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9 minutes ago, Kronos said:
Ladies and Gents,
Some Mysteries of the Mortal Realms revealed, most interestingly this is the Last Mystery. I do believe this is how Lumineth, Sons of Behemat and other big Reveals Initially started.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/05/15/mysteries-of-the-mortal-realmsgw-homepage-post-1/
"The Fyreslayer lodges hoard ur-gold like an Azyrite squirrel hoards lightning nuts – but what’s so important about it."
I've cracked it. Next big release Order Battletome Squirrels! Fear their fluffy tailed wrath!
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4 minutes ago, The Brotherhood of Necros said:
Do any of the FEC models currently wield blades? I'd love to say it's Soulblight, with vampires being dialled up a little and becoming more bestial in appearance generally. Would make them more consistent with the FEC take on vampirism but still leave room for distinct factions with different backgrounds and ways of waging war.
Duke Crakmarrow from the Grymwatch underworlds warband has a halberd. Very similar arms/hands with claws and bony bits as well. New FEC warcry warband definitely has my bet. A band of noble questing nights no doubt. I'd love to see what they do for FEC 'Damsel on unicorn' interpretation! If it is a FEC warcry warband then that opens very interesting possibilities for the next round of warcry releases.
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The release is looking very promising, although I will struggle to justify more than 1 to ally with my ogres 🙄 As with many on this thread I like the aesthetic so far. In the very high fantasy world of AoS it's a nice change of pace to get giants you can imagine saying 'fee fi fo fum....'
I'm also wondering if Johan 2.0 is hiding in plain sight....
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6 hours ago, TheR00zle said:
If we’re talking dream armies I want to see what the Furnace Kings that Gw has been teasing in full caps throughout various books to be released.
In my mind these guys have taken the whole weapon train theme of the Legion of Azgorh to its natural 11. I’m talking full on steam engine based armor, their wizards summon fire and ash, and the mechanized daemons known as the Kdaai look like cannibalized train cars.
of course, if they do actually release this faction, odds are they won’t look like this at all.
Check Sciborminiatures.com if you feel the need to scratch that itch. (or get bear riders for home brew/ proxy dracoths)
10 hours ago, Clan's Cynic said:The latest Kharadron lore mentions that Chamon had Dwarf Mages.
So, uh....
...Yeah.
I know not everything mentioned in the lore gets realised in plastic, but with these kind of mentions, the warcry releases, AoS forgeworld cuts and so on I do wonder if our chaotic kin will be seeing a plastic reinvention sometime in the next few years.
11 hours ago, King Under the Mountain said:Scary thought.
What if my dream army comes and it features Dragon Riding Dwarf wizards.
Cringes
Sorry, I've already got a couple of tech priest grombrindal to convert for CoS mages at some point.
I'd also like to make a dwarven 'phoenix' or two. I'm planning one riding a molten infernoth and maybe another riding a wildfire taurus (or maybe another infernoth). I would like to have a thane with battle standard riding the infernoth but I'm not sure how. Any ideas? Failing that, any ideas for alternative riders (KO or dispossessed)?
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It's an interesting idea but for me part of the fun of each grand alliance is how different they are. I wouldn't want them being too similar. Each grand alliances serves its own narrative purpose.
In Death Nagash's will is monolithic and inevitable, like, well, death. This enables you to tell stories about acts of internal and external resistance to absolutist regimes (as stated by @FrekyDoogal) or explore ideas like Nietzsche's master morality or the superhuman.
Destruction obviously feeds off the Darwinian competition/Hobbesian war of all against all. Perfect for thought experiments about anarchy, evolution and the limits of freedom. Besides, in the existing narrative for each subfaction has such different views of Gorkamorka that they might as well be worshipping different gods anyway!
Death and Destruction offer natural ways into different narratives, complimenting the politicking of Order or unstable but ultimately predictable equilibrium present in Chaos. So, whilst I wouldn't object to some new deities being raised up, I guess I'm kind of happy with the current state of play
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Anyone else think the Cows look like a cross between Gundam and Tibet?
I wonder if Elder Titan from Dota2 was an influence https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Elder_Titan
Also on behalf of dwarves throughout the realms, WTF mountains of hysh?! Giving aelves, I repeat aelves, mountain blessings and magical hammers. This is going to be a whole ****** chapter in the Dammaz Kron! (I'm in absolutely no way jealous of aelves getting yaktimus prime obviously 😛).
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11 minutes ago, Rhetoric said:
GW was bound to close, sorry guys and girls, but our tiny plastic armies fall under the non-essential category. I hope they still reveal a ton this Saturday, but understand their release schedule might get pushed wayyy back because of all this.
Somewhere out there is one person who has been waiting 20 years for Zoat model only to have it snatched away when it was so close.....
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48 minutes ago, Fellman said:
So we can garrison 2 bastiladons?
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5 minutes ago, Thalassic Monstrosity said:
Yay for actually existing.
I like the idea of mixing Azyr with other realm magic producing locally unique seraphon cultures similar to other races. Gives a bit more personality and brings them more fully into AoS without losing the strong world that was connection. I wonder if there is any this merging with realm magic gets included in the rules other than the terrain piece.
Also reading between the lines it sounds to me like the 1 drop battalions may be converted into subfactions ala Sylvaneth war groves. I'm guessing thunder quake starhost is now the subfaction with Battleline stegadons.
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2 hours ago, sal4m4nd3r said:
Pardon me while I blow your mind, but you can fly high in a CoS army. That’s a warscroll ability, not an allegiance ability. Same for embarking MARINE units. So you can have 15 thunderers in an ironclad teleporting around blasting things in a CoS army.
2 hours ago, ZLee Syn said:Thats what he said. He said that CoS cannot teleport so adding KO ships fix that
Thanks for clarifying on my behalf. It seems I wasn't as clear as I thought I was with the initial comment.
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2 hours ago, zilberfrid said:
Differently.
They can get +1 to hit and wound in Tempest, as well as spells which is huge, but they are not as prevalent there (only 1 in 4) and do not get the bonusses or battallions from KO.
2 hours ago, hammer49 said:Ok thanks for the reply.
But you could fill in the weaknesses inherent in the book?
As per Zilberfrid, individual KO units can do more damage output with the buffs in tempests eye. So if by inherent weakness you mean the lack of hit/attack buffs and you want to build a list around an ironclad (or two) hitting on 1+ or a big block of riggers with +1 attack and +1 hit then go tempests eye. If you want low drops, gold, shenanigans and/or quirky but powerful item choices go KO.
If by inherent weaknesses you mean the lack of melee anvil, then you would have to run a cities list with so little KO that it's becomes a Cities list with some included KO. Which is fun, just doesn't seem like what you're after. You would probably be better adding some fyreslayers to a thryng list.
The main thing KO gives you that can't be done by another Cities unit is flying high. If you see lack of teleporting as a significant weakness for Cities you can add that.
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On 2/5/2020 at 3:17 AM, KhaosSpawn said:
I don't have much value to add, given I'm still starting with the Starter Set and won't branch out to this for ages (haha!! pun intended 🤣), but my $0.02:
I wouldn't make the trees dangerous by default, but make it an option in some scenarios where agreed with your opponent. E.g. when warbands clash on the outskirts of the forest, all is sweet; should they fight deeper in, make them dangerous; or, Khorne forbid, in the deep-dark heart of the forest, give them attack (and move?!?!) stats and allow either player to activate them instead of a fighter (pretty sure I read a similar rule somewhere).
The water looks pretty narrow and shallow so I wouldn't have any rules for it except where appropriate in a scenario (as above). Hooray for streams flowing with Nurgle rot!!!
My rules are if a model can be placed somewhere and will stay there by themselves, they can climb and horizontally jump there. 😋
Love the idea of ramping up the toxicity the longer a campaign goes on for that classic quest into the heart of darkness feel. The rules ideas come pretty naturally for a lot of the factions. Nurgles rot as you say, mutagenic Rivers of tzeentch magic, Slaaneshi trees that like to whip passers by, fungoid growth releasing toxic spores, purifying flows of holy water, armies of the dead lying in wait under the surface etc etc. Definitely a lot of potential to think about.
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9 hours ago, Koradrel of Chrace said:
P.S. to the post above, I have to say the new Rumour Engine has me very hopeful for a new version of Tyrion as well. I can't really thnk of any other model that would need that elaborate of a base to it.
I had the same thought. It could be anything large, but the two previews seem pretty clear that lumineth is both tyrion and Teclis so Tyrion's base has got to be odds on favourite. Also @luminethmage's sherlock Holmes like deductions!
It makes sense to me from a sales point of view. Reveal Teclis early to get the hype train rolling. Keep Tyrion back until the last minute to get maximum hype shortly before product release. $$$$
In more random musings, I wonder if there will be any tyrion mutant/reject aelves at some point. Teclis rejected the idoneth and morathi keeps her mutants around to boost her self-esteem. I'm going to tin foil hat predict that tyrion's pre-lumineth mutant aelves defected to malaerion because as far as he's concerned the more mutated the better.
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12 hours ago, Baron Klatz said:
Warmachines semi-confirmed then.
Stormcast/Knights Excelsior had giant ballistaes in Excelsis a year before Sacrosanct released so it can just be fluff decoration(for now).
Interesting bit is "finest champions". After this crushing defeat it's possible the Realmlord's release is Teclis reforming their army with new troops, creatures and powers because of how inefficient they were against the Varanguard.
As confirmed as cannons in greywater fastness? 😜
It is another bit of lore connecting both Teclis and tyrion to the lumineth. So it does seem to strengthen the suggestion Tyrion might be coming in the lumineth
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10 hours ago, JPjr said:
The Ham of Doom - A giant juicy magical ham that hangs in the air, driving hungry Ogors to even more violent acts and providing eating Ogors with extra beneficial effects.
This one I definitely want to see!
Low hanging fruit for Dispossessed endless prayers (they do seem to have the best praying priests and/or God who listens the most reliably!):
Book of Grudges: A flying giant book which inspires even greater stubbornness for nearby units (probably bravery buff or battleshock immunity or something boring but preferably a combat buff like +1 to wound)
Vengeful Ancestors: Men of Dunharrhow style wall of dead angry dawi flying over units for d3 mortal wounds, bravery debuff for enemies and bravery buff for duardin nearby.
Gifts of Vhulkhaya: Giant tankard/barrel of ale which gives nearby duardin the centigor rule of +1 to hit and +1 to be hit (which is apparently how drunkenness is implemented in AoS rules-wise!)
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On 1/4/2020 at 5:54 PM, Double Misfire said:
So an overall potentially interesting day of reveals for CoS - the Archaon vs Bonereapers campaign book means we'll almost certainly get one down the line for the Gordrakk vs Excelcis/Azyr plot that's been hyped just as much.
I wonder if the new High/pointy aelves will grow out of CoS's exisiting Phoenix Temple (or even Shadowblade) stuff, the same way Nighthaunt were an expansion of the four ghost warscrolls in Legions of Nagash... 🤔
Maybe, maybe not. The book is being promoted as chaos vs OBR. But other than some new lore (don't get me wrong I do dig new lore) OBR don't seem to get anything from the book in terms of rules. Really i'm just saying I must resist the temptation to get overhyped.
That said, after today's preview I'm a bit more optimistic that when we get a new Order focused campaign book we might get an actually usable dispossessed battalion.... Fingers crossed!
As for the Pointy elves, the are obviously joining the list of cool new AOS factions riffing off Old World factions. My impression so far is that they are more like what fyreslayers are to dispossessed than what nighthaunt are to Legions of Nagash. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Pointy elf sub-faction with a rule that 1/4 units can be 'phoenix temple', or something along those lines with whatever aelven keywords they want to include.
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3 hours ago, cofaxest said:
Endrinmaster with Ugli artifact (each 6+ tohit on heroes and monsters deal d6 mw)
I take one point and deal 23 mw to his Verminlord (he save 14 of them with two 5+ mw saves) and lose endrinmaster in a processThanks for batreps. Good to see some grudges settled/breaches of contract appropriately punished.
Im curious about the choice of sword of judgment of the endrinmaster. I wouldn't have thought he had enough melee attacks to make it worthwhile. But I've never tried it in KO, is there a specific combo you have for it?
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5 hours ago, Scar said:
Finished my 80% of my army today wanted to share
still 20 arkanauts to go brok and a navigator
Looking sweet. That's a load of balloon boys you've got there.
What's the statue on the ironclad base?
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1 hour ago, EMMachine said:
Behemat was a godbeast and was basicly known as the ancestor of the Gargants, who was under the Scabrous Sprawl (this was the story back in the "Realmgate Wars: Godbeasts" Book). He basicly was killed by the Stormcast Eternals to prevent that Archaon got Behemat under his control.
It will be interesting to see if King Brodd, "last true son of Behemat" has survived.
1 hour ago, Jaskier said:Wasn't there a battalion in one of those older campaign/big books literally called the Sons of Behemat or something along those lines?
EDIT: Yep, found it; it was a battalion consisting of 5 Giants!That seems fairly conclusive then.
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Behemat is obviously a potential name for a race of behemoths, gargant army being number 1 likelihood.
For a much longer shot, does behemat sound a bit chaos dwarfy to anyone else? What with forgeworld pulling quite a few of its AoS models and all the warcry reveals where they specifically point out 'yes that is a plastic chaos dwarf' nudge nudge wink wink....im wondering if plastic chaos dwarves might be joining us sometime in the not so distant future.
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9 minutes ago, xking said:
Clearly the business end of a Pointy elf tickling stick. Successful hits inflict - 1 attack and - 1 to hit as your enemies are incapacitated by giggling uncontrollably.
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23 minutes ago, Tiger said:
An interesting tweet from Phill. I'm sure we're going to learn more rather soon.
https://twitter.com/philkellywords/status/1218488057147592705
They may not be his aelves, but I'm guessing there will be at least one way to include 1 in 4 'aelf' units ala CoS and barak thryng. Why else include a keyword in CoS which has no actual use in that book?
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4 hours ago, Dead Scribe said:
I'll chime in and say I don't think most of what they offer is that good. The writing itself just does not engage me. There are a few exceptions, but I think they need to re evaluate their formula.
I have heard black library described as 'the Mills and Boon of scifi and fantasy'. I tend to agree that many of the books feel rushed and listening to author interviews on warhammer TV reinforces that impression.
It also seems like they haven't landed on a new epic character like Gotrek or eisenhorn which have been able to capture the imagination of so many people.
Lastly, do we even know how much this is to do with black library vs the whole book publishing industry? I could well imagine a lot of book publishers are seeing year on year falls in sales....
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1 hour ago, Nick907 said:
Ah dammit, I slept on it too long. Anyone interested in selling me the new endrinmaster?
If you are in the UK then elementgames.co.uk have plenty still in stock.
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The Age of the Bristling Beard!
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Anyone got Anvil of apotheosis Dwarven heroes in the works?
Poor cogsmith is now worse in most situations than a 40pt vanilla dwarven commander with improvised weapons 😢 at least its thematic to have a dwarf army led by a commander armed with nothing more than a tankard of ale!