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We do kind of know that it's a bit of a post-hoc justification though, thanks to CA posting the concept art (where they all had beaks). The truth is probably "GW told us to lose the beaks", but they're being diplomatic about it.
The real reason is likely GW not wanting for TWW to step on the toes of AoS: Realms of Ruin.
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Oh god, it looks like a torn ******.
Edit: surprised that's a censored word.
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14 minutes ago, EonChao said:
Yes but those are models that still have rules for them for that edition. If I want to take my old Landspeeder to a game I can despite it not being in the codex itself
Yeah, I saw it was addressed and made an edit (but not quickly enough!). (Though, they'd still probably have Legends rules regardless, which seems effectively the same?)
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On the Spearhead vs Vanguard thing, it might be worth pointing out that the Spearhead: Stormcast Eternals is a clear equivalent to the Vanguard: Orruk Warclans.
- Yndrasta + Knights-Vexillor + 3 Annihilators
- 10 Vindictors
- Stormstrike Chariot
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- Killaboss on Great Gnashtoof + Murknob with Belcha-banna + 3 Man-skewer Boltboyz
- 10 Gutrippaz
- Beast-skewer Killbow
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Edit: posted without seeing another (two!) pages in the thread; I see that it's been addressed.
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1 hour ago, Sealven said:
To be fair, the Kill Team box that came out before this last one came out in May. That's a 7 month gap. Most people seem to agree there was a delay and Salvation should have come out last year.
Plus, they have had Warcry and Kill Team go up for preorder on the same day before. There's no reason that couldn't happen again.
Yeah, per the roadmap Salvation was originally supposed to be out last autumn, and Nightmare this winter season (ie. next two weeks).
Salvation missed its slot by at least a month-and-a-half, but maybe Nightmare gets back on schedule?
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(Also, Into the Dark released on Sept 10th 2022, and was quickly followed by Shadowvaults on October 22nd 2022. Five weeks later.)
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8 hours ago, DD-Lord said:
...To be more clear on what I am saying, in the original fantasy era, the Skaven were divided into clans, those being Moulder, Verminus, Pestilens, Eshin, and Skryre. And when AoS launched, they decided to practically leave this feature intact, with the only difference being that the Skaven clans are not singular entities but rather a collection of entities, hence why they are now referred to as "Clans Moulder, Verminus, etc...
That's more just an AoS thing.
In WHFB there were the four Great Clans (Eshin, Skryre, Moulder, Pestilens), who were the peak of their specialisation (assassins, engineering, monsters, plagues), and then the Warlord Clans. And the four Great Clans had a lot of "thrall clans", but those thralls could be pretty loose alliances, and there were still independent clans who shared specialities. And lots of Warlord Clans who owed no one allegiance. (Mors, Rictus, Skurvy, etc.)
In fact, Clan Pestilens having one of their thralls holding a seat on the Council of Thirteen (effectively giving them two votes) was a big deal in Skaven politics.
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Aside: the (2nd edition) Warcry book says that the Beastmen believe that the Gnarlwood is the sacred burial place of an ancient, mutant entity known as the Soulshrieker.
Maybe something for the future?
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I know I'm a little late to the Beastmen discussion, but I do recall that when Ogroid Theridons were shown my first thought was "oh cool, new Minotaurs" followed by "wait, StD?" So I've had a paranoia about BoC being reduced and folded into StD for awhile now.
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As to a "big Beast" that some people mentioned wanting, the 7th edition WHFB Army Book mentioned Ramhorns in a couple places. It was said that Beastmen would attach the skull of a Ramhorn onto the gate of a keep, and when the (rather stupid) Ramhorn noticed it, it would charge and shatter said gate.
There was also a piece of art which may have been intended to represent them, or just been the fancy of the artist:
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1 hour ago, Morglum StormBasha said:
...Repanse de Lyonnese is about 80 years old when this is set as she was born in 1990...
TOW is set around ~2276, so 286.
It seems that the Duke of Lyonesse during this time is Gaulthiere LeGrand. As King Louis the Young gave Repanse the Dukedom in the early 2000's, it's probable that she's passed, though she could be written to have become a hermit or something. I'd not object - after all, Total War has successfully fudged her into being around in the ~2500s (with the justification that drinking from the Grail can extend your lifespan - though she seems to have gotten really lucky and be forever seventeen).
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Got an email from my local (in Canada) that due to weather issues at the Memphis warehouse there's delays across North America, and they're not expecting TOW stuff in until later this week.
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5 hours ago, Fellman said:
wath if thay are based on the oathbreak fyrslayer loges of old the los sons of grimnir, trading divien urgold power for mecanical and industruel one then thay cood look more like...
If we get Dwarfs-who-worship-Chaos, with none of the stylings of the old Dawi Zharr, I'd be disappointed (as someone who really likes the stylings of the old Chaos Dwarfs).
And I don't mean I want them to pull an Old World, and release thirty-year-old miniatures. But I'd want:
- Babylonian-ish stylings (ringlet beards, tall hats)
- Bull Monsters (Bull Centaurs, Bale Taurus, Lamassu)
- Daemonic industry
- Comical cruelty
The Horns of Hashut have a good bit of the latter three, so I'm hopeful.
The Iron Golems' Dwarf has the industrial cruelty going for him, but lacks any of that Hashut flavour (pseudo-Babylonian, bull, fire). I'd... make due, if that was the main look, but be a little disappointed.
The Spire Tyrants' Dwarf looks like a Chaos-Marauder-who-happens-to-be-a-Dwarf. If that was the main look, I'd be incredibly disappointed.
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Heh. I hadn't heard before that Hashut is onomatopoeia for a sneeze.
(I wonder if that means the "Ha-" should be pronounced with an intake of breath.)
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16 minutes ago, Raviv said:
In a reply to a comment on Facebook, GW said that "Old world stock will be replenished as soon as possible! We will also have news on the next faction to make a return this Saturday."
They have a big preview on Thursday/Friday, but they still keep the ToW for Saturday. I hope it means they have a LOT to announce.
They've previously noted that they'll be showing off the next ToW faction for re-release at the ToW launch event (at Warhammer World, on Saturday).
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1 hour ago, Jamopower said:
Isn't there a special character model that would fit the bill?
Ghorros Warhoof, aye. It does make sense that they could re-release him as a generic Centigor Chieftain, if they're not planning to give him special character status.
Edit: though I feel like Ghorros, as a character who wears the skull of Arsil, the Prince of Unicorns, would make for a good character if the Beastmen are paired with the Wood Elves. He also claims to be the primogenitor of all Centigors (and the sire of a number of other monstrous beasts besides), so he's potentially old enough to have been around during ToW's time period.
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4 hours ago, OkayestDM said:
While they get a lot less fanfare than Whitefang, Nezzhil's hints, predictions, and rumors have been solid ever since they started dropping them. If they're not worried, I'm not worried.
I don't want to come across as picking on them, as I agree that their posts are often very good, and provide a lot of useful information and great speculation.
But I should note that they posted about six further factions getting Dawnbringers models (Khorne, StD, OBR, CoS, DoK and Skaven) and we've since had a SBG character previewed. So... don't read too much into all of their posts. They do just speculate sometimes.
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5 hours ago, Garrac said:
...Or much better: what if those have boxes meant to clean stock on units getting updates?
It's very unlikely that GW re-boxes sprues. (ie. if a bunch of kit 'A' isn't selling, they don't open them up and put the sprues from 'A' into boxset 'B'.)
It is possible that boxset 'B' has a lot of the same sprues as kit 'A', in order to help justify the initial expense of making the moulds for those sprues. (ie they probably have internal data on how many times they've used every mould, and failing to hit a certain number of uses is seen as having been a waste of money. If kit 'A' doesn't sell, the moulds for its sprues have low use, due to never needing to be run for restocking purposes. And so they run them for boxset 'B', to up their usage.)
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18 hours ago, beast of slaanesh said:
I have this desire to get a bunch of Slaangors for my BoC army roster but I am really not liking one part of the design. The poses are formidable and menacing. The sculps are sublime. Everything fits. But THAT AXE! It feels so weird for a bunch of pretty crab boys to have a normal looking hand in which he holds an axe. And worst of all it's just a direct improvement in stats with one extra attack. I had this idea and have been sesrching online to see if anyone has come up with a way to keep the nice looking pincers but glue the axe onto one of the pincers and make it look good. Really need to visualise it to decide if it's cool or silly. Any help?
If it's specifically the fact that it's an axe that's the problem, the kit does also come with a sword option (the rules are for "...and Gilded Weapon").
Alternatively, if you don't like the Slake-horn having a normal hand, I'm sure if you just painted their claws a different colour that'd be fine. IIRC the pair for the Slake-horn also have a bit of armour strapped to them, so they should stand out.
Maybe find a spare weapon and attach it in a way so that it looks strapped to their belt/back strap? (As I agree that the pincer wielding anything will look strange.) That way it's on the model if anyone is being pedantic.
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Aside: while I've generally seen a fair amount of speculation about Hashut being an aspect of Khorne, in the World of Warhammer lore book (1998) it speculates that Hashut is Tzeentch.
(This was back in 5th, when Khaine was nod-nod-wink-wink the Elven name for Khorne. Edit: maybe not so nod-nod-wink-wink; in the 5th edition rulebook it says "...Witch Elves - a warrior sisterhood devoted to the Chaos God Khorne who they call Khaine Lord of Murder.")
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1 hour ago, Skreech Verminking said:
Yeah that does kinda make sense yet I do wonder why total war warhammer choose to keep the name malekith in this case.
Well... I'd assume Marvel/Disney haven't actually been litigious. GW changing the name to Malerion is probably a case of trying to get ahead of any future problems, and not to deal with an existing one.
When Jervis Johnson (or whomever) decided to give the Witch King the name Malekith, maybe he did it as a cheeky Marvel reference, or maybe it was coincidence.
IP/copyright infringement cases can be pretty weird. Like in 1951 National Comics sued Fawcett over Captain Marvel (not Marvel's Captain Marvel), which they alleged infringed on Superman. That resulted in Fawcett shuttering all of its superhero comics. Ironically, National Comics would go on to become the modern DC Comics, who later bought the rights to all of the Fawcett characters (including Captain Marvel). But in the meantime, Marvel Comics had created and been publishing a different Captain Marvel, meaning that DC couldn't publish their (original) Captain Marvel under that trademark. They did so as SHAZAM! instead, eventually fully changing the name of Captain Marvel to SHAZAM!.
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1 hour ago, Jefferson Skarsnik said:
Malekith is not from Norse mythology
Just want to highlight this, because it's a pretty common misconception. (That Malekith is from Norse mythology.)
As stated: he's not.
Arguably it's a fairly generic sounding name ("~bad ~relation"), though Marvel's Malekith being a King of Dark Elves probably made GW a little worried about being sued over the name of their Malekith, a King of Dark Elves.
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6 hours ago, BarakUrbaz said:
What variant army lists do you think we are going to get for the Old World? We know of Bretonnia having the Errantry Crusade and Exile variants, do we know of something similar coming in the Tomb Kings book?
Personally, I'm hoping we get the Slayer Host of Karak Kadrin (like the Storm of Chaos army list) for Dwarfs.So, we know:
- Kingdom of Bretonnia: Bretonnian Exiles + Errantry Crusades
- Tomb Kings of Khemri: Nehekharan Royal Hosts + the Mortuary Cult
Random thoughts on the others:
- Dwarfen Mountain Holds: Slayer Hosts of Karak Kadrin + Zhufbar Engineers Guild
- Orc & Goblin Tribes: Night Goblin Underdwellers + Savage Orc WAAAGH!
- Empire of Man: Armies of the Westerland/Reikland/Talabec/Österlund.
- High Elf Realms: Cothique Sea Patrol + Saphery Enclave
- Warriors of Chaos: Norscan Raiders + Favoured of the Gods
- Wood Elf Realms: Wild Hunt + Spirits of the Forest
- Beastmen Brayherds: Spawn of Morghur + Minotaur Tribes
Of course, these ideas will change as we get a look at the Army Lists and their mechanics.
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4 hours ago, Nezzhil said:
Spiderfang needs a reboot. I think It is more good for you if you expect a revamp of the unit design and expect only Arachnaroks as the mounts.
This is just speculation, right? I want to make clear, because the way that @The Brotherhood of Necros asked you it seemed like they consider you to have a source.
And I remember the last time I asked if something you said was speculation or a tease, you replied "both, always both."
(That was that Dawnbringers faction releases would be rounded out to thirteen via: Khorne, StD, OBR, CoS, DoK and Skaven.)
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15 minutes ago, Clan's Cynic said:
Almanack III, this time on painting the models.
Includes the 'Eavy Metal recipe for the new Bretonnians.
[SNIP]
I wonder why they included "yellow cloth" when that only appears on the Bastonne-schemed Baron.
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4 hours ago, Ejecutor said:
...7th of Jan for preorder and the official launch on 14th of Feb. This also matches the deleted tweet saying it was coming in Feb 2024...
A five-and-a-half week pre-order period, leading to a Wednesday release?
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It usually gets spread across various people's ArtStation accounts. (Creative Assembly's itself, but a lot of the people who work(ed) for them also will have stuff.)