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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
At the very least, i would expect a redone Epidemius. As i don't believe that rumour engine alluding to him has been solved yet.

Maybe Daemon Prince Festus, instead? He did get promoted during the End Times...

I'd expect a new prince model for Khorgus Khul, considering he ascended in the lore recently.

Having a blast with the Gitmob boxed set. Bought 2!

I got 4 Chariots built up in mostly unique ways (Driver and wolves are the only thing repeating), Sunchompa built and only the Snarlpack Cavalry to assemble tomorrow. Planning on bitzing out pieces of my second Sunchompa to make a converted Snarlboss in the future, though he’s huge.

Rather than bother with a swapshop thread: Anyone in the continental USA that wants my spare battletome+ cards, hit me up in private message. Pay shipping (paypal, UPS ground, amount to be determined) and its all yours. First come, first served.

Don't rub it in, mine hasn't arrived yet lol mostly looking forward to dicking around with placement of the gitz on the chariots. Seems like there's a lot of opportunity for amusing positioning.


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Maleneth and her book next week:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ndhfp4zl/sunday-preview-get-ready-for-the-black-library-celebration/

And she's limited stock, so buy her ASAP if you want her

Anyone know if these limited Black Library figures like Maleneth are they only from the GW website? Or from the Black Library website? Or are they even available from 3rd party online stores or Independent stores?

Never bought one before so I don't know and would rather know in advance before pre-order or release day if possible.

Usually they're available from third parties. Easiest answer would be to email the one you're planning to buy from and ask.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Usually they're available from third parties. Easiest answer would be to email the one you're planning to buy from and ask.

Ok, will do. Thank you

Maleneth is on the price list which means third party retailers can order her, price €34

She'll be the only "must have" that I pick up. Wouldn't mind the limited edition of her book, but I know those tend to sell out fast and cost a fair bit on top.

That was unexpected, a new Cado and friends:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/6i1kglij/the-blades-of-the-hollow-king-are-ready-to-draw-blood-for-the-soulblight-gravelords/

Those are all gorgeous in themselves... but I prefer them individually as painting projects.

Good sculpts

But not a big fan of special characters with fixed lore

Shame someone left a branch lying around for the middle one to trip over...

They are very nice.

(But also please make the Mortis Engine a ROR too...)

Soulblight will be a legion of special named characters!

ALSO they forgot his dragon!!!

Also I think that's our first actual human (who isn't dead) release for the Soulblight as the Soulblight, not one carried over from the Old World.

gorgeous models. in particular i like the necromancer guy. a different necromancer makes it easier to do soulblight with a different flavor, especially with what's her name last year

all in all, seems fun to paint

I have mixed feelings. The models look cool, but like:

* Why does Solia have a knife? She's his advisor, she's never used in combat and I don't think she'd be able to do anything if she could. She's just an invisible ghost advisor. He has other ghosts that actually can fight.

* Aurelias doesn't look like a frail "harmless" old man. I can't recall if he even had any fancy headgear, but this model just feels like a variation of that snake vampire lady

* Was Kennistrix a snake in the book? I thought it had one head on either end, and also, it wasn't a massive creature. It hung out around his neck most of the novel.

* The Regiment of Renown rules being only for Death feel off. Like its soulblight, I get it, but Cado consistently helps Cities of Sigmar. I can't see him allying with FEC (or bonereapers...), so it just doesn't feel very fluffy.

That's likely just branding and marketing - much easier to keep the grand alliances as separate as possible rules wise.

Most named characters often help or aid other factions and if you start going down that rabbithole you end up everyone getting into every army.

So its easier to just game-wise argue that if Cado is helping the CoS he's doing so via bringing a soulblight army to a battle rather than by walking in and helping just on his own.

Just thinking they'd make an excellent addition to the Crimson Court, as a full vampire-themed warband for other games.

I'd prefer the twin-headed snake and mage to be separate though, with the latter being converted.

Just an observation, but possible faction terrain in the back?

Naw likely just terrain - GW will throw things together with kit bashes or just 3D print something for terrain.

I also hope its not faction terrain because it looks big and stupidly big faction terrain is just unfun.

Skaven Gnawholes work great because they are small and fit on the table.
Ossiarch pledge temple thing is a nightmare because its freaking massive. You can't just "slip it onto the table"

A new Mausoleum is kinda sus when Soulblight is coming up and it is made from two copies of the same piece.

Early candidate for models of the year. Each one is stunning, taken together they're one of the nicest looking units in the game.

Little bit more about the season of Blacktalon.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/o6pveiyy/age-of-sigmar-animation-teaser-the-blacktalons-return/

Personally, i enjoyed the first. So looking forward to the second. Not really sure of the reason of splitting it in half over months however.

I suspect its because the next half is still in development and GW wants to have something now rather than wait even more months with no fresh animation content.

 flaherty wrote:
Early candidate for models of the year. Each one is stunning, taken together they're one of the nicest looking units in the game.

Nah, whatever Primarch is/was released will be model(s) of the year. Its tradition, I believe.

But yeah, they are great sculpts in a great overall army range. I'd say that aside from the Vampire Lord on foot with the weird flowing bat-hair, all of the Soulblight stuff has been stellar.

 nels1031 wrote:

 flaherty wrote:
Early candidate for models of the year. Each one is stunning, taken together they're one of the nicest looking units in the game.

Nah, whatever Primarch is/was released will be model(s) of the year. Its tradition, I believe.

But yeah, they are great sculpts in a great overall army range. I'd say that aside from the Vampire Lord on foot with the weird flowing bat-hair, all of the Soulblight stuff has been stellar.

If GW keeps the separation they introduced last year, Primarchs will have to be content with clogging the 40k and Other categories.

We can then vote the AoS model with the biggest hat to the top of the AoS category, as it was always meant to be. Sadly the average bigness of these guys' hats is severely lacking, what with them sharing a single hat between them. Good effort from the snake guy, but I don't think his team has his back.

Well your wishes for big hats may well be fulfilled sooner rather than later.

I certainly look forward to seeing how modern GW envisions Chaos Dwarfs. Are we expecting them this year?