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@Overread I think they were pre-black library when it was just GW Books, though I don't think that would stop them in terms of copyright. Honestly from what I can remember of them I have a sneaking suspicion the Orfeo books at least don't quite 100% gel with the mid 90s onwards officially sanctioned view of the Warhammer world. Not that there's anything totally heretical about them, but from the little bits I've read of Black Library books I get the feeling they have a different flavour from what came after. Saying that I actually think I read that Drachenfels is getting a reprinting as part of their new line of Horror fiction. If they do hopefully it will be in its original unexpurgated form (some of the pre-BL books had things like sex scenes that I believe were bowdlerized in later editions and in some areas they clash with accepted 'canon'). Really worth reading if it is, I think most people who have rate it as one of the best GW based books published.

no love for the Orfeo books (Zaragoz, Plague Daemon, Storm Warriors) or the likes of Drachenfels? been a long, long, long time since I read them but I remember they stood up to what I'd snootily term proper genre fiction, certainly the Orfeo ones treated chaos in a fairly interesting and nuanced way, Drachenfels was a bit more hammer horror but clearly intended to call back to classic gothic horror with some high camp thrown in, so Newman hit the mark there. actually are any of these still in print at all, or consigned to the GW equivalent of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?

sorry, I'll try and turn over a new leaf.

I may be wrong but we havent actually seen the Sylvaneth central character from below the shoulders have we? so she could still be mainly wood and people are... barking up the wrong tree (badum-tish!). Saying that I reckon she'll be some new offspring/cutting of Alarielle, so more humanoid but still with some foliage going on, maybe leaf clothes or something like that. or she's just taking a breather, I can think of plenty of gigs and events I've been too where I'd have loved to have had a sit down if i'd been able to refashion my branches into a handy stool. it would be cool if they had a large bug model though, could be a great path to explore for new Sylvaneth models, battle beetles and the like.

Slaanesh and harps do have some history, if anyone else is old enough to have read and can still remember 'Storm Warriors'.

not sure about that but they just announced there will be one at Blood & Glory "What’s more, we can confirm that Blood & Glory this year will play host to another exciting Studio Preview – replete with exclusive reveals of just what’s to come for Warhammer in the next few months."

true, though if you played the positioning well, had the HWs charge up 1 flank, the unit spaced out as much as possible, with your commander on the other side even a unit of 5 could cut a swathe across the board and affect most the opposing units. though yeah, even then it wouldn't exactly be talking too many models off the board.

Personally I read that as they dematerialise, ****** off to spook space, then re-materialise in the new location. Would be a nice trick if you could drag them across the whole table dishing out wounds but I think it's pushing it.

Start the countdown to a big 'Fist of Gork' endless spell appearing.

VAMPIRE CRABS FTW! Though sorry but the copywriter totally fluffed one of Harkon's lines... "Fortune favours the infamous".... I mean come on dude, "Fortune favours the grave" is some pretty low hanging fruit, just waiting to be picked here.

to be fair I guess there are some people who might find the idea of an anatomically correct sex toy converted into a herdstone rude. Though I still reckon it would be thematically sound!

ha, didn't think it would censor that...

Slaangors would be great, I've been sorely tempted by the the beastmen start collecting box and have been toying with the idea of converting a ****** into a Slaanesh themed herdstone to properly flex my modelling skills.

looks a bit 'norsca' adjacent.

pretty sure the versions with the Shadespire cards were only a €/£/$ or two more than the ones packaged as AOS ETB sets. I was actually a bit narked that I'd bought the Sepcuchral Guard without the cards when I realised.

As someone lured back into the 'hobby' this year after nearly 30 years out I'd say GW's current strategy of smaller games that feed into the larger flagship ones to be great. I'd only intended to get Shadespire, just to have a go painting some models again and getting the feel for it all and I ended up getting the full Soul Wars box. If I hadn't got that I'd almost certainly have bought Kill Team too when that came out (and very probably still will in some form) as I love the idea of just building up a few small teams, and getting to do several different factions without having to spend hundreds of pounds and a similar amount of hours getting just one full army ready. Pretty sure that if/when I do start a couple of Kill Team forces there will come a point when I start looking with avaricious eyes at more 40K models and one of those Kill Teams becomes the basis for a proper army. Likewise introducing the new Ork Speed Freaks game. If it was just the models for the normal 40k game, I'd have checked them out and appreciated them but that would have been it. As it is I can easily see myself tempted to drop a few sheets on that because they could be fun to model, paint and then play on its own (I always was a huge fan or the original Dark Future game so interested in this), which of course is another gateway into the full game.

been thinking about this a fair bit. for instance I wondered why they've never done a few generic barbarian units. They're such a fantasy trope but essentially relegated to just Khorne/Chaos fighters in Warhammer. You could have some just a few units that cover a multiple of roles that might be missing in some factions. Fighters, mounted (on crazy animals) troops, shaman/wizards that could easily slide into order armies (ok they're not exactly civilised but as a former barbarian chieftain Sigmar would appeal to them, or they could be more Celtic in nature and fit into a Sylvaneth force), destruction armies (is it so crazy to think that warrior nomads hanging around in Ghur would occasionally team up with ogres or orcs? could do some great paint jobs with them painting themselves with green woad) and of course they'd work with chaos too, as the recruiting grounds for more hardcore chaos warriors. From what I gather human models always sell well, so being able to incorporate some multi-functional human troops into any army would, I'd have thought, made them a fairly decent draw.