Kaleb Daark

talking of which, have you checked out the latest Roll Models page? There are grots on there and they've all got four arms. could be a hidden clue..

I was rather hoping that FW would finally announce the khorne dragon release date. oh well.

if they go this route it would be a very very old school chaos feel again - which is a good thing and a very clear separation to the armoured tin cans factions.

there we are then, a new faction - the legion of Brazghor. Fiery bulls, Pyromaniac stunty sadists, pointy hats, cloven hoof nutcases... its all good.

Safe to say that these are all tricks they've missed big time, especially now that the legion is gathering momentum. The skullcracker was always a pig of a model, but a remastering or re-imagining would be all the awesome.

certainly me. I was about to order it the week they pulled it.

we need to start pushing FW on their webpage to change the warscroll for skin wolves so they can be marked and get a god keyword. They'd sell these by the bucket load if they did that. In old fantasy they could be marked. TGA Massive.. lets start petitioning!

The right attitude have a rep cookie

they're good but again FW could have allowed us to mark them, then they would have been amazeballs.

Yes yes and yes. ?

i'm tending to think the shard is actually more of a malerion elves release with the snippet in the new rulebook. There's a box out in there to do with the elves of the realm of shadows and talks of the elves with horns and tails, and looking at the shard model, he's quite heavily built and pretty draconic in that respect. Interesting stuff.

use the hellcannon as an allied chaos dwarf war machine like a dreadquake or magma cannon. Far too nice to consign to the shelf.

everything is starting to point to it in the fluff. in 40k Fulgrim is being hailed as due to return very soon as the next primarch. In AoS soul wars novel has a descriptive bit of narrative about a slaanesh chaos lord. The main AoS lore stresses how difficult it is for Malerion, Morathi and the chuckle twins to keep Slaanesh chained and on the maps in the main rulebook his location with respect to his prison is revealed, and although nothing new to us, one can almost imagine that now others of the realms know about it - so only a matter of time before the forces working to free him home in on the beacon so to speak. This hopefully should all roll into a very interesting and exciting time across both systems and my only hope is that it gets the build up that Malign Portents got.

I agree, this is typical GW typo. Pester their facebook page till they cave in and put it right. He's listed in the faction on the store page so just go for it.

indeed. There's also the strategy and project team. There has to be a business case for whatever they do. This was why they teased the cannonness - she was a toe in the water to see if there was interest beyond nostalgia for the Sisters. It's been the thing also with Tomb Kings and Brets at head office. If they were released, would people actually buy them and what would they do that an existing faction does not. I know that every managers meeting someone throws these two dearly departed factions into the mix again, but the reality is that they have to make money to be written into the story line. There's always the detail that something just isn't right for the current story arc or aesthetic, so it all gets held back till the time is right. We can be sure that the timelines and story arcs are at least a couple of years in advance in the planning stage, for example with the rumour of fulgrim in 40k making a return I think we will see slaanesh finally shake his bonds free. there's lots of slaaneshi raindrops falling in the most recent fluff and art, so I'm sure that's not a million miles away.

yes indeed. We will see: a campaign book featuring a full fat battletome within its pages for the Legion of Azgorh The release of the khorne Lord on Dragon The surprise return of every out of production model in the Monstrous compendium remastered and reinvented for the age of sigmar. ... then I woke up and it was morning... ?

I'm sure that's what I was saying with nagash. It's how he sees the perfect order.

was he actually be Morr who was the old world's god of death? Nagash slew him in End times and took on his portfolio.

Yes, as Phil Kelly put it Nagash is "irredeemably evil" in the light and darkness, good and evil dichotomy. However both he and Sigmar are very much the same as Arkhan explains with the Sword and shield example. Both want an end to chaos. This much is clear. And like the End Times, this was not about good and evil but Order vs Chaos. Both Nagash and Sigmar want Order. Where this differs is in their view of what order is. Sigmar would have all his stormcast with full memories and personality if he could. This isn't in question. It's the part of the reforging which concerns him most, because he can't work out why that fragment of the person who was, disappears. (my guess want, is that Slaanesh is the one grabbing hold of this shard ). So, this is important in itself because this is essentially where they differ in their ideologies. Sigmar sees order as a world without chaos. where civilisation can thrive and flourish. Chaos however knows that things can be corrupted because for every noble emotion it has a base opposite. pride, envy, hatred, desire etc. And this is what the chaos gods latch on to to form the seeds of rot. Perhaps, Sigmar in his innocence? naivety? desire to believe mortals can rise above baser instinct and they will not be corrupted or affected by the same if chaos were not there to sow the seed. Now, the important thing here is that Sigmar want his dovoted to essentially live with their own thoughts, dreams and have their own mind. This is where Nagash and his views break away. What Arkhan tells us, is that Nagash also wants order. But his realisation, and thus rationalisation that the human condition is what’s at fault. It’s inherently weak with its desires and wants and needs and thus in order to have pure order and the end of chaos one must eradicate it’s very food source if you will. By making everyone a thrall of death, and thus a part of nagash the free will is eradicated. The corruptible is cleansed, leaving he chaos gods no fodder upon which to graze. They. His legions do not have minds to corrupt, for “they” are he. Arkhan reinforces this so many times even to the mortarchs, to whom he makes clear that if they have mind and purpose to scheme and connive, it’s because Nagash wishes it so. Should Manfredd for instance try and undo or subvert a plan of nagash, it would be because it would suit Nagash for him to do so, and it’s nagash himself that would put the thoughts and their conclusion into his head. It’s no different to one master hive mind relayed through different hosts. Ultimately they’re all just him. Nagash would see all life end in order to have a perfect order. Since he is now death itself, he holds his charge as god of death with great duty – yes this is tempered if you will by the seed of what he was, his power hungry megalomaniac of his previous life, these vestiges in him haven’t left and perhaps he doesn’t really understand why he must feel that he needs to do and be this way rather than just a custodian of dead souls. And at the end of all things there will be nothing. Just dust and ashes. That’s why the ruinous powers fear him more than Sigmar. Sigmar is essentially part of the great game, because he thinks like the mortals he so loves. Nagash is finality, and once he achieves his rule aons will pass with him doing nothing other than just being. He himself however realises that even he is not eternal. I always feel the epilogue of Soul Wars is profound in us understanding that Nagash understands the synergy between him and the others, he understands they strands of fate that bind them but I cannot help but feel he also wants to see, and test the what ifs. In eroding the mortal realms from within, through Neferata’s scheming, he not only proves to sigmar his point of view – the fallibility and weakness of the mortal condition, but also perhaps it’s the most excellent way of charting and keeping eyes on the ruinous powers progress in their corruption of mortals at the same time, and manoeuvre his plans and forces accordingly. Possibly… I like this thread

No, its any buff of any warscroll that applies to it as Agent of Chaos has said. Look at him as a mini Archaon who can benefit from any god mark buff going all at the same time. For argument sake if you had twelve things on the table offering four different buffs to each of the four gods he'd receive the lot. - as well as his own! It's easy to over analyse and over complicate but it really is that simple. It harkens back to the old chaos undivided armies which contained all marks, the only difference is that now your bearer of the artefact gains the benefit of all of them. Don't look at what he can do but what the people around him with buffs can do for him.

ok, scrub that! I've found the post in my army thread and shows the size quite well against the stonehorn bodied warshrine conversion. The squares are 10mm so.. 100 wide by 140 - 160ish?

I'll take the measurements of mine and post them up

beyond big! He won't fit on an imperial knight base put it that way! I hope so Have a look at the 40k squiggoths or stuff like that maybe? - perhaps your barbarians used a different beast of similar epic proportions.

darkoath chieftain. He is available separately https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/darkoath-chieftain I was thinking maybe the chaos marauder gets phased out as they're old beyond reckoning, and the darkoath sculpts take their place as the new barbarian tribes who just survive.

Yea it is. The last page of the Arcanum compendium list it as such. That would have been very funny if it wasn't as you could have had all sorts of huge things on the table ?