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@Sleepa the only issue would obv be shooting, but that'd only hurt against KO. If you don't have 10x hunters then I'd say try this list out first to see in your league. Castellant makes both those units beefy and Arcanum gives the dispel

I got legitimately terrified that there were multiple gods trapped, before remembering Slaanesh is indeed a They. Let's hope nothing else has coalesced inside there to escape when the time comes...

The javelins are nice ranged poke but yeah the gryphs do the most work Castigators are not competitive at all, Liberators aren't Sacrosanct but the Sequitors are pretty competitive yes, Evocators are top tier glass cannons for us

It feels too static of an item to be for an Underworlds warband though; we know the DOK leader has a spear, there's twin witch aelves with twin daggers, and 1 melusai

I know for things like cavalry this ends up being a must for rider vs mount, and even just looking at the Stegadon kit you can tell the howdah is painted separately. Biggest problem I run into is knowing how to do this with infantry it seems.. not least because they are the hardest to stop building before you finish it. This was bad with Soul Wars since everyone is in like 3 or 4 pieces too. I left shields off sequitors and greatbows off a couple castigators, didn't glue most into bases because they have pegs, etc so hopefully that experimenting pays off. Ironically the ETB sequitor my local shop gave me to try painting feels harder to do than the starter kit sequitors!! The mounted lord and hero are pretty 'open' models so with any luck my painting confidence will be high enough after infantry to try a mounted character 😅

it looks like magic/blood/whatever is being drawn from the chalice itself, which places it within the realm of Slaanesh or DOK I think. If DOK will get an updated book, maybe this is finally a hero separate from the shrine box??

My guess is it's 4 different heroes one for each aspect; some could be priests instead of mages, 2 of 4 will probably be more martial but still allow buffs like Loremasters. Not sure if they'd split mounts up by aspect, especially since they have overlap: a clydesdale horse would be "mountain", while an Arabian would be "wind" or "water", etc. Monsters I could see maybe being aspected but again we had 2 different phoenixes so unless this release is huge, idk if we should expect the Aspects to be outside of subfactions and magic at this point...

I hear of this sometimes, and I wanted to ask if anyone has tips on how to best balance building with painting like this? Pictures in progress etc. I understand leaving off shields, heavy weapons, backpacks, pauldrons, etc the EXTRA stuff like that which covers up the main body/armor--but I haven't seen what this actually looks like or what sub-assembling even further looks like. I've left parts of my Soul Wars stormcast unglued to try this out, however I don't always want half built models just because I'll *eventually* paint them. Is this something for advanced painting, or a trick I can utilize as a beginner/middling painter? Is it worth accounting for during building, outside of the extras/finishing touches?

Finally started painting this weekend, really hoping to get something substantive this next week because painting Stormcast felt good and I'm sitting on a start collecting to exchange for Lumineth... I doubt we'll see anything new before Adepticon. Probably a short lore expose, hopefully about the Eltharion armor.

Checked the community site for the 2nd time today and was pleasantly surprised to see the Seraphon lore! But then it dawned on me... Space Wolves are a single chapter of Space Marines, and yet have had 3 different lore tidbits (2 PA shorts plus a part 1 today). Does it annoy anyone else that GW is churning out lore content for 40k but for AOS it feels like we're being drip fed? Is it because of PA specifically?

Finally tried painting again after some years!!! I got 2 sequitors base painted, so my March contract will be finishing those with washes and details, and applying what I learn from them to a 3rd sequitor.

do you have a link for this comment? that is very intriguing, idk why I hadn't thought of a behemoth type unit being an actual aspect spirit

ain't that the truth Dunno how I'm gonna make it until March!

maybe if the donation bar moved up more they could

god can i just order this map???

which is fair! there's been decades of these fantasy tropes that it will feel weird when anyone breaks them, and especially GW because they're actually modelling these changes into their massive tabletop/lore game. I've always been a spear and axe man myself, heck I'm not a fan of Liberators because of it and I chose SCE as a first army, but hammer wielding elves that will most likely be channeling magic while fighting? That sounds too cool to pass up.

Axes aren't that much more elegant than hammers, and you do still need to be precise with hammers in the same way as axes? They're both top heavy and leave you open if you don't follow through properly. I think the idea that hammers are too savage or lesser for elves is based in the more "uncivilized" races having them as iconic weapons. Weapons are tools. They aren't flashy in just anyone's hands; training is required for that. Orcs have swords, spears, and axes, and no one would say they're martial or elegant with them. What better way to make hammers more 'martial' than to give them to elves?

Some of the card art within the Beastgrave set showed witch aelves (of course), and I believe a couple had melusai on it in some fashion. My guess would be 3-5 model warband, no hopes for something like a bloodwrack though maybe a new Hag Queen mode/stand-in for sure with the leader.

I'm really hesitant to buy any AOS novels because of how pulpy and reductive Warhammer novels can be. I had to stop reading an omnibus for some 40k war sector because by the 2nd story it was just...the same thing... and even though I've read cool Guard/Imperium stories, I found that too many of the books I was buying had the same feel and structure to them. I was heavily disappointed to see a lot of people reviewing Blind King in the same way: lukewarm Hamlet where the protag learns *nothing* and no real IDK culture background. I got Soul Wars for 1$ off humble bundle at least, so I'm hoping that's a good plot with nice characters. I do hear it's one of the better books/

If anything I think the Seraphon are out of stock because of repackaging, then renewed interest. Unless GW is really going to have a huge explosion of reveals for solely AOS tabletop at Adepticon, new sculpts seem out of the question with Lumineth and Behemat being newest releases. I just want the darn DOK warband already at this point. The 2 LRL articles before Adepticon are likely to be lore over any model reveals IMO, or small rule tidbits

Unfortunately I don't have the space or the money to switch from SCE, so once I buy some of the new Lumineth that's basically it for me minus small stuff like warbands... narrative/skirmish style games I'm sure are less taxing and more chill fun though so we'll see how that goes

the hammer head is right above his fist isn't it?? i don't see it in your rendition you can even see the insignians above his hand of the hammer, look like fishhooks

People didn't want to believe it was a hammer because "elves don't use hammers!!" but honestly I've been ready for more elves with axes and hammers, and I think they'll look dope when they're finally revealed! thank you I think the high fantasy aesthetic will do hammer elves justice for sure

No, gryphons can't resurrect after they die which afaik is really the anchor of phoenixes (phoenix?)

So the article didn't say that much, but I think it confirms that Auralan is for Teclis and Vanari is for Tyrion. Especially this paragraph about heraldry More models will be shown at Adepticon right? Hoping the archers will be Vanari Auralan something and we'll get to see some brother-specific units. edit: Just checked and phew I hope we see more Lumineth before March 25th...