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And there is the unridden dragon that I had forgotten about, along with Cado + Friends :

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ij1em2mz/cado-ezechiar-and-the-beast-of-castle-sternieste-bare-their-fangs/

I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

They're the reverse of Sauron's ring. When worn, it's the rings that become invisible.

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

Yeah, been bothering the heck out of me since they revealed the model.

Now when I buy this kit, I'll be compelled to try to sculpt them with some green stuff, which will end in disaster as all my sculpting endeavors seem to end.

 nels1031 wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

Yeah, been bothering the heck out of me since they revealed the model.

Now when I buy this kit, I'll be compelled to try to sculpt them with some green stuff, which will end in disaster as all my sculpting endeavors seem to end.

Or just use the old sculpt which does have the rings, infuriatingly.

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

That's because he's not wearing them on his fingers.

Laughing Man wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm amused that they keep referencing Cado's rings... when he isn't wearing any on this sculpt.

That's because he's not wearing them on his fingers.

Slaanesh approves!

Have they done a "how to play" article before? I don't remember. Also nice to see coach get a bit of attention.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/fnoewkgp/how-to-play-soulblight-gravelords/

I feel like its something they've done many times before but in smaller segments or with a different title. Still neat to see for newbies and drops a few more hints for established fans.

Still super eager for tomorrow and the pre-order going live

I have a feeling this one will be a sellout tomorrow.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I have a feeling this one will be a sellout tomorrow.

Perhaps.

I didn't get into it too deep, but I heard the Battletome(or relevant parts of it) have been leaked and its pretty underwhelming. TGA had some screenshots and people weren't too thrilled from what I gathered. Not sure if the youtube reviewers have started putting up videos yet though.

I'm not going out of my way to pre-order one, but the release date coincides with a commission paycheck, so I might grab one for funsies if my shop gets any in excess.

edit: and as I posted this during my lunchbreak, I went to TGA and the newest post in the rumor thread is an Honest Wargamer vid. I'll have to check it out later.

I'm 100% on pre-order for this. New models all look awesome and this set will pair well with the new spearhead in giving a big chunk of new skeletons and riders.

I find that with previews of stats there's always people underwhelmed but then again they are often looking for "I win" stats on a few models that just makes them broken powerful and easy to use. Or they are looking at a few leaked stats and not taking the army's combos and internal support into account

 Overread wrote:
I'm 100% on pre-order for this.

I probably would as well if I hadn't gone hard into Gitmob, and before that, Darkoath.

Always love me some skelly minis.

I almost went all in on Darkoath and I'm still very tempted, but my StD is basically side project of my Slaanesh who still have loads to add too and I've got soulblight properly started off so I figured I'd just have to wait for Darkoath otherwise its too much

I watched the video. He didn’t seem too terribly impressed with a lot of the stats. There does seem to be some entertaining synergy.

I honestly don’t have a baseline to judge what “normal” is in modern AoS. But I think it looks like it could be fun.

Interesting to see that the Corpse Cart is gone and the Bloodseeker Palanquin, and yet the other two builds from that latter kit are present. Perhaps hinting that GW will replace the 3 kit with a duel kit version in the future.

Corpse cart I'm not sad to see gone even if its quite a classic; it just never felt right in a modern vampire army in AoS since they really aren't basically peasant mages skulking in the woods hiding from people.

 Overread wrote:
Interesting to see that the Corpse Cart is gone and the Bloodseeker Palanquin, and yet the other two builds from that latter kit are present. Perhaps hinting that GW will replace the 3 kit with a duel kit version in the future.

Corpse cart I'm not sad to see gone even if its quite a classic; it just never felt right in a modern vampire army in AoS since they really aren't basically peasant mages skulking in the woods hiding from people.

Cart is still in. And there are 2 giant floaty things Coven throne? I didn’t pay too much attention to them, as they are not my jam, but still there

Ahh no wait both are in there - I missed them as they didn't get "auto tagged" and are just comments on pages next to things.


So that means the army basically only lost the Underworld sets (shame some of those had some cool models) and all of the Cursed City stuff barring the 3 separately sold named heroes. Expected but still sad to see some of the beasties lost.

 Overread wrote:
Hmm I must be missing the cart - and there's 3 giant floaty things capable of being built with the kit

Technically, there's only 2 builds of that kit. The third was them just using different parts of the two previous builds in a different way to invent a third.

Sad, but not shocked to see a lot of the Cursed City stuff go. A lot of fun models, and a lot of the only “modern” soulblight I have finished painting at this time.

I still hope/expect we might see one or two of them return as regular models. We have seen GW do that for some of the models in the 40K equivalent.

I'd expect the heroes to be lost, though many of them can stand in as generic necromancer/vampirelord/ leader of an infantry squad.

But things like the giant bat monster; the half-feral vampires and perhaps even the ravens/mice I could see returning in the future. Certainly the first two - one as a single beast kit the other as perhaps a larger than 3 models elite infantry kit. Perhaps a Spearhead or Underworlds band update.

WAIT I just realised - no terrorgast :(

Well i'll take that as a guarantee FEC are getting a brand new one.

I assumed that when they did the new dragon - was just surprised they didn't do them side by side. Of course GW has done odd things in the past - eg updating a huge number of Necron models and then not touching the destroyer and destroyer lord yet making an entirely new destroyer class of model.

Or the baffling choice to give tyranid Warriors a brand new prime that has wings for a unit that - has no wings


So who knows perhaps the new Terrorgast is 3 years away!

Well considering FEC's are "on the horizon", i'd expect it to be their new centrepiece in the next 6 months or so.

What happened with the generic Lord on zombie dragon option in the end then?

He's retired from service

Well damn, already gone off the main site. Always confuses me when that happens, but the third parties still have stock with an actual discount.

Yeah sometimes I think its cause GW breaks their webstore stock down a bit into waves. So it seems to go out of stock very fast but then comes back a little later for a bit.

3rd parties just do one wave. That said I know that a good few 3rd parties are now doing "one per customer" and probably review shipping locations to ensure one person isn't just making a bunch of alt accounts.

So it could just be GW are selling out faster cause there's more people buying more than one pack.



Got my order in! So now just to wait for shiny models to arrive

Two big German online stores still have stock of both boxes (i.e. German and English). While the English one might sell out over the next few hours at one of them (it lists 37 remaining as of now), the German one is unlikely to do so (131, with only a few more about two hours ago).

It is hard to compare releases, since we do not know the total amount of boxes produced and provided for 3rd party retailers, this feels similar to the EC box. That one also felt like being extremely popular and "will sell out in minutes" with boxes in both German and English actually still being available at the two stores above - and at 20% off.

 Overread wrote:
Yeah sometimes I think its cause GW breaks their webstore stock down a bit into waves. So it seems to go out of stock very fast but then comes back a little later for a bit.

Yeah, seems like Blood and Zeal is back in stock on the new releases page right now.