Segersgia

Trade between the Old World and Cathay is still happening in this age, and they do send army forces to escort those trade caravans through the Dark Lands.

Please tell me most people in the comments are replying on their question with... "I use 40k Imperial Guard minis"

I still believe Honest Wargamer’s rumour-guy is genuine since they got the Bone Dragon right, so I’m not buying it that we won’t get the Chaos Mammoth back.

Antwerp is battling over Moonstrike Harbour, while I think the store down in Brussels fights over TallowTown. Finally, Ghent has the city of Goblet Oaks. I only know that TallowTown is a city in Aqshy.

Fun little fact and one I was slightly expecting/ hoping for. The Map on the Old World website has updated with new info for Orc & Goblin faction banners, including a blurb for the Dark Lands, Crooked Moon, and Black Crag. https://theoldworld.com/

That is the Great Horned Rat you just posted. The Screaming one, you meet after the first phase of the Skaven Ritual. He shows himself like this to the Grey Seer and his companion.

Reminds me of the Painboy Sculpt, which is a definite good thing.

Gnomes were a thing back in the olden days of Fantasy, but have recently been readded during WFRPG 4th edition. The most surprising reveal today.

I feel the mention of Infernal Guard is a weird sort of placeholder to allow you to both use the Forgeworld Infernals, and the ancient normal Chorf warriors as the same unit, without needing to make seperate datasheets for two units who essentially work very similarly.

A little timeline video by Arbitor Ian. For those interested in fluff. A few pointers I've noticed. - Cathay and Kislev get their own blurbs and mentions, which is interesting, if not a heavy point of speculation. - MALERION?! not Malekith?

BY THE WAY... What did they mean with the "BORDER PRINCES BOMBARD"?!

If we are trusting Valrak's rumours about the box contents, than we know that the Foot Knights won't be in that box. I'm now speculating that we might still get other plastic stuff for the TK, but it won't be featured in the army box.

I'm trying to find where he posted this. Do you recall where Hastings posted this specific rumour?

I recall the Honest Wargamer propping up that idea a motnh or two ago. Actually looking at that rumour, I don't really believe it. It feels to just list off stuff we've already seen, sprinkled in with the few rumours we have seen so far.

What are people actually expecting the other two factions will be? Save bet to be one of each Grand Alliance?

That ain't a brute on the top of that Mawgrunta. That is a Boss at least.

The Roadmap isn't giving us Chaos related warbands for a long while, unless they are giving us a headstart to Spring. Darkoath? Nah...

So how likely is it going to be that the next Underworld Warband is just a full Screaming bell retinue?

TOW is set specifically in a time when there were more Steam Tanks than during the time of Karl Franz.

The Steam Tank I believe is gonna stay, even as a unit for The Old World. Wasn't it speculated that it might get redesigned in a second wave for the CoS

Whitefang reacted to my rant about Ogor identity. Does that mean he appreciates or agrees with the sentiment... Or do you know something that I don't?!

A game called Realms of Ruin better include Skaven

I always felt that the identity of the Mawtribes is both tied way to heavily on their Old World design, and to being second banana to the Greenskinz. The Beastclaw Raiders were a step in the right direction, but their veneration of GorkaMorka still makes me feel like its a missed opportunity. Gloomspite are way more tied to the Bad Moon then they do to the Twin-headed god, and looking at their religion in the Old World would make them staunch Naturalists; their gods are a crater and a volcano in Fantasy. The Maw-tribes' culture lack an identity in the Grand Alliance that could be easily dealt with by them not worshipping the Green-God. Let their gods be the very realms themselves. Death-Ogors worshipping the Nadir, Beast-Ogors venerating the Beastgrave, etc.

I also believe that the Ogres back in the World-that-was heavily gained their girth from the influence the Great Maw had on them. It is a canon thing that their hunger couldn't be satiated after the Great Maw appeared on the world. No more Maw, means no influence that keeps them going after that endless hunger.

Valrak also kind of does that sometimes. Some videos, you can just watch one minute of a rumour video and get the gist, before he himself starts to heavily speculate about stuff or just begins giving out conjecture. Sometimes its difficult to even know which leaks he has are real, because he has the tendency to mix in rumours from his trusted source with rumours from another source. It also doesn’t help that his youtube persona is so heavy into the Zealous Imperial Space Marine roleplay that it is almost just masochistic to watch for someone who isn’t solely into Space Marines. I’ve unsubscribed to him because of it. I don’t think HW wants to be known as a rumourmonger, in fairness. I think it might jeopardize some old colleagues of him to consistently and loudly say he knows stuff from insider knowledge.