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Knowing GW, I bet the strength of the new FS book is spamming Magmadroth lol

I think it too late to change conditional battleline, since they advertise making a dragon only list and that was the draw. Also that seem like one of those heavy handed changes that AoS team never if rarely will ever do. I can only see them changing the spell shrug to a different number and reworded the shoot in hero phase ability or just the usual minimum point change. are it could be simply that as more books come out it becomes easier to deal with it or every book will start having this one absurd spam unit list and that just the name of the game for this edition.

Given the theoretical timeline i can see World eater being the 10th edition starter army. there has been some mirroring between 40K CSM and their related AoS God army but while Disciple of Tzeentch and Thousand sons had cross releases on models in Tzaangors, Deathguard and Maggotkin of Nurgle coming out similarly close to each other but didn't have Pestigors or any units share between them. this time maybe they are timing a product release between Worldeaters and Blades of Khorne. as for new Army, it possible it whatever this daemon release that supposed to come out for 40K (daemon Codex has not been release yet) is going to tie into Sigmar was well. maybe it Be'lekor and Ruinstorm daemons since he seems to have been gaining narrative significance in both settings recently.

They didn’t do it last time with Shadow and pain but at the time the community where not sure if was going to be new tomes for DoK/HoS

I feel like there a lot of hasty judgement here ( dare I say kneejerk reaction) before the battle tome has even been announce yet and there a full picture. I assume that a lot of thing can change when a new tome comes out like with Nurgle. I at least assume that high tide is going to change into something else at least

If it more of what GW will at minimum and realistically will do, they probably see the Gluttons and other old battle line unit like Gors, Night goblins, Clanrats, Black Orcs, everyone of the CoS battle line unit as serviceable in the game regardless of people opinion of if they are outdated or not. I fathom they don’t have the time to remake every single one of these kit in the near future especially in the confines of this edition

I have a feeling that Khorne is going to get models this edition in preparation to Worldeater coming out soon Other Popular armies are getting second wave model treatment like Sylvaneath, Nighthaunt, Gloomspite Gits, Realmlords and slaves to darkness despite what people think they deserve. That just how GW rolls. Everyone most likely get a tome and one new model if any Only Seraphon gets the rework treatment this edition May not happen this year but could be next three year

Eventually i feel like they will do something about them (pull them out or remake them) but in the context of this edition and maybe even the next, i can see GW just letting them just lavishing around until then because it doesn't seem like it would be a priority. i feel more hopeful for the Firebelly just because they bother making a spell lore for him and actually give you reason to use him, but is it going to happen IDK shrug.

in a realistic view, Ogors and BoC really just need their Resin Hero to be made in Plastic as that the current big problem with their range (Ogors have the Tyrant which is the only one outside of the stonehorn kit and BoC has the bray shaman and the Tzaangor Shaman), they probably could do more with plastic hero release (though more than the standard one) since their core plastic range is serviceable and isn't egregiously old. some of the Ogor stuff like Gorgers and Yhetees, feel like those random resin Drukhari units that GW keep around in the army but are questionable if we ever see a plastic version of them in the future

Crab unit you say FYI this was basically a Idoneath Deepkin movie but set in the DC universe lol

A lot of book release and few miniature releases and only army that probably didn't need it is my guess lol as for coalition j be wary of them using it as a mechanic outside of fluffy lore usage, it seems like a trend that they are going away from souping units and really emphasizing that the units in your Book/ Pitch battle profile are the one you are using for your army. Edit: i do think it going to be a slow year for AoS but not because of supply issues but rather they are going to favor 40K releases over AoS for at the least the first half of this year, it seems to me they are at least capable of churning out stuff despite the global issues just looking at the 40K slated stuff

maybe there is a LVO preview this year? it is happening the on the last weekend of this month but there hasn't been word of a reveal show at the event. an online show could happen around the same time though.

Yeah that one where the Rotbringer was murderizing that Lumenith Aelves was a really a piece of Art

Or there could be a bottleneck in the book release and they are just prioritising 40K books, since it looks like they have a lot to chew through this year with Tau, CSM, Eldar, Tyranids, Traitor Knights, the things they promise with Killteam and somehow get to IG and IK. God know if they going into 11th edition with Worldeater instead of maybe delaying edition change by a year lol

I feel like history say chance is none or only one side gets more models lol

I don’t remember but the rumour timeline was like IDK tome in February, Fyreslayer was March, in between where the big 40K release and May/June was a Death tome but OP said he wasn’t sure which Death army

There are lot more outdated kit in Skaven compare to those two. i wouldn't say the Soulblight release adiquately build on the two new Bloodline as well as it could be. i would say it be harder to touch all four clans for that kind of release in one go, the Ork was regular Ork units and Beast Snaggas (snake bites) and i doubt this Eldar release is not going to touch all the Phonex lord and Aspect warriors in one go

Probably too much to ask GW to do everything at once so that realistically why. Got to temper your expectation somehow

There was that one weird time with Carrion Empire where they reveal the 2 battletome (Skaven and FEC) at the same time they where going on preorder preview with the related Battlebox but I don’t expect that to happen again

It’s a flip of a coin really. Most of the time a battle box one and done for both sides and afterwards it just your army rulebook ( Hexfire, Shadow Throne, Aether War, and Carrion Empire). Sometime it leads to one side getting stuff later on and other side is generally just a book (Piety and Pain, Pain and Pleasure, And maybe Saga of the Beast and Blight Wars). There was few time that the boxes where tied to a new release with the battle box having actual new miniatures in it for one side (Feast of Bones and Looncurse (may have been issues)). Then there those rare time where the battle box contain new miniatures and it lead to new miniatures for both armies later down the line ( has only been in 40K, with Shadowspear and then now with Eldritch Omens, though I guess technically that weird Wraith and Rapture box counts too I guess) but hope lead to disappointment so with no buzz about new models for FS or Deepkin it hard to hope for more atm.

yeah but they still release and publish those books though so they still have the capacity to keep churning 30 army codex per edition for one game system which was your original post. AoS has not reach that level yet.

If they where even remotely concern about that they wouldn’t release so many marine supplements in the back end of the last edition and we know that eventually Worldeater and Emperor Children are coming out eventually which is two brand new armies. And AoS doesn’t have that many armies compare to 40K by comparison.

Coalition rule though seem very last minute though since the way they are doing them seem to de-incentiving mixing units from different army. I wouldn’t be surprise if city got change to the coalition’s rule where they don’t gain benifits in your army. edit: apparently revenue wise the only thing that sale close to Space Marine is Books and GW really just a publishing company lol

I mean out of all your example only warclans was the only time they merge two official books together. Also Big Waagh is the least played of the allegiances as everyone plays pure and there no options to ally within the warclans so it not like you gain mileage from souping either

I don’t recall there being many Ogors maw tribes rumors only wishlisting. i don’t see them any army being merge this edition either but this goes to a lot of daft ears on this forum.