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After seeing the new Direchasm expansion for underworlds, one thing in particular popped out to me. The new warbands are not another Stormcast Warband and another Warband for an existing faction, but two new warbands for two factions that have yet to see support in Warhammer Underworlds. I did a bit of looking, and there are a few factions yet to see support in underworlds. Here is my list:

Cities of Sigmar

Idoneth Deepkin

Ossiarch Bonereapers

Sons of Behemat

I don't believe that they will add SoB to Underworlds. That would be like adding Imperial Knights to Kill Team. Aside from that, I see no reason why the other three factions have no support.

I dont see any Seraphon.....

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
I dont see any Seraphon.....

Two previews ago GW teased a skink for the Direchasm Seraphon warband, so it's coming.

E3DD wrote:

Sons of Behemat

I don't believe that they will add SoB to Underworlds. That would be like adding Imperial Knights to Kill Team. Aside from that, I see no reason why the other three factions have no support.

That's actually not *entirely* true. White Dwarf actually had a bonus warscroll card and game mode to field a Chaos Gargant in Underworlds, so you can almost technically say that there already is a SoB in the game.

E3DD wrote:
After seeing the new Direchasm expansion for underworlds, one thing in particular popped out to me. The new warbands are not another Stormcast Warband and another Warband for an existing faction, but two new warbands for two factions that have yet to see support in Warhammer Underworlds. I did a bit of looking, and there are a few factions yet to see support in underworlds. Here is my list:

Cities of Sigmar

Idoneth Deepkin

Ossiarch Bonereapers

Sons of Behemat

I don't believe that they will add SoB to Underworlds. That would be like adding Imperial Knights to Kill Team. Aside from that, I see no reason why the other three factions have no support.

IDK has been in it from month 1 of Warcry, OBR had theirs for awhile now, and CoS just got theirs a few months ago.

The OP is talking about Underworlds, not Warcry. Totally different games.

Idoneth Deepkin and Ossiarch Bonereapers seem like the obvious missing pieces. Cities of Sigmar always felt like a Grand Alliance book that exist only to keep some existing models on life support. I don't think that GW has any plans for them unless they are going for a total range revamp.

I am not familiar with recent AoS lore but from what I have understood, Goblin Skypirates and Soulblight Vampires have been hinted in the fluff. I am not sure how they would fit in the Underworlds setting though. Other than that, maybe Undivided Chaos warband?

There is an undivided chaos warband, godsworn hunt. All of the chaos armies have a faction represented, or rather will once diregasm gets its release.

As others have mentioned it's just Cities, Idoneth, and OBR after that (obviously omitting Sons). However that is only in terms of battletomes; there are some allegiances and army sub-themes that are not represented. Bonesplittaz are perhaps the most notable, and Soulblight are another. Both are armies that can reasonably be added to the list.

Stormcast don't have a vanguard chamber option, odd since that would be the chamber most likely to be deployed for this sort of thing. Khorne, Nurgle, and Slaanesh don't have any daemons. Skaven have a large number of unrepresented options; Skryre, Pestilens, Moulder, and Eshin could all make for excellent warbands. A necromancer & zombies band for Legions of Nagash would fit right in. Finally, Mawtribes have a choice from the beastclaw side of things but not one from the gutbuster side.

Also worth nothing that Cities of Sigmar is an absolute gold mine of potential choices, as warbands could be based off different cities and contain completely different options.

Finally there is the potential for warbands from unreleased armies, we have one for Gitmob Grots after all.

While I wouldn't play them, goblin skypirates sound rather epic. It would be a wasted opportunity to not exploit that.

 ingtaer wrote:
The OP is talking about Underworlds, not Warcry. Totally different games.

Oh crap your right, i was half asleep and didn't notice.

Must use opportunity for a new Soulblight vampire and a couple of human followers/thralls.
The Bonereapers would be interesting as well
The new Shadowstalkers look perfect for it.
A Warlock Engineer affiliated with Ikrit could have some ...wonderful toys.
Deepkin have good posisbilities
Necromancer and risen dead
A Moulder Beastmaster hiding behind a Rat Ogre
Scourge Privateer and her crew (Please make it look like Arika Zenth)

 Charistoph wrote:
While I wouldn't play them, goblin skypirates sound rather epic. It would be a wasted opportunity to not exploit that.

Grotbag Scuttlers have been mentioned across multiple publications at this point; it is only a matter of time.

I think that a lot of fun could be had with idoneth, plus i'd be on board with some more neat looking flying fish with the figures.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Charistoph wrote:
While I wouldn't play them, goblin skypirates sound rather epic. It would be a wasted opportunity to not exploit that.

Grotbag Scuttlers have been mentioned across multiple publications at this point; it is only a matter of time.

Careful; Cathay, Araby, Nippon and a few others were mentioned a lot in Old World and of them none got an army. Araby got one in Warmaster and the Amazonians did appear in Mordhiem and I'm sure a few others did too. Undersea nyads have also been mentioned a few times for Sylvaneth as a counterpart undersea army of the Everqueen, yet we've not seen a hint of such appear for her forces let alone a second themed army.

 Overread wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Charistoph wrote:
While I wouldn't play them, goblin skypirates sound rather epic. It would be a wasted opportunity to not exploit that.

Grotbag Scuttlers have been mentioned across multiple publications at this point; it is only a matter of time.

Careful; Cathay, Araby, Nippon and a few others were mentioned a lot in Old World and of them none got an army. Araby got one in Warmaster and the Amazonians did appear in Mordhiem and I'm sure a few others did too. Undersea nyads have also been mentioned a few times for Sylvaneth as a counterpart undersea army of the Everqueen, yet we've not seen a hint of such appear for her forces let alone a second themed army.

Well Nippon and Amazons did have army lists back in 2nd ed and faded in 3rd.....

but agreed there are alot of possbilities for alot of cool stuff in the lore - if they want to make them.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
. All of the chaos armies have a faction represented, or rather will once diregasm gets its release.

Im excited for the DireCHasm release with the Slaaneshi Warband, but.. probably not as much as you are..

 Overread wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Charistoph wrote:
While I wouldn't play them, goblin skypirates sound rather epic. It would be a wasted opportunity to not exploit that.

Grotbag Scuttlers have been mentioned across multiple publications at this point; it is only a matter of time.

Careful; Cathay, Araby, Nippon and a few others were mentioned a lot in Old World and of them none got an army. Araby got one in Warmaster and the Amazonians did appear in Mordhiem and I'm sure a few others did too. Undersea nyads have also been mentioned a few times for Sylvaneth as a counterpart undersea army of the Everqueen, yet we've not seen a hint of such appear for her forces let alone a second themed army.

Well, I see that as being a rather different case. The Old World was a rough analogy to the real world and those factions were basically just space fillers to put something on those continents. And the early editions of WHFB were decades ago, too old to be of relevance for reference now. The nyads are indeed mentioned but not as a multi-realm faction with plentiful armies, and I note we already have an Order undersea faction.

Grotbag Scuttlers are put in direct competition with KO in multiple books, and their origins are even touched on in the Gloomspite book. Their theoretical niche is one that Destruction has nothing in, and Destruction is low on the army count to boot. Hints of them have increased over time, originally just being a single line of fluff in the first edition KO book. And it does not take a community genius to know that even halfway-competent goblin sky pirates would sell so fast and hard we'd need another Slaanesh release.


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 porkuslime wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
All of the chaos armies have a faction represented, or rather will once diregasm gets its release.

Im excited for the DireCHasm release with the Slaaneshi Warband, but.. probably not as much as you are..

I don't play with Slaanesh toys, so this new box coming is not something I particularly desire. But I am pleased to see others getting their excitement up!

NinthMusketeer wrote:Well, I see that as being a rather different case. The Old World was a rough analogy to the real world and those factions were basically just space fillers to put something on those continents. And the early editions of WHFB were decades ago, too old to be of relevance for reference now. The nyads are indeed mentioned but not as a multi-realm faction with plentiful armies, and I note we already have an Order undersea faction.

One thing I thought that would be interesting was Araby was said to be utilizing elementals in their army such as the equivalent of djinns and ifrits. These are possibilities to explore using Underworlds and WarCry to see if there would be interest in developing further.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:


Stormcast don't have a vanguard chamber option, odd since that would be the chamber most likely to be deployed for this sort of thing.

The Vanguard Chamber is represented in Underworlds. Look up the Farstriders. Seems some warbands are not sold anymore under the underworlds name, yet are still purchasable as units for AoS.

 Segersgia wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:


Stormcast don't have a vanguard chamber option, odd since that would be the chamber most likely to be deployed for this sort of thing.

The Vanguard Chamber is represented in Underworlds. Look up the Farstriders. Seems some warbands are not sold anymore under the underworlds name, yet are still purchasable as units for AoS.

Ah, yup, totally forgot about them. I was wrong on that one, thank you for the correction sir.

The beastgrave novel mentioned a Skaven Packmaster/Giant rat/Rat Ogre warband, and Harpies, so either of those would be cool to see!

We've got no Bonesplittaz warband yet either.

 Segersgia wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:


Stormcast don't have a vanguard chamber option, odd since that would be the chamber most likely to be deployed for this sort of thing.

The Vanguard Chamber is represented in Underworlds. Look up the Farstriders. Seems some warbands are not sold anymore under the underworlds name, yet are still purchasable as units for AoS.

Correct, the season one warbands got 'retired'. But since they're, as mentioned, units for AoS...they keep the models available.

Cities of Sigmar I think will end up separated into different warbands. There's only so many factions to milk in AoS and we're quickly approaching most of them being completed, and you can only 'reimagine' S1 warbands so many times. So we could see an Order of Azyr warband, a Black Ark Corsair warband, maybe a mercenary/treasure hunter warband made up of a human, dwarf, elf, etc.

 Arbitrator wrote:
Cities of Sigmar I think will end up separated into different warbands. There's only so many factions to milk in AoS and we're quickly approaching most of them being completed, and you can only 'reimagine' S1 warbands so many times. So we could see an Order of Azyr warband, a Black Ark Corsair warband, maybe a mercenary/treasure hunter warband made up of a human, dwarf, elf, etc.

Any of those warbands would be great but there are still quite a few different elements - see Soulblight, Skaven Clans, Deepkin, Bonereapers,

Various interesting people from the many Cities of Sigmar in the Shadespire novel

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

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 porkuslime wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
All of the chaos armies have a faction represented, or rather will once diregasm gets its release.

Im excited for the DireCHasm release with the Slaaneshi Warband, but.. probably not as much as you are..

I don't play with Slaanesh toys, so this new box coming is not something I particularly desire. But I am pleased to see others getting their excitement up!

I was commenting on your word that I highlighted.. misspelling for the win

 porkuslime wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

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 porkuslime wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
All of the chaos armies have a faction represented, or rather will once diregasm gets its release.

Im excited for the DireCHasm release with the Slaaneshi Warband, but.. probably not as much as you are..

I don't play with Slaanesh toys, so this new box coming is not something I particularly desire. But I am pleased to see others getting their excitement up!

I was commenting on your word that I highlighted.. misspelling for the win

So this release does not arouse your interest? Unfortunate that you took this line of discussion to bed that way, I'll have to get my blue dice.

I like to see some Cities Warbands

jullevi wrote:
Idoneth Deepkin and Ossiarch Bonereapers seem like the obvious missing pieces. Cities of Sigmar always felt like a Grand Alliance book that exist only to keep some existing models on life support. I don't think that GW has any plans for them unless they are going for a total range revamp.

I am not familiar with recent AoS lore but from what I have understood, Goblin Skypirates and Soulblight Vampires have been hinted in the fluff. I am not sure how they would fit in the Underworlds setting though. Other than that, maybe Undivided Chaos warband?

I mean, this pretty much called 4 of the 5 unknown warbands in the end that were still unknown at posting.
Add in savage Orcs instead of goblin sky pirates and all set!