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.

No I didn’t. But you believe what you want. I’m very hopeful for the new heresy and I’m hoping that its nothing like the aos books. thats it. No point having a pop until it lands. Im glad we got that sorted.

nope, sorry but the new battle tomes are rubbish where content is concerned. Ok, I'll set the bar lower... an 8th ed warhammer fantasy army book, not even 5th ed, which were still rich in stories and lore. Nope... still worse than that. All we get now is a timeline, a quick dirty synopsis and paragraph unit entries and then to the rules. Not good enough for the money that's being charged.

about ogre sized but a bit bigger

After reading the blades of khorne book I need cheering up. Definitely on the to watch list. As for the book.... well the best bits about it are whats in the app. Lore and back story... you'd do a better job sitting on the bog. Art... yes... well.... I mean, I know I'm a harsh critic as the Tamurkhan and the heresy black books are THE absolute benchmark as far as this sirt of tome goes, but hashut's beard on a lettuce leaf, the book was nearly as painful to get through as Godeater Son, which was tantamount to pulling teef while sitting on a red hot skewer. Unit descriptions.. as above The whole book is just a waste of time to justify the price of the warscrolls therein. From a lore and story fan point of view it truly sucks mega gargant reproductive spheres. If this is what the writing team deem as acceptable then honestly just up the price of the monthly app subs and just open up all the battle tomes to me for the game mechanics. Honestly it was truly dire. I truly fear for the Heresy campaign books if they're this level of dog toffee.

Whombelorn Garbage liftekin if you don't mind.

Going to play with mighty lord on Juggernaut, valkia, and skaarac with six units of skullcrushers this weekend. victory? - pah objectives - pah visual feast - oh most certainly!

They’ll get a special ability though. in the box is a model of a cat that you can place in any enemy unit. They get +1 to hit and reroll leadership against that unit because someone told them that they can stroke the cat if they can get to it. ”Those guys over there have a cat you can stroke..” this increases to +2 against bone reaper armies as they misheard and though his name was Kattycross

the seraphon are out of the park, I really like them. I'm not a tzeentch head so everything else is meh, meh and thrice meh. I'm actually excited about the heresy campaign book - seeing a lancer on the front gives me hope for a plastic cerastus chassis. Looking at the beastmen in the 40k warband I do wonder how amazing some updated dynamic posed AoS bestigor and gor models would have been, with the original models going back to the Warhammer: The Old World rank and flank models pool. With the Old world coming I feel its the perfect time to relegate the original warhammer fantasy models back to where they belong and give AoS new versions with a more dynamic round base AoS aesthetic vibe to them. As to the big trousers and feather in their hats cities.. they can keep it. cities of sigmar indeed - nearly as much trouble as elves, just smellier and uglier.

I’ll take anything in fairness. but please lord in a lettuce leaf not another deluge of toughness 3, 1 wound mortal cultists / tribesmen / angry farmers in fancy party frocks.

well that's ten minutes of my life I'll never get back. As a community 'we' should just be there enjoying the game / hobby/ whatever in whatever form we choose and not getting obsessed about a dude that can't be effed to crack a box open before buying another. No different to a guy that has more watches or socks than he knows what to do with. As for going out and actively shaming, really? Keeping it in perspective, it's hardly taking food out of the mouths of the starving or preventing world altering medical research, it's just pushing plastic toys around a table. One day when I can be bothered I'll crack some boxes open and paint them, until then they can stay where they are until something comes an wows me for me to get the ultra mojo back, but truth is that nothing is inspiring me to bust out thise models at the moment, and honestly - I'm really not losing sleep over it. Now that said, with some of that stuff, were I to sell it off, with GW price rises of late, I can get my full 100% return on it, so all in all it's win win for me. And when that big burst of inspiration arrives It'll all be there waiting.