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**Shadow Walker**

That cover is awful.

**Nostromodamus**

Rulebook cover has Sanguinius on it…

**endlesswaltz123**

That rulebook cover makes me so envious of what chaos daemons should actually look like... Non aligned but scary as feth chaos daemons would be so awesome.

**Lord Damocles**

It's a woman. That's what's important.

**Crimson**

Shadow Walker wrote:
That cover is awful.

It's pretty damn great cover. Properly dynamic, lots of detail, great composition and it has very nice feel of texture.

**Nostromodamus**

Boglins faction

**Shadow Walker**

So the Vamps vs Sigmarines box?

**Mr Morden**

Crimson wrote:
Shadow Walker wrote:
That cover is awful.

I's pretty damn great cover. Properly dynamic, lots of detail, great composition and it has very nice feel of texture.

Agreed - the first editon was not good, second was better and this is stunning.

So Stormcast vs Skaven or Shadow Daemons for the boxed set ?

**Marshal Loss**

Pretty lackluster preview considering it was the official announcement of a new edition. 40k one last year was a lot better

**Carlovonsexron**

NewCasts (which look pretty good!) vs either Skaven or Fimir

**Darkseid**

That cover looks rad

Lord Damocles wrote:
It's a woman. That's what's important.

High time, some diversity seaped into Warhammer

**Sabotage!**

I was watching without sound and was hoping for a CoS reveal after that little trailer.....

New Stormcast look nice, would have been nice to see the opposing faction too. Don’t know why they hyped this up as a mystery day. Could have just said AoS.

**grahamdbailey**

Bog, míre & fen all mentioned. Fimir are returning to AoS!

**ImAGeek**

I’m pretty damn happy, personally. Wish we’d seen some of the other force, but the new Stormcast look great and I’m glad it was AoS 3 and not more animations or something.

**Dendarien**

Not showing the other faction in the starter is lame. We know one would always be stormcast.

**Agamemnon2**

It felt weird to announce a whole new edition by showing off only 3 models somehow.

**Sotahullu**

So "new evil" = new faction? Nighthaunt was introduced at start of the 2nd edition so it easy to think they would something new.

As they talked about new edition based in realm of beasts I am going for it being new Destruction aligned faction.

**Sabotage!**

grahamdbailey wrote:
Bog, míre & fen all mentioned. Fimir are returning to AoS!

I would approve of this.

**Carlovonsexron**

grahamdbailey wrote:
Bog, míre & fen all mentioned. Fimir are returning to AoS!

If it is Fimir I will totally buy the box. at the moment I just plan on waiting for one or two of the new spear storm casts to show up on ebay, but I would reward the re-introduction of Fimir with a true purchase.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
*hpwever* as they say new "breed" of evil I somewhat suspect skaven. Which to those who love skaven, great. I'll buy some of those storm casts off you

**tneva82**

Sabotage! wrote:
I was watching without sound and was hoping for a CoS reveal after that little trailer.....

New Stormcast look nice, would have been nice to see the opposing faction too. Don’t know why they hyped this up as a mystery day. Could have just said AoS.

Forum goers aren't target for that. Non-knowing majority was

**ERJAK**

Nostromodamus wrote:
So glad we got an unnecessary new edition with yet more sigmarines instead of something like Epic or BFG…

The new edition is VERY necessary. Sigmar is pretty garbage at the moment.

**chaos0xomega**

Albino Squirrel wrote:
Those stormcast do look good. I hope they don't make them 50% women, though.

...why?

Also, I LOLed hard seeing Phil Kelly looking down his nose in the interview that was bizarrely filmed from 45 degrees below straight-on. If that was intentional, I give major props to whoever did it.

I thought that was bizarre, is he really tall or something?

Not showing the other faction in the starter is lame. We know one would always be stormcast.

Agreed. The whole Bog/Mire/Fen thing was also a pretty odd "hint", I can only assume its referring to Fimir as I can't think of anything else warhammer related that shares a close association with swampy landscape. IIRC AoS Fimir are Destruction, yes? Destruction could use some help.

**Wha-Mu-077**

That's a bizzarely reasonable look for the Stormcast. The spearmen look almost functional.

**chaos0xomega**

Carlovonsexron wrote:
grahamdbailey wrote:
Bog, míre & fen all mentioned. Fimir are returning to AoS!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
*hpwever* as they say new "breed" of evil I somewhat suspect skaven. Which to those who love skaven, great. I'll buy some of those storm casts off you

I mean, Fimir are kind of notorious/infamous for their old fluff about how they breed and reproduce....

ERJAK wrote:
Nostromodamus wrote:
So glad we got an unnecessary new edition with yet more sigmarines instead of something like Epic or BFG…

The new edition is VERY necessary. Sigmar is pretty garbage at the moment.

Sigmar is pretty awesome at the moment, I think its generally in a better place than 40k is. Not sure why you would think otherwise.

**lord marcus**

Sotahullu wrote:
So "new evil" = new faction? Nighthaunt was introduced at start of the 2nd edition so it easy to think they would something new.

As they talked about new edition based in realm of beasts I am going for it being new Destruction aligned faction.

sylvaneth.

new sylvaneth. mark my words.

Alarielle was already casting life magic mess in broken realms teclis

**Tim the Biovore**

Having a new Avatar of Destruction appear right before the new edition does lead me to believe that the faction opposed to the new Stormcast are going to be Destruction. It's also their "turn", as it were, to be the major villains, even if that's not how it works.

Kragnos needs something to stop him from sticking out like a sore thumb amongst all the other forces of Destruction, and the fact that the new Stormcast hero is a monster slaying specialist can only mean a monster-heavy enemy faction.

**ImAGeek**

The rumours on TGA for a while are a new destruction army somewhere between Orcs and Goblins, like hobgoblins or something. Similar aesthetic to the goblin wolf riders. Speculation is its them who made the little totem thing on Kragnos’s base.

**Vovin**

Skavenblight was surrounded by swamps.

**His Master's Voice**

Those new Stormcasts with their better proportions will make my hoplite conversion project so much easier.

The cover doesn't match the Soul Wars rulebook cover tho.

**DarkStarSabre**

grahamdbailey wrote:
Bog, míre & fen all mentioned. Fimir are returning to AoS!

FW Fimir were Destruction GA before they went OOP.

Also, the Bog, Mire and Fen limerick screams Fimir. It pulls direct from an old 4th ed Fantasy quote.

"We spent our honeymoon at the family's summer house by the sea. One morning, when taking the air along the bluffs, the mist closed in. It was suddenly calm and strangely quiet. Then, out of nowhere… Bog Daemons! Huge, one-eyed, barrel-chested brutes. I was sent crashing to the ground with a swipe of a tail. Another bundled Greta up and threw her over its shoulder. Then they just vanished into the mist, as swiftly and as silently as they had appeared. I swear that is Verena's own truth."
—Oleg Grauhof, Reiklander Merchant, shortly before being hanged for the murder of his wife

Bog daemons. Disappearing into the mist.

Fimir it is.

AoS is the perfect opportunity to write out their more troublesome fluff.