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 Black Nexus wrote:
Went to order some Phoenix Guard today and they are out of stock on GW site and disappeared from Dark Sphere, Wayland Games etc.

They’re direct only, so you can only get them from GW.

You can get direct only from a FLGS

Battletome: Phoenicium would be awesome, but I expect its a long ways out if coming at all since it could potentially have been destroyed in the Seeds of Hope campaign. Has the firestorm rules at least.

 ImAGeek wrote:
They’re direct only, so you can only get them from GW.

Direct only just means it has to be ordered in and isn't carried in stores. You can get a FLGS to order it in for you.

One possibility I've seen raised is, much like how the Daughters of Khaine were repurposed to be Morathi's faction and given lots of new unique units to flesh out the theme (Melusai, Khinerai, etc) it would make a lot of sense for the Darkling Covens to be the "core" for Malerion's faction. Darkling Covens give a good base to work off to add unique Shadow Aelf models that have an appearance more in line with Malerion, much like the pre-Battletome Daughters of Khaine did for Morathi. They could do the same thing with Tyrion and possibly even combine wayward factions like the Phoenix Temple and Lion Rangers together again.

Thebiggesthat wrote:
You can get direct only from a FLGS

Do you have more info to share, by the by?

Caederes wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
They’re direct only, so you can only get them from GW.

Direct only just means it has to be ordered in and isn't carried in stores. You can get a FLGS to order it in for you.

One possibility I've seen raised is, much like how the Daughters of Khaine were repurposed to be Morathi's faction and given lots of new unique units to flesh out the theme (Melusai, Khinerai, etc) it would make a lot of sense for the Darkling Covens to be the "core" for Malerion's faction. Darkling Covens give a good base to work off to add unique Shadow Aelf models that have an appearance more in line with Malerion, much like the pre-Battletome Daughters of Khaine did for Morathi. They could do the same thing with Tyrion and possibly even combine wayward factions like the Phoenix Temple and Lion Rangers together again.

Oh yeah. But still, they don’t show on other stores, which is why they’ve disappeared from Dark Sphere etc.

A new "modern" high elf faction would be nice. In the meantime, i'm strongly considering picking up a few Deepkin things and running my two Island of Blood sets as Deepkin proxies mixed in. Of the elf faction to get a AOS update, the Deepkin seem like they could pull it off easier than the Slyvaneth or the Daughters of Khaine.

Griffons could be Akhelian Kings and I'd probably just run both kinds of foot soldier as Namarti Thralls. I think there's a some spellcasters coming up who my mages could stand in for. And the reavers would translate to one of the eel-mounted units, I'd need to look at their weaponry to see what is the best fit.

Caederes wrote:
One possibility I've seen raised is, much like how the Daughters of Khaine were repurposed to be Morathi's faction and given lots of new unique units to flesh out the theme (Melusai, Khinerai, etc) it would make a lot of sense for the Darkling Covens to be the "core" for Malerion's faction. Darkling Covens give a good base to work off to add unique Shadow Aelf models that have an appearance more in line with Malerion, much like the pre-Battletome Daughters of Khaine did for Morathi. They could do the same thing with Tyrion and possibly even combine wayward factions like the Phoenix Temple and Lion Rangers together again.

I am highly doubtful this will happen. It seems they want to make a fresh start with these new armies, otherwise I'm thinking they could have done it with the deepkin and the privateers.

All three Isharann characters(Soulrender, Tidecaster, Soulscryer) come up for preorder next week.

If I’m right in thinking, that just leaves the Eels and the Turtle for the week after?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If I’m right in thinking, that just leaves the Eels and the Turtle for the week after?

And the sharks as well.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
If I’m right in thinking, that just leaves the Eels and the Turtle for the week after?

Expect the Shark and Eels to come together in all likelihood and the Leviadon to round out the preorders.

We're up to week 3/5.

Week 1:
Soul Warden
Shipwreck
Army Book
Warscroll Cards
Dice
Namarti Thralls
Eidolon of Mathlann

Week 2:
Namarti Reavers
Akhelian King

Week 3:
Isharann Tidecaster
Isharann Soulrender
Isharann Soulscryer

Week 4:
????
Week 5:
????

We know there's 5 weeks because the art cards they're giving away as part of the preorders are numbered as "X of 5".

The Leviadon, Allopex, and Eels are all that's left. I could see them leaving the Leviadon for last and having the Allopex and Eels in week 4. But really, does it matter what order they come in? I think what's more curious is that they've released some Necromunda and Blood Bowl alongside Week 3, which makes me curious if they'll throw 40k a bone in the next couple weeks. My local GW manager was remarking on how his sales look pretty dull when 40k is ignored for too long

drbored wrote:
The Leviadon, Allopex, and Eels are all that's left. I could see them leaving the Leviadon for last and having the Allopex and Eels in week 4. But really, does it matter what order they come in? I think what's more curious is that they've released some Necromunda and Blood Bowl alongside Week 3, which makes me curious if they'll throw 40k a bone in the next couple weeks. My local GW manager was remarking on how his sales look pretty dull when 40k is ignored for too long

I mean, it makes sense to add the Specialist Games stuff now when it's just 3 blisters for the Idoneth.

 TheWaspinator wrote:
A new "modern" high elf faction would be nice. In the meantime, i'm strongly considering picking up a few Deepkin things and running my two Island of Blood sets as Deepkin proxies mixed in. Of the elf faction to get a AOS update, the Deepkin seem like they could pull it off easier than the Slyvaneth or the Daughters of Khaine.

Griffons could be Akhelian Kings and I'd probably just run both kinds of foot soldier as Namarti Thralls. I think there's a some spellcasters coming up who my mages could stand in for. And the reavers would translate to one of the eel-mounted units, I'd need to look at their weaponry to see what is the best fit.

That's really good thinking. I may follow suit there...

Just a quick observation, it looks like the Blood Coven box for Daughters of Khaine as finally gone to properly sold out on the GW website instead of temp out of stock. So if you can grab it from third parties, now's the time to do it.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Just a quick observation, it looks like the Blood Coven box for Daughters of Khaine as finally gone to properly sold out on the GW website instead of temp out of stock. So if you can grab it from third parties, now's the time to do it.

Sold out online for the US webstore too.

Might just be them starting to plan a Start Collecting set properly for the faction, since the Blood Coven was basically a Start Collecting.

On a different tangent, anyone seen how much the Isharann characters are meant to be this weekend?

I was wondering about that. But what could you do as a start collecting that isnt' the Blood Coven box? Two units of Aelves and some Warlocks? But that lacks characters. All the characters barring Morathi are tied up in the Cauldron kit.

They'll probably be £15-20. Seems the standard at the moment.

The heroes are all £15. On the slightly less expensive end of the scale.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I was wondering about that. But what could you do as a start collecting that isnt' the Blood Coven box? Two units of Aelves and some Warlocks? But that lacks characters. All the characters barring Morathi are tied up in the Cauldron kit.

They'll probably be £15-20. Seems the standard at the moment.

You could see the shrine repackaged with some of the new units possibly. Likely the Melusae.

*edit* because my brain has auto-correct enabled, and I don't know how to turn it off.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I was wondering about that. But what could you do as a start collecting that isnt' the Blood Coven box? Two units of Aelves and some Warlocks? But that lacks characters. All the characters barring Morathi are tied up in the Cauldron kit.

They'll probably be £15-20. Seems the standard at the moment.

Y'know, I wonder if it might be the first time they do a split of a kit for a Start Collecting?


That frame has everything for the characters, Avatar, and Medusa all on it. I could see them including just that frame, a box of Witch Aelves, and maybe some Melusai or Khinerai?


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Chikout wrote:
The heroes are all £15. On the slightly less expensive end of the scale.

$25USD is great for me.

Hm, my only concern with that is it's still got some of the cauldron sprue on it, looks odd having only half a sprue and could be confusing to anyone new. But I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I still want to get another coven box when element get some more stock tomorrow. That'll give me three cauldrons and 30 aelves for better value at least.

Hopefully its just that GW intend to replace the Blood coven's old WHF era instruction sheet with a more up to date AoS one and they are waiting for new product. Still a DoK SC box with a new hero model that's not tied to the Cauldron kit would be nice at some point.

https://malignportents.com/story/the-price-of-apotheosis/

A closer look into the reforging and why the Stormcast is at risk of losing their humanity?

Chopstick wrote:
https://malignportents.com/story/the-price-of-apotheosis/

A closer look into the reforging and why the Stormcast is at risk of losing their humanity?

This one is maybe the best in the series, with the Slaanesh, Malerion and Morathi one.

Sigmars a pretty giant ------ isn't he.....

Free update to the skirmish rules for all the new army releases since the start of the year. Neat

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/04/27/the-idoneth-deepkin-starting-with-skirmish-apr-27gw-homepage-post-1/

Neat. Wish there'd be more content on the horizon for it.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Free update to the skirmish rules for all the new army releases since the start of the year. Neat

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/04/27/the-idoneth-deepkin-starting-with-skirmish-apr-27gw-homepage-post-1/

Good spot !

Free fluff, free rules, what a nice way to end the week

Chopstick wrote:
https://malignportents.com/story/the-price-of-apotheosis/

A closer look into the reforging and why the Stormcast is at risk of losing their humanity?

Well OBVIOUSLY if he didn't want to be reforged he shouldn't have gone and died!

But seriously, really good. Also we have a preview of a new type of Stormcast.