Age of Sigmar News & Rumors : Dec 2019 FAQS

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**Geifer**

EnTyme wrote:
Chopstick wrote:
The 35US$ price really turn me away from buying any of the Harbinger. Feel like i'm paying extra 5-10$ for the extra large box.

It's the same price as every other single-sprue named model released in the last three years. How is this a surprise to anyone at this point? And if you're planning on saying "doesn't mean I have to like it", it also doesn't mean you have to buy it, nor does it mean you have to post this same comment after every single-sprue named model is announced at $35.

They're not named. They have a character modeled on the respective miniatures to drive the story, but they are generic characters by their warscrolls.

The Darkoath Chieftain is 20€, released in the last three years on a small character sprue. He even comes with minimal equipment options The Darkoath Queen is 25€. Same sprue size, no options we know of. Clearly the same price for the same thing from the same period.

**zamerion**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/31/legions-nagash-legion-sacrament/

**Kanluwen**

Geifer wrote:
EnTyme wrote:
Chopstick wrote:
The 35US$ price really turn me away from buying any of the Harbinger. Feel like i'm paying extra 5-10$ for the extra large box.

It's the same price as every other single-sprue named model released in the last three years. How is this a surprise to anyone at this point? And if you're planning on saying "doesn't mean I have to like it", it also doesn't mean you have to buy it, nor does it mean you have to post this same comment after every single-sprue named model is announced at $35.

They're not named. They have a character modeled on the respective miniatures to drive the story, but they are generic characters by their warscrolls.

The Darkoath Chieftain is 20€, released in the last three years on a small character sprue. He even comes with minimal equipment options The Darkoath Queen is 25€. Same sprue size, no options we know of. Clearly the same price for the same thing from the same period.

Ehhh...Vandus Hammerhand and Kull were done the same way.

They're intended to be special characters by their sculpts and lack of options but they've just released them as generics so they can keep being used afterwards.

**Mr Morden**

Nice - lots of familiar artefacts from the W-t-W.

Does the Black Gem affect the bearer as he/she are a unit within 3" of the bearer?

Gravesites seem to be a thing like the Nurgle Trees. Ah ignore that just read yesterdays

Every Legions of Nagash army gets to place four gravesites on the table – two in their territory and two in the enemy’s. Summonable units can be set up to emerge from these gravesites later in the game, and they have a similar effect to Deathly Invocation, healing nearby units.

Legion of Blood tomorrow - Awesome.

**NinthMusketeer**

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/31/legions-nagash-legion-sacrament/

Cool stuff.

**Eldarain**

Liking the sound of this. Absurdly elite Deathlords army with some points for summoning skellingtons if needed is my plan. Need more gravesite info.

**NinthMusketeer**

+1 attack for morghasts concerns me on that end. Serious abuse potential there.

**zamerion**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/02/01/legions-nagash-legion-blood-prince-vhordraigw-homepage-post-2/

Also

Interesting..

**Mr Morden**

Some more good stuff

Really looking forward to reading this book.

**Kanluwen**

I think that the use of the Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon is a great one.

Shame that Blood Knights are still prohibitively expensive.

**Hanskrampf**

Kanluwen wrote:
I think that the use of the Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon is a great one.

Shame that Blood Knights are still prohibitively expensive.

It really is. And I highly doubt we get a vampire model with LoN.
I had hoped for a Soulblight Battletome with Vampire foot soldiers, new Blood Knights, Vampire Bats, maybe human slaves.

**str00dles1**

Book so far seems good for everyone but the vampires. Its obvious they were not going to give us soldiers or able to ally humans in as controlled slaves, but its what that subfaction needed. Pure Vampire force. Elite, deadly, low model count.

Best case is a character makes blood knights battleline, or some special rule lets it happen. Id then at least consider a pure vamp force. Just would use third party knights or procure them another way then the insane 100 for 5 price still. Especially since its terrible finecast

**Kanluwen**

Hanskrampf wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
I think that the use of the Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon is a great one.

Shame that Blood Knights are still prohibitively expensive.

It really is. And I highly doubt we get a vampire model with LoN.
I had hoped for a Soulblight Battletome with Vampire foot soldiers, new Blood Knights, Vampire Bats, maybe human slaves.

Honestly, all we need is for the Vampire Lord on Zombie Dragon to get a set of standing legs on a sprue and we'd be golden for that. It'd be like the Magmadroth; which can be three characters if done right(build the Runeson or Runefather on the Magmadroth, build the other on foot, Runesmiter goes on foot as well) and we'd have a use for those leftover bits!

**EnTyme**

Preorders are up on the NZ store. Gotta say I love the Warqueen even more now that we get to see the 360 shot. That pose is amazing!

**BrookM**

And her rules: https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/PDF/Downloads//ENG%20Darkoath%20Warqueen.pdf

**Galas**

So the Warscrols weren't fake. That female barbarian queen will be a great adition to my khorne/slaves to darkness/barbarian horde.

**EnTyme**

Also (if I'm interpreting the rulebook's description correctly) it looks like you may get additional army rules for running a Herald.

**Cataphract**

EnTyme wrote:
Also (if I'm interpreting the rulebook's description correctly) it looks like you may get additional army rules for running a Herald.

I am curious, since she cannot take a Mark does that mean she cannot join an army for say "Khorne Bloodbound" with being included as an ally?

**Eldarain**

The Malign Portents book should be pretty affordable given it seems reasonsble on the NZ site.

**nels1031**

I can’t believe they are still pushing the old zombie kit. Put that boxed set out to pasture, regardless of the lack of a current replacement.

**Thargrim**

nels1031 wrote:
I can’t believe they are still pushing the old zombie kit. Put that boxed set out to pasture, regardless of the lack of a current replacement.

Yeah the corpse cart looks good but that old zombie kit has not aged too well. That was from a time before they were going crazy with CAD design. Even the Eldar Guardians have aged better and that kit is getting old as hell.

**EnTyme**

Cataphract wrote:
EnTyme wrote:
Also (if I'm interpreting the rulebook's description correctly) it looks like you may get additional army rules for running a Herald.

I am curious, since she cannot take a Mark does that mean she cannot join an army for say "Khorne Bloodbound" with being included as an ally?

One would hope that the Heralds have some special rule in Malign Portents which allows them to ally with any faction from their allegiance.

**UltraPrime**

EnTyme wrote:

One would hope that the Heralds have some special rule in Malign Portents which allows them to ally with any faction from their allegiance.

I'm pretty certain I read that somewhere.

**Mr Morden**

Interesting new unit for Soulblight - coven throne variant

For some Soulblight vampires, the consumption of blood becomes more than an unnatural imperative, but an obsession that dominates every moment of their existence. Seated upon the macabre luxury of a Bloodseeker Palanquin, these Sanguinarchs direct their spectral bearers into the fray, enjoying the orchestra of screams unleashed by the banshees bound to her conveyance. The brew that a Bloodseeker Palanquin bears to the battlefield is intoxicating, and the Soulblight vampires affected by it fall upon the foe in an orgy of slaughter that stains the ground a deep crimson.The Bloodseeker Palanquin is a huge model that possesses a lower half of pure ethereal madness. Ghostly, and occasionally armoured, tendrils stretch upward at an angle, at the head of which are skeletal riders on armoured horses. At the centre of the model stands the sinister, cloaked Sanguinarch, who is surrounded by a swarm of howling Banshees. The kit is bedecked with a mind-boggling range of features, from lanterns to skeletons, to ghostly winds, decadent cushions and magical flames.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/bloodseeker-palanquin-2018

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

At the centre of the model stands the sinister, cloaked Sanguinarch, who is surrounded by a swarm of howling Banshees.

Stands? Girl's taking a breather from what it seems. All that blood drinking got her needing a lie down.

**Inquisitor Gideon**

Well just killed my wallet for a bit. Both books, the 4 heralds, the dice and 2 boxes of the blood coven for the daughters. Rest well my credit account.

**Manfred von Drakken**

Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Well just killed my wallet for a bit. Both books, the 4 heralds, the dice and 2 boxes of the blood coven for the daughters. Rest well my credit account.

Just wait until the actual Daughters come out...

**GoatboyBeta**

Is it likely that the Blood coven box will stick around once the Daughters get there full release?

**Kanluwen**

GoatboyBeta wrote:
Is it likely that the Blood coven box will stick around once the Daughters get there full release?

Maybe?

It was supposed to be a splash release box, but I could see it hanging around until they release a Start Collecting set next year.

**GoatboyBeta**

Guess I'll just have to hold my nerve then.
*rolls*
*fails*
*orders box*
......Damn it

Edit:- Reading the tale of four warlords in this months WD(and re reading last months) its kinda funny how cagey the DoK player is about his expansion plans and background ideas