Asbestress

Not sure if this is worth an entire post, but I thought this was kinda neat so why not? Might make a compilation of all gargoyles from the new minis later. The back of the Steelhelm unit champion's hammer is a really simple bird. I just thought it was a little nick but it's there on both sides at the same spot. Makes me want the bird Arch-Knight even more 🥲 Maybe it could be picked out a little better? Glowing hammer eyes might be a bit much, but...

Isn't Middle Earth supposed to (finally) be getting a new book? Could be revealed there if it fits along the 4.0 teaser. I've been looking at MESBG for a long while and if this is a bigger release it could bring me the reassurance that the game won't get axed yet.

Whitefang like, so...

I still think we will get a 2nd wave with Ironweld and Devoted. We have to. I'm too invested into this. I am thinking about converting Devoted units from the palanquin bearers from the Zenestra kit. Help. Also... The cogfort would be the epitome of the "bring your city/walls to battle" theme of the Castelite formations. Even if we don't get a huge one on the scale of the art, I can 100% see one on an Imperial Knight/Necron Monolith sized base being the future big centerpiece mini for the faction.

Light silver and white lacquered armour (shoulder pads and helmet trim), blue and white cloth, and gold accents. Should have a Steelhelm inthe scheme in one of the Cities WarCom design articles.

And coincidentally, I also have no official stores less than 200 km from me and I really want that Ethereal 🥲 Really hope the FB group can come in clutch

Cavaliers' unit champion is also an Arch-Knight. Honestly surprised we didn't get more lore about WHAT Arch-Knights actually are (rank, status, etc.) in the BT.

Perhaps there's still hope yet. Might push me over the edge and add a second Command Corps to the to-do list (even if it gets limited to 1 per army). Want to try my hand at converting/not using any original Command Corps minis to make it unique and fit with my Settler's Gain inspired new theme. Might even try out a Lethis scheme with all the raven-y Cities minis coming out (this, the assassin from Callis and Toll's team).

Yeah, I'm 100% expecting a "Freeguild Knights" unit as a Vanari Bladelord equivalent whenever Cities gets its "wacky stuff" fleshing out wave (still hoping for crazy renessaince inspired Ironweld steam contraptions and Zenestra looking Devoted).

NOOO! I love both of them but there are no events all year within a 200 km area of me! Guess I know which CoS mini I won't be getting...

Having worked with both the basic kit and Zarbag's Gitz, I'd say that the design is fine, it just needs a little polish. Give them some actually interesting poses, "redesign" the shields from basic round ones with moon symbols to full on yellow metal moon shaped ones, give them a few knick-knacks on their belts, maybe even have some of them have a tiny bit of armour in the style of the Looncourt, and then have some more wacky options for the command (helmet for boss, little cave monsters for basing, etc.). And maybe give the shootas some mushroom-tipped arrows.

They did say the Night Goblins TOW release would come at a later date... Probably looking too much into that tho.

Inspired by coming to the realisation after working with Steelhelms that the Gloomspite Stabbas/Shootas are pretty not good (mainly in sprue layout and ease of assembly). I'd much rather assemble a 100 Steelhelms than a 100 grots. By now, I think AoS has become quite well established in terms of unique miniatures, with some notable exceptions in the form of the most basic of units for several factions. These include: Daughters of Khaine (Witch Aelves/Sisters of Slaughter) Sylvaneth (Dryads) Skaven (Clanrats) S2D (Marauders) GSG (Grots) And honorable mentions (due to having been updated recently) for: Seraphon (Skinks) FEC (Ghouls) And factions which used to rely on "outdated" basic infantry: Cities of Sigmar (Freeguild Guard) Soulblight Gravelords (Skeletons/Zombies) Ironjawz ('Ardboyz) And we of course have Bonesplitterz, Ogors, Spiderfang and Beasts with little to no new minis. Now for what I'm thinking; will we see updates for these basic infantry for factions who have already had big refreshes? Based on Ironjaws, and hopefully S2D with new marauders, there seems to be some hope, although I still think skinks and ghouls should have been updated (more for assembly/modelling practicality than design maybe). So what do we think? New high(er) resolution Clanrats for Skaven? Actually non-static posed grots for Gitz? Or will we be relying on these kits for a while longer?

Apart from my current Cities force, I'm mainly planning; A return to my Gitz, hoping to start off with another arduous batch painting session for 20 Skull Pass Shootas (and finally figure out a custom paint scheme that's not just the basic all-black one) A yellow-black Tau force I've been putting off for a long time with some Votann Demiurg auxiliaries Not going off of points, so my goal for these is just being happy with them.

Bit disappointed that we didn't get some of those wackier/overtly mushroomy concepts. Great conversion inspiration though. In terms of Spiderfang imho they either get straight booted or redone in a more Moonclan style, maybe keeping some regular spider imagery alongside spider-squigs and scuttlings. I could see merging with Bonesplitterz, but not really likely.

Yeah, as others have already said, we started seeing Tomb King memes and non-human faction symbols on the map at the very beginning, and the TK Dragon would have probably already been in at least the concept phase. 4 person team would be bonkers, and pretty unrealistic for even a relatively small/mid-sized project. Here are the people who have gotten mentioned on WarCom articles as working on TOW (at least 10 currently active?): "Rob" (Project Lead) "Giorgio" (Miniature Designer) "Alastair" (Miniature Designer?) "Jonathan" (Graphic Design?) Holly Goodwin (Graphic Design) "Rowan" ('Eavy Metal) "Dan" (Lore Writer?) "Other Dan" (Miniature Designer?) "Kieran" ('Eavy Metal) Owen Barnes (BL Writer, Lore Writer? Mentioned in Cathay article) This is without rules writers (who afaik haven't been mentioned by name), and without Stephen May (sculptor of the TK Dragon) and Louise Sugden (made a start on the big world map) who have left GW, and Andy Hoare (former project lead) who has seemingly been replaced by "Rob". Most of them aren't "100% just TOW team", but I think the Specialist Games team would have a fair bit of overlap with people working on multiple things. I'm still hoping that we might see Kislev and/or Cathay content in the next 2-5 years, like with an "Armies of The East" supplement with Kislev, Cathay, Norsca and maybe some Ogre expansions to Orcs and Goblins and more daemons for WoC or something. Norsca only really needs the old FW stuff rereleased, and a brand new faction (maybe with 2-5 plastic kits and a lot of resin) could be in the release plans as a sorta mid edition sales booster. Main hope for this is the separate sections for them in the Core Book and the "yeah Cathay is 100% definitely coming to the tabletop" mention in their WarCom article.

Maybe we could get some unreleased Warhammer Forge minis down the line? Dwarf airship would be incredible. And maybe the Fimir Matriarch/Dirach for WoC? Hope the files/masters still exist.

Not sure if it's different for direct orders, but a LFGS posted today that GW is having some serious stock problems right now and actually just straight up disabled the option to order a lot of stuff that they currently don't have physically in the store, and for everything Warhammer, since they just don't know when shipments will finally start coming in to the regional distributor. So seems like at least the continental European supply situation is real bad even past the immediately vanished TOW launch.

IIRC they said this is just "half" of the kroot stuff. Also, YES YES YES YES YES THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL AND I'M SO GLAD THESE HAVE SOME OF THAT ORIGINAL CITIES AESTHETIC!!! And the River Temple stuff would be a great start to my Cities Lumineth allies contingent. And the Solar Auxilia are incredible! And the kroot would fit well with my hypothetical T'au project I've been planning for like 4 years... Oh no.

Would love a lot of the Empire stuff to come back, but jeez, that demigryph Theodore Bruckner is riding is legit terrifying. I mean, it's like weirdly unsettling to me. Really glad they went with more "lion" instead of bird for the plastic kit. I still like it, and certain features would look great on the knights (sharper beak/claws), but somehow the FW one just looks "wrong", like it's more a creature of Chaos than a noble beast. Still like it though.

Ah, the famous Games Workshop Ltd. living room TV roadmap, a classic!

Agreed on the flagellants (🥲), but IIRC we only know that the warband's name is "Sondaras Grabräuber", which could still be quite a lot of different things. Not to mention that their cat teased a week ago doesn't seem to be too dead.

Maybe we have another case of "RE revealed the same week as it appeared" syndrome for Water Temple? Anyway, saw some people doing guesses for Friday reveals, so...

If I read the article correctly, this is (probably) not a MTO mini, but a permanent addition to the Bretonnia range. Could work as an alternate Marshal with Relic-Envoy or Arch-Knight, and, uhh, Mascot-Gargoylian? (he even has the same paper seals as Cities!) And seems like I'll soon know what new/old Dispossessed/Gits I will be able to add to my Cities/Gloomspite collection...

Pretty sure only Ynnead, Cegorach and Khaine (in shard form) are still "alive" from the aeldari pantheon. And we've had this DoK inner conflict between Morathi and some crone prophets setup already.