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It looks Generic Bronze/Early Iron Age to me really. Definitely not for any existing duardin faction in aos imo.

That's the halberd rumour solved, and as noted in the Cursed City thread, the rubble matches that on the base of the werewolf-ish foot and the key raven

One more thing - this rumour engine is really similar to the Cursed City skelly standard bearer's banner, but obviously not the same:


So I guess this will be a new skelly infantry box?

Yeah there probably won't be 2 banner guys in Cursed City, so a huge hint of a multipart skelly box in the same style.

Maybe even a cavalry unit, given the size and angle.

Maybe a new skeleton infantry box, more likely it would be a new unit type between Grave Guard and Skeleton Warriors.

Random guess is that is a second banner you can build within the box, to allow for a bit of variety.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yeah there probably won't be 2 banner guys in Cursed City, so a huge hint of a multipart skelly box in the same style.

Maybe even a cavalry unit, given the size and angle.

There's probably at least two units worth, depending on how hard of an enemy these things are meant to be. I'm kind of thinking they'll be set up not unlike the Renegade Psykers in Blackstone Fortress.

I guess there could be 2 banner builds but there's no way the box has 20 skeletons when there's 5 undead subfactions in there.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I guess there could be 2 banner builds but there's no way the box has 20 skeletons when there's 5 undead subfactions in there.

I'm guessing it's only four 'subfactions', not five.

There's five 'Overlords' listed, but only four are showcased around the map. The fifth would be the 'Big Bad', the Lord of Ulfenkarn himself.

So the obviously undead halberd ended up being undead, woweee

If that’s a gargant head it’s Probably a terrain piece or a big center piece mini

 DaveC wrote:
If that’s a gargant head it’s Probably a terrain piece or a big center piece mini

I think thats a ogre personally!

I think its a ogre rather then gargant.

Although I just wonder was the elf-earring put on before or after ogre died?


But anyway, the pole is just that bit ramshackle that it can be either undead or ork related.

Something for Cursed City?

Gruesome

Looking at this, there's a raft of Cursed City candidates from the rumour list: https://warbosskurgan.blogspot.com/p/rumour-engines.html#unsolved

This is Death. Orcs don't have the crossguard thing on their spears. Based on size I'd say more likely part of the upcoming AoS Death upgrade than Cursed City.

I keep bouncing between if its an ogor or gargant. An ogor seems more likely, but Gargant heads (at least the older kit) isn't that much bigger than a human head. It also has more neck than ogors usually get. Either way, it'll be confirmed when the model is shown off. No way they won't mention the massive head on a stick

It's got to be Cursed City, right?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
This is Death. Orcs don't have the crossguard thing on their spears. Based on size I'd say more likely part of the upcoming AoS Death upgrade than Cursed City.

That looks more like a bent nail than a crossguard, and the haft of the weapon has the stump of a branch on it. Looks like an improvised/homemade weapon; probably something from the "Zombie quadrant" of Cursed City.

The face looks more like the Gargant faces than Ogre faces. It also looks like the same harpoon looking Rumour Engine that we got a while back, but after its speared something.

The face of a giant yeah.
And now I am seeing a bent nail as opposed to a crossbar.

Though still looks undead to me.

That's going to be the same kind of weapon as this here, isn't it?

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
That's going to be the same kind of weapon as this here, isn't it?

Christmas Goblin Warband Confirmed.

Could also be an Ogryn. They have that slightly more rounded, 'dumb' look to them compared to Ogres I believe.

It’s very AoS rather than 40k though..

Danny76 wrote:
It’s very AoS rather than 40k though..

Maybe that's what they want you to think.

Theophony wrote:Christmas Goblin Warband Confirmed.

Now I hope it actually is a gargant's head, and the pikes are basically tree trunks carried by 3-4 gobbos each

Arbitrator wrote:Could also be an Ogryn. They have that slightly more rounded, 'dumb' look to them compared to Ogres I believe.

Interesting, but where would these fit in? Some kind of Cawdor heavy? Even LatD don't seem so feral/brootal.

After watching it a bit more properly it seems to me the kind of half blade under the Head it's in fact a kind of Banner tied to the spear.

And yes seems to be part of a theme with that Harpoon/spear rumour.

 Lord Perversor wrote:
After watching it a bit more properly it seems to me the kind of half blade under the Head it's in fact a kind of Banner tied to the spear.

And yes seems to be part of a theme with that Harpoon/spear rumour.

I don’t know what you mean half blade?

It’s heads atop a banner pole right?

 MobileSuitRandom wrote:
That's going to be the same kind of weapon as this here, isn't it?

Sepulchral Guard also has spears with long pointy nails

Death! Death! Death!

Would be nice if the gargant and aelf heads on the barbed spear is fishing gear.

I bet it's some sort of mini-boss for Cursed City or maybe Gravelords. It definitely looks like Death weapon/banner, and ogor and Aelf head.

Could be a banner for Blood Knights. It looks a bit ramshackle, but slaying gargants seems on par for what they can do