Gothmaug

Im a little late to the party on this one, but my bet is the tail of a fish or something aquatic. Those spines look just like the scutes on a sturgeon.

According to google, there was a Warhammer CCG card game with "Von Ryan's leapers". I assume its some inside joke or reference at GW. Here's the artwork for the card.

Ok, well that's encouraging. I spent waaaay to much time painting my coven throne up to be an army showpiece, it would be nice to field it in 3rd edition. On the other hand, the 20 custom kit-bashed intricately painted black knights that gathered dust all second edition are looking VERY spicy right now. Obviously they need a hero to lead the charge. So I dug through my collection, and broke out an old metal figure for a nice mounted Wight King custom. Time to get painting!

So I saw in a battletome review that the Coven Throne can now issue 2 commands at the price of one. As an Iron jaws player (who have a similar trait) I find that type of ability extremely useful. I haven't seen the warscroll yet, are the rest of the Coven throne's abilities that bad? OR is it pointed too high for what it can do?

I actually think the Corpse Cart and Zombies are now more useful as a Regiment of Renoun for another death army, than they are for a soulblight Gravelords Army. The regiment grants The corpse cart the HERO status (for look out sir) a 6+ ward to the zombies, a 5+ ward to the cart and -1 to the enemy ward rolls within 12". It makes me sad you cant use the regiment IN a soulblight army..

So if I cover myself in contrast paint, construct a pentagram from old sprues , and burn a pile of squatted figures, do you think I can summon Whitefang and find out if we'll ever see any Silent People before AoS moves away from Ghur to another realm? Forget more elves, dwarves, humans, etc. AoS needs an insectoid race. Lets end the era of the beast with an insectoid Destruction army of silent ones and a giant Ur-Grub/beast monster for the army.

Dwarf Soup?

I'm still amazed Bonesplitters are an existing faction, and survived the great greenskinz squatting. They've had no love since Warhammer fantasy. I was going to convert a bunch of beastsnagga orks into bonesplitterz to better mesh with my ironjaws, but the fear of that army being deleted has always kept me from doing so (and doubly so since we got Kreulboyz instead of a ironjawz/bonesplitters line expansion). If bonesplitters get more love than a single hero sculpt, I shall be amazed and overjoyed. Then ill go back to grumbling about a Ironjawz goregrunta hero 😋

A steam and blackpowder army of dark dwarves stomping across the mortal realms from their fortresses in Chamon? yes sign me up please.!

I ended up using the "New" deathrattle skeletons as my graveguard, and used the old unarmored skeleton sculpts as normal horde of deathrattle skeletons. works great!

So.... Are you using the sqiggoth as another mawcrusha proxy.... ...Or are you putting a howdah on its back full of orks and using it as a Marshcrawla sloggoth proxy?

That things amazing! I'll be picking one up to use as a chaos spawn in my slaves to darkness army.

I'm ambivilent about her sculpt and story. Don't we already have a Vrykos vampire lord that has a thing for bats (Lady Annika). Besides Soulblight Gravelords needed another unique foot hero like I need another hole in my head. By my count this new Vamp Lord would make the 15th foot hero (13th unique) for Gravelords. Would have preferred a mid sized beast or a mounted hero. Or heck, a ranged hero? Anything really except another foot boss. Lets hope the new Battletome differentiated between them all instead, of 15 units with identical A4 H3 W3 R-1 Dam 2 melee profiles. Did I miss anyone? Cado Deintalos the Exile Gorslav King Velmourn Kritza Lady Annika Necromancer Prince Duvalle Radukar the Wolf Torgillius the Chamberlain Vampire Lord (plus alternate Sculpt Anasta Malkorion) Watch Captain Halgrim Wight King Heck Soulblight has more foot heroes than Flesheater Courts, Fyreslayers, and Ironjaws have for total UNITS in thier faction.

When I saw the Killteam beastmen last night, I died a little inside. Now I can't decide if: A) A planned Beasts of Chaos revamp was abandoned and the model sculpts are being recycled into other lines (ala Kragnos, Ogroid Theridans, and Killteam beastmen). OR B) There are a few designers that really love Beasts of Chaos as GW and they have been trying to provide some love for the faction by seeding new models for the BoC players by sliding them into other lines.

Destruction "Wave"? ...No. Possibly a small trickle to existing older destro factions. If we see any large scale destruction love, it will be for an entirely new army faction.

Wasn't one of the older rumor threads a studded leather glove holding an ornate hilt? We had speculated it was either a vampire or slaneesh. Is this guy it? Also his boots look very familiar. Another rumor thread? Apologies if someone already covered this.

The "era of the beast" as a marketing ploy is dead. We got 1 incarnate and a whole lot of nothing.

I assume the old "Salamander" label from the Old World was in relation to the mythical salamander of British lore that is born from fire. Probably a real life anecdotal tale based on someone tossing a damp log on a fire, and an actual real salamander crawling out to escape the flame. Same with the old "toads are born of dung" belief of the middle ages (toads can hibernate in warm dung piles and pop out in the spring). As for the new mini, those feathery gills are, well, gills. They imply a fully aquatic existence to the sculpt. They took a terrestrial creature (technically a non-mammalian synapsid, not a dinosaur) and stuck on aquatic larval salamander gills. makes my eye twitch 🤪 Which is why Ill just snip them off, and have a very nice Dimetrodon sculpt!

Why did they give the "salamander" feathery gills? Its basically a Dimetrodon dinosaur with neonate salamander gills, and a tiny seraphon helmet. Its just a weird combo. Then again i'm a herpetologist (biologist who studies reptiles and amphibians), so maybe it just pokes my inner logic circuit in my brain.

After reading the regiments of renoun article today, I saw the imperial dragon article and, for a moment, was filled with hope that my dreams for a faction neutral dragon were about to be met. Era of the beast here we go! Alas it is not to be. No true dragons for Warhammer unless your Order, or you find a dead one lying around to animate. And yes there's the mawkrusha, but its intrinsically linked to iron jaws. Where are my chaos wyrms? Where are my Forest dragons, willing to work for anyone with enough gold to satisfy them? Or a fiery desert dragon that haunts the wastes of Ashqy, searching and consuming Ur-gold? OR a shadowy dragon from Uglu that enjoys using mortals as puppets? So many possibilities. Perhaps one day...

I know people have wanted a gene stealer revamp of those modes for a while, but from what I've seen the rumored 10th edition starter box is Pyrovores/Biovores and some Lictor variants. Of course I'm still waiting for some insectoid army to pop up in AoS. Looking at the Helamite riders GW made for necromunda, gave me hope for some new modern insectoid race design for AoS.

I spent years trying to get a set of those kroxigor proxys off ebay. They occasionally pop up, but fetch a $200 price tag these days.. Too rich for my blood.

I know this is AoS here, but hey, I needed to toss in some daily humor centering around our 40K cousins. So are Desolators what happens when a Tactical marine with a missile launcher crosses the Rubicon and forgets to put his gun down? Or did the Ad Mech just go insane with a welder? Or was there an administrative error and the missile launcher design was outsourced to an ex-imperial world now ruled by Orks? I feel this old Simpsons clip exemplifies the Missile Marines. Well with the introduction of Desolators, at least theres finally something worthy enough to ride in a Repulsor...

Its probably already been pointed out, but if not, the bottom half of the vox unit from the new Kill Team fits one of the more recent rumor threads.

So what's going to be the weird, unexpected reveal? There's always one. Any guesses? I'm going to say... This thing