Jefferson Skarsnik

Would make sense that if the next "edition" or cycle is going to focus on onset of the Great War Against Chaos, that daemons start to feature more heavily, and it potentially also makes sense for a Dark Elf comeback at that point to invade Ulthuan and give Young Teclis somebody to throw down against at Finuval Plain. Give me Urien Poisonblade, give me that legendary jobber to the stars Korhien Ironglaive, give me my man Fearghal of the Iron Spear. If by that time Malerion actually has some AOS models that are to Dark Elves what Lumineth are to High Elves then the range crossover stuff goes out of the window. Not saying that will actually happen, but somebody on the WHFB discord (that's obviously gone into overdrive this week) did say that they know a playtester and that Kislev and Cathay rules are written (we already knew from Total Warhammer 3 marketing that they'd had quasi-8th ed rules written for them by GW) and that the miniatures are designed but not in production, and that if the game succeeds enough they'll be a major focus of the second edition. I have no idea if that has any credibility at all, but I presume if there was a wave 2 not every "legacy army" would remain completely off the table while Kislev/Cathay/Norsca got brand new ranges. There's a lot of picking through the aggregated bones of every Youtube review of the army books going on right now; I'm seeing a lot of general enthusiasm for the game, though with a general emerging feeling that infantry is a bit gash this edition and that Warriors of Chaos have been hit with the nerf bat (in a 6th kinda ed way? idk 6th ed) and in a lot of places have some fairly arbitrary-seeming missing rules like plate armour and counter-charge that equivalent units from other factions have (Black Orcs and Phoenix Guard are more heavily armoured than Chaos Warriors). The wait for a Chaos Warrior army where it's fun to take lots of actual Chaos Warriors may still be ongoing There is a batrep featuring Empire for the first time here which I haven't watched yet because the two TK vs bret ones are so long

Malekith is not from Norse mythology

I've seen tomb guard, stalkers and necrosphinx among the kits that didn't sell out quickly in the UK, not sure about ushabti

If they're calling him Malerion retrospectively they probably think they have to call him something that isn't Malekith at this point. If the lore is all like, he's a conflicted good boy that needs to go on a very special spiritual journey to become the king the elves need, not so good

In the UK, the non GW stores seem to be mostly down to having pegasus knights, sepulchural stalkers, necrosphinx and tomb guard. I just managed to preorder the good guy army book off Wayland Games, who appeared to still have the Bretonnian pegasus BSB and the TK army box.

"Jonathan: The approaches, techniques, and tools for painting have changed massively, but so has the photography. The way we took photos back in the 90s was different, and new digital photography is much brighter and crisper, which demands things painted to a different standard." If this guy's surname ever leaks he's getting chinned on his own doorstep by Mike McVey I know what people mean about the grimdarkness. I like the grubby, short-and-brutish perspective of WFRP, and I like that Warhammer Elves have some Moorcockian tendency towards decadence/madness to differentiate somewhat from the slightly tedious Mary-Sue like nature of (main canon) Tolkien elves. But some of the later "everyone's the bad guy!" stuff (Wood Elves kidnapping/murdering human children for lols etc) felt a bit shoehorned in and tedious to me.

Western media in the old world: "Fanatics from the despotic Kingdom of Khemri brutally murdered 300 Bretonnian paladins who were attempting a holy pilgrimage today. In a separate incident, 800 Khemrians are believed to have died after being struck by fast-moving lances"

Tbf I have seen some angles where it looks cool, it might just be a hard one to get a golden angle for a photo idk. I can imagine people doing some good work with the kit with converting bits of it to change the look of the "rider" area

The frequency of the "Tomb Kings are pure evil" propaganda cropping up in these articles is starting to seem a little weird. The bone dragon has way too much going on visually, I don't think I even noticed there was a magic vulture coalescing out of a mysterious torrent of brown substance until they called it out in the article. The teal and crimson scheme they have on the army looks really good with the white bones though. Bretonnia stuff all looks good imo, glad they finally painted the second half of that box of foot knights

That really looks like the foot knight kit is just 10 models for £50 huh

I don't mind single-piece metals or ones where you have to glue an arm here or there. Dropping them or having your cat decide to get froggy with them is a disaster though. Idk if a decent number of the ones they're selling soon are just like single piece or combined with plastic horses or whatever, wouldn't be tempted by many big metal kits unless they did a MTO of the original Azhag kit for some reason

This old Tomb Kings army box with significantly less stuff in it than the one GW are about to release can be yours for just £1750!

Pour one out for the eBay scalpers

How many of the new TK and Bret sculpts are net new units for the army that weren't in any old books? Was it just the bone dragon or were there others? I'm just wondering if the new army compendium books, being meant to give you the whole army profiles minus the special characters from the arcane tomes, will have to spoil any new miniatures for the other factions. I guess something would have leaked if so though, maybe the books will just have photos of the old versions of some minis getting resculpts later on

I'm going to just bounce around between projects as the mood takes me as well, I'm not banking on having a 2000 point Old World army ready by the end of next year or anything. There is always potentially AOS stuff round the corner that can appeal as a palate cleanser. I have a longstanding ambition to collect a Nuln Empire army with heroes and champions that are references to characters from the really fun Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay run I did in 2019-20 with a really good group. But painting loads of infantry in black will either be a) super easy to get through or b) get deathly boring and require a break. I had a lot of High Elves and Dwarfs in the 90s, and if the Dwarf army set is good I'd be tempted to do a small dwarf force in the Zhufbar teal and gold scheme from Total Warhammer, but both of those armies' 8th Ed miniatures grab me a bit less than the 4th-5th era ones that were a bit more idiosyncratic, so it kind of depends on the quality and quantity of new stuff they get. Will also probably eventually succumb to the temptation go Orcy, especially if they get a good new warboss/shaman on wyvern kit. Holding off on buying much Bretonnia stuff in view of the above; I think most of the new stuff is tremendous and will probably buy bits and pieces just to paint or use as knight/wizard characters in dungeon crawlers. But an army box of the old models would end up in the pile of shame indefinitely. Assuming there's not much than Brets and TKs around in Feb, the release will probably be a bit anticlimactic as I have no personal interest in TKs and don't want to buy the rulebook separately if there'll probably be an army box I actually want bundled with it later in the year. I do think the game might start out in a bit of a weird place in terms of heavily front-loading two armies which are a) theoretically among the least popular from the game's first run b) not necessarily super-central to peoples' conception of the Old World and c) heavily reliant on shifting a lot of the oldest, worst looking miniatures. Just wondering if there will be a lot of people in the same boat as me that are like "this is great, but also you're not selling anything I actually want for months"

Lumineth River temple acrobat/wardancers would probably get my money ngl

I guess they're intended to be allies or mercs or whatever but I would love to be able to play as some hapless no-name, soon-to-be-forcibly-confederated Border Princes faction. It'd be a good thematic first amy to play while I'm getting completely tabled in loads of 500pt slow grow leagues or whatever When it became apparent that Brets vs TKs was the direction for the relaunch, I kind of rolled my eyes and thought it was almost a bit of a deliberate monkeys paw spiteful thing by GW, like "you bugged us by going on about this, so here's the game back with a load of the old models you never bought, you must be delighted huh". But the quality of pretty much all of the new Bretonnia stuff has me really tempted, and I'm gonna have to hold off knowing that I'll probably never finish the army if Dwarves/Greenskins/Empire/High Elves pop up with similar stuff. Will probably at least buy one of the damsels and some of those foot knights even if just to use in dungeon crawler games or whatever

Thanks. #51 is loon boss on giant squig right? Done deal

This is a cool idea, you could have Crisis Protocol-style rules for throwing entire buildings at your opponents. I kind of envisage the infantry units of worshippers would just be there to be snacks/power-ups like in that old arcade game Rampage (If you roll a 1 a unit of tasty spearmen goes down the wrong way and you suffer 1 microwound etc ) The magic rules for Old World seem...OK? I never played past 5th Ed so the dice pool stuff in the 8th Ed batreps I watch goes over my head a bit, but it did seem to decide games a bit too much. The example spells in the article seem more like subtle buffs or damage output rather than Wind Of Death routing two big units in one phase and everyone just packing up and going home or whatever

I didn't think the hit and wound requirements were that hard to internalise, but I guess I maybe just learned them in 1995 and it's been stuck for a long time compared to what a curious newcomer coming from a modernish game like AOS or whatever would experience. They've actually changed from what I was used to, when anything above your WS was 5+ to hit and more than double was 6+

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-realms-of-ruin-review Lukewarm but not damning review by Graham on RPS, who found the micro a bit much This seems likely to be one of those "6 or 7/10 but add at least one point if you like the setting a lot" games

https://forbiddenplanet.com/394271-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-stormbringer-32/ I got an email from Forbidden Planet saying the lesser-spotted issue #32 is back in stock, if you want 20 night goblin shootas and/or stabbas for £8.72 +postage Edit: all gone now

Looks promising doesn't it? It's be cool for some of the more unusual, mechanically complex armies like Lumineth, Soulblight and OBR to make it in at some point, although it would probably have to be a good enough RTS to appeal to non-Warhammer people to sell enough to justify it

Khorne all slumping into his chair as his assistant nervously reports back that Guts is slowly coming to understand that friendship is more important than revenge

I'm sure I'm not the only one who gazed at the rotting head for a time on this fine Monday afternoon and then just quietly, wistfully muttered "same"