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I have always viewed AoS as sort of like the Star Trek reboot. They took the most notable aspects of the Old World races and just made them more so.

Some Dwarves have mohawks? Now, they all do! And they are fire-retardant. Others like machines? Make them almost steampunk-cyborgs!

Some Elves live in the forest and commune with nature? Now, they are literally tree-spirits! Others work with serpents? Half-breeds here we come!

Some humans wear armor and fight for their God? Stormcast Chamber on high alert! Make those bases bigger!

I have no issue with it, and frankly like the exaggeration. It actually give something of a "new" feel to the older fantasy tropes, all while paying homage to J.J.Abrams.

For an in-depth discussion about that Star Trek reference, check out Plinkett's Review of the new Star Trek (Red Letter Media). He is NSFW, but makes a ton of great points.

craggy wrote:
Skullblooders and Bloodskullers led by Skullyblood of the Bloodied Skulls.

It's so bad as to come full circle and be amazingly great!

 streetsamurai wrote:
A giant army could be really cool

If nothing else, it should have a lot going for it right off the bat!

And probably be really, really hard to transport safely.

 Alpharius wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:
A giant army could be really cool

If nothing else, it should have a lot going for it right off the bat!

And probably be really, really hard to transport safely.

Giants tend to be pretty chunky for the most part which helps a lot with safe transport.
To be fair though, I’ve been transporting Nighthaunt around for a while so stable models would be a welcome change lol.

It will be interesting to see what a Sons of Behemat warband for Warcry looks like...

It would probably be 1 giant and a few little guys, otherwise you couldn't win missions that control board quarters or objectives.

That would suck. Would basically be goblins redux

Smellingsalts wrote:
It would probably be 1 giant and a few little guys, otherwise you couldn't win missions that control board quarters or objectives.

Little guys? Aleguzzler Gargant toddlers?

 Ghaz wrote:
It will be interesting to see what a Sons of Behemat warband for Warcry looks like...

I wonder if they're deliberately misspelling Bahamut or Behemoth for 'IP reasons' with this name.
The former implies a dragon connection, would could be more interesting.

Voss wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
It will be interesting to see what a Sons of Behemat warband for Warcry looks like...

I wonder if they're deliberately misspelling Bahamut or Behemoth for 'IP reasons' with this name.
The former implies a dragon connection, would could be more interesting.

He's already a thing.

The Godbeast Behemat, known as the World-Titan or the Star Gargant. A creature around which the fate of the Mortal Realms once turned. He was a colossal creature of living stone that is rumoured to be the ancestor of the Aleguzzler Gargants.

Edit: he's dead now by the way, killed by the Lord celestant.

 DaveC wrote:
Recent shipping bill lists "WARSCROLL CARDS SONS OF BEHEMAT" so it looks like the Aleguzzler Gargants are coming soon.

Be quite nice to have some daughters as well - not many female giant models.

Ah, Aleguzzler Gargants-Giants.

Racking-Fracking IP protection gibberish...

What if the giants get some kind of objective secure ability for their guys?

nagash42 wrote:
What if the giants get some kind of objective secure ability for their guys?

They walk by it and put it in their pocket for safe keeping .

 Carnikang wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
It will be interesting to see what a Sons of Behemat warband for Warcry looks like...

I wonder if they're deliberately misspelling Bahamut or Behemoth for 'IP reasons' with this name.
The former implies a dragon connection, would could be more interesting.

He's already a thing.

The Godbeast Behemat, known as the World-Titan or the Star Gargant. A creature around which the fate of the Mortal Realms once turned. He was a colossal creature of living stone that is rumoured to be the ancestor of the Aleguzzler Gargants.

Edit: he's dead now by the way, killed by the Lord celestant.

You mean to tell me someone complaining about GW doesn't even understand the thing they're complaining about? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Not to mention that Bahamut and Behemoth are different translations/spelling of the name of the same creature from Arabic mythology. I swear, the naming thing is probably the single most overblown complaint about GW.

by the great garro

So LVO has a studio preview in a couple of days, and I'm interested to see what they've got up their sleeves. As several game systems have cleared all their previewed models/releases.

Reminder this is a GW preview, not FW, so there won't be any 30k, or Resin previews.

I've got AoS picked as being the main event, with the 'Pointy Aelves' being the flagship Reveal, But I've had solid info saying Seraphon and the Sons of behemat (AoS giants) getting Battletomes in the very near future so they could show up as well.

Regarding Specialist Games, the same source has said that a Taros Campaign expansion will be coming soon for Aeronautica, which would indicate that T'au are the next faction joining that game. BloodBowl is also getting an Underworld Denizens team, but unsure if it will be fully new sculpts,or just a merged pack of the existing sprues for Goblins and Skaven, but they should be getting a Spike! magazine, dice, cards, and pitch for sure.

This source is a trusted one, who got me info regarding the plastic ZM scenery and the Slave to Darkness battletome ahead of their reveal/leaking. However until GW formally reveal them these are still rumours, so take a healthy amount of salt with it.

regarding 40K, imagine we'll see the pixelated Primaris skimmer and bikes, alongside some info for Psychic awakening book 6, and maybe 7+.

What are you all hoping to see?

Seraphon warscroll cards have also been shipped

and giants!

I love the fact that apparently it shipped on "Ever Loyal"

I love that Memphis Tennessee has an international port.
Don't get me wrong, its factually true, but it always amuses me that the US has ports (and naval facilities) that are hundreds of miles inland.

There's one in the Shenandoah valley, 100 miles west of DC that I'd see signs for while traveling interstate 81, and it always made me smile.


Vessel name for the giants warscrolls: also very appropriate for GW products (though it'd be better if it were shipping Imperial Guard for 40k).

Damn, I'd gladly buy an army of Gargants! Just take all the monies, GW.

I guess GW wants their Fantasy Imperial Knights equivalent army.

Been waiting for Seraphon for ages, lets hope they finally figured out what to do with the faction.

 NurglesR0T wrote:
Been waiting for Seraphon for ages, lets hope they finally figured out what to do with the faction.

Well, hopefully it includes some model updates, including plastic frog and krox, because those resin casts need to go. Even some of the plastics are fairly dire.

Thematically, personally I think they should trade up and embrace the space lizards angle, and not wallow in the mesoamericans, but lizards, quite so much. Space lizard angel dream fragments (or whatever they are) don't need to be held to obsidian swords because they aren't the Aztecs/Mayan proxies of the Old World anymore.

I wouldn't be shocked if Seraphon get a Slaves to Darkness style Start Collecting with some of the most desired stuff and something new.

I was disappointed that the Slaves SC was the extent of it for them, but if Seraphon get the same treatment and we end up with bigger plastic Saurus and improved Saurus Knights, I'd be very happy.

Should we expect to find out at the LVO, or does the shipping notice put them in too close a timeframe to take up that reveal slot?

While I really .really hope the lizards get new models, I think that they will he left as the last man out.

 EnTyme wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:

Voss wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
It will be interesting to see what a Sons of Behemat warband for Warcry looks like...

I wonder if they're deliberately misspelling Bahamut or Behemoth for 'IP reasons' with this name.
The former implies a dragon connection, would could be more interesting.

He's already a thing.

The Godbeast Behemat, known as the World-Titan or the Star Gargant. A creature around which the fate of the Mortal Realms once turned. He was a colossal creature of living stone that is rumoured to be the ancestor of the Aleguzzler Gargants.

Edit: he's dead now by the way, killed by the Lord celestant.

You mean to tell me someone complaining about GW doesn't even understand the thing they're complaining about? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you! Not to mention that Bahamut and Behemoth are different translations/spelling of the name of the same creature from Arabic mythology. I swear, the naming thing is probably the single most overblown complaint about GW.

Behemoth is not arabic, its Babylonian. Babylonian were not arabs.bahamoth is probably the arabic translation of the name, but originally, it's a Babylonian creature

According to Wikipedia, Behemoth is Arabic. You may be thinking of the Babylonian demon, Baphomet, whom the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping.

No


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behemot) is a beast mentioned in Job 40:15–24. Suggested identities range from a mythological creature to an elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, or buffalo.[1] Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity. Both are of Babylonian origin, where they are creatures of the primal Chaos, Behemoth of the Earth and male, Leviathan of the Ocean Deep and


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behemot) is a beast mentioned in Job 40:15–24. Suggested identities range from a mythological creature to an elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, or buffalo.[1] Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity. Both are of Babylonian origin, where they are creatures of the primal Chaos, Behemoth of the Earth and male, Leviathan of the Ocean Deep and


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behemot) is a beast mentioned in Job 40:15–24. Suggested identities range from a mythological creature to an elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, or buffalo.[1] Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity. Both are of Babylonian origin, where they are creatures of the primal Chaos, Behemoth of the Earth and male, Leviathan of the Ocean Deep and

Not arabic, Babylonian." Modern Babylonians " are for the most part arabic, but at that time they weren't. And Baphomet was a babylonian daemon!!!??? Where did you get that from??? you seem very very confused


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Carlovonsexron wrote:
While I really .really hope the lizards get new models, I think that they will he left as the last man out.

Hopefully not. Im not a big fan of aos. But space lizard would be great