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13 minutes ago, MitGas said:

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It‘s not a croc and neither a lizard but it‘s still my favorite Marvel image ever and it fits Seraphon in a way too.
 

„I want to turn people into dinosaurs“. You do you, magnificent pterodactyl-man.

Foolish Pterodactyl-man of questionable wisdom!

Doesn't he realise that Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-a-pterosaur-is-not-a-dinosaur-87082921/

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14 minutes ago, MitGas said:

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It‘s not a croc and neither a lizard but it‘s still my favorite Marvel image ever and it fits Seraphon in a way too.
 

„I want to turn people into dinosaurs“. You do you, magnificent pterodactyl-man.

His name is Sauron dammit !

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13 minutes ago, MitGas said:

You do you, magnificent pterodactyl-man.

No. Noooo…. And just like that I have the overwhelming urge to convert an entire faction of Pterodactyl people. Almost certainly using the new little Terrawing things from the Sundered Fate set. 

They will be flappy and snappy and the Mortal Realms will tremble at the sound of their clacking beaks. Caw-caw! 

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On 3/4/2023 at 5:30 AM, JerekKruger said:

I absolutely love the Lord of Hubris, but then he has a similar vibe to myrmidesh which are possibly my favourite infantry unit in AoS from an aesthetics point of view (and hopefully a rules point of view when this book comes out) so making a hero who shares a lot of their aesthetics was always going to be a slam dunk.

When he said "I have practiced my blade-craft to perfection" in the video, did anyone else think of the "I studied the blade" meme?

Now I fully expect him to be not that good. A 4+ ward with a taunt sounds good on paper, but unless he has a lot of wounds to go along with that I think he'll still go down pretty quickly. I suppose you don't have to use the taunt, in which case he's a pretty durable hero, but unless he has another useful ability or has a ridiculous attack profile he'll probably fall into the camp of "not very useful foot assassin". Not that I mind, he looks awesome.

Of course the real star is the announcement of the Hedonites Battletome. I have waited for this for a long time: do not fail me GW rules writers: give me a S2D, GSG, BoC tier book please. Doesn't need to be overpowered, it just needs to be fun.

The Realmgore Ritualist looks cool too, though once again I am more interested as to the contents of the new book. Will Khorne finally feel like Khorne? I hope so.

If lord of hubris is like 70-100 points he would work well with slaangor, since you can do something very similar to what BoC can do with Gor and slaangor.

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2 hours ago, Draznak said:

It was such a certainty. 😆

I must confess that I became pissed after this game to have so much favoritism from sculptors (ok, I admit that AoS is better in 2023). Let's wait for the rest of the day to find out if I have a good reason to be grumpy...

I get the annoyance but tbh while it wasn’t quite as underserved as, say, Blood Bowl, it was in the wilderness for a long, long time.

Besides, overwhelmingly the Necro releases are random resin weirdos (and so not eating into AoS releases*) with more character and creativity than 90% of space marine releases in the last 5 years. They’re clearly labours of love on the part of the sculptors. Anyway, fingers cross we get a lizard preview 

* Though AT and other specialist games are a different story…

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30 minutes ago, EntMan said:

A great looking miniature, and I like the lore - a refreshing (to me at least) lack of grimdark.

Yeah, the lore may be cliche, but it falls into a refreshingly-nuanced take on goodness in 40k - that it is, in some way, achievable, but only by working outside of existing power structures, since the inherent nature of the actions required to make the galaxy a better place are at odds with the methods said power structures use to cling to their power. And, of course, those power structures often have easy access to "do a genocide" buttons.

"Everyone's evil" is a bland and reductionist take on 40K lore and the grimdark genre. In this essay I will...

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At first I didn't understand why they re-did this model. Then I went back and realized, I liked the one on foot and the one on throne was resin, so makes sense. 

I really like they they are knocking out all the old resin kits. 

It is giving me optimism that at some point in the future we will see the same treatment for Skaven, Beastmen and Ogres!

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5 minutes ago, Matrindur said:

As far as I can see the two Skinks use different arms (and staff), legs and heads so as long as there are also two torsos inside you could build a Starseer with the seated Skink and use the standing version as a Skink Priest on foot

You can bet on there only being 1 torso to prevent exactly that!

 

Definitely an unexpected model though, as others have said this could mean an even larger release than expected - very exciting!

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The Great Plan delivers once again! This one was quite the surprise, but a welcome one. I do like the old resin version. I briefly considered if the Starseer would just be a build option for new Slann, but the fact that they are giving each kit their due is awesome. Skink in the first picture kind of looks like it's on the can.

Interestingly, I misinterpreted Whitefang's "now pick 4" post. Clearly, Games Workshop has more in store for us than I had dared hope. Come, scryers of the stars, let us meditate on this...

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Note that we only had two reveals out of the three announced yesterday... Perhaps Dawnbringer/Cities during the week ?

 

Edit : They said "three different games"... Failed again 😂 (but still intriguing)

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