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 His Master's Voice wrote:
The spires in the background look like classic Dark Elf edgy architecture.

But also

 ImAGeek wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
If Salamanders are getting their own book, does that mean Vulkan is the next primarch to return?


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Also the imagery in the placeholder box for TOW is very directly lifted from Cathay artwork

In the More to Come box on the roadmap?

I’m an idiot, I was looking at the art like I’m not seeing Cathay, I can just see some TK skeletons… and I’ve just realised they’re from the background art coming through.


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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
But also

Yeah but it’s exactly the bit of art I showed of a FEC cover but cropped and B&W?

Fair point, didn't notice that until just now. Makes sense with the new zombie dragon they'd be soon as they need their new Terrorgheist.

chaos0xomega wrote:
If Salamanders are getting their own book, does that mean Vulkan is the next primarch to return?

I can only hope. I play many different Marine chapters, none of them are Salamanders. However, Vulkan is my favorite Primarch. I have an awesome 3rd party model of him I've been waiting to paint up.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Fair point, didn't notice that until just now. Makes sense with the new zombie dragon they'd be soon as they need their new Terrorgheist.

Haha fair. Yeah I hope that is what they’re getting, and I hope it’s half as good as the Zombie Dragon, I love that thing.

I think it's a must really. They can't really keep the dual kit now with the new dragon.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I think it's a must really. They can't really keep the dual kit now with the new dragon.

Unless the dual kit is just sold as a terrorgheist, but I hope not. I’m only worried because they had their decent sized range expansion fairly recently.

Dudeface wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:
In the far far future of 40k 10th there's no Votann then.

They're after more to come, they're in the "you gave up hope and we're out of time before the end of the edition" category.

Rolled into 11th... with my luck the end of 11th.

I was looking at all these nice models from LVO and maybe it's just me but feels like most miniatures are just over detailed and dont look fun to paint at all. Almost like the detail is added just for the sake of it.

 ImAGeek wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
If Salamanders are getting their own book, does that mean Vulkan is the next primarch to return?


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Also the imagery in the placeholder box for TOW is very directly lifted from Cathay artwork

In the More to Come box on the roadmap?

Yes, the box below beastmen/wood elves has faint artwork taken from the image below (you can see the overlaid image from the preview on it):

Who's the big chap in the background?

SamusDrake wrote:
Who's the big chap in the background?

A massive animated golem war machine. You can see them in the Warhammer Total War 3 game

Terracotta Sentinel.

https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Cathay_unit_roster

Whelp this is a FANTASTIC start to the year for me from GW - my wallet is hiding in a corner cowering at all the awesome that got shown off!

Soulblight getting a slew of utterly amazing looking models! New Zombie Dragon and Grave Guard models were 100% needed and expected and both look phenomenal! I was not surprised to see no Terrorgast alt-build for the new kit - splitting it off on its own is a good move as it lets the beasty be its own thing. I do worry that maybe its going to go full Flesheaters only, but fingers crossed its a duel army kit that features in both forces still.

The new Black Riders and Wightking on steed I didn't expect since both are fairly modern models already; but the new ones REALLY look awesome. Be interesting to see if GW keep the current model around or replace it - SB have had quite the churn of hero models (esp with Cursed City).
Plus a mounted Vampire lord rounds off the cavalry really nicely!

New hinted at deathrattle skeletons is a bit of a surprise so be interesting to see what they've changed in those kits

Overall 100% hype excitement for Soulblight and I will aim to get that starter boxed set!





Emperors Children - NOISE! A really awesome looking collection of Marines; a good few leaders; solid troop foundation and looks like they've really got some awesome models in there. Lords Kakophonist design looks right out of the art and the 80s!


High Elves - fantastic to see them back and as another person said their older kits stand up really well. No surprise since they did well during the End Times and so forth being reasonably updated then with newer kits. So the new stuff blends in really well. Probably means they'll be one of the latter armies to see an update in OW in the future, but honestly really fantastic to see them soaring back on the battlefield.
No idea what the mystery army slot could be but honestly I'm excited to see GW already starting to tease the future of Old World!

Also whilst I've generally not been a fan of GW's Beastmen - I love that little familiar creature with the new hero they've teased!


Thanatar - looks awesome and 100% expected. No real surprise here at all, but its a good solid addition. Only surprise is that its coming on its own and GW aren't even teasing the tanks yet for Ad Mech (esp considering their resin versions are already gone from the store). However as big previews tend to be 3 month release affairs there's already a LOT of big chunky releases in this first half of the year. So fingers crossed it just means more shiny toys around the midyear

Necromunda I'm really happy to see the Nomads get a second wave like regular Gangs and weren't just created for one campaign and abandoned. The little worms are cute and the terrain looks really cool - I can see that appearing on a lot of tables



Then we get to the best thing in the release - MALENETH getting her very own model! Feels like ages since there was any DoK attention and she's been long overdue getting a model after her adventures with Gotrek. I'm also going to be very curious to see how her future shapes out and if she'll find him again or what will happen!

Could well be dead wrong here but I don't think Salamanders are getting their own codex. I think it's a best of the rest first foundings get their own supplement with a few minis each (Raven Guard, Scars, Salamanders and Fists).

 Overread wrote:

SamusDrake wrote:
Who's the big chap in the background?

A massive animated golem war machine. You can see them in the Warhammer Total War 3 game

Oh right. Definitely should be a thing on the table top!

 Olthannon wrote:
Could well be dead wrong here but I don't think Salamanders are getting their own codex. I think it's a best of the rest first foundings get their own supplement with a few minis each (Raven Guard, Scars, Salamanders and Fists).

That would also be my guess, and fits with Valrak's rumour that each of them were getting a new character model.

 YodhrinsForge wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

semajnollissor wrote:
Oof, those are some old high elf models.

Yep. The old world is such a dumpster fire unfortunately


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Surprised by the love for the emperor toddlers. These noise marines design should have stayed in the 80s...

Great undeads and nomads though

I think it's hypothetically possible to have a wronger opinion than this, but one would have to devote onesself to mastering the ancient eastern art of Wrongu Opinionu over many decades of toil and effort to do so

Apart from the truly ancient Spearmen and Archers(which can mostly be fixed with a bit of plasticard heightening and headswapping, or by just 3D printing an alternative) the HElf range is a genuine treasure. Apart from the dumb birb chariot of course. That they're releasing all the IoB units is a genuine win that I didn't think we'd see. And the "emperor's toddlers" are literally the best non-generic Chaos Marine plastics they've ever made bar none. They nail the old concept art, they nail the faction's themes and tone, they look fantastic, absolutely dunking on the revisionist Horny Nurgle Bois and the painfully dull Khornate offerings.

Oh, dont get me wrong, some of these minis are sill great looking (but these spearmens...... damn, they were already old and ugly decades ago).. But my main dissapointment is with TOW only putting back old models into production and acting like it's somewhat a new rellease. I was expecting more than simply this, after all these years of waiting....


And you're right on the EC. After taking another look at them (not drunk this time), they are splendid.

Nifty stuff. Nothing that screams, "buy me!" But I'm happy all the EC players are finally getting their models they've been wanting for a while.

 Overread wrote:

Then we get to the best thing in the release - MALENETH getting her very own model! Feels like ages since there was any DoK attention and she's been long overdue getting a model after her adventures with Gotrek. I'm also going to be very curious to see how her future shapes out and if she'll find him again or what will happen!

Maleneth isn't a Daughter of Khaine, she's a Darkling Coven Assassin that worked for the Order of Azyr.

Do some of those EC minis look a bit slim in the hips and shins? Not saying they look bad, just really trim for a Space marine in power armor. Yes, I know that the sword guys are "daemonically gifted" but it kinda looks like they took a normal marine and Gumby stretched them vertically.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
Nifty stuff. Nothing that screams, "buy me!" But I'm happy all the EC players are finally getting their models they've been wanting for a while.

As I've said, I'll be grabbing a squad of Noise Marines to join my CSM. I'd be lying if I said wasn't tempted to go all in.

Group pic suggests they’re all pretty tall as well

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Overread wrote:

Then we get to the best thing in the release - MALENETH getting her very own model! Feels like ages since there was any DoK attention and she's been long overdue getting a model after her adventures with Gotrek. I'm also going to be very curious to see how her future shapes out and if she'll find him again or what will happen!

Maleneth isn't a Daughter of Khaine, she's a Darkling Coven Assassin that worked for the Order of Azyr.

She's a Witch Elf who worships Khaine and carries one a vile around her neck with the bound soul of her covern mistress inside. Basically my take is her origin is DoK; she then transfers into the Order of Azyr because DoK and CoS are allied forces (even if Morathic backstabs in the most recent lore).

 Overread wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Overread wrote:

Then we get to the best thing in the release - MALENETH getting her very own model! Feels like ages since there was any DoK attention and she's been long overdue getting a model after her adventures with Gotrek. I'm also going to be very curious to see how her future shapes out and if she'll find him again or what will happen!

Maleneth isn't a Daughter of Khaine, she's a Darkling Coven Assassin that worked for the Order of Azyr.

She's a Witch Elf who worships Khaine and carries one a vile around her neck with the bound soul of her covern mistress inside. Basically my take is her origin is DoK; she then transfers into the Order of Azyr because DoK and CoS are allied forces (even if Morathic backstabs in the most recent lore).

The booklet included with Realmslayer specifies she didn't follow the path of a Witch Elf to become an Assassin.

Her second name is Witchblade

https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Maleneth_Witchblade


Not disputing that she's an assassin, but she's very much from the DoK not from the Coverns.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 CMLR wrote:
SALAMANDERS AND SERAPHON!!

I'M BEYOND EXTATIC!!

Where are Seraphon?

There's a membrane wing in one of the teaser images on the road map, but that's probably a Khinerai.

1. That was FEC
2. Even after that, there was an hypnotoad gazing upon your soul: https://youtu.be/08tRhsL0VWc?si=gWV6rU7X27Gh47hh&t=1771

 cuda1179 wrote:
Do some of those EC minis look a bit slim in the hips and shins? Not saying they look bad, just really trim for a Space marine in power armor. Yes, I know that the sword guys are "daemonically gifted" but it kinda looks like they took a normal marine and Gumby stretched them vertically.

Shins do seem a bit more slim. Hips it may be because we see more of the abdomen bodysuit without extra plating or cables covering it.

 MajorWesJanson wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:
Do some of those EC minis look a bit slim in the hips and shins? Not saying they look bad, just really trim for a Space marine in power armor. Yes, I know that the sword guys are "daemonically gifted" but it kinda looks like they took a normal marine and Gumby stretched them vertically.

Shins do seem a bit more slim. Hips it may be because we see more of the abdomen bodysuit without extra plating or cables covering it.

Yeah, they've all get exposed midriffs, even if its just the bodysuit that's exposed.

 streetsamurai wrote:



Oh, dont get me wrong, some of these minis are sill great looking (but these spearmens...... damn, they were already old and ugly decades ago).. But my main dissapointment is with TOW only putting back old models into production and acting like it's somewhat a new rellease.

Thete ARE some legitimately new models and kits in this release though.