Age of Sigmar N & R: AoS v3 and Dominion p.172.

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**NinthMusketeer**

tneva82 wrote:
NinthMusketeer wrote:
New Lumineth look pretty sweet. Shame it is a bit tainted by the shadow of how they double-dipped the army release. Really like the bolt thrower, and the twins, and the terrain piece.

Would have preferred no 2nd wave at all? As no way ever 30 or so kits at once would have been coming. Too much competing each other.

Besldes with app you don't need new battletome.

I think it would have been (in customer service terms) better if the first wave was delayed until the second was ready, even if that meant until now. To me it looks like GW gave people who liked Lumineth just enough time to build an army out of wave one, while being under the reasonable impression that the army would not be expanded for a couple years. Now someone who built 2k of wave one can be double-dipped to buy 1k of wave two, instead of 1k from each wave. I doubt it was planned out like an evil scheme, but I also doubt no one had an inkling as to what they were doing.

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drbored wrote:
The vampire release is pretty impressive. So far, everything that's been shown has been an update of an older kit, aside from Kritza.

Zombies, skeletons, vampire lord, wight king, blood knights... This makes me think that we're really only seeing the beginning, and that there's plenty more to come.

It could be that GW is planning on updating other kits, like the corpse carts an grave guard. Time will tell. Knowing their trend, I'd expect more all-new kits instead, and I look forward to seeing what they are.

Just going by the cover of the battletome, I'd expect dire wolves of some sort, and possibly even a blood dragon model. The dragon on the battletome doesn't have the same shape or look as the current zombie dragons, so we'll see.

Meanwhile, things like the zombie dragon, coven throne, necromancer, and many others were released near the end of WFB when vampires got a big update back then. They're decently modern kits, a little older than the Dark Eldar kits, IIRC. That said, they were designed during a different time, well before AoS, like poses that fit together on ranked square bases and such.

I guess we'll see what happens. Either way, I'm thrilled, I want to make a skeleton army lead by a vampire lord and wight king, themed in the Realm of Shadow!

I wonder if this is the start of seeing AoS designed after they made the decision to bring back the Old World. After all, some square bases and they will be ready to go...

**BertBert**

Are there any spare torsos and heads in current AoS kits? I'd rather build those blood knights to be all male, if possible.

**Cronch**

No.You might get a spare head if you're lucky, but the bodies and torsos are keyed together 90% of time.

**BertBert**

That's unfortunate. Here's hoping that bitzshops will be splitting a few of those kits.

**Arbitrator**

GrosseSax wrote:
Arbitrator wrote:

Vampires have mortal attendants and whole populations of living under their thrall, so I figure Necromancers will likely be baked in.

I'd love to see a subfaction and maybe a warscroll within the tome that utilizes a few human units (Freeguild militia, crossbows, great swords etc) so I can finally have my big daddy Vlad era Sylvanian themed army.

Mortals loyal to Nagash get mentioned enough that I'd love to see a living Death army, but I recall Phil Kelly saying that wouldn't happen. I could see it in the far off future, but only after Freeguild have been revamped.

**Overread**

The thing is the way AoS is built pretty much every race is in every realm (even Eightpoints). So you can have themed models for pretty much any of the factions.

GW will never create them all, but conversions are ripe ground. When GW revamps the human model lines you might well find ways to convert and paint them to create a "death human" army. Even something as simple as a paint scheme and then a few units swaps - eg using zombies instead of swordsmen as your basic warriors, can create a strong theme within an army.

**Agamemnon2**

I do find it amusing that after gog knows how many years of AoS, we're still no closer to them updating basic humans. I think they just can't think of an original enough of a twist to give them.

**ImAGeek**

Apparent UK prices for the Lumineth stuff:

**Kanluwen**

The shrine is remarkably cheaper than I expected.

**jaredb**

I Might have to get the Shrine, just as terrain for my table. It's an incredible looking model.

**ImAGeek**

Kanluwen wrote:
The shrine is remarkably cheaper than I expected.

Yeah, me too. Very surprised.

**lare2**

Agamemnon2 wrote:
I do find it amusing that after gog knows how many years of AoS, we're still no closer to them updating basic humans. I think they just can't think of an original enough of a twist to give them.

The humans in Cursed City are pretty cool. Judging by what they've done with them here I reckon, if they really wanted to, they could really be something special. I kinda get the impression though that, for now, AoS's narrative simply isn't driven by basic humans.

**DarkStarSabre**

Arbitrator wrote:
GrosseSax wrote:
Arbitrator wrote:

Vampires have mortal attendants and whole populations of living under their thrall, so I figure Necromancers will likely be baked in.

I'd love to see a subfaction and maybe a warscroll within the tome that utilizes a few human units (Freeguild militia, crossbows, great swords etc) so I can finally have my big daddy Vlad era Sylvanian themed army.

Mortals loyal to Nagash get mentioned enough that I'd love to see a living Death army, but I recall Phil Kelly saying that wouldn't happen. I could see it in the far off future, but only after Freeguild have been revamped.

If anything I could maybe see it functioning like the Cities of Sigmar do now.

Either have a City in Shyish able to take 1 in X 'Death' units or a faction able to take 1 in X Cities of Sigmar units as 'retainers'

**Tiberius501**

God I need everything from this newest wave of Lumineth, it’s all so beautiful! But... my wallet... *sigh*

Definitely getting the terrain this time though, freaking awesome.

**ingtaer**

Damn, I hope those prices are not accurate, should be getting the prices from a retailer later so will be able to confirm.

**Tiberius501**

ingtaer wrote:
Damn, I hope those prices are not accurate, should be getting the prices from a retailer later so will be able to confirm.

Comparing them to the current range they seem to be consistent. A pricey army this one haha.

**Kanluwen**

The only outliers seem to be the Temple of Wind cavalry and the mounted hero.

**Tiberius501**

Kanluwen wrote:
The only outliers seem to be the Temple of Wind cavalry and the mounted hero.

The banner bro is also an odd price to the rest but I guess he’s an odd scale being a small champ with a big banner.

**Overread**

Actually GW has been pushing cavalry up to the £40s for a while - new Exalted seekers are also in that bracket. Granted they ARE bigger than the original seekers, but it seems to be where GW wants to put cavalry right now. I'm actually pleased that the prices aren't higher than they are, they are expensive but in line with GW's recent offerings (Darn it now I'm happy that prices aren't rising but are still higher than ideal).

The Shrine is indeed a lot cheaper, even for overseas (far as I know most of GW's terrain and Endless Spells are overseas produced)

**Kanluwen**

The Hurrakan are strange, IMO, in that they look to be Dawnrider/Deathrider sized but priced in a bracket I cannot find a match for.

**Tiberius501**

Reckon there’ll be an article tonight for the Lumineth? I’m a little foamy for info.

**ImAGeek**

Kanluwen wrote:
The Hurrakan are strange, IMO, in that they look to be Dawnrider/Deathrider sized but priced in a bracket I cannot find a match for.

They’re the same UK price as the Dawnriders are.

**Overread**

Kanluwen wrote:
The Hurrakan are strange, IMO, in that they look to be Dawnrider/Deathrider sized but priced in a bracket I cannot find a match for.

Sickblades are £42 so perhaps £39.5 is GW reacting to some pressure that they were putting mount prices a little high?

**GaroRobe**

Theres no chance of it happening, but I'd be all over a Cities of Sigmar version of warcry. Different human groups from every realm would be so so cool

**tneva82**

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Typo? Or　named chars uberlance has just 1 attack? Model doesn't exactly look he should be better as shooter than melee like these　stats suggests

**Tiberius501**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/22/the-chosen-heroes-of-tyrion-and-teclis-are-here-and-their-weapons-are-ridiculously-good/

Lyrior’s Lance only getting 1 attack in melee must by a typo right? Haha. Or maybe he gets an ability or something... right?

**streetsamurai**

the pose on these two gymnasts is absolutely terrible. Sad since the one on the bottom is a really cool model (though separating them won't be too difficult)

**Tiberius501**

streetsamurai wrote:
the pose on these two gymnasts is absolutely terrible. Sad since the one on the bottom is a really cool model (though separating them won't be too difficult)

You’d only need to shave the foot connection off.

**Kanluwen**

Tiberius501 wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/22/the-chosen-heroes-of-tyrion-and-teclis-are-here-and-their-weapons-are-ridiculously-good/

Lyrior’s Lance only getting 1 attack in melee must by a typo right? Haha. Or maybe he gets an ability or something... right?

Betting his mount is kinda mean.

Also, he gets to fire his lance like a laser! PEWPEW!

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ImAGeek wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:
The Hurrakan are strange, IMO, in that they look to be Dawnrider/Deathrider sized but priced in a bracket I cannot find a match for.

They’re the same UK price as the Dawnriders are.

Well that's annoying! I did a sort by High->Low and the Dawnriders didn't even show up in there.

That's good to know though. $60 isn't too bad.

**Sotahullu**

Tiberius501 wrote:
streetsamurai wrote:
the pose on these two gymnasts is absolutely terrible. Sad since the one on the bottom is a really cool model (though separating them won't be too difficult)

You’d only need to shave the foot connection off.

Actually, I was thinking if I could make the mage ride a cloud above the warrior. Then they could share a base (I just hope its 40mm+ to make it work) and it would actually look cool.