Iskander

This was a thing in the old WFB lore too. Page 10 of the Lizardmen Army Book has a blurb indicating Lord Kroak was but the first such slann-mummy. Also, if you play Total War: Warhammer II (MINOR SPOILER AHEAD) and consider that at all canon, a relic priest showed up in that game too. My copy of the new book won't arrive for a few days, but I love seeing little notes like yours indicating that GW brought back a lot of tidbits of old lore. It makes me feel like my Seraphon dudes are even more connected to the Lizardmen dudes they used to be

My irrational hope is that they'll update the Empire and Bretonnia Compendiums to allow a whole lot more "counts as" stuff for the new Cities of Sigmar battletome, and move the old Empire and Bretonnia warscroll collections into Warhammer Legends. And maybe do the same for Tomb Kings. (Examples: Men-at-Arms would formally count as Freeguild Guard; My newly departed Freeguild Archers could count as Crossbowmen or some other Mortal Archers; Tomb Guard would formally count as Whatever The New Death Faction's Infantry Are, etc.). I suggested this to GW during the last Big Community Survey. I know they won't do this. Lore difficulties aside, I accept that GW wants me to buy new things. They don't want me to avoid buying new things by playing the new game with my old things. But at least for a few days I can dream

That is one gnarly model! Also, trade the jump pack for wings, and swap out the head for one with less tubing, and you could have a cool daemon prince or something for AoS.

Soooooo the winter-themed banner on https://www.warhammer-community.com/ is changing! The Stormcast snowman is now a goblin snowman! There's mushrooms growing everywhere! There're spooky critters in the tree! Maybe that means nothing... but maybe there's a bad moon rising.

Somehow I find myself wanting both the Darkoath and the Kharadron warbands. Dang those look cool. And the big grumpy troggoth too lol

I'm pretty sure a lot of battalions went up in cost to account for the extra command point they give. But otherwise I think your description of that battalion I accurate

Maybe! He was "Mortarch of the Abyss," so even in that state he was nautically inclined. I can only imagine what that mini would look like now. Presumptively spooky. Also, apparently in the End Times, Mannfred betrayed him to his final death. So, if he does come back, there's some built-in intra-faction drama ready to go!

For better or for worse, I thought they already did raven cultists, in Spear of Shadows. Those were (not inappropriately) Tzeentch worshippers. So, we'll need another symbol for Death. (Good try though! )

Those announcements were a huge thing. They're setting the bar for themselves high on this one!

Do we know for sure that allied units can satisfy battleline requirements? Like, that would be cool, but I hadn't read that anywhere yet.