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the theory is that they tend to make new models for an army in bulks and not one off (unless it’s the obligatory foot heroes) and models release during the end of editions narrative supplements are sometimes teasing the future. if it hold true it be FS, Nurgle, Gitz (well they got 2 releases), SCE (well duh), Sylvaneth, Soulblight, and DoK. i guess for their sake we can count the Gorger release for Ogors to be in there even if Ogors didn’t officially get a Dawnbringer release. IJ, FEC, and Slaves are questionable since they got full or big releases during Dawnbringers. of course they maybe smaller releases like NH and Sylvaneth from last edition but just more then one hero (honestly I think NH stuff where actually Soul wars leftovers)

Honestly I am surprise that Tzeentch is that low. well if we are going by age of last big release for all the low kit armies it would be Ogors, FS, Tzeentch, and KO. And then it be DoK and Deepkin.

Or Crab units

Frankly I alway though it was because the underworld warband was super popular or something (I know during the Beastgrave era they where consider one of the strongest warband for Underworlds thaw game) that they made them into an actual unit for AoS and Gitz was the only place for them.

They did tease a new species called a Supharbreath Troggoth in a white dwarf one time. while I don’t know what to expect for Gitz in 4th, they do have a lot of room to expand upon despite being a pretty big range already. Update Spiderfang, more Moonclan grot knight like Grimkrak’s court, plastic version of their old forgeworld kits like the Hag and Squig Gobbla, or expand Gitmob.

I think the problems is that GW won’t rewrite army rules or warscrolls to an extent that would boost an underperforming army (See past examples of NH, Gitz, and Kruleboyz). They can only do things like adding minor things in like Battle tactics, rewording stuff a bit or supplements like AoR its really the flaw of there written rules in book format but it profitable and they are willing to stick with it for the foreseeable future.

I rather they simplify Path to glory especially the amount of post game book keeping and power buffs. but I would like if they where consistent in supporting Narrative play with new battleplans and releases through out a whole edition because it felt like 3rd edition we where stuck with the same 6 battle plans in the core book. Dawnbringer came in to late and the content was all over the place.

I can see a kroot style release for Gitz but I wouldn’t hazard a guess if it would focus on either Gitmob or Spiderfang. Gitmob getting the Snarlfang unit out of the blue can be taken account as a teaser for more of them, but Spiderfang loosing a resin hero and feeling that this is the best time to update them when they could have retire them already is also an argument for them as well. hels it can even be to flesh out the Troggoth side a bit more.

Eh it was from Dana Howl TBF

Did we every get that rumor about Warhammer underworld was being retire because of low sells? and that Warcry was also not performing as well so they are rebranding it next year with a mordheim esque setting with skaven vs city of sigmar?

Amazon sort of need that success because they been having problems with Ring of Power especially since it seems they are cutting marketing and promotion for it. (And they spent a billion on this project)

Well yeah that was the biggest bummer both codexes came out the same time and the quality between the OrK and Custodes was so stark. Granted this is pretty common with GW and it’s where the meme “Bin or Sin books” comes from

TBF for Custodes player their Codex release has been pan as one of the worst written one so far in 10th editions. So anger is everywhere

I just assume we fail to curb Global warming by then

Well also the global market in general is going down because of fear of the Middle East escalation and UK market in general hasn’t been great. Selling now is probably the best time if you see the stock price going down

I guess it depends if they want to keep the Native American like aesthetic of the forest goblins that the spiderfang units still have or go a completely different direction with them

It would go by Dawnbringer box releases, and Ogors/LRL only got warcry releases. Warcry is so and so when it comes to predicting releases, but Ogors like Drukhari are in the need to be desperately updated zone. You could argue that FEC and S2D Dawnbringer release were tied to the FEC launch /Darkoath release but they could still get stuff in 4th.

Depends because armies that got Broken realms releases was a very accurate sign of what armies got stuff in 3rd (except LRL because their BR lead to an odd battletome release with a second wave )

Well going by history Greenskinz/wanderers/swifthawk agents: exist in the background but rarely mentioned again if at all Gitmob: exists in the background but did came back with one mini Lion rangers/order Draconis/ Eldritch council : umm we forgot about these guys Phonecium: your city get blown up probably Chorfs, Kruleboyz seperate, or maybe kragnos army

They all get Index rules though Indexes are just placeholders in the end for battletomes. You would just hope that the parity between Index and battletome isn’t that vast for the remaining life of those AoS armies. TBF I think only like 1/3 of the armies will be updated by summer 2025.

Well it could just be that they had to open a spot in Grand Alliance Chaos for Chorfs as well I guess. And beast just had to go lol

Think it’s just doing things sooner and not dragging their feet on something, also they don’t want to commit to it for that long. could be that they are planning a new Beast army a year in the edition but marketing won’t reveal things more then 3 months in advance either way. or maybe office politics are strict and things have to be gone in deadlines

It really rare in AoS for a foot hero to have an alternative build into another hero. Sometimes we are lucky to even get a different weapon loadout.

Makes sense for a wizard to be there because the starter box is for newbies and they like having introduction units for a mechanic of the game like magic

Granted if armies like IDK keep their abilities to mess with sight lines or visibility it may not be so bad metawise