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**Cataphract**

So for the Slaanesh Terrain:

It is apparently called the Fane of Slaanesh. A fane is like a shrine so we can expect something to do with buffing worshippers.

**H.B.M.C.**

It'll probably grant re-rolls and/or cause Mortal Wounds.

That's just a guess though.

**mortar_crew**

Allowing to summon more deamons would be an other guess.
I hope it can be built with or without the head.

And they should stop to put skulls on Slaanesh stuff.
Skulls are a Khorne (and well a lot of other, but Khorne brand is all
about blood... and skulls) thing, and I feel Slaanesh vould rather despise it in
the iconography used by his/her/it followers...

**Heafstaag**

How do you all know there are not mortal followers coming a week or two after the first wave of stuff?

**mortar_crew**

I believe GW responded there was no mortal this time... unfortunately.

Since there is enough stuff to fulfill all this week articles already,
may be we'll have this week release only.

Still hoping to get some hellstriders like dudes on foot and or cultists
like they did for Tzeentch, but...

**Souleater**

GW's responses have been a very ambiguous 'not this week' or 'we don't have any other news at the moment'

The WHC team don't seem willing or able to comment on stuff until given the nod by GWHQ.

That leaves room for an announcement of stuff in the next couple of weeks.

**zamerion**

This isnt very ambiguous

**mortar_crew**

zamerion wrote:

This isnt very ambiguous

Indeed.

If the only thing they have is to point to Warcry later, color me disapointed.

Will buy the deamons, but well, I would like to have some mortal also.

**Geifer**

mortar_crew wrote:
I hope it can be built with or without the head.

Same. If it's integrated, and I expect that it is, I'll have to see whether I want to put the effort into cutting it out and if it's worth the price then.

**Marshal Loss**

drbored wrote:
You can't keep comparing Slaanesh to the other Chaos Gods, though. The bottom line is that it just doesn't make as much money for GW, and that will continue to be the case unless something dramatic changes. Khorne and Nurgle and to a lesser extent Tzeentch are simply more popular. Slaanesh just has a very LOUD though SMALL fanbase.

That is - to a large extent - a self-perpetuating prophecy. The other Gods get more attention which gets more fans and thus more sales. If they invested more in kits for Hedonites they would quite likely reap the benefits.

**ImAGeek**

Marshal Loss wrote:
drbored wrote:
You can't keep comparing Slaanesh to the other Chaos Gods, though. The bottom line is that it just doesn't make as much money for GW, and that will continue to be the case unless something dramatic changes. Khorne and Nurgle and to a lesser extent Tzeentch are simply more popular. Slaanesh just has a very LOUD though SMALL fanbase.

That is - to a large extent - a self-perpetuating prophecy. The other Gods get more attention which gets more fans and thus more sales. If they invested more in kits for Hedonites they would quite likely reap the benefits.

Plus we can only really guess how big the fan bases are. And yeah, Slaanesh has got the short end of the stick for a long time, so there’s no wonder why they’re less popular, if indeed they are.

**Voss**

NinthMusketeer wrote:
Voss wrote:
And again, an army book without an army serves no purpose. I'm also not sure how it benefits a mortal-only player at all? None of their models are going to be in the book or use its rules.
First, the book has an army. Undeniably. I made it quite clear when I listed off the four dozen units it has access to. Artificially reducing it does not change that. Second, the battletome benefits the Slaanesh keyword and all marked units will benefit heavily. Every other god book has had dedicated command trait and artifact tables specifically for mortals that can be used with any marked characters. So the second claim is also false.

It is frustrating to be hoping for mono-Slaanesh mortal kits and get none. I expected to see them, and wanted to. Same for when Nurgle got their battletome. I wanted BoC to have kits for at least one of Pestigors, Khornegors, or Slaangors. I want each god to be able to run a non-daemon force that is viable with multiple ways to do so. The frustration at lacking that is entirely justified. Making false statements to exaggerate the situation is not.

I literally have no idea what you're on about. Slaanesh doesn't have 'four dozen units'. There are chariots in three flavors, daemonettes, fiends and daemonettes on steeds. That's it for units: six.

Rustling up some generic warriors and the awful marauders and trying to claim they're also Slaanesh units is nonsense,

Do you tell arcanite players just to use bestigors and marauders?
Gloomspite players to use savage orcs?
Deepkin players just to toss some high elves on the table?

Expecting an army to have its own units is the bare minimum. Not to recycle an old army's models. Especially when they're thematically and visually distinct.

**auticus**

I was hoping for some mortal units as well. If not new models then at least something rules-wise.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Well, I just hope there’s specifically Slaaneshi stuff for Warcry.

**ArmchairArbiter**

So two questions -

1) Weren't the mortal followers for Tzeentch released as part of Thousand Sons? And not the Daemons wave?

2) I would image they would spread it out/separate it and they wouldn't confirm other stuff coming because they want you to buy this weeks stuff. Is that not plausible?

**RazorEdge**

**The Phazer**

I doubt there'll be any god specific stuff for Warcry tbh.

**Shadox**

The Phazer wrote:
I doubt there'll be any god specific stuff for Warcry tbh.

Actually I hope that there isn't. The StD Stuff is ridiculously outdated and if there were god-specific stuff the majority would definitely be Khorne...

**Mothman**

"Mortal Wizards, on the other hand, have access to a suite of cunning sorceries like Battle Rapture – a fantastic option for shielding a large unit of Chaos Knights or Hellstriders from battleshock tests."

Interesting line in the article, also article shows the terrain piece doesnt need the goat head in the portal or the gold stacks which is nice.

**auticus**

Yeah I was coming here to post that same thing. They discuss mortal wizards and chaos knights.

Though I wonder if thats just a synergy alliance taken from slaves to darkness marked with slaanesh? Chaos knights need quite the points drop OR a power buff to see them ever taken.

**mortar_crew**

Geifer wrote:
mortar_crew wrote:
I hope it can be built with or without the head.

Same. If it's integrated, and I expect that it is, I'll have to see whether I want to put the effort into cutting it out and if it's worth the price then.

Slaanesh be praised!!

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SlaaneshRules-Apr22-SlaaneshArmy20yjcw.jpg

**Kanluwen**

ArmchairArbiter wrote:
So two questions -

1) Weren't the mortal followers for Tzeentch released as part of Thousand Sons? And not the Daemons wave?

Kairic Acolytes released with the Disciples of Tzeentch book in January of 2017, but were introduced as part of the Silver Tower boxed set prior to that.
Tzaangors released in November of 2016 as their own kit, part of the Thousand Sons revamp.

2) I would image they would spread it out/separate it and they wouldn't confirm other stuff coming because they want you to buy this weeks stuff. Is that not plausible?

The only real possible explanation I can think of right now is that they've got something they're holding them back as part of, maybe a Silver Tower-esque game or the like. Or they realized that having all of this god-specific stuff present in those books makes it hard to do Slaves to Darkness well.

**Mothman**

I think its likely synergy/ future planning. Ive got a feeling we will likely see slaanesh mortals in shadespire + warcy as small units for AOS. Though if they were smart they would put in some generic name like Hedonist warriors or something and have them just be generic chaos warriors for now then give them a unique kit later or let people use those shadespire+warcy things as them.

Also looking at the pic of the masque on previews and spotted in the recent pics it seems very much like a mini you have to see in person or on a 360 view to fully appreciate

**Kanluwen**

Mothman wrote:
I think its likely synergy/ future planning. Ive got a feeling we will likely see slaanesh mortals in shadespire + warcy as small units for AOS. Though if they were smart they would put in some generic name like Hedonist warriors or something and have them just be generic chaos warriors for now then give them a unique kit later or let people use those shadespire+warcy things as them.

Possibly they have Warscroll Battalions in the Hedonists book allowing for those things to be taken and given the Hedonist keyword.

I don't think we'll see Slaanesh in Underworlds anytime soon(happy to be wrong though! I want my Wanderers or Idoneth in there first.

) and Warcry is still a wildcard as to what it actually is.

**H.B.M.C.**

I don't think there will be any new mortal units. Shame, as it would have been nice to get all 4 Chaos Gods getting mortal units that fit their style, but if they existed I think we'd know about them by now.

Also, to the right of dead centre, that's the FineCost Herald, so I guess that's not going anywhere.

Mothman wrote:
... also article shows the terrain piece doesnt need the goat head in the portal or the gold stacks which is nice.

Does it? The pictures are just showing the other side of the terrain piece.

**ArmchairArbiter**

Interesting preview up today for the new tome. I know it is a AOS focused released but I am curious how much of this will translate over to 40k (the gaming system I play).

Hysterical frenzy seems to have been reworked... wonder if that will come over to us. Pretty much does what the pavane of slaanesh already does.

**Thommy H**

auticus wrote:
Yeah I was coming here to post that same thing. They discuss mortal wizards and chaos knights.

Though I wonder if thats just a synergy alliance taken from slaves to darkness marked with slaanesh? Chaos knights need quite the points drop OR a power buff to see them ever taken.

All the god-specific battletomes have this - a table of artefacts, command traits, spell lores etc. for MORTAL <GOD> HEROES. It's because the allegiance is tied to the god, not the faction. The HEDONITES keyword will be for units from the actual battletome (the equivalent of BLOODBOUND, ARCANITES and ROTBRINGERS - though in this case also encompassing daemons because Slaanesh being missing makes them less organised).

You've always been able to include marked units from Slaves to Darkness, Monsters of Chaos, Beasts of Chaos, etc. in the god-aligned armies.

**Ghaz**

zamerion wrote:

This isnt very ambiguous

That's the very definition of ambiguous. There may not be any news on new mortal followers 'right now', but next week and any time in the future isn't 'right now'. Until they've been officially announced, the answer will always be there is 'no news'.

**zamerion**

I'm glad that there are still people with hope.

**EnTyme**

I don't really play daemons, so I'm disappointed at a lack of Slaanesh-specific mortals. I do remember that we got the new Nurgle Daemons before we saw the new Nurgle Mortals when Rotbringers came out, though, so I'm not giving up hope yet. We'll know more when we see the battletome next weekend.