The Red King

I'm all for leaks. If games workshop wanted me to respect their desire to "surprise us" then they shouldn't have dropped all of high elves (including reboxed kits) into last chance to buy over a weekend with no warning and then said absolutely nothing about it after the fact. Or invalidated all of the gathering storm books months after they were released with a new edition, but hey at least then they admitted fault and offered refunds for any book that came out in a period of time that only covered the space marine one. Or put out mercenary detachments and articles encouraging the purchase of freeguild artillery right before dropping them from the game. People are spending a lot of money on their product and the way they encourage people to buy invalid products seemingly intentionally invalidates any desire I have to support the "hype of mystery!"

I'd rather see points changes. Dogors could go up I think. Maybe even Shaggoths even though they're not that great. Rules changes would be completely unwarranted. (Except the herdstone that probably could go back to a an aura though with debuffs I'd expect "within" rather than "wholly within") most of the warscrolls are quite frankly bad. Quite bad really. Bullgors deal damage but that's it and are better taken in other armies than beasts (or at least khorne). If anything I would say the new enlightened on disks that just got changed with tzeentch might need looked at but that's less of a beasts problems.

Consistently reused art and maybe 2 pages of new lore for a 60 dollar book?

I was just thinking yesterday that I feel like the big 4 +GHR/Hashut/Morghur/Belakor fills out an 8 pointed star of chaos nicely with Archaon in the middle still.

Oh great looks like nerfs to beasts of chaos. "Those beasts players have had it too good for too long!" -some guy who doesn't want an army of old models beating shiny new expensive kits

How did I not know there is a symbol labeled the centigor stampede? I already painstakingly converted 10 of them so I have no doubt they'll release a warcry band which would be a perfect way to update the ancient sculpt with 5 new ones.

Well Tzaangor shaman arent allies or coalition they're just in the book. That said there is no rule allowing you to add the burning sigil endless spell to a beasts of chaos army so it doesnt matter that he COULD cast it. Core rules 1.1 states that "every army has a battletome which contains their warscrolls, pitched battle profiles... etc" 1.4 states "all of the units in your army must be from the faction you picked for your army." 25.1 Faction "pitched battle profiles are organized into tables, each of which contains the pitched battle profiles for one faction" So since the burning sigil is not a warscroll that is in our battletome or on our pitched profiles list there is no rule allowing for us to select it and add it to our roster during army creation and thus we don't have access to it in the same way nobody can cast the burning head without bringing the burning head on their roster even though their wizard would be capable of casting it if it was available. Long winded way to say that the ability to cast is not the ability to add the spell to your army.

I'm not usually the sunshine guy but arguing whether our 3 year old book with models old enough to drink ( I think) has a 53 or 60%win rate is a pretty good spot. Honestly I would hope we're closer to 50 than 60. I wanna feel like I won the game, not my army.

Not to be too dramatic but I quit 40k because being a xenos player already made me feel like a second class customer. I get that old familiar feeling...

Browser. Which isn't a real problem but worth mentioning since anyone who doesn't have twitter probably doesn't have the app.

I may just be bad at twitter but it seems if you dont have an account you cant scroll that far so unless you look right after a tournament or have a link you won't be able to see the lists.

Im more excited about the super tiny arcane cataclysm FAQ fixing the missing beasts keywords on tzaangor. I dont play them but it's a real relief for any potential future khorngor (if they ever exist T_T)

I personally think even with the extra damage output gors are best used as screens with shields. Brayherd ambush means we also have easier access to the only bonus point battle tactic in this season (2 gallatian veteran units in your opponent's territory) depending on deployment map. Bestigor are amazing damage wise but suffer from needing to be battle line to really benefit and then getting absolutely dumpstered by bounty hunters. Screen screen screen. Shaggoth sitting on the stone roaring and cutting himself seems the way to go. Heal spell or hailstorm plus end of turn healing means he should be quite happy to do it. Mathematically speaking the Beastlord is actually the most dangerous wielder of the gnarlblade but that's if he can get into a target and fight before them of course. Edit to add: purple sun nerfed and more important I downloaded the arcane cataclysm FAQ. Turns out tzaangor DO have the beasts of chaos and brayherd keyword!

Shaggoth with Hailstorm is pretty great. I don't know if it's worth losing gavespawns CA because numbers wise it's better than AoA in most situations but the added consistency would be nice. I'll have to try it some time since I've really moved to a control based list anyway and hailstorm combined with blood-slick ground can really neuter your opponents biggest baddest unit. Currently I'm running this with the sole intention of clogging things up and getting my bullgor/bestigor into favorable fights. No bounty hunters due to my local meta being really light on veterans and ambushing basically the beastlords whole battle regiment. I think a Dogor or enlightened on disk list is probably actually the best right now but this is what I have AND I really like the brayherd aspect of the army. - Army Faction: Beasts of Chaos - Subfaction: Gavespawn - Grand Strategy: Take What’s Theirs - Triumph: Bloodthirsty LEADERS Beastlord (95)* - General - Command Traits: Unravelling Aura - Artefacts of Power: Mutating Gnarlblade Dragon Ogor Shaggoth (155)* - Spells: Hailstorm Slaves to Darkness Daemon Prince (210)* - Mark of Chaos: Khorne - Hellforged Sword and Malefic Talons Great Bray-Shaman (100)** - Spells: Wild Rampage BATTLELINE Bestigors (250)* - 2 x Brayhorn - 2 x Banner Bearer Gors (70)* - Banner Bearer - Brayhorn - Gor Blade and Beastshield Gors (70)* - Banner Bearer - Brayhorn - Gor Blade and Beastshield OTHER Tuskgor Chariots (65)* Tuskgor Chariots (65)* Bullgors (260)** - Warheard Drummer - Warheard Banner Bearer - Bullgor Great Axe Bullgors (260)** - Warheard Banner Bearer - Warheard Drummer - Bullgor Great Axe Centigors (85)** - Brayhorn - Banner Bearer Centigors (85)** - Brayhorn - Banner Bearer Ungor Raiders (160)** - Brayhorn - Banner Bearer ENDLESS SPELLS & INVOCATIONS 1 x Wildfire Taurus (70) TERRAIN 1 x Herdstone (0) CORE BATTALIONS *Battle Regiment **Battle Regiment TOTAL POINTS: 2000/2000 Created with Warhammer Age of Sigmar: The App

All these hypothetical release schedules and not a single mention of beasts T_T (except Brodd) So in other words you're probably all right.

Shamelessly plug my beastlord conversion? Well if you insist.

Did I miss a khorne leak??

You can also give him artifacts.

Mazarak Bloodeye Beastlord of the Skullfray Bloodeye's Beastfiends.

These legionnaire are the third iteration of "basic chaos human" when we could really REALLY benefit from something like a "generic beasts or chaos" warband. I mean we're onto god specific bands so certainly Skaven can get one now to update some horrendously old sculpts but beasts would have already been perfect for a "basically the same but slightly different" chaos undivided warband.

This is the paradox of tolerance but that's wildly off topic.

The day after the "guys why cant yall tell the space marines are bad!?" Post by GW they posted the teaser for Space Marine 2 which shows space marines as nearly angelic saviours and guardians of mankind against monstrous "others" all to a soaring orchestral score. I applaud GW for publicly not supporting those people but I spit on the idea they're too stupid to see how they might be "accidentally" encouraging them to buy their product.

It's an old book is why it seems to be an odd rule but yes you can put them straight in. My only immediate thought is that if a character dies on a screen or something you can summon the spawn into a squishy backline unit like a hero or artillery.

So that's where the unmade got all those faces for their belts.