Murder Pancake

My sincerest condolences for everyone that's lost armies in one fell swoop. That's a huge change, and you have every right to be upset. I'm sorry for your loss. I can't honestly say that I'm surprised the Beasts are gone. As much as I loved them from back in 4th edition; I never really got to play them to any extent that was worthwhile. I tried three separate times to make an army work in AoS without success; I just don't have time for hordes anymore; and the models showed their age. They really shined best for me when playing WAP - but I'm not really into touching TOW at this point. With BoC gone from AoS, I wonder if we'll get more expansion on the Ogroids. I already play StD and Disciples, but more characters/units than just the thaumaturge and the myrmidons would be an interesting take. All the monstrous units have moved mostly over into the StD; so at the end of the day I think I have about the same composition that I did before. It's an adjustment, and I'm sorry to see them go; but I no longer feel compelled to try and revive them from my first introduction to Warhammer.

Removing the warscrolls has been a good way to put a full stop on any of my future purchases. I have enough of a backlog that the only thing GW could release at this point that I would want to spend money on is a giant screamer behemoth of some variety. Ever since killing off Azyr, I've found myself pulling away to more agnostic style games anyhow. The only benefit that I can see for digitizing the warscrolls would be that they can be actively updated. But even then it doesn't matter unless they aren't hidden behind a paywall.

Well, I am immensely glad that I started magnetizing my dracothian guard. Looks like I won't need to pick up anything but dragons going forward, which is exactly what I wanted.

More dragons!! I need so many...for reasons both SCE abd Tzeentch flavored...yes.

These are most likely being reboxed for 3.0. If they were going to get rid of these they would also have to rewrite the profile for the Stardrake, or remove it too since since it's part of the Extremis chamber/there wouldn't be any dracothian to give bonuses to. That, and I believe Kragnos' warscroll mentions bonuses vs. Dracothian and Draconith units. This is at least what I am going to tell myself as I just bought a box; but it does not seem likely that they are just flat out removing them.

With regards to the Kruleboyz and their limited battleline along with the focus on monsters with 3.0, is it at all possible that the Marshcrawla Sloggoth might be treated as a battleline/conditional battleline chariot? It seems a little odd that they have so few battleline but I do understand that they are just 1/3 of a battletome.

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised about the reaction to the new dragons. I've been waiting on the edge of my seat since they showed off the vulture mounts for the Kruleboys. I do apologize if my observations are in the wrong place. Looking at the sculpts for Krondys/Karazai, it feels like dragons have come a very long way since the release of AOS. The Stardrake is blocky and rectangular, with a compact silhouette that hides truncated limbs with little maneuverability under heavy armor plates and closed wings that are only slightly askew. You have the Khorne dragon, whose pose is unusually top heavy. The back feet have no motion, the forelimbs are too short to support the upper body, and it appears to be resting on a ruined building to try and hide that fact. The wings are too small and heavy to ever support it in the air. In both cases, the poses are very restrained and seem to square up. The new dragons however, are so very different. If I have one complaint about the sculpt, it's that their necks seem a little short. But the mantled wings and the upward pose gives the impression of having just landed on the battlefield. The closest comparison I could make here is Dorghar, and even then they're a little stiff and almost symmetrical. With the new characters, there's weight, motion, and a physical presence here that I don't see in earlier models. The faces are expressive and have supple, flexible features that for lack of a better example, suggests a talkative race akin to Copper dragons in DnD, particularly referencing Todd Lockwood's work. It makes sense for these prominent, sapient characters. I can only hope that these two are just the start of something more exciting, whether it's just smaller cavalry units, or a full on expansion into a full Draconith faction that can span across every faction, which is what I would love to see. As far as faction related gripes, I'm a little disappointed that, despite not having riders, Behemoths for Stormcast still appear to be locked to only leader spots. It's going to make it harder to shove as many dragons into my list as possible.

I am so happy with these two I could cry. Finally, some decent dragons for the table. Rip my whole wallet.

Stormcast helmets make them look like Cybermen from Dr. Who. I cannot take them seriously. The fact that they change radically in appeal with a simple headswap is the only reason besides dragons that I have any at all. I really want to see a Beasts of Chaos refresh; GW has done them dirty since I started them back before Chaos was split into three separate groups. I would appreciate even a little revamp. At least update the Shaggoth to his proper mountainous size.

Sure thing, just let me hide all of these screamers in the back room real quick. In all seriousness though, not a fan and trying for some grimdark hullabaloo. So far I have them off the pauldrons and some of the shields so i can do shredded cloth and fail at freehand, and replaced the flag on the vexillor with a less impressive one. Not sure what I will do if this rumor engine is something like a throne or a chair for a mounted unit.

I certainly hope it's not a giant, wierd Sigmar face. I'm already carving all of them off my dominion units as it is.

Someone rummaged through a bits box and found a ton of spare skink tails and metal scraps. I have no idea what that might be other than maybe the back of a chair or throne? On the right there's a small portion that seems to curve backwards, but it looks to be all one smooth piece and not something like a tusk.

Why did they repost the story? Did it go up in error from last week?

I would sell most of my other armies to bankroll a pure dragon army, but have settled for fielding Stormcast until GW does that. I really wish they would give dragons the Gargant treatment so i could throw some in every faction I have.

Reading the coalition rules for Disciples of Tzeentch, I see nothing that prevents them from being Battleline units. Am I reading this wrong?