The Brotherhood of Necros

Really hoping there’s some juicy new lore in the first Harbingers book this weekend 🤞🏻

The Alchemite was the surprise star of the show for me. These aren’t just the collegiate wizards of yore transplanted into the Mortal Realms anymore

I need some of these apes for my Lustria gaming board, but I was also thinking how cool an ape/Lustrian-themed Beastmen army would be. Planet of the Apes meets The Descent kind of vibe. But then I find apes absolutely terrifying so maybe that’s just me. 🙉

I’d say that puts the *suspected* bell-ringer rat from the Rumour engine as part of a larger future Skaven update… 🤩

Beauuutiful ratties

WOW

I haven’t the foggiest but the popcorn is ready 🤓

T-minus TWO HOURS, PEOPLE

I just can’t WAIT to see all the realm-themed Cities the community is going to make. —All the Death iconography (or regiments of skellies alongside regular folk!) —The creepy crawlies and living flora of Ghyran (you could probably make a nice floating war altar using that floating waterfall terrain piece). —Cog-themed armies of clockwork automata marching ahead of engineers from Chamon. —Super-sleazy militia from Misthavn with lots of pirate/sailor trinkets. Flotilla-themed altars and strange idols to Sigmar the Drowned. Cities needs to get here already!

I could definitely picture a steam-tank war altar — on the one hand, the whole ”going out into the dangerous wilds” would kind of necessitate an armoured, practical war altar capable of withstanding whatever the realms can throw at it. On the other hand, the crusades themselves are sort of a religious/fanatical movement, right? Sigmar’s devout, heading out to reclaim their lands. So from that point of view I could see heavily armoured/mechanised war altars, too. I’m picturing a huge snow plough covered in sigils, steered by a priest 😂 🤷

Okay, so Warcry is definite from the logo. The symbol bottom-left is very Kruleboyz, and we know a Destruction warband is coming, so I think this image is nodding to that. Whitefang then points us to that episode, which has Cities folk in it. And we know an Order warband is coming… So we COULD be getting CoS vs Kruleboyz for Warcry on Sat?!

Between this and the Skaven teaser I have totally lost the plot in terms of what might be coming for which system and I AM HERE FOR IT

Cities vs Darkoath?!

Any other Rumour engines we could possibly attribute to Skaven/bells/a grey seer or rat ogre?

If there’s a band of merry ratmen whose sole motivation is to scurry from realm to realm ringing every bell they can find, I’m in.

OMG But is it Warcry, AoS or Underworlds?!

Gork, Mork and… Pork? Gorkamorkaporka? All tremble before the Great Green Fist of Pork

Love that they kept this one quiet until now, only a few days of waiting!!!

Given we’ve just had a Soulblight and a FEC warband, winter’s Death will presumably be Ossiarch or Nighthaunt!

I feel like @Whitefang has previously alluded to Morghur’s coming in the not-too-distant future…?

I am just about starving for the next Old World update! 🤓

Would fit the lure theme they have going on across various models/lore. And I struggle to think they’d go with a beastie as generic and non-copyrightable as a kraken. Fingers crossed…

No rumour engine today?!

Updated classic spider riders would be so welcome. At the same time, they’re a unit that is distinctly WHFB for me. They would be very easy to AoS-ify by running with the Grot Scuttling vibe into grot spider-centaurs. If a vampire centaur is on the cards, and the Grot Scuttlings were made a thing, it doesn’t seem beyond the realms of possibility and would be another step towards keeping their AoS goblins and Old World goblins more separate. (“Here are your familiar, old-school Forest Goblin spider riders. And here are your AoS spider grots, as comfortable in the twisted woods of Shyish as they are beneath the dank caverns of the Mortal Realms, changed by Skragrott’s twisted shroom magic into eight-legged monsters with which to better ascend the walls of the Cities of Sigmar and one day, perhaps, ensnare the Bad Moon itself in their horrible webs.”) Who knows how they decide what stays, what goes, and what stays but gets brought kicking and screaming into the Mortal Realms?

I could imagine a Skaven update in a similar vein to Lizardmen, where they get updated for AoS with new units or new takes on existing units, but with visual identities that could easily be usable by Old World Players. Like Gutter Runners could become Skitterleapers, known for jumping and squeezing between realms. But they’d still look v much like the ninja rats we know and love. Big realm-burrowing Moulder gribbly — abomination. Skryre could get some classics remade as well as some shiny new realm-shattering toys (because if they could blow up a moon in WHFB, they’ve really been dragging their paws since joining the Mortal Realms). In any case, a refresh of the same size and quality that the Lizards have got would be breathtaking. And speaking from an Old World perspective, I’d HAVE to get some just to recreate some epic Lustrian showdowns 😍