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Given the wood is clearly meant to be carved, rather than a splintered branch? Could it be a burning idol or some kind, either on fire as an act of sacrilege, or part of the ritual whatever?

Not a clue! I mean it’s obvious a drill. But beyond that, no idea.

Death Korps Engineer Mole Launcher

I'm only too happy to go with the ice-cream serving machine suggestion.

What is that thing that looks like George from Rainbow, but carved out of stone sitting on the top? Chaos Dwarves and that's a rock sprite or something?

Some Votann dude has random floaty rocks don't he?

New rumour engine picture is a pretty much identical match for the Leagues of Votann cthonian beserk Mole Grenade.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Some Votann dude has random floaty rocks don't he?

Only because he/she is a psyker (grymnr have options for both)

LavuranGuard wrote:What is that thing that looks like George from Rainbow, but carved out of stone sitting on the top? Chaos Dwarves and that's a rock sprite or something?

Flip the image top to bottom and it makes more visual sense

Mentlegen324 wrote:New rumour engine picture is a pretty much identical match for the Leagues of Votann cthonian beserk Mole Grenade.

This. ^^^^^

The lump on the new image could be a Mole Grenade's 'tactical rock'

Seems like it is supposed to be debris being flung out by the emerging mole projectile?

Hopefully it's the mole launcher but a proper artillery piece.

 Haighus wrote:
Seems like it is supposed to be debris being flung out by the emerging mole projectile?

Yeah, I thought it was the gun muzzle at first but someone on Bolter pointed out the little pile of rocks matches one on the mole grenade launcher shell tokens. So it looks like its a shell emerging from the ground, probably an artillery scale mole mortar.

Still looks like a Moomin perched on the back though.

Well, we were right about it being a turkey and a pie. Halfling kill team

 GaroRobe wrote:
Well, we were right about it being a turkey and a pie. Halfling kill team

Technically not the KT, but the holiday model.

But yes, pie and turkey

Close enough

I couldn’t see the preview because the new website is terrible

To be fair, while not the KT, they did mention in the stream they would have rules to be used in a KT scenario.

Are you sure it isn't a holiday sandbag?

I think this might have been the first rumour engine I was more-or-less correct

 Haighus wrote:
Are you sure it isn't a holiday sandbag?

I think this might have been the first rumour engine I was more-or-less correct

You think the Imperium is going to waste good sand on holiday morale? Thats an avian shaped Soylens Viridiens patty at best.

So who's going to rub that in Kan's face?

Already have. Not directly, but during the stream I said

Oh look.

A sandbag.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
So who's going to rub that in Kan's face?

What was really hilarious was not just how hilariously wrong he was (not like it was first time, he did it before say claiming for years a picture of 3 bog standard Reivers was really a mystic preview of something completely different only he was 'smart' enough to decipher) but how confident it was. It really takes chutzpah to see something that is a picture of X with 99.9% certainity and not just insist it was Y, but bet on it being 0.1% chance so hard to attack multiple people calling them dumb for not seeing it

Mutilators making a return? Definitely technological and Chaos. But too fleshy for 30k Dark Mechanicum?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
But too fleshy for 30k Dark Mechanicum?

Oh I wouldn't put that past the Dark-mech. Still, mutilators seems a good call insofar as it fits perfectly well with them.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


Mutilators making a return? Definitely technological and Chaos. But too fleshy for 30k Dark Mechanicum?

Emperor's Children. The text even goes out of its way to call it "art".

Very solid chaos heavy melee vibe. The question is what on?

Mutilators is probably the best guess, but what about demon engine or hellbrute? Or demon prince? Getting bigger then power armor, but how big?

I'm going to guess some kind of Death Guard possessed. The vent on the fleshy cable at top is like those on the Lord of Virulence (and other factions but LoV came to mind first). DG also have a lot of "teeth protruding from ceramite" touches on models.

We also have the automata looking bits from earlier. Sadly all the links in my OP are broken, and I frankly cannot be arsed to fix them.

The lack of length is reminding me of the Armigers to be honest.

It would also be a fair shout for world eaters being a nasty looking chain weapon.

The article states "This limb clearly takes influence from the Vashthaus school of postmodern design", so I'm guessing some buddy for Vashtorr.