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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/13/next-weeks-pre-orders-underworlds-titans-and-middle-earth/ Darkoath and Troggoth warbands up for pre-order next week

Ah indeed,was looking at the Nighthaunt battletome just after I posted and realised I’d got my terminology wrong. i didn’t realise that non leader heroes were a thing though so stand corrected there.

Small thing I just noticed about the Gobbapalooza warscrolls, none of them have the HERO keyword (though they get called 'heroes' several times in the product description and some are Wizards (and unlike other non-Hero Wizards, such as Doomfire Warlocks, operate as single models not a unit). I guess that's so they don't take up all your Hero slots. Also the Wizards amongst them dont get Mystic Shield or Arcane Bolt just their Warscroll spell. Anyone have the Battletome yet and have the points for them / the Gobbapalloza battalion to hand?

If you include the Servants of the Abyss from Blackstone Fortress then actually that's around another 27 new models you can drop straight into a Black Legion army. I certainly wouldn't be shocked if they (or versions of) got released outside of BSF at some point soon.

@EMMachine If you're talking about the reissues of the original inferno anthologies they are super old yes. As for AoS in Inferno 2 we have the following... Guy Haley - At The Sign of the Brazen Claw: Part Two - The Merchant's Story Jaine Fenn - From The Deep Robert Charles - Faith In Thunder Jamie Crisalli - Ties Of Blood C L Werner - No Honour Among Vermin

it's a mixed bag as most anthologies are but an easy read, think I barrelled through it in 2 nights. Only 1 (40k as it happens) story that I really got bored of and that's because it just felt like 50 pages of describing people being knifed or shot in increasingly dull ways. One that actually answered something about Sylvaneth (or at least related creatures) that I'd actually wondered about before and had thought could be a good extension to the model range so that was interesting and a couple of nice creepy 40K stories (which makes me look forward to the upcoming horror proper books). So yeah pit fighting escapades aside it's a quick, fun page turner. Just finished Plague Garden this morning, so annoyingly now I want to read Black Pyramid but I'll probably wait for the paperback and throw myself into some non sword & sorcery fiction to cleanse my palette for the rest of the month.

Just finished Inferno 2 and Warqueen... I have to ask is it in Black Library writers' contracts that every single AoS story must involve the protagonists being dumped in one, if not more, kind of gladiatorial fighting pit?

Not having a go but maybe they do understand that and the British company, staffed by British people just don't feel the need to jump to do the bidding of a hypothetical US audience? For over 3 decades the spiritual essence of the game has been that kind of loose, use this as a starting point to create your own game vibe. To me it feels like the long term direction of travel has always been towards the kind of game you'd like, something that's more nailed down, calcified and codified but every step you take down that path it's almost impossible to go back, so the slower the journey the better I say. And importantly as you yourself say this way the option is always there for you to...

bloody hell, I think that's the first time I've seen a bonegrinder gargant lined up against other models (normal garments included) it's MASSIVE

I totally understand why they just have a 'one-rule-to-bind-them-all' thing going on for flyers, after all the aim of the game these days is to try and streamline the rules (or at least core mechanics) as much as possible. Saying that the part of me that is an idiot and likes to overthink things does wish they'd have essentially two grades of Flyers, (1) units that can do everything flying units can do right now & (2) units that keep all the flying rules apart from they can't move up to the 'Aerial' level of a battlefield). Unless, and my god I'd love this, they really pushed Aerial battles a bit more (I guess the new format WD could potentially allow them to do this) it's such a niche scenario though that there's probably only about 4 people in the world, myself included, wasting any time thinking about this.

Talking of flying gobbos, might not mean a thing but Grotbag Scuttlers (flying Goblin pirates) get at least a couple of explicit mentions in the fluff in the Gloomspite Gitz battletome. So you never know, one day...

Holy ****** sppaceballs that is an astonishingly ****** amazing model

Yeah @Skabnoze it’s a nice curveball. Assuming they might knock out a few more Wrath & Rapture, Carrion Empire style box sets this year who do we think could also get the same treatment (or you would like to see)? Couple of new models, along with a bundle of older sculpts, maybe with an updated Battletome. last year 40k got how many? Tooth & Claw, Forgebane, Wake the Dead and W&R, any others (not including Kill Team too of course)? So could def see a few more squeezed in. Guessing there’ll be a 2nd Realm of Chaos one for both games (Decay & Change?). Ironjawz would only need a model or two new so would be a good option, then versus some Duardin force peut-etre?

Once again glad we cleared that up, anyone else?

It’s an Ambull (an old fan fave beast form the 1st Rogue Trader book) that’s the main (well pretty much only model) in a new Blackstone Fortress expansion pack they showed off today, ‘The Dreaded Ambull’.

Actually be interesting to see what they do with the Ambull as that’s a hell of a model to just have for a spin off game. Sure they’ll give it main 40k & Kill Team rules like the other BSF models got though not sure which faction they’d add it to really. But could also work well in a few AoS armies, Gloomspite obviously (though it’s slightly less comedic/cartoony) and there has been rules for rogue dimension crossing Ambulls accidentally finding their way to the old WHF world before, so could happen (or just sone home brew rules would be easy to do if course).

Seeing a Troggherd all together like that is great, love the idea of a super massive dumb but fun army.

Yes! I feel like some cranky Old Testament prophet who’s been spouting utter shite for years and accidentally predicted something wonderful. and it’s a fabulous model to boot! Though I was hoping for a whole pack of monstrous space beasts but this’ll do for now.

I could easily imagine a centrepiece hero for FEC that’s a bit like the Nighthaunt Kurdoss Valentian model. Picture a ghoul king in tattered rags and ermine, a rusted, battered, gore dripped makeshift crown upon his brow, perched high on a throne of bones, on a palanquin held aloft by several ghoul retainers in brightly coloured rags, with a musician and herald either side bearing grisly, cadaverous totems. Just throw in a large terrain piece that’s modelled on a huge courtly feast, humans strung up on spits like pigs, etcetc.

FEC is one of those factions where I think the lore is just fantastic but I’ve always thought the old repurposed models, whilst not bad, have never come close to doing it justice and put me off. Be great if they revisit them more and release some more that actually lean into the idea of shambling, rotten cannibals wearing rags and rubbish but who think they’re courtly knights. would love to see some wearing pots and pans on their heads thinking it was shining plate armour, glorious pennants trailing in the wind that are actually stitched together flayed skin etcetc .

The Blood Bowl Foetid Rotspawn is a great model, sure that will get used in some great conversions.

RATS vs. FLESH EATER COURTS SET ANNOUNCED https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/01/05/breaking-news-new-models-new-expansions-and-exclusive-revealsgw-homepage-post-1 you have to feel a little sorry for the AoS team as I assume most of their big reveals for today got spoiled last week, still of all the places to go next, Skaven & FEC feels pretty, pretty unexpected. just goes to show how little we all know. 🤪🔨

@robinlvalentine pretty sure that’s how all the warsrolls are worded it’s just in the GHB, and normally at the back of the relevant battletome, that it will have match play profile that lists unit size and points.

Yeah, I’m looking to fill a writing hole in my life right now.

I thought that initially and started coming up with crazy ways to exploit it but as was pointed out to me you pick one model from a unit for the purpose of stealing the artefact but the D3 MWs are just allocated to the unit itself.