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08.07.2025



Continuing our trend of ‘things that you can put other things in’ – look, we’re trying, OK – we have a vitreographical Rumour Engine image to peer at today. Whoever it is, they really like ampules – so either it’s the Mortal Realms’ latest snake oil salesman or a perfectly average Necromundan coming home from the firewater hole. That zig-zag design on one of the bottles is probably a clue, right? Who is it who likes triangles again?

Surely that’s got to go with the rack of bottles and gubbins from flipping aaaages ago?

Feels like something saddle bag-ish but perhaps for a larger animal.

Random different potions are greenskin stuff. Kruleboyz or Grots.

I agree it looks like on a saddle bag. Is that shape up in the right corner a fold of fabric? So if it's a saddle the person sitting on it has some form of skirt or robe on?

Wasn't there a rumour pic a while ago of some kind of rear leg of an animal that looked short but solid or thick, more like a... Bull?

Could be related.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Random different potions are greenskin stuff. Kruleboyz or Grots.

Yeah and the question they asked about who likes triangles, orcs like them. Just doesn't look too orky to me. Hopefully it gets revealed at the preview show.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Random different potions are greenskin stuff. Kruleboyz or Grots.

Why not dedicated kruleboy grots? They show up in the warcry gang and as supporting hangarounds for individual models. Would be fun to see them do a grimdark version of their crazy gobbapalooza cousins (but more focus on poison and assasination perhaps.

Just remembered Seraphon Lizardmen also like triangles.

lost_lilliputian wrote:
I agree it looks like on a saddle bag. Is that shape up in the right corner a fold of fabric? So if it's a saddle the person sitting on it has some form of skirt or robe on?

Bottles and skirt on a horse?

Lucrezza Belladonna and the return of Dogs of War confirmed!

 Nevelon wrote:

lost_lilliputian wrote:
I agree it looks like on a saddle bag. Is that shape up in the right corner a fold of fabric? So if it's a saddle the person sitting on it has some form of skirt or robe on?

Bottles and skirt on a horse?

Lucrezza Belladonna and the return of Dogs of War confirmed!

I like your thinking! Optimistic but I like it

I'm reminded of the paint job on some of the warcry warbands - maybe the Horns of Hashut or Scions of the Flame - but only the scions have a triangle zig-zag thing on their bottles.

Man, I'd love for the warcry warbands to come back recharged and reinvigorated.

Warhammer Quest Pitfighter?, at least a very similar looking weapon for a model that evokes something similar.

I’d agree it looks more like a flail than armour decoration.

Could be chaos anything really. Skull flail has been a staple of theirs for ages.

Fun fact? There’s at least one known example of someone in the real world being “bitten” by a skull they carried around with them, and dying from the infected wound. So even without the necessaries to bite, teeth can still inflict wounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd_Eysteinsson

It's a pretty close match to Kharn & some Berzerker models, and is in motion as they would be. Other Chaos factions tend to lean towards different shapes at the end of chains, like butcher hooks.

Another WE KT perhaps? Could be 1-2 years away.

I would've guessed Flagellants, not Chaos.

TBF the various Chaos ranges are some of the stuff I look at/physically handle the least in all of Warhammer.

But Flags have multi-tailed flails, they have identical heads on their flails (with softer/older casting) and they have skulls on the end of chains (although not attached to their flails).

That's' true actually. and there have been rumours about a new flagellant kit for CoS since the old kit got kicked.

Honorable mention to the really old mummy lord for "undead" that had a weird 3 tailed flail with all skull-ends.

They could always be re-doing marauders for an Old-world only kit. Which seem silly, but supposedly GW doesnt want us to cross streams between Old World and AoS, so who knows.

Flagellants or FINALLY new Chaos Marauders.

Wow, I thought they redid Marauders forever ago. Turns out I was thinking of "Bloodreavers."

Have Marauders been a unit in AoS that whole time? Or were they gone, then came back for TOW?

 Fayric wrote:
Honorable mention to the really old mummy lord for "undead" that had a weird 3 tailed flail with all skull-ends.

The flail of skulls remained a magic items for Tomb Kings until GW blew up the setting, and made a comeback as the flail of skulls +1 on Nekaph the Resinated, head of Settra the More or Less Perishable's PR department (see spoiler). I'd be surprised if we got a model with a plain flail of skulls, but if we were to get it, it wouldn't be this rumor engine.

 Altruizine wrote:
Wow, I thought they redid Marauders forever ago. Turns out I was thinking of "Bloodreavers."

Have Marauders been a unit in AoS that whole time? Or were they gone, then came back for TOW?

If I recall correctly, Marauders were a Slaves to Darkness unit until the end or so of 3rd ed when they were replaced by new Darkoath models and made the jump to The Old World.

Marauders were in AoS for ages but were left without an updated model for a VERY long time. What happened is that Warcry came along with their custom warbands which were all new models that basically fit that role in the army.

Fastforward and GW has pulled most of the Warcry forces out of the core rules - partly because they were starting to bloat the book with the same unit in the same role etc... They also then released brand new updated Marauders.

Just a little later GW dropped the hammer on formally splitting AoS and Old World (and indeed splitting all their games) so we saw the old Marauder kit that was just replaced; return for Slaves to Darkness in Old World.


Going forward I'd fully expect GW to replace them again for Old World and that we'll see them slightlydifferent to their AoS counterparts even if they fit the same name, role in the army etc...