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That terrain looks great. I'm sure I'll buy some. Has a great ancient world feel.

That terrain would have look ultra good with a... Tomb King army...

Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

I was at my local game store today here in the states and I pre ordered two copies of looncurse, they will retail for $160, luckily I get a nice discount

GaroRobe wrote:
Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

All the lore bits have said "she", so I'm guessing yes.

One of the few complaints I saw about the Tree-Revenants and Spite-Revenants was that they tended to be gendered to one specific thing--which isn't how the Wood Elves rolled!
We have two exceptions in the form of Wild Riders(Orion's equerries, stewards of the Hunter-God Kurnous--we didn't get to keep Ariel's Handmaidens, who fulfilled a similar role for her. Described as butterfly winged sorceresses) and the Sisters of the Thorn.

AoS dropped and for whatever reason they put the Sisters of the Watch into Wanderers as well. Still not sure why, they really should have gone to Swifthawk Agents or Eldritch Council IMO. Even more confused as to why the hell they become Battleline when Waywatchers, master hunters and stalkers, are your General.

GaroRobe wrote:
Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

Well he/she's a sort-of elf so the men are basically women anyways.

Can’t tell from the angle they’re showing, and the sprue picture is showing the backs of the pieces so can’t tell there either. Otherwise the Revenants are easy to tell, but the only current female model for this is the leader of the Spite Revenants. Did convert my Tree Revenants slightly to use that torso still for the diversity of appearance.

If you watch the video, one of the angles confirms that she is indeed female.It would be cool if they did have a male torso, since the helmet can work for both

Green boobs were also pretty apparent in the artwork we first saw.

My online supplier is quoting £95 RRP for Looncurse in the UK

A better comparison of the two new heroes from GW's Instagram account:

It might be the shield but here's something quite "classic" about the new sylvanath hero - and I mean that in a good way.

I think the new hero looks ace.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

GaroRobe wrote:
Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

Well he/she's a sort-of elf so the men are basically women anyways.

So you can´t tell from the mini if it´s a dude or chick? Geez, the figurine has to be of abysmal quality.

Not really. The tree revenants are ghostly elves, and some elves are hard to tell what gender they are (not that it matters.) The female tree revenants have one ghost bosom exposed, the males don't. On this model, you can't see from the majority of the angles they provided, since A) its wearing a helmet and B) the hair covers the ghost portion. I had assumed it was a guy at first, but all the lore excerpts revealed that she's female.

Look at the artwork we saw before the mini itself, it’s definitely a lady.

The new tree hero is cool but the weapon choice is kinda...uninspiring. Would be cool if it was a spite revenant (aka mini Drycha)

Looncurse: The Heroes (and Sample Armies!) on Warhammer Community

I want that Git.

 Strg Alt wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

GaroRobe wrote:
Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

Well he/she's a sort-of elf so the men are basically women anyways.

So you can´t tell from the mini if it´s a dude or chick? Geez, the figurine has to be of abysmal quality.

It's a tree spirit-creature-thing. I mean, the only sexual characteristics it should be displaying is whether or not it has pollen.

Are the army lists they suggested viable? They're just trying to encourage double buying, but since the Sylvaneth ljist doesn't have any dryads, its piqued my interest. And you can get most of the suggested units within three boxes, with an extra Arch revenant and no Allierile.

Sylvaneth are likely getting an update soon that makes any notion of what’s good (though that army probably isn’t) irrelevant.

 Galas wrote:
That terrain would have look ultra good with a... Tomb King army...

I think you mean the new Skullsand Cryptmonarchs

GaroRobe wrote:
Are the army lists they suggested viable? They're just trying to encourage double buying, but since the Sylvaneth ljist doesn't have any dryads, its piqued my interest. And you can get most of the suggested units within three boxes, with an extra Arch revenant and no Allierile.

They are reasonably viable lists. They could suffer in a competitive meta but almost everything does. For general use they absolutely work. On the Sylvaneth specifically, revenants are a poor unit as it stands (almost certainly in line for a buff come the new battletome, if they don't already get a new warscroll in the starter) but Alarielle is a bit overpowered so it works out. The list would likely be better served by making one of those kurnoth units melee, giving a durable front line unit (which the revenants are not).


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 Strg Alt wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

GaroRobe wrote:
Is the Arch-Revenant female? It's hard to tell on the model. I thought it was a dude, but the small text in one of the book image say the arch-revenant led her forces, so I'm guessing she is?

Well he/she's a sort-of elf so the men are basically women anyways.

So you can´t tell from the mini if it´s a dude or chick? Geez, the figurine has to be of abysmal quality.

I was making a joke about the stereotype of elf males being extremely feminine

GaroRobe wrote:
Are the army lists they suggested viable? They're just trying to encourage double buying, but since the Sylvaneth ljist doesn't have any dryads, its piqued my interest. And you can get most of the suggested units within three boxes, with an extra Arch revenant and no Allierile.

Dryads can be summoned by Alarielle or a Branchwraith(which can be built out of the Dryads box if you're conversion happy)...so I can understand why they didn't actually put them in the list.

Unfortunately the underworlds unit doesn’t bode well for revenants.

Gryph statues?

Gryph statues.

Well played, GW, well played.

 LunarSol wrote:
Unfortunately the underworlds unit doesn’t bode well for revenants.

Debatable.

Going from "reroll a single dice per phase" to "on a 3+, this unit fights before players pick any other units" whether or not they charged can be a big deal.

Notable change as well is that the Kurnoth Hunters are getting a tweak to their wording, with Envoys of the Everqueen becoming 12" from the Kurnoth Hunters rather than the current "measure range for the command ability from the Kurnoth Hunters unit instead of the Hero".

Well the unit's main drawback is durability, so getting the same ability would help them even if they lost the re-roll one. Coupled with a points drop could do the trick.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Well the unit's main drawback is durability, so getting the same ability would help them even if they lost the re-roll one. Coupled with a points drop could do the trick.

I'm actually kind of wondering if they might get a second wound, ala Fyreslayers.

I don't think they will, but it would be something that sets Revenants apart from other Aelf related stuff.