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  1. Pariah7echo
    They didn't really tease Lumineth though. And who knows we've still the Christmas rumor engine and new years teaser coming up. Could start showing them off then. Cities feels much more like a sisters where they're rebuilding a faction from the ground up. Malerion and Chaos dwarves are both basically brand new factions.
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    I'd hope that slot would be filled with Malerions elves. Then fall for the cities update after 40k 10th. Then the following spring for the chaos dwarves before 4.0. But I'm almost certainly terribly wrong.
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    Beacon of Sorcery being an ability instead of a command ability is a good change. I wonder if Kairos will get a similar ability and if they'll stack. He doesn't currently have Beacon of Sorcery but it would be weird for him to not know all the spells.
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    I think the one part you're missing here is the priesthood. It's almost certain we'll get some sort of priests of sigmar with the updated humans. Personally I think it would be nice if they filled the role of elite mounted unit, like the old Knights of the White Wolf. Would also give you a contrast with the devoted rabble that is flagellents. And you could argue would be a small bretonnia sub-action added back to the humans. And personally I think the priests of sigmar will be different from the Order of Azyr we've seen. They'll probably share similarities, but I just cant see the order having a standing army of its own. They just feel more like 40k inquisitors with their small warbands.
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    I won't lie, your argument makes all of the sense. And I could honestly see it being true. But this bit makes me sad as the Dark elves are my favorite. Granted if they took Darkling covens and order serpentis and redid them for Malerion's army and added the Shadowblades back to DOK (or both since shadowblades were a gift to Sigmar from Malerion as I recall) it would be ok. It would leave the chariots and the monster kits in a weird place, but that could be addressed when they inevitably expand scourge privateers. EDIT: I've had a thought on the shadowblades bit. It never occurred to me that perhaps they named the shadowstalkers as 'Khainite' because they planned on there being two versions. One for each of the shadow gods. Would make sense if they were the middle ground between Malerion's more armored 'phalanx' army and the more 'barbaric' witch elves.
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    I think it could also be you just picked units that were already dual kits/actually have different roles. If they're gonna get rid of units/consolidate, picking units that are already a single mold doesn't help. I mean does cities really need freeguild guard and the dreadspears and eternal guard? They're all variations on 'standard infantry' left over from fantasy. If you combined them into a new mixed unit called 'city guard' (name pending) a player could mix and match their dreadspears/freeguild/eternal guard freely, or buy the new kit.
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    Hear me out, AOS 4.0 starter Malerion Vs BOC. It'll sell better than Indomitus did. If for no other reason than I'm buying 6. Granted I really don't wanna wait till 2024 for it.
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    Yea that part. Like yes they could rewrite it all, but at a certain point that just becomes more trouble than its worth. I could see a slow purge of units as they redo them though. Like combining black guard/executioners/phoenix guard/wildwood rangers into one elven elite unit multi-kit. And doing the same with the eternal guard/darkshards/bleakswords/dreadspears. Just cleaning up some of the duplicates could go a long way to simplifying the roster.
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    They said the update was focused on humans. Nothing about the faction as a whole. And honestly of the models in Cities, the humans are probably the oldest and worst looking of the bunch, so them getting an update first is fine. Kinda hoping Cities stays multi-racial. Its fairly unique in fantasy that way. Would love them to embrace that idea as a way to reduce the redundancy COS currently has. Why have irondrakes and handgunners when they can be one mixed unit? I've always kinda like the idea of the ironweld being a mix of dwarven and human engineers. They need to seriously embrace the mixed race idea on more than a token level.
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    See these are the kinds of things I hope we actually get when they redo cities. Why SHOULDN'T dwarves have wizards?!? Why shouldn't elves have guns? Tropes are dumb and things that were heresy in Fantasy can go live in TOW where they belong.* *That was complete off topic sorry. YAY NEW OGORS AND GARGANTS!!!
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    I'm also of the opinion that this will happen. Just on a much longer timescale than any of us would like. Darklings reimagined into Malerions more martial armies, Dispossessed into Grungi's remade dwarven empires (separate from KO or Fyreslayers), Wanderers into the followers of Kuronoth whenever he arrives. I'd think the token elves/dwarves will remain much like the warbands from Warcry, but I wont be surprised when the full factions go away. Unsure how I feel about this still as I was looking forward to eventually expanding my darkling covens with humans and dwarves.
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    Shields are the worst option currently. Only get the +1 save in combat so against any shooting you're stuck with the 5+ anyway. Dual axes or great axes are better every time. I'd argue this is true for every beastmen unit that can get a shield except for Tzaangors. +1 for the Sphinx. Getting to swing with multiple units before strike back will win you games. Most of our units are glass cannons, they want to swing first so getting to do it multiple times is amazing.
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    I want this to be true so badly. But I doubt it. It has the wings from that other preview and those were in the CSM teaser. So probably possessed. But I bet we can convert it!
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    Warherd is good. I wouldn't leave home without at least 12 bullgors (2 squads of 6), and typically run 18 (+dragon ogres and chaff). Cygor leaves something to be desired but the Ghorgon isn't bad if you can get it into the right units. I also usually give my Doombull the Arcane tome so having a wizard version works pretty well.
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    Right now I don't want them joined just because it means we probably have to wait at least a year to get Malerion. There's zero chance they're releasing the DoK book in the next few weeks to re-release all of it with an expansion before next summer.
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    I can't zoom in enough to know, are the runes on the axe slightly different? If not its gotta be something like the Knight Preceptor. So Shaman Gargant?
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    I really want it to be a Shaggoth. That model is way to small. Will be a little sad though if its not big enough to have actual Ungors in its hair.
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    Looks kind of similar to the bloodthirster wings. Could be a redone Valkia the Bloody?
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    Having just looked at my book, I've learned that the Anointed on Phoenix isn't technically a mount. Which more likely explains why it was excluded.
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    Did they forget the Phoenix exists? Or just intentionally exclude it since its clearly the best behemoth Cities have?
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    They can still take them as coalition allies so its not the end of the world. They just cant use coaltion + ally to get around the 1 in 4 rule. That does make me wonder though does Morathi count as two units or one for coalitions?
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    They updated the Coalition rule in the FAQ and Har Kuron cannot ally DoK.
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    I mean I'm also a BoC fan so I'd like to have some hope. But if it isn't coming with a new Shaggoth (one that's actually mountain sized) then I'm willing to wait.
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    So did Nezzhill 2 pages back. Not sure which came first. Though Whitefang was confused by this so I guess they're both wrong? is that how this works?
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    Based on the lore we have from the core book I really don't see how they can be anything other than a Cities version of Stormkeeps/Scions. The cities themselves are too deep in the lore to remove at this point. My real concern is are they going to purge models again. The fluff keeps mostly being human centric with what feels aelves and duardin being thrown in as a courtesy. It would really suck to lose access to the units that still remain just so they can update the human line (which is what I expect they'll do).
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