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I might just skip the rest of this edition and go play 40k for a bit. The new Eldar and chaos stuff coming up seems a lot more exciting.

The last thing I need for my Idoneth is a random foot hero. I've already got 4 random foot heroes that don't see much play.

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Disappointed but not surprised. 

Guess it's not going to be any love til 4th ed at the soonest.

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3 hours ago, Nezzhil said:

I love all the people that they are expecting more than a hero for both factions. The simple innocence of a child gives me hope in the humanity. 🥲

I don't think anyone really expects that. I think it's more hope on the basis that Fyreslayers could really use some unit variety and Deepkin are quite a high concept army that has a lot of potential.

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They haven't even bothered with a trailer, let alone some rumour engine pics, we're getting a trash box 😂

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Let's be real, it's going to be one hero each and a new book. 

I've already made peace with it, just have to hope it's a book that is more Stormcast / Warclans than Nurgle.

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2 hours ago, PJetski said:

A playtester once gave me a subtle smile when I said about how cool a giant crab model will be.

Don't stop believing (but it will probably come out in like 4 years).

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Could this be rumour worthy? Probably not, but we can hope!

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2 hours ago, Whitefang said:

No, I guess he means the one idoneth with eyes Gotrek is facing

So excited for my generic foot hero and then no releases for 3 to 4 years. Thanks GW!

In all seriousness though she looks fairly cool. Hopefully Fyreslayers get some love.

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3 hours ago, Indecisive said:

Falling back to the theme of 4chan "leaks" I found one that sounded plausible.
Here is a snippet of it to focus a bit:

AoS flipping to a dull battletome spam release with minimal models? Sounds likely, 40k from rumours has a big year coming.
Idoneth get no endless spells (despite DoK getting them) and just a single, crabless mini? I can see that.
Lotann still bad? Above all, this specific nugget is the most likeliest of all things that makes me want to believe it.

This sounds real, but if true I'm out of aos for a bit.

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Idoneth and Fyreslayers are going to get more than a single new model right guys?

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On 11/24/2021 at 10:14 PM, Whitefang said:

Nice guess, I guess!

If the box has crabs that would be pretty sweet tho.

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Looking at it I'm pretty sure it will be twin swords on the back and they've just edited out the model. 

Don't know what the new hero unit will be, I was expecting an Ishrann Embaillor but they use a weapon called a pain staff in lore.

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It's going to be the one new model for Idoneth in the battlebox. 

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Just going to put it out there that it could be crab or crab related.

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Malerion is a chaos God. Checkmate fellow nerds. 

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Is this model Malerion elves maybe?

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17 hours ago, vorathian said:

ummm no.

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10 hours ago, KingBrodd said:

+++MOD HAT ON+++

Had to come in and clean up a few posts containing homophobic slurs. Whether or not it was intentional it wont be stood for here.

I mean... I think we all want Idoneth veil lady and beef cake stormcast lady to kiss right?

 

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13 minutes ago, Neverchosen said:

Idoneth getting some representation, oh heck yeah!

I know! What is this madness? 

I thought GW hated us. Hopefully she doesn't die in episode one.

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21 minutes ago, Nezzhil said:

 

I think it is an Ogor. A new Maneater or something like that.

Confirmation of ogre pirates and the previous Harrowdeep rumour?

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I'm still a bit ehhh about getting another wave of new armies.

Expand the existing ones please!

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4 hours ago, Chikout said:

NEW RUMOUR

Courtesy of the folks over at Warhammer weekly. According to Tom, next summer we will see a new campaign featuring Malerion, combined Duardin and the introduction of the chaos Duardin. 

Seems plausible.

GW like campaign books at the moment. We know chorfs and Malerion are coming at some point. 

Only thing I'm not sure on is the combined dwarf book.

I'm sure Whitefang is hinting at Fyreslayers. 

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32 minutes ago, zilberfrid said:

I'd sooner see Furnace kings vs Idoneth.

Fyreslayers are going to be tacked to Kharadron, a seperate box would be weird.

There might be precedence for ga internal stuff, but it's rare.

If Idoneth aren't selling stellarly, putting them together with notoriously poor selling Fyreslayers doesn't have a good chance of shifting boxes.

Furnaces are also somewhat related to fire.

Furnace kings could fit the Hobgrot's Dark Masters.

That would be super cool, but I feel like Fyreslayers is probably more likely than Chorfs.

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26 minutes ago, PJetski said:

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I do think Whitefang was hinting at Idoneth vs Fyreslayers. 

1) Ages ago I mentioned the idea of a Nurgle vs Idoneth box and he said "choose your opponent.

2) I specifically asked him for a reason to feel hyped and I'm a well known Idoneth simp.

3) He posted about their being precedent for a same grand alliance vs grand alliance battlebox.

4) He reacted to posts about Fyreslayers getting a foot hero.

5) He told me to be less pessimistic about GW hating Idoneth.

To me an Idoneth vs Fyreslayers box does make sense. As they are both relatively older tomes, didn't receive any new units (i know slayers got some terrain and spells) in 2nd and have yet to appear in a battlebox.

It's also reasonable to think GW likes the pattern of releasing new models in battleboxes accompanied by books as this has been used for 40k 9th as well as AoS 2nd.