Maogrim

So, the Sylvaneth Start Collecting is 70€, the Warsong Revenant is 42,50€ and the Hunters are 46€. Am I missing something or do they charge over 50€ for the artwork?!

I think there's not enough hype here for how AMAZING that new Daughters tome cover is!

True. I remember 8th Edition unified AdMech codex just reusing the Skitarii cover.

At least Deepkin have that awesome ship wreck. Warclans have neither faction terrain nor endless spells. Soulblight didn't get any as well. I think the last released faction terrain was the beautiful Shrine Luminor.. As for endless spells.. Um..Hedonites, Lumineth or Daughters?

Huh. Reused battle tome covers are really weird, and if I were a Fyreslayer player I'd get the strong impression that GW doesn't care too much about the faction. Daughters are also really unexpected, but I'm also glad because it means they probably won't get souped. And the cover looks really awesome! Also Era of the Beast is clearly not Era of Destruction. Really bummed out for all Ogor fans. 😐

You forgot Tyrion, my friend. Surely you are just as gitty as I am for the Archmage's shining and radiant twin brother as the herald of the Lumineth's war aspect?!

That's completely alright, of course. Mine are close to Ymetrica as well, just with turqoise instead of blue. But I was contemplating going Zaitrec as well before finally setlling with the scions of the mountain realm. But what I meant was not whether it's cool to change the colour scheme (Of course it is!) but whether it's flavourful to flip-flop from one Nation to another every other week.

I don't really like Nation switching, since it kind of subtracts from the army's identity. But that's just my personal taste. I'm sure you'll have a great time with either Nation. Would you mind posting future pictures in the 'Lumineth assemble' thread?

Yup to the dark mirror image suapicion. Been saying the same thing for months, because it would make sense. And since DOK already have a decent range of models they wouldn't even need to develop that many units for Malerion's gang. And we know that GW is just not into making units for AOS these days, with the Crossboos being the first new unit in about half a year. With that being said I would like for Morathi to stay on her own.

Yeah, I get that though. If it had to be another melee foot hero I personally was hoping for an a stealthy assassin type character. To go along the Shadowstalkers, for example. The Scinari Loreseeker is pretty cool in that regard.

What part of her rules or stats (which we haven't seen yet) do you base your assessment of her estimated play time on? She looks cool enough, and if the box isn't ridiculusly overpriced and her rules are good she'll surely see play. She just needs to be a viable alternative to Hag/Slaughter Queens.

Well, that was unexpexted. And disappointing. The new Gladiatrix looks kind of cool, the Nighthaunt stuff just as well. But what's next? Where are we going? It's just again some new minis for armies that don't really need them. Let's hope they don't use the box to give DOK the Fyreslayers treatment and nerf Witch Aelves to the ground... On a side note: Yelena is very ... covered, considering that Witch Aelves are supposed to enjoy blood hitting their skin. Is this the beginning of a new aesthetic direction for DOK?

Nevermind, just a Morathi-Khaine fanboy reference.

Whut?! That's not Khaine?! Where are the wings? Where are the more female body parts? Where are the delicate, feminine facial features? I don't get it...

Whoa, those are seriously amazing! The colour transitions are incredibly smooth! 😳 Have you already decided on a Great Nation? They look like Syar to me, but they could be whatever you want them to be, of course. I have not done Sentinels yet, but let me tell you: if you have some Dawnriders, settle in for a long and winding road that will make you wish for the days when you thought that Wardens were a lot of work..

@mods This discussion should probably be moved to the Sylvaneth subforum.

So, on a slightly unrelated but actually very related note: Can anyone recommend a good, friendly and active 40k forum, that preferrably features faction subforums like this splendid community does?

Gotta love the AOS page of Warhammer Community. But hey, I'm being unfair. It fits just fine to classify that article under Age of Sigmar, because besides a whole sh*t ton of 40K they also preview the new Gotrek novel. So it counts...

I always liked the look of the Collector's Editons but I just could not bring myself to buy one... Paying that much extra for borderless front cover and a little gold trim just doesn't seem worth it. Now, if that hardback battletome came in a steelbook case like a proper Collector's Edition... Then we'd be talking. 😎

Well, if the boxes for Warcry are Warbands I'd suggest that those for Underworld must be Underbands 😂 Wasn't that CoS rumoured to be based on something like Witchhunters?

Oh my sweet, sweet summer child... Have you not realized that this is the winter of our discontent and we don't get anything, let alone nice things? City of Sigmar Warbands would be really awesome though...

Yeah, we're basically forced to discuss 40k here which causes a great deal of trauma to me as well. But let me quickly bring you up to speed considering Age of Sigmar: 1. Fyreslayers and Idoneth Deepkin got a dual box release with a new foot hero each. Hence we assume there may be new battletomes at some unspecified point of time in the future. 2. The new year's preview showed snippets of something that looks very much like a Nighthaunt model. We don't know what it is. But we assume there may be a new battletome for Nighthaunt at some unspecified point of time in the future. All other rumours (aka Malerion, Ossiarch Bonereapers tome + archers, Lumineth wave 3, virtually anything for Destruction etc) are based on nothing else but whispers from the dark corners of the internet, guys who know a guy and the like.

Nothing yet. No hints from Warhammer Community and not even leaks or 4chan rumours, as far as I'm aware. At this point we just assume that one or both factions surely should get one, but nothing has been actually confirmed. Not even by ways of a @Whitefang reaction.

@pnkdth @Ratboy genius Yeah, I used to play Craftworld Eldar as well as Dark Eldar too during these days. Dark Eldar were more or less my 'first love' in wargaming and I switched to Eldar last minute because I liked them nearly as much while their codex provided more diversity and different play styles. I had the old Dark Reapers, Howling Banshees, hell, all the aspect warriors, many of whom also had animal designs on their helmets. Yet, here I am, over 20 years later, and I still think it would have been cool if they had tried something that tied together their old aesthetic roots with a new and more dynamic approach. It's fine if you don't agree with me. Everyone has their own tastes. And I may come across as slightly salty right now, but I'd very much appreciate if you argued in such a way that I don't feel like my opinion as someone who was interested in potentially getting back into Eldar and is disappointed right now is invalid. Thank you for considering.

I didn't say that Dark Reapers were 'bad' models. I said that I was disappointed with how little they had changed, and I think I made clear that this was a subjective evaluation. And you on the other hand can't say that you consider their original design superior when they never got a reimagined version in the first place. They could have come up with something that looked different from their last incarnation and we both would have liked. But we can't say that for sure because the designers chose to not take a risk in the first place. Which pretty much brings us back to AOS, where designers are choosing to not take a chance and just give us underwhelming foot heroes since Kruleboyz and the dragons have released.