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Congrats KingBrodd and Ogre Fans!
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58 minutes ago, Asbestress said:
Pretty sure that would put them in mid-2024, which doesn't really seem to make sense with them annoucing this so early.
Now, if they were teased in late-2023, then I could see them being for 4th.
My personal theory is that they will release in 2023 (February-April at the earliest, November at the latest), as spring/fall is when they like to release new armies (based on the fact that Votann, Sisters of Battle. Lumineth, Soulblight, Sons of Behemat were all released either in the March-May or September-November timetables.)
I don't know... Depends on how large of a release is planned and how much it affects the current AoS lore. GW has reached saturation point with Stormcast, to the point where new units are essentially duplicates of older, obsolete units. And their golem-like design has limited the modeler's creative space, there's only so many stoic knights you can make. Essentially their poster children are getting stale, and they never reached the fanatical following that Space Marines received (I blame it on the emotionless helmets
) . A new Mortals of Sigmar line would allow an entire line refresh and a new creative avenue for the sculptors and designers. IF they are portrayed as integral allies to the stormcast, (replacing ranks within stormcast armies cut off from the Anvil), they could spin off another giant army release that would keep going for years.
Also, deep down I think most people like the "heroes" to be human. For all their armor, space marines look and feel human. Sure they're genetically enhanced, but basically are just bigger, stronger humans, which fits every boy's idea of a hero/superhero. That makes them relatable. Stormcast are not. Their angelic reincarnation in the lore makes them feel like outsiders, and unrelatable to real people (i.e. the actual players). A relaunch of "Sigmar allied Humans" would fit the bill of both a heroic host helping Sigmar on his crusade to save the mortal realms AND give the actual players a faction they can more easily relate to (Downtrodden humans rising up to fight the Oppressor's). Everyone likes that type of underdog fight.
Whenever they decide to release it, the "Humans of Sigmar" faction is going to be huge AND popular. Just you watch, I'll lay this prediction now, that in 5 years time stormcast will be a dusty third tier army with few updates and Humans of Sigmar will reign supreme!
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1 hour ago, KingBrodd said:
Honestly Updated Mortal Humans for COS will probably be one of the best selling lines in WHFB/AOS.
I wish they'd give us an update. The previous one, was in what? April? May? And they stated they would show us the development process, buts its been quiet since then.
My guess? Mortal humans will be the New Army Launch for AOS 4th edition in 2024.
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13 minutes ago, mojojojo101 said:
.I absolutely love that Eternus model, think he might push me over the edge to start a new army.
All the new StD stuff we've seen from AoS (including the Varanguard and Archaon) are massive, over the top, their weapons are massive, the ride weird sort of demon-horses. It's ridiculous and I love it.
I know a lot of people are really in to the more grounded stuff, but for me, AoS is at its best when it takes a mad idea and just follows through with reckless abandon.
My slaves of darkness miniatures double as a hellknight faction in my tabletop D&D games. They've made a great opposition faction in my games over the years, and the models always look great on the table, especially the mounted knights.
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3 hours ago, KingBrodd said:
If I were looking to get into the expansion I would snag the Crimson Court Underworlds Warband and use them. 4 Vampires for almost literally the cost of 1!!
I bought that warband last year for my soulblight army
I held off on Annika and Kriza hoping we'd seen them in a cursed city expansion. Oh well
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I probably missed the initial conversation, but I'm happy to see a Cursed City announcement pop up finally. Sad that it doesnt include any models. I guess that's good for anyone who already purchased the mocels for thier soulblight army, but less so for those who haven't. Shelling out $100 for 3 individual hero blisters AND $XX for the expansion itself is less fun. I was hoping we'd see a package deal discount. Oh well.
On the bright side, looks like the game will get some support in time for Halloween.
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11 minutes ago, EccentricCircle said:
I'm also more familiar with King Brodd from the forums than from realmgate wars lore, so it really does feel as though one of us just got an official model! I wonder whether the sculptor was aware of the forum and our monarch's love for all things gigantic or whether they just looked at the older books!
So none of actually know what KingBrodd looks like in real life. It would be hilarious if there was some actual resemblance between the Mega-gargant facial features and KingBrodds! I'm fairly certain the eyepatch and tusks are out, but the nose, chin and eyebrows are fair game 😁
In unrelated news, now that Nova is behind us, are there any other potential online reveals between now and Christmas?
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8 minutes ago, Ogregut said:
Just had another look at the pics and I'll love to know who painted the ogor hunter, the lizard head just looks amazing.
I love the different styles on the model.
The more I look at the chosen, the more I love them, nods to the older models while bringing them up to date. The one with the hammer is so ready to smash face!
DO we know what the dead creature is on the Ogor's back? Is it supposed to be a bear? Or is there some other AoS beastie that its supposed to be from the lore?
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Hey KingBrodd,
Grabbed a screenshot for ya last night from the reveal video. Thought you might want it for your Forum thumbnail. Its got one of the little gribbly things sitting near your head, where it can whisper ideas into your gargant skull.
Also whomever called it with the 3 fingered gribbly beasties from the rumor threads as being helpers/worshippers of the mega gargants, they deserve a trophy.
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5 minutes ago, Malakithe said:
Isnt summer pretty much over now?
School started here for the kids, so yeah. I guess technically summer extends to the solstice later this month, so perhaps they're going to squeeze in both tomes on Sunday?
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52 minutes ago, Twisted Firaun said:
I'm personally trying to figure out how I take the Ogroids and dedicate them to the Tzeentchian side of Be'lakor, what are your plans for the future?
Shouldn't bee too hard, look at the traditional Ogroid Thamaturage paint scheme. I too run a Tzeench SLaves of Darkness themed force, I'd be interested to see what you come up with .
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Did you hear that thud? That was Kind Brodd passing out and hitting the floor after the Giant and Ogor Reveals!
Congrats KingBrodd
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8 minutes ago, El Syf said:
Soulblight Gravelords second wave lolz.
Won't lie, love to see it. But the army roster is pretty well filled out at this point, so I'd rather see Cursed City expansions that can be used in a Soulblight Army. Get twice the bang for my buck. If we're wish listing, perhaps a new Zombie dragon/terrorgheist kit, as I feel the sculptors nowadays could create a much more dynamic model.
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For KingBrodds sake, I hope we get another triple gargant kit. One where you can make a melee character, a caster character, and another generic giant.
With halloween coming up, I'd love to see some of the Cursed City releases announced.
Lastly, I like Slaves to Darkness to get something special for their winter release. That faction is inundated with mortal followers of chaos, especially with all the warcry warbands. I want a modern centerpiece model, like a re-imagined Chaos Warshrine, or perhaps a big beastie from Ghur that's been captured and enslaved. Kind of like a modern twist on the old chaos mammoth, but with a more fantastic monster in place of the elephant.
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21 minutes ago, Clan's Cynic said:
Could be Warcry, could be Underworlds (most armies have already had warbands now, so repeats are possible), could be Cursed City... there's a lot of auxiliary games REs could fit into now.
Still waiting for those cursed city booster packs/expansions...
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4 minutes ago, Whitefang said:
These two dreams can be the same thing you know
They can be...but with Warhammer the Old World in the works and GW's push toward more unique IP's that can be copyrighted, that we wont see revised brettonians make an appearance in AOS. BUT. That doesn't mean I can't take them from the old world and use them in AOS as proxies or something. Here's hoping the scales are compatible.
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30 minutes ago, Draznak said:
I hope you're right !
I'd love a more traditional medieval European force ala Brettonians to make an appearance, but I'd also happily take some additional love for Cities of Sigmar. Of all the factions in the game, I feel Cities holds the most potential for a varied army roster, as GW can always invent more cities in different regions each time they want to introduce some cool new unit or aesthetic.
Im wondering if the dawnbringers will be a human paladin-esque group, a bunch of religious zealots, or AoS's version of the inquisition, or all three!
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1 hour ago, Nezzhil said:
Gitz!!! !!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im going to say... Chaos Dwarves! This is their goad for handling captives and hobgrots!
Also its got a nighthaunt kind of vibe to it as well.
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38 minutes ago, Ganigumo said:
The only issue with MB on grunta is that it wouldn't distinguish itself as different from the MBoF or MBoMK, it would just be an in-between step, it would be nice to have but its not like the army needs it. If its primarily a unique unit they could take it somewhere interesting though, like a unique bloodtoof warboss that gets the MK version of Skull Splitting bellow (3- for -1 commands), and lets bloodtoof units run & charge, and choose to run if he issues mighty destroyers.
I'm always for multiple sculpts of things though, but its annoying that so many end up being locked behind events and paywalls. I would've loved that alternate swampcalla shaman.Then perhaps create another branch of the Ironjaws force? Gove some additional options to their playstyle. What about some sort of artillery or shooting weapons? Heck Brutes are large and strong enough they could throw a cannonball like a shot-put! Or make a Boar riding Warchanter that's an actual Priest and totem, opening up that avenue of play. What about a wierdknob on a boar fast enough to keep up with the infantry or Calvary, that has a unique spell and plays of the old More Orks = More Power trope to buff nearby units. Or a big Totem/effigy unit with similar mechanics to the Marshcrawler Sloggoth, granting an aura to all nearby Ironjaws. Heck that big Godbeast Skull that Gordraak toted around screams Totem unit or Terrain piece! Or some Orruk Endless spells! There's a ton of development paths open to ironjaws that fits thematically in the current army aesthetic, Its just not GW's focus or MO to do things like this.
Also new Ardboy sculpts would be great.
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11 minutes ago, Vasshpit said:
I adore this range with all my widdle destro heart. That being said, they could have just made them ironjawz with the old classic look BUT im glad they didnt because they are by far my favorite looking orcs. Hell I cant even look at the classic high fantasy GW orruks the same any more. I reeeellly dig the more realistic approach. ✊ The artist(s) behind them did a orcsome job indeed!!
Only complaint is that Id of like to have seen them become the "new" orc & goblins. You can see them across the line then they threw in hobgrots. I do like them as well but if they'd of been grots like on the sloggoth, killbow, and hero companions... oh boy, so much weeeeeeee!!!!
I do think the Kruelboys are nice looking sculpts. But we already had two Ork factions out there that needed an update (bonesplitters) or an expansion (Ironjawz). Introducing Kreulboyz and smashing them together with the older orks was jsut a stopgap measure and tells me GW has no plans to really support or expand their older armies (as long as people are willing to buy new ones).
That said... I'm happy that the "Greenskinz" faction is basically back. I dislike GW carving out tiny subfaction armies. Now if only the Gitmobs will come back as the technologic scavengers we call the Skygrots, and give me some siege weaponry for my greenskinz army!. Shoot, Hobgrots could be expanded into the Skygrots, why not?
Locally we've been toying with the idea of scrapping the entire faction system, and allow allies up to 50% of your army from anywhere in your grand alliance. You'd only get your normally faction benefits for your core army (ironjawz, gloomspite, etc) but the rest of the allied forces could still participate above that 400 pts/ 1 in 4 level we have for allies now. I'll let you all know how it goes.
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2 hours ago, Goatforce said:
Looks like Sons of Behemat!
I noticed all the crushed bits are chaos related. Slaves to Darkness vs Sons of Behemet Battle Box? With a new Gargant hero inside? I hope I'm wrong, but the "new models locked in a battlebox" seems to be the modus operandi these days for GW.
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47 minutes ago, Twisted Firaun said:
Congratulations @KingBrodd! of course this means that we'll expect a painted version of your new self to be posted on here once the kit comes out.
Of all the factions to be updated, I hope OBR are the second to last. I don't have any good reason for this, but I just wish that we'd focus more on the "proper" undead/mortals of the grand alliance of death. I'd love to see some new ghouls for FEC, and updated Graveyard kit, and (of course) the return of certain units from LONG LOST NEHEKHARA!!! like the Ushabti and Necrosphinx. If the Cities of Sigmar can keep pretty much all the 8th edition kits, why can't the Tomb Kings live on? I know GW still has the moulds....
Ahh dreams! Its what we all cling to. I'm glad Brodd's is finally comming true, though the SoB are relatively new and don't need a refresh like some of the older lines.
Ogors need a line refresh. They are old and showing their age, and destruction needs some love. Flesh eater courts also needs some revisits, perhaps a new unit or two that aren't characters. Fyreslayers need to die and the concept be reforged from the ground up. SEraphon and Cities of Sigmar need help, but that is mitigated by the sheer variety of old models that can be drawn on for their armies, so it doesn't feel as urgent.
And then there's ironjaws. For years I wished for some additions to their line, and instead I got Kruelboys, the orks no one asked for (and made bonesplitters cry).
Oh and I forgot about Beasts of Chaos...haven't GW discontinued them yet? When was the last time they saw a new model? THey got the Herdstone back in 2nd edition, but I think all thier models are still from the old world pre AoS. 🤪
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45 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:
KING BRODD IS COMING PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! THIS IS GOING TO BE AN ALL NEW KIT!! KRAKEN EATER HAS SANDLES AND GATEBREAKER AND WARSTOMPER HAVE 4 TOES!!
ALLLLLLNEWWWWWGAAAAARGAAAANT!!
Don't Mega-gargants have FOUR toes? ---Checks Pictures online-- Hmm Warstompers have 4 toes, Krakeneaters have 3. SO It can definitely be a Mega Gargant. For a moment there I thought GW was trolling King Brodd, and this reveal was going to be related to those pesky rumor engine threads with the tiny 3 fingered/toes creatures.
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1 hour ago, Ogregut said:
Makes me want to paint a small 1k witch hunter force
Any rumor out there about an actual order of Azyr faction? As in their own separate army under Order? Basically an excuse to make a new Human-centric fantasy army to replace the old Cities of Sigmar line? Lets face it, the Cities are a conglomeration of whatever was left in the old production line after they carved out all the AoS factions.
I'd love to see an Order of Azyr faction that has lots of human units, mixed with some stormcast-type units. Perhaps knights who were inspired by Stormcast? Or perhaps they're humans from a city where Stormcast can't reincarnate (Nagesh influence, chaos stealing souls, etc, pick your plot wrinkle) and the garrison of stormcast there have taken to training humans to fight alongside them. So you'd get some stormcast officers and small elite units, paired with heavily armored human knights, backed by priests and Inquisitors of Azyr. You could even take the crusade-esque route and have the Order of Azyr spreading into Ghur to help the humans there that are besieged by chaos.
Anyhow just a few dreams. I'm guessing the human army that I really want will appear for hte new Warhammer Old World setting, kind of like AOS's version of Horus heresy. They'll make the models slightly smaller in scale so they don't mesh well with AoS just to frustrate me
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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So the scuttlebutt in the rumor-world is that 10th edition will be a complete rules revamp, not backwards compatible. That fints the pattern of previous editions, GW seems to alternate between backwards compatible and complete revamps for 40K editions. If that's the case, I expect that 10th edition 40K will take up a huge amount of next year's resources, as GW is going to want to re-release updated codexes for their most popular factions as quick as possible. So generic space marines will probably get the Soulblight Gravelords treatment (10th edition compatible codex) right at the end of 9th edition. Then Blood angles, dark angles, space wolves, Orks, Ad Mech, Eldar and other popular factions.
AOS will get a big winter release with Slaves to Darkness, and then some late winter codex. After that I think 2023 will be 40K all the way until the fall of 2023.