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I think it just shows that DB is going to definitely go to 5 books. So far we haven't seen anything for Chaos past the first book, still nothing for KB when they were planning a huge attack as of DB3, nothing yet on DoK after such an obvious RE, etc. The last DB book will probably be a massive release ala Kragnos for BR. Lots of stuff going on and lots of new models.

So confirms that Dawnbringer 4 is all-in on death. I think that makes a 5th book centered on Chaos all but assured. Given the spread of Mortarchs available I think we'll get at least one more new Dawnbringer hero for Death, probably OBR to go with the Rumor Engines. Although another ghost wouldn't shock me, either.

Definitely Kurnothi. Clean, "pretty", smallish legs with no indication of any kind of horseshoe or barding of any kind.

As someone who bought a box of Glade Guard I wouldn't want those either, rough kit, felt like the mold was slipping, plus the proportions were terrible. I'll agree though that in a general sense, GW isn't releasing anything for ToW that's even slightly tempting me to get me on board. I don't hate brettonia as a faction but the new CoS range is just so much better, why would I ever buy a box of lego horses?

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.