The Rumour Thread

[Grungnisson]

1 hour ago, Still-young said:

Death has its fair share of corroded scythes. The nails are definitely compelling for Nurgle though. 

Diiferent style of corrosion though. Smooth, round holes, as the metal would steadily rust out over time. These are sharp-edged, far more irregular, like etched by some corrosive substance.

[Draznak]

2 hours ago, Clan's Cynic said:

The nails remind me of krulboyz...

Spoiler

Maybe to tie in with last week's rumor engine ?

[SunStorm]

44 minutes ago, JackStreicher said:

 

Since the new SBGL Tome is coming out soon and no new unit apart from lilly vyrkos has been shown. I'd expect this to be neither Nurgle nor Death but Skaven.
If it is Nurgle I'd expect a new one of these:

This would be an ideal candidate for a new sculpt in plastic, retaining the existing style. After all, it's still for sale and thus appears in the army book

[CommissarRotke]

13 hours ago, Hollow said:

 

Was that not the initial intention with the different Stormhost Shield options? They were discontinued because they didn't sell. 

did not know those existed... here I go hoping for multipart Thunderstrike again 😢

8 hours ago, Beliman said:

Their main hook was that they were a ripoff space marines without all the cool stuff.

have to disagree here: the original armor designs may have been too heavily influenced by space marines, but they get different things like mortal lives, keeping their humanity, shore leave, actual honor, and an entire menagerie of cool magical animals. if you're more of a scifi fan, sure, space marines get "cooler stuff" but that doesn't mean Stormcast don't have their own.

[CommissarRotke]

1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:

I love how GW is slowly advancing the narrative outside of mainline AOS through Warcry and Underworlds

i would definitely buy a small primer that collected all the happenings though; while I do love that the specialist AOS games help out with the metaplot, it would be nice not to feel like you needed to collect all their inserts to read it (even if you don't buy all the sets).

 

1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:

Out looking to establish another City!! Awesome.

"After calling out Radukar’s colossal failure at Ulfenkarn during a rare visit to her clan’s conclave, Ivya offered a solution. She would use her bats to spy out nexuses of power upon which the dynasty could lay the foundations of a new, even greater city of death. Now the armies of the Vyrkos jockey to establish their new capital, with Ivya marching at their head."

this sounds so perfect for hero-heavy SBGL force where they all bicker and fight. maybe even painting each section of the army to one hero's colors? really nice fluff to fit a loner into an army that is essentially 'family' run

[Jagged Red Lines]

Is that scythe not just FEC? Would seem the obvious choice as its death and we know they're getting a range refresh.

[Neil Arthur Hotep]

3 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:

this sounds so perfect for hero-heavy SBGL force where they all bicker and fight. maybe even painting each section of the army to one hero's colors? really nice fluff to fit a loner into an army that is essentially 'family' run

I hope that's a viable list. I want to be able to run that 6 hero Vyrkos list where everyone is a general. I'd love if it was actually good.

3 minutes ago, Jagged Red Lines said:

Is that scythe not just FEC? Would seem the obvious choice as its death and we know they're getting a range refresh.

There are no scythes in FEC yet. In fact, there are surprisingly few scythes in Death armies in general outside of Nighthaunt.

[Beliman]

23 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:

have to disagree here: the original armor designs may have been too heavily influenced by space marines, but they get different things like mortal lives, keeping their humanity, shore leave, actual honor, and an entire menagerie of cool magical animals. if you're more of a scifi fan, sure, space marines get "cooler stuff" but that doesn't mean Stormcast don't have their own.

Fair enough, but I was talking about the first batch of SCE. They didn't have any "monsters" (no menagerie) and their Lore was focused on things that were not mainstream enough (Realmgate wars was about wars and so little for world building, only a few names become part of the tabletop).

The feeling that both armies were made to be the same for both IPs as "starter armies" (easy to pain, easy to build, easy to play and poster-boys) was hard to swallow, even with their diferences.

[Twisted Firaun]

33 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:

1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:

 

"After calling out Radukar’s colossal failure at Ulfenkarn during a rare visit to her clan’s conclave, Ivya offered a solution. She would use her bats to spy out nexuses of power upon which the dynasty could lay the foundations of a new, even greater city of death. Now the armies of the Vyrkos jockey to establish their new capital, with Ivya marching at their head."

this sounds so perfect for hero-heavy SBGL force where they all bicker and fight. maybe even painting each section of the army to one hero's colors? really nice fluff to fit a loner into an army that is essentially 'family' run

I really like the narrative of the Soulblight dynasties going out and establishing new cities on sites do magical power. It matches the current narrative of most armies but at the same time reminds us the Death armies are still major players in the narrative, regardless of Nagash and his current condition.

[Vasshpit]

28 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

I hope that's a viable list. I want to be able to run that 6 hero Vyrkos list where everyone is a general. I'd love if it was actually good.

Who am I missing? I can only think of 5

Belladomma

Radukar

Annika

Kritza

Ivya

 

[Neil Arthur Hotep]

Just now, Vasshpit said:

Who am I missing? I can only think of 5

Belladomma

Radukar

Annika

Kritza

Ivya

Generic 6th vampire lord who can be the regular general.

[Clan's Cynic]

"One Man Army" Scenario for Cursed City.

Edited April 4, 2023 by Clan's Cynic

[CommissarRotke]

6 minutes ago, Beliman said:

Fair enough, but I was talking about the first batch of SCE. They didn't have any "monsters" (no menagerie) and their Lore was focused on things that were not mainstream enough (Realmgate wars was about wars and so little for world building, only a few names become part of the tabletop).

The feeling that both armies were made to be the same for both IPs as "starter armies" (easy to pain, easy to build, easy to play and poster-boys) was hard to swallow, even with their diferences.

ohhh my apologies, I did not come into AOS until 2.0 so I forget it took a while for even Dracoths to show up. That first Realmgate Wars book was actually fairly interesting, it is a shame they were not used for more world-building...

[Public Universal Duardin]

1 hour ago, SunStorm said:

This would be an ideal candidate for a new sculpt in plastic, retaining the existing style. After all, it's still for sale and thus appears in the army book

Poor Harbinger, dude has spent 3 editions searching for Kislev that no longer exists 😢

[JerekKruger]

3 hours ago, Clan's Cynic said:

Ivya Volga rules preview.

I think Behemoth's Bane is probably not that good. It looks good at first, but his easily can you get her into combat with the enemy's monsters, how easily can she be killed to remove the effect, and how much harder is it too simply kill the enemy monster (after all, dead monsters have zero attacks, and chubby as zero models for the purpose of finding objectives). Maybe there'll be some clever combos which make it useful, but I'm not holding my breath.

The -1 to hit is good though. The bonus if wins are allocated is probably less so (averaging 3 Wounds at Rend -1 is okay, but not amazing).

But all of this is very much secondary to the more important thing: she looks great!

[JerekKruger]

4 minutes ago, Public Universal Duardin said:

Poor Harbinger, dude has spent 3 editions searching for Kislev that no longer exists 😢

This guy was one of my favourite minis back in 2003 when I got back into Warhammer. It's weird looking at him now and realising how poor the detailing is on him compared to modern minis, since he was an absolutely top notch mini back then.

I think he'd be a great choice for a glow up. He's very iconic.

[KingBrodd]

2 hours ago, Draznak said:

The nails remind me of krulboyz...

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Maybe to tie in with last week's rumor engine ?

Oh it could definitely be the Kruelboyz!!

1 hour ago, CommissarRotke said:

i would definitely buy a small primer that collected all the happenings though; while I do love that the specialist AOS games help out with the metaplot, it would be nice not to feel like you needed to collect all their inserts to read it (even if you don't buy all the sets).

 

"After calling out Radukar’s colossal failure at Ulfenkarn during a rare visit to her clan’s conclave, Ivya offered a solution. She would use her bats to spy out nexuses of power upon which the dynasty could lay the foundations of a new, even greater city of death. Now the armies of the Vyrkos jockey to establish their new capital, with Ivya marching at their head."

this sounds so perfect for hero-heavy SBGL force where they all bicker and fight. maybe even painting each section of the army to one hero's colors? really nice fluff to fit a loner into an army that is essentially 'family' run

Id love just Lore books collecting everything, including White Dwarf entries.

[Neverchosen]

11 minutes ago, Public Universal Duardin said:

Poor Harbinger, dude has spent 3 editions searching for Kislev that no longer exists 😢

It's like the plot of a medieval fantasy version of a Beckett play.

[Public Universal Duardin]

3 minutes ago, JerekKruger said:

This guy was one of my favourite minis back in 2003 when I got back into Warhammer. It's weird looking at him now and realising how poor the detailing is on him compared to modern minis, since he was an absolutely top notch mini back then.

I think he'd be a great choice for a glow up. He's very iconic.

Absolutely agree - at the time (give or take a year) when I was a wee lass, and Games Workshop still published thick yearly catalogues that I and my brothers would read like the Bible, that miniature really stuck with me. He does look a bit goofy in today's standards, but maybe I should pick one up for nostalgia's sake. Definitely agree on him being an awesome candidate for a glow-up!

[The Lost Sigmarite]

If we continue to debate about that scythe rumour engine, Whitefang will be summoned to the thread and will deliver us some form of answer...that will leave us with even more questions.

[EntMan]

7 minutes ago, The Lost Sigmarite said:

If we continue to debate about that scythe rumour engine, Whitefang will be summoned to the thread and will deliver us some form of answer...that will leave us with even more questions.

No debate, it's definitely Skaven, eh @Whitefang?

[CDM]

I think more mortal Nurgle is  overdue. They've had dribs and drabs but could do with a few other bits. Pestigors for one. Maybe some plague zombies.

 

 

[Clan's Cynic]

4 minutes ago, CDM said:

I think more mortal Nurgle is  overdue. They've had dribs and drabs but could do with a few other bits. Pestigors for one. Maybe some plague zombies.

I doubt we'll see Plague Zombies just because unlike 40k Death already has the Zombie niche covered.

I think the closest we'll probably see would be some kind of pox-infected cultists akin to the chaff in Vermintide 2.

 

[CDM]

1 hour ago, Clan's Cynic said:

I doubt we'll see Plague Zombies just because unlike 40k Death already has the Zombie niche covered.

I think the closest we'll probably see would be some kind of pox-infected cultists akin to the chaff in Vermintide 2.

 

Well yeah that's what I mean! Something suitably pox covered and AoSified of course

[Jetlife]

While I  feel it's Nurgle, there are some similarities from this axe on the FEC Warband