Chikout

There are still 17 unconfirmed. They are adding them at a faster rate than they are solving them. I think a lot of them are tied to the Aelves release and Shadespire. I would expect those to be the two miniature related releases for AoS this year. Maybe there will be some nurgle stuff too.

So it looks like it will be a Stonehorn and 4 mournfangs for beastclaw an exalted chariot, 10 demonettes and 5 seekers for slaanesh and a magmadroth and 10 bezerkers for fyreslayers which makes that the most heavily discount box yet. This is from a store owner on dakka so it looks pretty legit.

Path to glory was previewed in this month's WD. Gangs of commoragh and skirmish had a similar 2 page preview in WD and turned up in the second half of that month. That suggests that path to glory will come first, possibly a preorder on the 15th. I had originally thought that Ghb2 would come out then but maybe not. I don't think we will see aos specific nurgle stuff for a while. I believe they said outright that pox walkers would not be coming over. We may see a new demon or two but I would not expect a book anywhere near the deathguard release.

Thunder and Blood.

It is absolutely real. It is from the new starter set. It is almost certainly coming out in July.

I think the intention was always as it is now written, it was just poorly written before. The userbase always seems to try and read rules in the worst way possible rather than attempting to embrace the spirit of the rules. Still waiting for those shadow Aelves...

It is kind of understandable that they would want to keep the focus on 40k for this event but I was kind of hoping we would get a little hint about the next aos faction. There is still time I suppose. At least the new bloodbowl minis are cool.

Time for me to eat crow on this one. A pretty fast turnaround between rumour image and reveal.

So it looks like more bloodbowl stuff will be next weekends preorder. Maybe skirmish after that? I am starting to think that shadow Aelves will take the July slot alongside Ghb2 as the slyvaneth did last year.

The skull on the base and the nurgley centipede thing look like they may well be resin masters.

It really is amazing how often this needs to be said. All minis made by GW are initially cast in resin so they can be painted for the rule books and box art. The rumour picture is clearly resin, bur that does not mean the final mini will be. Anyway, looking forward to finding out what next week's preorder will be. Hoping for skirmish or shadow Aelves. We should get the details on Monday.

So no other info from the white dwarf? We have three weeks to cover between the overlords and the rumoured date for 8th.

The always reliable landmine has said on twitter that May is aos focused and a new Keeper of Secrets is coming in the autumn.

Yeah but they didn't show even a glimpse. I think it is just having an announcement of an announcement rubbed me the wrong way. The little teaser video was cool but it was just that a teaser. If this had all just dropped without the prior warning I would have been much happier. I was also hoping for something aos centric.

Well colour me disappointed. It is just what the said in March but with a little more detail. Free rules and annual updates are cool but it just what most people guessed. Could they not have sneaked in one new mini?

The next white dwarf isn't out till may 5th so it will go on preorder next weekend.

So I just bought the digital overlords battletome and the same set of rules is in the back, so I wouldn't read to much into the lack of rules in the physical book. Faeit is now saying it is not Ghb2. Just an hour to go. Personally hoping for shadow Aelves or a new campaign book.

Doing a major 40k announcement would steal the thunder from the biggest independent of AOS in the year. It would be a very bad time to announce that. ghb 2 date is almost a cert, but just a date is not enough to register as big news with me. A deep dive like they did for the overlords book would be cool. Showing off the next AOS faction would be even cooler.

They may just announce that the release date is July again. I believe they gave a fair amount of notice before the release date last time.

Pete Foley (head of books or something at GW) just posted this on twitter 'Good luck to everyone at #SCGT2017. Ill be watching from home?. Work calls, it's an exciting weekend for GW for more than one reason...' Ghb2 announcement confirmed?

Hot news from the warhammer underworlds Facebook page. 'Warhammer Underworlds is the game. Shadespire is the setting for the first season'!!!!! (exclamation marks added by me)

So Hastings called the Deathguard release including the extra models. It would seem his sources are still good.

Pete Foley confirmed on twitter confirmed that the community site will update after the second preview seminar which finishes at 11.30 pm Chicago time.

So that shadow war release date info comes from ministomp on Twitter who is an independent retailer who never gets things wrong. The date is accurate. That rumour pic is definitely an Aelf. I think we will see the full mini in 12 hours time.

I wouldn't write Hastings off. Sad panda of 100% rumour accuracy fame corroborated his nu marine rumour. Atia corroborated his BFG and mordheim rumours. He posted his cuthulhu Aelves rumour before the mask with unusual ears and the tentacles attacking Kharadron pics appeared. He is not perfect. he has made it clear that he does not see models himself but he obviously has at least one reliable source. (he accuratly predicted gsc a year ahead of time)We will know in just 25 hours time if his rumour pans out but I would put money on him being correct. Exciting times ahead.