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We don't know that yet, Could be similar to "terminator armor" for space marines(thunderstrike host could be a special position in a stormhost, like space marines). And I don't see them replacing every other stormcast kit just to fit one aesthetic(and gardus/new Lord-Celestant model just came out) . I also suspect that the new stormcast terrain will lore wise be a way for normal stormcast to return to azyr when they die in battle. Every chamber looks different. This one(if it is a chamber) looks more medieval then greeco-roman. Also, I don't like Vindictors.

The Order of Azyr are witch hunters, I think you mean "devoted of sigmar"

try here, https://www.tga.community/forums/topic/22826-the-rumour-thread/?&page=2479#comments

Rumour from 4-chan, again take with a grain of salt.

This was on 4-chan, take with a grain of salt.

Maybe that new army is not stormcast. but is instead freeguild or the knight of azyr? An army like this

What do you mean and where did you get this info from?

Could be that the Covenant Chamber is opening. Priestly/crusader stormcast who go to war to find lost stormcast souls.

Stormcast "battle-barge" space ships

I wonder what the Covenant Chambers and Logister Chambers are all about. The Covenant Chambers sound like they have something to do with priest and Logister Chambers sounds like something for transportation.

I expect stormcast war machines, maybe a storm-cannon, maybe even a twin-tailed heavens dragon.

This is not a Superman problem, this is incompetence on part of the writers. Who can't even remember the lore that they write.

I used to think when people said GW hates stormcast eternals, people were just exaggerating. But With the release of Broken Realms: Be'lakor, I'm starting to believe this is true. Sigmar's stormcast Eternal project has basically become a complete and utter failure. I loved stormcast eternals from the very beginning, edition 0. I remember when I first saw images of age of Sigmar and I was amazed. I loved the models, I love the lore, I loved Vandus, I loved Gardus, I loved Thostos, I loved them all. And to see the dumpster fire that they have been reduced into, feels me with deep sadness. Sigmar who chooses the best mortals he can find to be made into stormcast, that means Sigmar has a very tiny recruitment pool to pull from( vastly more difficult than the recruitment of Space Marines, as they can just pull as many potential recruits from the general population has they want to, but Sigmar has extremely high standards for his recruitment). But the reforging flaw made that all completely irrelevant, just destroyed it on a conceptual level. Why even pick Heroes if they're just going to be reduced to just a Mindless husk. Or worse, they slowly change into Psychopaths. I remember what the celestial vindicators used to be like, they were those who died swearing vengeance against chaos, they had saw all their families and friends slaughtered and their homes destroyed. What we got out of that were stormcast that were Avengers, they turn their blades against those who victimized the powerless. I remember the type of person Thostos Bladestorm was, an Exemplar celestial vindicator. It was he who found ghal maraz, and now he is dead. And the celestial vindicators? They have degenerated into a stormhost that butchers the powerless. It stinks of GW interjecting Space Marine Into Stormcast Then GW jumped through a bunch of Hoops to create as many ways as possible to permanently kill stormcast, it was a rare occurrence at first and really hard to do. But with the release of a broken Realms morathi, the slaves to Darkness can just make chaos shrines that can just suck in stormcast Souls. But that ain't got nothing on Broken Realms: Be'lakor, This book was the final nail in the coffin for stormcast eternals as a concept. GW said f*ck it, stormcast are cut off from the realm of heavens. This has effectively made them extinct. And set Sigmar up to fail. You might ask, what do you mean this set him up to fail. Look at what he has to fight against. Chaos controls 95 to 99 percent of the Mortal realms outside of azyr, they effectively have endless chaos mortal armies, and that's not including the endless daemon armies that can't die by the way. Then there's death, Nighthaunt are basically endless and most of the time seem to be completely impervious to any form of harm or impediment. They can fly, they can go straight through walls and most of the time mundane weapons and guns do nothing to them, including stormcast weapons. Read of the Soul Wars novel, stormcast fall over dead constantly in that novel to the point where I had to ask were they even useful to the city, multiple sacrosanct Chambers were there are by the way. Then there are the bonereapers, some people have said they are deaths equivalent to stormcast. I beg to differ, they are astronomically better than stormcast in every conceivable way. These things are nearly invulnerable with the ability too easily replicate. All they need is some bones and any old handful of Souls. And this is not counting all of the other endless amount of dead things in the Mortal realms. In hindsight, for something called age of Sigmar. Sigmar has had very little or no success at accomplishing anything he set out to do. His stormcast eternal project that he spent centuries and so much effort doing is a complete failure. He barely took any of the other mortal Realms back and that's been completely compromised, and turned into a detriment. You might ask, what about the realmgate wars? He managed to reclaim a bunch of Realmgates and build the cities of Sigmar around them. And I would ask, what has it actually accomplished for him? They are constantly under attack, several of them have been destroyed and both chaos and death Cults flourish in them. All they have accomplished is empowering tzeentch and potentially slaanesh. Many of the Cities were even constructed by Valius Maliti, effectively guaranteeing that they are doomed to chaos. I don't know how Sigmar does not know that his most exalted architect Valius Maliti is the changeling. What has Sigmar actually accomplished in all this time? The Elven gods imprisoned slaanesh, Nagash Unleashed the necroquake and forever altered Magic on a cosmic scale, morathi succeeded in ascending to godhood. What did Sigmar do in the grand scheme of things? He built some cities, he has not even been successful in liberating even part of the great regions of the Mortal realms. Verdia, Capilaria and the underworld of Stygxx are all overwhelmingly still under the Dominion of death or chaos. He didn't even end Soul Wars, teclis was the one that did that. GW has Witten Sigmar terribly when it comes to him accomplishing anything.

It's unlikely that they're going away, and they do view themselves as an alliance, otherwise the hallowed Knights would not have been enraged at the seraphon in broken realms. look lumineth just had a new unit released that can join any order Army, so they are still doing things rule wise with grand alliances, and most likely will continue doing so. Grand alliances are a part of age of Sigmar has identity, and are supported in the main game of age of Sigmar and the aos soulbound RPG. They are most likely going to stay around. But I will concede you this, could they go away, maybe.

In fighting does not mean broken, both chaos and destruction in fight all the time. But they are both United in overall philosophy and goals. Like I said they are a part of age of Sigmar's identity, just like the Imperium is part of 40K is identity. Also the soulbound RPG incorporates and builds upon the grand alliances.

Grand alliances, are intrinsically a part of age of Sigmar's lore,rules and identity. They are not likely to go away. The AoS soulbound RPG also incorporates and builds upon the lore of grand alliances.

Sad

I want to ask the dev team way they did this. Someone needs to tweet that video to the rules devs

Vince out here speaking the gospel!

I thought we blew up the "The Great Oubliette" during the dread solstice campaign? End The Great Jailbreak As battle rages through the Prime Innerlands, Nagash casts ever more enemies into the Great Oubliette. Warlords and warriors alike tumble helplessly down hissing wells of grey sand, before plunging into the deeper darkness below. They stagger to their feet amidst endless stone corridors and whispering walls of shadow. In his arrogance, distracted and set off balance by the sheer amount of foes hurling themselves at him from every side, Nagash has erred. More and more armed warriors mass in the corridors and halls of the oubliette until at last its guardians cannot hold them back. War rages through halls that have known naught but silence for thousands of years. Weapons are unleashed whose power even the arcane wardings of the oubliette cannot withstand. Hundreds of cells are smashed asunder and the souls within released to recorporeate. Occupants trapped since before the Age of Myth emerge, blinking in the light. Ancient magisters and mages, disgraced vampiric aristocrats, snarling greenskin warlords, ice-hearted queens and Sigmar-touched heroes, blind loremasters, duardin kings and arrogant Skaven clan-lords; all of these and countless others burst from captivity and seek to make good their escape. Anarchy reigns as battles are interrupted by the resurrection of beloved heroes, the return of long-lost loved ones and the sudden recorporeation of nemeses long thought slain. Some souls are trammelled once again, of course, but many more escape. So are the ranks of the Anvils of the Heldenhammer hugely reinforced, Sigmar’s lightning spearing down again and again to snatch up heroes loosed from millennia of hardship. So too do many races see the return of heroes enshrined since time immemorial in folklore and legend. None can say what fate the Mortal Realms will face in the dark days to come, and all attempts to unseat Nagash have failed, but at least the forces of Order, Destruction and Chaos alike will face the looming darkness with their greatest heroes restored to them. You were an instrumental part of this great victory, warlord, and you stand taller in that knowledge. Let the shadows gather – you are ready.

strength vs toughness (I don't know, just guessing)

"sigmar soul hunters" With what happened in Broken Realms, I believe this.

If Kragnos is the last book, then that's extremely disappointing. So many plot threads from throughout the soul Wars have yet to be resolved or expanded on. And so many characters are left in this nebulous state where we don't really know what they are doing at the moment.

I wonder if we will get a Broken Realms: Alarielle book

https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Karaznethil