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These are potato can leaks of parts of models. Honestly they are the perfect kind of leak for me. The get people excited but don't really spoil the full reveal. As long SG warhound doesn't say F*** it and show off the full box there isn't anything GW has to respond to. It's basically just a couple of extra rumour engines. They may decide to show off the full box to prevent future leaks but they may want to wait until after Dawnbringers 6 before they really kick of the 4th edition promotion.

Ok here's some context. Last year there was a full Warhammer Fest event but we still got. The lion and arks of omen book 5, 40k 10 announced, a cg trailer, a terminator trailer and a termagant trailer. 4 videos For AoS we got the full Seraphon reveal, the first look at steelhelms and heroes for soulblight and OBR. 3 videos. A killteam box reveal, an Underworlds starter set reveal and a Horus heresy reveal. 10 videos altogether in a year when Warhammer Fest wasn't cancelled. I think it's safe to say it will be a big show.

Here's my thoughts on that list. AoS Khul is wishlisting. It would be a nice surprise but there's a less than 10% chance of us seeing a new model. Maybe in 4th edition. Also we will see at least one mini from each faction in the launch box. 40k This is the biggest preview show of the year now that Warhammer Fest has been cancelled and we're getting the same size 40k preview as the store anniversary?? Really? I'd expect agents of the imperium especially now it's been leaked, maybe sisters and possibly even a teaser for Blood Angels. Underworlds. Nurgle is a reasonable guess but it's been less than a year since the last Nighthaunt warband. Are we really getting another one so soon? Warcry. I'd love Kurnothi, but regular Sylvaneth is much more likely. Kill team. Probably accurate. The old world. Probably accurate. Necromunda. Probably accurate Horus heresy No idea.

Of all the rumours Khul is the one I'm least confident about. None of our trio of rumour mungers have so much as hinted about him getting a model.

No. New chaos lords are old news. The 4chan leaks are 80% the same as my own guess from a week ago.

Tga- 4chan-internet- tga. It started here not 4chan. It also got a confused react from Whitefang so it's at least partially incorrect.

Yeah. I want it to be Kurnothi but it's probably regular Sylvaneth. On the other hand even members of the studio don't know everything.

The Skaven's grand plan is to sink the entirety of the Great Parch into their under empire?? That would certainly shake things up a bit!

A redone Celestant Prime but the leaked pictures had old Celestant Prime art so I doubt it's that. Also Whitefang liked a post saying it was new Prosecutors or a new Knight Venator.

Ok here's my Stormcast theory. Dacian Anvil and Gabriel Surehart are dead. Knight zephyros, Knight Questor, Lord Castellant, farstriders and Steelhearts's Champions are gone. Liberators, Lord Celestant, Prosecutors, Judicators and lord Relictor are getting new models. Prosecutors and Judicators will be just one warscroll each. There will be about 5 new units. That would leave us with about 4 fewer warscrolls than there are now.

Interesting to see a confused react to this by Whitefang. I'm guessing no Khul, definitely not Nighthaunt for Underworlds as they've had a warband pretty recently and presumably at least a couple of minis from the launch box.

The 8th edition 40k codexes mostly use art from 6th or 7th edition. The 10th edition Tyranids, Dark Angels and Admech books all reuse art. That's half the 10th edition books. The Tyranid book is the most surprising. It's the major antagonist of the edition but it uses a slightly altered version of old art. The DoK and OBR books have new covers but the art isn't new.

Not sure if joking. Sarcasm really doesn't work on the internet.

My desires for the ruination chamber. Push the gothic to eleven. The Dark Angels don't go nearly far enough. Have a new type of monster as a mount. Maybe giant wolf inspired monsters but more scary and less cute than the space wolf thunder wolves. I really like the annihilators so a new paladin unit that's similar to them armed with axes or halberds would be cool. The regular unit could be similar to the liberators but their armour is damaged and they carry personal trophies. A hero on a mid sized monster and a new lord relictor on foot would round out the range nicely.

That’s an interesting ability. Zondara can have multiple artefacts of power. I’m pretty sure that’s a first in the game.

It reminds me of the undead version of Boneripper.

It really is amazing that these leaked photos are always taken by an ancient phone.

Yeah it's definitely this and not indexes. Indexes would either be cards or much thicker books. A free magazine to introduce the lore is a really good idea though. Even after 3 editions, there editions there are still loads of people who can't wrap their heads around the setting. A free magazine with some cool art and lore is exactly what is needed. It's a funny leak really. It tells us exactly nothing we didn't already know. The clearest Skaven picture is of a hellpit abomination which we already have.

The teasers were cool when they did sillouetes, but they've got more and more vague in the last few years. We already almost all the factions that will be shown. I'm not expecting anything surprising.

Hold your what? I had no idea this forum was into that sort of thing. In other news I just re-watched the 40k leviathan trailer. Every single model from the launch box featured in the cinematic. From the teaser, were definitely getting a cg trailer for AoS so even if they don't show off the full box we should get a pretty good idea of the contents next week.

The index isn't the time to make cuts. If we use 40k 10th edition as an example, all the old kits were there. It's only when the codex comes out that we see the changes. Indexes are mostly used to keep the old playerbase happy. "Look here's rules for all your old toys. Don't worry." New players are more likely to buy one of the launch factions and GW wants to encourage that. The time the changes are made is with the codex. This is the chance for GW to say "look at all this new stuff. Who cares are Razordons when we have this awesome new Spawn of Chotec." With the possible exception of the Beasts of Chaos, I don't think they'll cut anything going into 4th edition. Resin kits will be cut and hopefully replaced when each book comes out. As for book cuts with books I don't see anything major. With the launch of the new cities range, the biggest piece of negative feedback was about the lack of Duardin and Aelves. Gw has to realise they hit on a popular idea with the melting pots of the cities. They keep writing new fiction that features cities Duardin. It's much more likely that we see new Duardin and Aelves for cities than those ranges get dumped and the book becomes human only. The reason the new minis are all humans is because three years ago when gw were planning the new range, everyone was asking about normal humans. We've seen this time and time again with AoS. Remember when people were complaining about the lack of Aelves in the setting or when their were complaints that Death hadn't got any AoS minis yet. TLDR Resin models will go away but it will continue to happen gradually. Indexes will include ALL current models. Cities Duardin and Aelves aren't going anywhere but could get new sculpts. Beasts of Chaos- who knows??

The rumour list from @SG Warhound said the arch warlock, warlock and master moulder would all be getting new kits so Skaven probably won't be losing any characters. If anything the character roster will be getting bigger. If the rumour is to be believed, we're losing the smaller rats but gaining wolf rats. The real question is about gutter runners (and night runners) and plague censor bearers. Clan Eshin could be looking pretty low on units in the new edition.

That's not remotely surprising. They did the same thing with the Seraphon book. Kits like the Razordon and some of the heroes didn't get replacements. The Vespids thing is actually encouraging though. Assuming they are real(and Valrak's been pretty accurate recently), it suggests we could see gutter runners or plague censor bearers return in a warcry warband if they are cut from the battletome.

I'm sure they will. Over in 40k land they are doing it. It's just it's codex and hero model in big fomo box this time. I think we'll get a couple of hero tomes at the end of this year. My current favourites are Soulblight and Nighthaunt. They've both done very well with minis recently.

With less than a week to go to Adepticon, it's time for some predictions. Adepticon show. 40k: two chaos heroes with box sets. Flying Sisters hero with box set. Agents of the imperium teaser. AoS: Dawnbringers book 6 with Abraxia or whatever her name is. No other heroes. AoS 4th cinematic trailer A couple of minis from the launch box shown but not the full set. A few details about rules. Indexes are mentioned. Kill team: Gsc Vs loV box. Next edition teased Warcry: Sylvaneth Vs OBR Underworlds: New box set. Who knows what warbands but maybe Nurgle Vs Cities religious types. The Old World Dwarves. A couple of new heroes. Would love to see the missing tank. Necromunda: Necromunda secondus teaser Horus Heresy: Plastic Admech teaser. That would make for a pretty good show with more to look forward to in the rest of the spring.