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 DaveC wrote:
New Arena Mortis - preorder in August

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/22/arena-mortis-returns-to-warhammer-underworlds-with-hungry-hazards-and-unpleasant-universal-cards/

I have played exactly 0 games of Arena Mortis, it came out on like the last week before our Second Lockdown, we all picked it up, we all still have it in wrap.

I am wondering if the board is new. New hazards and Event cards are good.. but even better if it is a board I dont have already

Board looks new, the circle floor tiles have different graphic.

New season accidentally announced on Facebook.

Posted blurb about it instead of the Ork kits that they pictured.
Corrected now.

It said new season coming. Meet Gikkit.
So Kruleboyz warband first..

Danny76 wrote:
New season accidentally announced on Facebook.

Posted blurb about it instead of the Ork kits that they pictured.
Corrected now.

It said new season coming. Meet Gikkit.
So Kruleboyz warband first..

Articles up now
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/08/30/meet-gikkit-the-herald-of-a-new-season-of-warhammer-underworlds/

Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Happy to have another season coming.

Curious as to what new stuff besides the Kruleboyz we'll see. Most of the basics from all three grand alliances have been covered so far, but if we continue to see them branching into stuff like the Savage Orcs, Wolf Riders, or the Godsworn Hunt, I'll be pretty happy.

Come to think of it, I don't think Beastgrave even had a new Stormcast team, which is a bit of a surprise when you think about it.

I could see a new starter being Stormcast vs Kruleboyz though.

Does that mean a new starter box?

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I love Gikkit and wish to bear his children.

Nice grot the base is very plain though great opportunity to do some swamp bases. 2 in the warband so probably 3 or 4 Kruleboyz as well,I wonder if they’ll go for a trapping party and have a Breaka boss on foot rather than a Killa boss.

Other side will probably be 3 Thunderstrike SCE, Vigilor scout party maybe.

Where to then CoS aren’t covered yet but they might wait for any redo if Dawnbringer Crusades are coming. Order of Azyr/Witch hunters? Double back on a few like Skaven (Pestilens or Moulder).

So more Stormcast ? sigh....

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I must have missed the Sylvaneth vs Beastmen starter or the Lumineth vs Slaanesh starter!

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I must have missed the Sylvaneth vs Beastmen starter or the Lumineth vs Slaanesh starter!

A->B =/= B->A

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I must have missed the Sylvaneth vs Beastmen starter or the Lumineth vs Slaanesh starter!

Wanna re-read what I said?

Anyone dares to guess what will the other warbands be?

His base is a little plain considering how fancy they've been getting.

Kinda guessed a Kruelboyz vs. Nucast starter set was probably on the cards, hoping for a crossbow dude on the Boyz side and a super-heavy armoured guy on the other.

Also interested in what other teams are coming, after 4 seasons they've got be running a bit low on ideas, maybe I'll finally get my AOS-fied, mixed race, sterotypical D&D style team.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

It would be strange if it was otherwise. Season 5 will have to be Kruleboyz vs New Stormcast, just like the new AoS starter.

What else is likely? I predict a dedicated Hobgoblin team (and dare I say it? Chaos Dwarves?). Also: Skaven could do with some love, and Cities of Sigmar!

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I must have missed the Sylvaneth vs Beastmen starter or the Lumineth vs Slaanesh starter!

Wanna re-read what I said?

Politely putting it, the existence of a starter set does not necessarily mean that Underworlds will copy it.

So far we know Kruleboyz are in. That's all.

Will we see a Thunderstrike armoured warband? Probably! Or it might be a weird 'adventuring party' styled warband with Knight-whatevers in there. Nobody expected Kurnothi. Nobody expected Wolf rider goblins.

There's a lot of room for them to play with Underworlds. And they seem to be using it.

There's still all the daemons to do, a bunch of stuff for Cities, and it's not like there aren't already multiple warbands per faction.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Wha-Mu-077 wrote:
Seems it's tradition for any new faction to get a Underworlds warbands at launch, huh?

Yeah, this will probably be Stormcast vs Kruleboyz, each AoS starter has been reflected in Underworlds too.

I must have missed the Sylvaneth vs Beastmen starter or the Lumineth vs Slaanesh starter!

Wanna re-read what I said?

Politely putting it, the existence of a starter set does not necessarily mean that Underworlds will copy it.

So far we know Kruleboyz are in. That's all.

Will we see a Thunderstrike armoured warband? Probably! Or it might be a weird 'adventuring party' styled warband with Knight-whatevers in there. Nobody expected Kurnothi. Nobody expected Wolf rider goblins.

There's a lot of room for them to play with Underworlds. And they seem to be using it.

Shadespire covered the AoS starter at the time, Stormcast vs Khorne.

When Nightvault came out, it was Stormcast vs Ghosts just like the new AoS starter.

For Beastgrave & Direchasm, there were no newer AoS starters to cover, so they went with funky stuff in Beastgrave, and in Direchasm with the newest stuff (Cow Elves vs Slaaneshi).

 lord_blackfang wrote:
There's still all the daemons to do, a bunch of stuff for Cities, and it's not like there aren't already multiple warbands per faction.

They could also do spiritual successors to older warbands. Ironjawz are on their second for instance. I could see them doing another Totally-Not Chosen Axes at some point, albeit probably not as a starter set.

Like most everyone else, money's on Sigmarines for the starter but it could be CoS - Underworlds has leftfield stuff like Kurnothi and Goblin Wolf Riders afterall.

Seeing some speculation that the setting could be Ulgu this time moving on from 2 seasons in Shyish and 2 in Ghur so that might mean Shadow Aelves. We already have Shadowstalkers for Warcry so a variation on that seems possible. Should hopefully also bring a new terrain set.

Chaos Dwarfs (Dark Masters) might also be a good outside bet

That Gobbo is great!

It makes sense to always follow the starters.
That helps sales, new people into the hobby can also pick it up, it’s their two armies, more models, cool poses blah blah blah.

The important question is who are the other 6 gonna be.

Some good guesses so far.
Dark masters I guess depends on want to introduce here first or main game..
Good way to tease them. But equally just seeing two or three only (with hob/s) will leave wanting, and it could be a while.
(Season 6 starter anyone?)

Daemons and all the missing stuff, new elves and all that, seem good possibilities.
I don’t know if we’d get tzeentch with what we’ve already had. Plaguebearers with nurglings base maybe..

Danny76 wrote:
It makes sense to always follow the starters.
That helps sales, new people into the hobby can also pick it up, it’s their two armies, more models, cool poses blah blah blah.

The important question is who are the other 6 gonna be.

Some good guesses so far.
Dark masters I guess depends on want to introduce here first or main game..
Good way to tease them. But equally just seeing two or three only (with hob/s) will leave wanting, and it could be a while.
(Season 6 starter anyone?)

Daemons and all the missing stuff, new elves and all that, seem good possibilities.
I don’t know if we’d get tzeentch with what we’ve already had. Plaguebearers with nurglings base maybe..

They could cover some of the missing heralds for daemons, like a big palanquin nurgle dude, a plague bearer bodyguard and some nurglings, or a slaanesh herald on seeker with a couple of normal seekers as a cav force.

Or do something wild like drag some Old World stuff in!

I would be alright with some teaser Kislev models to tide us over until the new game releases.

I don't think it will be Stormcast in the starter because of the existence of the starter set:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Underworlds-Starter-Set-EN-2021

This seems to be something they intend to keep available throughout the next season, and I'm not sure they'd want two starters with Stormcast out at once.

That said, I do think we'll see a Stormcast warband release this season, just as I can see them wanting to get some of the new style Stormcast from Dominion into the game.

I hope there will be a Cities crew in the future. I use Underworlds minis for various solo/co-op games, and Cities could offer a variety of heroes, like witch hunter, dwarf engineer, some wizard, elf archer etc.

I'd rather love CoS in DnD style, a fighter, a wizard, rouge and a cleric walk into an open portal that leads to a...