The Rumour Thread

[Beliman]

Are we 100% sure that the rumormongers said "Skavens and Malerion Elfs" instead of "Dwarfs"??

[Maogrim]

6 hours ago, Noserenda said:

Yeah, hate to break it to you that blood bowl is a separate game made by a separate team that has zero impact on AoS releases. So you just look bad. 

Wow. That was quite rude and absolutely unwarranted, and I think you look bad by attacking me in such a way. As do those who reinforce such behavior by the way of likes. 

[sandlemad]

I think it’s pretty warranted, honestly. Complaining about a small and historically undersupported specialist game with a limited release pattern and its own specifically allocated resources is rather ugly and entitled behaviour, regardless of the admittedly irritating peaks and troughs of AoS releases.
 

It’s essentially the same impulse as the no less unpleasant ‘please squat X faction/range so the one that I personally like can get more kits’, which has been the line thrown at a lot of AoS by some 40k fans. Or, like, the line that was thrown at about half the Lumineth range but a lot of people who didn’t personally like them.

Edited April 11, 2022 by sandlemad

[Chikout]

34 minutes ago, Beliman said:

Are we 100% sure that the rumormongers said "Skavens and Malerion Elfs" instead of "Dwarfs"??

Actually I'm pretty sure they said that Malerion Aelves are in the starter and that Skaven as also part of this season. I don't think they actually confirmed the second warband in the starter. 

The last 4 warbands are rumoured to be Malerion Aelves, Witch hunters, Skaven and an unnamed 4th warband which has already had two warbands in Underworlds.

Factions with 2 warbands are ironjawz, Gloomspite Gitz, ogor mawtribes, Khorne, Slaves to Darkness and Soulblight Gravelords. I may be misremembering this whole thing though. 

 

[KingBrodd]

2 hours ago, Nezzhil said:

 

"You’ve fought tooth and nail through the tortuous halls of Harrowdeep. Now a hint of the abyssal depths below makes itself known. "

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/11/the-shadows-shift-grab-your-torch-and-plumb-the-depths-below-harrowdeep/

LETS GOOOO!! Hopefully we actually get hints at or flat out announcements of the Warbands in the Starter!! Our Underworlds leaker is 100% so far so I cant wait to see what it is. 

Love that AOS seems to be starting to pick up a bit again with Nighthaunt and DOK Tomes coming, Seasons of War Thondia and now a new Underworlds boxed set.

[Maogrim]

50 minutes ago, sandlemad said:

I think it’s pretty warranted, honestly. Complaining about a small and historically undersupported specialist game with a limited release pattern and its own specifically allocated resources is rather ugly and entitled behaviour, regardless of the admittedly irritating peaks and troughs of AoS releases.
 

It’s essentially the same impulse as the no less unpleasant ‘please squat X faction/range so the one that I personally like can get more kits’, which has been the line thrown at a lot of AoS by some 40k fans. Or, like, the line that was thrown at about half the Lumineth range but a lot of people who didn’t personally like them.

I have, at no point, explicitly asked for Bloodbowl to be discontinued. I was, admittedly, complaining and musing what could be. But I also made clear that it was just "not my cup of tea". But that's enough to call me behavior ugly and entitled? Thank you, that's just beyond kind.

Guess I'll be showing up here a little less now. 

[CommissarRotke]

30 minutes ago, Chikout said:

Actually I'm pretty sure they said that Malerion Aelves are in the starter and that Skaven as also part of this season. I don't think they actually confirmed the second warband in the starter. 

The last 4 warbands are rumoured to be Malerion Aelves, Witch hunters, Skaven and an unnamed 4th warband which has already had two warbands in Underworlds.

Factions with 2 warbands are ironjawz, Gloomspite Gitz, ogor mawtribes, Khorne, Slaves to Darkness and Soulblight Gravelords. I may be misremembering this whole thing though. 

 

Umbraneth vs Skaven would make much more sense than vs Witch Hunters IMHO. I don't think we know for sure that Malerion dislikes Sigmar enough to fight. A Witch Hunter warband makes more sense as a foil to the new zombies shown off, or even Skaven as well.

Going off the idea that the new set is Skaven vs Umbraneth, I could see the 4th warband release being a third for Gloomspite.

[novakai]

42 minutes ago, Chikout said:

Actually I'm pretty sure they said that Malerion Aelves are in the starter and that Skaven as also part of this season. I don't think they actually confirmed the second warband in the starter. 

The last 4 warbands are rumoured to be Malerion Aelves, Witch hunters, Skaven and an unnamed 4th warband which has already had two warbands in Underworlds.

Factions with 2 warbands are ironjawz, Gloomspite Gitz, ogor mawtribes, Khorne, Slaves to Darkness and Soulblight Gravelords. I may be misremembering this whole thing though. 

 

Are they merging two season into one?

because as I believe it currently is, Harrowdeep is only slotted 6 warbands base in the card numbering. This new starter set is the last of this cycle

[KingBrodd]

+++MOD HAT ON+++ 

Guys you've already been asked to keep it civil. That's more than enough.

[Sabotage!]

1 hour ago, novakai said:

Are they merging two season into one?

because as I believe it currently is, Harrowdeep is only slotted 6 warbands base in the card numbering. This new starter set is the last of this cycle

If I remember correctly the rumors were from someone who had a "list of upcoming warbands" so it could be that they span this season and possibly the next, because you are right - this starter set should end this season (at least if i have been interpreting things correctly - I have been very disappointed with this season in general and haven't bought anything from it). I'd love to see the Starter contents this week. It is supposed to be out in Q2, which we are already in, so a reveal wouldn't be too much to hope for.

I'm really hoping the starter is Malerion's Elves vs. Witch Hunters (CoS needs some love), but I would also be very happy with Malerion's Elves versus Eshin Skaven - who doesn't love Ninja rats. Honestly everything that has been rumored (I guess aside from the faction getting a 3rd warband, since we don't know what it is) sounds much more appealing than what has been released thus far to me.

[Horizons]

22 minutes ago, Sabotage! said:

If I remember correctly the rumors were from someone who had a "list of upcoming warbands" so it could be that they span this season and possibly the next, because you are right - this starter set should end this season (at least if i have been interpreting things correctly - I have been very disappointed with this season in general and haven't bought anything from it).

I believe one of the early roadmaps for this season showed another two warbands after this box set. Starter, 2 warbands, box set, 2 warbands. Was I believe the road map.

I followed and played UW from Nightvault to Direchasm and this has been the least exciting season so far. The glacial pace of release for it hasn't helped. We're 6 months after the core set and only one warband was released. Though models are still top notch.

EDiT: I was wrong. Looked back at all the info and no indication/anything confirmed after the Q2 box set.

Edited April 11, 2022 by Horizons

[Aleser]

2 hours ago, Chikout said:

Actually I'm pretty sure they said that Malerion Aelves are in the starter and that Skaven as also part of this season. I don't think they actually confirmed the second warband in the starter. 

The last 4 warbands are rumoured to be Malerion Aelves, Witch hunters, Skaven and an unnamed 4th warband which has already had two warbands in Underworlds.

Factions with 2 warbands are ironjawz, Gloomspite Gitz, ogor mawtribes, Khorne, Slaves to Darkness and Soulblight Gravelords. I may be misremembering this whole thing though. 

 

I think UW guy confirmed khorne as last warband

Edited April 11, 2022 by Aleser

[CommissarRotke]

15 minutes ago, Aleser said:

I think UW guy confirmed khorne as last warband

 

Oh that is interesting... out of that entire list, Khorne seems least likely because the design feels limiting. If this is true it'll be intriguing to see where the team went with Khorne.

[Snorri Nelriksson]

2 hours ago, CommissarRotke said:

Oh that is interesting... out of that entire list, Khorne seems least likely because the design feels limiting. If this is true it'll be intriguing to see where the team went with Khorne.

Hoping for some dog-faced Khorngors.

TBH pretty excited to see some Malerion disciples (while i don't care much about elven armies i can see some interesting new takes on the Dark elves "descendants").
Let's see...

Edited April 11, 2022 by Snorri Nelriksson

[Lupercal]

Isn’t it possible, perhaps likely, that the warband revealed at Adepticon would be part of this release?

[Nezzhil]

3 hours ago, novakai said:

Are they merging two season into one?

because as I believe it currently is, Harrowdeep is only slotted 6 warbands base in the card numbering. This new starter set is the last of this cycle

No, Harrowdeep numbering only slotted 4 warbands. The Illusion's deck is included in the Harrowdeep collection.

Edited April 11, 2022 by Nezzhil

[CommissarRotke]

Khornegors might be right on the money! I just read the spruesandbrews Thondia lore review. I'll spoil it if people prefer to read the book themselves, there is a BOMBSHELL about why the name is "Era of the Beast" though 👀

Spoiler

So, there’s some very exciting stuff that is revealed within the book. Firstly, it seems that exposure to the Incarnates turns both mortals and Stormcast into mindless frenzied beasts – we see some of the first people exposed to one look very similar to Beastmen – and speaking of Beastmen…

One of the characters in the book is a Great Bray-Shamen named Ghorraghan Khai who claims to be the commanded by the spirit of Morghur the Shadowgave (Old school fans will recognise him from the World that Was!)

Khai sees a kinship between the Beastmen and the Incarnates and wants to use that to bind them all to their will. And by using the combined power of the Incarnates Morghur through his puppet Khai wants to bring about the Era of the Beast. That’s right, the era is not named after Kragnos or the forces of Destruction – it looks like the Era of the Beast is all about the Beastmen! Could the Beastmen and Morghur himself be the main antagonist in this story arc? It would be very cool to get some updated Beastmen and a new battletome! Only time will tell!

We also get multiple mentions of the Khorne Daemon General Doombreed, who I am now fairly sure will get a model when the Blades of Khorne get their next releases!

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by CommissarRotke

[Kaleb Daark]

40 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:

Khornegors might be right on the money! I just read the spruesandbrews Thondia lore review. I'll spoil it if people prefer to read the book themselves, there is a BOMBSHELL about why the name is "Era of the Beast" though 👀

  Hide contents

So, there’s some very exciting stuff that is revealed within the book. Firstly, it seems that exposure to the Incarnates turns both mortals and Stormcast into mindless frenzied beasts – we see some of the first people exposed to one look very similar to Beastmen – and speaking of Beastmen…

One of the characters in the book is a Great Bray-Shamen named Ghorraghan Khai who claims to be the commanded by the spirit of Morghur the Shadowgave (Old school fans will recognise him from the World that Was!)

Khai sees a kinship between the Beastmen and the Incarnates and wants to use that to bind them all to their will. And by using the combined power of the Incarnates Morghur through his puppet Khai wants to bring about the Era of the Beast. That’s right, the era is not named after Kragnos or the forces of Destruction – it looks like the Era of the Beast is all about the Beastmen! Could the Beastmen and Morghur himself be the main antagonist in this story arc? It would be very cool to get some updated Beastmen and a new battletome! Only time will tell!

We also get multiple mentions of the Khorne Daemon General Doombreed, who I am now fairly sure will get a model when the Blades of Khorne get their next releases!

 

If they give me a khorne Doombull and khornegors that work with my blades then I will literally do a wee!

then i will make @Maogrim a lumineth chod headlords a bloodbowl team due to the sheer joy of it all.

@sandlemad you have to forgive the lumineth groin chod, they’re like that is elfs.

point if view as pointy as their ears and so far up in the sky they cant see the bigger world due to their stupidly large troosers and silly hats.

lets face it, elfs make the bone mafia seem like reasonable businessmen at the best of times, and old longface elfs are even worse.

wait till his brother shows up, imagine how miserable he’s going to be when he finds out his uncle is getting more airtime and some bat wings instead of a silly hat and annoying troosers.

 

elfs, why the long face,

its not the beastmans fault he’s caved it with his mace.

A nice game of bloodbowl is what they wants,

hes just upset that they’ll just look right pants.

 

Ayethangyeoow.

 

anyway… was there any mention of proper dwarfs in the book, you know the proper ones with the daemons hidden under their impressive and mighty and not in any way elf level of silly hats?

[Kaleb Daark]

All jokes aside, if this is heralding the return or morghur that will be amazeballs- he’s got a massive axe to grind with Alariel, they hate each other with a special venom.

Fingers crossed this gorn be gooood!!

[KingBrodd]

And with that I'll be taking my leave of TGA besides Mod duties, can't risk any spoilers when the Narrative is my favourite part of the game!!

[Kaleb Daark]

1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:

And with that I'll be taking my leave of TGA besides Mod duties, can't risk any spoilers when the Narrative is my favourite part of the game!!

Eh!!!

ang about!!!

what!!!!

[mojojojo101]

If we see Malerion Aelves I hope they are extremely weird.

Outside of the Vengorian Lord most of the bigger releases recently have all been a bit normal looking.

Really looking for something weird and AoS-y from Malerion.

[AngryPanda]

On 4/10/2022 at 1:32 PM, Clan's Cynic said:

Pretty sure we haven't seen the Yeti before?

 

He’s gonna be great for a Christmas conversion; just throw a Santa hat on him and you’re set. 
 

And speaking about rumors, my bet is on Skaven for the summer, along with Sylvaneth. However, Skaven desperately need a range refresh, arguably the most in all of 40k and AoS. So in a way, unless the rumored Skaven release has a lot of new releases, I’m sort of hoping they don’t get updated so that GW can spend some time on getting them the proper attention they need. 

Edited April 12, 2022 by AngryPanda

[pnkdth]

11 hours ago, Kaleb Daark said:

Eh!!!

ang about!!!

what!!!!

Posting spoilers with no warning after quoting a post which hid the spoilers. While it is a rumour thread be mindful of spoilers so we do not end up ruining things for each other.

 

[Nezzhil]