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Interesting insights as always, I feel like there is a mixture of models that GW can easily revive like the Dwarf Warriors and then others that need to be more or less started again from scratch such as many of the ones in the factions that I listed above. I think Kislev is almost there for me aesthetically... I think that there is a lot of mixture between fabric and armour allowing for some really fun painting opportunities. I am doing snowy bases and a wintery theme for my current armies and so Kislev fit the aesthetic nicely, especially if I were to ever proxy them as Cities models. But there is not really a wow factor and it is simply replacing the Italian/German renaissance vibe with their Russian equivalent. I wish the leaned more into the cryomancey stuff as it is the coolest part of the army so far. Full on ice armour and weapons would be my preferred option... 🤔 I think that your Cathay example is really interesting and they have an amazing chance for providing some fantastic models and paint schemes. I think alongside Araby it is the faction I am most excited and most nervous about seeing translated on the tabletop as they both could slide into problematic representation very easily. I like the idea of drawing on FromSoftware's aesthetics as they have really found a way of balancing dark aesthetics with stunning design work. A return of Tomb Kings with modern sculpts would be fantastic. With my interest in both Araby and Tomb Kings, I am starting to think that maybe I should leave the snowy tundra to the Mortal Realms and take a desert themed approach to my square bases... although I doubt I could afford or store that many minis 😅

Is there a preview this weekend? I don't see any indication and otherwise it has been a pretty light week for reveals. Remember on Monday when we got that Amazing Vulture and that cool Thousand Sons Sorcerer... I was expecting that everyday. 😰 I mean the new Dale models are pretty dope and I am always happy for Middle Earth to get more love... and we got a new old timey space marine guy. But still I had high hopes each day for a new SCE centre piece... but instead we got shovel memes! Never mind we got this article... all is forgiven https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/23/turn-duinclaw-into-the-ultimate-killer-crustacean-in-arena-mortis-with-these-cards/

Interestingly the same could be argued in favour of High Elves, Wood Elves, Brettonnians and Tomb Kings. 🤩 Not asking you to play your hand but as a fellow poster interested in the Old World, do you have a preference between the two kingdoms. More broadly speaking any army or faction you are excited to see again in the old world setting?

Only because it will make mine feel less special... 😭 Although, I am leaning more heavily towards the themes, lore and aesthetic of Araby. But I am currently going with a snow theme for my armies so Kislev would be a much better fit alongside my Stormcast for a City Army... Oh decisions for a hobby I can hardly afford, luckily Forge World will price me right out of my plans 😅

I mean there was this news: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/21/square-bases-and-kislev-ascendant-see-your-questions-about-warhammer-the-old-world-answered/ So I am expecting to see a lot of Freeguild Generals riding polar bears in the future. But for AOS proper... I don't think anyone knows exactly what moves they are making regarding Cities. I am more interested in hearing what they are planing regarding Dispossessed if all these Soup rumours turn out to be true?

I am honestly not really the best person to discuss this subject. I feel intellectual property laws and corporate business decisions are well beyond my ken. However, if Games Workshop continues to enforce strictest guidelines and procedures it could negatively impact fan relations to the company and hobby. Particularly if another company comes in and is more creator friendly... I could see people writing fan fiction and making animations for Kings of War and Frost Grave in lieu of GW's properties. Atomic Mass Gaming seems to be doing a fantastic job moving into this void and reaching out to content creators. I might even fall prey once they reveal their plans for Star Wars or give me more varied X-Men characters* or Fantastic Four for their Marvel game. But we will see how strict this remains when they see that Warhammer+ has a hard time in the absurdly competitive market of online streaming services. I know that I would much rather spend my money on significantly better services with more varied content. *No one wants boring ol' Logan or Scott Summers! Give us some New Mutants or X-Factor members!

Posts like this remind me why I only play with my friends who are chill... If someone builds a lego Lord of Change on a hexagon base it is all cool on our end 🤣 So I am looking forward to jamming my chaos warriors onto a movement tray and calling it a day. I think if they don't cost a ForgeWorld premium I would also love to build a Kislev or Araby army and run them as cities so the reverse will be true as well and I will add some squares to AOS.

I feel that GW will buy the video creator out and put it on Warhammer plus.

I am going to invest in those circular regiment bases for sure. Although using this as an excuse to get a Beastmen army is tempting. Alternatively, I could get some Kislev, Nippon, or Araby and build up a City of Sigmar to go along with my Stormcast.

It is mostly wish listing, but it is tied to some speculation based on the awesome Morghur Broken realm story, and the principal focus of the edition being on Ghur. Essentially it is easy to speculate on the Beasts rising in prominence during this edition but when that will be and if that is going to be felt in terms of narrative, rules or new models is anyone's guess. However, the same could be said about many other armies at this point. I also think it is safe to assume that there will be some kind of expansion for God Marked Chaos Beasts, to get further support as it feels strange to only have Slaanesh and Tzeentch represented. But I wouldn't willingly wager wether Pestigors and Khornegors would release with BoC or their God Specific tomes. I also secretly hold out hope for Beasts of Chaos as a faction in 40k to become a thing but that is neither here nor there. 😛

I have a small Beast Claw Army and they would love to worship the dark gods and go on a rampage or bring my Dominion SCE up to 2000 points.

I mean along with Radukar these make awesome Maneaters of Shyish!

I am utterly blown away by this reveal it is in Greater Demon or Morathi tier for me. I absolutely love it and it nails the buzzard meets Basalisk/Cockatrice aesthetic I was hoping for. I am much more partial towards the special character build but I will be happy to see either on the tabletop. I can only hope the Stormcast reveals will be half as nice as this terror of the skies. I am a big fan of the Bayou orcs. But I also really want to see someone make a more Nile river themed version of this army with Egyptian Vultures and Nile Crocodiles paint schemes: Just googled Australian vultures... I think there are a lot of cool possible biomes to draw inspiration from for this army.

Well deserved my friend, most love and best wishes from the whole community. ❤️ Now back to the rumours, has anyone seen these new boxes in person and do we know what to expect for previews today? My guess is that we are getting the new starter sets and the terrain set in the coming week.

Someone on reddit posted images of new boxes for 3.0. I am not sure if it has been posted on here before. Overall I really like the aesthetic but maybe it is because I think the mini's look better in a proper diegetic space than a white void. Here is the original link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/omozla/3rd_ed_rebox_it_seems_wonder_if_it_has_updated/

So I am just scratching the surface of 3.0 and I am really excited for Path to Glory but with settling in at a new job it is something on the back burner, also having completed a lengthy day I have no clue if what I am writing makes any sense. But I have a bit of question in relationship to Path To Glory. If I wanted to use it as the basis for a narrative campaign but I was content with my 2000 points army could I just build towards what I currently have, will I have to purchase additional models in terms of 'fitting' the criteria of where I am in my 'Path', or can I just run my army at 2000 points and use the rewards that are not specifically for adding further units?

Amazing news! Congrats to my best internet comrade in plastic arms. Hopefully GW catches wind and creates a celebratory model for the best AOS fan!

I am really hoping that Malerion's forces have a mixture of Shadowy Aelves and Draconic Aelves. I also want some updated takes on the coldone riders with more traditional draconic mounts. Maybe more serpentine than the Stormcast Dracoth mounts.

I feel like this ought to be it's own discussion so I will jump back to rumours in a second. I think that Stormcast have a terrific and iconic design and that it has its roots in Corinthian and similar helmet designs of antiquity. Furthermore when Stormcast are painted in a bronze I feel the aesthetic influence becomes a lot more clear and visually appealing. However, many people including myself are more interested in a more medieval feel for our heroic paladins. This is why heads swaps are so prevalent and I think the more knightly armour of the Thunderstrike make that aesthetic more desirable. Personally I am shopping around for heads before I begin building my Stormcast but I also know that it will limit me somewhat when buying second hand models, as I do not want to be forced to remove an older head and have to purchase new knight heads each set of models. So Stormcast helmets are an absolute positive in terms of iconography and extratextual reference but they do feel odd next to the more medieval aesthetic of most other factions. However, I am finding most of the newer armies are leaning more towards antiquity and maybe one day the reverse will be true and Bretonnian/Chaos warrior style helmets will be the ones to stick out like a sore thumb. Back to rumours/speculation, if they were to release a Nurgle/Sylvaneth box I think that would be a great way to further tease Kurnothi aelves. Have the pack come with a new champion of Nurgle and Wardancer faun hero for the Sylvaneth. With Kroak and Be'Lakor making such stunning transformations into plastic is it time for the Harbinger of Decay to join the other two best former legacy resin kits into plastic glory? I think they could even do a companion terrain release for Warcry with a Feculant Gnarlmaw and Wyldwood with some small ruins. Here would be my hope for a nice theme: Hunters in the Garden, Kurnoth has re-embodied and wants to take a more proactive role in combating threats to the woods and with the adundance of life energy takes the fight to Nurgle's gardens directly. Sylvaneth: 1x Kurnothi Aelf hero. 2x Kurnoth hunters Nurgle: 1 Harbringer, 2x Blight kings

Everything you said sounds pretty solid and extremely plausible, but since it was not Malerion Aelves, Chaos Dwarves or Dark Mechanicum I shall instead refuse to acknowledge your theory in favour of geeky denial. In all reality I think this is a really good list... I guess my only question is whether or not a new dual box could be in the cards for AOS alongside the Chaos announcement or is it still too early in 3.0?

I actually like Warcry more than AOS proper, but most of my friends prefer the epic scale of 2000 point games. My only personal issue with Warcry was the roll out for supplementary books. I still only have the initial core rules and sometimes have to wrap my head around some of the additional rules.

Nice little tongue in cheek retrospective for AOS, but sadly nothing really noteworthy or new... and overall it is an advert for plus which I am not going to get: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/14/lets-look-at-how-far-the-mortal-realms-have-come-since-our-first-battles-in-the-realmgate-wars/ Never forget when Sigmar yeeted the titular Warhammer at Archaon and then retired from fighting.

Strange question, but will we get a live preview for all the SCE and Kruelboyz minis or will they drop some in a more low key manner?

As a chaos player Creature Caster has been on my radar for some time but these two are new to me and all I can say is wow. These two dragons stood out to me as really awesome proxies for Zombie and Chaos Dragons* respectively: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-werewolf-dragon-141759 https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-tiamat-148463 I sadly do not really know anything about 3d printing so I feel they aren't in the cards for me. As for big beasts in the mortal realms I was going to respond with an enormous list, but then I realized your point was correct as most of the creatures and beasts I was going to list are from the World that Was. The newer ranges like Stormcast, Lumineth, Fyreslayers, IDK, Soulblight and each Destruction army** all have some kind of new relatively big beast. The Chaos factions got updates to a number of demonic centre pieces... but overall relatively few truly new big monsters. *I guess technically a proxy for Archaon/Drogor in this case as there are no Chaos Dragon rules sadly **Except ogors whose bigger monsters are all from the WHFB

I am enjoying all the dragon love particularly the focus on Chaos dragons*. I am still hopeful that we will see one in its two headed glory in the not too distant future. I am also tempted to try and make something fantasy based out of the Helldrake but I sincerely doubt my capabilities. Although if Chaos Dwarves do get released either as part of Slaves to Darkness or stand alone I might get an infantry hero and place him on the back of a hell drake and run it as some kind of demon engine or even a Soulgrinder. I will admit I have a strange fondness for the Stardrake, and do not really understand all the hate. Maybe I relate to an awkward dragon wearing way too much armour... My only issue is that it is a little outside my price range for my little Stormcast force. That is why I am personally hoping for more a midrange option between a Dracoth and Stardrake. Malerion leaning heavily towards dragons is the only reason I am a little suspicious about the idea of Tyrion mounted on a dragon. Give us back Malhandir and make him a Pegasus/Unicorn with a weird/dope Lumineth mask! *which of course includes and the Hell Pit Abomination!