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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Equal chance of Sylvaneth or Necromunda

My thoughts exactly, one or the other

The boils and larva like tail actually makes me think Nurgle

necromunda

New chaos spawn kill team?

If the rumours are correct about the AoS Nurgle release, than I'm fully expecting this to be part of that.

Looks like one of those foul xenos creatures... the really disgusting ones, that make you go blind if you look at them.

What do people call them now? Aeldari?

"Feels" plastic to me, so I'll go with AOS

As we’ve just had a wave of Undead? I’m thinking Amethyst Wizard, or something along the same lines. Possibly Jade, but the cloak doesn’t seem the right look there.

Death from Puss in Boots?

Not undead. So some sort of druid/wood elf/nature type.

Jade Wizards and the Druids of Albion both used to use those.

I'm putting my money on some Old World Wizarding.

There's something in the AoS range that matches that weapon almost exactly..i just can't remember what it is.

There are Gitz with weapons very similar to that. Fits with the cloak too.

That was it, thank you. The sickle seems a bit clean for them though.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
That was it, thank you. The sickle seems a bit clean for them though.

Yah, there are a few places to find sickles (Nighthaunt as well) but that looks just way too clean and maintained.

Dunno if it’s just the grey scaling, but the sickle looks specifically Silver in colour to my eyes.

And Silver Sickles, most due to Asterix, are something I associate with Druids.

Which made me think of Henghis the Druid, from the Giants of Albion. Cloak kinda fits his robe as well.

Daughters of Khaine also have sickles on their Khinerai, but they have a jagged angular corner near the handle rather than a smooth curve

 Overread wrote:
Daughters of Khaine also have sickles on their Khinerai, but they have a jagged angular corner near the handle rather than a smooth curve

Could be something to do with Krethusa. An offshoot with similar weapons.

Considering how much GW focuses on DoK story wise I'm always a little surprised they never had a big army update; then again I kind of get the feeling that in the back ground there's a battle to restore Dark Elves to their whole original army; or to do away with them or move them to Old World.

All of which leaves both factions in limbo


I'd love to see DoK get a nice big update; some generic cavalry; a new troop type; some monsters; shadow beasts; artillery/siege weapons etc...

I don't see daughters needing to be put back with the rest of it. They've grown quite a fun and unique identity of their own.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I don't see daughters needing to be put back with the rest of it. They've grown quite a fun and unique identity of their own.

Exactly and I fully agree with this. DoK are entirely their own thing and it would be a shame if they got rolled back in. They've unique units, models, lore, everything.

Plus the original Dark Elf army that's currently languishing in Cities of Sigmar doesn't need the DoK content either. DoK to them was 2 leaders, 2 units and a buff cauldron. Basically a bunch of elite/specialist stuff. So very easy to replace with some other components. The Dark Elf army is otherwise almost entirely complete, give them a new leader or two and their own book and you've got an army. I'm honestly confused why GW hasn't done that with them; or why the closest they did was the Expansion Book a little while back.

 Overread wrote:
Considering how much GW focuses on DoK story wise I'm always a little surprised they never had a big army update; then again I kind of get the feeling that in the back ground there's a battle to restore Dark Elves to their whole original army; or to do away with them or move them to Old World.

All of which leaves both factions in limbo


I'd love to see DoK get a nice big update; some generic cavalry; a new troop type; some monsters; shadow beasts; artillery/siege weapons etc...

They just need to re-do the basic Witch unit - able to take advantage of the lack of need to rank up to give better poses - and then the original can be ported over to Old World with the rest of the Dark Elves.

Good lord if they did an Albion army I'd lose my mind.

I'm fairly certain they'll do Vampire Coast for TOW so maybe it'll be for that.

Albion would be awesome to see in ToW but yeah that would be a really big surprise.

Right now I'd expect to see more things from TW Warhammer 3. Vampire Coast would be a natural way to add vampries without adding vampires and give them a good difference to the soulblight in AoS. That said they did also rename most of the AoS models so - who knows.

Albion army? Cachtorr and Bologgs march out of the mists of time again? That would be cool.
Woad berserkers, Fen Beasts, unicorns, all that.

 Overread wrote:
Vampire Coast would be a natural way to add vampries without adding vampires and give them a good difference to the soulblight in AoS. That said they did also rename most of the AoS models so - who knows.

I've also seen some speculate that could add something like Mousillon as a faction.

I'd be fine with that as a way of getting neglected Legacy armies into the game. Wretches of Mousillon, Clan Eshin Expeditionary Force-Group, etc.

Looking at it again, the most obvious thing is actually a Mandrake character.

Klapaucius wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Vampire Coast would be a natural way to add vampries without adding vampires and give them a good difference to the soulblight in AoS. That said they did also rename most of the AoS models so - who knows.

I've also seen some speculate that could add something like Mousillon as a faction.

I'd be fine with that as a way of getting neglected Legacy armies into the game. Wretches of Mousillon, Clan Eshin Expeditionary Force-Group, etc.

The problem with the Mousillon theories is that the people who are pushing that are basing it on TWW Mousillon where the Red Duke *of Aquitaine* leads a faction of vampiric bretonnian knights. Thats largely a game balance thing which has little to do with lore (one of several that exist across the 3 games in the series). While Mousillon has its fair share of vampire and undead lore, the Red Duke is not associated with it (and is instead said to reside in and haunt the Forest of Chalons) and there is no widespread army of vampiric/undead knights really associated with it. Merovech - the one notable vampiric blood knight actually associated with Mousillon - was killed about 200 years prior to TOW and doesn't reappear again until around the time of Karl Franz.

In TOWs timeline, its the story of Maldred (and its been hinted that he will feature in the narrative alongside the affair of the False Grail) - but the thing is Maldred was never a vampire or really even involved with the undead.

A Grade 7 Spear. Or as they’re referred to in the trade? A Pokey Harold.