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Really good preview for me, but not particularly from an AoS stand point (although I really like both Warcry warbands). 40k actually won a reveal for once, and I really like the HH stuff. I’ve not liked that shadow effect they do any time they’ve tried it and I’m a bit nervous for Shadow Aelves now.

I’m so glad I was wrong about Kroot not being shown.

By their own roadmap Orks definitely seem to be first.

Well, it means one of the silhouette previews was, it doesn’t necessarily follow that they all are. I want to see Kroot as much as the next person but Orks and Custodes are before them and I don’t see three whole codex reveals.

Nah, it’s defo Solar Auxilia

They won’t be, the 30k stuff and 40k stuff are kept pretty separate. You could probably use them for some cool Astra Militarum stuff though.

I’ve heard almost nothing but good things about Shatterpoint though. I’ll almost certainly pick it up at some point if only for times when my Star Wars fan Brother is over.

I always read the Spanish wiki as ‘Sigmar Erotica’, and people do keep saying they want more AoS books… Personally I also don’t want to see DoK rolled in with the Malerion faction. I want the Malerion shadow elves to be their own weird thing. And honestly I’ll be really disappointed if they’re basically the shadow elves from Daughters of Khaine but as a faction, they’ve had two goes at them now and both just leave me really cold.

Front view of this helmet? I think it’s Lumineth for Warcry.

Curious why you’re expecting Kroot before Custodes and Orks? I really want to see the Kroot, but Custodes and Orks are both before Tau on the roadmap, and I don’t see them showing 3 whole releases. If we get any Kroot I imagine it’ll just be one as a tease.

40k 10th was shown at Adepticon last year. Assuming the release dates are similar to last year, the preview date will probably also be similar, so Adepticon is the logical place for the reveal. I think GWs reveal schedule for a new edition last year is a better guess than the reveal schedule specifically for AoS but 6 years ago and 3 years ago impacted by a pandemic. We’ll see though!

I’d be sad to see the Stormvermin models go tbh, they’re probably my favourite of all the unit kits from fantasy and I have a huge soft spot for them.

It’s also the last book in a very popular series that started in 2006 so yeah it was always gonna be busy.

Why would you take Whitefangs word that Chaos Dwarfs are coming, but not that Skaven are in the starter?

Could they not at least have shown off more than one?

I think the sculpted base means it’s probably Warhammer Underworlds.

The dragon is plastic. Doesn’t seem like they’re getting anything else in the near future.

I think I saw the two army boxes (Bretonnia and TK) are like 1250 points? I think TOW will definitely be larger numbers.

Did a bunch of stuff go Online Only with the new site, or was it before that? I was just having a Quick Look at the LRL models and considering they’re a pretty new range, a lot of their models are online only.

Shamefully nothing really AoS on the slate currently. In all my years in the hobby I’ve not actually built and painted a full force of anything, I tend to flit between projects, buying stuff, building some, painting less. I’m planning to try and knuckle down and get a full force done (a 2000pt list of Heresy Death Guard). I’ve just finished off a couple of tester models and while I didn’t love the painting process still, it feels doable. I also see a Tau force in the horizon if the Kroot rumours pan out (which they seem to be doing). I would like to settle on an AoS force later in the year if I actually get the rest done for once though. Seraphon, Cities of Sigmar, Flesh Eater Courts and Lumineth Realm Lords are all contenders, plus seeing what else comes out for AoS!

No, the Knights on Foot (the new plastic ones, nothing made to order) are on the price sheet but not in the article. What you’re talking about would be the other way round.

They’re on the price list though, so presumably coming now.

Really difficult year for mini of the year for me this year. I guess because it’s Forge World Fulgrim Transfigured isn’t an option or he’d probably win, but after that it’s pretty stacked in AoS’s favour. Angron or the Lion will probably win overall though.

Couple of pages late but the new Varghulf is probably my favourite model of the new range (behind Ushoran of course). It really reminds me of the wendigo from Until Dawn but bigger and meaner (actually looking again I think normal Ghouls are closer to the wendigo in the game but there’s something about the posture and expression)

The duality of man