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Well, that's a nice surprise for DoK players. I don't recall any rumormongers mentioning a new unit or terrain piece.

Nice that its not just a character and tome!

Just thinking they'd make for very nice Howling Banshee kitbashes.

I can't look at these without thinking of the irony in how it took GW decades to finally figure out anatomy only to go and make witch elves that wear clothes and heavy armor.

I hope this results in a spearhead with kits I want, because I've always wanted some of those Witch Elves but never been able to bring myself to pay what GW charges for them. If they put them in a decent discount box I might finally do it.

 Da Boss wrote:
I hope this results in a spearhead with kits I want, because I've always wanted some of those Witch Elves but never been able to bring myself to pay what GW charges for them. If they put them in a decent discount box I might finally do it.

The spearhead shown in the article has a unit of Witch Elves, a Cauldron of Blood and the Khaine warband for Warcry.

I'm surprised that the blood hags don't have an alternate build. It'll be a pretty spase set of sprues.

Oh, thanks! I am still adjusting to always clicking the link in these threads - back in my day there was no glossy promotional website for yer rumours!

But I'm no fan of that Cauldron model sadly. Maybe I can think of something to do with it for Dark Eldar or something....

 Shakalooloo wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
I hope this results in a spearhead with kits I want, because I've always wanted some of those Witch Elves but never been able to bring myself to pay what GW charges for them. If they put them in a decent discount box I might finally do it.

The spearhead shown in the article has a unit of Witch Elves, a Cauldron of Blood and the Khaine warband for Warcry.

I'm surprised that the blood hags don't have an alternate build. It'll be a pretty spase set of sprues.

I was thinking about that. The regular already have daggers and whips as alternatives. What else could you give on top of spears?

Well, you could make them grenadiers. Rats have poison covered, but that easily leaves shrapnel for the faction that loves to cut things. Would even go well with the leather and metal armor to protect against... mishaps.

Seems a bit..techy for them? I think the most advanced thing they traditionally use is hand crossbows.

Honestly I'd love to see a unit of regular cavalry for them - witch aelves on horses (or other mythical beasty) should be a thing. Doomriders are ok but they are basically designed to be elite support not regular cavalry.

What surprsies me more though is that GW has made DoK front and centre in a lot of the lore so far with AoS and they've also clearly had good sales with them; yet they've not touched them with the hero-spam at all. Which is odd - DoK seem to be in this popular but not overloaded with releases slot.


Also surprised they didn't replace the Cauldron - granted that would mean making 4 or so hero models; a monster (the avatar) and a cauldron to replace it.

I have almost talked myself into that Spearhead by realising I could use the Cauldron parts to do a Dias of Destruction for my Dark Eldar...

But I'd need to buy an extra box of incubi...

 Overread wrote:
Honestly I'd love to see a unit of regular cavalry for them - witch aelves on horses (or other mythical beasty) should be a thing. Doomriders are ok but they are basically designed to be elite support not regular cavalry.

What surprsies me more though is that GW has made DoK front and centre in a lot of the lore so far with AoS and they've also clearly had good sales with them; yet they've not touched them with the hero-spam at all. Which is odd - DoK seem to be in this popular but not overloaded with releases slot.


Also surprised they didn't replace the Cauldron - granted that would mean making 4 or so hero models; a monster (the avatar) and a cauldron to replace it.

They haven't really been front and center since 2nd/3rd, with the Morathi goddess plotline. They've definitely gone to the backseat since then. But rather than more standard cavalry, i'm still looking for a scorpion Scathborn. Let's have a half witch/scorpion with a glaive that can act as a cavalry equivalent.

What about both - both is good!

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Seems a bit..techy for them? I think the most advanced thing they traditionally use is hand crossbows.

Making things go boom isn't much of a technology, and less so for a faction that owns a City of Sigmar Khaine Morathi.

But I imagine it would be based on canned magic anyway rather than technology.

In the lore stories they've got a bunch of artillery that throw fire and other things.

AoS has this insanely strange disconnection between the model lines and the lore. Lore wise the Cities of Sigmar are full steam punk like warmachine levels of technology - if not even greater.
However we just don't really see that level of tech anywhere except with the Khadorans and considering how insanely mercenary they are you'd expect a LOT of factions to be rocking around with explosives, machines and so forth.

If anything Sylvaneth should be an outlier with just all nature based forces; whilst Seraphon should be rocking with LOADS of star-trek style sci-fi quirky equipment.

I'm amused you meant to say Kharadron and got stuck in the Warmachine comparison.

 Da Boss wrote:
But I'm no fan of that Cauldron model sadly. Maybe I can think of something to do with it for Dark Eldar or something....

For mine, I stuck a sail on the top, some of the OG raider hull on the underside in place of wheels, and got myself an even more awkwardly shaped Raider.

 Platuan4th wrote:
I'm amused you meant to say Kharadron and got stuck in the Warmachine comparison.

Darn GW and PP for having such similar fantasy names on things

Those new elite Witch Elves are fantastic.

 Overread wrote:
In the lore stories they've got a bunch of artillery that throw fire and other things.

AoS has this insanely strange disconnection between the model lines and the lore. Lore wise the Cities of Sigmar are full steam punk like warmachine levels of technology - if not even greater.
However we just don't really see that level of tech anywhere except with the Khadorans and considering how insanely mercenary they are you'd expect a LOT of factions to be rocking around with explosives, machines and so forth.

If anything Sylvaneth should be an outlier with just all nature based forces; whilst Seraphon should be rocking with LOADS of star-trek style sci-fi quirky equipment.

Everything in all GW games has disparity between what they have in the fluff against what's on the table top. (Unless you're space marines in which case you get everything, twice, with yearly redoes). Cities are going to get all that and more if there's even an ounce of truth to the current rumour mill.

FYI the Ossiarch dice seem to have come back into stock on the main site.

Issues 6-10 of Spearhead are up on Forbidden Planet. Time to finally make that meme Prosecutor list a reality.