Aeryenn

I think there are enough posts in the last few pages telling "please, hold your stormcast releases GW at least for a while" worth passing to somebody who actually works there. Yeah, I know they have their sale numbers and bla bla bla but is there a good soul here that could link to somebody in GW the last few pages or has an email to their PR, idk. Please, let them hear their clients, their community.

No. Let GW hear us - no more Stormcasts. Be creative, be ambitious. They've already became the last army I have interest in. New chambers will only strenghten my aversion towards them. So many armies wait for support and as many wait yet to be introduced. They have easily like 15 releases to be done before more Stormcasts - Grots, Vampires, Zombies, normal Humans, Darkoath, Slaanesh, light and dark aelves, troggoths, gargants, firmir, skeletons and support for Ironjawz, Fyreslayers, BCR, Bonesplitterz and tons more. No more Stormcasts. Otherwise they will oversteain us with Stormcasts and they are teally close to doing that. And I know many think the same as me.

I'd rather build and paint 30 model battleline evil mushroom unit than another same as the rest humanoid one. That's if they make it a full faction.

To be honest I don't really see a place for Darkoath in form of melee chaos as well. Khorne and StD already took that role. What if Darkoath are never gonna be a full faction? Just a few support models, a warband and a mention in the lore? I have no idea how are they supposed to step out from Khorne /Beastclaw raiders theme.

I wouldn't count any order draconis, serpentis etc. into Aelf Counter. Those are leftovers, not real factions. GW couldn't just pretend they never existed and flush them (well, maybe they could, ekhm, TK) and so they remain. Currently we have two Aelf factions : DoK and Idoneth. Making new Malerion and Tyrion Aelfs out of those leftovers would be beyond my understanding of disappointment. They just got to be all new.

That would be totally awesome. If Fyreslayers get a 2nd batch than any other faction might as well and it will prove New GW doesn't abandon less popular armies. I keep repeating it: supporting only those armies that sell further increases the gap between products and in the end leads to boring situation when only a few armies are meta playable.

What's with that Slaanesh new mini? You think they are making a release even this year as at the end of the video there was "coming soon" or they will just make a teaser near Christmas and a full release in January?

So I think we've got all the '18 releases for AoS. Who' s got the short stroke for a Battleforce box? 2 last years it was 4 boxes per universe but this year we had 5 big factions releases: 1. Nurgle 2. DoK 3. Idoneth 4. SCE again and again 5. Nighthaunt Unless they increase number of boxes I guess DoK are out as it was the smallest release of them all.

Not what I wanted. When will they release Moonclan now? January?

They are aware of us being hyped for grots and they teased us a few times in that direction. I'm not searching for anybody's fault. I just say it will be disappointing.

After all that hype it would be a major fail if we didn't see a moonclan preview tomorrow. But it is really possible since that beasts of chaos battletome.

Don't be surprised. If we just made it to AoS 2..0 and they release a battletome for old, not that popular factions with no new units, you expect what? That they will release a new battletome in 3 years with tons of new units? Forget it. It will take years for GW to look again in that direction. Unless this battletome sells like crazy. Which I don't expect to happen. If I asked you to put Beastmen on the Chaos Popularity Top List where would they go? Over 4 Chaos gods and the Skaven? I guess not. Even Khorne hasn't yet received an unit update and I'm sure a lot of guys own him since he was from the very beginning in AoS and first starter box. And we are just talking Chaos. Tons of other factions waiting for a spotlight. Beasts of Chaos won't receive an update in many years to come. If you like their current range so be it. I'm a bit disappointed. Not much was needed to be done. Still better than nothing.

By the way, @LLVwas right as always as he mentioned the exact name Battletome : Beasts of Chaos at the beginning of June. Thx LLV.

Lost opportunity. They needed to add barely 3-5 units to make this faction look fresh. This treatment gives no hope for this faction to get any new models in like 5 years at least. If ever.

Is there any new unit in the pictures? Herdstone?

This model is excelent. You know, if moonclan hallmark are mushrooms, it might be an indicator of power. ☺️ The more mushrooms the stronger the unit. ☺️ This is probably a Treelord equivalent of power in Moonclan so he needs to have them a lot. I expect normal troops to have much less or none. But then again I really like it.

Yeah, like not-that-great space marine hero or new kill team box.

All the pics and video is with 40k minoatures so I guess we shouldn't hype ourselves too much.

I guess they will release new battletome, which I don't like. It makes me scared of buying any battletomes if they can be outdated shortly after purchase. Imho they should release small supplements, like they did for dragon chamber SC. Of course if they add lets say 5 units. If they are about to make army 2x as big then new battletome is ok.

Perfect solution for your army in my opinion would be releasing more Slaanesh mortal units by GW but I know things don't work that easily so maybe more slaves to darkness is a way but then again it might be harder to balance a unit to work with all armies within certain alliance. Kharadron weakness (by design) is weak melee and low survival of troops. If we mix in a lot of generic tank hard hitters it might influence the game too much. Just talking over possibilities.

Maybe I don't want to see the larger picture but I really wouldn't want that. I was even against allies mechanic. One of the things I love most about AoS is uniqeness of every race/army. Never liked those available to everyone units. Whether it was a video game, card game or board game. Those "grey" units kill uniqueness.

And they are popular because they have the most spotlight. GW made them popular by putting them in every possible box. Give them a chance and soon you'll find a stormcast in your breakfast corn flakes.

Hopefully they won't take place of any other faction.

Is there anybody who believes that GW won't make a Stormcasts Battleforce this year?

@Ghark @Enoby If they'll will stick to 4 battleforces for AoS and 4 for 40k they will omit DoK in favour of Nighthaunt. Personally I'm interested in Idoneth, DoK and Nighthaunt boxes. Might take them all. Yeah, really smart since I still haven't opened my Kharadron battleforce and sc, AoS 2 box and blood coven for DoK . Wonder when will my painting catch up with my purchases.