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Lord Kragan wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
There's a character type called "Realmswalker" that sounds like it might be a Wanderers sneak-peek.

Eh...

The last Occlesius the Realmswalker is a central character from the Silvershard.

And he was a human.

I liked him - and that is a beautiful cover

Hmm, not sure I like the idea of only 3 attributes. You can’t quite set the difference between an agile character and a strong character with only Body as the physical one. I like that it’s a d6 system though, much better than d20’s. Just really hope it doesn’t go the way Wrath and Glory did.

I live in hope for the Wanderers. They’re a really nice range that deserve to stay on.

WHFB Skaven minis up for the next round of Made To Order:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/02/24/made-to-order-legends-of-the-skaven/?fbclid=IwAR0lbSUfTLUiI0WE9c5wfQ3PE6u8brz7BnvOHEGY10D3dEwCEIrJ9Aaq_3A

Not the skaven I was hoping for. Tretch Craventail had a great model, but he didn't make the cut :/

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Hmm, not sure I like the idea of only 3 attributes. You can’t quite set the difference between an agile character and a strong character with only Body as the physical one. I like that it’s a d6 system though, much better than d20’s. Just really hope it doesn’t go the way Wrath and Glory did.

Yes you can. You just do not need to make it stat-line wise but shift it to talents and skills. Like having a positive talent like lithe to increase speed (go first or more times) accompanied by a negative talent like frail, so to speak. While a strong bruiser may be intimidating and, say, mighty. (Note I am making most of the names up bar intimidating).

GaroRobe wrote:
Not the skaven I was hoping for. Tretch Craventail had a great model, but he didn't make the cut :/

Aye that would have been a great one to see. That said how GW chooses is unknown, but it might be that the Tretch mould is older and more worn. I know when they did the Dark Elves a year or so back they had to withdraw Morathi on a Pegasus because the mould broke on use. The Cast on Demand I wager don't make enough actual sales to make producing a new mould commercially viable (plus there's timescales and production slots to consider). Though one hopes that GW retains the masters and ability to produce more in the future "possibly"

Some interesting tidbit from Emmet from the AOSRPG:

"It (reforging) will affect your character through roleplaying, but will also affect one of the systems we haven't discussed yet (but will soon)"

Let's wildly speculate.

Reforging is an interesting one because in theory it means the SC character is immortal in the setting. For RPG games where the DM and gamers want and allow perma-death it will be curious to see a character who can persist through death without having to roll up a new character if yours dies.

That said most of reforgings loss appears to be memories and a degree of sanity whilst not really affecting skills as such.


So in an RPG taht kind of puts all the onus on the player rather than on the mechanics of the system (since the system would be all the skills and modifiers).



I can see them, for the purposes of the game, adjusting it so that perhaps the stormcast loses peripheral skills outside of combat. Meaning it might become a powerhouse of combat skills but a lot of others (including charismatic and social skills) might diminish continually. Another angle might be that level/ability caps on skills come into play. A reforged stormcast might have no limit on their current warrior skills but gets a penalty to learning new ones; or a cap on their non-combat skills.

 Overread wrote:
So in an RPG taht kind of puts all the onus on the player rather than on the mechanics of the system (since the system would be all the skills and modifiers).

Technically you could have insanity and compulsion rules that could potentially have mechanics affect playing the character more than player choices, if the rules are set up that way and the designers find it's a good idea.

Worth considering, too. It's not Warhammer without insanity.

I'm a fan of just putting in a label saying "warning; xyz mechanic is difficult to perform as a player because it requires role-playing a disadvantage rather than it existing as a strict number, accordingly xyz can only be used when the GM permits" buuut there are problems with that when trying to make a product for a wide audience.

Is there any validity or corroboration to the rumor that KO were getting a new battletome in April? I would love that but it’s counterintuitve.

 The Shrike wrote:
Is there any validity or corroboration to the rumor that KO were getting a new battletome in April? I would love that but it’s counterintuitve.

There was someone spreading a load of rumours about things like that and was found to be just making it up over on the TGA forums (The Grand Alliance).

Honestly no one really knows, the only AoS news we have is the hints at new games like Warcry; the upcoming Khorne Battletome; the very likely Slaanesh Battletome and Demon model release; plus the fact that we know all four Grand Alliances will see at least one new Tome this year. Considering we've already got 3 Chaos done and confirmed (Skaven done; Khorne confirmed; Slaanesh all but certain) and had Destruction (Gloomspite) and head a Death (Flesh Eaters) that does leave Order due for at least one or more new tomes. KO might get one; its possible but there's nothing to suggest its soon .

Yeah I mean aren’t there other Duardin or free peoples yet to get books? Seraphon? Those all seem more likely to me; though I am just returning after a baby-induced hiatus.

 The Shrike wrote:
Yeah I mean aren’t there other Duardin or free peoples yet to get books? Seraphon? Those all seem more likely to me; though I am just returning after a baby-induced hiatus.

There are rumors about Fyreslayers but nothing on the "Free People" or whatever that is going to be called.

GW seems to be in a phase of bringing what exists in AoS up to date. Pete Foley said as much in the recent podcast.
In terms of how they are doing competitively the three existing books that most need an update are Ironjawz, Beastclaw raiders and Kharadron Overlords.
At lvo GW said battletomes were still to come for each grand alliance. The Skaven and FEC books were already announced.
So it seems pretty clear that we will get at least one more book for each grand alliance this year.
They just announced khorne and at the start of the year they said there will be more Slaanesh models this year. There are also strong rumours of a Darkoath/slaves to Darkness book this year so that's 3 books for chaos alone.
The rumours about a slyvaneth and KO book alongside their underworlds warbands came from a different person than the debunked stuff.
It was apparently hinted at the lvo event that Sylvaneth are getting a book soon so this rumour could well be true but ultimately nobody knows for sure.
GW are attending Gama again this year from 11th to 15th of March. They usually show off some stuff there so we may hear more then.

I wonder if we will see a new unit or hero if that Sylvaneth rumor is true. We know that each new battletome is getting Endless Spells at least.

 Nova_Impero wrote:
I wonder if we will see a new unit or hero if that Sylvaneth rumor is true. We know that each new battletome is getting Endless Spells at least.

New terrain? I know Sylvaneth have the old Citadel wood... but that is a bit uninspiring alongside the newer offerings.

They all but said there would be a Sylvaneth battletome at LVO, before which we had no hints of one aside from that rumor which said Sylvaneth and Kharadron. Given the state of KO and how many people WANT to play them I think those two are solid bets.

 Overread wrote:

GaroRobe wrote:
Not the skaven I was hoping for. Tretch Craventail had a great model, but he didn't make the cut :/

Aye that would have been a great one to see. That said how GW chooses is unknown, but it might be that the Tretch mould is older and more worn. I know when they did the Dark Elves a year or so back they had to withdraw Morathi on a Pegasus because the mould broke on use. The Cast on Demand I wager don't make enough actual sales to make producing a new mould commercially viable (plus there's timescales and production slots to consider). Though one hopes that GW retains the masters and ability to produce more in the future "possibly"

It's interesting. Most of these are the early nineties sculpts of some of the more famous Skaven characters. There's a newer Deathmaster, Ikit, Queek, (all in the store, but sold out) and Thaquol (I think? aside from the big plastic kit), but strangely that's the second iteration of Boneripper. The first model had flesh, and a giant horn on his head. But this version has the gun arm, so maybe that's why? The original 90s Lord Skrolk is up in the store now though (and not sold out) as the Plague Priest.

The Greyseer is the newest model there I believe, I think it came out in the late 90s at the earliest, perhaps this century?

Tretch came out with the resculpts of many of these heroes, so I'm surprised that he was held back. His model would be a great Clawlord, or second in command.

And why no Throt the Unclean (the newer one,or the Rogue Trader one) or the old Vermin Lord (one of my favorite models)? The old (original) metal screaming bell Greyseer, and some of the nicer metal rat ogres (the plastic ones look like 90's action figures), would have been nice too.

That is the most recent Thanquol aside from his plastic version afaik. The newer heroes were still on sale going into AoS while some of those have been oop for quite a while, having been replaced with the 7th ed book.

Sadly, no Nurglitch... My favorite skaven mini from the pre-8th ed era.

I'm surprised one of the very old Warplocks hasn't been returned - though I think its from way back in the pewter era as I've managed to get two and they are distinctly different in material colour (a few shades darker which actually shows up the details on it really well compared to bright clean white metal)

Lol FEC and Skaven FAQs dropped. They stated that Gristlegore behemoths *DO NOT* count as Behemoths, directly changing how they ruled for Beastclaw Raiders.

Zero consistency between rules.

Has me leading to believe the new beastclaw raider book is enroute and that same rule will be there as well.

I really kind of want to do an all Terrorgeist army. It would just be kind of dumb and amusing.

 AduroT wrote:
I really kind of want to do an all Terrorgeist army. It would just be kind of dumb and amusing.

Unlike most silly builds it would be pretty overpowered, actually.

What the hell, did Carrion Empire already sell out?

 TheWaspinator wrote:
What the hell, did Carrion Empire already sell out?

This is a news and rumors thread, so things that happened some time ago should probably be discussed elsewhere.

But seriously, yeah they did sell out several days back.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
Sadly, no Nurglitch... My favorite skaven mini from the pre-8th ed era.

Nurglitch was in a previous Skaven MTO only six months ago (approx). Hence it was highly unlikely they would do this model again unless demand had been overwhelming.