The Rumour Thread

[ZaelART]

"You can even spot a devotional effigy on his base, similar to those popping up all around Ghur, and beyond – now who might be building those?"

 

Hint to new steppe goblins?

[The Brotherhood of Necros]

They're really building up 'everything will change' and BR Kragnos being the culmination of the BR storyline.

I'm calling: Azyr gets busted into, but Chaos also gets a massive smackdown from this 'god' of Destruction, putting Destruction in the ascendancy and both Order and Chaos on the narrative backfoot for an edition (Azyr and Eightpoints both vulnerable)

[Nos]

6 minutes ago, Overread said:

Centaur Vampire - my capacity to resist vampires is weakening significantly now 

BOC gets centaur

Legions of Azarag gets a centaur 

Sylvaneth gets a centaur 

Soulblight gets a centaur

Destruction gets a massive centaur

Woooo Everyone gets a centaur!!!

AOS design team:

X faction needs a new unit 

What would you think of maybe...a centaur?

I LOVE IT

[Tiberius501]

So Kragnos is an absolute beast and I love himz. That is all.

[Aeryenn]

Great preview... but really, really sad. Kragnos didn't turn out to be Kurnothi nor Beastmen. He's just a Be'lakor of Destruction basically, not a leader of a new faction. 

What really bothers me it's that he is a centaur. Kurnothi warband has a centaur as well. Now I'm afraid that Kurnothi warband was just a one time thing. 

As for the Gravelords I think I will pass. I was most excited about the zombies, and all that really is new for them is this unit of zombies. I don't like dogs or hounds so no for zombie dogs really. I had hope for some zombie heroes, new corpse cart, maybe zombie behemoth. Same with Skellies. All the spotlight goes to strange (some are cool) vampire heroes. 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Aeryenn

[cofaxest]

3 minutes ago, Televiper11 said:

Kragnos still looks BoC to me. Doesn’t fit Destruction’s aesthetic at all, IMO. 

He is not green enough to lead the WAAAGH!

[novakai]

they could be working together but who knows, the BR fiction states that the mortal Orruks foces seem to at least follow him to a degree

also we have a winner

[Charleston]

Kragnos will receive his own Faction 3.0 and propably thoose Hobgoblins will be part of it. It is already hinted with "all the effigies appearing around Ghur" in the article. 

[Sorrow]

Yeah, Kragnos does not look at all like he would fit in Destruction.

His overall aesthetics screams Kurnothi or BoC.

[ian0delond]

They could have painted him green. 

On the other hand gargants and ogors aren't green either.

[Whitefang]

10 minutes ago, Ganigumo said:

Gordrakk thinks himself a match for Sigmar

Oops

[CDM]

So disappointed no mid power vampires ala vykros Bloodborne feral style or crimson court elite infantry.

[Acrozatarim]

7 minutes ago, Nighthaunt Noob said:

I can't say I'm surprised but I'm really disappointed that this review was probably the final nail in the coffin for Cursed City. There's no way Radukar the Beast wasn't originally supposed to be an expansion.

I don't know why people keep saying this.

The Beast model is flat-out just too big to even function in Cursed City's ruleset and tiles. It seems fairly clear to me that they always intended to have various miniatures in the SBG release that built off Cursed City's lore, but there's no evidence whatsoever that the Beast was meant to be an expansion for CC.

[cofaxest]

1 minute ago, ian0delond said:

They could have painted him green. 

On the other hand gargants and ogors aren't green either.

Gargants and Ogors doesn't lead, they follow. 

[ArkanautDadmiral]

Lauka Vai is cool but that’s about it for me.

Kragnos was a bit disappointing. I think it’s his face compared to that cool art we saw.

I do like the idea of a troggoth, ogor, gargant army though.

[Nighthaunt Noob]

2 minutes ago, Acrozatarim said:

I don't know why people keep saying this.

The Beast model is flat-out just too big to even function in Cursed City's ruleset and tiles. It seems fairly clear to me that they always intended to have various miniatures in the SBG release that built off Cursed City's lore, but there's no evidence whatsoever that the Beast was meant to be an expansion for CC.

The Dreaded Ambull was this size. I don't see why it couldn't work. Expansion could have come with board tiles or modified rules as well to facilitate.

Edited May 3, 2021 by Nighthaunt Noob

[novakai]

1 minute ago, Acrozatarim said:

I don't know why people keep saying this.

The Beast model is flat-out just too big to even function in Cursed City's ruleset and tiles. It seems fairly clear to me that they always intended to have various miniatures in the SBG release that built off Cursed City's lore, but there's no evidence whatsoever that the Beast was meant to be an expansion for CC.

i think the New Witch hunters may have been for CC and they would have played similar to the Ratling twins in BSF

[Ganigumo]

1 minute ago, novakai said:

i mean your asking question that won't be answer until the book comes out

It was more rhetorical, For Kragnos to lead Gordrakk(who has been building the army) has to step aside for some reason. So either he has to bow of his own volition or Kragnos has to overpower him. I don't see Gordrakk bowing without some ham-fisted writing because they want Destruction to have its own Archaon.

Either Gordrakk acts out of character, or gets jobbed after being built up, those are the only outcomes.


I don't hate that Kragnos exists, or that he's destruction, the model is awesome, but the context around his introduction to Destruction necessitates sloppy writing around Gordrakk. Every other destruction faction and character falling in line makes sense, except the guy currently leading the army that Kragnos is going to be leading during the siege of excelsis.

The plot has immediately swerved from "Gordrakk's siege of excelsis" to "Kragnos' siege of excelsis".

 

[ageofpaddsmar]

So jes mentioned gloomscuttle tribe is this something to to with gloomspite gitz or something else

[PJetski]

behold, the power of a GOD

[Feii]

 

Great rule (real the designers note) 

[JackStreicher]

Preview: 🤷🏼‍♂️ Nothing shown that pushes my buy buttons.

I like the big Radukar. I find it weird though that he also has Vyrkos Bloodborn by his side while they don‘t exist as single unit 🥲

 

anyways: I’m happy for the destruction fans! ^^

[Whitefang]

11 minutes ago, Malakithe said:

Im wondering how Gordrakk will view this guy. Will he bow out and be like 'ok you can take the lead I guess'

There is only one answer:

FIGHT!

[dirkdragonslayer]

What a huge chonker. He looks real cool, though I bet this means Gordrakk is going to get rocked at the start of this book. He isn't the kind of lad to share command of a Waaagh, as Skragrott knows.

He doesn't really fit any part of Destruction's aesthetic. I love the narrative beat of a god who lost his children, but there's a severe lack of horses and well-crafted gear in destruction. Like I don't see my Gitz or Orruks marching behind this big Bronze Age beastie. I wonder if this is temporarily for everyone (like the fungoid shaman in Malign Portents before Gloomspite's reveal) or if he will be like Nagash for destruction and be around permanently.

[Jator]

4 minutes ago, Ganigumo said:

It was more rhetorical, For Kragnos to lead Gordrakk(who has been building the army) has to step aside for some reason. So either he has to bow of his own volition or Kragnos has to overpower him. I don't see Gordrakk bowing without some ham-fisted writing because they want Destruction to have its own Archaon.

Either Gordrakk acts out of character, or gets jobbed after being built up, those are the only outcomes.


I don't hate that Kragnos exists, or that he's destruction, the model is awesome, but the context around his introduction to Destruction necessitates sloppy writing around Gordrakk. Every other destruction faction and character falling in line makes sense, except the guy currently leading the army that Kragnos is going to be leading during the siege of excelsis.

The plot has immediately swerved from "Gordrakk's siege of excelsis" to "Kragnos' siege of excelsis".

 

Gordrakk can be easily killed, his model can still be used as a megaboss with alternative head/weapons. His lore was basically "he appeared and he's very strong", so it doesn't seem the biggest loss to me. 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Jator