The Brotherhood of Necros

I love how the realms influence the nature, the culture, the religions and the military of the factions living there. I am thinking of setting my next army (Seraphon) in Hysh and am wondering how I might represent that in the miniatures. It feels like quite a high-concept realm compared to, say, Life or Fire. What are your thoughts?

Hey @Ejecutor 👋🏻 I wish I had something constructive to add but it really seems like you’ve already got a great thing going on here! When I work on terrain, I’ve found texture is at least as important as the rest of what’s going on if you’re shooting for something more immersive. Basing is a more obvious example but the same applies to stonework, for example. When they’re painted up etc and ready to go, your walls will look much more like actual walls with some kind of growth (whatever that looks like in Chamon or Hysh! But that’s the fun part!), rain stains, perhaps a lightning scorch mark near the church, a bird’s nest in the gutters… All small details but they really bring scenery to life, tell little stories, and make it “yours”.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “Lance formation”

Thanks, friend. It’s my favourite part of the hobby. The temple-city board is modular so can be rearranged or swapped with other tiles. (Usually reserve the big pyramid for display purposes and swap it out with a flat tile for games.) I’ve played a few matches on it now and it’s lots of fun. Mostly I find it super immersive, which I really love. Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻

Same here! I’m building an undersea board for my next project! Will play Tzunki-themed Seraphon on there, modelled to be swimming or clinging to rocks/the sea floor. Will then knock up some Idoneth/undersea Kharadron/drowned undead or the sea Sylvaneth for them to face off against. Just finishing off my Old World temple-city board first but it’s next in line! It will sort of combine those aesthetics with those of my Lovecraftian Misthavn diorama (Innswich).

This is guesswork from a YouTuber’s channel.

Do you know if any of the other Forgeworld kits will be coming back, aside from the Troll Hag? I would love to pick up a Merwyrm and am crossing my fingers that it might drop with the High Elves, who used to have a named one in their lore. 🤞🏻

Love that we effectively have minis for Isha, Khaine, Morai-Heg, Kurnous (if you go back far enough…), Mathlann, Ladrielle (if you ran the 6th ed. Fey Enchantress…) and Teclis as Hoeth. Someone could make quite the epic diorama!

Gosh, I might have to pick up some classic metal trolls if they’re coming on MTO… The first model I ever “painted” as a small kid was one of the River Trolls and I’d love to pick some up again. Did I miss a date from the article as to when we might expect O&G?

I’m going with Nurgle…

I’m not in love with the Lumineth warband. They look a little clunky or cartoonish somehow. It might be their proportions or their build or maybe just the photography. I AM in love with massive jade and gold frog face*. I shall order 5,000, make a shirt from them, and distribute the rest around town with pamphlets raising awareness for The Great Plan. *As _The Idol of the Old Ones_, could it be giving us soft confirmation that the Old Ones might have closely resembled their creation the slann themselves? Could the Old Ones actually have just been immeasurably old slann spawned elsewhere in the cosmos in aeons past? Or the very slann we know and love from the far future of the setting when chaos has all but won, gone back in time at some point to spawn themselves, lay down their plaques, and set in motion the series of events that might one day stand a chance of changing fate? WE WILL NEVER KNOW 🐸

All these Whitefangs popping up like Spartacus around here 😂

And the less said about Slaanesh Skaven, the better.

A Moulder Verminlord sounds horrifying 😈

Looks squishy.

Gonna be able to upgrade my Casket to Basth! 🐈

Good luck to everyone placing preorders today 🙌🏻 Enjoy the hype, and I hope you get all the bits and kits you’re looking for. I might try to pick up some Tomb Guard or Sepulchral Stalkers next month, just because I love the models.

For me, it’s today’s messaging around it that’s rubbed me up the wrong way a little. I was definitely in the camp that up until today had been hearing “these factions won’t feature in the main story, they won’t be our focus, and they likely won’t be receiving new models, but you can still collect and play everyone and everything that was in 8th!” I was very excited to revisit a nostalgia project (in my case, Lizardmen). I felt included, as in “great! We’re not a part of the narrative but they’re giving us PDFs regardless and I’ll still be able to play. And maybe in a future campaign they’ll shift to a different continent, or the game will grow enough that armies going unsupported now finally get some Old World love!” Today, I’d say the messaging they put out was very much “those other armies? Yeah there will be a PDF but remember now, you won’t get any of the really fun stuff and actually you should really be collecting one of these new armies if you want the full experience.” I would have felt much happier hearing that second message from the outset. It might have helped me pick and get excited about a different faction, and it wouldn’t have left me feeling anti-climactic a literal day before all the buzz finally kicks off, after all these years. AoS Seraphon are fun, but they’re not Lizardmen. The Lizardmen’s whole culture has shifted from devolved jungle-dwelling ancients, eagerly re-enacting rituals they barely recall, let alone understand, hanging off the every word of bloated, batrachian mage-priests who might wake once every hundred years or so to catch a fly and bury some distant settlement beneath an earthquake before drifting off again to dream about plaques even they can barely read. They were enigmatic, cold, in many ways quite scary; a remnant of prehistoric times, clinging on in the sweltering shadows of their ruined temple-cities. Seraphon are (like much of AoS) Marvel characters, dropping in from space-pyramids to launch a salvo and blow up a Silver Tower, their slann lively as they teleport around the realms, flinging around spells like a skink does javelins and generally saving the day. Their once mastery of magic, totally vanilla, even nondescript in a setting where gods pop up every other day (game). GW somehow sucked all the mystery, intrigue, and sense of the venerable out of Lord Kroak (his model is, of course, breathtaking). I was excited to return to the Lizardmen and the setting as I knew it, and I will still try to. 🐸

ME WANT ODDITIES! *Cookie Monster noises*

I was asking after their totally speculative Skaven and BoC comment. Just interested in their opinions 😇

If you were to make completely random guesses and wild speculation about both these things, what would they be?

How do we summon Whitefang these days; is it the Sotek way, the Orion way, or like a Bretonnian calling back his hunting falcon?

As above

Silly questions

I have also found this confusing in the past. I’ve moved my questions on the topic to their own thread.