Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

FEC Judge according to Whitefang over on tga.

That looks rough, not elegant. It appears to be made from a bone shaft with a bone cross piece and two real skulls impaled on the crosspiece as clubs. The whole thing being crudely held together by leather straps. The splitered ends on the shaft and crosspiece is what suggests bone to me.

I'd say Chaos, Orks, or Death. Orks seems unlikely based on the hand, and Death tends not to use crude bone weapons. The hand does look like Flesh Eater Courts however.

Maybe a new Chaos warcry team?

Probably FEC. It looks like it’s meant to be grandly decorated.

FEC, just hope that there is going to be a lot of cool stuff.

My guess is FEC. I checked the new leaked ghouls with halberds sprue and this hammer was not on it. Why do I bring this up? I think it points to multiple new FEC kits.

 KidCthulhu wrote:
My guess is FEC. I checked the new leaked ghouls with halberds sprue and this hammer was not on it. Why do I bring this up? I think it points to multiple new FEC kits.

Supposedly this is a "huge" release. Whitefang called the model wielding this the "judge".

FEC makes sense. Looks a bit rough though, would have guessed terrain myself.

By the way, has anone solved a rumour pic lately? Seem likes ages since a saw a solved one.

 Ohman wrote:
FEC makes sense. Looks a bit rough though, would have guessed terrain myself.

By the way, has anone solved a rumour pic lately? Seem likes ages since a saw a solved one.

I just looked it up, the last solved rumour engine where two for the Inquisitorial warband solved on the 1st of May so quite a while ago

Before that every we had a rumour engine solved every month since November 2021. And that was only a single month pause so three months now is quite a long time.

Over the whole lifespan of the rumour engine there where only 5 months without solving one which where:
11.2021
08.2021
06.2021
09.2018
06.2017

So three months in a row is quite strange.

Wonder if that was planned or if something went wrong?

It’s an Antler.

Could be FEC related. Super outside chance it’s Kuornoth for Stick Pixies. The drippy bits being the velvet coming off newly grown Antlers rather than anything manky.

Horns and slime could be nurgle. Or those new swamp orks.

Kurnothi or Ogres.

 Nevelon wrote:
Horns and slime could be nurgle. Or those new swamp orks.

With nurgle I would expect more decay than just slime so holes and pus. This seems more like some kind of fabric hanging off. Could very well be skin and for FEC
Also interesting are those spiderweb paint lines on the bottom of two of the horns. Doesn't seem to fit GW usual clean painting schemes

Blood Elves on Blood Stags.

Battle Moose!!! BAAAAATTLE MOOOOOOOSE!!!

It’s not, but I wish it was a shard of Kurnoth. The Old Stag appears in the novel Dark Harvest by Josh Reynolds and is so cool. A giant stag that’s also a tree, and somewhat resembles a man. Something along the lines of a sylvaneth version of the monster from the Ritual

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Blood Elves on Blood Stags.

I didn't know I wanted this until you said it and now I want it!

 GaroRobe wrote:
It’s not, but I wish it was a shard of Kurnoth. The Old Stag appears in the novel Dark Harvest by Josh Reynolds and is so cool. A giant stag that’s also a tree, and somewhat resembles a man. Something along the lines of a sylvaneth version of the monster from the Ritual

Worth mentioning that Whitefang has been dropping hints of Kurnothi this year as part of Dawnbringer.

There was also this:

Kurnothi actually means the sylvaneth/elf/(or even human maybe) worshippers of kurnoth

the fauns and centaurs are the one blessed by kurnoth to resemble some wild beasts

And some sylvaneth are also considered as kurnothi.

They feel like a natural way to expand the Sylvaneth range.

The Old Stag has weird tree dogs (because kurnoth had hunting dogs) but the sylvaneth in the book hate him and want to keep him asleep. Though spite tree revenants would probably love him

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
They feel like a natural way to expand the Sylvaneth range.

The big question is if they become part of Sylvaneth or if they stand adjacent to it as their own fully fledged army. There are pros and cons to both approaches

 Overread wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
They feel like a natural way to expand the Sylvaneth range.

The big question is if they become part of Sylvaneth or if they stand adjacent to it as their own fully fledged army. There are pros and cons to both approaches

Sylvaneth. As much as I'd like them to be their own army, I don't see it happening.

I would love to see Kurnothi finally make it to AoS proper. But they can join a long list of factions they have teased that I would love to finally see in plastic.

 GaroRobe wrote:
The Old Stag has weird tree dogs (because kurnoth had hunting dogs) but the sylvaneth in the book hate him and want to keep him asleep. Though spite tree revenants would probably love him

Only takes Alarielle to change her mind.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
The Old Stag has weird tree dogs (because kurnoth had hunting dogs) but the sylvaneth in the book hate him and want to keep him asleep. Though spite tree revenants would probably love him

Only takes Alarielle to change her mind.

The Old Stag wasn't Kurnoth.

"Dark Harvest" has an...interesting explanation of how this stuff works.


Old Stag was an "older god".

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


It’s an Antler.

Could be FEC related.

I'd wager it's this, honestly. They need another big model that isn't just the bat/dragon.

I’m thinking Preyton (or some undead flavour of same) – what better steed for a noble knight than a mighty stag?

That's a model I haven't thought of in a looong time, and it would work so well. Especially since the preyton's lore was that it looked like a stag and tricked Bretonnian knights into following them, so it could attack and eat them. Perfect for the FEC

I could see it running great as a beast for both FEC and Soulblight. Certainly for FEC it would be a very cool beasty!

I think it's about as useless and impenetrable as most Rumour Engine pics.

About the only thing we can say for certain is that it's not 40k related, and even that isn't assured.

I remember when GW teased some scales and everyone was convinced it was a fantasy model and likely a sign of an upcoming seraphon model.

It wound up being a huge space marine character wearing the skin of a dead lizard