Twisted Firaun

I love everything about this release! Despite my namesake and current army lists, the Kharadron Overlords were the first faction that got me into AOS (I still buy every Battletome, despite not playing them). Now I'm gonna have to justify picking up a new army and that literal rules-lawyer in a way that fits my armies personal fluff. Probably an exchange mission to learn about LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!!!

Oof, looks like THE LEGIONS OF LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!! Shall not be expanded upon until summer at the earliest…..

As in the Kim Newman character from Anno Dracula? I must be really showing my (lack thereof) age here cause I'm beyond confused. I liked the article though, it makes me hopeful for a new vampire character/dynasty down the line. Maybe we could get another Legion of Blood (Lahmian) character serving under Neferata? or another NEHEKHARAN (Ancient Egyptian)+ *Insert preferred aesthetic here* to go along with the japanese/buddhist monks of the Askurgan Trueblades.

Thus speaketh the oracle @Whitefang, and so it shall be.... Well, they did bring back the Coatl in Total War, and it kinda seems like GW is using said game as a testing ground of sorts for ideas..... Regardless I'll probably buy these kits for my little brother, he loves dinosaurs and constantly wants to join me in painting (he's 8, I'm nearly 21).

May we all soon have our preferred armies updated @Public Universal Duardin, until then keep thy dreams of chorfs close to heart….. and pick up as many Horns of Hashut and Hobgrots kits as you can in preparation of the days to come…. The Tomb Kings are Ancient Egyptian history+Mythology viewed through the eyes of a Death Metal band, and are therefore amazing. The OBR, while trying to capture that look, skew more towards Ancient Persia, Greece, and Japan aesthetically, and lack the cool and complex characters necessary to make an undead faction more then just Saturday Morning villains. I’ve learned from the best, @MitGas, though honestly I might just change it to “Loyal Son of Nehekhara,” since I’m probably gonna end up playing as Lybaras for their color scheme.

I honor Tzeentch by constantly changing my username, while simultaneously paying homage to LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!!

BY LONG LOST NEHEKHARA! ITS AN ARTICLE ON LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!!!! THE HYPE TRAIN FUELS ME TODAY @KingBrodd!!! While it’s not a major article (no new cities or characters mentioned), this is definitely making me believe that TOW is closer than many like to believe. Looks like it might be time to go back to being The Loyal Son of Khemri instead of my Twisted self…..

On the one hand I’m excited for the Warcry releases, especially the Jade-blooded (instant include in my Tzeentch army), and the jet bikes are awesome! …on the other hand Wizards of The Coast just dropped the new Phyrexia block…… my wallet isn’t gonna recover from this…..

Seeing as how the vast majority of my Disciples of Tzeentch army is Tzaangors in all their forms, I can say with utmost certainty that I would love for some more Slaangors to pad out Slaanesh's Hedonites. However, I'm also hoping that we get a unit based on the spear wielding acrobat from the Dread Pageant warband, as it would fit the theme of Slaanesh's mortals being a giant murder-carnival:

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if the mystic @Whitefang actually worked at GW, his leaks have been 95% accurate so far.

Most likely Adepticon in March, unless someone manages to get a GW employee to leak something early.....

Yes! more use of the Total War designs please! they look absolutely amazing and I want to see them on the tabletop. In other news Grom the Paunch makes his return:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/02/01/40-years-of-warhammer-grom-the-paunch-munches-his-way-out-of-the-archives/

BY LONG LOST NEHEKHARA GW EMPLOYEES READING THIS THREAD! PLEASE BRING BACK THE 8TH EDITION KITS!!!! I went on eBay yesterday and saw that someone was craven enough to sell an empty Warsphinx box for 75 dollars!!!! If Tomb Kings don't come back soon, I'm going to go to my fallback plan(s): Finishing my first dark fantasy novel based off the Middle East/Asia, or the Egyptian based souls borne game.... WHICHEVER COMES FIRST!!!!!

I truly love how some amongst our number have become linked with our factions of choice. Whether it be @KingBrodd and his love of all things destruction, @MitGas and Tzeentch, the lady @Enoby's love of Slaanesh, or myself and LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!!! It makes us all seem a bit more than just a bunch of people who will probably never meet face to face. Also, go ahead and be as greedy as Teclis man. The guy literally created two different factions of aelves and still wants more, the Seraphon, Duardin, Cities, khara even the Skaven deserve that same amount of love and then some (To say nothing about the Tomb Kings).

I was thinking of mixing the new berserkers with some Corpse Grinder Cults and Forgeworld Night Lords bits (terror squad helms and pauldrons) to make them seem like they're just starting to fall, but are still more or less Night Lords. Lorewise my warband leader cares more about keeping the idea of Nostramo and the legion alive, even if that means accepting the corrupted amongst his warriors.

Why not both? Regardless I've been more or less spoiled this Warcry season: Hashut boys, the new Tzeentch war band and the vampire samurai are all instant buys for me. I'm torn on this one, I don't really like Khorne but those berserkers would look amazing in Night Lords Blue.... @MitGasand @Neverchosen, your thoughts?

I won’t lie I’d kinda be disappointed if this was true @KingBrodd. Both factions deserve more then a single new unit (or two in the case of Gitz), and it doesn’t really fit with the theme of the last three boxes.

@KingBrodd, that Samurai Wolf is my second favorite model of the kit, right behind the Vampire-Ninja Ronin. Never have I been more excited to have been wrong about a release! Here’s hoping that the Slaanesh and Destruction warbands in the next box keep the hype going.

I kinda love how we both chose the same color scheme for our armies, though I changed mine to Green and blue to avoid confusion with my Slaanesh army. Those new vampires are amazing! They have just the right amount of both awesome and goofiness to fit in almost any army, plus they’re in Halloween colors (orange, black, and white). I’m going to pick up at least 3 of them once the solo kit drops. The Khorne warband on the other hand, just makes @MitGas’s usual point even more obvious: Tzeentch needs a proper elite mortal unit. We could’ve gotten a unit of shapeshifters/infiltration specialists to go along with the Curseling! And instead we got the admittedly awesome Jade Obelisk group, who’re a mixture of range and anti-fortification specialists (it’s a weird mix).

I will now eat my words regarding the war cry box..... The Askurgan Trueblades are wonderful minis and I look forward to recruiting them into the armies of LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!!!!!

Agreed. I truly loved the Slaangor kit when it came out, and was so disappointed with how their. rules turned out. With this article however, I have hope again! and will be picking up a couple of boxes in the near future.

Good News @Overread! Barring Be’lakor and Hashut’s boys and girls, every other chaos warband has been shifted into their God’s specific armies! The love is starting to spread!!!

*Cues up Jurassic Park soundtrack* @KingBrodd, I truly hope that one day soon we will see The Age of Beasts actually mean something for Destruction beyond a Flashpoint and a few new models here and there. GW has been teasing us with certain factions and models going out of control.... and not having any MAJOR LORE IMPLICATIONS!!!! I sincerely hope that the next new faction is either Chaos Guardian, or a Kruleboyz/Orruks wave 2. There's a clear demand for both right now, and since it looks like LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!! will soon rise again, I can afford to be patient.

I’d just be happy with a chaos champion actually having a major part in the lore. It seems like every faction has a named character (or more), but none of them are actually doing anything meaningful in the Mortal Realms. Tzeentch needs his own mortals, a named character that’s not a daemon, and he’s all good to go. There’s only so many ways to kitbash Tzaangor and Kairic Acolytes bits onto other minis before one goes mad……

Honestly I initially got hyped for TOW due to the chance to pick up Tomb Kings for a reasonable price. I have no real connection to Warhammer Fantasy beyond the mummies since I got into the hobby late 2016. So if TOW brings back the molds for the majority of the 8th edition Tomb Kings models, I'll be pretty happy. In regards to Kislev and Grand Cathay.... it honestly depends on how much Total War Warhammer affects the hobby. We know that Cathay apparently has an 8th edition(!) army book ready to go due to an interview with Andy Hall from before TWW 3 dropped, but what's in that book? Do we just get the initial roster from the game? or will we see stuff like the Monkey King and his followers as well? I'm picking up Kislev regardless because they have Slavic/Mongolian bear calvary, and that's awesome. But who will lead Kislev? since all the named characters from Total War are from the "present" time period. Time will tell, but GW better make the majority of these kits in plastic.