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zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/27/the-aelven-pantheon/

ungry to collect some aelves? The Lumineth Realm-lords will be arriving in September,

Sigh... Aelves...

AoS must be giving their spell checkers fits.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/27/the-aelven-pantheon/

ungry to collect some aelves? The Lumineth Realm-lords will be arriving in September,

Sigh... Aelves...

AoS must be giving their spell checkers fits.

A new Rosetta-type stone was found near Nottingham recently by an employee of GW. It was buried a full 6” move distance in the sand of a kindergartn sandbox. That along with some cutting edge design action figures which they have adapted to be the next generation of Space Marines.

New army transports also coming with Hello Kitty-type faces on it, though not Hello Kitty but some sort of Dark Mechanicus cat.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/27/the-aelven-pantheon/

ungry to collect some aelves? The Lumineth Realm-lords will be arriving in September,

Sigh... Aelves...

AoS must be giving their spell checkers fits.

It still makes me cringe a little. Though not as much as "deadwalkers" does.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

zamerion wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/27/the-aelven-pantheon/

ungry to collect some aelves? The Lumineth Realm-lords will be arriving in September,

Sigh... Aelves...

AoS must be giving their spell checkers fits.

It still makes me cringe a little. Though not as much as "deadwalkers" does.

"Deathrattle" will be my favourite, after Fyre-slayers of course.

Aelves is not the worst of the AoS names, not even among the worse, but one of the attractive bits of Fantasy and 40k was the use of easily recognizable tropes. To someone with even a passing knowledge of fantasy there's no need to explain what an Orc or Zombie or Lizardman is. GW's unique version of them needs filling in of course but once you hear the name you're pretty much ready to go.

The more nonsensical the names become the less accessible the game is. Dark Elves is easy to understand, Druhilli or whatever they're now called is not. And Seraphons and Fyre Slayers and Khapratic Overlords are right out.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The more nonsensical the names become the less accessible the game is. Dark Elves is easy to understand...

Those were the bad guys in that not-so-good Thor movie, right? Sometimes you don't want to be associated with a generic name anymore...

 Ghaz wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The more nonsensical the names become the less accessible the game is. Dark Elves is easy to understand...

Those were the bad guys in that not-so-good Thor movie, right? Sometimes you don't want to be associated with a generic name anymore...

Bah. The invasion of the palace was the most 40k scene in anything. Vortex grenades, idiots trying to swordfight in sci-fi, stormshields, flying transports to drop troops into assault range, etc

High/Dark/Wood Elves are all gone. Not simply rebranded but actually dead. Unlike armies like Lizardmen-->Seraphon or Orcs-->Orruks they were destroyed in the End Times and never made it to the AoS setting. The closest we have is Wanderers, which are analogous enough to Wood Elves, but still have significant differences to mark them as an entirely separate culture. Meanwhile the likes of Darkling Covens, Corsairs or DoK share models with the Dark Elves of old but are literally and figuratively different armies.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
High/Dark/Wood Elves are all gone. Not simply rebranded but actually dead. Unlike armies like Lizardmen-->Seraphon or Orcs-->Orruks they were destroyed in the End Times and never made it to the AoS setting. The closest we have is Wanderers, which are analogous enough to Wood Elves, but still have significant differences to mark them as an entirely separate culture. Meanwhile the likes of Darkling Covens, Corsairs or DoK share models with the Dark Elves of old but are literally and figuratively different armies.

And I will still field a Cities of Sigmar army and call them Dark Elves. Or the Empire, for that matter.

more power to you, no one can take away your headcanon.

The chit chat about names is nice and all, but how about dat news eh?

There isn't any.

The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

 Alpharius wrote:
The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

Aside from starter sets, it doesn't look like we're going to see much of anything else for 40k until October. We already know the Lumineth are coming in September, and I'd be willing to bet that Sons of Behemat will drop before October, as well - especially since it's really just a book and one box kit.

There’s also some Warcry and Underworlds stuff to go before then, even if that’s more “AoS adjacent” than a ‘real’ AoS release.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

Aside from starter sets, it doesn't look like we're going to see much of anything else for 40k until October. We already know the Lumineth are coming in September, and I'd be willing to bet that Sons of Behemat will drop before October, as well - especially since it's really just a book and one box kit.

Good candinate for august release. Lumineth in september, 40k codexes(2) in october with plenty of new kits. What comes in august? 40k starters but that's 1 week. Maybe some marine/necron models comes before codex. But SoB would fit well to august that's atm fairly empty looking.

Oh and august-september I expect LOTR releases previewed in spring to come finally as well.

tneva82 wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

Aside from starter sets, it doesn't look like we're going to see much of anything else for 40k until October. We already know the Lumineth are coming in September, and I'd be willing to bet that Sons of Behemat will drop before October, as well - especially since it's really just a book and one box kit.

Good candinate for august release. Lumineth in september, 40k codexes(2) in october with plenty of new kits. What comes in august? 40k starters but that's 1 week. Maybe some marine/necron models comes before codex. But SoB would fit well to august that's atm fairly empty looking.

Oh and august-september I expect LOTR releases previewed in spring to come finally as well.

they've also announced a bunch of 40k characters which could be released in august-september

terry wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

Aside from starter sets, it doesn't look like we're going to see much of anything else for 40k until October. We already know the Lumineth are coming in September, and I'd be willing to bet that Sons of Behemat will drop before October, as well - especially since it's really just a book and one box kit.

Good candinate for august release. Lumineth in september, 40k codexes(2) in october with plenty of new kits. What comes in august? 40k starters but that's 1 week. Maybe some marine/necron models comes before codex. But SoB would fit well to august that's atm fairly empty looking.

Oh and august-september I expect LOTR releases previewed in spring to come finally as well.

they've also announced a bunch of 40k characters which could be released in august-september

They confirmed that Underworlds is getting stuff in August, as is Necromunda, and there’s Warcry stuff that’s been teased but not properly announced yet.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

terry wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
The news is that there is no news?!?

I think we might be waiting a while for the New Stuff as 40K 9th takes the lead for a bit.

Aside from starter sets, it doesn't look like we're going to see much of anything else for 40k until October. We already know the Lumineth are coming in September, and I'd be willing to bet that Sons of Behemat will drop before October, as well - especially since it's really just a book and one box kit.

Good candinate for august release. Lumineth in september, 40k codexes(2) in october with plenty of new kits. What comes in august? 40k starters but that's 1 week. Maybe some marine/necron models comes before codex. But SoB would fit well to august that's atm fairly empty looking.

Oh and august-september I expect LOTR releases previewed in spring to come finally as well.

they've also announced a bunch of 40k characters which could be released in august-september

They confirmed that Underworlds is getting stuff in August, as is Necromunda, and there’s Warcry stuff that’s been teased but not properly announced yet.

And also Warcry stuff that has been announced (Scions of the Flame).

I had forgotten about the scions! To be fair gw hasn't mentioned them in ages either andvhas only shown 3 ofbtge daughters warband

 Overread wrote:
I had forgotten about the scions! To be fair gw hasn't mentioned them in ages either andvhas only shown 3 ofbtge daughters warband

Scions were an initial-ish launch warband.

The Daughters-adjacent warband was supposed to be the 'start of something new'.

Necroing...

Y'all Ready For Hysh?
Lumineth next Saturday!
It's almost the entire range, barring the Alarith and Dawnriders.

Teclis, books, warscroll cards, Endless spells, Light of Eltharion, etc are all coming.

A month without a post!

careful now GW, Gamezone Miniatures will be claiming copyright on those hexagonal dice.

Those dice are so freaking weird I kinda want them.

Will be nice to finally get my hands on the battletome.

 Sasori wrote:
Will be nice to finally get my hands on the battletome.

Where the hell were you people wanting a battletome when I had money and could have bought more of the launch boxes?!

There's a mistake in the article though, saying the Sentinels were in the launch boxes. It was the Dawnriders.

The dice are very cool.

Those are easily the dumbest dice I have ever seen

The dice, while impractical, are very lush. I may have to grab some as a set of fancy wound counters.