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They're spring releases, seeming to come in between Dark Angels and T'au according to the roadmap, so they could well be an April release

Specifically they got the Lion, the final Arks of Omen book, the trailer for 10th ed and the first look at the new Terminators and Termagants, so a bumper set of reveals at Adepticon is probably not hoping for too much.

Sorry for the double post but yeah, it's only at the larger events that they stock them at Warhammer World, and then sometimes have some left for a day or two after if they're not heavily scalped

That feels like either a Nurgle model or new terrain

For what its' worth with the event minis, they tend to be available at the UK Games Expo and any events at Warhammer World in the UK. After events any remaining stock is available there whilst it lasts. How long it lasts depends on the model. Last year's Commissar was pretty hard to get a hold of but the Darkoath was fairly easy to get. I know the Primaris Champion that was also difficult to get was available made to order at events too. A Kroot and a Cities of Sigmar figure... I could see both being not too difficult to get but very much worth joining the loot group (or going to an event if you can afford to as they tend to be enjoyable. Mini wise the Kroot is fine, I might get it if I can afford it at the time, the Arch-Knight though is amazing, definitely going to need to try and get myself one.

We'll almost certainly get one more release in winter 2024. It's possible we could get Orruk Warclans as it. There's been a bit of a pattern with the previous editions "enemy" faction getting their new codex as one of the first with a small update. Death Guard got the Lord of Virulence and terrain in winter 2020 Nighthaunt were a little later (early 2022) but were still relatively early in 3rd ed (Maggotkin, Fyreslayers and Idoneth were the only ones ahead of them I think) and got two new characters and a unit. Then Necrons are one of the first for 10th ed with 3 new characters. So I could see us getting a small Kruleboyz wave in Winter.

We're approaching the end of the first decade of AoS, Vandus, Ionus and Khul were the first characters we really delved into at the start so it makes sense from a narrative perspective to revisit them here with new models representing how they've changed to show the progression that's happened in the story. Assuming they reveal nothing between now and Adepticon they can still pack a bunch of stuff in. For February we need the Solar Auxilia box, Lumineth and Nighthaunt Warcry box, Soulblight Underworlds warband, and possibly the Kroot box as well. Then they could easily fill March with Dawnbringers V, the full Dark Angels release, the rest of the Solar Auxilia and the Custodes and Ork codexes and battleforces, plus maybe the Orcs and Goblins stuff for TOW. And that's assuming they don't have a release weekend solely dedicated to some new Necromunda and Blood Bowl resin stuff. They've also shown in the past they can go from preview to preorder pretty quickly so it wouldn't be unrealistic to get the rest of the Kroot previewed at Adepticon and released in April.

Thursday is guaranteed to be Heresy/Imperialis, Monday will probably be the Custode or Ork mini if it's not for Blood Bowl or Necromunda. Honestly beyond Dawnbringers there's not really any slots for AoS releases between now and 4th in my opinion. If they had a surprise battle tome coming we'd have hints of it, and there probably won't be more than the two releases for DB 5 and they won't reveal DB 6 for another month or two.

It's only too many minis when they're able to rise up and overthrow me. But honestly I try to have a set goal for each project. Space Marines and Stormcast are things with no limits but I deliberately won't buy much for them, just adding the new starter box and the odd other purchase too them. Beyond that I try to set a target for what I want to play each army at. My Sylvaneth who I'm currently building are at around 1600 points with the goal being to play 2000 point games with them. So I'll aim for a final point of 3000 points where I consider them enough, to allow me room to switch things around a little. My Drukhari on the other hand are aimed at being a smaller army for playing skirmish games, so I'm aiming for 1000 points initially with another 500 points to give me options. Then if they get a few new plastic kits in the near future I might let them move towards 2000

It'd be interesting to see what they can do without stepping on too many other factions imagery. Like I could see a unit of centaur inspired DoK being interesting, especially if they're drawing on something other than horses for their lower halves, but would that eat too much into the design space for Centigors and Kurnothi? Or like a spider themed character without crossing too much into Spiderfang or Tarantulos Brood's aesthetics. My plan for narrative games/my own collection's lore is to add a couple units of Corvus Cabal and have the Crone basically have usurped a portion of the tribe through seeming to be the embodiment of the Great Gatherer she doesn't particularly have any interest in them beyond being useful cannon fodder but they flock to her all the same. Yeah that's what gives me enough hope that there's something coming, the lore seems to be hinting at it

Honestly I really want more weird mutant DoK. Really dig into mythology for inspiration than give it a very different AoS spin.

Honestly the next Warcry season having terrain themed around ruined buildings with bits of debris like tattered curtains still hanging and damaged furniture could be pretty cool

For one thing that's an older box, as has been pointed out.For another it doesn't match the Orcs and Goblins one in terms of contents which seems to be a red flag. I could see it having another cannon and a few more dwarves personally

As the Dark Elves have fairly small square bases I was thinking of using those and then attaching magnets to them and to some AoS round bases so I can just add them on top of that

Now the dilemma... do I continue to sit on the AoS Dark Elves I picked up a few years ago for a future Cities project or do I turn them into the start of a Dark Elves TOW list

The main issue we have is we don't know how much it has been used by Underworlds, which had two seasons set in the Gnarlwood as well. We've got both The Great Stinkhorn and Spinecrawler Webs that could tie into Gloomspite. Personally I'd assumed The Great Stinkhorn tied into Grinkrak's Looncourt. That said most of the Warbands we have gotten do line up with something on the map so I'm going to be hoping for a Spiderfang vs Centigor set for the next release Edit: Maybe the Spider-Incarnate is being saved for that, added to a box instead of terrain as a monstrous creature that warbands can recruit/fight

Games Workshop releases aren't announced in terms of business quarters but in terms of actual seasons because that's how most people understand how months are organized. That's why they say Spring release not Q1 or Q2 release. For every road map GW puts out: Winter: December, January, February Spring: March, April, May Summer: June, July, August Autumn: September, October, November Pyre and Flood is the winter release that will likely come out in February now, which means that the next release for Warcry will likely be late April/May

Except it doesn't work like that. We've had back to back factions between seasons (Ylthari's Guardians and Skaeth's Wild Hunt both being Sylvaneth and released at the end of Nightvault and start of Beastgrave) and even since they moved to this new model there's been no real pattern like you're trying to assert. So far: Harrowdeep had Stormcast, Orruks, Ogors and Soulblight (no Chaos) Nethermaze had Daughters of Khaine, Skaven, Cities of Sigmar and Blades of Khorne (no Destruction or Death) Gnarlwood had Soulblight, Slaves to Darkness, Daughters of Khaine and Gloomspite Wyrdhollow had Stormcast, Disciples of Tzeentch, Nighthaunt and Skaven (no Destruction) Deathgorge had Idoneth, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Orruks and Soulblight So of the last five seasons you only have two that have had all four grand alliances covered, Stormcast, Orruks (but only Kruleboyz), Skaven, and Daughters of Khaine getting two warbands each, and Soulblight getting 3. Whilst Nurgle, Beasts of Chaos, Ossiarchs, Flesh-Eater Courts, Fyreslayers, Kharadron, Sylvaneth, Lumineth and Seraphon haven't had any. Which honestly makes it more likely that whatever comes after Deathgorge could be any ideas the design team had regardless of factions.

Just to point out we've probably got at least 4 Warhammer Underworlds Warbands coming inbetween now and 4th ed, these could quite possibly be from one of those (a Nighthaunt warband that specialises in poisons made from the souls of those who tried to use medicine to stave off death could be an interesting theme and very on brand for Nagash and the Nighthaunt)

That shaman is really cool. I’m a little sad that there’s no new plastics but definitely some kits I might grab for nostalgia purposes (especially the MTO Marauder Giant and Wyvern)

Catching up on the reveals and honestly this might have been one of the best previews in a while. Both the Solar Auxilia and Kroot ranges look amazing, and the Mandrakes are exactly what I've been waiting for in terms of an update for them. And then there's the Age of Sigmar stuff, honestly everything looks great. Both the Lumineth and Nighthaunt have some cool figures in the sets (and some that I need more angles of) but add great new units types to those armies, the Underworlds warband is very different from what I expected but has a lot of character and charm to the figures. Calis, Tol and friends are all fun designs, and Krethusa... I want to paint her now. Like actually might convince me to pick up the Dawnbringers box as I could use the other stuff in it and it'd mean I could get her in my army faster.

I think that's why I'm hopeful for 4th ed, I have Stormcast because they're easy to collect being in starter sets and magazines etc, but I'm definitely ready for an edition that focuses on updating existing kits to better proportions and poses and focuses actual new units on other factions. If it's all new stuff for Stormcast then I'll probably just add what's in the launch box to my existing collection and largely ignore the faction unless something grabs me. From my much more casual approach I really like Warcry being a mixed bag of units. Stuff like Hunters of Huanchi and Gorgers are great updates, but then things like Karnak's Claws, Rotmire Creed and Askurgan Trueblades actually add more flavour to factions that I didn't anticipate and work really well. Like I expected Nurgle to get some light infantry eventually but that they'd be something like 40ks Poxwalkers. Then Rotmire Creed came along and really gave a new dimension to the faction.

It's nothing to do with volume of previews, the Thursday/Friday show is at a gaming event covering lots of games where they normally go into detail about upcoming releases for those games. TOW meanwhile has it's own event at Warhammer World on Saturday where the next army will be revealed as part of the event there, they'll just be posting the news to the website as it happens hopefully with one or two new kits revealed alongside it.

Yeah, you'd assume that they'd want them as new push fit models in the box at the very least.

This is a big thing for me. I think we're going to get a large portion of the Stormcast and Skaven releases being updates to existing stuff, but GW will 100% want to add some new stuff in there to sell to players who have everything. Space Marines got the Apothecary Biologis, Infernus Marines, Ballistus Dreadnought, and Tyranids got the Norn Emissary/Assimilator, Neurolictor, Barbgaunts, Psychophage, Von Ryan's Leapers and more. No way is 4th ed just refreshed stuff, even if it's just a few new trademarkable characters My only thought about the Gutter Runners is that I wonder if GW could save them for Warcry instead of releasing them with the main releases/launch box. That said Scouts were this for Space Marines and they were rumoured alongside everything else well in advance. Yeah, I could see Gors, Ungors and Bestigors all getting new kits at some point that are more in line with the 40k and Underworlds style Beastmen but no way do they do away with them as a faction when they could quite happily dive into some of the older weird Beastmen citadel used to do in the early days for new options.