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  1. Kaleb Daark
    I think i already know the answer to this but i thought I’d ask... so, in my head my mighty khorne host follows a bloodthirsty bull and his beefy retinue in the form of the brass despoilers battalion. the doombull would be my general but what artefacts and traits can he take? hes in limbo as he’s not beasts of chaos allegience but he’s not khorne- mortal keywords either
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    Looking at the novellas that are linked several posts back, two stuck out for me: WarQueen "It's a look at the internecine warfare of the Dark Gods' followers, and a particular focus on the Darkoath tribes who make up a huge part of the forces of Chaos." "THE STORYIn the scarred wastelands to the south of the Great Parch, the Darkoath Tribes dominate through ritual and slaughter. Devoted to Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Change, their wild savagery has been transformed into something far greater and more potent. For centuries, the tribes have ruled the Arad Plains, unbeaten and untamed, even as kingdoms rose and fell around them. But now, with the Blood God’s legions massing at their borders, Darkoath Warqueen, Vedra the Sworn, finds treachery and deceit at the heart of her own army. Years of dark service to Tzeentch have left her warriors obsessed with strange creeds and wayward cults. As she battles to forge a nation, Vedra must put her own faith to the test, and learn the true nature of sacrifice and power. Written by Darius Hinks" and The Bone Desert "Gotrek's back in prose, in the first follow-up to the audio drama Realmslayer. New adventures with a new companion – but perhaps an old enemy – await the Slayer!" "THE STORYThe world that Gotrek Gurnisson knew is long dead, alongside every soul the legendary monster slayer once cared for. Adrift in this curious new age, the duardin scours the treacherous Bone Desert in search of the axe he inherited from the God Grimnir, which too has been lost to the annals of time. When a series of assassination attempts strike, Gotrek and his aelf companion Maleneth soon learn that it is not only the wasteland’s ravenous beasts and sinking sands that hunger for their flesh. The heroic duardin is certain these highly calculated and creative attacks are the work of his infamous nemesis – the skaven, Thanquol. But is all as it seems?Written by Robbie MacNiven" I can see me getting the warqueen just to see if I can tease out any lore on the new Darkoath barbarians.
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    If you've got a new faction to fill those boots some how like Darkoath then I get the feeling that this old stock will need to be moved asap, and also by putting it out there you create a nice foundation to build on with what's coming next as you have a nice stack of models already.
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    never underestimate the GW studio and photo department's ability to make something look unbuyable. If its one thing I've learnt, wait till you see them in the flesh to fully make your mind up
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    My money is on feb / march, as january traditionally has never been a release month due to the drought in our pockets caused by christmas.
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    I can see me buying many boxes of Wrath and Rapture! god bless them, they've even kept the old Realm of Chaos typeface
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    I love them. They will take prode of place with the war mammoths and the curs'd ettin Can't wait for the army book to come out. All we need is wulfric AoS to return and deliver a horde of darkoath barbarians to the enemy with the Seafang
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    How exciting- new barbarians and khorne and slaanesh daemons- the typeface is period realm of chaos so thats awesome, and destruction players can hopefully get something to stop them feeling neglected.
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    I’d have to agree about any right minded person! i know that as written its a flat no, but I would say yes its recirocal based on the main gw armies being reciprocal. The lasest beasts of chaos faq and subsequent ghb errata made the beasts an allied force in every chaos army and vice-versa. Nurgle, knorne et al. for instance gets beasts of chaos. The problem you have is that gw won’t post fw armies or monsters as allies. it might be worth putting a post on the fw facebook page asking the question about gw armies having legion as allies and if the answer is yes, whether they could post clarification in the next faq.
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    @ben, it might be worth considering actually doing away with adverts for subscribers? one forum i belong to takes this aproach, and also have a little subscriber label under their user name.
  11. Kaleb Daark
    that's the one thing I miss from old fantasy, the chaos lord on dragon option. I never much cared for the inside out aesthetic two headed chaos dragon galrauch but I always loved the idea of a (generic) chaos lord rocking up on a proper dragon. Dear GW, please make this a thing!
  12. Kaleb Daark
    You're on the fence about this one then? In all honesty I think that it's like all khorne stuff, you need the charge and the first strike otherwise you'll get slaughtered. This is no different. against a horde of say daughters of khaine it'll go down and it will against any other mass lump of hitty things. There's a lot of space to get a whole army around it and just batter the life out of it. What I wanted to see and didn't though was a really good opportunity for FW to put out an awesome narrative campaign as they did with tamurkhan and the Imperial Armour series. I feel that this guy, and skarrac and all the other specials that FW have put out deserve a lovely chunk of fluff to fuel the imagination and to inspire army building on a narrative scale. I like him, another head would have been nice but hey, we can swap him out with a model of our choosing if it bugs that much. look on the bright side, at least in 2000 pts you can't pull the chaos allegience with him, archaon and some rats to fill out the battleline anymore. YES!!!! absolutely. This was Rick Priestley's original vision for the End Times, a massive sprawling sage following each of the four sons of the Kughan, each dedicating themselves to a different chaos god. I'm looking forward to buying him, he'll fit right in with the mammoth and the marauders I have.
  13. Kaleb Daark
    Aint that the truth
  14. Kaleb Daark
    he's 1200 points, so you're not really going to fit a lot in. With a stoker and Bloodsecrator you're already running near 1500 points, which leaves 500 points for other stuff in a large game. I still think that If you throw this guy against a full horde of witch elves with their cauldron and they get first turn I'd imagine he's finished, he'll be a sitting duck to a heavy artillery or shooting army. This guy will do the damage psychologically - you see it land on the table and start convincing yourself you've lost.
  15. Kaleb Daark
    In context, this guy will appear to a guy who doesn't mind losing as his army is just all about the thematic cinematic visual - like me in fact. I'd take him in a heartbeat. I know he’s going to attract all the enemy fire, spells, hordes, everything, but just to have him on the table will be worth every moment he gets overwhelmed and taken off. What I’d get contentious on is when I see a carnosaur with some wings conversion and the guy says ‘khorne dragon dude’. For me the act of saving, committing and buying the model is the privilege of using the scroll, but that’s just me. I did it with my mammoth back in 8th ed. (academic now as it’s OOP), I saved hard (and for what seemed in unimaginably long time) , took the plunge and bought it. It’s a massive chunk of cash, it’s huge commitment in time, money and dedication, and I do think that you’ll get a certain type of player fielding it. Also lets not forget he’s big… actually he’s enormous, so getting a whole army around him isn’t beyond comprehension for your opponent – and in that context 30 wounds will be easily delivered even with all his safeguards. Like all khorne stuff he’ll be relying on getting first turn charges and doing as much damage as he can and relying on leaving enough carnage to make the returning fire weak at best. He doesn’t even have a bravery debuff, which is surprising from something so huge - then again, I'd probably be standing gawping in awe insead of running away as well! :)
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    It'll work really well in my khorne army. I run lots of marauders, a couple of mammoths and the warshrine, so the aesthetic works a treat with them as the look and feel is very realm of chaos : Slaves to Darkness. Most of my marauders are a mixture of marauder and beastmen bits as the corruption has taken hold. It also means I can have a doombull as my general which finally completes the backstory as well. Thank you GW...
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    @Andreas totally agree. It's a throwback to fantasy when a command unit (champion, standard, musician) was an auto include to get the benefits. Champion s could take challenges for you, standards helped with bravery checks and misicians helped troops manoeuvre and move. All boxes now have the option to make the three models out of the box contents but forgeworld always made it so you had to buy the command group separately.
  18. Kaleb Daark
    no, it just has the option of 1 in evry X models can be considered a deathmask but not compulsory.
  19. Kaleb Daark
    If they are to be allies, the cheapest buy in is 520 points. Not going to happen in a standard list, and therefore rending the battalion pointless in a beasts army as they have nothing to synergise with the keyword and cannot ally in anything to do the same other than a slaves hero or shrine. I'm still of the mind that we're seeing something which is making no sense in the context we've been used to, but will make perfect sense with errata / faq and updates. My cup half full side is saying that this allows beast to be used as part of a core go specific army in the same way that Tzeentch got the precedent set with tzaangors and blue guy. The nature of the ever living game is that units and new models will come and not fit or integrate with the older book - your chainrasp thing being an example. However, it's plain to see it should work and be part of the obvious faction. - this is where the rules team etc need to get their back sides in gear. Without these clarifications we end up where we were in warhammer fantasy where we waited years for the book to come out with the correct update in it.
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    it will be FAQ'd and the other books errata'd. Blades of Khorne currently have Brayherds / warherds/ Monsters of Chaos / chaos Gargants - all now under the Beasts of Chaos banner. They will need to be errata'd to take into account the new faction. Does the giving of the keyword not instantly give it allegiance by default? Even as allies you can't fit this battalion in - minimum buy in for it is 520 points. Currently as it stands all you can do is pick up buffs from an opponent fielding a god specific chaos army. Even slaves to darkness can't really give you much if you ally them into your beast army. This battalion really only makes full sense if you can ally in the specific god armies or if this can then integrate with a blades army as a way of saying here's a way of getting beasts in but you pay 190 points for the privilege. I'd be alright with that, a doombull leading a khorne host would be so fitting and proper - what better lord of khorne is there than one carved in his own image.
  21. Kaleb Daark
    Thats exactly how I read it.
  22. Kaleb Daark
    as do we!!
  23. Kaleb Daark
    this and thrice this
  24. Kaleb Daark
    yea, Bray shaman will always be a priest to me! far too feral and primitive to be a scroll reading wizard - don't care what the keyword says! The other cool allies are the cygors, huge potential to start shutting down magic phases for opponents, in combination with out anti magic bits and prices, and the thrown rock at a wizard is always nice.
  25. Kaleb Daark
    @Killax I agree, but I'd still love a doombull general, just so I could paint him brass again! However, the bray shaman as an ally with the devolve spell is brilliant - that could work for us Khorne armies so well forcing the enemy to come to us - imagine dragging a horde of witch elves close enough to you to charge and pulling them far enough away from that cauldron of blood at the same time.
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