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I'm not saying it's a bad guess, I'm just saying that the image @Umjammerlama is referring to isn't evidence for anything in particular.

I had suggested that on Facebook, though in my case it was hoping that the vampire for Death indicated a Soulblight battletome, but someone pointed out that the characters in that image are actually iconic for each faction. Basically, that image has been used before and doesn't necessarily indicate anything.

I don't think it would be "repackage", more a matter of using what they've got as a jumping off point and adding new kits. That said, I would totally dig a multi-species Free Cities faction consisting of the existing Human, Aelven, and Duardin kits plus some cool new stuff. One minor lore quibble: Stormcast aren't something "humans" got. There's evidence that some Stormcast are made from Aelven souls, and if that's true, it's likely that others were made from Duardin souls as well. Additionally, even if Stormcast are made from Human souls exclusively, they aren't really a "Human" thing - it's pretty clear that the machinery of Sigmar's empire uses Stormcast as the tip of the spear but relies of ordinary Humans, Aelves, and Duardin to hold the territory once his tin soldiers have claimed it.

Ghouls and Sylvaneth have showed off similar tricks.

Don't these battalions usually get points eventually, though?

I think fleshed out Soulblight or Deathrattle is more likely. I mean, pretty much the only "allies" Nagash ever had that he seems to have really liked - other than Arkhan - were Krell, a wight king whose return could definitely inject some serious coolness into Deathrattle, and Vlad, a vampire, who if Nagash didn't really "like" he at least got to respect during the End Times. Now, that said, it's entirely possible that a new Soulblight or Deathrattle will have some new added aesthetic - in fact, I hope they do! But I don't think we'll see something entirely new, not while there are unfinished subfactions that already have a base of models for GW to build off of.

Here's my question. Can anyone school me on kurnoth hunters, especially greatbows? I really want the bows to be good, because enormous treedudes with bows taller than a human are awesome, and also quiverlings are adorable, but people talk a lot of trash about them.

Do you think Gnarlroot is going to keep it's Order wizard buddy?

Age of Sigmar High School AU. Go!

I think so.

Uh oh. A troop carrier? Vehicle rules are so easy to ****** up. Don't let me down, GW.

Except for the headswap, I've decided to keep my prosecutor prime mostly stock, though I might yet add some feather tokens. This model is just so much busier than the liberator prime, or even the retributor prime, and I didn't want it to look crowded. Thoughts?

Interesting point. The thing is that so far, we have mostly seen releases of immortal/near-immortal/deathless species. Stormcast "live" until "killed" and then are presently "born" again. Ghouls probably live and die on a mortal timeline, but everything else in that army is long-lived thanks to vampire blood or is a vampire. Fyreslayers are Dwarves Duardin and have very lengthy lifespans. Sylvaneth are immortal tree spirits. I Orks Orruks live until killed. Really, we haven't seen any releases that include creatures who live and die on a normal human timescale.

Here's a couple of WIPs for absolutely no good reason. First, as you can see, I'm almost done with the paint on the liberator prime: And second, here's the finished kit-bash for a retributor prime:

What's good about this is not that all Battletomes will be in this new format, but that this is now an option where it's appropriate.

How did you know my favorite bits seller?

Oh yeah. That's totally going to happen, especially on the bare heads!

The plan is to eventually have a mixed Order army based around Astral Templars backed up by the remnants of my Seraphon army. I plan to use lots of Seraphon and Space Wolf bits to customize my Astral Templars, giving them the primal decorations that were described in the novels and audio dramas. Expect some attempts at freehand as well. Without further ado... Here's the paint scheme I'm going for: And here's Duncan's video describing the way to get that purple. And, finally, my first WIP, a liberator prime made out of the liberator that came with the Get Started magazine:

I would love there to be a sky pirate faction for every grand alliance!

Daedalus81 is triply sure of this.

If there was a Chaos faction to get a crossover battletome, it would be Tzeentch, since they're all about mortals wielding sorcery... Also, it may turn out that Khorne is the exception and "Disciples of X" is the rule. Remember - Khorne is the only one not to wield sorcery, which means the only one with no summoning, which means the only one where the mortal servants need to stand alone quite as much.

It was probably the ghoul king! I feel very differently. I think that being able to pull this sort of thing off in a way that so many folks enjoyed it so well is very good for the game. We all hate the idea of power creep, of GW forcing us all to buy the new hotness by depowering the old stuff. We also hate the idea of the game becoming cluttered (like, say *cough* 40k *cough) with an endless parade of new ****** and no discipline. So, yeah... I agree that they shouldn't do it too often, but it's not something I never want to see again.

Something like this is what happened to the Flesh Eaters, except that there weren't any "leftover" units at all.

On the other hand, there was an Empire war-priest who had a bird skull on his belt, so don't read too much into it.

Maybe if the Horned Rat is now a chaos god, Slaanesh is no longer a chaos god and is now something else...