Snorri Nelriksson

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Aos reveals should be destruction probably..they won't waste a reveal for Lumineth/Tzeentch battletomes we know already are coming.

Other than the warcry warband chances are very slim. They're a long project and unless we got some unofficial leaks like world eaters we are at least 1 year away imho.

Considering the skink...maybe we'll see a proper seraphon release in aos? They still have not a battletome and some other rumor engines are obviously for them... Probably the Warcry warband will be a full chameleon skinks unit as a way to remake the resin kit like they alteady did with the ork Kommandos from KT.

The masked head enables to use Kharadron mask for units XD. Hoping the skills learned with Votann could be used also for Kharadron (like...having more helmetless heads).

My first thought tbh,i like expanding in the historical inspirations but still i want something fresh. Is not even that much of geographical difference considering HRE for some time contained many other european territories like Spain and Netherlands. Probably the army will be more "techy" than old empire but i still i hope some original designs. The late medieval\renaissance\early modern period is not bad but cities needs to be more than that, considering also the non-human members.

Ah...i forgot Rotmire were not in std battletome. Maybe they'll put warscrolls on community articles.

Rotmire/Horns and Legionnaires rules will be in the Slaves battletome. I'd say the same for underworld cities warband.

But Whfb empire was Holy roman empire from 14/16 century already so is not even that different from spain or other european countries.Considering the redesign i could have thought they would have used more medieval inspirations like Bretonnia. Tbh i like the idea of @Baron Klatz of using some "holy art" inspiration like blasphemous but cities having many gods needs to "give that to every deity in the pantheon"( the use of masks was not present in conquistador/spanish armies,"parade"/noble armors even lacked thoses). They needs to distinguish the aesthetic from stormcasts,having huge full plated masked soldiers in the army is already their things.Also the grim aspect should be used mostly in Azyrite inquisiton not the church as a whole andother churches like Alarielle or Grungni's should have a different feelings also (i loved Zana Mathos armor made with coins,it gave an interesting design for a Chamonite follower of the Maker).

Chaos dwarves could mantaint their bronze age-persian\assyrian style with just a few "adjustment"(while as already said imho they're not offensive) ,just embrace fully the historical aspect IF gw want to change something about them....but let's go on (personally i don't like much the older CD style of "short chaos warriors" as it lacked a proper identity comparing to the assyrian ones). Considering the whole Bel'akor plot going on i could see GW announcing a campaign themed book to fully delve in this storyline,while i still hope GW will not leave destruction as side antagonist for the edition. I'm betting that the warcry warband we'll know soon is the cities ones if they want to "boost" the underworld Inquisitor warband. Hoping the Nova will give us many things to chit-chat about though....at least the coming battletomes after Lumineth vs Tzeentch.

Probably the other way around if we talk about miniature releases .

@Neil Arthur HotepI could see them doing some sort of "upgrade kits" for various realms but not city specific units as it would be strange to justify in some manner (just think about the whole thing about color schemes and allegiance,warcry warbands are "tribes" so at least makes "senses"). TBH i also hope they'll add some new units to the cities as whole to differentiate from the old world. Mixed races regiments,new more "realmy\high magic" units, some new realm races auxiliaries and so on.

Not a great change though....still 15th\16th century Europe inspired. Probably we will see more Spain\Netherlands\Italy etc. influences(and still were under Habsburg empire so the difference is not even that much historically speaking) though. Loving the cogfort....but seems too huge? Maybe a "lesser version" with a size more in line with the steamtank dimensions though.

The Seraphon RE makes me thinks that those armies updated with the White dwarf will get more than a battletome and hero. See also the RE that seems FeC themed....and iirc they also got only a FeC update. Perhaps all those armies were put in the backburner to be expanded next year\later like the World eaters in 40k (they got a WD update recently and their codex will come probably this winter\q1 of 2023).

Thinking the same, chaos doesn't need something like the soulbound ritual or Nagash dominion over death...they always used the soul and flesh of their followers as they saw fit.

Maybe a khorgorath? I could see them doing the "first edition Khorne" heroes warband with the bloodstoker,skullgrinder,Slaughterpriest and a Khorgorath....an interesting box to update Blades of Khorne heroes and units without "actually doing them in the coregame" like the Ogor Hunter .

The skullgrinder seems worse than the classic one imho, nice the bodytype but the "armor" does'nt sems to fit to the idea of a blacksmith,imho they should have given something more(also chained-anvil-flails are better XD). But i'm not a great fan of Khorne tbh, still hoping that the rumors about a female khorne priest in the warband is true though..

But those things are already introduced in the lore, i would'nt call them red flags. Seems mostly marketing-speak using the "grimdarkness" to boost interests....(40k comparison is not a "coincidence"). The community articles got many errors during years (i remember clearly some lore errors that the battletomes did not have) so is still "vague". I would call red flags the latest models from cities that seems just plain whfb empire recycling.

What red flags? Article seemed just to announce cities will get something but nothing much on info.

Lumineth will get their battletome soon with a new hero, nothing for them in this edition probably after that.

Let's be honest, that's the major problems with AOS right now. They could even churn out 20 battlettomes in a year but without miniatures wave seems hollow. Idoneth,Fyreslayers and many others needed more so i get why people are not that much pleased. Also considering the "late year" big release is chaos i really doubt we'll see something big before....hoping at least for a couple units for one of the destruction tomes but i fear we will not get much(other than the singular hero). The white dwarf update remains also a mistery imho...they were done like the world eaters ones as placeholder for a future release?Or not? I just hope next year will start better, at least this year i could concentrates on Votann but i really hope the Kharadron\Bonereapers will get a second wave next year .

Imho we will start seeing them not before winter.... Unles they're already done like World eaters.

Imho we will see the first Cursed City expansion.....those death rumor engines seems to point that.

@zilberfridWithout using the "native american ones" skinchangers existed in norse myths as Ulfhednar\berserkr (is not the same but the whole idea of lycantrophy is changing the skin,many european countries got something like that) so they could just expand them like the old chaos skinwolves....the native myths are also more different and not just "skinchangers" but more like some possession monster. Also imho destruction has to expand with new "greenskins lookalike" from folklore and mythical lookalike that mesh wells with the old "ogre+troll+orcs+goblins" idea (every country got some legends about impish and brutish creatures). We got 8 realms the greenskin\Troggoths and Ogor should have adapted in some way like Krulez did. Liking also the idea of some species native to ghur like Birdmen or barbarian tribes.

New model monday is used for every system though and lately was used for Votann(we saw warriors,exo armors and the vehicle)- Thursday is used mostly for HH with the "Heresy thursday article". Considering the articles about Cthonian guilds i think this monday we'll see the Votann berserkers (the article mentioned we'll see soon "their most augmented members").