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Still sounds quite cool though... 🫠

Nurgle Harbinger in my book but I iked a lot of AoS releases. FEC, Seraphon, CoS all had amazing minis and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Well, you are right of course, it‘s inconsequential but it would be kinda nice to have an AoS category, cause obviously most will vote for a 40k mini…

Yeah, it‘s rigged in so far, they every second person in the GW hobby plays mahreens. I love space marines as well, they‘re cool, but they still don‘t deserve the win. 😇 And it‘s sad thar mahreen players can‘t look past their pond and honor other models. Hell, even I can congratulate the light of Eltharion or Coolathis!

The Lion isn't a bad model at all, far from it, but it's wholly undeserved to see him take gold. My vote went for the Nurglite Harbinger and that would've been a much better winner. Time for wearing my tin foil hat: AoS is really underrepresented in these polls and they also look to be rigged as only the huge centrepiece models get to win, when some of the very best models IMO are just simple minis on foot. Composition, mood, etc.... you can't tell me Lion or Angron are better than the Harbinger. I mean you can but I'll refuse to agree! Gitzdee is right - next year it's gonna be Vulcan or Leman Russ or whomever else they bring back no matter how great some other minis will be.

Good luck with the new job! My plan is the same as always: paint my stuff. Usually I kind of impress myself how little I get done each year, so I hope I‘ll be better this year for real.

While a lovely colleague of mine (my proudest moment was when he once stepped on me!) fused himself with a stupid high elf dragon to create the very first chaos dragon, they shall be released for all of the Chaos club (it’s like the Disney club, we’re just more childish) members! ❤️

👁️😉👁️😉 😭 They‘ve found me and they do terrible things to me, like making me wear their strange, oversized helmets! I always thought my end would be the mods in here after I posted one stupid thing too many but here we are… I‘m so, so sorry that they‘ve caught me, definitely not for what I posted about Lumineth! Ouch! I had soooo much hate to give this world, what a cruel plane of existence this is! * Poof!* Ah, back in the realm of Tzeentch, phew. I‘m gonna rate Hysh with 0 stars on realmadvisor. Too bright there and really rude people, strange food…. and totally antidemonic too, not cool. I didn‘t do nothing, aight? Big T just told me my holiday is over now since I came back to office early. Great! Drat you, Lumineth!!! I think it would visually just really work for them. I liked the old dragons…. I also like the new ones - what I don‘t like is that so far only SCE got some!

I hope someone gets the classic serpentine dragons from WHFB… maybe Lumineth, would work well with their slightly oriental/eastern design cues! More dragons would be cool in general, sea dragons for IDK, chaos dragons… so many cool dragons could be added to AoS!

That new Stormcast unit sounds like a really cool idea, whether it’s true or not! Really grimdark and messed up. Imagine being kinda immortal only to have that gift revoked. That could make for awesome narratives! Our cute rats would get a lot of hate (in-universe) if they messed this hard with Cities. I really looove what I see!

No, you are absolutely right; the changes were not exactly groundbreaking or big - what we mean is that a big change wouldn‘t likely go down well with marine players. It‘s too big a risk as the design IS 40k and people like it, so there is little incentive to stray far from it. And marines got a whole lot more diverse in the last few years on top of it…. Would something really new be cool? Most likely! But perhaps GW should be creative with other factions. I got no personal skin in the game, Chaos SM use archaic armor anyways, so I‘d be for more creativity in the SM range but I think we all know SM players… at least the ones online already really had a hard time accepting Primaris at first! 😂 Imagine now a really different design, they‘d riot!

I think you misjudge how slowly SM armor got changed in the past, the different armor styles only got available thanks to Forgeworld. We had the last tactical squad before the Primaris for more or less something like 15 years. Back when it came out it was the single most impressive plastic kit in wargaming and it‘s still the look of SMs, Primaris are still just the „new“ thing to many fans. And they got a ton of new variants with them as well. Something more creative than those redesigns is unlikely for now I bet. But even better, cause so many other forces need attention anyways and they can release chapter-specific stuff for easy money. I‘d rather see more SCE than SMs although I‘d like to see lots of other stuff before either of them. But I‘ll say this: the basic marine design won‘t change too much for a looooong time, the Primaris were the big change for SMs.

With SM being their bestsellers, I don‘t think they want to stray far from the current model(s) they got going on. Sure, SM players would gladly get more marines (they already do though) but they will not be very creative in their redesigns. If I owned GW and SM sold better than anything else, I wouldn‘t mess with that formula either. If anything, I‘d bring back old design cues in the new size/armor design and go full-circle…

Now you‘re just being unrealistic. 😂 They got new armor styles a couple of years ago that‘s pretty recent in 40k terms, I figure the next big thing is them going back to the helmet style that started with mk5 (the one with a grill in the middle/vader-esque) as that is the definite look of SMs in most people‘s eyes. The new DA models are really nice but about as exciting as opening a package of batteries for non-DA collectors. Yeah, yeah, I‘m repenting for being blunt. At least it‘s not Space Wolves!

She‘s on a diet and you thin-shame her. Not cool!

Sounds like some very cool miniatures at least. Let's hope it checks out!

Or can‘t carry. Joey the Executioner can‘t even lift his own sword! 🤭 Sorry for always singling you out, Joey, even on Christmas! BTW, Merry Christmas/happy holidays or just a good ol’ nice Sunday to all of you!

A bit off-topic, so sorry, for that, but I thought I'd share InfernalBrush's youtube channel, just been watching it in the background while wrapping up gifts... he's a former Eavy Metal painter who has worked on many of our favorite armies and it's really interesting to see him paint stuff in the official EM way, it's not just good for ideas but also picking up some skills and knowledge without grabbing a brush yourself. The Eavy Metal paint jobs are even more pristine than one might think from most photos! https://www.youtube.com/@InfernalBrush/videos

I'm willing to bet that it's Nighthaunt, it's definitely not Tzeentch. If I'm wrong, I'll burn my army and collect Lumineth! And if I'm right, I'll do the same, yeehaw!

I‘d really like to have heroes not be in „tiers“ - in AoS you‘re kinda only a proper hero if you got a huge base and some critter with you. I liked that in WHFB your hero could just be a single dude walking on his own and still show flashy posers who‘s boss! Dunno if GW feels this more cinematic or it‘s a sales decision but I liked guys like Aekhold Helbrass back then. Right now very few heroes on foot feel like proper murder-machines. Maybe vamps and FEC heroes… I miss how badass Tzeentchian heroes used to be. Not just supreme sorcerers but also deadly in close combat! Now we‘re usually a bunch of nerds with chicken feet! 😂

I think at this point I'd definitely deserve to be put in front of a Lumineth kangaroo court! 😄 But hey, life as a brimstone horror is hard as it is!

I feel honored! 😎 Did you forget to remove the flash from your clogs or are you trying to be taller, short king? Write me down twice in your little diary!

But what if it isn't the lady of ruin? You bet on that... if you had bet your firstborn, or house, then okay, but playing lumineth? That my friend is too high a price! PS: Christmas is the time of giving - I'm sure Settra's no Christian either but maybe he'll help convince you anyways. 😄

Y'know, take the new Chaos lord on foot, use the one helmet from the new chaos knights (on the picture it's the first mini in the top row, on the left side), greenstuff the middle (there are other similar ones to Crom's too) and you've got yourself a pretty accurate new Crom. His necklace is easy enough to sculpt and all he'd need is an axe in the hand that holds his shield and some small details like spike on his knee. It's difficult to be more vanilla than Crom the conqueror! 🤭

I really don‘t think so, sorry. GW thinks these pics generate hype for upcoming releases, probably some marketing „genius“ told them so. I‘ll be honest, I‘d rather have fewer but actually useful teaser images for future releases from time to time instead of lots of cryptic images that often could be anything. But some like it I guess, so good for those.