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I dunno, paint the Necromancer cloak white like a lab coat with blood spatter, and then really push the glowing blue electric OSL on the zombies and you'll get something quite different. Except the guy in armour who looks totally out of place.

They look cool, wasn't what I was expecting.

The necromancer is really nice. It is nice to finally have another 7 fighter warband, just wish it didn't always have to be death.

I was hoping for some more diversity in the band, but whatever. Had a hard time figuring out who the apprentice was, doesn't really stick out like that for me.

I look forward to seeing the cards, and the mechanics.

so what in the world is this??????

next starter malerion band vs skaven eshins?

Probably more Stormcast....

A split skull egg and something distinctly scaly inside does not really scream Stormcast to me.

Theres not much happening on the Stormcast front in AOS, and the starter set already has Stormcasts...

Skaven? Theres a chaos battletome incoming, and Harrowdeep has a high-seas adventure feel to it which we know that rats get on board ships...maybe they've landed somewhere?

Theres also an order battletome to look forward to, so maybe its Cities of Sigmar or Sylvaneth?

There was a rumour that correctly called the teams that we’ve got this season so far. I think it mentioned Malerion elves vs Cities of Sigmar in the starter, and Skaven Eshin to come too.

Malerion is fused with a black dragon, so maybe the shadow elves go more draconic in the way that Morathi's go snake?

Maybe it's an Abholon warband?

Bit aside from Underworlds, could Dark Elves be getting Dark-Dragons, like Stormcasts got the Dragon Princes?

I don't care what the warbands are, I'm excited!

Should be noted, the random thematic art for underworlds rarely relates to the warbands themselves. This is just splash art for harrowdeep, not a teaser for the warbands. Like when they kept showing insect skulls during beastgrave and direchasm.

Pretty excited to get some more info tomorrow and hopefully a reveal by the end of the week. I've found this season extremely lacking, both with the warbands thus far and the mechanics in the new starter (Gloom essentially screws up several of the Direchasm's warbands key mechanic - it was like it was designed without knowledge of the game state).

However, the rumor monger than correctly predicted the Pirate Ogres and Zombies way before either was revealed has said the new Starter is going to have Malerions elves and the other two warbands are going to be Cities of Sigmar and a faction that has two Warbands (my guess is Khorne as we have no Chaos bands this season thus far).

Which means that we are likely to get Malerion's elves vs. Cities (or Khorne) and I'm very pumped on both those things, as well as getting gloom out of circulation hopefully.

Here's hoping we get a reveal this week, the new starter is supposed to be Q2 and we are already in that period so it shouldn't be too far off.

I'm going with Octopus...which GW will jump the shark with by giving it extra arms, so it will be a Decapus. To me the top circular part looks like the vents they use for propulsion and it looks like one of the arms/tentacles is wrapping around itself. The "Scales" just look like an attempt at the lumpy skin.

What Faction it could be for...no idea, maybe a water-rat (wet-skaven) army.

It'll be the very first Underworlds battle between a Giant Octopus and Mega Shark. Delegates from all corners of the realms will be watching from the side lines, holding baloons, eating snacks and booing and cheering.

Then a Giant Crab, with that little Crab riding shotgun on his back, will challenge the winner to an epic clash of the titans.

The Giant Crab, reigning supreme, then challenges Sigmar to unarmed combat...

...stay tuned for real **** is about to go down in the Underworlds.

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 jaredb wrote:
I don't care what the warbands are, I'm excited!

Me too!

 jaredb wrote:
Should be noted, the random thematic art for underworlds rarely relates to the warbands themselves. This is just splash art for harrowdeep, not a teaser for the warbands. Like when they kept showing insect skulls during beastgrave and direchasm.

That piece of art is not for Harrowdeep, but for whatever this next season is called. Just as Nightvault was under Shadespire, we shall be entrring FellAbyss!

callidusx3 wrote:


That piece of art is not for Harrowdeep, but for whatever this next season is called. Just as Nightvault was under Shadespire, we shall be entrring FellAbyss!

I was thinking Harrowdeeper

Well that’s Skaven and some class of Aelf ( if not DoK maybe Shadowstalkers)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/12/the-darkness-deepens-answers-await-under-the-lowest-regions-of-harrowdeep/

Doesn't look like lurking skaven, or any of the bladecoven.

Looks like it could be the same sort of aelves from that one warcry box set, and new skaven. Eshen skaven makes sense for ulgu.

Well that's definitely the Eshin that was rumoured. With today's' rumour engine, that pretty much confirms Malerion's lot too.

*Edit Didn't notice her in the back. That's a Khainite Shadowstalker. Looks like they're getting a warband too.

 jaredb wrote:
Doesn't look like lurking skaven, or any of the bladecoven.

Looks like it could be the same sort of aelves from that one warcry box set, and new skaven. Eshen skaven makes sense for ulgu.

The Skaven, effectively, are everywhere. Especially those Eshin blighters.

I don't think it's a malerion aelf. Looks like one of the khainaite shadowstalkers from warcry.

Either way, It looks like we might get a warband which makes use of the assassin keyword, which would be cool.

Also reminds me of the silver tower aelf

Of course this an Underworlds thing, but it feels a bit like Warhammer Quest with those laterns and baddies leaping from the shadows.

Not going to happen but I'd like to see Underworlds add a bit of that, all the same.

 jaredb wrote:
I don't think it's a malerion aelf. Looks like one of the khainaite shadowstalkers from warcry.

Either way, It looks like we might get a warband which makes use of the assassin keyword, which would be cool.

Part of me wonders if Malarions elves are going to end up like Exodites in 40K. Always in the lore; always spoken about but only 1 or two token models over 30 years are released.

Hmm, I had hoped for models or something. That artwork doesn't really tell me anything.

 Overread wrote:

 jaredb wrote:
I don't think it's a malerion aelf. Looks like one of the khainaite shadowstalkers from warcry.

Either way, It looks like we might get a warband which makes use of the assassin keyword, which would be cool.

Part of me wonders if Malarions elves are going to end up like Exodites in 40K. Always in the lore; always spoken about but only 1 or two token models over 30 years are released.

I doubt it. I expect them to be like Lumineth as a big new faction rather than more limited new faction launches that are added to AoS more frequently. The former simply don't happen so often, so it's going to be a while for GW to get around to it. Has the Realm of Shadows had any focus yet in the same way as we have Ghur now? Or Aqshy and Ghryan in the beginning? Seems reasonable to expect that once Ulgu is in the spotlight, Malerion is going to make his debut as well.

College of Shadow Dungeonbowl team? Well those portals could go anywhere...

Unless that's a dragonkin assassin.

What a waste of an article. GW are on high troll mode with that "reveal" they promised today.

Serves me right for checking. Shame on me, not GW.

 Wiz Warrior wrote:
What a waste of an article. GW are on high troll mode with that "reveal" they promised today.

Serves me right for checking. Shame on me, not GW.

They didn’t promise a reveal today. They said ‘join us tomorrow as we delve deeper into the darkness.’ It was pretty obviously going to be just the second part of a long drawn out tease.