The Rumour Thread

[Chikout]

I think GW has stopped doing miniless books for AoS. With 15 factions getting allegiance abilities in Ghb2 it is safe to assume that those factions will not get a battletome for at least a year.

They said the reason for not doing other factions was a lack of minis or a lack of ideas. Both would prevent the release of a new miniless book.

There is chance that we will get a nurgle book but I think blight war is the stop gap release there. So much like Tzeentch we may see a full book plus minis next year.

Aelves are definitely on the way. That said the lion cloak and mini dragon arm may both be from Shadespire.

I would not be surprised to see a quiet winter followed by a very busy spring again.

GW are doing a panel about Ghb2 at the nova open next week, during which they will talk a little about the future of aos. Hopefully they will show us more than just the season of war stuff.

Edited August 23, 2017 by Chikout

[MidasKiss]

I think GW has stopped doing miniless books for AoS. With 15 factions getting allegiance abilities in Ghb2 it is safe to assume that those factions will not get a battletome for at least a year.
They said the reason for not doing other factions was a lack of minis or a lack of ideas. Both would prevent the release of a new miniless book.
There is chance that we will get a nurgle book but I think blight war is the stop gap release there. So much like Tzeentch we may see a full book plus minis next year.
Aelves are definitely on the way. That said the lion cloak and mini dragon arm may both be from Shadespire.
I would not be surprised to see a quiet winter followed by a very busy spring again.
GW are doing a panel about Ghb2 at the nova open next week, during which they will talk a little about the future of aos. Hopefully they will show us more than just the season of war stuff.

Hoping for Moonclan then because they have plenty of cool ideas. Plastic squigs are going to rock 2018

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[someone2040]

4 hours ago, Chikout said:

Here is a guesstimated release list for the rest of the year.

aug 26- blight war 

sep3- season of war

sep 10-24 Deathguard 

oct 1-8 admech

oct 15- 22 shadespire plus expansion 1

0ct 29 elf bloodbowl

 Nov 5 - 12 Necromunda plus expansion

Nov 19 shadespire expansion 2 plus 40k codex 6

nov 26 Dec 3 codex 7 plus minis

dec 10 codex 8 and 9 

dec 17 codex 10

dec 24 40k chapter approved 

That is already a rediculously packed shedule and I am kind of expecting at least one more big mini release for 40k this year.  It does not leave much room for a new battletome unfortunately. 

P.s The order is definitely wrong but these are the releases that GW has already promised will come this year. Even if they announce nothing else, they will struggle to fit it all in to their usual release format.

I think there's enough room to squeeze in one more release.

Deathguard may only go for 2 weeks, and it's possible Admech may also land in the last week of Deathguard releases (It's not going to have any models attached to it, so not reason it couldn't slot in), you've got early-mid October to play around with before the Specialist Games bonanza kicks in. 

Shadespire is likely to be released/pre-order last weekend of October. No idea how the 'expansions' are gonna land, could be as simple as one every week throughout November, or just dump them all on us the week after.

So plausibly, the release dates could look something like

Aug 26 - GHB 2

Sep 2 - Blightware

Sep 9 - Firestorm

Sep 16 - Deathguard week 1 (40k Codex 4)

Sep 23 - Deathguard week 2

Sep 30 - Deathguard week 3 + Admech (40k Codex 5)

Oct 7 - ???

Oct 14 - ???

Oct 21 - ??? + Bloodbowl Elves

Oct 28 - Shadespire

Nov 4 - Shadespire expansion races

Nov 11 - 40k Codex x2 (40 Codexes 6 and 7)

Nov 18 - Necromunda

Nov 25 - Necromunda Extra

Dec 2 - Army bundles, terrain, 40k Codex (40k Codex 8)

Dec 9 - 2x 40k Codex (40k Codexes 9 and 10)

Dec 16 - Chapter Approved

Dec 23 - Dunno, some small stuff? May be something like Made to Order or something.

Personally I don't think we're going to see many new 40k models this year other than Deathguard. Necromunda will scratch the itch in some ways for 40k players, and probably save some new race for January release.

[RuneBrush]

11 minutes ago, Chikout said:

I think GW has stopped doing miniless books for AoS. With 15 factions getting allegiance abilities in Ghb2 it is safe to assume that those factions will not get a battletome for at least a year.

Wouldn't put money on that.  Blades of Khorne was the latest Battletome and that didn't have any new models.  I actually don't think there's a hard and fast rule on new model releases any more.  The only thing we can be certain of is we won't see a new Battletome (or Codex) with rules for models that don't exist in some format.

[Burf]

4 minutes ago, MidasKiss said:

Hoping for Moonclan then because they have plenty of cool ideas. Plastic squigs are going to rock 2018

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We're coming up on the point where we'll know 100% if things like this are actually a possibility soon. Since AoS released only Chaos has gotten kits that aren't part of a completely new faction (that I can recall, yes Sylvaneth and Ironjawz do count as completely new factions) So there is still a possibility they just choose not to update existing factions (other than replacing them with Suspiciously Similar Counterparts ala Fyre Slayers, Kharadrons, Iron Jaws) personally I would be very surprised if they don't revisit the old factions (especially Skaven) but we won't KNOW until we see what the first release after shadow elves is.

[Riavan]

On 23/08/2017 at 4:50 PM, MidasKiss said:

Hoping for Moonclan then because they have plenty of cool ideas. Plastic squigs are going to rock 2018

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I want ranged ironjawz hunters and armoured squigs!

[Kronos]

Sorry if already posted, I spotted these in the artwork, a GUO in the bak of the Bligh War Next week page banner. Uo seems to have like a tentacle beard or tongues, maw arm lik the glotkin and a sword, or at least a hilt.

 

and the other is what looks to be like a new type of nurgle daemon, its in the new artwork from the Death Guard.

 

 

Edited August 24, 2017 by Kronos

[Chikout]

Regarding the artwork and black library. There was a spell when GW was very tightly controlling both these parts of the company in order to insure that they only depicted available minis. Recently I believe they have given the writers and artists a bit more leeway to use their imagination. 

So now writers are encouraged to make pitches to GW about what they want to write rather than just following a tight brief from GW. (Books like dark Imperium are probably an exception to this). Artists are allowed to create characters to fill in the back ground and give flavour to the piece. 

That picture may have been inspired by a new guo model but, I would temper you excitement somewhat. 

 

[Malin]

Is there summary from yesterdays twitch somewhere. Did we get any info from Blightwars bar stats and rules for two heroes and allegiance abilities for nurgle?

[Captain Marius]

29 minutes ago, Malin said:

Is there summary from yesterdays twitch somewhere. Did we get any info from Blightwars bar stats and rules for two heroes and allegiance abilities for nurgle?

Good summary on War of Sigmar!

[Malin]

3 minutes ago, Captain Marius said:

Good summary on War of Sigmar!

Thanks, link for those interested:

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/2348

[shinros]

New short story up, currently reading it. It''s quite a good short read in my opinion. 

 

Auction of Blood

Summer of Reading: Day Five

Sent to an illicit auction in a city of Order, a servant of the Soulblight Queen Neferata finds his simple mission may be more complicated – and deadly – than he imagined.

READ IT BECAUSE
It ties into the novel 'Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows', and features hints about everyone's favourite queen of the dead, Neferata.

THE STORY
Palem Bok is a humble collector of the arcane, a trader of sorts but a resourceful one. He has to be, for Bok is also a spy for the Queen of Mysteries, Neferata herself! Sent to an illicit auction in Greywater Fastness, his mission is the retrieval of an esoteric item for his vampiric mistress. But Bok soon finds that this seemingly simple task is far more dangerous than he bargained for. 

Written by Josh Reynolds

Edited August 25, 2017 by shinros

[FractalRain]

 Sounds interesting!  Too bad we can't just buy individual stories.

Edited August 25, 2017 by FractalRain

[TheOtherJosh]

 Sounds interesting!  Too bad we can't just buy individual stories.

They actually are available individually:
http://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/quick-reads/auction-of-blood-ebook.html

[FractalRain]

Thanks!  Didn't know that!

[KevenM]

Not really a rumour but Warhammer Community has new updated Forge World models, compendium units and FAQs up:

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/08/25/new-and-updated-faqs-forge-world-warscrolls-and-compendium-pdfsgw-homepage-post-1/

[Captain Marius]

Woohoo, bye Sayl, you will not be missed!

Fantastic job by GW to sync all this with the ghb2 launch!

[SuperHappyTime]

21 hours ago, Captain Marius said:

Woohoo, bye Sayl, you will not be missed!

Fantastic job by GW to sync all this with the ghb2 launch!

and So Long Stupid Mustache, Pretending, and Attire Rules! May you all Rot in Hell!

[Popisdead]

New short story up, currently reading it. It''s quite a good short read in my opinion. 
 

Auction of Blood
Summer of Reading: Day Five
Sent to an illicit auction in a city of Order, a servant of the Soulblight Queen Neferata finds his simple mission may be more complicated – and deadly – than he imagined.
READ IT BECAUSE
It ties into the novel 'Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows', and features hints about everyone's favourite queen of the dead, Neferata.
THE STORY
Palem Bok is a humble collector of the arcane, a trader of sorts but a resourceful one. He has to be, for Bok is also a spy for the Queen of Mysteries, Neferata herself! Sent to an illicit auction in Greywater Fastness, his mission is the retrieval of an esoteric item for his vampiric mistress. But Bok soon finds that this seemingly simple task is far more dangerous than he bargained for. 

Written by Josh Reynolds

Josh is coming up fast as #2 to my man crush on Guy Haley as fav BL authors.

His prolific work in AoS is hurting my wallet and.. I'm pretty good with that




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[Sheriff]

Where should i start with aos books? 

I'm still reading end times 5ilogy but will move on after. 

No spoilers please. 

[shinros]

3 hours ago, Sheriff said:

Where should i start with aos books? 

I'm still reading end times 5ilogy but will move on after. 

No spoilers please. 

You can start the realm gate wars series. City of secrets is a good stand alone novel to introduce you to this phase of the lore if you do read that book first then the realm gate wars series you will then have an understanding of what the stormcast had to do to get to that point. 

GW even made an image for people getting started. 

 

http://www.blacklibrary.com/aos-reading-order.html

Also mortarch of night is essentially the hunt for nagash series and knights of vengeance audio drama in book form BUT I recommend if you can you get the audio drama versions. 

Edited August 27, 2017 by shinros

[mdkinker]

14 minutes ago, shinros said:

This image does more to keep me from starting than not having started. 

 

[Sheriff]

36 minutes ago, shinros said:

You can start the realm gate wars series. City of secrets is a good stand alone novel to introduce you to this phase of the lore if you do read that book first then the realm gate wars series you will then have an understanding of what the stormcast had to do to get to that point. 

GW even made an image for people getting started. 

 

http://www.blacklibrary.com/aos-reading-order.html

Also mortarch of night is essentially the hunt for nagash series and knights of vengeance audio drama in book form BUT I recommend if you can you get the audio drama versions. 

Oh wow this diagram is perfect thank you muchly. 

[Gecktron]

4 hours ago, Popisdead said:

 

Josh is coming up fast as #2 to my man crush on Guy Haley as fav BL authors.

His prolific work in AoS is hurting my wallet and.. I'm pretty good with that




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I just finished "Auction of Blood". What a great short story. We got a look into one of the Seeds of Hope from the campaign last year, a Chaos Dwarfs reference and a kick ass aelve. I finished the story in one go and now I can't wait for the Eight Lamentations Book. 
Josh is becoming my favorite Age of Sigmar author. 

[SuperHappyTime]

38 minutes ago, Sheriff said:

Oh wow this diagram is perfect thank you muchly. 

I would actually recommend listening to the podcast Garagehammer's reviews of the bottom half of the image (Quest for Ghal Maraz, Balance of Power, Godbeasts, and Sir not appearing in this image, All-Gates). I mean, you could buy them, but that actually costs money. David is pretty exuberant about the fluff and gives thorough coverage of it. Really hard not to recommend the podcast if you aren't looking for competitive AoS.