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Definitely going to be putting together a Slaangor themed force for Warcry at the very least. I've been waiting for proper Slaangor models since the 5th edition Beastmen army book.

One of them looks to be an adaptation of the current Minotaur kit?

Kinda interesting that there is no middle ground hedonite, basic cultist in similar style to bloodreaver or arcanite. I would had thought Blissbarbs would had been a dual kit that would make melee combatants but it looks like that is not the case.

But there is plenty of options without it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
One of them looks to be an adaptation of the current Minotaur kit?

If true...that's not good!

Slaangor Slakehorn (what a name), as seen here on the right.




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I may be wrong, as the arm appears thinner.

But that head? Yeah.

I can't see GW re-using the old Gor kits; they are quite dated now. I can see them using similar designs and evolving them for Slaanesh, but not using the same models outright.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Slaangor Slakehorn (what a name), as seen here on the right.




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I may be wrong, as the arm appears thinner.

But that head? Yeah.

I don't think those are based on minotaur kit or any existing kit. And I think it has been said that Slaanesh mortals can have weird faces but cooler helmets and/or masks then regular guys.

However, I think they are quite bit bigger then some other infantry if going by direchasm set.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Slaangor Slakehorn (what a name), as seen here on the right.

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I may be wrong, as the arm appears thinner.

But that head? Yeah.

Looking at the Bullgors kit online, that head would require a bit of conversion work to make out of the old kit.

They're probably intended to be related to minotaur, though less bulky. Definitely not the same kit, but the head is similar to minotaurs/ghorgons (though the clothed ones aren't). Beastmen were always weird, since all the stories and lore would talk about how farm animals like cows, pigs, etc would be mutated into beastmen, but all we ever got were bovine looking dudes. It would be cool if they were released in a unit of three, with enough options to build six unique models, a la the stone troggoths

I really want a few more of those belly bladedancers like the one Direchasm girl. The more Minotaur-ish head looks not that great. I dreamt about a Beastlord (more a picruresquw satyr than a half cow, so more new mutation than BoC born) on chariot lead Slaanesh Chaos army since the 6th ed BoC book and now I might actually do it. New Slaanesh mortals, new Slaangor/Minos/inbetweeners, BoC stuff and SC Slaves are affordable, so, maybe.

I just ebay'd a Lord on Steed. Always wanted one, now seems a good time before *all* are listed at insane prices instead of just *most*. Will probably be tiny next to the new mortals, but ybee it's a very fierce but tiny woman. Or a child soldier of Slaanesh.

They... arrrgh! They just couldn't leave well enough alone and call 'em Slaangors. They had to "GW" it and give them a dumb sub-name - Fiendbloods - as well. Drives me fethin' mental.

Otherwise sounds good. Also sounds like a lot of cavalry units. I doubt they'd be Squatting the Hellstriders, right?

In any case, all this stuff is great, but I wish we had some more belly dancer HTH units like the Direchasm unit.

hopefully the slickblade seekers are themselves a dual kit that has unhelmeted heads as an option

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They... arrrgh! They just couldn't leave well enough alone and call 'em Slaangors. They had to "GW" it and give them a dumb sub-name - Fiendbloods - as well. Drives me fethin' mental.

It depends on whether these are the equivalent of the Tzeentch Tzaangors or the equivalent of the Enlightened or Skyfires...

Carlovonsexron wrote:
hopefully the slickblade seekers are themselves a dual kit that has unhelmeted heads as an option

Probably already in dual kit with the archers on steeds shown above.
The body are clearly the same.

 Ghaz wrote:
It depends on whether these are the equivalent of the Tzeentch Tzaangors or the equivalent of the Enlightened or Skyfires...

I don't think we're going to get multiple types of Slaangor, otherwise the options would've been in the Warcry book.

Same reason I doubt we'll get the bellydancer polearm girls.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ghaz wrote:
It depends on whether these are the equivalent of the Tzeentch Tzaangors or the equivalent of the Enlightened or Skyfires...

I don't think we're going to get multiple types of Slaangor, otherwise the options would've been in the Warcry book.

Same reason I doubt we'll get the bellydancer polearm girls.

well as pointed out above the cavalry are a dual kit, and if they can make make an archer/glaive cavalry work there stands a decent chance they could do the same with infantry.

We can hope, at least!

WarCry card list suggests they did not.

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Unfortunately not.
I was hopping sor some light hand to hand infantry also.

Not the army is lacking anything at this point, but
model-wise it could be interesting.

Not sure about the"exalted steeds" thing.
I like the regular steeds very much, and if they kept
the bood-snake design but for a troop type, it may be a bit too much for me.
We'll have to wait.

I hope they release the full models pics, these small preview
could be getting annoying.

To be fair, Slaanesh has always had a Bovine aesthetic. Harking to the Golden Calf or the Egyptian God of Music/Sensuality, or how cows are symbols of fertility and so forth. Just look at the alternate head for the Keeper of Secrets. Reading in the Hedonites Battletome we get two instances involving Cow-Beastmen and Bulgors in particular.

Cataphract wrote:
To be fair, Slaanesh has always had a Bovine aesthetic. Harking to the Golden Calf or the Egyptian God of Music/Sensuality, or how cows are symbols of fertility and so forth. Just look at the alternate head for the Keeper of Secrets. Reading in the Hedonites Battletome we get two instances involving Cow-Beastmen and Bulgors in particular.

Indeed.
Back to the original Realm of Chaos design,
the Keeper of Secrets head is a bovine one.
With a lot of variants, all based on cow heads.
(except one which was a goat if my memory serves)

So no surprise here.

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Ah well, that's such a huge pity- the prospect of those was easily the most interesting of any of the underworlds characters.

Carlovonsexron wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Ah well, that's such a huge pity- the prospect of those was easily the most interesting of any of the underworlds characters.

Well there is still (thin) hope that they are on the page before the one we saw:
deamonettes, seekers, fiends are not here either and they are definitely
in the warcry card set for the hedonites (with the hellstriders as well).
I for sure would desapointed also if there is no models for them.

mortar_crew wrote:

Carlovonsexron wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Ah well, that's such a huge pity- the prospect of those was easily the most interesting of any of the underworlds characters.

Well there is still (thin) hope that they are on the page before the one we saw:
deamonettes, seekers, fiends are not here either and they are definitely
in the warcry card set for the hedonites (with the hellstriders as well).
I for sure would desapointed also if there is no models for them.

I'd be surprised if whoever leaked the profiles opted not to include what should be an obviously new unit, and more so that the official GW reveal would leave them out if they were in there

we'll know this weekend for sure, one way or the other!

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Exactly. If there were other units, we'd know about them now.

It would be very unusual for GW to make a dual kit and only include one half in WarCry when other dual kits get both unit types.

I'd love to be wrong about this, as a unit of light agile melee infantry would be pretty cool, but I don't think I am.

mortar_crew wrote:

Carlovonsexron wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Ah well, that's such a huge pity- the prospect of those was easily the most interesting of any of the underworlds characters.

Well there is still (thin) hope that they are on the page before the one we saw:
deamonettes, seekers, fiends are not here either and they are definitely
in the warcry card set for the hedonites (with the hellstriders as well).
I for sure would desapointed also if there is no models for them.

All the leader versions of the new stuff is on the 2nd page we’ve seen, if there was another unit on a different page the leader version would still be with them.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Exactly. If there were other units, we'd know about them now.

It would be very unusual for GW to make a dual kit and only include one half in WarCry when other dual kits get both unit types.

I'd love to be wrong about this, as a unit of light agile melee infantry would be pretty cool, but I don't think I am.

You are probably right indeed.
Why does the light infantry does not get a dual kit will remain a mystery.

Khorne reaver, Kairic acolyte and Tzaangors are not dual kit either, but they have weapons option.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
WarCry card list suggests they did not.

Exactly. If there were other units, we'd know about them now.

It would be very unusual for GW to make a dual kit and only include one half in WarCry when other dual kits get both unit types.

I'd love to be wrong about this, as a unit of light agile melee infantry would be pretty cool, but I don't think I am.

It's just leaving the door open for future releases, that's all.

The time where GW gets everything out for an army in one go is in the past. Here, the Mortals of Slaanesh are part of the Hedonites of Slaanesh. You never know when they decide to release another miniature / kit later, like the new heroes in the "limited starter boxes".

It's not because they only showed in Warcry that it means nothing else will be there in AoS. It's just a set picture at the time the Warcry Battletomes were made. Nothing more, nothing less.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
They... arrrgh! They just couldn't leave well enough alone and call 'em Slaangors. They had to "GW" it and give them a dumb sub-name - Fiendbloods - as well. Drives me fethin' mental.

It's probably because Slaangors is a catch all term for the species type whilst fiendblood is a specific type of Slaangor. That way they can have several different variations within the same army.

It's basically calling the same thing different names when armed with different weapons instead of just Slaangors armed with weapon A or weapon B