Still-young

Ushoran is one of the best models they’ve done.

Yes, I think the rumour engine is separate from their ‘elf, but’ comment, which is just about what the next order Warcry unit is (elves but not DoK).

Why? Could be Lumineth, Idoneth etc Edit: I don’t think the ‘elf, but…’ is related to the rumour engine (Obviously that’s elf related to but). It was just in reply to ‘DoK for Warcry?’

I’m pretty sure it means Elf but not DoK as the next order Warcry band. Edit: as madmac said, missed that.

I’m pretty sure we’d have seen that in this preview alongside the Stormcast and Sylvaneth ones if it was a thing. Plus the photo they showed of the Mawpit thing had the old butcher on it.

Ionus Cryptborn is such an excellent model. I’ve already been tempted to do a dragon based Stormcast force and that really isn’t helping.

I don’t really see what else they’d be?

Yeah. The idea of them not replacing the old skeletons is wild to me. They stopped me collecting TK when the 8th edition book came out, and that was 12 and a half years ago.

They really couldn’t have picked a different name?

The new Ardboys are so good. The other schemes look great as well. They’re proper menacing now.

The duality of man

Yeah for sure. Ogre Kingdoms was the first new release when I got into the hobby (that’s how I know when they came out), and even then I wasn’t impressed with the models you mention. The army idea was sick though. I remember over a few White Dwarf issues there was a short story of an empire caravan going through the mountains, written as a diary. They’d hired Ogre guides/guards and encountered other tribes on the way. Very cool!

Which is funny, cos they only came out in 2005!

It’s not AoS, but Daemon Fulgrim might be the best model they’ve ever put out. I really don’t envy the eventual plastic one having to follow that. The new Ironjawz stuff is excellent. I was worried the Ardboys would be just brutes-lite, but they look well differentiated (and a lot better in my opinion). I think my biggest issue is how much better a lot of this second wave is to the first! Roll on second waves for other small armies (also free rules supplement for them is a nice touch). Im a little torn on Trugg. It’s cool but I think there’s a bit much going on. New Gorgers are obviously a huge glowup from the one they had. Both underworlds bands are very cool. This was a really good preview overall, plenty shown and there’s nothing I dislike.

As dekay says, it came with the 2008 vampire counts book, alongside like the skeletons that were just replaced, the corpse cart. It didn’t look great even then.

Oh yeah the Gore Grunta’s do not look good now. I mean I didn’t like them anyway, but now there’s a direct example of the same idea done much better, in the same army.

There was like a page long debate about it a few pages back.

And an Imperial Fist praetor that’s literally a repose of their existing praetor.

I think you might be thinking of this?

The fact that I can’t wait to see what GW does with modern dark aelves is exactly why I don’t want CoS elves and DoK to end up in Malerions faction. I want to see something new, not hamstrung by old models.

I don’t really know how I feel about the whole Cities range now we’ve seen it all, but I absolutely know that this last batch is definitely my favourite of the lot. The command group and mounted commander are phenomenal.

Nova will probably be pretty sparse now then, at least for AoS. That’s my biggest issue with leaks like this, it generally affects a preview down the line.

That is a gorgeous model. Looks like a painting.

But the armour looks more Imperial than anything, that kinda ribbed look I’m sure I’ve seen in Necromunda and it’s not dissimilar to the ribbed mining stuff of the GSC.

I just don’t think the armour or anything looks particularly Kroot like, even though the hand structure is similar. That said I would love a Kroot update.