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and zelda is a knife-ear, hysh aelves are knife ears triangles are geometric shapes, AOS hysh lore has a lot of geometry and mathematics in it candles = light = hysh its a hysh aelf rumour engine confirmed

well the Ladie's daughter is half-Asrai

out rider sharpshooters can take a brace of pistols, a repeater handgun (that hits on 4+ instead of 5+) or a blunderbuss. thus if the entire unit is taken as repeaterhandguns it is a much better analogue to reavers then Pistoliers I think

that would mean the superior version of human super soldiers, you know GRAIL KNIGHTS!!!! for ze lady (fyi a bretonian-wanderer join faction would be super cool in my opinion) as for centaur aelves, definately converting those into aelves riding eagle-deers [gryphelope?](with the help of gryph hound heads)

what if we only saw 1 faction in those pictures and those aelf-animal hybrids are beastmen aelves (who is to say aelves in the mortal realms can't suffer beastmen mutations), but wander spin off does sound more likely although the rangers and what looks like eternal guard are in the cities tome and thus potentially will be taken away from any beast focused wanderer faction?

considering glade guard are the only normal aelves with bows GW still makes (sisters and shadow warriors aren't generic enough) and gneric-ish aelves are very popular in all fantasy games especially for new players I doubt they will go away (at the veryleast they should stick with the cities tome)

@Tenshi but none of the soup tomes have mixed the followers of different gods yet without those gods haveing their own tome (we have beasts of chaos as cities of sigmar, but each of the gods worshipped there have their own tomes in stormcaste and deamons. while the gits, orruks and LoN are all monogod tomes), if its actually teased then I'll believe it. till then it should be highly unlikely. shadow-aelf DoK merger has been potentially teased tho...

personally I hope the empire aesthetic stays, atleast in part. I would have have numerous sub factions for (knightly orders, professional foot soldiers, militia, Ironweld, etc) I would make the regular foot soldiers like the empire, the knightly orders more bretonian, the militia a new look (but should be very simplistic uniforms), napoleaonic style for the human side of ironwled etc. I dislike over indulging in steam punk and that look is already taken by the k overlords anyway. anysteam punk elements would be more practical looking (like the imperial guard compared to the mechanicus)

very unlikely, every other god has atleast 1 dedicated battletome, why would the 2 most important aelven factions be 1 tome (even though they have never been mentioned together before, and come from 2 completely different realms) when daughters of khaine who are a re barely there get their own tome (if anything DoK will be absorbed by shadow aelves as both Morathy and Malerion rule Uglu and they both make use of shadow beasts and such and are mentioned as working together in the lore, a much more likely combination then light and shadow shareing a single tome)

so we know that hysh gems (gems made from pure hysh magic) improve both physical and mental speed, combined with @Aelven supremacy's ideas we see a a speedy army with good command point usage and @Tiger's fighting first means they will likely be charge focused, speed and charge = cavalry in my mind which would fit some of the rumor engine stuff. plus we have the martial orders tidbit which combined with the cavalry idea = knights coughcoughaelvenbretonianscoughcough this is of coarse wild speculation

sorry for a late reply, but my phone was stolen. anyway I want hawk (or hawk-like) riding aelf cavalry and I think it would soot wanderers nicely as the long range recon/skirmish unit in the lore and superfast flying archers that can pack a punch in melee (but due to hollow bones are very fragile for a cavalry unit) a forest dragon/dragon-like behemoth would be great aswell as war dancers (with the potential for 4 different themes in each unit box you could have 4 types with a single kit) for more original ideas (for wood aelves) I would have Puma riders (as elegant pumas and leopards fitt the hunter-stalker idea of wanderers), you could also have a long-necked large beast of burden turned war platform (think those long necked trunked things from ice age given an AOS twist) and packs of Hyaenodon-like beasts are all ideas I have

also is there a reason you aren't using your waywatchers as actual waywatchers (120point hero)

to expand upon this, 2 warhawk riders could be based together on 1 base to fit the theme of a single skycutter with bows. you could also use the waywatchers perhapps mixed with some wardancers (to get 10 elves) as swift hawk shadowblades and use the 2 warhawk riders as a skywarden to buff them and the reavers (add one to wound rolls). Aditionally you could use the 2 warhawk riders as reavers (as i think those are in batches of 5 so you would have 10 if you use 8 glade riders and 2 warhawks)

apparently (I don't look at chaos stuff) but beastmen took a beating point wise on already struggling factions 2 months before their battle tome dropped. I suspect the dragon and phoenix nerfed a bit due to potentially both being in the upcoming highly hinted Teclis Light aelves. but i don't want to get mine (or anyone's) hopes too high/low (depending on point of view i suppose)

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my least favorite wanderers unite aesthetically, personally, I prefer the glade guard/ eternal guard/wildwood rangers/ sisters of the thorn (which all have a similar look of hoods and crowns and chest armour-things. wild riders do not fit the nomadic aelven skirmishers and scouts that the Wanderers are in the lore. but i think the wander prince in that BL book is the most likely look they will go with (if they deside to make a new-ish theme for them) As for Aelven faction bloat, we are guaranteed to have at least 4 (I don't count Sylvaneth as even their most aelven troops are not really aelves nor aelven looking); shadow realm aelves (which may be 2 factions, malerion's and Morathie's troops), light realm aelves (most likely 1 army), wanderers (which are deeply involved in the lore [compared to other non-tome factions]) and IDK. and a max of 6 (those i mentioned but DoK stay separate and we get 'free city aelves') personly i would like 5 (shadow, DoK, light, wanderers and IDK. With the free peoples tome also haveing a few aelven units [aswell as perhaps a death aelven unit/faction and chaos aelves in STD]

personally I would like a mixture, some of the existing aelves absorbed into the new aelf factions (specifically i would like swift hawks in with light aelves and order serpentis with shadow aelves) and others with free people (specifically Phoenix temple) and then for wanderers to be their own thing.

so we are looking at atleast 4 more tomes, with up to 11 more but most likely 5-7 tomes this year. Hysh aelves were teased in Slaanesh and the forbidden powers, they seem likely. however shadow aelves were teased fro awhile in many stories and the blades of khorne tome so they in theory should come out first, but who knows. one or both are likely KO are also likely as they both need it and they got their underworlds team which seems to be an indicator. I would infact say they are next with a potential aelf tome after them. seraphon could also come... lastly for order there are the rumors free people are haveing their tome written but i think they will only come next year, i would be happy to be wrong tho. so 1-5 tomes I would say KO, 1 aelf and seraphon this year, next year the other aelf plus freepeoples for death: death rattle, soulblight or a new faction all seem likely. personally, i think its between an idoneth type release of death (flying undead pirates?) or its soul blight 1-3 tomes, i would like soulblight the most, but completely new seems more likely to me for destruction: oruks will likely get a tome (a soup tome seems most likely), and a ogre tome also seems to be likely, plus the flying grots (forgot the name) that KO fight (this could be a cool release to have at about the same time as KO) i would expect atleast oruks and ogres so 2-3 tomes for chaos: STD/everchosen are quite likely, aswell as Tzeench? and chaos dwarves? nurgle? 1-4 with STD most likely if we get aelf (few to many new)+KO(most likely just heroes + spells)+seraphon(?)+'new death'(a few to many new)+oruk(heroes plus spells)+ogre(?)+STD( a few new), we get to 7 tomes and atleast 1 of each GA (note: lions are just an aesthetic look i dislike)

If the lion is Hysh aelves... then I am worried it will turn out they are AOS space wolves, made worse by the fact I hate lions. If its wanderers then I would be ok, as it means it would almost certainly be a supplementary theme rather then a potentially main theme. Lion rangers could also be folded into wanderers as they are both nomadic aelves that dislike cities.

but those are two very different aethetics. knights are elite regular humans in armour (like scions/storm troopers), storm caste are over muscular humans in muscled armor with oversized puldrons (like space marines) they would have different aesthetics and playstyle

hmm must have missed her, could you give the source. either way I think bringing her and a copy of her loyal worshippers (pikemen, crossbows with pavises, light cannons with limbers, etc) in the free peoples tome would be cool.

Personally I would like 'Bretonians', 'Kislev' and 'Dogs of war/Tilea' return as elements within the free peoples faction. make the free peoples lore wise have multiple different uniforms and equipment like the guard in 40k, make some of them look more like Bretonians. also units, expand free people cavalry to include bretonian style units like pegasis knights and hypogriphs. while add things like pikes (or long spears), sword and bucklers with throwing knives, horse artillery, non-skirmish archers and skirmish crossbows, shields for crossbows/handgunners. battle pilgrims for devoted of Sigmar. war wagons etc. also lore wise i think its not unreasonable to have Louen Leoncoeur (who became a god during the end times), the lady (well her daughter), Myrmidia and even Boris Ursha or tsarina Katerin return as Gods of the free peoples. (aswell as grail knights) that way we get the 'return' of fan favourites, reimagined to fit AOS better and we expand on an existing faction. model wise i think they would likelu have one main type of free people look and then either have 1 or 2 'reskins' if free peoples are popular enough in the future. while forgeworld can make resin upgrade kits (like they do with cadian cold weather and veteran upgrade kits) aswell as their own 'regiment' like they do with deathkorps. for the others, I expect we will see the return of greenskins and gitmob in some form as they are still dirrectly in the lore, the best we can hope for when it comes to tome kings is death constructs and bone rattle 'regiments' for the dead of different cultures (including Egyptian looking dead) largely due to the fact GW said they won't make it. I also wouldn't mind if a non-human faction picked up the general aethetic of Bretonians as the return of bretonians. ie soulblight or one of the aelves (like aelves?) or even death rattle. actual armoured cavalry charging gloriously to battle. but would prefer an expansion to free peoples.

the romantic in me still hopes Kurnoth turns out to be the sylvanneth interpretation of Tyrion

@awcamawn for me i would rather have wanderers in combined aelf tome but i always have disliked the treemen, and i feel i could get a better looking army with other aelves (plus it gives more conversion material) war eagles, war eagle riders (bow, lance and magic), war hawks, war hawk riders (bow, lance and magic), deer mounted arhcers[wild riders with bows] (they are nomads after all), new/updated stuff like Forrest dragons of various sizes and shapes (smaller monstrous cavalry and larger full on monsters), completely new stuff like wanderer wagons or war beasts. GW's imagination is the limit. also even if war dancers=revenants (which is debatable) it would sinergize differently with wanderers differenlty if wanderers got their own stuff.

alos no reason why old dark aelves cann't be mixed with light aelves, order draconis is a military order. I still hope we get aelven citizen militia type units, but in free people aelves type tome.