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I wasn't expecting one, but I don't think it's the most out there thing. Have the dawnbringers series end with a new city founded and a new wave of CoS models.

Some kind of generic War Alter/Warpriest was an obvious hole in the first wave, so I would not be surprised. As neat as Zenestra is, it doesn't feel right for a shady special character leading a strange cult to be the only religious representation in the new range.

I'm gonna say new Flagellants.

Hmm. I get mounted vibes from this line, like this is part of the back of a saddle, which is very interesting for CoS, since they've already got a horse mounted cavalry hero and unit.

Aren't Black Templar nowhere on the roadmap for next year so far, though? Granted, neither are Krieg/Guard, but there is one hidden slot for summer. Can't cover both Guard and BT with one codex slot, though.

Parchment kinda screams either Sigmar or Imperium, but it's otherwise vague. I don't feel like 40K has a lot of fur cloaks running around, though.

I'm definitely a fan of these smaller, cheaper Warcry boxes that aren't loaded down with terrain, so that's good news for me.

It's the crossbone seal that really gets me with this one. 40K iconography is very well defined, and I don't think they have any factions that use that. I'm going to blindly guess CoS, but honestly I have no idea on this one.

This is what people always say, but I've honestly never seen anyone even contemplate playing anything with Legends rules. As the warscrolls never get updated they very very quickly drop off to the point where it's just kinda punching yourself in the crotch to try and do anything with them. In any case, it's a new development. Underworld Warband rules were evergreen up to this point even if GW has already started rotating the models. Even if it was an inevitable development, it's another mental checkmark for me not to go out of my way to buy into underworlds unless I have a very good reason.

That's a little worrying, not gonna lie. They weren't even an especially old warband.

Honestly, yeah. Making new armies is not nearly as big an expense as you would think. A small team of programmers and animators can produce new content for an existing game more or less indefinitely without much trouble. That's why the dlc model has taken over the game industry to begin with, it's easy money compared to the huge expense and risk of making and marketing a new game. CA employees hundreds of people and only like a dozen or so of them work on TWW DLC.

Kurnothi, Dark Oath, DoK character that is anti-morathi, something happening with Khul.

There will be a January preview, there always is, it's called LVO iirc. Besides that they like to do a sneaky model review or two on Christmas and/or New Years.

I think it's a combination of delays (we had like a year and a half of 3E where barely anything came out) and the very real factor that everything that was originally meant to release for an edition HAS to be released before the new edition is out. It was much the same for the end of 2E, a massive glut of releases that had to be released into the wild no matter what before Dominion came out and reset all the rules, the packaging style, etc etc. As for new armies vs supporting old armies, obviously I want my Fyreslayers and other neglected armies to get new toys. At the same time, I don't think it's realistic to expect GW is never going to release any new armies, or that they'll wait until every other army is perfectly updated first. Even 40K, as venerable a setting as it is, sees new army releases with reasonable frequency.

Halflings?

You say that, but it's always the other way around. New edition means tons of new releases leading up to the edition launch, and THEN things get subdued for the rest of the year. The breather will come in the long months where nothing else gets released for AoS except the except the gradual rollout of the two starter army battletomes and models, as it always does.

No. There was no 2E Deepkin or Nurgle battletomes, for example.

Khorne update would fit. They're unlikely to get the new edition treatment, but Dawnbringers has been pumping Khul up a lot, he's probably about to ascend to Daemon Prince, his sidekicks from the old SC box literally just got killed off in book 3, Vandus also seems headed towards self-destruction and Ionus just got a new model, everything looks lined up to finally shelf the old 1st edition starters for good.

This is starting to remind me of about two years ago, when every bump in the night was proof positive that dwarfs were getting souped and Fyreslayers in particular would never ever get new models.

If there's no other models released with Dawnbringers 4 it just means there will be 150% be a Dawnbringers 5

That's a lot of words to explain that non-artillery/magic shooting is still mostly useless.

I can't see us getting a new centaur race in the near future, but at least GW is seeding the possibility here. I think the short term consequences will more just be breaking up the Kragnos/KB alliance and likely even Kragnos being temporarily removed or incapacitated much like Nagash was as part of bringing the Age of Beasts to an end.

Neither. It basically goes: 1. Dwarf jumps on Truggs back and lands a deathblow on his neck 2. Slips and falls into the portal while it's channeling gold magic 3. Afterwards he hits the ground and hears Truggs body impact immediately after, so it seems he wasn't transported anywhere, just his body was transmuted. He passes out, confident that he's alive and Trugg is not. 4. Much later, after Ulgu (Night) has fallen, the portal channels jade magic into Trugg and brings him back to life. He gets up and wanders off, not seeing any living creature around him, which suggests Bael has already left at that point. Maybe, but it also talks about the gold magic burning at his stumps, you don't have to read too far into that to understand where this is going. Keep in mind, if they wanted to just replace Bael-Grimnyr it would have been easy to write this story in such a way to kill him off. Having him being transmuted by the magic of Chamon instead only makes sense if they are going somewhere with all this and that direction is definitely a new model. He's always been the Fyreslayer's faction leader in the fluff but he didn't have his own model, (or rules, except for a very short lived WD writeup) much like our boy Ionus used to just be a generic Lord-Relictor until dawnbringers 3 now where he has a sweet new dragon model.

Re-reading the end of the story, it's actually more clear to me what happens. Bael-Grimnyr passes through Truggs portal while it's channeling the magic of chamon, this burns off his limbs and already starts to replace them with metal. So it's a done deal really, he will be back and he'll have cool metal limbs to show for it, 100%

I'm gonna be greedy, his daughter takes over the lodge and he gets a sick new foot hero model with replaced limbs.