Public Universal Duardin

My hope is that if Nagash gets rules they re-release Derpy!Nagash instead of current Cool!Nagash. I just want Warhammer Skeletor running around the tabletop.

Woo!!! WarhammerFest is going to be HYPE!!! Speaking of rumours, has this been posted before? http://natfka.blogspot.com/2023/04/old-world-rumors-battle-for-skull-pass.html?m=1 Sounds like hopium, but man would I love to get those rereleased.

I've been reading old issues White Dwarf to hype myself about the Old World returning and found this banger of a quote from their March 2005 issue. Dawi players 🤝 Greenskin players Making fun of elves

I went and dug up my Bretonnia Army Book, and imho it's pretty vague whether 'the king' refers to A king or Louen himself. I think there's some leeway there.

I'm pretty happy then as with that + classic red-trimmed WHFB crypt ghouls and zombies box, I'll have a small Vampire Counts army ready* *If I ever got the energy to actually paint them...

Oh c'mon, now this is getting ridiculous. I feel second-hand embarrassment reading this on TGA of all places. Have there been people online who have torn AoS down and given it kindergarten-level nicknames? Yes. There's also people online who post hate speech for laughs. For my own sanity's sake, I don't want to view 'people online' as representing the whole of an entity, whatever that entity might be. Hopefully you realise that some miserable person tearing AoS down is not representative of what a regular WHFB fan thinks of AoS. The, if I may be honest, juvenile and overly dramatic grandstanding at display here is pretty silly when one remembers this is a forum for plastic toys (painted and collected by adults!). Like, congratulations, you get to be snide because someone onetime drew a comparison with AoS to ******. Is...is that productive? Like, We're still talking about plastic toys, right? Right?

To me it looks like new bases.

Apparently controversial opinion: I'm fine with the old models. I find them comforting and nostalgic in my geriatric old age of 28. Absolutely ancient. I never collected enough Bretonnians to even reach 1000p, so I'm just happy to be able to slot new old models next to my OG ones.

Something something 'two wrongs don't make a right' Yeah it's cringe (how do you do fellow kids?) when WHFB fans rag on AoS, but it's equally cringe to see TGA's hour of hate for WHFB. I'd even say the latter is far more disappointing because I look upon TGA highly, while the corners of the Internet that tend to rag on AoS are...well, if someone looks highly upon Facebook, Reddit or the like, I weep for them. I don't understand the need for adults to diminish each other's rules frameworks for their plastic toys. It's not going to bring the wife back.

Exiled and Crusader armies? Now that's an interesting tidbit, basically confirming 'subfactions' to TOW 👀

Wow, what a handsome lad! 😍 Kurnothi are, to me at least, such an interesting concept for (a)elves that it pains me to know GW hasn't really done anything with them yet. I know this will be heresy to some, but I find the design of Sylvaneth as a whole incredibly boring - and despite of the ongoing 'haha Duardin are best amirite?' joke that says a lot, as the dryad miniatures are legitimately my favourite WHFB era minis and I'm a certified Drycha Hamadreth fangirl (I can fix her). But the rest? Couldn't interest me less. I'd rather collect a small Soulblight army than try to force me be inspired by the rest of the Sylvaneth range. And I have! And the undead are, despite as murderous as dryads and Drychas, far less ecologically conscious, cute nor made of bark. But Kurnothi? That's peak (a)elven perfection. If I could add hot furry beast aelves next to hot tree women, my wallet would be already empty and I'd regret my life choices that brought me to that moment. And the undead would be banished to an ebay auction in Shyish. Such a missed opportunity.

Absolutely agree - at the time (give or take a year) when I was a wee lass, and Games Workshop still published thick yearly catalogues that I and my brothers would read like the Bible, that miniature really stuck with me. He does look a bit goofy in today's standards, but maybe I should pick one up for nostalgia's sake. Definitely agree on him being an awesome candidate for a glow-up!

Poor Harbinger, dude has spent 3 editions searching for Kislev that no longer exists 😢

These are the guys your duardin gf told you not to worry about

No way was 'Warhammer forum making me finally read Berserk' on my 2023 bingo card but here we are.

Not me wishing for Idoneth or Lumineth rumours so that @HollowHills and @Maogrim respectively would return. They might be stinkin' knife-ears, but they're OUR stinkin' knife-ears! Not even a full Duardin range can be as joyous as jokingly bickering with aelf fans... That is the true tragedy of Duardin. We need aelves to grudge with to be complete 😢

Now you're talking my language! (Also, welcome to the Duardin club!)

If a lot of non-humans are squatted, do we even know if we'll have all those cities as subfactions? What if they, Sigmar forbid, simply use them as different colour schemes?

No, you're correct - I'm very happy for their (or perhaps TGAs?) relative obscurity, lest the bleached fang gets taken out by GW's Vindicare Assassins... I'm simply surprised as I'm an avid follower of videogame leaks and rumours, and often see messages from boards very much like TGA (I assume they're built on same platform, as even reactions are identical to ours) getting posted to reddit - the mere whiff of rumour being shared for those who want to be 'in the know'. Of course, many of such rumourmongers also strive for e-fame... Very much agreed!

Honestly at this point I'm surprised I don't see them mentioned elsewhere. You'd think sites like Reddit or DakkaDakka (don't they have an AoS section too?) would crosspost everything WF says, as afaik they haven't missed once.

Well, it is GW we're talking about...some days it feels like they make decisions by throwing dice. Get a double 6 and Chorfs will be confirmed!

Lads going to "have a bit of banter" with the chaos boys...

Thank you! Although I did deserve that pie, I who was SO sure of myself 😂 But one came with the receipts and played it off well, deserving all genuine praise - big props to @The Lost Sigmarite

Well don't I now look foolish! My apologies friend - as a token of good will I'll attach a picture of me wolfing down on that humble pie!

I actually agree with everything else you're saying, but this reads like digital haruspicy or non-ironic version of my #PUDanon chorf copeposting - unless I've missed the Whitefang-English dictionary guide. I mean, he IS our oracle but sometimes a pipe is a pipe.