Magnusaur

Here's some food for idle speculation. So far we've seen four models/units from the launch box: Liberators, Clanrats, Reclusians, and now the new Warplock-Engineer. We will see the full contents of the box around May 16-18. That still leaves 3(!) weeks of reveals, an uneven number. What will we see over the next three weeks? Next week could a Stormcast character. What about Skaven the week after? And what about Monday the 13.? No reveal, perhaps?

A Grey Seer in the box makes a lot of sense to me. Those boxes typically want to cover a little bit of everything, including spellcasting. The current one also hasn't been available outside of the Vanguard for a long time and feels like a nice counterpart to the one bundled in new sets.

Grombindal looks great. Nothing much to add to the whole Legends debate. Warlock-Engineer... I'm a little disappointed, mostly for the very petty reason of wanting to see a whole unit today :P. Other than that, it's a pretty good model. It looks a bit too erect, but I think that's just the angle of the picture. Paint scheme is also a bit muted, surprised it doesn't have a few more glowing warpstone doodads, but then again it's probably not the most high-ranking of its order. I like how it boosts the Jezzails - really wanted to see those today!

I'm leaning toward Jezzails being tomorrow's mini. They feel like a close enough "elite" counter part, with an entire unit to show off. It depends on how big the Ogor is, though. The trailer didn't make it look enormous, nor too augmented. I wonder how they will help distinguish it from Stormfiends. If it becomes a monstrous unit a la the Screamer-Killer, I doubt we'll see it. But if they retain the role as multi-model shock units, then I guess tomorrow's an option. As for Undivided Daemons... I would *love* for GW to do a whole range of cybernetic daemons a la the Soulgrinder or the enemies from DOOM. Lots of twisted empyreal flesh given temporary form by crude machines. Obviously more at home in 40K, to go with Vashtorr, but depending on the sophistication of the technology, they could fit in the Mortal Realms as well. Here's hoping Chaos Dwarfs (and Skaven, really) will show us some truly bonkers stuff!

Hmm, good point. At first glance they looked more alike. That makes the similarities even more unfortunate.

Absolutely! Mid-play and after being told to stop: I guess Heraldor's are the closest thing the Mortal Realms have to a Primaris Lieutenant :P?

As for the nigh-identical Reclusians, maybe it's a case of them sharing one leg and the back half? Similar to what they did with the Plague Marines in Dark Imperium: Producing a sprue which continues to confound new collectors to this day :P.

Female super soldiers being added to the game/Stormcast was such a great thing, it's a big part of why I still hold Sacrosanct in such high esteem. Aside from the gender diversity, it just makes the units look so much better when you have actual physical variety of the models.

You're thinking of the Knight-Vexillor, not Heraldor :). How anyone could confuse the gazillion different Stormcast characters is beyond me :P! Jokes aside, I think a Thunderstrike update of the Knight-Heraldor is a pretty good guess for the launch box. A stand-alone release wouldn't really be exciting enough, what with it just being an update. Speaking of which, I'm starting to suspect we'll see a new Grey Seer model in there as well. The current one is perfectly serviceable and hardly in need of a clam-pack replacement. This puts my current predictions for the contents to: STORMCAST - 1x Lord-Vigilor on Birb - 1x Knight-Heraldor - 3x Reclusian (2x Emotional Supporters) - 5x Prosecutors - 10x Liberators SKAVEN - 1x Clawlord on Wolfrat - 1x Grey Seer - 1x Rattling Artillery Piece - 1x Rat Ogor - 3/5x Warplock Jezzails - 3/5x Globadeers - 20x Clanrats Feels like there's still a character model missing from Stormcast, probably a sorcerer or priest.

It's the first time I've seen it from this seller, so can't help but find it odd. I guess a new Knight-Heraldor would make sense. The models whose labels have been changed: - Liberators - Judicators - Prosecutors - Knight-Heraldor(s) No such thing on the Sacrosanct or any other "old" kit.

Spurious perhaps, but the web shop I typically buy from has added years to certain Stormcast products, like Judicators and Knight-Heraldors. Never mind that the dates aren't accurate (I think), it might still suggest an update for those models. Interestingly, neither Knight-Azyros nor Retributors have received such a labeling.

That makes a lot of sense, especially with some of the other wonky names. I guess the post is just a feedback loop from SG Warhound? But crucially, it forgot about the ALL WEAPON TEAMS part, which is very juicy.

PEPE SILVIA TIME! How is this supposed rumor looking after the great squattening of 2024? I can't find it, but wasn't part of this very same rumor also saying that practically every weapons team was going away or being updated? Guessing Master Corruptor is actually Moulder? "Technomage" sounds practically synonymous with the Warlock Engineers, so possible this fella? Edit: Added SG Warhound rumors bellow:

I was just thinking about the same thing! Clearly something fascinating is going on out of frame to the right, since everyone's looking that way...

I'm not 100% on this, but aren't the new Water temple Lumineth looking to become a fairly standard unit for AOS (even if half of them wear overalls). It's kind of a mixed bag and while I don't want GW to limit themselves needlessly with WarCry, it feels like a fantastic avenue for updating/introducing stuff like Gutter/Night Runners, Plague Monks, Grave Guard, Saurus Guard, Greatswordsmen, etc.