Thomas Lyons

Yes, we will be brought in line with Stormfiends and Thunderers. You will be able to have one of each special weapon with the update.

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Correct. Vince and I will do a live after-preview Warhammer Weekly where discuss all of the reveals. I anticipate we'll see a video on with some more info on Forbidden Power, probably with some shots of the new Endless Spells or any other models it comes with, as well a book cover shots for KO and Sylvaneth (alongside their new Shadespire models). For Warcry, I wonder if they might not have a bunch of demotables set up like they did with Shadespire a couple years ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they reveal 2 more of the Warbands as well. Oh, and we'll probably see our first real glimpse at Sisters of Battle models.

No, I anticipate it is endless spells. maybe some optional spell lores and/or allegiances, and more magical items (possibly ones you can/must straight purchase with points). It will probably come in a stand alone box and be associated with a narrative campaign push.

Maybe. But it makes sense of the branding choices. I think you'll find similar design in the aesthetics of competing skirmish games in the market.

So, looking through the images again, I think there is a good case to be made for the fact that we will have multiple Grand Alliances, maybe even at launch, or soon after. So, take a look at this image: As has been observed elsewhere, note that the center symbol is not a faction symbol. Observe: The last piece of this is the starter box. Check out the lower left hand corner. My proposal is that the symbol (which looks roughly like the 8 pointed chaos star) represents the Chaos grand alliance warbands in Warcry, and this is what is being previewed. Based on branding, let me go one step further and suggest that the garish red banner on the box also marks or is associated with the Grand Alliance Chaos branding. Check out the first image again and notice that the red is used as the backdrop for the symbol here. My called shot is that we will likely get other starter sets for other grand alliances that will have different associated symbols and colors. If I were to take a guess, I would say that we'll see blue (Order), black or purple (Death), and green or yellow (Destruction). I recognize this is grasping for straws, but it seems to make sense of the data we have. Edit: It is worth observing that Shadespire has similar color associated branding, with blue for Order, red for Chaos, purple for Death and green for Destruction.

It's actually this label of Exiles and Highborn that has me more skeptical, as these are the keywords used from the old compendium warscrolls. It smells like a wishlisting using a natural outworking of logic and prior warscroll information.

The problem is that, as per the FAQ below, that list is illegal as those liberators don't count as battleline.

It is not in there.

Agreed, that said, I think that is how you fix Dispossessed. By the lore, they're dwarves that have been rejected from their holds, hence the name. I think you keep the core faction and keywords, but allow them to include any other Duardin keyworded unit (so FS, KO, Iron Weld) in the army as not an ally, although they gain the dispossessed abilities (i.e. grudges for past sins against them, resolute, etc.). So those other allegiances (KO and FS) maintain their distinct character, while recognizing that even Fyreslayers can be dispossessed of their holds and find common cause in grudge-settling with their kin.

I wasn't but a friend was. He said they alluded to the fact that Sylvaneth do have a book coming. Let me reiterate the rumor for a couple pages back. We are getting a whole slew of Battletomes this year, much like 40k got last year. Don't be surprised if this is a 10-12+ battle tome year. We will likely have multiple weeks of 2 battletomes released without significant fan-fare, like the FeC/Skaven dual release next week.

I've always held that KO can perform in the hands of a competent player with the right matchups. I think that's what happened here. But the stats don't lie. Here are the most recent numbers, and this has been tallied since the start of AOS 2.0. KO represents 1.6% of the current meta representation over the last 6 months, the same amount of players currently playing Beastclaw Raiders as an allegiance in the meta and less than any other army that has been released since that book was released, and even those immediately before it. It currently has a 38.6% win ratio, meaning that they'll win 2 games in each event on average. Of the 43 allegiances showing up at events, KO ranks as 37th on their win ratio. So, KO only wins more matches (on average) than 6 other armies in the entire game. Those six armies include Beastclaw Raiders (38%), Spiderfang (33.3%), Brayherds (32%), Slaves to Darkness (30%), Darkling Coven (30%), and Everchosen (16.7%). Ironically, of those six, Spiderfang and Brayherds have already been updated and so their stats will only increase, and Everchosen and Slaves to Darkness are queued up to be updated as well (as previously noted) and will likely no longer sit at the bottom. Let that sink in. That means KO will only beat out 2 other armies in the entire game for win ratios. Hope those numbers help put skin on my claims.

Indeed. This is a real rumor. We've heard it multiple times and I'm claiming that I've now heard it from multiple sources. This will be a big battletome year, akin to 40k's codex output last year. We'll see updates for virtually all of the 1e books this year. With the release of the final two Shadespire Nightvault warbands for this season, KO and Sylvaneth, we'll see updated battletomes drop around the same time for those armies. Current whispers suggest late Spring (April/May). As a corollary, this shouldn't be surprising as GW has seemingly broadcast their release schedule in the interwoven releases of Battleforce boxes (2017 and 2018), Shadespire Warbands (Season 1 and 2) and Malign Portents Harbingers. I don't think it is any surprise there there is an interdependent relationship amongst these product lines. Moving beyond these rumors and using this observation, its reasonable to suggest that, beyond updating these prior books, we'll see releases for Slaanesh and Slaves to Darkness (that will likely include Darkoath and even Everchosen). We'll have at least one more big "out of left field, new army", but it is anyone's guess what this is. LLV/Honest Wargamer's statistics don't lie. KO doesn't have representation at events. Even the KO list that did well finished 10th or 11th since it lost its final game. I was one of the primary KO players last season, a moderator in the KO FB group, and am still active in the KO whatsapp chat. Let me assure you that there isn't alot of KO presence at events, and when the those few do show up, most aren't winning a majority of their games. That's what made the performance at Cancon so remarkable. And while there was no direct recording of the session I mentioned from Nova 2017, here is the conversation being reported by us on Warhammer weekly, a couple days after it took place.

Pete Foley, the head of big box games (so all of warhammer) acknowledged in the talk back session at Nova in Fall of 2017. There was a big oops regarding it on multiple different levels. It was also the last battletome out of the development pipeline before they had the full playtester process in place. The consequence was the design of a battletome that failed to meet their expectations and now there is a flagship army within their product line that has virutally no representation in the public eye. Let me reiterate that I've heard from multiple sources that a rewrite is coming.

You can believe what you want. You'll see both Sylvaneth and KO late this spring. Mark my words.

They have publicly went on record to acknowledge they botched the book. The wrong file went to print, which resulted in a majority of the warscrolls needing damage value and range corrections. One of the handful of their scrolls has been completely rewritten. The near universal sentiment of anyone who is informed, including a number of insiders I've talked to, is that the book needs a redesign from the ground up. It is a one dimensional army that generates a un-fun play experience. I believe we'll see a new battletome for KO by the end of April, or June at the latest.

I'm getting conflicting reports on releases now. Sounds like some of the preorder will be on the 5th, but not everything :-./

All of the Gitz go on preorder on the 5th.

Sounds like everything will preorder on the 5th and deliver on the 12th!

The Grudgebound War Throng grants a universal reroll 1s to hit for all units in the battalion, which is better than the Grudge ability in every way, as it only grants conditional reroll 1s to hit.

Moonstone is him/herself a reliable source. They provided us the DoK details (double morathi model, etc) followed by Cthulu elves (Deepkin). Moonstone has demonstrated sources from within the studio - I would trust him/her.

Look no further than the Bloodsecrator, who at 140 points projects an 18" bubble where every unit within 18" gets +1 attack AND battleshock immunity.

Fully agreed. If this change was made, this unit would evaporate off of the table overnight.

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He is almost on a 3+ save, which none of those other options you listed are.