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    The Rumour Thread

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    Saw an image on twitter indicating Skaven are getting some new stuff. You can now hide weapons teams other than Warp Grinders in Clanrat and Stormvermin units, and there's a bunch of new 'mount trait' style abilities for Clan Moulder mutations for Hell Pit Abominations and Rat Ogres.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    18 minutes ago, Aidrox said:

    I'm very confident that some of these rumours are the grotbag scuttlers just based on how they look to me.

    So confident in fact, that I've just ordered a kharadron army to fight against them.

    If I'm proved wrong I'll eat my hat and/or my kharadron.

    Which rumours in particular?

    Scuttlers might be on the way eventually but they're definitely not the release faction for the new edition.

    The Rumour Thread

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    Wow, that's quite a spoiler re Duardin stuff in there I guess.

     

    Edit: Though I guess it was already kinda indicated by Grungni helping with the latest Stormcast creations, but if I read it correctly, I guess it indicates who the white-haired chap in Belakor was after all?

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    The Rumour Thread

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    9 minutes ago, Hoseman said:

    It has been said that the new army are:

    Glasscannon army. Hit and run.

    Poor saves.

    Teleports.

    Magic.

    1 of 4 units can deploy in ambush.

    Nothing said about machines, ranged or creatures. I would like a lot a machine based army for destruction, but I guess is not

    This particular rumour came from the extremely vague ‘another forum’ and also had the really dubious claim that the faction is called Fellwater Morruks. To be honest, it looks like someone taking a punt on a few reasonably likely guesses based off other rumours, so I wouldn’t put any particular stock in it.

    The Rumour Thread

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    2 hours ago, Morglum StormBasha said:

    Take with a pinch of salt as this is from another forum but

     

    Fellwater Morruks

    glass canon army

    poor saves

    high magic

    ambush, teleport and hit and run

    I'm taking this one with a vast pinch of salt because we've already got Fellwater troggoths, haven't we? I can't imagine them doubling up on the name like that.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Acrozatarim

    Also GW are, I suspect, too focused on doing stuff involving big clanky space marines, and lots of big bombastic dramatic statements, and just generally all the BIG SFX EXPLOSION moments of what makes 40k what it is... and the thing is, that's just not really very interesting past the first few times you see a space marine lummoxing along.

    What makes visual media series interesting are the characters, the interactions between them, and the rich depth of the world being depicted as the context thereof. It looks like there might be some promising bits and pieces in the Warhammer + line-up on that front, but not nearly enough to get me excited. Just animating a space marine having a fight and occasionally growling pithy one-liners through a clenched hypersquare jaw isn't going to get me to put down the money.

    An animated series focusing on some poor ****** trying to live his life in a hive city as things go increasingly to ******, showing off the way human life has adapted to work in that sort of massive-scale grinding machine of empire, the troubles and problems a person has to tackle trying to achieve something like normality, and the real horror of all the stuff from the wargames juxtaposed against that attempt at normality - showing, by comparison, the sheer horror and insanity of it all? That'd interest me. Bangshoots McSpacebattle? Less so.

    Edit: To follow up on that a bit in the context of AoS, showing off Stormcast is all very well, but solid programming would give us a lot of looks at life in the Cities, at what things're like where the reach of Sigmar doesn't extend, horror animations that make a single Chaos Warrior a nightmarish foe, and so forth.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    I think it is pretty clear from what Whitefang's said that Kroolboyz will be part of the Warclans.

    There's been no suggestion from any trustworthy quarter that we're going to see an expanded Gloomspite Gitz with the Kroolboyz, or that Gitz and Warclans are going to be merged together.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    I have every expectation that the Kroolboyz will be:

    a) part of the Warclans

    b) fully capable of being fielded as a force in their own right, just like Ironjawz, and 

    c) aesthetically and thematically coherent, rather than a hodgepodge of random greenskin types crammed together in the 'All Others' category of orruk types.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    The Grimdark Live guys have come through with what seem like legit rumours but listening to their streams always leaves me grinding my teeth. They're just so determined to hype themselves and be pundit commentators and they're just... not that interesting in their performance or mannerisms to carry it off. They're trying too hard.

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    The Rumour Thread

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    So, Kroolboy Warclans rounding out the orruk line-up.

     

    I'm... pretty keen? Still a chance they've got fimir as a monster-size unit but it's not very likely at this point, I guess - but I definitely want to see what the new chaps bring to the table.

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