Warboss Gorbolg

This is pretty cool, but I’d instantly drop $100+ USD if GW would publish a book that consolidates all the AOS lore up to the end of Dawnbringers into a single tome.

First rule of GW-Club: All models can use more spikes.

Still hoping Kragnos evolves into a chaos character. I can’t look at it and not see BoC. Biggest miss by far for me in the whole Destruction line. Give me something that aligns to the Destruction aesthetic.

What made Mordheim great to me was that you had a warband that advanced from game to game, through improved abilities, skills, and equipment. You’d have 4-6 heroes that could also suffer permanent injuries, death, or be sold to the slave pits! You would name each model, including your grunts, and could convert models when they obtained new weapons or armor. You’d jump off second story buildings at an enemy below, risking injury or death to both models. I played for a ~decade with a group of 10-15 people, and it’s still my favorite GW game. Imbalance was kind of built into the game as campaigns progressed, but with bigger groups and an RPG-lite mentality, we found it not a big deal or we’d just reboot the whole campaign. I’m grateful for Warcry but calling Warcry the spiritual successor to Mordheim is really inaccurate from my perspective. I’d throw lots of money at a true Mordheim remake. Like, all my hobby money.

Gutter runner theme seems like a great candidate for a future war cry band.

Living in the US, there are pitifully few GW stores and it’s common to live hours away from the closest one to you. The exclusive miniatures do not drive positive engagement, only frustration. I’m confident many other countries are similar.

Guess I’m late to the party but the Dark Oath look amazing. In the 30ish years I’ve followed Warhammer, I’ve never collected any Chaos until now (probably). I bought a Warriors of Chaos army book out of curiosity; I’m guessing it was 5th edition (black cover I think). What I loved about it was that a fair amount of the background focused on the tribesmen as opposed to warriors, etc. Some tribes followed Chaos willingly, some out fear, and many because they knew nothing else and had no other options. The stories really sparked my imagination and made the tribes more complex and interesting. Unfortunately, Marauders looked the way they do, and they were a small part of the range. This'd new release has me excited to explore those stories again, and I’m pretty confident that I’ll be getting my first Chaos force.

I’m pretty interested in FEC if they get a large refresh. In contrast to others, I think a large release for FEC will have a lot of beasts as opposed to different ghoul units. Otherwise, FEC will be too similar to mirroring SBGL.

As a kid in the 1980s and a big fan of D&D, I started buying and painting one off minis. Believe Ral Partha was my favorite brand. I didn’t encounter GW until college, around the year 2000. Think my first GW purchase was a metal stone troll. Another early purchase was definitely a box of metal black orcs.

Chorfs as a stand-alone are wishlisting IMO. Active and loud fan base but GW already tried them twice and sustained neither effort. They will continue to make cameos in Warcry, and as Chaos add-ons I think. Fimir are dead on arrival as they are simply WAY too dark for what wants to be a mainstream company and game approachable by kids. Can’t reboot them as fimir either as people will come across their history. Feel pretty confident that we will never see fimir. Really hope the next grot army becomes the highest tech Destruction faction. As a long time O&G collector, grot sky pirates or something else tech focused would be way more interesting than wolf riders+.

The statue made me think of the old dwarf miners that wore candles on their helmets. Likely a coincidence. I also think that the feet look avian and therefore maybe Tzeentch related. Could also be playing off the Tzeentch and KO rivalry, however the statue looks more Dispossessed.

Love the Wildercorps Hunters. Immediate reaction was “the perfect Mordheim warband”. First new human unit that will be a definite buy for me.

Guess I’m getting old as those guys will always be temple guard in my brain. My bias is also probably getting in the way as I could see myself collecting FEC with new basic ghouls with more dynamic posing and a smattering of gear, but I’m not willing to take the plunge with their core ghoul unit showing its age and ranked up roots. Too much potential character could be added to a new unit based on AOS lore.

Saurus Guard are getting replaced but basic skinks are not. STD seems similar as plastic Warriors were replaced but Marauders were not. Seems like 50/50 chance for ghouls. I do think that new ghouls with visible hints of their delusions, and more weapons, will really help sell the faction to new FEC players so I’m pretty optimistic regarding an update to ghouls. I also think that FEC will remain a smaller faction in terms of number of kits, but maybe that increases the odds that lackluster current kits will get updated.

Basically a copy of the white dwarf. Just really feels like GW has no creativity for Fyreslayers. A shame as this is one my favorite factions lore wise, but just like WHFB dwarfs I’m not collecting since they seem so one dimensional.

Seraphon are out of this world, and I’ve never been interested in the lizards. Among the best GW model lines now. Death heroes are cool but hard to get excited about. Stormcast have been incrementally increasing my interest, surprising myself. Really liking the newer models. I’ll never be a good enough painter for Tzeentch… Still processing how I feel about Cities. Those are some homely dudes. Wondering if they will grow on me. Wanderers being squatted surprises me as I feel that they have been featured in the narrative and novels quite a bit.

Thanks for the batrep! I’ll be trying Warcry soon and will be playing Gitz as well. Going to use it as a narrative beginning for my Grots, so will focus on flooding the board with grots.

GW stores are selling both for Stormcast and Slaves. I ‘m guessing that BOK will be the same since their box also has exclusive models like those 2.

Was wondering what people think of how Dracoth look on the gaming table. They seem kind of static looking online and not as dynamic as most AOS models. The general design is cool but they remind me of the awkwardness of Fyreslayer models for instance. Never seen them on a table in person however.

During the Island of Blood era you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a rat. My anecdote is that Skaven were plenty popular and IoB was pretty close to the End Times, so not that long ago and during a great time for early AOS planning.

Agree 1000%. The different clans present a great opportunity to have updated Skaven in waves. Pestilens should have been very early in AOS when we had a lot of Stormcast and Sylvaneth vs Nurgle. Plague Monks and Censer Bearers really show their age. Pestilens could have fit right in. Skyre wave could have been near KO introduction. Dwarf tech vs Skaven tech. Hello GW! Anyone home? As you said, Moulder during age of beasts and Eshin when the focus shifts to Uglu. Night Runners may be the worst models in the entire GW lineup.

The lack of new Skaven models is one of the greatest mysteries of AOS to me. Skaven are so quintessentially Warhammer and GW and I’ve always been confident that they would be one of the first factions with big model updates for AoS. Shows how much I know.

I’ve flirted with Beastmen for a couple of decades but never committed. Especially during the WHFB days, they just felt like a poor man’s O&G in terms of variety and support, and generally had the same high level themes and unit types as O&G. Their Lore about wanting to tear down civilization and especially hating humans in part to Beastmens’ tragic creation and existence I’ve thought was interesting, especially in a setting centered on humans. Then the idea of some of them rising up to complete with chaos mortals as they are the truest children of chaos is a cool concept IMO. Lastly the subtlety of possible beastmen mutations and hiding on the periphery of civilization is interesting from a story and narrative perspective, if you’re into novels and other narrative gaming. I could definitely get sucked into beastmen if they get more modeling support and updates.

The reimagining and new lore of FEC is probably my favorite “rebranding” in all of AOS, and I’m not even a fan of Death in general. Even just a new box for the ghouls that reflects the delusions would be a huge upgrade and realignment to the lore for the whole faction IMO.

The Fellwaters are serious business compared to their Stone Troll predecessors! The Cave Troll from the LOTR line might be worth looking at as well if you haven’t yet.