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Interesting that the Warbringer and Warmaster are also on here as they weren't in the Sunday article.

In terms of sprues for all 3 launch sets we got the large sprues had two characters and a elite unit for both sides except for the Tyranids where is was two big monsters instead. So the same can be expected again. Stormcast would be Ruination lord on crow, 3 ruination paladins and another hero. Skaven would be mounted Clawlord and maybe 3x rat ogres and a packmaster? The other common ground was that there are 4 small sprues with 2 heroes each per side. (Again except Tyranids as they only had one) These would also be the starter set heroes as the large sprues aren't included in those so at least one should represent an overall leader. (Lord Imperitant, Killaboss, SM Captain, Necron Overlord, Tyranid Prime) For Stormcast maybe we are getting a new Lord Celestant? For Skaven it could be a Grey Seer or just something new entirely. The second character could be anything but is likely either another big leader but in another role (Swampcaller Shaman, Terminator Librarian) or a lower rank assistant to the overall leader (SM Lieutenant, Necron Royal Warden, Knight Arcanum) The rest of the small sprues are likely to be the same as Dominion in that they are 10x Liberators and 20x Clanrats. For the medium sprues one would be the Skaven Ratling gun, one would be the 5x Prosecutors and another would likely be the Jezzails.

We don't really need Judicators since their bow build was soft replaced by Vigilors and their crossbow version is kinda represented by Vanguard Raptors. The only point against them going away I can see is that we have a Knight-Judicator (Which already surprised me back when he was revealed) Out of the AoS 1.0 wave, not looking at characters, we have Liberators which are getting replaced, Judicators which we don't need anymore with Vigilors, the three Paladin flavors which could be getting replaced by the Ruinators and the Prosecutors which are getting replaced. The Dracothian Guard and Stardrakes are the only ones without a replacement. Stormdrake Guard are kinda the spiritual successor to the Dracothian Guard, not the same since different Wargear and flying instead of foot drakes but still. And while they aren't the same at all, Krondys and Karazai at least fulfill the role of big dragon centerpiece model that the Stardrake had before. So while I would of course like actual replacements or at least keeping them I could also see GW discontinuing them.

And I think when 40k got their equivalent CP picture they where also missing some factions so it fit better This was the 40k one: And its also missing three factions with Custodes, Black Templars and World Eaters in addition to Tyranids. And nothing happened to those three.

Everyone (except the three already revealed ones) still has the same sets here so maybe the others won't be replaced?

No models at all is a surprise WarCom articles: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/21/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-is-reforged-for-an-incredible-new-edition/ https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/21/nine-amazing-moments-from-the-incredible-warhammer-age-of-sigmar-cinematic-trailer/

This perfectly sums up my feelings

Well that was an amazing trailer

The talks with different peoples are nice but I don't like how we aren't getting nice shots of all the models anymore. Just the trailers.

Only one more hour!

Whitefang is too great to just call him nb. 1 tga poster. He transcended us all ages ago

With the other images I thought that maybe there was some color distortion going on here but with the red plume here its clear they aren't painted golden but silver or white instead. For any special Ruination chamber it makes sense if they use a special color scheme but this is a basic Liberator. I also can't seen them changing the basic Stormcast color from gold so the source of these images might not be the launch set but some showcase page about different paint schemes in a book instead?

Since one looks more ornate maybe top one is a character and bottom is the generic unit version?

Sure its only a few potato cams and that one Skaven sprue right now but if I remember correctly is was similar for 9th edition 40k and then suddenly we had that image with the full Necron refresh. Because of that they released a higher resolution version if that image on WarCom instead of in a reveal stream which I'm sure wasn't how they wanted it to go. So if they are lucky and it stays at potato rumour engines its fine but the question is if they want to risk it again. Its the balance what is more important to them. Revealing everything at the planned time and risking leaks or moving everything up but in turn revealing it how they want it to. And for something big like this I could see it being the second one. Anyway it doesn't really matter since we can't control anything and its only two more days anyway

I wouldn't have expected GW to show off the actual launch set this week, only maybe one model per side together with a trailer like with 40k. But with all these leaks I think they kinda have to or they won't have anything left to show whenever they originally planned to

While 6 isn't the most its still a quarter of all 2nd edition books which I wouldn't call nothing (And Idoneth and Maggotkin didn't even get 2nd edition books) I just hope that even if there are repeat covers, its at least none of those 6 again

The 40k equivalent "Battle for Oghram" started together with the launch box release at the end of June and ran until the 10th of July so if our event only runs until the end of June then we can also expect it to start a little earlier. So we can expect a release of the launch box in the first half of June

Probably not for the Spearheads if the price increase is in the next months (which is likely). They would have already set them at the new price as they did for other releases shortly before past price increases These are looking quite nice but probably not nice enough for how much they will cost with the Warhammer tax Straight to 6000 next!

Seems pretty likely but I wonder what else could be up at the same time. Just those three would be a little lower than usual. Maybe the Underworlds team?

So all these Darkoath are likely coming with Dawnbringers VI as a Chaos focused book right?