Kaleb Daark

There's a lot of monstrous arcanum and storm of magic scrolls of binding monsters in that thar trailer 🤔

I also think it's a very clever move thus far that they haven't released base sizes so that those with existing old world armies can't get a head start and start basing. Brets.. oh happy happy days. I've got my dwarves, so the dwarf hold of karak-Kaboom will march once more and now just waiting on brets to unleash a glorious panoply of heraldic colour.

You'll have nothing to worry about, my bearded friend. Ranks and flanks are all about base to base contact. If it's anything like the old wfb then you won't be playing that conga line shenanigan after the first time. first terrain or obstacle you come to you'd have to reform the unit to get through the gap either through changing ranking or changing facing. ranks mean fortitude and a single rank however long will crumble to stiff wind as units smashing into it with multiple ranks will get extra attacks in on the second rank, or third if they are over a certain size or weapon type. Movement and positioning in wfb was far more critical and stricter than it ever was in 40k or AoS. You won't be able to do that whole waft around the board and rely on 1" coherency thing in a rank and flank game, and that's before the tzeentch wizard on disc goes to the end of the conga line and threw a purple sun down it and took the unit out in one hit. I'm really looking forward to it. The only thing I've always dreaded since the day it was announced? Khorne and Frenzy. In old fantasy, mark of khorne was the most expensive mark for your warriors, and the only mark that you could lose. Instead of giving you +1 strength or the effects of frenzy permanently you just got frenzy. Frenzy was conditional - it gave you immunity to psychology and +1 attack, but of you lost a battle round you lost the frenzy. You also had to charge the nearest opponent unit unless you made a leadership so a vampire count with a swarm of bats on a bad day would have your horde of 50 halberd warriors running around the board chasing it like a bad comedy. It sucked balls, and I really really hated that rule. I always wished that MoK would give a +1 to strength, given the swollen bulk and savagery of the models it always just made more sense - let slaanesh and the elves get the flurry and speed of blows in - but if the khorne unit survived - you knew that under that strength of attack, you wouldn't. So in answer to your concern... I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

all cerastus knights in plastic make me happy, and a proper manticore finally. once I've done a wings and face conversion on it it'll be mythically awesome and will make my chaos lord awesome as well, and I can bin that hideous storm of magic monstrosity they dared to call a manticore. Other than that... yea... meh.

As would a mahoosive khorne dragon which could double up as a nice chaos lord on mahoosive dragon

looks like my FW thirster is becoming a standard thirster.. if they thing I'm going to pay out for those plastic leaping kitty monstrosities they call thirsters then they can go swivel... I'd rather take a dump into my hands and clap. The plastic thirster is truly awful... truly.. Mine might only be the poverty spec thirster, but they'll look like the coolest poverty spec thirsters ever!!!

aye. The easiest route for them is to standardise base sizes and re-release all the old fantasy models as they will cost them nothing. The tooling is already in place and with the increased base sizes all I read into the article was that yes there will be new stuff coming to old world, and that new stuff will be more dynamic in pose, and that a 20mm base size won't help that. If the legion gets re-released when chaos dwarfs get released that would be amazing, as would a built to order khorne dragon so I don't have to have some snot on ebay trying to mug me off that the recast one he's got is genuine but he can't supply the box let alone the rules and story pamphlet that comes with it. Path of least resistance is make in plastic what was resin or missing and leave the rest be.

I've got the following: Scourge of Fate - Robbie MacNiven Warcry Catacombs - Richard Strachen Oaths and Conquests - various The red Feast - Gav Thorpe Godeater's Son - Noah Van Nguyen If you're in the UK, pm me your address and sort out the postage and you can have the lot. I'm about to throw out all my old second edition battletomes and generals handbooks so you might as well have the novels.

sorry, yes you're right. it's a good read and I was looking forward to seeing how the characters evolved into what they became - the Khorne Protagonists of the original AoS starter box. The standout character for me was the guy who will eventually become the bloodsecrator model.

Anything by Josh Reynolds as said above. Soul wars is quite sublime. scourge of fate is ok. Rise of Khul is a cracker, a real pity josh left gw before writing the next one. Stay away from Godeaters Son, the only reason I finished it was because I’d paid for it but in truth it was like pulling teeth but more painful.

This. Utterly and simply this.

oh it totally is, but I was thinking more of a situation where you might have a mixed doubles tournament scenario and you could each take 1k. I mean obviously I never go to such things to win and fully expect to get the wooden spoon at the end of the day... cinematic trailer visuals first... effectiveness second, that's me.

Oh I totally get that, at 1000 points it would be fun to have the big boys slugging it out with just a unit or two as support. I think that would allow for some nice heroic duels, and due to model count would be a really quick game.

That's one of the greatest balls ups of the AoS pointing strategy. From a marketing and sales point of view I do think a trick has been missed by the team. In 40k a 1000 point game can consist of a primarch and some core units and be legit, in AoS you can't run the archaon or nagash figureheads at 1k, and that's a massive oversight from a small game perspective.

Oofff! wow! You’re not kidding. I can see me kitbashing one from an old chaos knight or original blood knight mount- I’m sure I got a loose one somewhere without a rider.