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Honestly, if they go pure Vampire, I'll be happy. Plastic bloodknights? Yes please. Elite vampire foot guys? Vampire Khinerai heartreanders? If they look like the underworld guy, heck yeah. Then add some vargheist and varghulfs, and there we go. (Oh, and the Black coach)

Though zombies and skeletons would be a nice chaff unit. Zombies are destined to be upgraded (hopefully getting more than the Quest models), but I think we'll be stuck with the current skeletons (which aren't bad and far better than the Tomb King guys.)

There are some death models that haven't gotten new homes yet. Like I'm surprised the Mortis Engine wasn't given to the Nighthaunts. Or that skeletons, black knights, etc weren't just heaped into Bonereapers (which is fine, they don't look anything like the army)

They could also make zombies (with a new kit and options), dire wolves and bats the standard troops for Soulblight armies, garnished with elite Vampire units and characters.

Sotahullu wrote:
Well as its "Soulblight Gravelords" I actually believe that it is new name for Legions of Nagash going forward. In particular the last part.

That I could see happening. We'll probably be able to tell from looking at the unit roster. I am still predicting that it will be Soulblight exclusive with a 1-per-4 on bringing in non-OBR, non-FEC stuff. But I've been wrong before and will be again.

 Duskweaver wrote:

 Marshal Loss wrote:
This Slaaneshi artwork is absolutely brilliant.

It's cool, but, like... does GW not have any artists who can draw women? It just seems like a really weird, glaring thing that is missing from all the Hedonites artwork in that preview article. The Hedonites model range is probably the best GW has done so far in terms of representing male and female characters as equals, but the artwork... loads of buff dudes dominating the foreground of every image, with maybe a smudged figure in the distant background that might possibly be female if you squint at it. It just seems odd to me.

I noticed that as well. It's the same kind of jarring as all the artwork that showed us females in armies that only have an all male model line, except the other way around this time.

On the artwork itself, I'm looking forward to what else is in the battletome. I'm hoping for cool artwork for the infantry archers. Not sure we'll get that these days with how GW is so obsessed with gods and heroes, but I like seeing pictures of the regular Joes that make an army what it is.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Honestly, if they go pure Vampire, I'll be happy. Plastic bloodknights? Yes please. Elite vampire foot guys? Vampire Khinerai heartreanders? If they look like the underworld guy, heck yeah. Then add some vargheist and varghulfs, and there we go. (Oh, and the Black coach)

I'd rather have a larger variety of units with the ability to cut down on your unit selection to create an all vampire army if you so choose. I'm actually leaning more in Mr. Morden's direction that GW should see to it that we can mix living and dead units in at least one Grand Alliance (be that a Gravelords style army of Cities of Sigmar). It's a sad state of affairs that Shyish's population has to suffer segregation and cannot go to war against Chaos invaders as a united army.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Though zombies and skeletons would be a nice chaff unit. Zombies are destined to be upgraded (hopefully getting more than the Quest models), but I think we'll be stuck with the current skeletons (which aren't bad and far better than the Tomb King guys.)

You sure about the zombies? They're only 25 years old and look no worse today than they did then.

It's not that the skeletons are bad, and there's no massive deviation from their style on the ones we got for Underworlds (less bat imagery, I guess), but to me they suffer too much from the same problem Chaos Warriors did. They're too regimented and sculpted around Warhammer Fantasy regimental formation for my taste. They're not bad models, but I'd rather they got a refresh to bring them in line with the appearance of AoS like the Start Collecting Chaos Warriors did.

When I started AoS I thought, cool, my skellies don't need to be regimented. Awesome! I'll have lots of dynamic poses, with the spears pointing every which way. Individually they looked cool but in a block of 40... man, what an absolute chore, with spears getting stuck in ribcages and all sorts. Flogged the lot, rebought them, and build them all regimented.

Well article on Curse City: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/04/your-first-look-at-warhammer-quest-cursed-citys-skeletal-ulfenwatch/

But my focus was on these cool as hell skeletons:

And people said Ossiarchs were the end of regular skeletons. Those are utterly awesome skeletons!

Wow those are cool. Why is this a side game and not a full army, GW? -_-

Maybe skeletons like these will be with the vamps

Yeah, these are cool. Good continuation from the Underworld skeletons.

Danny76 wrote:
Maybe skeletons like these will be with the vamps

One can only hope.

 Tiberius501 wrote:
Wow those are cool. Why is this a side game and not a full army, GW? -_-

I mean, GW's sidegames are always more fun to play than their main fare cause they're actually allowed to create fun rules and not need balance that much so nothing much is lost

Though I think the skeletons currently, along with the grave guard, are really nice. So they don’t need it.
(Look at the massive skeletons before them, it was such an improvement).
That was something we (as everyone knows ten times o,ver) that we needed with the Zombies more than anything.

Danny76 wrote:
Though I think the skeletons currently, along with the grave guard, are really nice. So they don’t need it.
(Look at the massive skeletons before them, it was such an improvement).

They were an improvement, with one caveat- assembly is a pain. Their one contact point is the spine, and the shoulders aren't great either. They're rather fiddly and fragile models.

This is purely a guess but I could see Quest having a 10-man (ETB?) sprue each of skeletons, zombies and ghouls and maybe whatever the fourth faction is like the Chainrasp and Necron Warriors got. Update a bunch of Death battleline all at once and justify remastering old units by sneaking them into a board game production slot.

These skellies are so cool. Unreal work.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This is purely a guess but I could see Quest having a 10-man (ETB?) sprue each of skeletons, zombies and ghouls and maybe whatever the fourth faction is like the Chainrasp and Necron Warriors got. Update a bunch of Death battleline all at once and justify remastering old units by sneaking them into a board game production slot.

The zombies we are getting are too themed around the garden area it seems like they’re coming from in the game.
Not sure they’d work as generic (or multiple sprue buys etc), going by the video.

The ideas good, but really I only see zombies as needing a sprue upgrade out of all those.
Some of the others aren’t the best but not sure they warrant a whole new sprue..

Danny76 wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This is purely a guess but I could see Quest having a 10-man (ETB?) sprue each of skeletons, zombies and ghouls and maybe whatever the fourth faction is like the Chainrasp and Necron Warriors got. Update a bunch of Death battleline all at once and justify remastering old units by sneaking them into a board game production slot.

The zombies we are getting are too themed around the garden area it seems like they’re coming from in the game.
Not sure they’d work as generic (or multiple sprue buys etc), going by the video.

The ideas good, but really I only see zombies as needing a sprue upgrade out of all those.
Some of the others aren’t the best but not sure they warrant a whole new sprue..

The new zombie design may just be an attempt to differentiate them from skeletons/bonereapers etc, like they did with the ghouls around 7th. It drives home the risen dead angle and drastically changes the silhouette.

Danny76 wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This is purely a guess but I could see Quest having a 10-man (ETB?) sprue each of skeletons, zombies and ghouls and maybe whatever the fourth faction is like the Chainrasp and Necron Warriors got. Update a bunch of Death battleline all at once and justify remastering old units by sneaking them into a board game production slot.

The zombies we are getting are too themed around the garden area it seems like they’re coming from in the game.
Not sure they’d work as generic (or multiple sprue buys etc), going by the video.

The ideas good, but really I only see zombies as needing a sprue upgrade out of all those.
Some of the others aren’t the best but not sure they warrant a whole new sprue..

'Garden Zombies' I can believe as being GW's OCDONOTSTEAL type on Zombies in order to differ-for-the-sake-of-difference. Arguably the presence of the Skeletons debukes that argument, but at least the Skeletons have a certain armour design to them. Zombies you can take basically anything you want, paint some decayed skin/blood and bam, zombies.

Yeah true.
It does make sense.

And when GW make stuff super unique, it does normally mean great sculpts (even ones not to my taste, the detail etc is all intricate and such).

Garden Zombies?

Don't you mean Treerot Boneshamblers? Or Mossblade Fleshwalkers?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Garden Zombies?

Don't you mean Treerot Boneshamblers? Or Mossblade Fleshwalkers?

I just want a little zombie garden Gnome I don't care what he's called.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Garden Zombies?

Don't you mean Treerot Boneshamblers? Or Mossblade Fleshwalkers?

Plants vs Zombies has never sounded better

Oh short story by the way:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/05/broken-realms-fiction-the-golden-son/

Oh and probably one of the cheesiest lines:

‘Greetings!’ the beautiful death grinned, unsheathing a silvered rapier. ‘Rejoice, for I am about to murder every last one of you!’

Heh that line was pretty bad. Still a fun little short.

Fits with the character - he is a dick

Sigvald is my new AOS hero..Hes corny AF and I love that

I am quite disappointed that the story had Sigvald counting 66, 67, 68 AND THEN SKIPS AHEAD A FEW NUMBERS

Come on GW. Let Sigvald joke

Well I think Sigvald has probably some of the better one liners saved for Nagash.

'Cause of the whole mirror thing or what not.

I mean it’s something I would say.

Hedonits and Daughters up

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/02/07/sunday-preview-devotees-of-divine-excess-and-murder-collide/

Expensive week next week methinks.