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Warcom does specifically call out new UNITS for AOS, and since there's two Sylvaneth banners I do hope that means some weird (weirder?) units for Sylvaneth. Alarielle is riding a giant beetle, so where are the other cool bugs?? Either way I think new Sylvaneth units are confirmed

in lore they've said Liberators are mainly guarding cities now, I was under the impression that meant Vindictors were the ones mainly out offensively and with the Dawnbringers? Regardless, it still looks like a Thunderstrike Liberator. "just art" still gets commissioned with specific purposes in mind, GW still has to accept it, etc. Very weird they would have official primary art that is a mashup of two different kits. Unfortunately I'd also like to see how the original kits would look with the sleeker armor, even if I don't want Stormcast to get primaris'd.

Is it just me or does the Knight Relictor here look AWFULLY like an updated Liberator? hammer not a maul, shield, and no leg cloth

Apologies, I meant model ranges specifically! I'll edit my post to clarify. Rules-wise there will probably be a big drop like Legends did.

They are probably getting repackaged for Rivals, however, this is definitely the last chance to get them at a lower price I'm sure...

I agree, it's been another longstanding thorn for people that UW bands are useless in AOS. Bumping up humanoids in general to 2 wounds would mean all Stormcast, Ironjaws, and a bunch of Chaos kits need another wound added to their profiles.

We dont and it does, I think the fact that these are elite character units that look fairly priced makes up for it somewhat?

Yeah I wonder how much of TOW is banking on players using their existing WHFB armies? It would take an entire factory unto itself to release several TOW armies at once. I wouldn't be surprised if the initial model release was only 2 factions (Empire vs Chaos as my guess if TOW is doing Magnus) and it took another couple years to push out the kits for elves and orcs and other beasties.

Vigilors right now are probably better served in Warcry itself. The Knight-Judicator is a much stronger pick for points cost than people originally theorycrafted. So you can't go wrong with adding a KJ, and if you want cheap ranged you can pick up some monetarily cheap castigators secondhand. For competitively stong picks: add a box of Vanguard Raptors, or even a block of 10 judis.

Obviously going to want to do Scions with that. I can tell you after buying the Warcry box that unless you really really want 6 hammer annihilators, just go with one. Having ten extra Vindictors and DOUBLE the Warcry cards is extremely meh to me; you're not going to do anything with the 2nd cards and people who want them will want the whole box itself. I still wish they'd put 5 Vigilors in the box with the Annihilators.

my first instinct is a Halfling, possibly from the Cities warband

if they actually did Order vs Order, I hope it's more of a 'civil' war than a complete split. it'd be more interesting to see Malerion and Morathi start a war over having an equal godhood standing to Sigmar, than completely break from the Order alliance. They all know none of them can take on Chaos alone, I don't want to see infighting for whatever grimdark-contrived reason.

This makes the Witch Hunter companions being dogs even worse noooooooo... I was imagining a lightning cats vs shadow rats box set 😞 Skaven being given the shadow daemon position is a nice move, gives more than just Pestilens a purpose for being in Chaos

Saddest hobby news of the year 😭

I hadn't planned on getting the SDG anytime soon, if they end up in a Battleforce with Vigilors and Vanquishers, then I'll know I have conversion options

I'll admit as a lifelong cat owner my eyes have a bias on identifying those shapes as cats immediately, but on top of the excerpt @Baron Klatz posted being a mechanical reason, it'd be a simple way of creating a Witch Hunter for AOS that isn't entirely a throwback to Old World.

@JackStreicher holy moly those look great!! now my question is, how expensive were those sword bitz--looks like the Prime has a Knight Draconis sword? Dang, so the unit itself kept waning cry while it was removed from the hero buddy versions? Could've sworn waning cry got limited badly in 3.0

How much does the data change if you remove SDG, Knight-Draconis, and Fulminators from it? I appreciate the data collection but can't help feel like it's skewed because of WAAC listing. (If Stormkeeps are useless for SDG/Fulm, then does that really mean Stormkeep is bad, etc etc.)

pics :D?

I would never recover if they made little plastic capybara companions, don't tempt me 😩

Kitty Cats??? 🥺

Anyone else not seeing this article on warcom? I was wondering why nothing was up yet fluff wise this is better than the last two at least: “If the ancient legends are true, then deep beneath the ocean bed can be found the resting place of Harrowdeep’s creators – shadow daemons from the liar’s moon of the Orb Duplicita, sworn enemies of the physical world. The mercurial passageways of this new maze convulse and shift as if moved by an unseen hand. Shadowy entities stalk these halls, gnawing on the fear of those that walk beside you. What is their intent, and what part do you play in their plans? How do you fit into these writhing schemes? More will be revealed tomorrow."

Oh hey the Shadowstalker has the same weird knee armor opening as the last RE! And the new RE rock looks like an elf head, on top of the elfy boots. I think that confirms Umbraneth pretty nicely.

Are they trolling us? This being nothing but a breadcrumb teaser feels like a troll......

Khornegors might be right on the money! I just read the spruesandbrews Thondia lore review. I'll spoil it if people prefer to read the book themselves, there is a BOMBSHELL about why the name is "Era of the Beast" though 👀