Dawnmane

I just wanted to comment on the whole "this could be a Star Wars League IP": I'm pretty sure it can't. Fans of Warhammer games tend to forget that they only work because fans are able to read the satirical subtext (or don't care about it, which can be a bit worrying). Star Wars is a universe that speaks to a monomythical human desire to fight against oppression, become the person you were meant to be, and happy, reconciliatory endings. Star Trek is (or used to be) to some extent a story about the triumph of humanism. Marvel is about finding your identity and finding value in your flaws in order to protect society. Warhammer, on the other hand, is about death, destruction, militarism and violence. It's ALSO a criticism of those things, definitely, but Warhammer fiction outside of its somewhat cutesy plastic miniature iteration will never be summer blockbuster material. That's not because of bad marketing or because people haven't discovered it yet, but because it really leaves no room for the "believe in yourself and be a good person and things will be alright" stories that all the other big franchises rely upon. Also, the fascistoid aesthetic of the Imperium is not going to work in Western cinema, either (I hope!) Maybe someone will make a cult hit of a movie out of it, or a grimdark HBO-esque TV series, but it's never going near the big franchises without fundamentally changing what it's about. [edit: had to add this] also: Warhammer is satire, which is not something you can succesfully export to global popular culture without a lot of unfortunate misunderstandings happening. And if it's not satire, it instead becomes a very problematic narrative universe promoting values that aren't getting anywhere near Hollywood in such an unmasked form.

Really? I'm pretty underwhelmed by the animations. Especially Angels of Death, which I think look like a slightly remastered Starcraft 1 cinematic (exaggerating a bit). The CGI AOS stuff looks great, but I think that's just the new edition cinematic and they couldn't help but put it in there.

I completely agree - also: Duardin uniting instead of quarrelling? Seems off-brand. It would be way more duardin-y it Grungni/whoever tried reuniting them and it ended in a giant fight in my opinion.

I think those spikes are just part of the terrain.

Help me out: what mysterious models in this image are people talking about? Those are just skeleton Warriors, right?

Oh no oh no they can't be called Cruel Boyz. Please no. It's completely against all AOS naming convention. Surely it will be the Kruulohr Lordboyz or something.

The Welcome letter when you sign up for the GW newsletter, it seems.

Or masked tiny people in Diablo II act 3, the army

Tiny mask goblin people!

- an AOS 3 starter set with something Destructiony versus new Stormcast that can't be reforged and as a result they've gone all Rohan "ride to ruin and the world's end!" riding around on horses in battered armour defendig the Free Cities to the last man/woman to at least go down in history doing something legendary - an animated video for AOS 3 and 1 or 2 models - the Old World stuff

I would just joyusly yell incomprehensible nonsense for two days straight if the Chaos warbands got similar treatment!

Ah! I'm sorry, I had gotten it mixed up with the new Kill Team release date.

Underworlds is supposed to come out in early 2021, so I think the Warcry books and the last 40K stuff is most likely - and then a bunch of Christmas boxes.

such a good idea- Some sort of prophet to call them to the Path to Glory. Or maybe someone with the power to pick them for Chaos Warrior training so that they'll fight better to get noticed.

Lore-wise, this is really important. I originally migrated from Necromunda to Warcry, and in that framework it made complete sense. The Necromunda gangs are so weak compared to military soldiers that they would scream in horror if a squad of space marines descended upon them. Optimally, that's how Chaos warbands should work in Warcry as well. GW kind of messed this up by adding all the non-Chaos warbands in a way that didn't reflect this. I think Stormcast, for instance, should have been twice as expensive as they are now in Warcry, and really be 2-3 model warbands. That would have fit the story so much better, and the same would go for Ironjawz, Fyreslayers etc. Freeguild could have stayed comparable to Warcry Chaos warbands and the game would have been a lot cooler for it.

I absolutely agree that broken Realms sounds like a Psychic Awakening for AOS - just remember that PA was a Malign Portents for 40k -it might be too early to restart that cycle of influence.

So what’s going up for pre-orders tonight? Sons? etb 40K kits? WARCRY?! (I know it’s unlikely) Necromunda?

Lovely for Beastgrave but oh my dog it’s been a while for Warcry releases, hasn’t it? And no roadmap either

No I don’t think I will, sir

Yeah I know that’s why I’m so upset! (I just bought a Secret horcrux Indomitus Judicar which now lives at my friend’s place 10 Miles away, just for safety)

Yup, I’ve only got around 20 models left to paint in my backlog and they’re running out fast

It never ends, does it?

My favorite theory is that its going to be Khainites vs Scions of the Flame, and that it’s going to introduce a Magic system.