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Im actually tempted by the Ossiarch box. I really like the Deathrider, and If they are priced like the previous ones its a pretty good deal. But oh well, not this time. Im going all in with Lumineth first. I hope they at least keep the already high price level of the first wave and dont go even higher. The preview article on Warhammer-Community also some interesting informations. The Bladelords all hail from the Tyronic half of Hysh and Ullanor is the representative of the Tyronic Nations, and "voice of the Phoenix Lord". Oh! And the twins can join *any* Order army. Very interesting.

The Dwarf Cannon still uses the old first Edition wording where Crew and Cannon were two different units that can move and act independently. An enemy can for example just target the Crew and leave the Machine without Operator. They would still be locked in combat, but the Cannon would be unable to do anything. Modern warmachines fixed that by removing the crew alltogether in Game Terms (See Stormcast Ballista or Cities of Sigmar Helblaster)

Important to Note, Helon is one of the Tyronic nations. Would be cool If that means we get some lore on them in the new Battletome!

I think this will be something complety new. Neither the new Hero, or the Paragon Knights existed before. So I assume this release will be themed around adding new concepts to the Sororitas.

Shadows in the Mist really focus on how the Blackscale Coil and their infiltration of Anvilgard, the city guide also expands on many locations mentionend in BR:Morathi. There is quite an overlap between the two. Settler's Gain was also mentionend in Champions of Order before the BR Short Story was released.

One reason that speaks for a Broken Realms: Alarielle is Soulbound. The current Campaign, Shadow in the Mist, set in Anvilgard, heavily ties in with the events of Broken Realms Morathi. They released the Anvilgard City guide directly after BR:Morathi and they incorporated many elements from that book. They even stated they work very closely with the AoS team. Blackened Earth will be the first expansion not primarily set in Aqshy. So leaving the Realm of Fire for Greywater plus the focus on the conflict between the city and the Sylvaneth there makes me think a Broken Realms book themed around this is very likely.

The Broken Realms short story are building up a showdown at Excelsis. The very first short story showed an Orruk realizing something is coming, then we had a short story showing Gordrakk using his godbeast ram and asseambling an united DESTRUCTION force of Orruks, Grots, Ogors and Gargants, and there is a short story were Skragrott the Loonking receives a prophecy about him dying at the gates of Excelsis. Plus the short story were Glutos and Sigvald get tasked with marching towards Excelsis too.

Orks are a classic fantasy (the genre) race. I could see a Stormcasts vs. Ironjawz doing very well. Orks appeal to newcomer, and new Ironjawz to the content starved Orruk Wartribes players.

To be fair, the Idoneth were in the same situation with Volturnos, and they turned the generic Akhelian King into a seperate character, King Nemmetar.

Yeah, the Vampire leak confirmed "Soulblight Gravelords" as new faction. That would also fit the "Lords of the Realms" title for tomorrows Stream.

As far as I remember the expansions for Silver Tower only had pre-existing miniatures?

The warscrolls for the Hag and Slaughter Queen state that they can only attempt one of the prayers on their warscroll. So I assume that part on the prayer lore is meant to be a more general description how prayers work. Why otherwise bothering with introducing this specific limit on the warscroll?

Funny that you mention Kharadrons. The KO chat was full of people crying about them being trash, and nerfed into the ground when the book dropped last year, and look at them now. Just wait for a bit and play before saying its bad.

I have been playing my Daughters of Khaine since the original launch and im pretty happy with the changes. I really like Khinerai and Melusai, but I always felt pressured into taking Hagg Nar and taking Witch Aelfs/Sisters of Slaughter, no matter what. With the changes to the subfactions, point costs, army building it feels like we can see more diversity in list building in the future. I dont need an S-tier army, I just want to build a list with models that I like and have some fun. And the new stuff really helps with that. I like that we now can take the improved Blood Stalkers as battleline option, and that we also have the option to chose between Ironscales or Medusas for Melusai armies.

So, judging from the Slaanesh lore article a few days ago, GW will announce the Battletome this sunday (and Daughters of Khaine too?). What are the chances we get all the kits in one go? Myrmydesh, Slaangors, Blissbarb Archers, Seekers, Sigvald, Shardspeaker and Glutos, or am I missing something?

One interesting thing, Cubicle7 was working closely together with GW on the "Shadow in the Mist" campaign for Soulbound, set in Anvilgard. Only releasing the City Guide after the release of Broken Realms: Morathi and producing material for Har Kuron. The next big campaign is "Blackened Earth", set in Greywater Fastness and focusing on the conflict between the local city and the Sylvaneth. Which would fit in nicely with a Broken Realms: Alarielle.

Oh absolutely. It takes around 2 years on average to create new kits (we got that timeframe stated multiple times from people working for GW), so the second wave was atleast very close to done when the Battletome was written. I dont think its unlikely that the whole Lumineth range (Tyrion + the other temples) is already done and only waiting for a release slot. GW stated that all the Primaris units were made at the same time and have been slowly released over the course of 8th and now 9th edition.

I believe having atleast one unit of Dawnriders is always useful. They are fast (even more so with Speed of Hysh), good against chaff units and useful for casting Lambent Light.

Hurakan was a mayan wind god. I think it would be weird to name the whole temple after an existing god. But its position in the unit name suggest that there is a group named like this... Its weird. I would prefer them to be named after the Wind Rune Orealith, to fit in with the Alarith (named after the Mountain Rune)

I dont think so. The armor (on the mount and the rider) are different. Smooth vs. the Elemental temple pattern. And the fur of the mount is more textured on the previewed model.

Yep, sounds very likely. Maybe one more Vanari unit or Hero (or maybe the Llama is a dual built kit). What do we think on the kangaroo unit min. size? 3 or 5?

Interesting take! Kangaroos are quite unique! I like the rider, but I think I need a full view on the mount to form an opinion, but so far im intrigued! Also, whats the animal on the helmet?

The teaser explicitly mentions Wind, so chances are good we get something in that direction!

Not quite a rumor but interesting news from the GW half year report: https://investor.games-workshop.com/2021/01/12/half-year-report/ The GW Finance Report specifically calls out the Indomitus Box, Mega-Gargant and Lumineth Realmlords for selling really well!

Are you sure about that? Plenty of Dwarfs with swords. We also had both elves and dwarfs with axes in Warhammer. So its not like they were always the opposite from each other.