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I think we will get Thunderstrike Liberators (the concept art was used for Realms of Ruin) as well as a number of other 2015 models refreshed into new Thunderstrike kits. Anything that doesn't get Thunderstrike armour will be retired to Legends. Extremis, Vanguard, and Sacrosanct will eventually get refreshed, but not at the edition launch. They may prune a few units like Castigators in the new book. I'm not sure we would get a new Lord-Relictor since we already have a Thunderstrike Knight-Relictor and Ionus - the original Lord-Relictor - has a new model. It could go either way, but if I had to guess I would say they will just cut the Lord-Relictor model entirely. There's also speculation that they are dropping the Lord and Knight distinction in the next battletome, since Ionus did not have the LORD keyword initially. Vandus might be killed off before 4th edition. There has been foreshadowing to his permanent death in the Dawnbringers books and short stories. Here's my guesses for what is being refreshed and what is being cut New Thunderstrike model: Celestant Prime Vandus Hammerhand? Neave/Knight-Zephyros (already done) Knight-Heraldor Knight-Venator/Knight-Azyros Lord-Celestant (with a special character option?) Lord-Castellant (already one in Toll's Companions) Prosecutors Liberators (already kinda confirmed) Judicators Retributors/Decimators/Protectors Removed with no replacement: Gavriel Sureheart Lord-Relictor? Lord-Veritant Knight Vexillor (rolled into Thunderstrike warscroll) Knight-Questor Maybe Gardus will be thunderstruck into a Lord-Commander during the next narrative campaign. On top of the refreshed kits we will get some brand new ones for Ruination Chamber units, but I don't think it will be a huge Chamber. I expect 1-2 units and 1-2 heroes, at most.

On a recent Loremasters episode about the Gnarlwood they mentioned Sylvaneth and OBR in those woods, and we still haven't seen anything for Sylvaneth for Warcry.

They used to be released once a year in Sep/Oct. For some time they were releasing them twice a year, similar to the Generals Handbook, but it seems that time is over now and they are back to one per year.

Told you so

Any minute now

I've always assumed Theridons are the replacements for Bullgors

Bretonnians -> Stormcast Tomb Kings -> Bonereapers Wanderers -> Kurnothi? Phoenix Temple -> Tyrion phoenix guard?

"Cast Off Your Shackles" ...by becoming a Slave to Darkness?

Whitefang Jr. was right

Maybe they delayed the release because of the WH+ tie-in?

The Darkoath Warqueen in Malign Portents finally makes sense. I wonder how long they have been waiting to release these units...

I don't think FEC is getting new models any time soon, but Cities would probably see a 2nd wave in 4th edition. There is just too much about the Dawnbringers and the various Cults and the mechanical stuff (cogforts) that wasn't fully explored in this release but they've been hyping it up for years.

Cities is clearly half-baked and FEC eventually needs replacements for its older kits (especially Ghouls).

Anyone else find it strange that a blind woman needs line of sight for her prayer?

I think Zenestra

Ironically, no

I'm really torn on the idea of indexes. Overall I think it's good for the game, and helps ensure everyone is on the same playing field and don't have to wait up to 3 years to get a battletome updated for the current edition. The most grossly overpowered armies in this edition were the armies using 2nd edition battletomes for a long time (Beasts of Chaos, Flesheater Courts, Seraphon, Cities) and the White Dwarf updates were a clunky solution. As a Stormcast player, I know the index will be invalidated quickly by the new Battletome, and then the battletome will be power crept out of relevance within 1-2 years. As a Seraphon player I would be very happy to get new rules because the 3rd edition book really missed the mark for me. As a new FEC player, I would be annoyed that my new Battletome would get invalidated so quickly. This wouldn't be such a problem if FEC got an index at the start of this edition. I don't follow 40k closely, but my impression is that the 40k team has handled updating the indexes very well. They just released an entirely new index for Dark Eldar. Even if it is just copy/pasted from their upcoming codex, at least it shows a commitment to making sure no army is left behind for long periods of time. The only complaints I've heard about 40k indexes is that some armies are way too strong (Eldar) and some armies are lacking flavour (Death Guard).

It did, twice The first time was when AOS rules launched and they indexed every WHFB army, and the second time was with the Grand Alliance books that updated the WHFB armies into AOS armies. They had a Grand Alliance index book for each grand alliance. They even included some warscroll battalions in each of the books.

Did we ever figure out what this was?

Skaven finally getting their comeuppance from Nagash?

Vandus is our Sanguinius

I want to be the first one to predict AOS 4th ed releasing June 22

No changes to Ushoran's stacking delusions? Get ready for some real stupid lists folks

Bael-Grimnir, hopefully

4th edition will almost certainly be revealed at Adepticon (March 20 to 24) and will likely launch in June. Dawnbringers 4 is being released February 10 Dawnbringers 5 will likely be released around Adepticon, and Dawnbringers 6 will be released in April/May or just get canned like the Alarielle Broken Realms book It seems like there have been some setbacks in the release schedule due to whatever caused Legion Imperialis to get delayed. Hard to get excited about Dawn 5/6 if there's a new edition within a few months!