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1 minute ago, silverstu said:

Its actually the war dancer champion  from Skarlocs Wood Elf archers hair- he has a massive mane of hair too.. which was orange.. Really hope they come out as a faction ...

No, this is Glam, the wardancer from Skarloc's Wood Elf archers:

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This:

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Is a Gary Morley Wardancer, released in 1996:

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39 minutes ago, GeneralZero said:

As usual, nice minis.

But....

My feeling is mostly negative because I'm a bit fed up of all those specialist GW games. I understand perfectly the GW strategy which is becoming a big company . They have to make perpetual growth and to increase their income, they can't count on only 2 mainstream games. Saling more boxes is good for the business but we are loosing a bit what make us love this company and their fantastic miniatures/lore.

I have to disagree with this, considering they are creating lore for these specialist games that ties into the larger respective universes. Underworlds especially, has the ability to show us new factions or minis that will make it into AOS too.

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43 minutes ago, GeneralZero said:

As usual, nice minis.

But....

My feeling is mostly negative because I'm a bit fed up of all those specialist GW games. I understand perfectly the GW strategy which is becoming a big company . They have to make perpetual growth and to increase their income, they can't count on only 2 mainstream games. Saling more boxes is good for the business but we are loosing a bit what make us love this company and their fantastic miniatures/lore.

How is more models/games losing what ‘makes us love this company’?

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2 hours ago, HammerOfSigmar said:

The horn rumor engine turns out to be the new fraction.... Not really aelf as expected

....Literally aelves

1 hour ago, HollowHills said:

So new faction right? We saw Zarbag's for Underworlds before we saw Gloomspite. The question is when. 

I'm going to guess January 2020.

Zarbag's gitz are moonclan. All of the unit types in that warband already existed. Moonclan already existed. Gloomspite was a new book that incorporated Moonclan. Not really sure why you are comparing the two... Who knows if this new warband will even lead to a full faction. Could be something new they are trying (It is after all the first example of a warband that doesn't exactly belong to an existing army) 

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To be fair the Sepulchral Guard did not have a home until Legion of Grief came out this year and the Darkoath warband still uses the STD keyword to be playable, plus Mollog squigs are just experiments without units in AoS so there’s no exact direct connection between WU and AoS. I agree with last comment, it could be an experiment to try something new, like Warcry. If it was a new faction would be interesting considering as someone commented here long ago, the inflation of Aelves in AoS :)

Not considering Cities of Sigmar, Kurnothi would be the the 5th known full faction of Alves after DoK, IDK, light  aelves and shadow aelves. Aelves 5 - Dwarves 3? Lol

On another note they did show more new miniatures at GenCon that in the AoS preview 2 weeks ago :) 

love them anyway, I think it’s a good change of pace and even if not usable in AoS they are alternative poses and maybe one day be integrated in Warcry for unique models.

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7 minutes ago, alghero81 said:

If it was a new faction would be interesting considering as someone commented here long ago, the inflation of Aelves in AoS :)

Not considering Cities of Sigmar, Kurnothi would be the the 5th known full faction of Alves after DoK, IDK, light  aelves and shadow aelves. Aelves 5 - Dwarves 3? Lol

I'm increasingly wondering whether the belief in Light and Shadow Elves is mistaken. For years everyone has been speculating about these two hypothetical factions, but I've seen no official confirmation that they are a thing. It seems to me that a handful of mentions in lore and background books acknowledging that the Aelf Gods exist and have armies have been taken as proof positive that new Aelf armies are comming. We've then hyped them out of all proportions, with everyone repeating that they must be just around the corner and putting them on lists of known factions.

But what if this isn't the case at all? Maybe they don't plan to release a complete miniatures line for each aelven god after all!

There are other gods in the background, but I've never seen anyone say that some sort of new Grungni dwarves are coming, but as far as I can see the Light and Shadow aelves don't have any more substantial mentions in the lore than the followers of the other Dwarven god. If there is something more substantive I'd be very interested to hear what it is.

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17 minutes ago, EccentricCircle said:

I'm increasingly wondering whether the belief in Light and Shadow Elves is mistaken. For years everyone has been speculating about these two hypothetical factions, but I've seen no official confirmation that they are a thing. It seems to me that a handful of mentions in lore and background books acknowledging that the Aelf Gods exist and have armies have been taken as proof positive that new Aelf armies are comming. We've then hyped them out of all proportions, with everyone repeating that they must be just around the corner and putting them on lists of known factions.

But what if this isn't the case at all? Maybe they don't plan to release a complete miniatures line for each aelven god after all!

There are other gods in the background, but I've never seen anyone say that some sort of new Grungni dwarves are coming, but as far as I can see the Light and Shadow aelves don't have any more substantial mentions in the lore than the followers of the other Dwarven god. If there is something more substantive I'd be very interested to hear what it is.

In the core book, this two things are not mentioned as light aelf and shadow aelf. but as "Some of those born to the Realm of Light were luminous beings, angelic creatures of pure reason.  Those given new life in Ulgu were majestic and terrible all at once." Is it enough for a proof that those two new aelf does exist?

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3 minutes ago, HammerOfSigmar said:

In the core book, this two things are not mentioned as light aelf and shadow aelf. but as "Some of those born to the Realm of Light were luminous beings, angelic creatures of pure reason.  Those given new life in Ulgu were majestic and terrible all at once." Is it enough for a proof that those two new aelf does exist?

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4 minutes ago, HammerOfSigmar said:

In the core book, this two things are not mentioned as light aelf and shadow aelf. but as "Some of those born to the Realm of Light were luminous beings, angelic creatures of pure reason.  Those given new life in Ulgu were majestic and terrible all at once." Is it enough for a proof that those two new aelf does exist?

Its interesting, but there are a lot of random new races described in the books that never actually get miniatures. I'm not saying that Light and Shadow Elves are impossible, just that I'm not so sure that they are coming any time soon. No one thought that we'd be getting Beast Aelves first, but it certainly looks that way.

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10 minutes ago, HammerOfSigmar said:

In the core book, this two things are not mentioned as light aelf and shadow aelf. but as "Some of those born to the Realm of Light were luminous beings, angelic creatures of pure reason.  Those given new life in Ulgu were majestic and terrible all at once." Is it enough for a proof that those two new aelf does exist?

The realm of light angelic aelves are clearly misdirection. Clearly the realm of light is full of moth aelves, drawn to the light. 

 

More information might be available closer to beast grave release, with sigmar warscrolls.

If they wanted to make wanderers and kurnathi into a faction while keeping kurnathi out of cities of Sigmar it's pretty simple. They'd just need to give wanderers both the wanderers keyword and the kurnathi keyword, while the new kurnathi don't have the wanderers keyword. That'd work fine under alliegiance rules, cities allow wanderer units, satyr aelves would not have that keyword.

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2 minutes ago, Satyrical Sophist said:

The realm of light angelic aelves are clearly misdirection. Clearly the realm of light is full of moth aelves, drawn to the light. 

 

More information might be available closer to beast grave release, with sigmar warscrolls.

If they wanted to make wanderers and kurnathi into a faction while keeping kurnathi out of cities of Sigmar it's pretty simple. They'd just need to give wanderers both the wanderers keyword and the kurnathi keyword, while the new kurnathi don't have the wanderers keyword. That'd work fine under alliegiance rules, cities allow wanderer units, satyr aelves would not have that keyword.

I don't know anything about your first statement, is it something mentioned elsewhere or just your personal guessing?

It is even not sure whether the old wanders will join the kunorthi. We are still in the mist about how this new fraction will come out.

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Looks like the preview on Saturday is for 40k, as expected.

 

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If you haven’t already heard about the Warhammer record-setting mega-battle taking place this weekend, then you’ve clearly been lost beyond the light of the Astronomicon. This Warhammer 40,000: Apocalypse battle is set to be the biggest we’ve ever staged anywhere in the world. Epicness is guaranteed. There will even be an afterparty hosted in Bugman’s Bar that will include an exclusive Warhammer 40,000 Preview!

 

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