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ohhh this looks very promising.


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is that Settra....?


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So we're getting at least 4 kits

Infantry
elite infantry
Knights
Catapult

Those just look like necrons to my untrained eye. More sci-fantasy stuff for AOS.

Their armor and weapons look very morghast-y. Codex: Reanimant Kings?

 Gallahad wrote:
Those just look like necrons to my untrained eye. More sci-fantasy stuff for AOS.

what a weird take to have!

Umbros wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
Those just look like necrons to my untrained eye. More sci-fantasy stuff for AOS.

what a weird take to have!

It's almost like necrons are just metal skeletons with guns and some light Egyptian flair. So another army that is "regular skeletons with cultural flair" will come across with a similar feeling.

These look really cool.

They look to be continuing the aesthetic of the Morghasts and Nagash himself, if they are any where near as good as the art these guys will be incredible

They cut away from the picture of that lords weapon right before the top, which I believe will be the scythe we have in the rumor section.

I guess one big question will be if its a hoard army or an elite army. The Tithe and troop displays suggest hoards of skeletons rather than a few elite.

I have that terrible sinking feeling that I am going to go big for this army. Judging by the trailers are we expecting the first releases within a month or so?

Please bring the plastic sphynx back!

balmong7 wrote:

Umbros wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
Those just look like necrons to my untrained eye. More sci-fantasy stuff for AOS.

what a weird take to have!

It's almost like necrons are just metal skeletons with guns and some light Egyptian flair. So another army that is "regular skeletons with cultural flair" will come across with a similar feeling.

Or, you know, it could be because the art is grey armored Skelton’s with the same glowing green used as accent color for necrons for the last 25 years

Either/Or wrote:

balmong7 wrote:

Umbros wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
Those just look like necrons to my untrained eye. More sci-fantasy stuff for AOS.

what a weird take to have!

It's almost like necrons are just metal skeletons with guns and some light Egyptian flair. So another army that is "regular skeletons with cultural flair" will come across with a similar feeling.

Or, you know, it could be because the art is grey armored Skelton’s with the same glowing green used as accent color for necrons for the last 25 years

I mean. I feel like we are just agreeing at this point? I'm hyped. I think it's a fun look and a fun idea. I was really hoping not to be tempted to move outside the destruction alliance for a while though.

So that's Ghouls, Ghosts and now(it seems) Skeletons with there own army's. Dedicated Zombie force when?

I was hoping to be moving outside of Death for my next project, but these guys have me very intrigued, so long as they are chummy enough with my Spooks.

Sweeeet

Bah I know it was probably going to be some expansion of the Deathrattle.

Skeletons! Skeletons everywhere!

Yep, that's what I thought - new tomb kings are coming.

They're just redesigning everything so that they look less like dead egyptians.

I guess we'll have pictures of some miniatures for the next preview announced. More fun for the undead !

GoatboyBeta wrote:
So that's Ghouls, Ghosts and now(it seems) Skeletons with there own army's. Dedicated Zombie force when?

Hm, can we have a full necromantic horror army? Zombie troops with ‘special’ zombies for everything else? Not just zombie dragons and zombie giants but also winged zombies made by stitching giant bat wings to humanoid corpses, zombie giant scorpions with people-feet, you know the drill. Oh and Frankenstein’s Creature elite zombies. Basically rip off every hammer horror film about mad scientists messing with corpses.
Old World necromancers were supposed to be heavy into that, but we never really saw it on the tabletop.
Also, just for kicks, make them an Order army, totally opposed to Nagash in the same way and for the same reasons the Katophranes were.

From the teaser these guys look to have a really cool aesthetic. If they get some Warcry rules I might pick up a box or two (depending on the models of course) to paint up. Heck, I might do that just for fun, because the concept art looks great!

 Mr_Rose wrote:

Hm, can we have a full necromantic horror army? Zombie troops with ‘special’ zombies for everything else? Not just zombie dragons and zombie giants but also winged zombies made by stitching giant bat wings to humanoid corpses, zombie giant scorpions with people-feet, you know the drill. Oh and Frankenstein’s Creature elite zombies. Basically rip off every hammer horror film about mad scientists messing with corpses.
Old World necromancers were supposed to be heavy into that, but we never really saw it on the tabletop.
Also, just for kicks, make them an Order army, totally opposed to Nagash in the same way and for the same reasons the Katophranes were.

Not sure about the Order bit But there was a Zombie "Queen" mentioned in the Soul Wars novel with her own force alongside the Nighthaunt.
*flicks pages*
Yep Arul, the "Lady of all flesh". Not a Mortarch, but she is a sentient undead.

Well my primary three armies forever were chaos (slaves to darkness mortals), tomb kings, and dark elves. So five years later, maybe one of my primary factions will have a book

Where is Krell?

Hate the helmets. Flat panels crosswise still baffles me as a design choice.

Most of them look like they are wearing samurai helmets tbh

 streetsamurai wrote:
ohhh this looks very promising.


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is that Settra....?


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So we're getting at least 4 kits

Infantry
elite infantry
Knights
Catapult

I hope that's not settra. He already got done dirty dureing end times, the idea of him being forced to become a Mortarch would be even worse.

The voice acting in the previous trailers did give off a Samurai kind of vibe. Reminded me of Takeo from Black Ops XD

The cavalry looks interesting, seeing as how one has a rhino/unicorn head, but the other has a bird beaked mount.

I just hope the skull heads aren't too comical. It's hard to tell if its masks or skulls, but the mounted heads look a bit too cartoony

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:

Hm, can we have a full necromantic horror army? Zombie troops with ‘special’ zombies for everything else? Not just zombie dragons and zombie giants but also winged zombies made by stitching giant bat wings to humanoid corpses, zombie giant scorpions with people-feet, you know the drill. Oh and Frankenstein’s Creature elite zombies. Basically rip off every hammer horror film about mad scientists messing with corpses.
Old World necromancers were supposed to be heavy into that, but we never really saw it on the tabletop.
Also, just for kicks, make them an Order army, totally opposed to Nagash in the same way and for the same reasons the Katophranes were.

Not sure about the Order bit But there was a Zombie "Queen" mentioned in the Soul Wars novel with her own force alongside the Nighthaunt.
*flicks pages*
Yep Arul, the "Lady of all flesh". Not a Mortarch, but she is a sentient undead.

She's also one of the now-many fluff instances we have of a Necromancer-on-zombie-palanquin. I wouldn't be surprised to see Death rounded off with a zombie army, even with these new guys it is a small Grand Alliance.

 Lockark wrote:

I hope that's not settra. He already got done dirty dureing end times, the idea of him being forced to become a Mortarch would be even worse.

The only way it could be Settra is if this army is somehow completely independent of Nagash. As End Times revealed, the ONLY thing that Settra hates worse than Nagash is serving another being. The idea of Settra serving Nagash would fly in the face of just about everything we know about Settra.

Settra is a Stormcast now, mentioned in the Hamilcar novel.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Settra is a Stormcast now, mentioned in the Hamilcar novel.

Ok that I could actually see that tbh. I appreciate that my boy Settra is kicking butt with the golden boys

Hard to resist serving when the God of death tell you to do something and you're animated by the same death magic since he ate your gods.