LordSolarMach

Could be Dark Angels. They like censers and tassels.

I really liked The Arkonaut's Oath - a very fun little adventure - so another Drekki Flynt novel coming is nice to see.

That was @Nezzhil, who suggested the other six would be: Khorne, StD, OBR, CoS, DoK and Skaven. When I asked if they were "teasing or speculating", they replied "Both, always both", so... take that as you will.

I think I recall Eddie mentioning (off handedly) at one point that there would be further reveals for TK. Fake edit: "This is on it's way, with a bunch of other new Tomb King things, launching very early in 2024..." (55:01 of the stream.) (Whether those other new thing will be in resin...)

They also had scythes and cloaked Wraiths and tombstone base decoration in Warmaster. (That initial Warmaster release of the Undead army was before the Tomb Kings aesthetic was nailed down - just after the split of Undead in WHFB - and it contained a lot of elements that would later firmly be considered to be Vampire Counts territory.) // As Michu said, the new Mummies rumour was not paired with the Dragon rumour. Additionally, Ejucator (and others') speculation that the flail previewed on WarCom would be for a Mummies kit has been scuttled, as everything in that article appears to be options in the High Liche/Tomb King kit.

IIRC the below pictures are their depictions from the Realm of Chaos books. (Back when Nurgle's symbol was more phallic than Slaanesh's.)

Was Nezzhil teasing, or was Nezzhil speculating?

It will definitely be a case of "if there's something inherently wrong with the thing you bought from us" and not "if you did something wrong to a thing you bought from us".

There's also been rumblings (from various places, but Valrak is one of the ones to pick up on them) that the next Kill Team box (SM Scouts vs. Eldar Striking Scorpions) isn't releasing until next year. If that's so, then I doubt they reveal the next next box tomorrow.

While the flail is extremely reminiscent of that one classic Mummies model, the extreme angle of the hand makes me think its for a mounted unit/character. We know from the flail's heads hanging down that it's in a vertical position, which means the bearer is either holding their arm (practically) straight up, or in that crooked pose we often see with mounted units (leaving the hand at shoulder height). I'll also note that the Liche Priest's Staff in the same article seems way too long to be being held by anyone unmounted. The blurb below the picture also starts "Tomb Kings and Liche Priests..." which, if one were to take literally, could be suggesting that all the images shown are options from a new kit for a Tomb King. (The wrist joint for the spear and flail seem to match with each other, as well as those for the halberd and khopesh, suggesting two "options" for single arms. All four have that extreme hand angle, so if all four are in the same pose then... yeah, mounted unit/character. Not a "definite" thing; just the way I'm leaning.)

As far as I know, the rumours of what's in the 40k boxes come from Valrak. After pestering, he did a video mentioning those four AoS boxes. He openly doesn't care about AoS (honestly, he really only cares about Space Marines), so he was pretty vague. The only detail he mentioned was that the StD box would be "Be'lakor themed" with Eternus in it.

The War-Com preorder article notes at the bottom "*These products have been delayed in the US and Canada." (Deathgorge and the older warbands are the two things so marked.)

As a comparison, in the Horus Heresy range the MkIV and MkVI Tactical Squads are sold at €65 (and only €60 for the brand new MkIII Tactical Squads). These are 20-model units with ~six sprues in a box. In comparison, the old 10-model 40k Tactical Squad is €45 (three sprues), while a modern 10-man Intercessor Squad is €50 (four sprues). Or the Horus Heresy's Terminator kits are both €70 (10-model, four sprues) while the 40k Terminator Assault Squad is €50 (5-model, ~two sprues) and the new Terminator Squad is €55 (5-model, three sprues).

I'm personally not a fan of how the team have chosen to paint these up (all in the red & black).

Did I miss a rumour (or hint/statement) that the warband is Kruleboyz? (The roadmap says its Destruction, and in winter, but I don't recall any rumours about it.)

...it's called "a baker's dozen" because it's thirteen. No one uses "a dozen" to mean thirteen. (IIRC it was illegal for loaves of bread to be under a certain weight, so to make sure that they didn't get in trouble when a baker sold a dozen loaves of bread they'd throw in an extra. To make sure they made weight. So people started referring to thirteen as a baker's dozen.)

Not just GW-land. Meteorological Seasons are the Winter = Dec - Feb, etc, whereas Astrological Seasons are Winter = Dec 21 - Mar 19, etc.

There are some oddities in the Warmaster range... or, I guess it was a fluid time. For example: the Undead (and later Tomb King) Skeletons unit has big scythes, which doesn't really fit with what became the Tomb King aesthetic. (3rd edition's Undead did have a Grim Reapers unit that was just Skeletons with Scythes.) Or: the 4th edition WHFB Undead had Screaming Skull Catapults. The Warmaster Undead then had... Skull Chukkas, before the new Tomb Kings brought back the name Screaming Skull Catapult. (For reference: the 4th edition Undead book was 1994, 5th edition Vampire Counts was '99, Warmaster's Undead 2000, 6th edition Vampire Counts 2001, 6th edition Tomb Kings 2003, Warmaster Armies' Tomb Kings and Vampire Counts 2006.)

As further amendment: I've done some more poking around, and the initial Undead list (in the rulebook) was definitely more proto-Tomb Kings, then 4th edition Undead leftovers. For example, despite still being called Undead the characters were Tomb Kings and Liche Priests. (Compared to the Necromancers, Vampire Counts, Liches, Wight Lords, Mummy Tomb Kings, and Wraiths of the old WHFB army.) The Warmaster rulebook also includes a piece of art of a bunch of Zombie Dragons hanging out in Khemri, as well as 4th edition style Carrion (which were ridden by Wraiths and had bat wings):

I guess, as an amendment to my previous post, that while the Warmaster "Undead Hero on Zombie Dragon" was initially released for an Undead faction, when they expanded the Warmaster range from its initial six armies* to fourteen** they did change the name to Tomb Kings, and kept the Zombie Dragon. *Empire, Undead, Chaos, Orc, High Elf, Dwarf. **Empire, Tomb Kings, Chaos, Orc, High Elf, Dwarf, Skaven, Lizardmen, Bretonnia, Kislev, Dark Elf, Vampire Count, Daemon, Araby. // But I agree: if you want to give the Tomb Kings a big mount (and don't want to put them on a Sphinx or fancy chariot) then the Khemric Titans already exist and look really neat. No need for a dragon, which is stepping firmly on the toes of Vampire Counts. (Maybe the source of the rumours mis-saw, and it's a giant Carrion?)

That's actually been kicking around for a bit. // I find the "Liche on Dragon" rumour to be so... weird. People say that the Tomb Kings had a dragon in Warmaster, but they really didn't. It was The Undead that had a Hero on Zombie Dragon - yes, The Undead were nudged closer to what would become the Tomb Kings (due to Vampire Counts splitting off) but that Warmaster army pre-dated the 6th edition Tomb Kings WHFB release. It still had Wraiths and, well, Zombie Dragons.

Those models are in resin.

Having the lady-dwarfs with big braids swept over their shoulders is a clever way to keep the "beard" motif without giving them beards.

Might be a bad sign for Emperor's Children players. I know a lot were expecting a Codex in the next few years, but if a big plastic daemon Fulgrim is coming soon why make a resin version? (The model itself is absolutely stunning. Literal jaw-dropper.) // Other thoughts: Space Marines were... fine, but a bit boring. (40k and 30k) Ironjawz look amazing. As someone who likes the old Black Orcs, the new 'Ardboyz still blew me away. Weirdboy Wrekkaz too - those masks are wonderful. Trugg deserves his kingly title. Gorgers are gorgeous. Damsel is very pretty. Bloodbowl Vamps are wonderful. Underworlds... doesn't hit for me.

I apologise for telling people that Warcry wasn't getting a new "vs set". I swear they implied that at Warhammer Fest, and a Goonhammer article at the time said the same thing so I wasn't the only one mistaken, but... Mea culpa.