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Honestly with how they’ve been flooding UnderWorlds with pets and jumped right on the crab memes I wouldn’t be surprised if Deepkin crabs are in the near future. They already knew pets were big just with how much people loved Gryph-hounds and the Ochtar familiars and now even the new Deepkin hero has a little eel friend. They know what we want.

Now we just need a continuation of that problem in the next big waves with Gloomspite(leading up to Grotbag Scuttlers) and Skaven so all 4 Grand Alliances can be enjoy an eyecandy stream faction.

Now see, that’s the kind of hyping we need. Soup or independent tomes, Demand More. With the insanely vast potential of every AoS army and the infinite Realms of godly Epic Fantasy proportions it’d be a disservice to the setting and game to do otherwise. New armies and units are a must if they’d pull that and a big variety and Lumineth-style overhaul on the old outdated Dispossessed like that would be perfect. Give them large ally options too so we can get awesome stuff like Restorers and Vindictors forming spearwalls of crackling energy as shining Kharadron ships and Prosecutors soar overhead, in Ghyran the Fyreslayers battle over the sky island volcanoes that orbit the Realms vs Skaven that want the resources(actually canon) and as they smoke the Chaos fiends out there’s swarms of ethereal Fallen & Sylvaneth spite-Revenants quickly flank the Skaven with their supernatural speed and connections to the spiritual planes while at the wild Realm edges of Chamon the Wardens and rune-guarded Heroes battle Ossiarchs under clockwork moons & shifting mountains of quicksilver as Seraphon begin to beam down on starlight to aid them in a battle to protect their realm in a place no mortals could survive. That’d be the crazy units and fun narratives that the generals of the Realms want! Edit: oh and heck the color swaps and kitbashes so the armies fit together better would be sweet like fiery red/Magmic Fallen for Fyreslayer summoned lava spirits, Wardens with more steampunk add-ons to be Kharadon robots and Restorers given either sky-pikes & high-tech aether-shields or flame-brazier javelins & razor slingshields to match either faction.

There was the 2015 Shartor the executioner And that absolute unit of a Shadow Realm God-Beast killed by Khorne and resurrected into a dragon Herald up in the Orb Infernia sub-Realm, Vorgaroth and Skalok in 2018. I do wish they’d make more humongous monsters of the Realms. Though I’d also settle for more kitbash parts like those female Stormcast heads.

Yeah, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder but I don’t think I’ve seen a bad FW sculpt in the last decade. They have some truly impressive pieces. The only downside with them is resin and the prices but they’re still solid designers.

Tbf here they were together since AoS1 and the first Grand Alliance Order Book. That’s even what Freeguild means, “mortals” working together which includes any race and the first Order built had a lot of examples of this besides Ironweld with Stonebreaker battalions being humans, dispossessed and Stormcast that destroy fortifications and the Azyrheim Lancehost being human and aelven knights of every variety riding together. Point being there was a lot of build-up and tons of examples for it like “Hammerhal and Other Stories” & “Red Hour” focusing on Freeguild guards comprised of each main race. They had been together since the get-go. This is a big lore oof. You mixed them up but also Gorkamorka is one god that occasionally splits apart to bicker before forming back together again to symbolize a Waaagh. I mean the topic was just for us anti-soup people to celebrate we’re not doomed yet and hope for much more on the aethergold horizon. It’s not an actual argument thread but a hype thread of what we want from individual tomes. There was no need to try and spoil our fun as it is up to GW in the end. We’re just hoping they put maximum effort into it than shrug and say “as long as it gets tournament wins”. We want fleshed out flavor and lore.

Maybe but it’s hard to deny they cater to the hobby whales that brings in a princely sum. When people post their Imperial Knight legions(literally a near a hundred of those things) or stuff like Smaug with a diorama around him the only thing that makes your jaw drop harder than the dedicated work is the price they paid for it. Maybe in a round a decade they can change up to something else but for now they’re better than other alternatives GW can employ to gouge mega bucks out of people.(fervently prays the 40k stickers are the closest to NFT’s they’ll ever get)

Well hopefully that’s why they didn’t get even a mention in this reveal so they have more time for a big release down the road, be it a new godly army or those Fyreslayers in March rumors I cling to like a ur-gold tattoo.

Not without a campaign at least or a few combined stories to actually explain why it happened. As is their efforts haven’t got the groups to agree on joining forces. Broken Realms built a bit towards it but then that build-up dispersed as Grombi was no where to be seen and Grungni hopped over to Azyr to help Sigmar and then had a White Dwarf story show him watching his people from a far and being impressed by their feats without him. And then we have the Corebook and current lore showing they’re still divided and even have instances of attacking eachother over their magic golds or depending which side of a in-debt Dawner party they’re on. If we get a campaign lead-up, Grungni and a new large force of mecha & Fyre mixed duardin that practically turn them into a new army of sci-fi pyromaniacs that control the skies and lava veins below so they can practically forge new lands, flying continents and even sub-realms(that is actually something Grungni taught the duardin to make artificial realms) then more than fine. That’s all badass and builds on new narratives while playing to their strengths an unique armies. But just throwing in a white bearded hero with off-hand soup and calling it a day? Nope. Won’t be happy about that and would vastly prefer different tomes to continue fleshing them out.

Thought i’d resurrect this thread because most of the news is book related(fitting for the newest NightHaunt hero ) Really great humble bundle deal up for those who might have missed it today. And the hyped Gothgul Hollow novel is on the way. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/26/what-is-mhurghast-as-the-darkness-creeps-closer-we-delve-into-this-new-warhammer-horror-series/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=black-library&utm_content=blmurghast260122 Also loving the more spooky look at Shyish here. “It takes place on the lonesome Null Island, a place that already exists on maps of Shyish but has never been explored before. Gothic Horror relies upon its atmospheric settings, and the wild Shyishian landscape – with its melancholy moors, twisted forests of ossified trees, and gibbet-lined roads – naturally lends itself to the genre. The Hollow itself is a made-up region, though. We wanted the freedom to create locations specific to the plot and local folklore. An example is the Blood-rock Peaks, an ancient site of ritual sacrifice, which is perilous to navigate even without being haunted by its awful history. We took inspiration from places like the Derbyshire Dales” Wagonfolk Gulf remind me of Josh Reynold’s except of people in the Realm of Death back in 2017. ”Are there mortal cities in Shyish? What would they look like? -Randolph Carter Yes, a good many. And, as with most of the realms, the cities are diverse in appearance and nature, depending on their location. Some are shrouded mortuary cities, ruled by undying aristocracies of vampires or Deathrattle families, while others are mercantile-fiefdoms, ruled by elected councils. There are theocratic city-states, controlled by organised priesthoods who worship Nagash-Morr, and nomadic wagon-cities which trundle eternally across the vast swathes of desert that mark much of Shyish. There are the iceberg-citadels of the Great Chill Sea, and the hive-like Deep Towns, carved into the mountains of the far south.” While on that Death Realm note, quick summary to the Ossiarchs position right now after their White Dwarf update: “> -the Lumineth strategy worked; the Ossiarch Empire is rife with insurrection, many monuments are still rubble, and with much strength committed to the Arx Terminus they can't quickly deal with this > -the Triptych still hasn't been fully rebuilt > -it's suspected Archaon intends to strike at Gothizzar, though nobody knows how that'd be possible > -with Nagash gone the OBR legions no longer enjoy his favor as they once did and other undead want to capitalize on that, but OBR are also more autonomous for the time being > -Arkhan's secret HQ is rumored to be located in Anadiria, where the Null Myriad hold sway > the power vacuum has seen adversaries like Sigvald's Decadent Host and the Tarkan warglutt run wild > -Katakros is still paining from being struck down by Archaon, but he's also having strange episodes of visions and whispers that even being picked apart and transferring bodies can't seem to fix, and his thoughts will stray to his mortal home in Ghur > -Kragnos had a run-in with the Ivory Host's claim in Bjarl that did a number on them > -to replenish and up their game they're experimenting more with realmstone and monster bones with very few but gradually mounting breakthroughs” Also nifty thing on the “Monster” short story is it deals with an early Soulbound that worked for Sigmar & Grungni back in the Age of Myth who’s soul-connected to his axe like in their recent supplement.(and could be a Kratos shout-out 😛 )

At least it’ll be on brand for the River Temple to water them down.

Soup and defeatism, name a more iconic duo. Yeah, getting those airships and Sky-port subfactions watered down would hit hard against them. And I absolutely believe Disposessed(if they even get included) have that nerf bat hanging over them as both a Bonesplitterz situation and that stuff like Irondrakes have more rules than most two 3.0 warscrolls combined.

Yeah, I don’t envy them on the chaotic supply issues that are popping up everywhere and I imagine news and releases are gonna get more sparse for all the games now that we’re approaching releases that were “worked on” back in 2020’s quarantine. Might be a very slow year and the next until they properly recover.

They COULD be but like you said, you don’t know the raw deal Orruks got by soup(and lesser extent Ogors & Gloomspite that don’t synergize the sub-factions so they’re forced to fight individually anyway) Like if we can get a cool mini-campaign(with accompanying campaign book) to tell the story of why the soup happened and then a Good fleshed out Tome then I’d be alright with it too. However with 3.0 I’m especially wanting full seperate tomes because they can play with the new coalition rules better and promise more support for that faction. Hopefully that’s partly why they separated the Vulkites into two warscrolls so it’ll justify them filling out a tome with even artificial unit choices on top of a few new releases to get Fyreslayers really cooking.

Hey now! Chainghasts actually have a 15” range with their thrown flails. (I actually never noticed until they became my top threat in AoS:Stormground) So I’m imagining 24” range with how elite the Cravenking’s guard look.

The rules are so watered down now in 3.0 and nerfs plentiful you can see the Soulblight thread is terrified of a new tome replacing the rules-heavy one 2nd edition gave them. It’s super not likely to be anywhere that good unless the next tome wave is meatier than we got so far. No, that’s just wanting a bare-minimum bandage on a gaping wound. Full fledged tomes would solve all the problems and promise more support for each faction.

See that’s the defeatism he’s talking about. Fair enough if you’re okay with it but others want more than “okay here’s your new Kharadron ship & blimp hero that also counts as the only thing either Fyreslayers or Dispossessed get for the next year or two and we only gave abilities that benefitted Kharadron units. Coalition variety? Nah, gotta sort out battlelines and keywords in the Duardin Waaagh for minimal mixing.” Big beautiful tomes and proper unit lines along with sweet new Coalition + ally rules are definitely the way to go compared to what Warclans look like.

I’m still calling Malerion for 4th edition Order vs Order, Stormcast Angel/Prosecutor revamp vs devil shadowkin. I wouldn’t mind. I really like the heavier direction on golden face-masks too for both their infantry and Melusai. Nice blend of their decadence and a mirror to the Stormcast with Morathi-Khaine being the darker side of Order. (Also goes with one of my favorite minor Stormhosts the Thunder Barons who get along really well with the Daughters of Khaine so the idea of both marching/flying/slithering out in golden masks is a really cool image )

Ulfenkarn is a Death port city(thus the Kosargi zombie Ogors being sea raiders). It would make sense for the Duke to call in a NightHaunt fleet for a favor since the “have the city pulled into the Nadir” plan fell short.

People already pointed out they use the Kharadron ironclad ships as a fancy travel logo. It started with Hammerhal Herald “joke” and then they kept using it for deliveries and Christmas stuff. It was likely their way of saying safe travels to Vegas.

Should’ve been Silent People to quiet the ranting. 😛 Okay that’s way more badass than a book. Seems NightHaunt are cornering the giant angry book market anyway. Leave it to Kharadron to be visionaries and have already moved passed that to start a new enterprise of angry sky-halls like a vengeful face constantly staring down at everyone that wronged them.

Hear hear! Let kindle the flames of hope with the Fyreslayers and sail to new horizons of possibilities with Kharadron on seperate battletomes! Magma queens, fire spitters, demidroth cavalry, Gigadroth super unit, living volcanoes, dancing fire elementals, Kharadron super ships, aetheric mine-layers, shield ships, sniper squads with x-ray lenses(suck it Lumineth birb hacks), the steampunk bi-planes they broke Belakor’s siege with. There’s tons of glorious stuff there to fill out both tomes and stand up to the aelven tome horde! No more hiding in scrunched up caverns, it’s time for vast empires stretching across the skies and lava lands watched over by two shining tomes And More! Seperate Grungni Gholemkin book AND a Rootking tome of the Realm of Life Druid duardin with their wooden armored armies and soulpod forged weapons!

I’m gonna Anvil of Apotheosis this guy so hard into a NightHaunt Chamon leader for the crossbows. Metal Ghost gunner leading the shooty boo bois. 😍 Someone pointed out the crossbows are basically just grimghasts with their hoods pulled back to reveal the helmets and I really like that detail. NightHaunt are basically militia ripped up from the countless afterlifes beneath Shyish that invaded the realms. Going from scythes to crossbows would be a fitting transition for ill-trained murderers that need weapons low in skill but high in lethality. Also cool the box connects with the story of the fall of Anvilgard. Love me some lore continuation.

Heck yeah he is! Also big red and that Aeldari dark reaper will be good conversion/proxy material for Blades & Bonereapers.

Ghosts with Crossbows!! Heck yeah! That goes great with my wish for Chamonian NightHaunt just like the best crossbow Kruleboyz are native to Chamon in they mecha fortresses and captured Cogforts they outfitted with kill bows and winch-choppas to cut up monsters. Glory to the Realm of Metal!