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I love every aspect of the Looncurse box!
As I do both Sylvaneth and Gloomspite its perfect, and bring some much needed extra flavour to the Sylvaneth range (together with the underworlds guys).
Hopefully an updated armybook and some weird endless spells will follow.

Has there been any news on a new "Light Elf" faction. Cause its really annoying right now to try and use my old High Elf mini that are stilll "current" and would be nice to have my PT and OD merged into a new faction.

Khadorstompy wrote:
Has there been any news on a new "Light Elf" faction. Cause its really annoying right now to try and use my old High Elf mini that are stilll "current" and would be nice to have my PT and OD merged into a new faction.

Honestly we have no real news on either the light nor dark aelf factions to come. Lore wise GW appears to have put out more details about the dark than the light, which suggests to many they might flesh out the dark first with a release. Or it might just be that they throttled so much information on them early that the BL Writers just didn't have anything to work with so they've avoided them and focused on the dark.

However at present we know the big middle of the year release is Warcry so its likely if one of the new aelven forces is coming it won't be until the latter part of this year at best.

That said we don't know what GW's plans are for aelves in general and there's every chance tht what remains on the store might get its own battletome release under something like a united Aelf force.

The durability of the underworld unit was actually what I was referring to. They’re just way to fragile for their cost.

Has anyone heard if a new Sylvaneth book is coming. They still need a 2.0 face lift with endless spells, though I suppose forests would be their terrain piece.

So many of the underworld units are disappointing in terms of their points. Our local group has enjoyed playing them in open play games without points, but when we do equal points games, they rarely, if ever feel like they're cool or awesome on the table compared to vast, vast swathes of other options. We generally do hybrid open-narrative-matched play type games and even we're just running them as alternative models for other warscrolls.

"Maybe I'll take an underworlds warband" has become the new code for asking the opponent to take bad things in their army. Not every game has to be with optimised lists, but it is funny that underworlds warbands are like anti-optimising.

They're understrength units paired with a character. They were never going to be "OMG AMAZING!".


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Smellingsalts wrote:
Has anyone heard if a new Sylvaneth book is coming. They still need a 2.0 face lift with endless spells, though I suppose forests would be their terrain piece.

Nothing definitive, but they were one of the early Battletome releases. Those seem to be the ones getting first crack at things right now.

 Kanluwen wrote:
They're understrength units paired with a character. They were never going to be "OMG AMAZING!".

Agreed. I would prefer GW lean towards costing them high since they should be available as a 'fun option' more than a standard part of lists.


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Smellingsalts wrote:
Has anyone heard if a new Sylvaneth book is coming. They still need a 2.0 face lift with endless spells, though I suppose forests would be their terrain piece.

It is all but certain at this point. There was a rumor towards the start of the year that said they would be getting one this summer, then the LVO interview they heavily hinted one was coming, and now we have the new starter with them in it.

As looncurse has sylvaneth in it my money is on sylvaneth getting a new book anytime now.

RIP slaves to darkness.

Sylvaneth 2.0 is on the brink of announcement. I'd be surprised if we didn't know about it by the end of the week. The keywords on the Underworlds unit is a giveaway.

They also have rules that are on existing units that do completely different things.

Umbros wrote:
Sylvaneth 2.0 is on the brink of announcement. I'd be surprised if we didn't know about it by the end of the week. The keywords on the Underworlds unit is a giveaway.

There's a preview this Saturday at the Australian Championship Final so we might hear something then.

Has there been any of these two army boxes that didn't get an army book some time after release? Wrath and Rapture to Hedonites seems to be the longest delay, but it looks like even that happened. A new khorne book too.

auticus wrote:
As looncurse has sylvaneth in it my money is on sylvaneth getting a new book anytime now.

RIP slaves to darkness.

One day, in the far future, they will get a battletome. And it will be disgustingly OP. Worse than FEC, worse than GHB1 Tzeentch, worse than 7th Daemons. And then everyone will accuse you of jumping on the bandwagon.

I really think we’ll get a Slaves to darkness tome following Warcry.

 frozenwastes wrote:
Has there been any of these two army boxes that didn't get an army book some time after release? Wrath and Rapture to Hedonites seems to be the longest delay, but it looks like even that happened. A new khorne book too.

Longest delay was Genestealer Cults who waited over half a year. However they also got a massive and fantastic release of models along with their new codex. But yeah otherwise all the duel army boxes are basically made to prompt interest before new Battletomes/Codex appear. Though GW appears keen to keep releases closer now. So Flesh Eaters and Skaven got their new Tomes at the same time their duel box came out; whilst for this new Sylvanath and Gloomspite box the Goblins already have their Tome and I'd wager we'll see the Sylvanath release quite soon after as well. I'd be surprised if its not one of the next tomes before Warcry in the Summer.

Smellingsalts wrote:
Has anyone heard if a new Sylvaneth book is coming. They still need a 2.0 face lift with endless spells, though I suppose forests would be their terrain piece.

Ooof, that might kill my resistance to buy into Sylvaneth. Looncurse is probably going to be $190 CAD, and 2 boxes of Revenants and a box of Hunters is $160 CAD, never mind the character and all the gobbos side of things. Looncurse + SC + Box of Dryads is basically 1000points?

 Overread wrote:

 frozenwastes wrote:
Has there been any of these two army boxes that didn't get an army book some time after release? Wrath and Rapture to Hedonites seems to be the longest delay, but it looks like even that happened. A new khorne book too.

Longest delay was Genestealer Cults who waited over half a year. However they also got a massive and fantastic release of models along with their new codex. But yeah otherwise all the duel army boxes are basically made to prompt interest before new Battletomes/Codex appear. Though GW appears keen to keep releases closer now. So Flesh Eaters and Skaven got their new Tomes at the same time their duel box came out; whilst for this new Sylvanath and Gloomspite box the Goblins already have their Tome and I'd wager we'll see the Sylvanath release quite soon after as well. I'd be surprised if its not one of the next tomes before Warcry in the Summer.

And Genstealer Cults was a special case. The codex was originally supposed to come out shortly after the Tooth and Claw box, but it was delayed because GW felt it wasn't good enough and basically decided to go back to the drawing board. I would imagine Sylvaneth will get a 2.0 tome in short order, and I also agree that Slave to Darkness makes since to come out in tandem with Warcry.

Aye I'd be honestly be shocked if Slaves to Darkness doesn't come out near Warcry. It's the perfect tandem release, esp considering Warcry is the big Summer release for AoS.

Esp since we've already seen that core army models (new harpies/furies) are in Warcry already.

I am very excited to get some StDs, and Slaanesh probably will enjoy getting them too.

I dunno. STDs seem more of a nurgle thing, if you ask me

Sometimes the ruinous powers set aside their differences.

GaroRobe wrote:
I dunno. STDs seem more of a nurgle thing, if you ask me

Nurgle lacks mortal options outside of characters so he'll be pretty happy as well I imagine. Obviously getting StDs will be a lot of fun for both parties.

Aren't Blightkings and Blightlords non-character mortal options for Nurgle?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Aren't Blightkings and Blightlords non-character mortal options for Nurgle?

Yes.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Aren't Blightkings and Blightlords non-character mortal options for Nurgle?

Nurgle has 13 units with the MORTAL keyword. 11 of those also have the HERO keyword.

 Ghaz wrote:
Nurgle has 13 units with the MORTAL keyword. 11 of those also have the HERO keyword.

Haha! That's hilarious.

GW needs to expand the mortal side of Chaos. Even Blood Bowl has Pestigors!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
Nurgle has 13 units with the MORTAL keyword. 11 of those also have the HERO keyword.

Haha! That's hilarious.

GW needs to expand the mortal side of Chaos. Even Blood Bowl has Pestigors!

IKR!?

Khadorstompy wrote:
Has there been any news on a new "Light Elf" faction. Cause its really annoying right now to try and use my old High Elf mini that are stilll "current" and would be nice to have my PT and OD merged into a new faction.

Your best hope for a unified elven alliance is, ironically, the imminent return of Slaanesh. Feels like an obvious dramaturgical balancing act to bring in an elven demigod and some coneheads to the fight.
Sadly, the odds are not good that we will ever se a proper High Elf list again, They probably expand the PT with some new warped flaming Aelf at best.

They'll probably lean heavily on the Phoenix side of the HIgh Elves and give us Iycefyre Aelves or something.