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Given the Codex already released with the Beast Snaggas box, I guess we can at least be thankful that it being new Ork units is incredibly unlikely.

So yeah, I guess we're basically confirmed for a battletome preorder on the 28th then.

Wait, there’s a preview today?

Yeah, you'd calculate the damage characteristic for the weapon then turn it into Mortal Wounds equivalent, rather than stacking the two together or whatever. The Beastskewer could be good against monsters depending on the rest of its stats and ROF, but I fear it risks being a damp squib if it's subject to the RNG of just having a single shot, and if it just has this rule, it'll struggle to do much against regular infantry despite its flavour text of punching through the ranks.

Surely 2+5 damage on a 15 wound monster? It's an interesting one, for sure.

I’m certainly feeling frustrated with the way they’re stringing things out, yes.

I mean, personally I want faction-specific grand strategies and battle tactics, and I'm even ok with faction-specific core battalions if they're well done.

Huh. The floating rocks make me think Chamon maybe? New Kharadron Overlords model?

I think Nurgle could actually stand to have a more chunky release, with stuff like Pestigors and Nurgle-type marauder/cultist equivalents.

Crossing my fingers for a new Kruleboyz mounted shaman tomorrow, then Kruleboyz cav next week.

If the AoS pre-order is the last weekend of August, then they're having to stretch out the AoS content as thinly as possible over the coming month, I guess.

If we presume for a moment that GW are going to do the whole last-week-of-August preorder for the SC and OWC battletomes, then I'd assume they'll start talking about the next book pretty much immediately after those books drop in the first week of September. GW won't want to overlap their hype, but unless there's anything else for AoS coming up for them to promote, I'd expect a September/early October marketing campaign for the October Chaos book.

After the Dominion reveal, Grimdark Live did indeed say there was still Kruleboy cavalry coming according to their source, although I don't believe they specified it as Hobgrots.

Yeah, the Sludgeraker generic build is a Snatchaboss, and the Sloggoth has the grots with all those nets and mancatchers, so presumably the two of them will have some sort of debuffs or model-sniping capabilities.

Listing by most to least likely, my guess as to the probability of any remaining Kruleboy/Warclan reveals is roughly: 1) Warclan endless spells. 2) Kruleboy cavalry. 3) Faction terrain. 4) Any other Kruleboy units.

I'd be incredibly surprised if they release the battletome without some Warclan Endless Spells, and I still think we've got the cav coming as rumoured. I expect the pre-order on the 14th or 21st.

Good point about the Warhammer Plus timing. Even if it ends up delayed, they'll likely have scheduled the battletome release date around the planned Warhammer Plus date. So I guess we'll see preorders on the weekend of the 14th/15th (to release the battletomes just before the Warhammer Plus release) or the weekend of the 21st/22nd (so the battletomes reach peoples' hands a few days after the Plus releease).

I suspect we'll see preorders later in the month, possibly even the last weekend of August - GW said the battletomes would be up for pre-order in the month, not that they'd be released during August, after all. And I think we're pretty likely to see more Kruleboy/Warclan releases. If nothing else, I can't believe they'd release the battletome without a set of Warclan endless spells.

It may be an alternate matched play battlepack, rather than a bolt-on to the GHB2021 battlepack.

Currently, Kruleboyz are up to 14 warscrolls, of which 1 is unconditional battleline.

I mean, White Fang has done everything he can in the rumour thread to confirm that there will be Stormcast dragon cav short of literally just shouting it out in bold all-caps. Which makes me much more confident Th at we also haven’t seen everything for the Kruleboyz just yet.

I wonder how the Dirty Tricks work. The one listed there seems pretty damn good for blunting incoming damage during the first round.

I suspect we're going to keep to the reveal-a-week pattern for the remaining Stormcast and Kruleboy stuff as long as there's counterparts to show off; so over the next two weeks we'll get the Kruleboy cav and the Stormcast dragon cav, then (presuming there's no more after that) the preorder will happen.

Tracks with my experience of working in tabletop games design, yeah.

Honestly, they look much bigger than the Star Drake model.