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 Perfect Organism wrote:
Another possibility could be one of next year's Warhammer+ exclusive figures. The current assassin is virtually a terrain piece with a figure attached.

Best guess so far.

Necron. Definitely Necron. Hyperphase Sword thing.

Agreed its strongly necron, with that "digitization" effect. Looks vaguely like a kopesh hilt, so I'd agree with the sword as well. .

Interesting that they have something lined up, given they had their big update already and are still the starter set "enemy" faction. Maybe its for a necron kill team for the next warzone set? Or as part of a mid edition update for necrons a la psychic awakening? I hope not the latter.

Could well be base decoration.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Could well be base decoration.

Yeah - something phasing out. Otherwise Kill Team or another exclusive character.

It's probably to replace one of the many finecast Necron named characters in a PA-style release, like with Szeras

I don't think that's a hilt, it's probably the bottom of a staff resting on the floor.

Probably some named Overlord.

I didn't really think Necron's would be getting anything else any time soon, but yeah, that's pretty obviously Necron. Maybe converting another character to plastic? But I dunno for what book - I can't see them getting another big appearance in a campaign book, they've already had one. Maybe Kill Team? I didn't think they'd be up imminently for that either tbh.

Necrons without any doubt.

Could it be?



Joking aside, while I also believe it is a Necron thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if its related to anything Eldar. For some reason, my first thought was Kyganil with this.

New plastic Nightbringer/Deceiver kit, built to the same scale as the Void Dragon.
And totally not just because people keep converting the Void Dragon model into Nightbringers and Deceivers.

 Segersgia wrote:
Could it be?



Joking aside, while I also believe it is a Necron thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if its related to anything Eldar. For some reason, my first thought was Kyganil with this.

Harlequin do also have that squary effect on some of their characters.

Necron Kill Team easy mode

Yeah, my brain went "Harlequin?" pretty quickly.

Wonder if it would be a model release for Oltyx, to be released with the 2nd book that we have confirmed already?

It is not the usual Harlequin tile effect. That consists strictly of squares. Tetris pieces, continuous areas and square holes are not harlequinesque, but match the Necron technomancer design language.
The top and bottom of the joint may be construed as Aeldari, but the middle again is decidely Necron.

Given that the article says something about "divining cryptic messages", I'm going with a new Orikan the Diviner model.

Energy effect makes sense given the lore for his empowered mode too.

Wonder if it would be a model release for Oltyx, to be released with the 2nd book that we have confirmed already?

The Indomitus Overlord is basically Oltyx.

ThatDraz wrote:
Wonder if it would be a model release for Oltyx, to be released with the 2nd book that we have confirmed already?

Confirmed second book?

The weapon design is definitely Necron. The pixel effect feels more Cryptek than C'tan though (plus neither of the C'tan has Necron weapons)

So either another named Cryptek, or possible a new Necron Kill Team leader, I'd say.

New Nightbringer, that there is a scythe coming out of necron digital effect.

Do we have all the 5th edition Crypteks back now or are we still missing one of them? If so could be that. The shaft looks too delicate to be c'tan-sized.

 Shadox wrote:
Do we have all the 5th edition Crypteks back now or are we still missing one of them? If so could be that. The shaft looks too delicate to be c'tan-sized.

We're missing Ethermancers, Geomancers, Astromancers and Biomancers

DreadfullyHopeful wrote:
Harlequin do also have that squary effect on some of their characters.

True, but the weapon itself totally look like a hyperphase necronblade.

IanVanCheese wrote:
Given that the article says something about "divining cryptic messages", I'm going with a new Orikan the Diviner model.

That's my bet, too. It'd be a nice two character kit with an empowered version of himself.

IanVanCheese wrote:
Given that the article says something about "divining cryptic messages", I'm going with a new Orikan the Diviner model.

To add to this it looks like the seperated part of the blade is supposed to represent orikans staff moving at a different time than the present.

Its sick honestly, I find the crypteks more interesting than the overlords.

I’d so laugh if it was something on the base of a Primaris Lt.

Its an Alpha Legion infiltrator stepping out of a Necron holo suit.

Looks like there was meant to be some new scenery out this year...pulling this from Warboss Kurgan.


Neeeeeeeeeeever mind. But it looks like we got a bit of a tease that this bird is still around:

Dunno, those trees don't look plastic to me. If that's the same bird, I'd sooner guess it was put there from an unreleased model as part of a scratch-built tree.

Yeah, I misunderstood what Kurgan was getting at.

I'd still like some new trees.