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Interesting note since GW has recently cleaned out the Gitmob grots from the store, the Greenskinz warboss on foot and boar is listed as no longer available in the US store and doesn't even show up in the GB store and the warboss on Wyvern is no longer available there too. I also can't find the Greenskinz start collecting anywhere. While rules will probably stay relevant for a while, maybe GW is finally cleaning out factions it has no intention of supporting.
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10 minutes ago, Infeston said:
Another question: What defines a Trogboss? If I want to build a Trogboss, could i theoretically use another head? So what I am getting at is the following: Does the weapon choice dictate which role a model has or does the face?
So when I use a different face for the Trogboss, but the rest stays the same, could there be people who might complain that I haven't build a 100% Trogboss or will most people still count this as a Trogboss?
I think this might be more of a general question about which features define the role of a model, because I have also build a Frostlord on Stonehorn without a beard (but he still has the frozen spear) and a Megaboss on Maw Krusha with a Gordrakk head (but still with the weapons of a Megaboss).
I myself wouldn't think this could be a problem, but I just wanted to ask what other people think, because I have never been to a tournament or any other "official" or big event. So I don't know if something has to be build exactly the same way it is portrayed or if maybe some features (like heads) are interchangeable.
I think the face is the defining trait since the Troggboss face is older and age seems to be the background thing that separates the bosses from regular guy.
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And so the rebasing begins. I've got 80mm and 50mm bases on order for Mangers and stone trolls, but I got my hoppers and warboss started on 32mm. Had to go with bloodbowl bases because GW stopped selling slotted bases.
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17 minutes ago, sorokyl said:
Not sure but really disappointed the loonboss don't have an option that doesn't have that goofy helmet. im sure many like it but would have been nice to have an option, and that sprue seems sparse enough. I Guess anyone that doesn't like it better snap up a grot warboss=P I will probably play skarsnik since they have the same CA. may eventually get goofhead for when i need the 30 points.
yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the helmet either, but looking at the sprue, the head it a separate piece that goes inside the helmet and it doesn't look like it'd be too hard to take the helmet off. I don't know how complete that head is(the zoom in detail on the picture isn't great), but if it's not complete, it shouldn't be too hard to get another head on there. A gitmob head with just a helmet on top of his head would do nicely. I'd also redo the basing, because I think it's a bit much. While GW is getting amazing detail out of plastic these days and that's great, I think they're letting go to their heads sometimes and overdesign a bit. Of course I'll probably stick with my old metal guy and while he might see the table more now that he's not wasting points on options he doesn't have on the old messy warscroll, I'll probably be sticking with my guy on the giant cave squig so my hoppers are battleline.
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My rockgut trolls will look a little wonky on 50mm bases, but shouldn't be too bad.
I wonder why the old metal warboss is still for sale. The new Loonboss on foot seems like his clear replacement(and I'll be using my old model as a Loonboss on foot) and they've not been shy about getting all the rest of the old duplicates out of the store. Maybe they have so much back log of the guy that they can't write it off yet or something.
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8 minutes ago, RexHavoc said:
I dont see them joining up all four clans. We might see skyre as the main focus but with some units from other clans, other than pestilence, added in, much like gloomspite.
I think gloomspite can probably be seen as the redux standard going forward. It's very similar to how DoK was brought back, only DoK missed out on spells and terrain.
It could be that we have another BoC on our hands with skaven, where we no new kits except spells and terrain. Most of the skaven kits from end times are still pretty good and not far off todays standards. We of course get the new warlock from carrion empire as a separate release. Only thing not readily available is the heavy weapons teams and they can just do away with them.
I'd love it if they did get a gloomspite sized overhaul but with the amount of kits they still have which are pretty serviceable I don't see it happening. The pestilence machine kits all have skyre duel builds and then you still have the stormfiends and doomwheel. We might see new stormvermin as a troop type but that could be it and they still have a full force, enough for a battletome.I'd like to see Peslins remain standalone and get updated with a new book and maybe new models and Skyre get a book with plastic acolytes and maybe new models too. Those two have enough unique character to carry themselves and then combine all the rest of the skaven into another book. Then you'd have diseased skaven, technology skaven and regular skaven.
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2 hours ago, Aelfric said:
Just a question; although the Sourbreath Troggoths do not appear in the Gloomspite Gitz book, they do still have a warscroll and points, so are they still a legitimate unit in game, simply without the Gloomspite Gitz keyword.
They're still legal to play, but not in a Gloomspite Gitz army since they can't be taken in the army or as allies. But they are legal allies for every other destruction faction or in GA destruction armies. I suspect sourbreaths may not even show up in GHB 2019.
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35 minutes ago, novakai said:
Mangler squig are on 80 mm bases
Dankhold are 60 mm
Nice, my old manger should look just fine on that size(100mm would have been pushing it) and maybe it will fall over less now.
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1 minute ago, amysrevenge said:
There's even more than 3 versions. You get 5 separate warscrolls out of the one box, 4 spider and one grot.
Spider with flinger
Spider with grot crew
Spider with shaman
Spider alone (the masterpiece of the new set of scrolls)
Shaman on foot
I'm liking the deep striking standalone spider. I might buy another kit to get that and the shaman on foot.
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Just now, Maxwell said:
if i take a superbattalion do i have to repay the sub included battalion or i only pay for the superbattalion and the sub one are free as a reward ?
You have to pay for all the battalions.
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1 minute ago, Furious said:
That's awesome, thanks for the answer - 58 pages is a lot to sift through for pretty simple but specific info.
Are any warscrolls toast? I see that the fanatics have been split into two types, and I'm guessing the old one is obsolete now? And that Gloomspire grots don't have a spear unit, those are Moonclan?
I'm getting most of my info off the AOS app, so I'm not sure what's fully up to date yet. I know there's no option for Gloomspire allegiance in Azyr.
The only war scroll that seems to be toast is the old sourbreath troggoth. I guess you could technically use as an ally to other armies that take troggoths as allies, but not in a gloomspite gitz army. I'm guess you could use them as rockgut now.
I don't know what you mean by no spears. The stabbas unit can take the stabbas or spears as weapon.
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Building these new squigs, I'm missing the old single part squigs. I love to paint, but building models is one of my least favorite parts.
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8 minutes ago, Furious said:
I've been out of the game for over a year now, but seeing these little hooligans makes me wanna... you know.
Is it confirmed which factions are included in Gloomspire? Is it all Moonclan, Troggoth and Gargant? I'm guessing some Moonclan stuff is being re-keyworded as Gloomspire as well? Any love for Gitmob?
Also, what is the allies situation?
Yes, the Moonclan, Spiderfang, gargant, aleguzzler, and Troggoth(with the sub troggoth keywords too) are keywords in the book, but everything also has the gloomspite gitz keyword. No gitmob in gloomspite(except the old gitmob shaman has been renamed a madcap shaman, but shares the same warscroll as the old metal moonclan shamans now who are also madcap shamans now)
Gitmob, greenskinz and bonesplitterz are the allies.
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14 minutes ago, GeneralZero said:
Several recent "how to build" videos from GW (building some god aligned knights) point out that something hot on the launching pad is coming sooner rather than later for StD/Everchoosen/(darkoath).
I have heard rumblings that chaos undivided is getting attention soon™ with StD in AoS and Black Legion in 40k getting books, but not sure if they're going to be at the same time. On the 40k side, all signs seem to be pointing toward Black Legion very soon within the current Vigilus campaign(they've already got two new models), so if they do a dual chaos undivided release, we could see something for StD very soon too(as in it'd likely be the next AoS book).
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Just now, Blueraven84 said:
"Thomas Oldsworth" on Facebook Skaven group: BT March, Fyreslayers Feb.
Unknown rumourmonger to me but hey it is something at least...
So I guess that's a no on rumors for new factions.
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I know we've had lots of rumors about extentions and updates to old factions(goblins, Slannesh and Slaves to Darkness), but have we had any rumor mongers actually point to coming new factions? Of course there's been plenty of speculation on thinks like light elves that were mentioned in a recent book(the new core rule book?) and grotbag scuttlers got name dropped once in the new Gloomspite book, but I don't know that we've had anybody mention hearing about actual work on anything new, or have we?
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3 minutes ago, Timcz said:
Did I see that the fungoid is now 90 points?
Yes he is.
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1 hour ago, Melcavuk said:
As far as I have seen any SPIDERFANG heroes can take the spiderfang artifacts, but only SCUTTLEBOSS may take the command trait. So currently it looks like you're good to take the headdress on the Arachnarok Shaman
Yeah that was weird and also for Moonclan shamans, the command traits are for all of them, but artifacts are for madcap shamans only so the Fungoid cave shaman is out of luck.
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Just now, Skabnoze said:
I heard it was 100mm, but I don't have a reference to where I saw that at. We should know for sure when they go up for pre-order on saturday.
Yeah, I was hoping to get ahead of the curve and get a base ordered to rebase my current one.
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Has anybody seen definitively what size of base the new Manger Squigs are on?
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5 minutes ago, sorokyl said:
My local store in the US has 20%. I assume GW allows stores to sell locally at slightly higher discount to be able to compete with online retailers. With sales tax this makes it only slightly worse than 15% online/free ship. But ebay constantly has 15% off (stacking on the standard 15% off for ~28% off, so if i can wait at all I do).
Troggoth is a keyword, but i would not necessarily expect it to remain a faction in terms of alliances in the GHB.
In 2017 GHB Nurgle Rotbringers and Daemons of Nurgle are 2 seperate factions. So they are listed separately in allegiances. In 2018, after the battletome, Rotbringers is no longer a faction, although it is still a keyword.
We won't know until we see the book, but I suspect "Gloomspite Gitz" is now the faction that is home to all of these models, and is the faction that will be referred to in all "allies" restrictions. It only makes sense, as if you are using this tome you are using "Gloomspite Gitz" allegiance. and they have 1 list of allies, that other factions do not ally with only some Gloomspite Gitz.
It will be interesting to see how they do that fully going forward now that we have this book, BoC and LoN too. I think the chaos armies are bit of an outlier since GW is trying to say who those chaos gods will ally with, so it makes sense not to break up the mortals and daemons. For Legions of Nagash, the other two death factions have allies within it not the whole faction, but then LoN now feels like a slightly more halfhearted faction merge than this book or BoC. So it'll be interesting to see how they decide that in GHB 2019 or new destruction or Chaos battle tomes before then.
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Thank the badmoon the Warboss with giant cave squig finally has a separate warscroll so now the poor guy on foot won't be overcosted. Since the old metal guy on foot is still on sell, but still has the old warscroll online for now, I wonder if he's going to be a loonboss like the new model that's coming later. Kind of sad that my old Shamans in their new "madcap" form lost a really nice signature spell and got replaced with one that won't get used much, but at least there should be some spell lores in the battletome so they won't be useless. I guess GW wants to push their new shamans, which I'll probably get anyway but I like to keep my old ones usefull too. I like that the spiderfang shaman can now be taken on foot. If the new profiles for the Arachnarok have good enough differentiation in points now, I might build one without a shaman and have him on foot.
Even though the Chaos Gargant didn't get much in the BoC book other than the whipped to fury ability I was hoping that maybe the Gloomspite version would updated or at least have a cool Gloomspite ability like the BoC one, but it looks the same. Also glad to see that they're quick about releasing updates for the Forgeworld stuff and the Colossal squig and squig gobba already have the new keywords, but not rules changes that I'm noticing other than keyword. I was worried they'd end up some kind of Moonclan only purgatory without the keywords to get them into a Gloomspite army like what happened to the Mourngul when LoN dropped(later explained by a coming Nighthaunt book) or even the Giant Chaos Spawn and Warpfire Dragon that should really have BoC keywords(at least the spawn).
That 1 in every 6 must be a squig herder for the squig herd is probably really going to ****** off those people that that only had min units of herders for their 20 squig units, especially since they're not selling herders by themselves any more. Sure there's still ebay and the conversion is easy, but still has to be a little annoying. Also makes the lone Underworlds herder model easier to use on the table top as stand in for a "normal" unit model if you don't want to the take their special warband unit.
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So the GW webstore has been updated with Gloomspite Gitz, which is currently Spiderfang and The Moonclan stuff that's not in the process of being replaced or reboxed along with the old Gitmob Shaman. So the big Grots section is gone, and as are the Gitmob grots are gone, not even listed under All Destruction anymore. Greenskinz are still there and actually have a section. It doesn't seem that they're simply not indexed either, you can't search for them and incoming links from Google go nowhere. Is GW finally getting brave enough to purge models they don't plan on supporting going forward?
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1 hour ago, Drakensgreed said:
I think you‘ve mixed up your names there, the speaker was the Loon King who is a grot. Anyways, we can see Spiders of various sizes in his entourage as well as Troggoths, so I‘d take this as a sign that the GGs will encompass all of these, perhaps including Gitmob but that‘s far less certain due to their mistly outdated line.
Nope, didn't mess up any trolls, the troll didn't talk, "he" would clearly be the speaking grot, I siimply assume a basic level of awareness and comprehension instead of wasting my time being overly verbose.
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Yeah, I agree the new hero, spells and the book. Probably that same for Skaven. Though for FEC I wouldn't be overly shocked to see a plastic Vargulf Courtier(though I think if they did have one, he's be in the box set). Overall with an updated book, I think FEC will be in a pretty good place, even if it is a sort of one or two note army. Just the way their lore is with the delusions, there's a lot ways GW can make their smallish amount of models play differently and I'd really like to see them go that route.