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I get more of a Skitarii vibe from that maul.

I bet it goes with the model in this pic

My money is more on a return of the female Inquisitor model:

The bionic power armoured leg is similar in design to her armour (though the knee is a different design, but the foot matches), and the maul is similar in shape.

 The Power Cosmic wrote:
I bet it goes with the model in this pic

I doubt it. That looks like it is the back side of book guy from day 2.

Redone lady inquisitor is a possibility, maybe an ordo mallets character to go with greyfax's heretics and Kyra's xenos. At that point, I would like to see some Male inquisitors in plastic though, oddly enough. Some more imperial guard female characters to go with the psyker would be kinda nice. Lady-officer of the fleet or astropath?

I would love if these weren't characters at all and part of some sort of Inquisition or Ecclesiarchy warband/unit or something.

I'm pretty bored with GW saying they support the Inquisition by releasing a named character in plastic every three years. Same with Guard for that matter.

 Sabotage! wrote:
I would love if these weren't characters at all and part of some sort of Inquisition or Ecclesiarchy warband/unit or something.

I'm pretty bored with GW saying they support the Inquisition by releasing a named character in plastic every three years. Same with Guard for that matter.

OK, tie all these rumor pics together and we got vampire inquisitor with goulish henchmen and possibly zombie-guardsmen

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 The Power Cosmic wrote:
I bet it goes with the model in this pic

I doubt it. That looks like it is the back side of book guy from day 2.

And if this armor dude does get a mace, it'll probably be the super ornate Echlisiachy one we saw near the beginning, compared to the less ornate rumor from yesterday. Actually forgot that the blackstone fortress priest has a mace, though it doesn't look like the rumored one

Day 19 looks like the same mini as the hammer

That could be any of: Skitarii Alpha/princeps, Sigmarite Witch Hunter, Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunter, or gun squig. How to decide?

That arm plus the hammer absolutely screams vampire hunter. Looking forward to being disappointed.

 DaveC wrote:
Day 19 looks like the same mini as the hammer

I'm betting AOS on that one. Like a crossbow.

Chikout wrote:
That arm plus the hammer absolutely screams vampire hunter. Looking forward to being disappointed.

One of the things to note is that Sigmar has effectively his own 'Inquisition' called "The Order of Azyr". It has elves, dwarves, humans, and Stormcast within it.


The elf assassin there is a member of the Order of Azyr. It would be an interesting development for the Devoted of Sigmar subfaction to evolve into the Order of Azyr.

Perhaps its finally a big update of humans for AoS - they are one faction that needs a big update to their line and have really suffered a lot (Bretonnia is gone and Empire is mostly shattered)

Definitely AoS, and definitely the way GW design crossbows for AoS.

Order of Azyr is a cool concept, but I feel it's distinct enough from Devoted of Sigmar for both to co-exist. It's not very sporting to keep dropping these predictions on Warcry, but if Order of Azyr does come to pass in miniature form, I'd hope it's more of a warband sized matter compared to a full on army.

I'm hoping that hand and ranged weapon's stock belong to a human.
We really don't have any more average good guy human types.

Which is a really weird thing for me to say as I'm usually more than happy to dial the fantasy past 11.

Vampires and vampire hunters (via Order of Azyr as others have mentioned) would be a cool thing. Tie them to the Cities as well ?

Perhaps a new Underworld warband? Easy way to test the waters.

Vampire vs Vampire Hunters box for something would make me nut


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Although sadly i imagine it will be years before we get a reveal of anything

I'm starting to think that they're mixing both Inquisitor/Ecclesiarchy stuff *and* AoS witch hunter(s) to confuse.

The plainer hammer and crossbow (?) with the almost S-shaped firing mechanism looks would be ace for a Fantasy dude.

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
Definitely AoS, and definitely the way GW design crossbows for AoS.

Order of Azyr is a cool concept, but I feel it's distinct enough from Devoted of Sigmar for both to co-exist. It's not very sporting to keep dropping these predictions on Warcry, but if Order of Azyr does come to pass in miniature form, I'd hope it's more of a warband sized matter compared to a full on army.

Honestly, Order of Azyr isn't even something that works as 'warband sized'. They are individual agents, acting with the authority of Sigmar himself.

Them getting added to Cities of Sigmar with the Devoted keyword would be aces now that Warrior Priests got removed. Order of Azyr inquisitors/agents would be an interesting concept to explore as Cities of Sigmar oriented characters since we have yet to see any Cities of Sigmar specific characters. The list is still kind of a mess with regards to who helps who and what unlocks what, but getting Devoted Aelf, Duardin, and Human generals/retinue options as Order of Azyr would go a long way towards making it feel more AoS than just Old World++.

Ah, that makes more sense. Somehow misunderstood your comment initially

Wonder if that quiver is related to them. Not sure how well fancy arrows (quarrels?) work for a crossbow, but hey, its fantasy

I think the fantasy vampire/witch hunters (whatever they are) would also be a Warcry faction and not Underworlds as we have seen this seasons roadmap and all the war bands are pretty accounted for. Could be for the next season I suppose, but it’s not too often we see rumors with lead times of a year, though it does happen occasionally.

I'd be surprised if they put this much marketing behind Underworld. Not that its a bad game, its just not the mainstream main studio focus game.


Even Warcry, at this stage, getting that much marketing would be a surprise, though I fully expect to now see most factions get one warband in the game (with variations on how they translate over into the main game - already the DoK have a team that's more elite in style).


So I'd be expecting something mainstudio which means core AoS armies if there's stuff there for AoS. Of course there's a lot of old-world style gothic tech and designs in 40K so it can muddy the waters and some things that might appear old might be fancy futuristic tech.

Witch hunter warband for warcry. Or better yet a black stone fortress type game with witch hunters and all sorts of bad things.

 Theophony wrote:
Witch hunter warband for warcry. Or better yet a black stone fortress type game with witch hunters and all sorts of bad things.

I think it's exactly the latter. A dungeon crypt type game with vampire hunters vs undead etc. The next BSF series.

I’d be up for that!

Yeah, I would be pretty over the moon the see a Warhammer Quest style game focused on Witch/Vampire Hunters versus Undead/Vamps. That pistol picture from August 25th really seems to match up with the aesthetic of today's rumor and the hammer.

On a separate note there GW is releasing A LOT of rumor pictures in a short period of time. I'm wondering what they means for their preview and release schedule (though admittedly a lot of these look to be from the same minis). Maybe we will get some sort of reveal Christmas day or on New Years? I'm guessing the full Slaanesh reveal on Christmas maybe? It just seems like there must be a lot that got pushed back since we still have quite a few rumors from the first half of the year.

 Sabotage! wrote:
Yeah, I would be pretty over the moon the see a Warhammer Quest style game focused on Witch/Vampire Hunters versus Undead/Vamps. That pistol picture from August 25th really seems to match up with the aesthetic of today's rumor and the hammer.

On a separate note there GW is releasing A LOT of rumor pictures in a short period of time. I'm wondering what they means for their preview and release schedule (though admittedly a lot of these look to be from the same minis). Maybe we will get some sort of reveal Christmas day or on New Years? I'm guessing the full Slaanesh reveal on Christmas maybe? It just seems like there must be a lot that got pushed back since we still have quite a few rumors from the first half of the year.

Watch them reveal all those on Christmas 2021

Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor.

 Sabotage! wrote:
Yeah, I would be pretty over the moon the see a Warhammer Quest style game focused on Witch/Vampire Hunters versus Undead/Vamps. That pistol picture from August 25th really seems to match up with the aesthetic of today's rumor and the hammer.

On a separate note there GW is releasing A LOT of rumor pictures in a short period of time. I'm wondering what they means for their preview and release schedule (though admittedly a lot of these look to be from the same minis). Maybe we will get some sort of reveal Christmas day or on New Years? I'm guessing the full Slaanesh reveal on Christmas maybe? It just seems like there must be a lot that got pushed back since we still have quite a few rumors from the first half of the year.

I have my doubts that the advent version of the rumor engine follows the same rules as the normal one. The purpose of the latter, by and large, is to tease things outside the pre-release marketing window of three months that GW usually sticks to. Advent, obviously, is supposed to lead up to Christmas, and it would be very odd of GW not to reveal the teased models at or just after Christmas.

Even though the normal rumor engine and the advent rumor engine share the name and approach to publishing teasers, I don't think they interact with each other. One is seasonal that will be resolved shortly after the countdown is over, the other one keeps chucking on and doing what it's always been doing, just missing out on a few weeks while the seasonal one is active. If the last regular rumor engine picture were for a model that's still 6-9 months out, the advent version would afterwards still show off models whose reveal is impending and whose release will happen prior to the one from the regular rumor engine. That's my take anyway.

Side note, I certainly want that Slaanesh reveal for Christmas. And chocolate. And snow. But I won't hold it against GW if I only get the Slaanesh reveal.

Where is today’s??

Hope they’re not caught up in the Christmas postponing Tier 4 governmental u-turn!