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They mentioned a new Alarielle warscroll in BR: Kragnos too.

Interestingly, they say he has synergies across the Destruction alliance.

Ahh the mischevious sods made like they weren't gonna show the Kragnos model then did after all. He is a big boy.

Now the slightly disappointing bit where they show us all these miniatures they've already previewed. The Witch Hunter father/daughter pair apparently specialise in dealing with Endless Spells. Forces of Destruction apparently look up to Kragnos as a force of raw destruction carving a path across the Realms.

Kragnos! He's... a centaur? Like, just a centaur? The big angry beast face art isn't him as far as I can tell. He's the God of Earthquakes.

They're struggling to hype the Soul Arena autobattler.

So we've got a shitload of special characters for Soulblight lined up, but they're saying we've now seen all of the miniatures. Not 100% keen on that - I was hoping for more new units or non-unique character types.

So Belladamma is riding side-saddle on a giant wolf (!), oldest of the bloodline that Radukar comes from. "She has a wolf theme" - commands wolves and can turn mortals into wolves, apparently, which is pretty neat.

So, Mother of Nightmares duel kit (also makes a 'Vengorian Lord'?). The monster centaur thing is indeed a new model and not a kitbash. New Dire Wolves. Radukar the Beast, and a monster-riding 'character who is 'First of the Vyrkos'.

Adam claims today is 'an absolute barnstormer' by their standards. Reason for optimism, or will it make what follows just all the more disappointing? He also doesn't know where Toledo is, apparently.

Prediction: A really underwhelming Soulblight preview consisting of the Mother of Nightmares and two resculpts of existing units. A hint that Something Cool is coming for Stormcast. Another tease on Kragnos without actually revealing anything new about him. A price rise. Then, TGA gets DDOS'd into oblivion, forcing the furious onto other social media to rant and rave about it. The waiting poster-gangs on /tg/, reddit and facebook are prepared with their diginets and trollpoons, quickly catching the disorientated, angry TGA'ers and stripping their carcasses down for blubber and gamer oil.

I have to say, "the great Warhammer riots of '21" was not how I saw this year going

It's true that expectations are really high this time. However, I suspect Saturday will be the real problem - if it's not an AoS3 announcement, a lot of folks will feel very let down.

So if we are getting something more like small, lean orcs rather than big, burly goblins, I wonder if they'll become a third subfaction in the Orruk Warclans book?

Well, I got a Whitefang heart react, so either it's small orcs or our prophet leads us astray

The List Labs guy is being a bit mischievous - there's only a very small amount of new rumour info in the video, and it doesn't feel particularly earth-shaking stuff, although he's also thankfully not vague about it. If he has read the rules there's presumably plenty more he could have packed in, but I guess he's intending to parcel it out more slowly to reel in subscribers for the channel. I don't particularly begrudge him that - I'd just like to know more sooner. So for those who don't want to watch it, the rumours this time are more info about command abilities: Ranges on generic command abilities increased to 18"/12". Unit champions are also going to be able to use command abilities. There's a new generic command ability that gives +1 to hit.

Also, they claim that all the Stormcast and wolfrider models in the new boxed set are new, and that the box will contain both Stormcast and new faction battletomes (or, well, they just say 'books', but the strong implication is battletomes).

I mean, Kragnos might not have anything to do with the new wolfrider army at all. I don't think any rumours have suggested these guys are Kragnos' folks.

Oh I would give a lot for goblin werewolves as part of a wider wolfrider faction.

What, small orcs rather than big goblins?

Given other rumours about them possibly cutting down on the number of units who can horde it up in general, they may have decided to stop doing the whole 'if you've got 20 you get +1 whatever' numbers rules across the board for 3e? God knows the sheer variety that the horde bonuses take across the different books is pretty damn incoherent at this point, and honestly I don't think it's really worked as a sticking plaster replacement for the old combat rank bonuses that WHFB numbers gave you.

When was the last time White Dwarf featured a kitbashed model in a battle report that's the intro for a newly updated or released army?

What time of the month does White Dwarf usually hit the shelves?

Is that... a squig with a gun on his shoulder?

Of course, if Kragnos turns out to be available for all Destruction factions, that'd nicely resolve the 'where's the Destruction factions' issue.