EccentricCircle
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1 hour ago, xking said:
Is this real? some people saying it from 3rd edition Fantasy or old White Dwarf. This can't be real right?
It may not be an actual vintage mini, but it sure is a great conversion. Oldhammer style takes of various modern factions sounds like a great idea! It perfectly blends the two styles.
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So what do we think are the most likely sets to be discontinued when Cities of Sigmar arrives? The article says that they'll let us know in due course, but a few things are already seeming to be sold out...
I've had a poke around on the various webstores, and quite a few of the old Empire sets look to be endangered, as do some of the Aelves. However its hard to tell what will just be a reboxing, since basically everything except wanderers is on square bases.
Does anyone who went to the preview have a feel for the kind of units that were prominently featured, and are thus likely to be safe?
I'm hoping that they wouldn't get rid of any of hte centrepiece models like the Phoenixes and the Skycutter, but I worry that the rest of the high elf stuff could be on shaky ground. There are also a lot of old Dark elf units which have never been re-based. Scourge Privateers get talked about a lot in the lore, so it would be a shame if they vanished, but its hard to know. Darkling Covens could be safe, since the Dark Elf Sorceress is popular enough to be one of the last square based models which is still in stores rather than being direct order. Taking away all of her soldiers would seem like an odd move, but if they are really shaking up the list so that the idea of Darkling Covens no longer matters then anything could happen!
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2 hours ago, madmac said:
Perhaps, but they're also quite old models (6th edition) and out of scale with the rest of the Wanderers. And removed from the webstore as of now.
It's possible they come back, but if you asked me to pick a single Wanderer unit (not hero) that may not make the cut, Glade Guard would be first on the list.
Glade guard are still there. I'm seeing Lion Rangers as gone, but nothing else seems to have vanished yet.
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Well, that is a very tomb stone looking slab or rock. I know I'm biased, but that carving is clearly a pyramid, with Aten style sun rays falling around it. The runes don't look like the Elvish ones, which I'm fairly familiar with. To me the downward strokes give them almost the look of Babylonian Cuneiform. Candles have definitely been associated with Undead recently, particularly the nighthaunt. They evoke more of a gothic vibe than the classic egyptian one, but we know that whatever comes next is going to be a bit of a hodge podge, since most AoS factions are.
In summary:
I'm not saying that its Tomb Kings... but....
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Gotta love crazy warhammer conspiracy theories! The potential for stuff like this is really what makes the lore so mych fun.
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2 minutes ago, Saiken said:
Thanks a lot ! That's crystal clear !
There are definitely pictures from the rumor engine that look like a Necrosphinx tail. So, construct are very likely
You are welcome. Yeah, there are quite a few things which really look as though they could fit at aesthetic, and it s a nice niches that AoS doesn't have much for at present.
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9 hours ago, Saiken said:
What do you guys refer to when you mention "constructs", I don't quite see what this would be ?
Also, any idea what this "Soul Feast Prison" could refer to ? I can't find any mention of this in the lore.
The term "construct" refers to artificially created creatures, generally stuff like Golems which are empowered by magic, however it could also be used for anything from Frankenstein 's monster to a robot. It was popularised by D&D where it is a major category in the monster classification scheme, however it wouldn't surprise me if it pops up in classic fantasy, albeit used less perscriptively. In AoS everythin from a morghast to an ushabti is a construct, they were most popular with the tomb kings.
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Its surprising just how many cultural cues people are reading into that music. Everyone seems to be seeing something different in it and drawing different conclusions as a result. I think it might be that the style shifts a bit from one end of the piece to another. The start has an almost Japanese feel to me, but by the end there is quite a celtic lilt to it all. What I'm not hearing much of is egyptian style music, and while i'd love it to be Tomb Kings, I don't quite see that happening!
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I would love to see a Baccanalian take on the Wardancers, with revellers, satyrs, and acrobatic wardancers. You could make a troop of new wardancer sculpts look really amazing, like the old direct order ones at the very least. Then satyrs could form the elite troops, centaurs the shock troops or cavalry, and have nymphs and sorceresses as the heroes. Some sort of Avatar of Kurnous or Orion would be the perfect god of the Wild Hunt.
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I could see them trying to eventually get to eight factions per grand alliance. I think that would be the optimum number, since it is kind of what Chaos is headed towards are present.
You have the four God specific factions, plus Beastmen, Skaven, Legion of Azgorh (if it ever gets a book), and then finally Chaos Undivided. One army for each point on the Chaos Star. If you want you could add a ninth, completely new faction to be the eighth spike, and treat Chaos Undivided as being the whole things. What form that would take I'm not sure.
As far as Order goes we're almost at the same level. We presently have two "human" factions, in Stormcast and Cities, two dwarven factions in Fyreslayers and Overlords. Then three elven factions and Seraphon who are kind of their own thing. That means that there is space to add a third force of Dwarves to balance the scales, or more likely spin out further variations on Elves.
I'm not sure whether the other two alliances will ever have as many factions as order and Chaos, but at least the souping means that they aren't lagging as far behind as they once were!
It looks as though destruction will have three tomes split along racial lines with Gloomspite, Orruks and Mawtribes. I think there is definitely space to spin trolls off into their own thing, ala Nighthaunt after Legions of Nagash. Where they go from there is harder to predict, maybe more variations on a theme, or maybe it will just stay a small and condensed alliance.
Death has a lot of potential. We currently have Legions of Nagash, which is kind of the Everchosen of Death. Then Nighthaunt and Ghouls being able to be their own thing. The two obvious factions to spin off are clearly Skeletons (ala Tomb Kings), and Soulblight (ala the old Vampire Counts). some variant on those archetypes gets thrown about whenever death is discussed. However, seeing as the current factions consist of Ghoulies and Ghosties, I think that the next couple of Death factions should actually be Long Leggity Beasties, and Things that Go Bump in the Night respectively!
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I reckon that the Feast of Bones and Tithe of Bones must be related in some way. Otherwise it would be an odd choice from a marketing prespective, to give them two names which would so easily be confused, and are not that distinct. Conversely, if they both tie into the same narrative arc then it makes sense to give them theme naming.
I've very excited for the Cities of Sigmar, since it will unite a vast amount of my random little Order armies into a single faction. My Free City shall rise again!
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This is all proving very cool. I genuinely didn't think that they'd roll all of the Orky factions into one tome. I thought that seemed unlikely given the factions that have stayed on their own in the other grand alliances. Now I'm kind of wishing they'd released a united Dwarven book, rather than just Fyreslayers!
This would seem to make it much more likely that whatever happens with Ogres it could be a united book rather than two more battletomes to update. It certainly makes sense to have the rules spread out over a few broad factions as possible.
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3 minutes ago, Overread said:
Could be esp since GW did say they were going to tell us which models were leaving before they, you know, left.
I hope they make it clear this time around. Even so its probably time to grab the last couple of Eldritch Council bits I was planning on getting. So much for my new years resolution not to buy any more elves!
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Well, if they do roll all of the old humans, elves and dwarves into one book that would go a long way towards Order being a complete grand alliance. Just Kharadrons and Seraphon to go?
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My predictions: They will announce some stuff, and show off some pretty pictures. This will delight a few people who want that stuff. Some people will feel let down that it isn't the stuff they are waiting for. Most just won't care, but will feel like they should because we've spent so much energy hyping it all up!
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5 hours ago, Whitefang said:
I am sure that some of the old gods did survive and even became part of Sigmar’s pantheon, Taal was mentioned being worshipped in Ghur while Myrmidya has her own knightly order.
Gazul and Valaya were very likely alive at the time of myth but some things had happened to them, like, it was mentioned that Gazul was defeated by Nagash but part of him still preserved by his worshippers.
Kurnous seems very likely survived and got name changed for copyright issues, Khaine was half-dead but there is still chance for him to rise again though little. It was also mentioned that Teclis was trying to revive other old elven gods.
Lizardmen’s gods, aka “old ones” seem also still exit in AOS, they, such as Sotek, are now “star gods” who were constellations and still able to bless Space Lizardmen. It is interesting that Sotek even has human worshippers now.
Although its worth noting that Sotek was never actually an Old One. The Old Ones were the creator gods of the Lizardmen, and by extension most of the races that came after them. Originally they were the only beings worshiped by the Lizardmen, who were very suspicious of all other "gods" worshiped by mortals since many of them were Chaos Entities.
However Sotek appeared during a time of great strife for the Lizardmen, and saved them from the deprivations of the Skaven, in exchange for eternal worship and bloody sacrifices. The Slann don't approve of the Sotek Cult, since this entity could well just be a Chaos God in another guise. However, the Skinks are now fanatical devotees of him, and so they can't outlaw the practice without upsetting the balance of power within their races.
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I think most of the shards of Khaine were consumed by/ reabsorbed into Khorne. So the one Morathi has is one of the last remnants of that god at all.
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I think that Nagash ate Morr, although I'm not 100% sure about the circumstances surrounding that.
I think that some of the gods effectively possessed the Incarnate of the Wind of Magic they are most associated with, so the Sigmar that exists in AoS is sort of a fusion of the Empire's Concept of Sigmar, the Wind of Azyr made manifest, and the mortal Karl Franz ascended to godhood. The dwarven gods and Alarielle might be similar, they are not quite the old gods, or ascended mortals, rather they are something inbetween.
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24 minutes ago, Dreadmund said:
Hey, go attach yourself via means of a spiral thread rotating within a similarly threaded slot, buddy!
Ikea tables are pretty good, although they're heavy and not being able to fold down means they can be difficult to transport. Not bad for the home though, since you can hide it behind other furniture or in a cupboard pretty easily. Nice and sturdy.
Yeah, they are a bit heavy. I don't need to move them from place to place, but if you want something easy to transport then its not the best idea.
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22 hours ago, EccentricCircle said:
If you are not too fussed about it literally folding, then some of Ikea's tables with ****** on legs can be quite good. I have four tables which usually go flat under my bed, with the legs beside them. Then they ****** on in about two minutes, to create a fully stable gaming surface of whatever size you have room for. Maybe a little more bulky to store than some options, but much less so that many of the folding tables i've seen.
Wow, the profanity filter really doesn't like DIY does it?
I of course meant to say that the legs attach by means of a spiral thread, which one rotates within a similarly threaded slot!
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Cool. looks like I've got the models to assemble about six warbands, across order, death and gloomspite. Should be good.
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If you are not too fussed about it literally folding, then some of Ikea's tables with ****** on legs can be quite good. I have four tables which usually go flat under my bed, with the legs beside them. Then they ****** on in about two minutes, to create a fully stable gaming surface of whatever size you have room for. Maybe a little more bulky to store than some options, but much less so that many of the folding tables i've seen.
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1 hour ago, Kirjava13 said:
Skulls made of skulls? Peak Warhammer.
That was the idea!
Ultimately the line would expand to have specific undead counters to each of the Chaos Gods, so a sterilizer, which eradicates Nurgles rot, but other life in the process; and an anti magic unit to take down Tzeetchian horrors etc. Not quite figured out what each thing should be, but I'm going to keep tinkering with it!
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