Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The Wight King on foot seems like a good choice to be replaced.

Yes we can't have a character costing less than a family size pizza

I was thinking more because they're just not as impressive as they used to be.

Either a tattered cloth piece from some new terrain, of the wing of a giant bat-squig. I'm 50/50 on either.

Looks a bit like bonereaper style.
Didnt they get some new unit types in warcry that might indicate an atempt at updating their range?

Polearm for sure. But could be a number of armies.

Feeling a bit more like a new Grave Guard kit.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Feeling a bit more like a new Grave Guard kit.

Hopefully, they really need an update.

Could be Storm Vermin?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Could be Storm Vermin?

That blade is corroded. Would the elite (even Skaven) use poor quality weapons?

Yup! Because Skaven quality is still pretty low quality. And quite possibly nicked from a corpse.

100% Soulblight, you can tell by the V-shaped mounting point. Skaven polearms are never like that.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup! Because Skaven quality is still pretty low quality. And quite possibly nicked from a corpse.

The new aesthetic for them doesn't seem to have the damage on the weapons, even for the Clanrats.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup! Because Skaven quality is still pretty low quality. And quite possibly nicked from a corpse.

What?

Slaves and fodder rats maybe, but anyone higher than that gets really good quality gear, one of the best in AoS. Skaven don't waste time decorating it and it's pretty much strictly utilitarian, but when you look at how well and uniform it's made, it easily beats most civilized armies. Is Sten gun "low" quality because it's mass produced, roughly finished and boxy unlike that snaplock musket with painstakingly carved wood panels and gilded metalwork?

Anyway, in any case, the point is moot, as elegant, flowing lines and pits/corrosion is 100% something vampire or vampire adjacent, no other army in GW lineup has that design language.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup! Because Skaven quality is still pretty low quality. And quite possibly nicked from a corpse.

The new aesthetic for them doesn't seem to have the damage on the weapons, even for the Clanrats.

Ummm, the clan rat photos in the link you provided clearly have knicks in the blades.

first impression was something fantasy. soulblight would make sense for that

 Dawnbringer wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup! Because Skaven quality is still pretty low quality. And quite possibly nicked from a corpse.

The new aesthetic for them doesn't seem to have the damage on the weapons, even for the Clanrats.

Ummm, the clan rat photos in the link you provided clearly have knicks in the blades.

I said "the damage on the weapons".

As in the chunks of blade missing, like the Rumor Engine presents. The Clanrats have small knicks in the blade and a serrated bit of blade.

That kind of screams grave guard glaive. Which probably means it's something totally different.

Skaven, Nurgle or Undead. I'll join in with the Undead due to the pitting on the blade.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
That kind of screams grave guard glaive. Which probably means it's something totally different.

Or it could be related like some Soulblight unit for Warcry?

I'd be surprised as we only got the Askurgan this season. Unless of course it's specifically a bone warband

There is a difference between a small nick or scratch, where a blade might have been damaged in combat during the current battle, that hasn’t been repaired yet and great overlapping craters of rust from possibly millennia of disuse.
The intentional triangular serrations also don’t count; they should be present on the Engine image if it was a Skaven blade, but aren’t.

More of a voulge than a halberd so doesn't seem very stormverminy.

I'm going with the general skellington consensus.

Something mechanical

Something House Cawdor I reckon.

It looks canine...

Maybe, just maybe, Guard finally get a canine officer?!

It looks primitive enough for Necromunda gang or something AoS tech level.

My first thought was robo-doggo, so it's probably something else.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Something House Cawdor I reckon.

For sure

one-in-a-million longshot guess: Pursuer Cadre cyber-mastiff. we're finally getting real models for Sisters of Silence

more realistically, yeah probably necromunda


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Kanluwen wrote:
It looks canine...

Maybe, just maybe, Guard finally get a canine officer?!

arbites already exist

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
one-in-a-million longshot guess: Pursuer Cadre cyber-mastiff. we're finally getting real models for Sisters of Silence

more realistically, yeah probably necromunda


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 Kanluwen wrote:
It looks canine...

Maybe, just maybe, Guard finally get a canine officer?!

arbites already exist

It is a Regimental Standard reference: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/09/26/the-regimental-standard-managing-your-canid/

Seems the full article is gone though :(

https://web.archive.org/web/20200817003848/https://regimental-standard.com/2018/09/26/managing-your-canid/

available through the wayback machine

anyway, huh interesting. wonder how they would do that in a way to make it different from Arbites dogs