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terry wrote:

 Hive City Dweller wrote:

Spoiler:

I separated the chainrasps to see how the breakup comes up. Looks like 11 designs 9 of which repeat, and 2 of which are unique. (Forgive MP quality editing)

Suppose it doesn't make much of a difference as they are just skulls with capes and smoke. By swapping out weapons and tombstones one can quickly make all of these feel unique.



Really loving the Nighthaunt stuff. This is gonna get me into AOS finally.

Wasn't #10 the wizards, so they'll probably just shown only one 11 but will include 2 of them

#10 appears to be the standard bearer of the unit. The hero you're thinking of looks incredibly similar, but with a slightly different brazier and a much more intricate helmet.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Looks like a Demigryph to me. Just with horns for some reason (they could be feather ‘horns’ like a Horned Owl I suppose). Not much goat there.

Looking again, it definitely looks more like a ram, has hooves rather than talons as the Demigryph has. Could make a very nice Dwarf, Beastmen mount with a little converting hopefully. Do love a ram mount.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
From that video though, what creature is the Stormcast riding? Is it just that Gryphon thing? The horns and face resemble a goat to me or am I just seeing things? Hopefully that's a new model, wouldn't mind a goat like mount.

The face kinda looks like the Stormcast rider on whatever the thing after 0:24 is:

 unmercifulconker wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Looks like a Demigryph to me. Just with horns for some reason (they could be feather ‘horns’ like a Horned Owl I suppose). Not much goat there.

Looking again, it definitely looks more like a ram, has hooves rather than talons as the Demigryph has. Could make a very nice Dwarf, Beastmen mount with a little converting hopefully. Do love a ram mount.

Did I miss something or are we trying to figure out what the Sigmarine head honchon in the new box is riding?

Because that looks like a gryph-charger to me, which is already available on a couple of Vanguard Sigmarines.

No. It's trying to figure out what the feathered creature the Stormcast is riding in the into video. Looks something Gryphon-like, but probably a new creature all together.

https://www.blacklibrary.com/coming-soon/june/soul-wars-special-edition.html

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/06/soul-wars-the-novel/

Josh Reynolds' new introduction novel (just like Dark Imperium got... Dark imperium).

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
No. It's trying to figure out what the feathered creature the Stormcast is riding in the into video. Looks something Gryphon-like, but probably a new creature all together.

Are you sure? Because I could see the gryph-charger's head being described as goat like. Not so much the ugly kitty at the 24 second mark (which is new altogether, that's right).

Not that video, this one: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/05/soul-wars-announced/

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Not that video, this one: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/05/soul-wars-announced/

Ah, alright. Thanks.

Yeah, that's going to be new, although I bet it won't be completely unrelated to what we have so far in the same way as we have Dracoths and Stardrakes. Gryph-charger's winged big daddy.

BTW soul wars is 432 pages, I might actually pick up the limited edition.

I think it is fair to say that each new chamber will get a new beast along with it.

Stormcast Faction Focus II

Highlights as Warscrolls:

Kinda seems like snapfit sequiturs are useless because they can’t take advantage of that very generous number of heavy weapons.

Oh yeah, and there's a hint of a new army/faction in the Evocators it looks like.

Redeemers.

Noooope. It's a keyword on Liberators. Booooo. Weird though as they're the only ones who have it.

Did someone call?

changemod wrote:
Kinda seems like snapfit sequiturs are useless because they can’t take advantage of that very generous number of heavy weapons.

Actually, there look to be 3 in the main box, and 1 in the collection of 3 snapfits. Getting those together would give you your full allotment of 4, and 1 extra model.

AverageBoss wrote:

changemod wrote:
Kinda seems like snapfit sequiturs are useless because they can’t take advantage of that very generous number of heavy weapons.

Actually, there look to be 3 in the main box, and 1 in the collection of 3 snapfits. Getting those together would give you your full allotment of 4, and 1 extra model.

Well, I’m not sure why I spoke then. I was mistakenly going off this image in the focus article:

changemod wrote:

AverageBoss wrote:

changemod wrote:
Kinda seems like snapfit sequiturs are useless because they can’t take advantage of that very generous number of heavy weapons.

Actually, there look to be 3 in the main box, and 1 in the collection of 3 snapfits. Getting those together would give you your full allotment of 4, and 1 extra model.

Well, I’m not sure why I spoke then. I was mistakenly going off this image in the focus article:

Remember that there's 8 Sequitors in the Soul Wars box.
4 Sequitors with the Stormsmite Maul and Soulshields, 1 Prime with the Stormsmite Maul and Soulshield(what's in the image you posted).
2 Sequitors with the Stormsmite Greatmauls and 1 Prime with the same armament(not shown here).

It makes me kind of curious as to how exactly the unit sizes are going to work for them in Matched Play.

Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

As of this moment, no.

I really hope they change how the unit sizes work in general. It is annoying that you have to buy units in chunks. There should be minimum and maximum sizes for units and you should be able to take any number of models between them.

I see the Sequitors are continuing the trend of having no reason not to max out the unit upgrades. Not to mention one shield is enough protection for the whole unit.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

"Grotbag Scuttlers" was the name drop back during the Kharadron release and a sky ship of them made a cameo in the Kharadron novel.

Are Kharadron expected to be more...competitive in AoS 2.0?

Or were reports of their demise in AoS 1.0 greatly exaggerated?

 Crimson wrote:
I really hope they change how the unit sizes work in general. It is annoying that you have to buy units in chunks. There should be minimum and maximum sizes for units and you should be able to take any number of models between them.

Yeah, that would be nice.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

If there are any grots coming they will probably be moonclan, as they would have been designed alongside the malign portents character. I had heard rumors about them coming in the fall, but it sounded almost like wishlisting to me, so i'll believe it when I see it for now.

 Mysterio wrote:
Are Kharadron expected to be more...competitive in AoS 2.0?

Or were reports of their demise in AoS 1.0 greatly exaggerated?

Here's some info my man:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/05/28/28th-may-faction-focus-kharadron-overlordsgw-homepage-post-3/

 Thargrim wrote:

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

If there are any grots coming they will probably be moonclan, as they would have been designed alongside the malign portents character. I had heard rumors about them coming in the fall, but it sounded almost like wishlisting to me, so i'll believe it when I see it for now.

The malign portents characters are reflective of the redo of the faction they represent. Darkoath and Moonclan are to come, Nighthaunt and Ordinatus we are seeing in the new set.

Ben2 wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

If there are any grots coming they will probably be moonclan, as they would have been designed alongside the malign portents character. I had heard rumors about them coming in the fall, but it sounded almost like wishlisting to me, so i'll believe it when I see it for now.

The malign portents characters are reflective of the redo of the faction they represent. Darkoath and Moonclan are to come, Nighthaunt and Ordinatus we are seeing in the new set.

If thats the case I hope they find a way to make Darkoath more unique. Cause they kind of feel like khorne barbarians without the khorne aspect...so no theme really beyond barbarian....which is kinda eh. If the moonclan character is any indication I expect them to dial up the fungus mutations and wacky aspect of the grots to a significant degree. A lot of the newer factions seem to be taking a theme and turning it up to the extreme.

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Not to sideline the discussion too much, but are there any solid rumors about Goblin/Grot releases in AoS?

I know it's been talked about, and we have several rumor engine pics that look like spore clouds, squigs and goblin blades, but search as I much I can't find if any reliable sources have confirmed that army.

Next AOS armies after this summer Nighthaunt and Sacrosanct are Moonclan for this Fall.

Because :

1. The Fungoid Cave-shaman Harbinger (and the grot scuttling from Silver Tower) ;
2. Grot-ish Rumor engines like teeth, blades and mushrooms ;
2. LLV on TGA said so yesterday. Many other posters did but he is the most trustworthy on TGA (100% right about Soul Wars so far).

PREPARE FOR SQUIGS

(Destruction is said to get a bit more love in 2019 ; with a second wave of Ironjawz (probably with a new Battletome) and the release of the brand new Grotbag Scuttlers faction (Grot sky pirates - another good German rumor source said so recently)).