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Ok after looking at the new model, I now think it is a conversion of a Vampire transforming into a fell bat with Sigvald as the base. The pointing sword arm is very very similar.

Enhance! Enhance! Monday can't come soon enough.

My suspicion is that battalions will stay for narrative and open play and gw will continue to make new ones. The complaint is that in matched play they often have the effect of limiting match play rather than adding diversity. Rather than opening up list building options they dictate them. A lot of tzeentch or fyrselayer lists end up looking very similar due their very popular battalions. We also don't know how many generic battalions there are, what kind of abilities they offer, if they still affect drops, artefacts etc. I could imagine a world where we get 30 or 40 battalions for a variety of army compositions and buffs. Let's say there are 5 battalions that are 3 battleline and a hero. One buffs move, one buffs defense etc. It would let players double down on strengths or mitigate weaknesses. I don't think this would limit competitive army composition any more than battalions currently do.

I'm genuinely curious what you'd like to see from a warscroll revamp. Aside from the perennial double turn problem, the most prevalent complaints I've seen about second edition is about over complication, npe and rules bloat. I'm not sure how a new statline would help with any of these problems.

I will be very very surprised if this is true. Not only does the double turn thing directly contradict the listlab video, the warscroll change would upset a great many players for little benefit. For those players who want a return to strength and toughness there will be the old world game eventually. It is in GW's interest to keep those games distinct.

Great to see Warhammer fest confirmed. What is that dragon looking icon? Soulblight? The 8th could be a reveal of the new Horus Heresy starter or even the first look at old world minis.

That Warsong revenant is a very cool model. I hope they use broken realms to update a few Slyvaneth warscrolls especially Alarielle herself. It's interesting that they didn't mention broken realms Kragnos. Still holding out hope for a broken realms 5.

Are you sure Necromunda is first up? We also have AdMech which was supposed to arrive in April. On top of that we are due to get 2 Underworlds warbands on May. We will probably see either Kragnos or the Soulblight slip into June. Or they could surprise everyone and announce a Broken Realms Gordrakk book.

It's kind of wild that we're getting yet another model for Broken Realms Kragnos. We know for sure that Kragnos is going to get a model thanks to the shield rumour engine. So that 7 models for 5 different factions confirmed so far. That's very exciting but I still wish we could get a book 5. If the minis represent the factions that we get in the book, it leaves Khorne, BoC, Skaven, legions of Nagash/Soulblight and potentially most of destruction with nothing.

The rumour is that gw are doing a stock take of their warehouse until May 5th. The next pre-order will probably be Admech on May 8th. Hopefully we will see the Kragnos model tomorrow though. It occurs to me that early May is traditionally Warhammer fest season. I think it's highly likely that we will get an official AoS 3 announcement sometime in May.

I really hope this is true. I think the horde discount was probably the worst change in 2nd edition. As for the new models, I think the "big" meant important. We did get three separate reveals this week. Next week we will hopefully see Kragnos and we will probably get a new sisters reveal. The 40k side of things seems to be alternating. We might get another bit of Soulblight info as well.

There's a certain amount of logic to it. It's +1 to save not -1 to hit. You can brace yourself to face a charge. That's a lot harder to do in the thick of a melee. It feels like this is a change to make the turn sequence more interactive without giving up the priority role that AoS is known for. With the -1 to hit on stand and shoot it looks like it could be an interesting rule.

I doubt it. They showed the alt build of the Blood Knights today and they just put up an article about the bonesplitta warband. Since they aren’t talking about Cursed city, there isn’t much else to show.

Tau kits don't have any oval bumps on them. It's definitely Eldar, hopefully a sign of a substantial release for them. Going back to AoS. There's something about the blood knights that isn't doing it for me. It might just be the colour scheme but they don't look as savage as I would like. Also the horses look slightly short though that might the camera angle. It's disappointing that we still haven't seen a full profile shot.

Be careful what you wish for. Gw did this for 40k but as a result they stopped doing digital codexes completely and introduced an app that charged a high price for limited functionality. There is now no way to have the lore and art of the 40k codexes in a digital format. A more sensible solution is for gw to offer digital battletomes which are updated with every faq, points change and updated/new warscrolls.

Also Excelsis is the home of the Knights Excelsior who are the stormcast fighting Slaanesh in the pictures of the new models.

Broken realms Kragnos is going to be packed. That does suggest it might be the last book though. What about destruction??The little tease of Kragnos's face is very interesting. There's a pretty high chance we will see their model next week.

Rumours point to the delay being due to problems at the warehouse as well as a move to the new facilities they have been building in Nottingham for a while. This is a big part of the reason why I don't believe the rumours about 3rd edition. I don't think even gw knows exactly what their release schedule for the next few months looks like. I still expect the first two weeks after they start up again to be admech and Necromunda/ Underworlds. Then we'll probably get Kragnos or Soulblight. It's a bummer for anyone waiting for Admech but on the AoS side a bit of a pause is probably a good idea.

I don't think we'll get another preview. Next week will almost definitely be admech followed by Necromunda. If we have another preview we will probably get it then. Warhammer community is doing weekly AoS reveals and regular articles for sisters, the new Orks and Horus Heresy. Aside from the rest of the soulblight and third edition, I'm not sure what they would put in a preview at this point.

Not sure what happened but it looks fine on mobile now.

If I was forced to make a bet on it, I would say that Kragnos will be the leader of the destruction faction that is coming in the 3rd edition starter box which may be Hobgoblinesque. Personally I hope they are a bit more exotic. I would love a new Kurnothi army or a silent people army. The other big question is whether Broken Realms 4 is the last in the series. I really hope we get at least one more.

Glad to see tga back. Browsing Dakka was miserable. I'm very curious to see what's up with Be'lakor. Also they've set themselves a very high bar with Kroak and the Witch Hunters for the Monday reveals. There are 2 weeks left and my guess is that the last one will be Kragnos himself. That leaves one total mystery.

I really hope it does continue after third edition. I would love it to end up being a 10 book series. I don't particularly want gw to go back on the treadmill and redo every battletome again. The warscroll updates we have seen so far have been great. That would be enough to give most factions an extra lease of life. They could do bigger Lumineth style updates for Beasts of Chaos, Slyvaneth etc and give people the option of buying a battletome if they prefer. Aside from the fact that it was too soon, the way they updated the Lumineth was good.

Ok. I'm calling it right now. With Kroak, Be'lakor, Soulblight, Cursed city, Lumineth, Witch Hunters, Slaanesh and an awesome collection of Underworlds warbands, this has been the best year ever for fantasy Warhammer minis and it's still only April.

In my experience local staff rarely know more than the average forum user. They are probably just trying to encourage people to buy now.