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Pretty weak preview. Not much new at all for AoS, just re-featuring a bunch of already announced CoS stuff. Manticore looks gorgeous at least. I really hate calling something "Not the 40k Stream" and having half of it be 30k. I mean, technically your right... but come on, its literally the same thing. I don't care what anyone says haha.

I was thinking about how that winter tome is likely FEC, since its one of the few I think who haven't received an update yet, and how AOS releases later in the year are pretty sparse. I don't want to feed folks to much hope, but it does leave the gap for a partial range refresh of FEC as the Dawnbringer series comes to a close... could even be that one of the tails of the comet falls to FEC insanity as the narrative catalyst for it.

TBF, the chaos gods are pretty motley! They can be interpreted in a variety of ways depending on the person doing the interpreting (both in setting, and us as an outsider looking in). So its not wrong if you consider Nurgle to be the eternal gardener, or the lord of Plague and Disease on the mortal plane. Liber Chaotica: Nurgle had a pretty awesome passage that I tend to lean on for how I frame Nurgle. Wish I could afford a copy, since its OOP and like $500 on ebay, but that's neither here no there! Included the old reddit link to the excerpt if you feel like giving it a read!

Man. The Harbinger of Decay all but seals my collection of a nurgle army. I've hummed and Hah'd over what to collect after falling out of love with my long-stalled out Mawtribes army. One thing I didn't see mentioned at all, was the lore blurb about the lore revolving around him. "Dour and humourless – in contrast to the Grandfather’s usual joyful entourage – they lead Rotbringer cohorts known as Shudderhoods, joylessly committed to undertaking unholy labours in the Plague Lord’s name." Honestly. Its really refreshing to have a traditionally eccentric or silly faction tighten up for a serious/ dour role in the fiction. Farting nurglings and over the top joyful nurgle dialogue just aren't my thing, and they get so done to death... Same with Orcs and their cockney shenanigans, or their comedy. It dominates the zeitgeist of the online community, and in Nurgle's case really undermines the whole pathos of what I feel it means to fall too, or be engaged by, the embodiment of despair and hopelessness that Nurgle is supposed to represent as a Chaos God.

Agreed! Love a good leak when we're far from a show. But this close to what is being built up as a massive reveal show at warhammerfest, I'd much prefer to watch the reveal xD. Really hoping for a big narrative series for AoS. Give me some lore books to buy

Has there been any further hints/ or rumor for gitmob?

Release something like this, and I'm waiting on release day, refreshing every few seconds to score my copies.

Looked like the krox had two head options, one gator and the other more like the Stormcast dragons Dig them both honestly!

Yup, think your right! Doubt we're getting more for orks in Arks of Omen, as a kommandos and snikrot make the perfect Boarding Patrol, so most likely a Snikrot basing element

Absolutely in shock that the new ripfang unit cant be taken as battleline. What a weird release

My bet is on a ton of new stuff, and not much updating off the old. I really hope i'm wrong, or that if they cull some of the older line they are unwilling to update. Seeing some of those old, awful finecast sculpts in the battletomes/ table always bums me out as a collector. Learned that the hard way with ogres, thinking they would release altnerate/ updated sculpts for things like Yehtti, butcher or gorgers.

I think im on the seraphon train guys. Saurus are all the sharp angles, and bulky bodies I ever wanted. And toads are rad. Now I just need to sell my ogres to make room xD.

If I have one hope for Seraphon tomorrow. Its that Kroxigor please should get a new model. They cant keep getting away with them and rat ogres

Today I had a very long staredown with a Start Collecting Skins box. Balls in your court GW, lets see what this LVO is cookin with

Totally true. I guess my annoyance is why introduce a new aesthetic into the recent model range that hearken back to a previously squatted range. Makes it very hard from a perspective rules/force org. to justify buying a unit of them

As excited I am for gitmob snarlfangs, think im going to hold off on them until we get confirmation their is more eventually coming in that aesthetic. Excited for the preview! Trying to finish my backlog of 40k ork army, and a look at what the new Seraphon release/ what might be coming next for AoS is the boost of motivation I need.

I feel we do have a lot. More then I know, or have gotten to experience. The issue is I think its spread too far over too many mediums. Most of which the average fan likely isn't engaging with. IE: White Dwarf. They need to bring the lore and goings on to a more accessible platform. It doesn't need to be verbatim to invalidate their other products, but we should have say... a web page, where world lovers can look at a realm and see what is happening in the moment. What might have happened in the past, and hints to the future. You can simplify it even more and do something like a Free city newsletter, written in universe to give a biased look from the perspective the mortals. Heck! You could make it a variety selection. One month you do a free city of your choice... then next its a chaos sermon to the tribes of the 8-points. A tablet of divinations from the lizardmen, or a bill of sales/contract from the Kharadron. Those are the creative lore products I would be so interested in, and would help keep people from always being annoyed that there isnt any lore atm.

Oh god they can give you old cards/tokens in those boxes? Drastically reduces any interest I had

Yeah, I mean if gitmob was getting even a handful of new kits I kinda would have expected them to be on the grots battletome art. They usually do that for new factions. But they are just a minor faction to gits as a whole. I still have the hope, because it is just WEIRD if they release wolf riders and nothing else. They just stick out like a sour thumb. No way they open up an entire aesthetic and just leave it twisting in the wind.

Dont think so. I think that is 100% a vampire hero for the soulblight tome

Yeah. First new model silhouette is 100% a new Slann sculpt. Slowed down at .56 you see a skink sitting on the arm just like the bone toad. I imagine its going to be an option for a new generic slann, with a bit or two to make another unique named one! Ala Rotigus. I can only hope the Saurus is a refreshed battleline, and not just a foot hero for the existing Saurus. He isn't overly kitted out with stuff, but they dont show the head so maybe he has some kinda funky head-dress? Im still pulling for them being the much needed battleline. The Mounted Dino is a bit of a curveball. We're up close, but he doesnt seem small enough to be a replacement kit. I'm personally leaning that its a new unit/hero option. Something old, but new, like they've been doing with a lot of ranges lately. Dig getting some feathered dinos though. Really will add some texture and colour to the army! Khorne is a foot hero, maybe named. Checks out for what to expect for their upcoming battletome, and TBH, Khorne really only needs rules love atm. Their range is fresh and diverse, unless they maybe pick up some kind of deamon kit from the world eaters release. ... Im going to throw a curveball on the last one. Maybe its an elf... But I think its a new vampire. The bone top knot, the spiked shoulderblades over bare arms, and the sharp, pointed back collar. I'm betting this is the soulblight gravelord hero.

Yeah, things definitely feel too canned lately. Need to get more of the hype/creativity back. I want to get hooked into AoS like I was with broken realms prior to their end. Give us a web portal that's just "What's happening in the mortal realms" with zoom-ins on regions of intrigue that they want to focus on, societal customs and geographical features/artwork. Really start building out the Atlas and Almanac realm by realm so people can put their flags in the world.

Looking for some conformation if the Snarlfang Aesthetic has more too it atm. IE; a few more kits for the gloomspite tome. Ultimately I do feel like they need to add more, as the wolf riders really stick out like sore thumbs atm, but that could be on the scale of years. I don't know if I want to wait in limbo for THAT long before getting into the army. Looking at you Malerion Elves and Chorfs. I love you, but that is not a waiting train I want tickets too atm xD.

I'm for anything that justifies warhammer+ existence more.

Asking the important questions lol