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Wow. Are gw seriously trolling that hard with Slanesh and depravity points (DP); it’s obscene but fits with slanesh. Lolz.

If tow vampires are like they were in wfb and not the wet weekend they are in AoS I may jump back in, I miss those days of 400ish point vampire lords. Also does anyone else think bar a few models soulblight are actually one of the easier armies for backwards compatibility?

Just thought I’d add a quick tidbit to this thread. Played Cado last weekend and he absolutely slapped, buffed by Manfred’s aura I needed to do ten mortals to kill a durthu. Guess what? The boy did good. Love the model, love the rules, just wish he had his battle plan specific command ability on his scroll.

Would you care to elaborate on this? We’ve known for a while it would probably be set in the time of Asavar Kull. Thought it would make the square boys very happy. Personally would have preferred them not to bother and focus on AoS. My regular opponent is not going back to wfb for love nor money. For me it’s different as vc can easily swap between the two settings but I can’t really bring myself to relearn the rules.

I always try to have as many heroes as I can squeeze in at any level, the 6+ ward save units get for being within 12 inches, magic and their own command abilities etc. Those are some awesome conversion ideas please post some pics once you get underway.

They posted something a while ago about forgeworld’s social media pages being renamed to Horus Heresy. Who knows how they’re going to do TOW.

There’s others on here who get a lot more games in than I do and would be better able to advise you than me. However, the vampire lord is the most survivable out of the three and can boost the attacks characteristic of summonable units which would work well with the army lists you’ve got. EDIT: Just checked Radukars warscroll and found out he can give +1 attack to any unit! You might be better off sticking with him to be fair! You’d probably want to go for the Vykros dynasty too as Radukar is Vykros and that all ties in nicely thematically.

Love the concept of this! Very thematic too! The only thing I might suggest is taking a generic vampire lord/necromancer/eight king to make use of the command traits and artefacts as they can be quite beneficial.

High on end times nostalgia now!

And then in end times the undying king Nagash united Tomb kings and vampire counts once more; like a boss!

Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts, Dark Elves all fell under order much like in end times actually. Storm of chaos lore was great as that’s where grimgor battered archaon and left as he couldn’t find a good enough fight.

Also weird as skaven, beasts of chaos and seraphon(lizaren) are 3 of their more unique looking armies. Would have thought they’d be all over trying to make a big deal out of them.

Last pic looks like they have crab pincers…

Finecast or failcast as it is also known, compared to whatever resin forge world use finecast had a reputation for being trash.

Could you expand on that? Have no idea what best coast pairings is, sorry.

New app inbound? Looks interesting at any rate.

Hmm not too sure I’d get my hopes up about that, love to be wrong but I can see it being 2-3 artefacts at most. Let’s not forget how quick they dumped all the artefacts from malign sorcery. Ethereal amulet I’m looking at you! Although there were heaps of them, so if it’s on par with that good times

That seems really counterproductive We’ll give foot heroes protection against getting shot off the board but then make another rule so your opponent can still shoot them off the board. Well played gwz

Hold the phone, we don’t want this turning into a Lumineth situation 💩

Isn’t it usually New Year’s Day they dump the big teaser?

I think the hero worship comes down to the fact that he is one of if not the only high profile person known to collect it. I read somewhere apparently Robin Williams had a huge Eldar collection back in the day but don’t know if that’s true.

Might be easier for them and less backlash to just update the soulblight tome and throw in a new hero than to do that for flesh eaters who could really do with their range spruced up and added to. Nagash gets a new profile again probably which ever comes.

Got my hopes up before the current tome that we might get vampiric powers back in a proper sense and they would actually be useful. You are entirely right though, vampires of all stripes used to be much more powerful than an empire general for instance. It might happen next time round…

Fair. I mean I’ll take it, just feel bad for fireslayers players and the like.

Blood knights and skegs are getting reboxed as per rumour thread; this I understand usually goes with a new tome?! might be next year if that’s the case.