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Ok 4th ed play test rumours are plausible. The rules will be done by now and I imagine it’s heading off to the printers in a few months time if it’s hitting next June and we know china printing and shipping is about 6 months currently. Id be down with a joint hero phase to be honest - im assuming it’s something like this ? Battleround change is Priority Player 1 hero phase Player 2 hero phase Player 1 movement Player 1 charge Player 1 combat Player 2 movement Player 2 charge Player 2 combat Battleshock having said all of that. I think aos3 is in a good place and I wish fervently that we could just keep it for a 4 year cycle rather than 3 years I also don’t think we need an index reset in aos as the 3rd ed warscrolls are the best designer yet

The inclusion of the old treeman is odd but maybe it’s a good idea as it means they can create aesthetic differences between wood elves and sylvaneth. Wood elves maybe less anime and more gnarly

Khuresh would at least be interesting if they just designed 3 or 4 snakeman units as an Npc faction. But doubt gw want to spend the design time doing that. And the Bloodbowl model is the only snake man released for like 35 years

So the new cities terrain looks quite modular a bit like the new Gondor houses which have staircases etc. very excited to build a aos city of complete buildings

So when we got malign portents heralds of the 4 the Lord Ordinator, Knight of Shrouds and the Fungoid cave shaman all led to new armies and model waves within a year. Only the dark oath chief didn’t - although she may have been part of the early design work for warcry. we know FEC big release is coming and their herald ties to that. but this makes me wonder if Fyreslayers and Nurgle will be getting wave 2s in the vein of this upcoming orruk warclans one

Id be very happy if they resculpted liberators and judicators in thunder strike armour. Stormcast don’t need more warscrolls but they could do with a facelift and diversity lift on their aos1 units

If collegiate arcane is staying I assume that’s only the battlemage kit and the luminark. battlemage on griffin surely is going

Seraphon are still at least 3 months out. I think there’s probably another 6 or so kits to be announced

My expectations at this point are seraphon - July ish 10 kits cities Christmas/January 12 kits ish fec - 4/5 kits then 4th Ed

There are 9 finecast kits to replace for seraphon plus the fact that they’ve redone saurus and are introducing many new types of unit from new eggs like the skink knights. So I think temple Gaurd will stay as they hold up. But it’s clealry a big release? Maybe 10 kits ?

I do think rumours have been basically pointless for a while we’ve known the main armies that would get love in 3rd since broken realms Kragnos- kruleboyz Warsong rev - sylvaneth Gardus - stormcast Krulghast - nighthaunt Be’lakor - slaves Kroak - seraphon Van denst - cities

Rob Alderman is one hundred percent still the current product manager for the middle earth line and it makes sense that he juggles this alongside developing The Old World. I’m curious that we know nothing of who they’ve entrusted with the rules or writing the background yet although assume it will be from the forgeworld stable of writers working on mesbg/bloodbowl/titanicus and necromunda. im very much looking forward to exploring some of the difference between Ulric/Taal/Manan/Sigmar worshippers and wonder if priests will be more of a focus for the Empire given that their won’t be any battle mages just the odd hedge mage. I suspect the Old World will come out in 2024, depending on if it’s true that the second game this year alongside 40K 10th is Epic

That’s all I have at the moment but sure more will come as I think the books is now out with the reviewers

There’s a new command, use at start of combat, gives +1 attack to unit that’s not hero or monster that didn’t charge and you can’t pile in. Spell that can do d6 mortals on a 4+ to units on objectives There’s an artifact to let you set a champ up on reserve. Traits A trait that lets you use a command ability 3 times once per battle, another that makes a GC count as 10 on an objective where there’s no other GC. A once per battle teleport And a resurrection stone. 3+ ignore last wound and heal d3. 6 new missions. 6 remain from current Nidus paths Battlelines drawn Prize of Gallet Real stone cache Presence of idols (Can’t remember the 6th) 5+ ward for GC (unclear if trait or artifact) up to 3 units in the battalion and they can ignore the gally champ within 1” rule Gally Vets is now a battalion. 2-4 units (unsure if they’re troop units as there’s that new symbol) Carrying over the fight in two ranks rule to this battalion (not up to 3 but exactly 3)

Treelord -30 Drycha -15 Lady of vines -35 Warsong -5 Alarielle - 20 Durthu -20 TLA -30 Gossimids -10 Scythe hunters +10 Rev seekers +5 Spite revs -15 Gladewyrm -10 YIthari guardians -20 Dire wolves -5 Terrorgheist -5 Zombie dragon -5 Exiled dead -30 Kritza-5 Lady Anika -10 Lauka-25 Crimson court -20 Raduakr the beats -5 Radukar the wolf -10 Torgillius-10 Halgrim-10 Nagash -55 VLOZD -15 Fellbats -5 Night guard -5 Vargheists -15 Vargskyr -5 Vyrkos blood born-15 Cado +5 Gorslav +5 Necromancer +5 ManFred +20 Neferata +5 Vordrai +5 Blood knights +5 New Pitched battle points in next GHB Scraplauncher -5 Gluttons -5 Mournfang -5 Hrothgorn -5 Ironblasters +30 Flosh +5 Slughtermaster +5 Butcher +5 Gnoblars +20

Early point leaks from ghb are doing the rounds. Seems they’re getting rid of 5 point increments and moving back to 10s which is good. Nagash down 55 to 900 Ironblasters up 30 to 200

Ok the Skaven banners being taken down is worrying. What if that was a early image before they had to release Nethermaze early. And the banners were hints to a now already released product …

If that’s a battlebox half I find that credible - the vermin lord will be the old verminlord out in to increase the price of the kit - see also the recent 40k eldar vs chaos marines box which was all new kits except for the old plastic forgefiend

Wonder how all this has leaked before sylvaneth . I’m assuming warham fest does still have some new sylvaneth models to show us

Is what I think I’ve seen so far on those leaks ?

5 new units Ogroid theridons CENTAURIAN Marshall Horns of hashut Enternus the first blade Chaos legionaries 3 Redone units Chaos warriors Chaos lord on demonic mount Chosen

Also there is a surprising amount of Morghur in the new book. Would love beasts to get their Shadowgave

So based on reading Season of War Thondia do we think we might get a Doombreed model? He’s very much been pitched as Yndrastas arch foe and the leader of khornate forces in Ghur. He’s also on the Vengerful Spirit at the Seige of Terra and working with Abaddon in 40K so seems ripe for a tri system model

Ok so re the rumours of a new mega gargant model being connected to the 3 images of 3 fingered spites (the bone flute the dude in a bear and the dude on a skull) if this thread is right I am to understand these are the same creatures as the mysterious “creepers” on the final page of the sons of behemat battle tome ? i could believe that

So if the German white dwarf has been photographed where is the German version of the ko update please? id also be curious to see the third page on that image which shows what the card pull out is as it looks like it may be a redone warscroll.