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they're spawned from pools, but these AFAIK are so sacred they should never be battlefield terrain? Perhaps a broken one is terrain for Warcry?

Came back to say this!! I've always liked Lizardmen for being so easy to paint, due to the almost infinite combination of colors and patterns that real world reptiles and amphibians (and dinos) have. It is about time the fantasy analogue for them tried doing the same; it will not only make it easier to distinguish skink handlers from your regular skinks, it will also expand the possibilities of a flagship Warhammer faction. I collected a few pictures to see all of the different skinks near each other, the variety does feel better. Maybe we'll get a closed fin alternate head for the salamander, but if not, they're growing on me anyway.

I really don't get it either, it could be an indication these beasties are semi-aquatic? But scientist brain aside, I love the vibe. (worst comes to worst you could probably cut these off?)

WAIT I MISSED THIS PART THE FIRST TIME: LASER POINTERS????????? "When a skink handler marks a foe with a dot of ruby-tinted light, the Spawn of Chotec hawks a viscous Glob of Flame Acid at the target. The ensuing splatter not only ignites immediately, it’s caustic enough to leave victims vulnerable to further attacks." All my cat does is bat at the laser pointer... these guys shoot ACID.

A nice touch for explaining why these skinks look different lol. I'll take it! Makes sense that skink handlers are marked differently than the general population's parallel head fins. "The Sun Acolytes who handle these sour-tempered salamanders are marked for their duty from birth. When the stars flare and the spawning pools boil, the skinks who emerge are blessed with incredible resistance to heat, as well as frills that resemble Chotec’s own sunburst. " Seems they went with an IP kit name but are still calling the actual critters salamanders which is GOOD. I appreciate the nod to salamanders with the head frills. I LOVE that it looks like a dimetradon overall though. edit: they're gills. I forgot the word for gills.

no date for chorfs, trailer itself was celebrating their 'full' release of Immortal Empires to people who don't own the first 2 games. IE itself is still in beta since the work going into it is legitimately a second game's worth... DLC is slated for April, and they mention something about update 3.0 which wasn't clear if that is ALSO for April or not.

honestly I was hoping for Lord packs before any new factions... Cathay and Kislev both could use some gap-filling in their roster. We STILL don't have the prologue Kossar Spears in the main Kislev list ffs. thank you so much for this!! I did actually look into their financial report a bit, looking for something like this. I obviously did not find it in the ~30min I took to skim it x)

not so sure although they really, really, really need to do something like this... they will destroy old/unsold products and I just can't wrap my head around why you wouldn't try reusing as much of that wasted plastic as possible. hell, let us return extra (empty) sprues to stores to recoup even more materials...

I would not be surprised if much didn't change yes. The new Saurus do look like they'll get +1 wound or +1 save, I hope. We'll have to see what the other new kits are tbqh.

the new KO hero is posed mid-argument, we're keeping up the spirit

so you can preorder this? feels weird to pay for it currently, with no actual picture or description https://forbiddenplanet.com/380603-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-stormbringer-5/

Feels weird that they're piecemealing art/lore in these books tbqh... so basically if you buy one set and not any of the others, you actually have an incomplete Warcry book..? I hope it's just the map but still ??

thank you so much!! I'm in the US so unable to do this @Baron Klatz 😩 I'm making peace with not getting the unique Praetor lmao

And to be crystal clear: that 67% margin is after all operating costs, shipping, salaries, etc are taken into account...

If they don't I imagine STLs are about to have another surge in popularity... huge buzzkill for this Seraphon and Cities refreshes.

I guess I should try to watch all the warcom videos then whoop... can't always do sound at work, but that sort of info is definitely never in their articles!

can you order the premium issues separately or they require a subscription?

Not only is the bar set higher today but I'd also argue we all have less TIME than adults did 20 or 30 years ago too. All the little chips add up to actual obstacles. Yea I can totally paint for only an hour a night but if that hour doesn't include cleanup and I have other chores or I got home from work late... guess what I'm putting off again

I can see chariots happening for sure if the River Temple creatures are hippos or otters I will be joining you folks in the light of Hysh...

That is to say: this is a tabletop wargame first and foremost. Models are in a flux state of both alive and dead since anything represented with a model can technically "be killed" on the tabletop 😜 Lifespans don't necessarily need to get in the way of giving us named characters.

There were more than a few WHF heroes that weren't "alive" during the "present day" of that setting IIRC.

The funniest part is GW decided "hey Settra is totally going to invade The Old World at this time" to justify including them in that small area. Gonna say we can expect this for anyone else not in/near Old World. They specify this is not covering Nehekara even though they want to leave the door open.

This is mainly where I'm coming from too, @Ogregut. Do I need 10 cavalry to start an army? No, I don't need duplicates at all if I'm just starting. Do I even want 10 raptadons? I have no idea, without seeing how they are to build and paint first. I do know I want 5. But if it were the generic Slann, 10 saurus, 5 raptadons, and 3 kroxigors? I get a caster hero, poster-book battleline, fast cav, and smashy monsters--a perfect plating of what the army offers. I have room to breathe when deciding how to expand. I don't have duplicates taking up space. I have three minimum-sized, unique units to build and paint to find out if I *want* to build and paint more of each. Another part is we know Christmas battleforces come out with a wider range of units than SC/Vanguard and launch boxes. If the Seraphon launch box has duplicates in it, I become more likely to wait for Christmas to get more value and more unique kits out of the money I'm going to spend.

I think they might do 5 raptadons and 5 of the new chameleon skinks, or 5 raptadons and a unit that we have not yet seen. 10 saurus with 10 raptadons I think would keep enough people on the fence to be a misstep.

So I found this tucked under the warcom headlines?? Zero AOS articles today and the "first look" at Bloodhunt is paywalled behind WH+ 🤔