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I'm not alone in this but omg the new Battletome covers are brilliant !

Celestian Vortex? More like Celestian Boretex; lame name is lame. That said, at least the new SyFy original Hammernado can still come out with its working title intact…

It's nice that they added some race specific endless spells, but they are really hit and miss. That chest with skulls look like a kid toy, and the tornado of hammer is not much better. Scythe is really cool though


While SC in general are really boring and gakky imo, that new spell caster is pretty good.

The Hammernado will make for an awesome diorama piece with the Lord-Celestant that has the hammercape.

These are looking so good! I can't wait for more factions to get Endless Spells, esp. Deepkin, Daughters of Khaine, Seraphon, Sylvaneth, Slaanesh... really, just everyone! They'll really add some great flavor to battles!!

I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Holy crap that Stormcast cover.

Also hammernado is the best spell effect so far.

Also also Idoneth now NEED a sharknado spell.

There really is a lot of cool potential with the endless spells for factions. A maggot/nurgling something for nurgle, tidal wave for deepkin. Some of these spells do look like something out of an 80s/90s kids fantasy cartoon though, especially the nighthaunt chest thing. They are kind of hit/miss for sure.

There is a disconnect between the grittier battletome art and the more cartoony models though, and I say that for both factions. IMO the artwork looks better.

The Nighthaunt Vault is one of my favorite spells--I keep thinking of the Cursed Chests from Diablo.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Sharks would be a bit too big (and copyrighted to boot). A tornado or whirlpool made from a shoal of piranhas however...

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Sharks would be a bit too big (and copyrighted to boot). A tornado or whirlpool made from a shoal of piranhas however...

Piranhado is a thing too.

Split the difference with a giant honking spectral manta ray that heals Idoneth as it passes over?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Sharks would be a bit too big (and copyrighted to boot). A tornado or whirlpool made from a shoal of piranhas however...

Piranhado is a thing too.

Split the difference with a giant honking spectral manta ray that heals Idoneth as it passes over?

Well of course it wouldn't be a 'piranha'. It would have some trademarked name like Khornefish that would have huge jaws and eight fins (sorry, wrong army there ).

So stormcast wizards can get a Disc of Tzeentch? Twisted by the power of order to a more predictable form?

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Sharks would be a bit too big (and copyrighted to boot). A tornado or whirlpool made from a shoal of piranhas however...

Piranhado is a thing too.

Split the difference with a giant honking spectral manta ray that heals Idoneth as it passes over?

Well of course it wouldn't be a 'piranha'. It would have some trademarked name like Khornefish that would have huge jaws and eight fins (sorry, wrong army there ).

Hell, you know what?

Mor'phann supposedly "summoned" some ginormous tentacled beast from the Realm of Death to protect their Enclave...let's go with that!

Voss wrote:
So stormcast wizards can get a Disc of Tzeentch? Twisted by the power of order to a more predictable form?

No, it's more like a Balewind Vortex IMHO.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Mor'phann supposedly "summoned" some ginormous tentacled beast from the Realm of Death to protect their Enclave...let's go with that!

I thought tentacles was a type of thing...

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Mor'phann supposedly "summoned" some ginormous tentacled beast from the Realm of Death to protect their Enclave...let's go with that!

I thought tentacles was a type of thing...

Maybe--I just know that the stuff they showcase the Mor'phann Akhelian Guard with its background in the army book looks like an anorexic Kraken.

Greater Eidolon of Mathlann--A massive aelf-like avatar rising from a swirling waterspout... with sharks in it.

Make it happen Forge World.

Oh WOW! It's all pure gorgeous!

And here I was finally with my hobby budget decided. Blast! Gonna need to add a few more hundreds!

Hell, you know what? 

Mor'phann supposedly "summoned" some ginormous tentacled beast from the Realm of Death to protect their Enclave...let's go with that!

 

I could see that, a giant greenish water portal with skulls in the water as fanged tentacles pour out. I imagine it'd act like the barrier spell but basically spell death for anything that tries to fight past that "wall".

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Greater Eidolon of Mathlann--A massive aelf-like avatar rising from a swirling waterspout... with sharks in it.

Make it happen Forge World.

Only after we get a full campaign's worth of us finding out that Mathlann isn't dead, and that the Idoneth belief in him has brought him back...

And from GW proper.

From War of Sigmar, Games Workshop has given us a sneak peek of Reikenor the Grimhailer on the Nighthaunt dice pack...

I’m surprised that there’s been no Battletome leaks, they’ve kept a tight lid on them. Glad to see stormhost rules in there rather than having to take elaborate Battalions. And cool to see the new endless spells, they all looks shwifty, that Scythe and the hammernado are swert

Man everything they've revealed so far looks incredible. I was getting soul wars and already looking to potentially expand the Nighthaunt stuff. Seeing those endless spells is making me question my decision to stick to Stormcast for now.

That being said I'm really digging that Stormcast Battletome cover.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm personally hoping that Deepkin get a Sharknado.

C'mon guys. It has to happen. I want Wanderers to get the Wild Hunt as a massively based spell that is just Orion with his hounds running at you with a spear and a screaming face.

Sharks would be a bit too big (and copyrighted to boot). A tornado or whirlpool made from a shoal of piranhas however...

Piranhado is a thing too.

Split the difference with a giant honking spectral manta ray that heals Idoneth as it passes over?

Like the Phantamanta?

https://www.mariowiki.com/Phantamanta

I am a little annoyed that yes, they give you four of a figure you want 10 of. I'm probably getting two boxes for a big horde of ghosts, but I'll still be short two. Well, time to figure out some Reaper Bones proxies to pad out the numbers...

lord_blackfang wrote:Does it say anywhere what the hourglass does? I really hope it is something interesting and not another variety of a moving ball of death.

All these spells sound amazing at first, but now "moving ball of death" does seem to make this boring. Are all the endless spells just moving ball of death? Be it ball, square or what ever shape?

A lot of them are. Then some of the other ones have wildly varying effects.

8 out of the 14 endless spells do damage with the other 6 being support such as healing or a barrier.(you can look them up on the app)

The new spells seem to be a mix of one large damage that'll be a point sink and hazard, smaller damage spell that's cheap and less double-edged and a support spell.

From War of Sigmar, Games Workshop has given us a sneak peek of Reikenor the Grimhailer on the Nighthaunt dice pack... 

Hmm, "Git on a burny horse with pointy teeth" I wonder if he was hinted with that spider goblin short story instead of it being Mannfred?

My theory is Nagash is gonna wage the war with each nighthaunt leader attacking a mortal realm as per the maps shown in the white dwarf.

changemod wrote:
So the starter set really does supply four of a unit that comes in tens...

Yupp. Four of a unit that comes in tens, and five of a unit that comes in fours. I was honestly hoping it was a mess up in the General's Handbook list, as I would have preferred Glaivewraith Stalkers to be the battleline option over Grimghast Reapers. Oh well, guess I'll be looking for some horse skulls to turn these converted Cairn Wraiths into Glaivewraiths instead.

My guess is you get optimal unit counts if you buy 1 of each starter and maybe the push fit packs, not all of which have been revealed yet.

It looks to me like the poses for the grimghast in soul Wars are repeated in that box of 10? The preview mentions extra chains and stuff to customise models and that it's multipart. Maybe they just copied the poses?

Sorry to ask a stupid question but how do points work in AoS? Nurglings look to be min/ max unit size then 100 points. Is that per base?

I'm finally getting over the death of the old world but that makes no sense...