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That Fyreslayer is a vast improvement over the old runesmiter. It looks like GW have finally got the Fyreslayer aesthetic down. I’d love to see a full resculpt of the range with this new look.

It is 20 tomb guard in the box.

I genuinely can't think of a single time they've been wrong. They were right about Stormcast dragons, about cities including the Ogor mini which noone would ever guess, about the new Kurnoth mini being Kurnothi but not in the way we wanted about a Skaven Vs Sylvaneth box and a Fyreslayer Vs Idoneth box. They were right about the creeper on the King Brodd model and countless other things I've forgotten. The only possible thing I can think of is the spider incarnate but we still haven't seen that rumour engine revealed so it could have been delayed or cancelled. The recent surprise is the confused react they gave to @Nezzhil's saying the TG rumour was fake. Looks like there might be more to explore there. @Snarff Whitefang just shared a fire and water picture. TG jumped on it to guess kits. That was nothing to do with Whitefang. The same is true with the earlier Skaven rumours. Whitefang just showed a picture of a mouse eating leaves. The speculation about kits came from elsewhere.

I watched an interview with Rick Priestly who said that he deliberately left his own name off rule books it was egoistic. As he was a senior member of GW during its formative years, I suspect that it was something that became company culture which is unfortunate. It’s this interview. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7Ml5RUWGqsH7KrHae2kII0AOd5LGb5zF?si=tbN4x0nGquNyo687 He didn’t like the ‘cult of personality’ gw had.

I'm not sure where you're looking but beastmen, Skaven and Bretonnia didn't get an 8th edition book. The 8th edition wood elf book was their first for 9 years. Ogre kingdoms and Tomb kings went 8 years without a book. There were 15 Warhammer fantasy armies. 8th edition had 11 books in 5 years, 7th had 10 books in 4 years, 6th had all 15 but was a 6 year edition. From 6th to the end of fantasy GW put out an average of 2.4 army books a year. Since the start of 2018 gw has averaged 8 army books a year. As for minis 2022 was AoS's worst year for a while. There were 45 products released that year. 8th editions best year was 2013 with updates for 5 armies but only managed 35 releases. This year there have been 70 AoS releases. That's double 8th edition's best year.

Unfortunately there aren't any dedicated lore books for AoS yet. The closest thing is the RPG books. The era of the beast book for example is 100 pages of pure lore plus about 50 pages of rules that have lore snippets throughout. These books do have info about currency, trade etc. The city guides are particularly good as they really do give a feel of what life in the realms is actually like.

These previews are always for minis coming in the early part of the year. Nothing from Leviathan was previewed this time last year.

I'm seeing Callis and Toll, a DoK hero, a Nighthaunt hero and Darkoath cavalry.

Ok. I just checked the roadmap and it probably is custodes. The model does appear to have a very kinlike crest on it though.

40k 2024 sneak peak just went up. Just three sillouetes. An ork, a squat (I think) and most excitingly a mounted Kroot.

Those dark angels reveals contain five of the advent rumour engines: the censer, the skeleton, the scabbard, the standard top and the bolter. Still a fair few to go.

The rumour I read was that GW based the cursed city production run off Blackstone Fortress. They made as many copies of Cursed City as Blackstone Fortress sold across its entire lifespan and they sold out in a day. With the made to order run and then the reprint it's safe to say that Cursed City has sold considerably more copies than Blackstone Fortress. If GW can make another product with a similar quality of minis to Cursed City and improved rules it could do wonders for the popularity of AoS, especially if they have a good support plan from the start this time.

It depends how you define successful. Any company will choose a product selling too well over one not selling well enough. It was a PR headache and certainly an example of gw misjudging demand but I'm quite sure it was a financial success. It's been three years since cursed city. I could definitely see them doing another one. A Skaven attack under one of the newly founded Dawnbringer cities would be a great setting.

I always struggle with the fact that people struggle with the setting of AoS. It's basically Norse mythology with mostly less confusing realms. The gods are active and flawed in much the way the likes of Thor and co are. Are realm gates so much more confusing than the bifrost? Diablo may as well be set in the realm of death. There are lots of other examples of settings similar to AoS. As for weird stuff in the setting we have most of it right here on earth. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116536-molten-iron-river-discovered-speeding-beneath-russia-and-canada/ https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/10/13/hollow-tree-fire-california-orig-trnd-lab.cnn

That makes sense though. The time frame of the setting is literally in the name. On the fantasy side the old world world and AoS are two timeframes that are both part of a Warhammer fantasy setting. It is feasible that AoS could be included in the TV deal.

Regiments of renown doesn't necessarily mean new minis. That said I am expecting a new Ossiarch hero.

From his instagram account. It’s possible that fec were just held back for some reason. Either that or there’s just a big release backlog that could even be getting bigger over time.

Interesting tidbit about the Fec release. The Morbheg knights were designed by David Waeselynck while he was working from home during lockdown. That's more than 3 years between design and release. It makes you wonder what they're working on now.

40k marines exist because warriors of chaos were so popular. They were definitely the number one faction back in the day. It's kind of funny seeing GW come full circle with the Stormcast.

I think they mean FAQ.

Stormcast certainly have a lot of units but we're nowhere near that. The Stormcast book only has about 10 more warscrolls than the Slaves to Darkness book. The next edition would need to add 40 or 50 warscrolls for Stormcast to pass the smallest grand alliance. Also that gap is growing not shrinking. This edition Death has got the fewest new warscrolls but they still got more than the Stormcast.

We're getting two warbands in Winter but they probably won't arrive until January or February.

I'll just use this accidental space to say I'm super excited about the prospect of new Skaven. If the last two Underworlds warbands are the inspiration for new Eshin and new Pestilens, the new scuplts are going to look awesome. I do hope we see a couple of completely new concepts along side the resculpts. The range has a huge amount of potential.

I think you dreamed that. Or possibly you saw a super secret preview that noone else knows about.

No. The beginning of the year is pretty set in stone these days. It's LVO at the end of January, Adepticon in March and Warhammer Fest in May. There's usually a little teaser at Christmas or New Year but those are all the preview events.