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Feculent Gnarlmaw has a suite of special rules to support a Nurgle army, and work particularly well with Horticulous Slimux, who can cause them to sprout up mid-game.

WOW!! Horticulous looks to be an important figure in some builds!!!

So the next White Dwarf features a battle report filled with tons of out of production terrain kits. I wonder if they'll be coming back?

 judgedoug wrote:
So the next White Dwarf features a battle report filled with tons of out of production terrain kits. I wonder if they'll be coming back?

If they used the rules for the kits, maybe?

Looks like it's both books and all of the kits that can be used in both AoS and 40K on preorder next week.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/12/31/pre-order-preview-new-year-nurgle-begins/

Man, Rotigus is absolutely gorgeous. I had considered the possibility of two great unclean one kits (or one and then a second down the line), depending on the abilities and point costs, in order to run Rotigus and a generic one. But at their actual monetary price point, I think I'll just stick to the one, and just run it as whatever version works best for my army.

Apologies to the mods if such posts aren't permitted. Just delete this post. Cheers.

'Maggotkin of Nurgle' Facebook group up and running in time for the new releases. Join for chatter about the new releases and battletome.

facebook.com/groups/140870663267190/

 Kanluwen wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
So the next White Dwarf features a battle report filled with tons of out of production terrain kits. I wonder if they'll be coming back?

If they used the rules for the kits, maybe?

It just seems odd they'd use oop kits; traditionally they feature only buyable kits in battle reports, etc.

So it’s sounds like death will be getting some sort of hovering pyramids

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
You mean Zombies not Skeletons yeah, GW's Skeletons are actually excellent. Regardless, recent releases may have had some amount of non-centerpieces, but other than the not-Marauders for Khorne I don't think many have been refreshes of old kits that really needed it. Maybe that'll change and this year we'll get nu-Marauders via Darkoath and nu-Zombies with a very silly name, but I won't hold my breath.

I keep seeing people mention Darkoath as if it's a new faction, but y'all do realize the Darkoath Cheiftain is a Slaves to Darkness hero, right? I honestly prefer it that way. I think it would be better to expand and update the legacy armies where possible rather than just let them fall by the wayside. Seemed to work well enough for Sylvaneth.


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 Mymearan wrote:
I think the zombies are horrific, but not in a good way. Very old and outdated kit.

The zombies are one of the rare cases where I think Mantic's option completely surpasses the GW models.

I once got a whole box of Mantic zombies and other undead because they were so cheap, but I never managed to paint a single miniature of it. They are too bland for my liking. They all look the same, like clones. GW zombies have some character to them. And I find they look a lot less outdated than kits such as the Empire State Troops or the Chaos Marauders, or virtually the entire Eldar, IG and CSM ranges in 40k. Not that the zombies couldn't use a new kit, but they are very far from being the most outdated looking basic infantry GW sells. I'd much rather have some cool new stuff rather than new zombies.

I mean it's all subjective in the end, but you're not going to find many folk who agree with you, the Zombie kit is awful. The proportions are some of the worst GW have produced, so bad they border on bobbleheads, and the kit is ancient so the quality of the sprues is awful with giant mold lines everywhere and soft details. Nevermind Mantic, compare the Zombie kit with the plastic Zombies from the Corpse Cart, the difference in quality is night & day.

And frankly, that "I'd rather have cool new stuff" attitude is the reason you have so many other examples of outdated GW kits to compare the Zombies to - personally I'd prefer they brought the basic, core, you-have-to-buy-loads-of-these units up to modern standards in every army as they move forward. While a lot ofthe modern GW kits are over the top aesthetically for my tastes, it's a lot easier to take a quality modern plastic kit and tone it down a little than it is to attempt to rescue a kit as decrepit as the old Zombies with their heads the size of other human-sized infantry's torsos.

EDIT: If they bring back the WHF terrain kits, they will get a stupid amount of my money. Hell I'll buy multiple kits just to sit in a cupboard so in a few years when they go OOP again I can list them on ebay at-cost to spite the scumbags trying to flog these kits for 5-10 times their RRP.

Hmm, that could be how Nagash is spreading his influence to other lands in the stories.

That could be what the asylum was pointing at, black pyramids corrupting the lands and letting Nagash's influence grow.

With how they make safe havens from chaos(which Sigmar could never achieve without help) I could see a large religious unrest ahead for the desperate masses.

I scanned some pages of the new WD (January), including parts of the batrep (Fyreslayers vs Maggotkin) and what catched my eyes regarding Malign Portens 


My album 

https://imgur.com/a/8v2Of 

You, good Sir, are epic! Thank you for this.

 Fafnir wrote:
Man, Rotigus is absolutely gorgeous. I had considered the possibility of two great unclean one kits (or one and then a second down the line), depending on the abilities and point costs, in order to run Rotigus and a generic one. But at their actual monetary price point, I think I'll just stick to the one, and just run it as whatever version works best for my army.

Same here, was planning two but will only be getting one at that price point.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Going by the WD battle report it seems to link in with the allegiance ability, which isn't cycle of corruption...?

It's both Cycle of Corruption and Contagion Points. They get both, judging by the battle report.

Nice!

I'm getting one to make into the sorcerer version. I have a forgeworld one and a creature caster one that isn't put together yet that i'm going to try to get the bell arm on.

The giant bell from the blightking hit would be a good replacement, if a bit small. Maybe attach some extra small bells. A large alternative would be the bell from the Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace kit, though that would need a bit of converting. Any Pestilens player will probably have 2-3 lying around so should be easy to obtain.

Cygor/Gorgon kit also comes with a bell.

Edit: Actually the Cygor/Gorgon bell is about the size of the Blightkings bell.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/01/malign-portents-orders-champion-revealed/


What better way to start the year than with more stormcast!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Everyone else gets a cool hero, we get Sigmar's city planner.

Huh, he seems pretty cool to me. The most "human" one I've seen, which is nice. Never had much interest in the faceless, super-warrior theme.

I wonder if they'll be re-releasing the old scenery from thes video, it's a very cool piece.

It's the fact that he looks so "human" that makes him so boring.

We could have had another Knight-Zephyros instead and gotten something interesting instead we literally get the guy in charge of building Sigmar's cities and forts.

zamerion wrote:


https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/01/malign-portents-orders-champion-revealed/


What better way to start the year than with more stormcast!

Better than more chaos, we've been drowning in spiky nonsense for the last year and a half.

ERJAK wrote:

Better than more chaos, we've been drowning in spiky nonsense for the last year and a half.

You understand these are the four GRAND ALLIANCE Champions, right?

And that Chaos is one of the Grand Alliances? Stormcast aren't.

That guy looks cool. Normally I don't care for stormcast too much but he looks good. These 4 bode well for whatever army comes to AoS next. Man GW's Sigmar team is simply fantastic and knocking it out of the park.

I'd love to compare this guy with a normal Sigmarine and see if his mighty biceps fits into normal arm armor. My guess is no.

 Kanluwen wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

Better than more chaos, we've been drowning in spiky nonsense for the last year and a half.

You understand these are the four GRAND ALLIANCE Champions, right?

And that Chaos is one of the Grand Alliances? Stormcast aren't.

Might as well be. Order hero is a Fantasy Space Marine (big surprise) who happened to be missing a Fantasy Techmarine (a gap which is now filled - big surprise). That's GW for you.

Another helm less SC? At least he's a better sculpt than the recent Lord slabface. Going by the video it looks like the Skullvane manse might be coming back as well?

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Another helm less SC? At least he's a better sculpt than the recent Lord slabface. Going by the video it looks like the Skullvane manse might be coming back as well?

One can only hope. That was a cool terrain piece.

 Geifer wrote:
I'd love to compare this guy with a normal Sigmarine and see if his mighty biceps fits into normal arm armor. My guess is no.

 Kanluwen wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

Better than more chaos, we've been drowning in spiky nonsense for the last year and a half.

You understand these are the four GRAND ALLIANCE Champions, right?

And that Chaos is one of the Grand Alliances? Stormcast aren't.

Might as well be. Order hero is a Fantasy Space Marine (big surprise) who happened to be missing a Fantasy Techmarine (a gap which is now filled - big surprise). That's GW for you.

It's a gap which didn't exist.

It also runs contrary to the other Grand Alliances.
Destruction got a Grot; nobody saw that coming.
Chaos got the Darkoath War-Queen; again nobody saw that coming.
Death got the Knight of Shrouds; a way of fleshing out a range that nobody really thought anything of(the Spirits).

I'm annoyed but at the very least maybe the reason we got this boring bit of blargh is they've got a big release finally fething planned for something that isn't humans or dwarfs.

What better way to start the year than with more stormcast!

The year is still young! Think on all the unknown SC heroes that await to be released.

I don't mind him. I'll pick him, war queen and the goblin.

 Kanluwen wrote:

ERJAK wrote:

Better than more chaos, we've been drowning in spiky nonsense for the last year and a half.

You understand these are the four GRAND ALLIANCE Champions, right?

And that Chaos is one of the Grand Alliances? Stormcast aren't.

Are you aware that Stormcasts are in the ORDER GRAND ALLIANCE? So it's reasonable that they would be the herald?

Seriously, there were so many better things to sputter about with that comment, I'm severely disappointed.

I was going to be all like 'In before anti-stormcast tears'...

I'm too late!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSB8p9OlZ5g