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Mmmm. Alternative Thanatar!


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Also, plastic Lucius on the left? 40K. marine. Whip. Lucius, yeah?

Lol the forgot to put HH or Legions on the list of games then very clearly show the Thanatar with the big laser.

Classic GW.

Hey it looks like Tim the Enchanter in the middle as well.

It’s definitely 28mm, or whatever, as that Automata is already out for Epic scale.

Accidentally put this comment into the wrong thread:

The first silhouette could be a new grotesque, but that doesn't fit the release schedule, so maybe it's an EC unit with chem injectors.

The legs and the whip-like tendril fit EC pretty well.

Almost lost my gak over lack of HH and then I saw the obvious Thanatar

The Worm is cool, 50% it's Sylvaneth 50% it's Necromunda

Tim is probably a Beastman shaman for ToW? Am I remembering right that they got squatted in AoS and stay in ToW?

Far left is indeed Lucius. In the video you get an unmistakable spin of him.

The first shilhouette has a fleshy whip in one hand, a scimitar in the other and pipes/tubes on its back.

It's absolutely an updated Lucius the Eternal.

The leftmost one is 100% Lucius the Ethernal, the lash gives it away. His stimulant pack is actually from Commorragh, so it would make sense to look like the ones on grotesques.

Suprised we also get what looks like new Black Knights for AoS. Grave Guard were pretty much a given after the warband release and rumor engine picture, but this is a nice bonus. Kinda wierd since the old kit shares a sprue with Hexwraiths, so I they can’t really retire it.
With previously leaked mounted vampire, the Soulblight wave is shaping up to be pretty substantial.

 Gert wrote:
Lol the forgot to put HH or Legions on the list of games then very clearly show the Thanatar with the big laser.

Classic GW.

Hey it looks like Tim the Enchanter in the middle as well.

The article says "here’s a taste of what’s to come in 2025…" so these silhouettes may not all be related to LVO

When I saw the whip yep first thought was plastic Lucius for EC.

That Mechanicum likely Thanatar variant looks big.

Beastman shaman would be cool. The Old World did have some wizards magicians recently.

The wormy thingy ma jig looks like it's base is huge.

Far right image, is that undead cavalry? Helm looks like bat wings which reminds me of undead or vampire even but it's holding a lance?

Lucius was my immediate assumption given the whip (and the colour panel choice). To be fair, most of these are relatively obvious; the question is more for which game system. Ad-mech Robot for (probably) 30K, Beastmen Shaman for Old World (that base is square), bug thing for (probably) Necromunda and skeleton cavalry for AoS.

(addendum; I'll take a punt on the bug thing actually being for the Ash Waste Nomads as they're probably getting their own book and more options at some point, just as the Squats have).

I guess based off that skeletal knight, we'll soon find out if that white dwarf vampire lord was a conversion or a real model

Bug Thing doesn’t seem to have the standard Necromunda base.

Could be Ash Waste or Sump basing though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Bug Thing doesn’t seem to have the standard Necromunda base.

Could be Ash Waste or Sump basing though.

My guess is Ash Waste and the Nomads are getting their own book (as the Squats have).

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

I'm going to guess: Lucius, the other Thantar, Beatmen Special Character for the Old World, Necromunda thingie, new Soulblight Gravelord new character for their new book.

Honestly I was surprised that GW didn't just put the other build option with the current Thantar - same for the transport for Mechanicum.

Interesting to see them do two larger kits as fully separate when they include the majority same parts. In the past they'd have done them as fully 1 kit with parts.

Hopefully they also tease some of the tanks for Mechanicum as they are gone from the store now.

Interesting silhouettes...

40K: Emperor's Children.
AOS: Soulblights
Necromunda: Sewer centipede creature?
TOW: Orc shaman?
Black Library: Dunno, don't care.
Heresy? Not part of the line up but that does look like a Thanatar, unless 40K Emperor's Children have their own such units? Thousand Sons have the odd Automata in 30K, unless I'm mistaken?

...unless there's a last minute mention of a new Warhammer Quest game, or Space Hulk, I won't be counting the days. I'll wait for the next bus...

The gun part is very party on the released Thanatar, and it is pretty choncc.

 xttz wrote:


The article says "here’s a taste of what’s to come in 2025…" so these silhouettes may not all be related to LVO

Was wondering that myself.

EC and Dark Mech Thanatar eh?

Would much rather see more DKoK or Assault Terminators to be honest

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Tim is probably a Beastman shaman for ToW? Am I remembering right that they got squatted in AoS and stay in ToW?

It's on a square base(you can see the corner), so Beastman for ToW definitely.

I wouldn't be surprised if GW wants to retire the Black Knight/Hexwraith dual kit, bring both units more in line with their new faction aesthetics

The "Bray-Shaman" feels like a fake out, seeing as Beasts already have a plastic kit for it, and as far as special character shamans go, it's pretty uninspiring compared to Malagor and Morghur from a decade or two ago respectively. We've already seen the Amber Wizard/druid sculpt though, so I don't know what a Tim the Enchanter sculpt would be for

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if GW wants to retire the Black Knight/Hexwraith dual kit, bring both units more in line with their new faction aesthetics

The "Bray-Shaman" feels like a fake out, seeing as Beasts already have a plastic kit for it, and as far as special character shamans go, it's pretty uninspiring compared to Malagor and Morghur from a decade or two ago respectively. We've already seen the Amber Wizard/druid sculpt though, so I don't know what a Tim the Enchanter sculpt would be for

Could be the skull headed Shaman character that never got a model from the 7th ed book.

SamusDrake wrote:
Interesting silhouettes...

40K: Emperor's Children.
AOS: Soulblights
Necromunda: Sewer centipede creature?
TOW: Orc shaman?
Black Library: Dunno, don't care.
Heresy? Not part of the line up but that does look like a Thanatar, unless 40K Emperor's Children have their own such units? Thousand Sons have the odd Automata in 30K, unless I'm mistaken?

...unless there's a last minute mention of a new Warhammer Quest game, or Space Hulk, I won't be counting the days. I'll wait for the next bus...

Definitely a Beastman for TOW. The Orc's already got a new shaman model, with that cool river troll guy.

SamusDrake wrote:
Interesting silhouettes...

40K: Emperor's Children.
AOS: Soulblights
Necromunda: Sewer centipede creature?
TOW: Orc shaman?
Black Library: Dunno, don't care.
Heresy? Not part of the line up but that does look like a Thanatar, unless 40K Emperor's Children have their own such units? Thousand Sons have the odd Automata in 30K, unless I'm mistaken?

...unless there's a last minute mention of a new Warhammer Quest game, or Space Hulk, I won't be counting the days. I'll wait for the next bus...

It's been strongly rumoured that Thousand Sons will be getting an Automata unit in 40K with their Codex update.

 Gert wrote:
Lol the forgot to put HH or Legions on the list of games then very clearly show the Thanatar with the big laser.

Classic GW.

Hey it looks like Tim the Enchanter in the middle as well.

I thought the same...but when they do it 3 times seems a bit unbelievable as just being a mistake? The video didn't mention it, the text descrption doesn't mention it, and the preview image with the games doesn't mention it Not even a "and more" to imply it.

There’s nothing corrupted nor Chaotic about the Thanatar silhouette. What at first look could be skulls hanging around the groin is instead the power cabling for the Graviton Ram mounted in place of the right hand.

I'd bet on that Thanatar being a Thousand Sons one more than a HH model too.

(Also partly because I think the TS codex will release before the EC and they are not going to show the whole EC range here - it would be weird if they go with three very big range refreshes almost in a row and then have lots of codexes for the rest of the edition that are just going to get a single model or two).

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if GW wants to retire the Black Knight/Hexwraith dual kit, bring both units more in line with their new faction aesthetics

It's not that old a kit and whilst its a duel kit shared over two armies; the designs still fit in the armies themselves.
If they were replacing stuff that sticks out oddly then Soulblight have:

The Corpse Cart - worked great in Old World when most Vampire armies were freshly dug up and running rampage through innocent regions and were often led by some wildmad necromancer - however the organised formal armies of modern AoS Vampires really wouldn't have something so crude rumbling around in their armies.
Grave Guard just stand out as looking really old next to new Skeletons
Zombie Dragon/terrorgast - servicable but old and with 2 models and shared across 2 armies plus a mounted hero build it would be a tall order to replace it with multiple kits or even a big combined.
Coven Throne (and other builds) really stands out as odd in Soulblight now since it rides on a team of ghosts and there are no ghosts left in the army; and the vampires on it are "short" by modern vampire standards.

It's definitely the Heresy Thanatar, the colors are army themed and it's not in a Thousand Sons color.