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they aren't gone though? The 11 Cities are now allowed to match up subfaction rules/traits and formations however you want to. Love Greywater for the blackpowder focus but want to set your army in Excelsis? Well, now you have the ability to make your Excelsis force the gunnery school or rifle garrison or however you want to tie it together. I'm just a bit confused at this pushback in all honesty. It makes more sense logistically and lorewise--why WOULDN'T every COS have a detachment of gunnery forces or cavalry or magic?

Exceptional circumstances... like Skaven pulling a chunk of their literal sub-realm into a main realm :P?

are you telling me that the map I've had framed on my wall for years has ALWAYS had Hel Crown on it?? 😭😭 alright GW, you've made me The April Fool.

IMHO they did, the promo art guy does not look different enough to be a new unit. the 2h are probably in a multipart kit like Annihilators. MAYBE he's a hero but what would you even call it? Knight Reclusian? *somewhere across the ocean, a sleeping monkey's paw curls subconsciously*

okay well i am talking about the full-on colored map @Clan's Cynic posted. is it fan-made? is it from instagram? loremasters? I don't recognize this from the April Fool's Day joke either.

i watched that and it does not show an actual colored map though? only snippets in the background TV

Whenever GW says this about a faction, I always take it as the models changing and not necessarily the core identity? Straight up adding lore is also technically changing a faction; doesn't need to mean rewrites or retcons either. But the changes in model development, from metal to plastic alone, are huge changes.

How about we start at 60 USD and make GW haggle their way up 😭 I finally got my hands on some Dawnbringer books, and though I love how much narrative and worldbuilding text there is... I was disappointed at the lack of (new) art in the books.

where'd you find the map with Hell Crown on it? I was confused as to why we didn't get this in the actual Skaven article

Yes. All of these units are tournament legal until 2025, which is why it shouldn't be a surprise GW is using the cultist warbands and Sacrosanct in pictures still tbh. All of these models will still have tabletop-life until 5e. No reason to wipe them from promo/action shots. those are absolutely the old Empire troops WOW. That feels like we can expect to see squatted stuff in future art.

I was so tired I forgot "domicile" is for "house" and not "Dome" .... so i was extremely disappointed it was wall terrain and not a dome 🫠 i was thinking of the Nexus Siphon

thank you!

Where do you see this?

is there a picture of this?

what they're wearing yes, but from the 4e trailer we're going to see tons of warpstone, including Stormcast going inside the Vermindoom itself. Gold armor under a sickly green light is going to straight up look sickly green and not have much contrast at all

We can debate and discuss Hammers vs Hallowed color scheme until the next End Times, but I think there's a bit of an Occam's Razor here too: the sickly green hue of warpstone would overtake the gold of Hammers and anything gold would just look like green metal. I think it's partially a decision based on Skaven's color palette.

to be more clear i meant soup as in soup list "can take each other's units without needing auxiliary or mercenary/ally rules", not a soup tome.

Well the Vermindoom happened while they were separated sooo 😅

again I think the main problem is that GW already cornered themselves in 40k for "baroque, gothic hero", which sadly means when they actually use it for fantasy... it's hard not to think of 40k. We'll have to see more of the new kits to get a better idea of whether this is a bigger move back towards SM or if it's only the Ruination Chamber aesthetic that will feel like this BeLakor? None of the Stormcast fit, which is part of the point of how they're chosen. let Death or Chaos have their own schism war. this is why i'm thinking/hoping 4e will allow COS and Stormcast to army soup a little bit as a treat! edit: no book souping

which painting video? the stream? I need to see the full map GW 😭 that would be a great subversion of the April Fool's Joke, maybe too good!

"wear the hood" they said. "it looks cool!" they said. but you stumble over ONE rock and suddenly it's MY fault for burning half of peepaw's memoirs...

that's a great point, I do like the IDEA behind these attendants, but the vibe/look is a bit too gothic for their intended purpose for sure. the only problem with this is that we've had writers tell us GW did this in 1e before allowing those writers to actually give Stormcast better/different characterization.

the irony being that 40k just copied a bunch of usually-fantasy tropes like squires to plop into scifi...

give them a MW ignore and they'll be set TBQH... i'm fine with Ruination looking more grimdark than other chambers, and it seems SCE lore isn't turning grimdark/grimderp this edition either so as long as that doesn't change I'm down with most model aesthetics.

Reclusians could have a 2h variant along with the shield and dual wielding. like how Annihilators got 2h with their separate kit gotta agree with that!! no? if anything, these mortal attendants probably help the Sacrosancts keep Ruination together. it makes sense that the Chamber for dealing with the Flaw is the one who takes care of Ruination Stormcast.