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**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

What evidence is there this is being done to a specific schedule, I counter?

Whilst, as ever, I can’t say what I do? Dragging it out, for the sake of sustained attention is absolutely a solid part of human psychology.

**Bob Lorgar**

Kanluwen wrote:
OK_E is commenting that there's one more thing we have yet to see/know about, and that it "runs through walls and is red"...

Oh No!
Oh No!
Oh No!
Oh Yeah!

Kool-Aid Man is a World Eater? Who knew?

**crumby_cataphract**

The only things I can think of are juggernauts. Didn't they just recently get a plastic kit?

Maybe it's a new type of dreadnought?

**Lord Blackscale**

As soon as I saw the leaked image it brought to mind a excerpt from a Darth Vader comic.

Rebels: You are surrounded!
Vader: All I am surrounded by is fear, and dead men.

Works better if you read the Vader part in the proper James Earl Jones voice and cadence.

**Shakalooloo**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
A thought occurs for when Fulgrim gets his turn…just how visually distinctive will he be from Morathi?

He does have an extra pair of arms over her, so has double the number of pointing options he can display.

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vim_the_good wrote:
I love the model and am looking forward to painting him. I don't get why there is a power armour port on the wing arm though. Would they not have developed during the ascent to deamonhood?

The wings are his real, original arms, and the handy things gripping his weapons grew as part of his daemonic mutation / ascension!

**H.B.M.C.**

Ok, proper pictures. Love 'im! He's great.

**Twilight Pathways**

crumby_cataphract wrote:
The only things I can think of are juggernauts. Didn't they just recently get a plastic kit?

Maybe it's a new type of dreadnought?

It's a juggernaut. Someone on Reddit responded to Ok_E "Picturing Vinnie Jones saying "Don't you know who I am?"" (a reference to his stint as Juggernaut in X-Men) and Ok_E responded in the affirmative.

Whether it's a single disco lord juggernaut that someone mentioned earlier in the thread, or a new multi-model unit, remains to be seen.

**ZergSmasher**

Shakalooloo wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
A thought occurs for when Fulgrim gets his turn…just how visually distinctive will he be from Morathi?

He does have an extra pair of arms over her, so has double the number of pointing options he can display.

I'm mainly wondering how, if Fulgrim now has a snaky body, he's going to put one foot on his Games Workshop-issue tactical rock and be a proper Warhammer (TM) model. He doesn't even have feet! Maybe that's why EC are stuck just being special snowflakes in the CSM book; they've got to figure out how to put their Primarch on a tactical rock!

**H.B.M.C.**

Is there any fluff behind the big sword Angron has now?

**Garukadon**

Nothing’s changed with the player base here I see. Always something to be unhappy about.

Angron looks too much like a bloodthirster? So what? -the model looks awesome!

Angron with a bunch of bloodthirsters on the table would look like an AoS army, which I think would look great.

**Starfarer**

The fact that Miniac got kicked out of the Horus Heresy event for showing a heavy weapons add on for a kit that was already fully showcased, just 2 days before the official release indicates that GW does not have an internal leak strategy. They wouldn't be so reactive to minor influencer leaks if that were the case.

They've also apparently cancelled external play testing over the continued leaks. This would indicate the leaks are genuine and GW simply has a mitigation plan in place for such leaks by having reveal videos prepped ahead of time. Not surprising based on the consistency of leaks

**chaos0xomega**

I don't love Angrons head, the big goofy square jawline doesn't look right with how angular and pointy everything else is.

Kanluwen wrote:
OK_E is commenting that there's one more thing we have yet to see/know about, and that it "runs through walls and is red"...

The Kool Aid man?

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is there any fluff behind the big sword Angron has now?

Yes, its mentioned in a couple of the HH novels. IIRC he gets it when he becomes a daemon prince and dumps Gorechild for it. Forget its name.

**ArcaneHorror**

I somehow doubt the Lord Discordant rule, as that's basically describing a cool conversion shown in the White Dwarf article. I am wondering though, what kind of unique Chaos Lord we'll get, like how the Death Guard got the Lord of Contagion in the beginning.

**BorderCountess**

ArcaneHorror wrote:
I somehow doubt the Lord Discordant rule, as that's basically describing a cool conversion shown in the White Dwarf article. I am wondering though, what kind of unique Chaos Lord we'll get, like how the Death Guard got the Lord of Contagion in the beginning.

Who says you will? The Thousand Sons just got different flavors of Sorcerers.

**ArcaneHorror**

Manfred von Drakken wrote:
ArcaneHorror wrote:
I somehow doubt the Lord Discordant rule, as that's basically describing a cool conversion shown in the White Dwarf article. I am wondering though, what kind of unique Chaos Lord we'll get, like how the Death Guard got the Lord of Contagion in the beginning.

Who says you will? The Thousand Sons just got different flavors of Sorcerers.

The Thousand Sons don't have Chaos Lords at all the in the traditional sense. Their sorcerers are their lords.

**Daedalus81**

Manfred von Drakken wrote:
Gonna have to agree on relation to mortal form. Magnus and Mortarion are both easily recognizable compared to their mortal selves.

Angron just looks like yet another Bloodthirster, and I feel like there's already too many of those.

Thing is...he's a Bloodthirster in a WE army. I would agree if he was getting slotted in with Daemons, but as his own distinct presence in that army he does well.

**tneva82**

MinscS2 wrote:
Magnus does not look like a Lord of Change.

Mortarion does not look like a Great Unclean One.

Why does Angron have to look like a blinged-up Bloodthirster?

If GW had announced this as a new Special Character BT, no one would've batted an eye.

I really want to like it - because it's freaking Angron! But I can't...

Blame the artist who drew angron like decade+ ago.

**Carlovonsexron**

Garukadon wrote:
Nothing’s changed with the player base here I see. Always something to be unhappy about.

Angron looks too much like a bloodthirster? So what? -the model looks awesome!

Angron with a bunch of bloodthirsters on the table would look like an AoS army, which I think would look great.

By complaining about the complainers, you're feeding into the cycle!

Just let other people dislike it as much as you do like it- it doesn't really matter either way.

**Dudeface**

Starfarer wrote:
The fact that Miniac got kicked out of the Horus Heresy event for showing a heavy weapons add on for a kit that was already fully showcased, just 2 days before the official release indicates that GW does not have an internal leak strategy. They wouldn't be so reactive to minor influencer leaks if that were the case.

They've also apparently cancelled external play testing over the continued leaks. This would indicate the leaks are genuine and GW simply has a mitigation plan in place for such leaks by having reveal videos prepped ahead of time. Not surprising based on the consistency of leaks

Mike Brandt replied to the reddit thread on the playtesters to confirm that there are still external playtesting groups and that some testers had been rotated in/out for various reasons.

**gigasnail**

Looking spicy.

**Albertorius**

He looks OK. Like a Bloodthirster. Which he is, so...

Eh.

**Bosskelot**

Starfarer wrote:
The fact that Miniac got kicked out of the Horus Heresy event for showing a heavy weapons add on for a kit that was already fully showcased, just 2 days before the official release indicates that GW does not have an internal leak strategy. They wouldn't be so reactive to minor influencer leaks if that were the case.

Well, no, it was also the fact he paid someone else to paint the models he was meant to be painting for the event.

**Carlovonsexron**

Would anyone have known that at the time before he got kicked out?

**Dudeface**

Carlovonsexron wrote:
Would anyone have known that at the time before he got kicked out?

Nah, it was definitely for leaking the reveal early imo.

**Dr. Mills**

My first ever proper 40k army was a Khorne Berzerker force, used to love shoving a land raider up the middle and dumping a squad of the crazy bastards into the heart of an army, fun times...

To relive those heady days of 1998 again would be fantastic!

**a_typical_hero**

Angron looks too much like a generic Bloodthirster or Demon Prince to me and not enough like a Primarch.

Mortarion and Magnus have more personality in their models.

**SicSemperTyrannis**

Definitely going to get him. Really love the model. I think he is so beefy he will stand out even in a group of Bloodthirsters.

**Dr. Mills**

a_typical_hero wrote:
Angron looks too much like a generic Bloodthirster or Demon Prince to me and not enough like a Primarch.

Mortarion and Magnus have more personality in their models.

To touch on this, I think it was a good design decision to make him resemble a generic bloodthirster. Isn't the bloodthirster the ultimate avatar of Khorne (unless the lore I'm thinking of isn't correct/me forgetting) so essentially a mortal, albeit a genetically enhanced demi human becoming one is the ultimate end goal of a Khorne desciple?

Also, the lack of personality might be a sly nod to Angron himself. Because let's face it - after his unwanted rescue by big Emps, all he did was Get angry, sulk, kill things, get angry, kill his own troops, get angry go on genocidal rampage to make worlds compliant, get angry and force his troops to get butchers nails too.

Oh, and get earth shatteringly ass blastingly super duper cray cray ANGY.

**Garrac**

A thing to note here: the Bloodthirster touch was allways Angron's design.

Is it weird they didn't decide to retcon it? Maybe, but it's his classic design.

**Geifer**

I wouldn't even say that Angron looks like a generic Bloodthirster. Bloodthirsters have a particular style of armor that combines with a largely bare body. Angron has visible legion and Marine styling to his armor, seems to have leg armor, that piece on his back, and tubes and wires. I'd call him reasonably distinct from Bloodthirsters, to be honest.

Any similarity is just down to Khorne's preferred look being generic rage demon, which both of them sport. Bulging muscles, red skin, ugly mugs, that sort of thing.