BarakUrbaz

So you're literally saying narrative shouldn't matter in terms of game design.

Oh yes it is good design to punish everyone who decided to build their guys with Bolt Pistols instead of Plasma Pistols.

Black Pyramid actually takes place before the Necroquake I believe.

From what I remember about Gardus: *He dies once during the Realmgate Wars. *He dies again during Broken Realms: Be'lakor. *He dies another time against Brodd in Dawnbringers.

I believe SG Warhound refered to it as a "Hyper Warp-Ratling Cannonade".

Custodes have a whole bunch of kits, its just most of them are Forge World. Even just limiting to plastics they have 7 non-hero kits (Custodian Guard, Wardens, Allarus Termies, Contemptor, Land Raider, Sisters of Silence, Sisters of Silence Rhino). Extremis Chamber is just two kits (Dracoths and Stardrake).

I think its supposed to be a crow (as opposed to regular Gryphs being eagles), because death symbolism.

The cloak with those rectangles on it is the Hernkyn Yaegirs sniper.

Got it, we have to abolish FLY.

I kind of suspect Ruination Chamber is going to be essentially the Custodes of AoS: hyper-elite infantry, and if you take an army consisting entirely of them you have like 22 models on the table.

So, overall review of the show: 40k Chaos Lords: Really good looking but just more CSM, CSM are one of the better looking 40k factions mind you but they're not really that much different from any old CSM model. Warcry: Really like the Ossiarchs but the mixed bone-beasts and actual humanoids kinda feels off to me. Sylvaneth warband are probably the best looking Sylvaneth models but I was never really interested in Sylvaneth at all. Underworlds: Would love to see new Flagellants that look like these guys but less goofy. Also the Ghouls are good looking but not really that unique other than the bat-ghoul. Abraxia: This is kind of an impressive model but something about her head feels off to me. Like I think the art makes her head look good, its just the model doesn't for whatever reason. A lot of people were expecting Valkia and I'm willing to bet that a bunch of people are going to say "it should've been Valkia" but honestly, we can have other female Chaos characters you know? TOW Dwarfs: New Dwarf King with Shieldbearers looks good, Thane with gun looks good, Ungrim looks good but I think he's kind of underwhelming looking for a named character. Like he looks he should be a generic model to me. Wish there was updated Anvil of Doom and regular Slayers but eh, it looks like only Tomb Kings or Bretonnia are getting much favor so far. Kill Team: I really love the Votann scouts, and the amount of times I really love a 40k unit nowadays is rare so that's something special. Brood Brothers are completely forgettable. Necromunda and Horus Heresy: Oooh, vague teasers. Plastic Mechanicum will be fun at least, even though they're not going to bring them to 40k like they logically should. AoS 4e: Best trailer AoS has ever had so far, but its disappointing that "Sigmar Lied" turned out to just be about reforging (I remember when people were saying it couldn't be about reforging because everyone knows the flaws with that). Can't really say much about game rules since so few details were revealed, and since no new models were announced I can't really say much more. And for Grungni's sake I don't want to see more Aqshy.

The article does mention that the indexes include Spell Lores so at least we have that over 40k.

I mean, hypothetically speaking, if the 4e starter has the core book and the core book has no section for Beasts, that's a bad sign.

I think the absence of visible bolts does a lot.

That's clearly an axe, not Ghal-Maraz.

Yeah, there's no way they'd be indexes. If they did indexes they would probably be in softcover books divided by Grand Alliances (like the Ravening Hordes and Forces of Fantasy books for ToW) or come on datacards like the 10e 40k indexes.

The problem with Ogors is that they basically removed the most defining feature of the Ogre Kingdoms from Warhammer Fantasy that gave them a unique niche in the universe: their neutrality. Sure they still have mercenaries, but that part is far less emphasized and 80% of the stories with Ogor Mercenaries end with them betraying and eating their employers making you wonder why anybody hires them in the first place. Ogre Kingdoms were pretty much the only guys who were tolerated by every other faction and were equally likely to work with the Empire as much as Orcs and Goblins, but that didn't really fit into the Grand Alliance scheme. Without that neutrality, they're just Orcs but hungry.

Wouldn't she be Azyr because she constantly summons lightning and whatnot? I've never seen her do anything with Aqshy.

You know it would actually be cool if instead of just killing off one of the cities at the end of the Dawnbringers, the campaign was actually to decide which one of them live. Order players would have to choose which city their army is going to protect, while non-Order players have to chose which city they're attacking, with whatever city fairing worse being destroyed. But that's not going to happen.

If you build the Plague Furnace/Screaming Bell dual kit as a Bell you can make the Plague Priest from the Furnace on foot.

Dude Vermintide might as well be a giant advertisement for Skaven models that was bought by over two million people.

Honestly I think GW would know that this box would sell better than Dominion because unlike Kruleboyz, who were a new concept and kind of a weird direction for Orruks so they didn't really know how well they'd sell, Skaven are extremely popular, are probably one of the few non-40k things people know about Warhammer thanks to both online memes and games like TWW II and Vermintide, and also there will be people wanting Skaven for ToW to consider.

Honestly, I think making Silent People Order-aligned would make them too similar to Seraphon. A savage and bestial yet stoic and intelligent race with advanced yet primitive looking magitechnology (albeit the Silent People's creations are more biotech)?

Every Destruction race is sapient. Also there is literally a Beastgrave card that says something along the lines of"from what little we know, the Silent People were an extremely violent people".

Since I don't really have much time left to speculate on the plot of Dawnbringers V, might as well do it now. We know Reikenor the Grimhailer is the leader of the Nighthaunt attacking Embergard. Now, what does he do? Nagash sends Reikenor to slay those who attempt to cheat death. I think he's attacking because Zenestra is on his hitlist and whatever exactly she is will be elaborated on.