer Underworlds in the not too distant future.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/08/25/breaking-news-from-the-warhammer-citadel/

Well that's just awesome! I'd love for the "Nightvault" to be lush, or cavelike, rather than an undead crypt. We'll see

HUGE expansion and no post.

New magic mechanic, i smell power creep.



Also troggoth and squig team, maybe some golbin in the mix.

Chopstick wrote:
HUGE expansion and no post.

It's not really an expansion. It's a stand alone core box with a complete set of dice, tokens, boards, and rulebook. It seems likely that there will be overlap with the cards, as there appears to be objective tiles and I'd imagine that a core set would contain the basic "hold objective X" cards. Also, Shadespire is compatible, but will probably require buying magic dice (at least) to use the new expansion teams.

Love the slightly altered chainrasps, but the Briar Queen is exceptional:

Yeah, I love all of those female ghost models so far.

nighthaunts are incredible, but the SC are even worst than usual, which is saying something. God am I tired of SC.

Im interested in Uncerworld, but none of the factions really catch me so far

Yeah the nighthaunt look great, even more interesting than the ordinary chainrasps aos got. But the stormcasts look kinda boring...the posing is kind of bleh. But it looks like the next warband will be moonclan. Hopefully kharadrons, seraphon, daughters of khaine also get a warband. I wouldn't mind seeing some more oddball stuff though that we wouldn't expect.

Well, we know 6 of the 8 warbands for Nightvault, don't we? Stormcast and Nightgaunts will get 2 factions each, just like Stormcast and Khorne did in Shadespire. Of the remaining 4, one is Moonclan Grots and the other was stated by an attendee to be Tzeentch.

I do hope those two are either Kharadron, Seraphon or Daughters of Khaine, but with the magic focus, I doubt it will be Kharadron.

callidusx3 wrote:
Well, we know 6 of the 8 warbands for Nightvault, don't we? Stormcast and Nightgaunts will get 2 factions each, just like Stormcast and Khorne did in Shadespire. Of the remaining 4, one is Moonclan Grots and the other was stated by an attendee to be Tzeentch.

I do hope those two are either Kharadron, Seraphon or Daughters of Khaine, but with the magic focus, I doubt it will be Kharadron.

I don't know about the SCE. I guess they could do sequitors, but the 2 warbands for SCE are different subfactions, which were released like separate armies.
I'd honestly be surprised to see more stormcast.

We are not going to get two more Stormcast or Nighthaunt. We only got doubles the first time because the models were not originally designed for warhammer underworlds.
There have been rumours about Tzeentch, Ko, and Aelves. That leaves 2.

Seriously disappointed about more boring SCE, but the Nighthaunts look awesome.
I've been debating to get a second Shadespire core box for more cards, boards & dice, but I guess I'll get this puppy instead.

Anybody know a rough timeline?

Nighthants look great, two boxes will cover all my regular Banshee needs and give a mimimum unit of Chainrasps.

Shame they went with a 6th Chainrasp instead of something else, like a Chainghast.

The Evocators box combines well with Soul Wars to give a unit of 5 and a Knight.

So they still have another nighthaunt warband with the Bladegheist comming.

Nighthaunt and Stormcast were to be expected, I suppose. Khorne & Stormcast got two warbands each with the first run too, didn't they?

I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping for a Daughters of Khaine box.

Me too. Those Medusae-types look stunning! (Haven't researched them because they're too tempting...)

What's the feeling about another Stormcast band? Now 1/3ish of available war bands?

When I try pitching this game to local people I war game with, the common response is something like "Great game, is there an (elf, goblin,lizardman/insert favorite fantasy army here) faction?". There are 3 variety of SCE to play, but most fantasy faction don't have a shadespire equivalent.

MegaDombro wrote:
What's the feeling about another Stormcast band? Now 1/3ish of available war bands?

When I try pitching this game to local people I war game with, the common response is something like "Great game, is there an (elf, goblin,lizardman/insert favorite fantasy army here) faction?". There are 3 variety of SCE to play, but most fantasy faction don't have a shadespire equivalent.

Welcome to AoS, a world overpopulated by The Mighty Immortal Stormcast Warriors.

I don't think it matters. They're a major faction in the setting, but 8 warbands got enough interest round my way - from non AOS players, and even non-GW players. With 16 warbands available, multiple playstyles for each faction,the interactions are already huge. The fact that 3 of them are knights, albeit with very different archetypes, I don't see as an issue.

Yeah it’s very much 3 distinct sub factions.
I don’t think SCE will get a fourth.

Though, I could see a second Nighthaunt maybe.

It would be nice if Underworlds got a faction that AoS hasn’t got yet, rather than having to just get all the things they get but later.

I’ve still not started with Underworlds yet, now seems like a better time as lots of new is coming.


A card set with every common to all factions card from Shadespire, would be nice, is that a thing already?

As don’t you have to buy each warband to get some of the Universal cards?

Those Nighthaunts are really cool, love the beheaded and hanging chainrasps.

Bat-squig is inspired.

Danny76 wrote:
Yeah it’s very much 3 distinct sub factions.
I don’t think SCE will get a fourth.

Though, I could see a second Nighthaunt maybe.

It would be nice if Underworlds got a faction that AoS hasn’t got yet, rather than having to just get all the things they get but later.

We already know it's getting that Troggoth covered in mushrooms - a Moonclan warband, presumably?

True. That’d be good. Troggoth, Squig, then a few Gobbos maybe.

Kharadrons we know. Plus all the others mentioned are possibles or hinted at.

A free people’s warband would be nice. With all. Witch hunter or something.
Something Slaanesh too perhaps?

The flying squig would be Moonclan, I guess?

Chopstick wrote:
So they still have another nighthaunt warband with the Bladegheist comming.

The ‘Bladegheist’ on the card is just one of the Chainrasps (bottom row with the noose).

Looks good. Curious how they do Common cards though. Feels primed to do a set rotation where the Warbands and Warband specific cards remain valid, but the Common cards rotate out. At what rate that happens??? No idea.