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  1. 1 hour ago, Swooper said:

    Would be easy to offer, say, an alternate head and a staff. Even the easy build sequitors have an alternate head for the prime.

    I'd imagine one of the goals of the easy-build kits is to keep things simple - a head swap is one thing, but the idea that a kit can be built in two different ways entirely is probably a step too far. Also probably helps keep the set cheap to have less going on, which also seems to be one of the aims. 

    I think she looks generic enough for it not to be an issue - you can just use her as a generic Lord-Arcanum anyway. 

  2. 33 minutes ago, Swooper said:

    Also discovered that the Lord-Arcanum on Dracoline apparently builds out of the mounted Evocator kit (weird - why not make him an alternate build of Solbright instead?) 

    I can answer this, at least - Solbright is an easy-to-build kit, so presumably couldn't have multiple possible builds. 

  3. Next week's Stormcast preorders have been announced: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/08/coming-next-week-heroes-old-and-new/

    Interesting tidbit - you can make a Knight-Incantor from the Evocator box (I'd been wondering about this, as there's a Knight-Incantor model in the Battletome that I'd never seen before). 

    Bit awkward, though, as presumably that then leaves you with four Evocators - though at least two of those can go towards getting your starter set Evocators up to full size... 

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  4. Yeah I had the same problem with shoulder pad gaps. It's a clever kit but I think overall the models coming in two halves is just asking for trouble with those shoulder pads. Bit disappointing but gives me a reason to learn how to use liquid green stuff!

    Will be interested to see what you're able to convert out of the Soul Wars kit... I've left all my 'spare' models on the sprue (the extra Sequitors, the pretty useless Prime with mace and shield, and the two leftover Castigators... in retrospect I should have left the Evocators on there too, oh well) and I'm keeping my eyes open for good ideas for stuff to do with them!

  5. A thought that only just occurred to me:

    Castigators are only going to exist as part of the starter set and in their easy-to-build box, aren't they? And that's why they come in units of three. I'd just been assuming a multi-part kit was coming for them, but I'm now realising probably not.

    Apologies if this was already blatantly obvious to everyone else :P 

  6. 27 minutes ago, Erdemo86 said:

    You are able to make your own stormhost. Does that mean you can choose your command ability, traits, ability and artifact from a list? I think it will be very strong. A welcome buff to our sce.

    What this article is saying is that you'd just pick one of the existing Stormhosts and use their rules, not that you'd create your own pick-and-mix style.

    So if you're playing a Stormhost that doesn't have rules, but fluff-wise is really aggressive and hates Chaos, you'd use the the rules for Celestial Vindicators.

    Which seems to confirm the opposite of what you're saying, that there aren't any rules for making your own Stormhost from scratch. To be honest, I think that's probably for the best - rules for things like that are a fun idea, but in practice they tend to mostly just encourage weird min-maxing. 

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  7. Just now, PUFNSTUF said:

    Basically the same as the Idoneth Deepkin Conclave rules. This very much seems to be the template going forward. Looks cool to me, though I'm not 100% convinced by the idea of the leader having to have a set magic weapon - that seems a little odd lore-wise. Either each Stormhost has loads of copies of the same magic weapon, or they all take turns sharing one? 

  8. 1 hour ago, Blish said:

    Aelves mention in Warhammer Community yesterday.

    We knew this already, but is there any whispers of a timeline for new models?

    https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/07/7th-june-the-war-for-soulsgw-homepage-post-2/

     

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    Despite how much they've been teasing the new elf armies, and how well they'd fit into the Soul Wars, it seems like they have to be a long way off - just because stuff like Moonclan, Slaanesh, etc is rumoured to be coming first. 

  9. 5 hours ago, pseudonyme said:

    A GW employee told me that it should be pre-order on the 15th and availability on 30th. It was guessing and not official.

    Yeah I chatted to the manager of my local yesterday and he said the same - he happened to be planning out the month's orders and events on a chart as I walked in and he reckoned it was the only way the schedule made sense (though I think he said the 29th rather than the 30th). He actually said he'd been told not to book any holiday in those weeks! So it seems 99% certain to me. 

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