Matrindur

Wasn't there a rumour about more stuff from Kragnos race? Or was that just a lore teaser?

That sounds pretty believable and if its true we still have one more preorder between kill team and Dawnbringers 4 on the 6th for the 20th which could either be the rest of the inital Legions Imperialis wave or the Dark Angels boxset. The other of the two will then likely come after FEC and TOW on the 27th for release on the 10th.

Looks over at the dozen sprues made for the monthly free minis that are never used again afterwards. I understand that those are there to drive customers into the stores but I can't see them being a better investment than a new kit when they could just send out the normal kits and let customers/store workers cut those out. They already do that for some months so why not all of them and instead produce a new kit with the now available sprues

40k will win for sure but if I just go by AoS kits I think my personal top 3 would be: Belthanos, First Thorn of Kurnoth Saurus Scar Veteran on Aggradon Tuskboss on Maw Grunta In that order

The last one in 2021 was also just eldar/chaos from their boxset a few months later right?

Important bit here is that those preorders aren't going up until the 16th and will go for three weeks until the 6th. So next preorder on the 30th with release on the 13th for kill team seems likely

Yeah its from March 2022 as Intercessors are already at £37.50 and in the doc they talk about increasing the price from £35 to £36 Exactly the same text as in the article back then https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/02/09/important-pricing-news/ But since we got price increases in both in March 2023 and 2022 it wouldn't be too surprising if we get another one in March 2024

Many Vanguards have models that have been put on direct sale or just plain removed from sale after the vanguard was released (probably to reduce in store SKUs as you can still get them via the vanguard box so no need to have another box in the shelf for heroes which you probably only want one of) Direct only: Arkanaut Admiral, Slaughterpriest, Loonboss, Chaos Lord, Ogor Tyrant, Scinari Cathallar Not for sale outside of Vanguard: Mortisan Soulreaper, Great Bray Shaman, Branchwych, Magister on Disc of Tzeentch, Melusai Ironscale, Knight of Shrouds, Grey Seer, Isharann Soulscryer, Battlesmith

Only a 40k roadmap and no scheduled preview. The next should be the end of the year silhouette teasers we normally get on the last days of December

But what about two afternoons?

Well thats not a good sign

Was that the same person who said the preorder order would be: Battleforces -> Necrons/Admech -> Legions Imperialis Because then his info might be correct but outdated since they changed two of those around.

I think the ghouls on the middle left in the above group shot are the old ghouls so should be staying

Those are just Crypt Horrors

So Valraks bone dragon rumour is correct