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On the subject of the hunger special rule, I'd imagine blood knights will stay 3 wounds each... flesh eaters have multiple 'royal blood' type abilities where the arch regent heals 3 vs d3 for kings etc. So we may have different versions of the hunger for the knights and lords.

I'm sure our vamps will be a lot stronger. Just compare a 140 point vampire lord on a horse to the 150 point vanari lord regent for lumineth, similar points, both a lord on a 'horse', vanari is better in combat, more wounds, better save, more spells to choose from and arguably better spells and better abilities, all for 10 points more. I feel like it would be strange for a vampire lord to NOT be on par with that type of lord, if not even better. Vampires have to be 6 wounds minimum, with a better save and better healing. They shouldn't be just as easy to kill as a human on foot. I just really hope they haven't neglected them and left them as is due to the fact we are getting 10203022 new characters. (Not complaining, I actually love the new characters). Edit: also bare in mind we are getting a new wight King, who will no doubt be much better than before, meaning (particularly if they keep mount option) vampires will be stronger too.

Yeah it's different to normal Centaurs, because it isn't technically a centaur. It's It's amalgamation of two monstrosities. It's not to everyone's taste and so what? Not everyone has to buy it. I personally love it (the female one, really not a fan of the male generic one)... but even so, just because horses have a different anatomy to the dragon thing or the giant model you posted doesn't make it any less weird when you think about half a human growing out of a horses neck. Also that giant/vampire you posted still has just one neck, no different to a normal centaur or the new bat/dragon/vamp thing. A 'human' torso growing out of where a neck would usually be, whether it is on the giant you posted, the dragon thing that we have for soulblight, or a classic centaur. All those creatures are a 'human' or at least near-human body, from the waist up, growing out of where the neck would have been for the other animal.

Centaurs are half man half horse, every centaur has shoulders, then the 'man' section is where the horses head and neck would be. Literally every centaur has two 'torsos'.

The answer is yes, they are Morgaunt. As above - they are identical to the one destroyed.

Yea definitely not THAT big, she's definitely an oddly large vampire attached to the centaur thing though... the vampire lord in the foreground is closer to the camera and still her upper torso/head appears quite small compared to the mother of nightmares who is further from the camera, so should also appear smaller. Imo definitely not mortarch sized but quite big, like a demon prince or slightly larger/taller.

The dire wolves pack was shown in a group of 10, all different sculpts, so I would assume they run in 10s now rather than 5s. Or we get 2x5 units in one box which would be cool.

This sums it up for me too. One thing I really really love is how wolf based the vyrkos are, I've always loved wolves and wolf miniatures and now we can run a full army of vampire and undead wolves. The granpire riding the wolf is just amazing imo. Favourite of the new models by far. Edit: on the subject of endless spells, does anyone else have an incling that maybe we will get a similar treatment to seraphon? Maybe special control over the shyish endless spells?

Terrorg and zomb dragon both got updated with FEC and and the legions FAQ said to replace the ones in the book with the new FEC ones. I'd assume that will happen here, but I'd also assume we don't get the zombie dragon (other than the one mounted by a vampire), as was the case previously. If that is the case, the terrorgheist really doesn't need any changes, it's great already and will benefit from our abilities.

I'd argue we needed blood knights and a non-failcast vampire lord more than zombies, but to be fair I'd have been happy with just updated rules and a couple of resculpts. Maybe I'm too easy to please lol

I'd be surprised if the bloodborn from cursed city don't get added and points added in to SB, they are literally on one of our new characters' model (radukar). Moreover we have the vyrkos dynasty confirmed and expanded, why not include the vyrkos blood born? Either way, we have tons of new updated sculpts and new models, it's amazing. Can't wait to see the rules! For those who don't like the vampire/dragon/bat thing characters, super good size for a vamp on abyssal terror conversion/stand-in, which is what I'll be doing for the generic version ad he's the only new model I'm not that keen on. I dunno maybe I've just learned over the years to keep expectations I check and I was super excited just for new rules and a new lord or two, but I'm super happy with our release.

Remember we already have a great model for VLOZD, alongside new vampire models and the old ones, vampire infantry with the bloodborn alongside all our current range with updated rules, I'm super hyped. I wasn't expecting an updated VLOZD considering it's so new in comparison to so many other units, in addition to being a big multi kit - ghoul king, terrorgheist, GKOT, GKOZD, vhordrai, VLOZD... I was full on expecting a skaven release, one or two new models with just a bunch of rules. I'm super happy. Hope you can enjoy what we get too.

But we have still seen the models

I kept my expectations low and am blown away with all our new stuff. I'm assuming we get the vyrkos infantry from cursed city too, seeing as they are featured on radukars base. I'm so hyped.

Oh lord we close

I was convinced the mother of sorrows was a kitbash, but the more I look at it, the more I think it's a new model. Not too keen on the hybrid/centaur style thing and the bat wings being used like a walruses flippers but it's impossible to tell from the blurry pic, I could fall in love when seeing good quality. I also think one of the unsolved rumour pics could be her 'bat/wolf/centaur' feet. The one with the animal foot perched on some kind of scenery? Anyone got that?

That's just soulblight as it's always been. Edit: didn't realise you meant in the army builder bit, thought you just meant when searching for warscrolls... but current soulblight have blood knights and vargheists as battle line, the two mortarchs, vampire lords etc. Etc. Anything with the keyword *soulblight*.

It does though, because as soon as the endless spell is set up, you use the casters warscroll, which will likely have a movement value.

I agree, BR: Belakor was announced quite a while ago(?) And then disappeared until the preorder announcement last weekend. No reason Soulblight couldn't go the same way.

I'd be surprised if we don't get spells. Could be a very cool way to work in a rule a little bit like the soul-linked bonereaper ones. Terrain I'm not sure, we may not see grave sites at all. I'm also beginning to wonder whether we will get a lumineth release where 20% of the army is released with a special edition tome and then a year later the majority gets released with the real tome.

Here's your answer.

I'm honestly so excited. Like the most excited I've ever been for AoS! Got an E-voucher waiting on the GW website to get the soulblight tome as soon as its released, checking on here and the community and reddit pages multiple times every day for any news and rumours.... its crazy how hyped I am aha

Anyone know what base size blood knights are currently and what predictions the new ones will be? I have 5 that I converted from the new chaos knight sculpts... hoping they're similar size and base size.

I like the idea of painting the skulls as armour.... anyone a dab hand with photoshop that could let us know what that would look like?

Could also just be that it rhymes... corpse rats and dire bats sounds better than 'corpse rats and bat swarms'