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3 hours ago, Ejecutor said:
It is curious that we got a new box for the competitive scene as we are waiting for the next ed box. Would it change with the release of the next ed?
Doubtful, especially if all AoS4th does is continue on refreshes so it’s fundamentally the same as AoS3 with only a few new twists in rules & Realmscape.
Also interesting that’s a Dragon-Ogor Battlemat.
Could it be the “GW doesn’t care about BoC” rumors are off bounds like they have been since 2018? 😄
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7 hours ago, Ejecutor said:
Or even better: "This year's Warhammer Fest has been stolen by the Skavens that are coming in the 4th ed box from Age of Sigmar, but we are sure they will return it bigger and better for the next year.... ups, did I leak something?"
It would be actually cool on a meta level to show certain events in a roadmap chewed out with little ink covered Skaven foot prints trailing of the article to hint they’re building something up.
Then come May they can start dropping new faction rumor engines again like they did for Kruleboyz but this time pictures taken* by Stormcast Eternal Vigilors hounding after the rats in the Hammerhal alleys getting glimpses of the new models they’re hiding on the run.
*fun bit of flavor it can be from an Ironweld camera using aetherquartz & Shyish magic to trap the images in time. 💡
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8 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Hum, maybe the tower Ionus is building has a relation with the Ruination chamber. Sounds like a name that fits it.
I think it’s more than likely.
Which is why I think it’s gonna end up a giant forge of sorts.
The Chambers are always active just not “unleashed” so Ruination Stormcast have existed before. Same with Sacrosanct always being there(even the Realmgate War novels hinted at them in the stormhost meeting room parts) working behind the scenes.
So logically Ionus’ tower wouldn’t create them but allow them to open up and operate in the realms. Which could be why it’s at the Adamantine Chain surrounded by active volcanoes & duardin workers if they’re making “bodies” for what I assume are the Ruined and stored away souls.
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2 hours ago, Goatforce said:
Regarding launch box contents for Dominion and accompanying SCE range, I wonder if - as people have speculated - the refresh of the 1st Edition stuff in the upcoming box means that in 5th edition the Sacrosanct chamber will be refreshed? So Sequitors etc?
I think I’ll be much longer out than that.
If they’re going by chambers then ideally it’d go:
AoS4 Warriors (still suspect 2025 to be an actual refresh for 10 year anniversary)
AoS5 Extremis & Vanguard(staple down what the new heavy cavalry & light cav will be with the hunters and whatever new Dracothion units or warriors they make)
AoS6 Sacrosanct (newest of the bunch with a ton of ways to drag their feet on needing new armor with their soul enhancing powers)
AoS5 being Order vs Death is a good shout but who knows what Death will throw out next. Maybe Nagash will enslave the spider death gods living beneath him that make those portals that undermine him so he can get revenge on the Skaven’s gnaw-holes with his own “webway” portals and Sigmar unleashes new Vanguard and the Logisticar Chamber to quickly locate, teleport to and stop the undead spider hordes? (Just for an example)13 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:Does this kind of project names have some sort of relation with their plot? Or are they purely random?
Project Star sounds like Azyr.With GW it can go either way. Like back in 2010 the rules design team working on AoS was called Project Stanley. 😄
4 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:At some point we have to have new chambers released. If I am not wrong there are 2 or 3 still pending to be opened, so maybe we have something else to fight against death.
We still have
Ruination
Covenant
Logister (newest one made during the Age of Hope to help coordinate troops & supplies from Azyr to the other Realms. I like to think that’s where all the Stormcast scholars, engineers and eggheads are)
So Covenant should be after Ruination.Maybe that’ll attune with Extremis refresh for Dracothioncast kinda stuff? 🐉
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2 hours ago, DoctorPerils said:
Yeah that would be great 👍 perhaps have an intermediary "Cog-Keep" like:
- steam tank (gun hauler size)
- cog-keep (frigate size)
- cog-fort (Ironclad size)
Lore-wise there already is variants with smaller Sentry-Keeps & Border-Walkers which are smaller Cogforts than the walking fortresses/city ones.
I’d imagine Border-Walkers are what we’ll get as mobilized defenses for all the new settlements out there that succeeded and need a visible walking tank deterrent against stuff like Kruleboyz and BoC eyeing up the place as an otherwise easy mark.
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28 minutes ago, ERHanmer said:
However, I can also see GW deciding to just blow it up with Skaven, because that seems to be the only plot resolution they can come up with.
I mean AoS4 starting with Skaven that could be the prevention of them pulling that with the tower as the new Chamber is unleashed to defend their strongpoint.
That said I don’t agree with that last bit. Skaven’s last major play was Malign Portents and that wasn’t even a resolution but just changed course on Nagash’s plans from sucking the life from the realms to flooding them with ghosts & undeath magic the hole in the UnderWorlds opened from the damaged pyramid.
Before and after that it’s been everything from Stormcast, Orruks, Daughters of Khaine, Lumineth, Kharadron and other resolving story arcs from the closing of the All-Gates to Archaon’s plans to invade Azyr foiled from his Varanite staches siphoned dry.
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1 hour ago, 01rtb01 said:
Just been looking at the lumineth shared at the last set of reveals. Likelihood that the water spirit will be a water horse based on their helms?
After looking at the incoming lumineth again I do really like them.
Very likely. I’m thinking based on Poseidon’s Hippocampus(high five to people that remember that unit from Age of Mythology RTS) while their Eastern inspiration side nods that the Zodiac has the horse for the water elements.
Will be interesting to see how that translates to units since they opened up design room with “River Aelementals are the most numerous of the spirits” so they can throw in any kind of water units they can think of while the Pachyderm Sages give them a tanky ally.
Which does leave Deepkin fans envious but we all know the solution.
Battle crabs 🦀 ⚔️
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9 minutes ago, Chikout said:
The alternatives aren't exactly great though. Nagash has taken over almost all the nice afterlifes. So your fate after death is either to be enslaved by Nagash, eaten by a chaos god, used to expand the life of a Narmarti, made into an enteral soldier in the service of Sigmar or utterly destroyed.
I'd take the Soulbound existence every time. No more aging and also no eternal torment.
Uhh, that’s a good point.
Makes the Lethis “serve for the rest of your life on the giant hamster wheel that powers our city to earn your safeguarded underworld” more reasonable when you consider you’re in a Soulsborne-like cosmos where almost every mook can capture & use your soul like cheap currency.
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23 minutes ago, Kronos said:
It’s too far fetched from what it seems to get Sigmar…But what of an Eidolon with the styling of Sigmar, or rather, Sigmar as he was.
That’s actually an interesting theory. That’s similar to what Deepkin do to summon their Eidolon by sacrificing soul reefs to it of their sealed away sacred kin so Stormcast could do something similar to make them apart of Sigmar for that “rest” as he re-absorbs the essence he gave them along with their souls and summon forth his elemental war aspect as a Prime 2.0.
Certainly would hit those Noblebright tones of the setting to set broken Stormcast on a penitent path so even if they can’t be forged anew they can be recycled into something greater and live on that way.
Even goes back to End Times when Sigmar first reincarnated and those in the hall saw a great number of different king faces before Sigmar’s manifested over them, making him like a divine soul collective.
1 hour ago, Ejecutor said:Not really just speculation. There was a rumour some months ago (I think) about those SCE Dreadnough-like. How feasible it is... no clue.
Yeah, it’s been a pretty long time rumor even going back in AoS1 of duardin forged engines housing their souls.
GW have certainty been happy in bringing out AoS1 characters & places like the Lady of Vines and now we’re back in the Scabrous Sprawl from the 2016 God-beast campaign so maybe those ideas will be reforged as well.
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Then don’t call it rest when there’s nothing left. That makes it sound far better than it is when you cease even existing.
(That is the fate of Soulbound too. They don’t age anymore but a Soulbound hero killed has their soul obliterated. Grungni theorizes what happens next is it goes down to the bottom of Shyish to combine with other soul fragments to reincarnate into a new person)
Pity if that’s the direction they go with Vandus. I’d think giving him the Bastian treatment would be better but I guess they want to move on from older characters.
Edit: your confused reaction is warranted as they don’t really want to move on from him but this does feel a janky path to put him on compared to other options that don’t make him a timebomb they’re ready to off.
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2 hours ago, Whitefang said:
Sometimes the only way to save souls that broken is to grant them the final rest and end.
Well that’s the problem, their is no rest for weaponized souls save oblivion. That’s why they become lightning gheists as Azyr pulls them up instead of Shyish in the UnderWorlds to rest at.
Doesn’t really go against a stronger shell for them but eh or even better armor like Bastian got for his wounded soul. I’ll wait to see what they come up with.
Would be interesting if that’s the purpose of Lethis and the underworld Cthorak went back to search for a soul vault of sorts instead of oblivion they’d suffer otherwise.
2 hours ago, ScionOfOssia said:So Vandus dies?
I imagine they’ll set him up in something that could be risky for his fractured soul.(like a construct body to go out in a blaze of glory)
Because if Khul gets him then I assure you that’s no final rest in chaos. 😬
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Just now, BarakUrbaz said:
Cogforts have literally been around in the lore since Malign Portents and the whole Stormcast Dreadnought thing is nothing but idle speculation on this forum.
Even before that, first mention was back at the end of the Seeds of Hope campaign in 2016 and the shift to the 2017 Firestorm Campaign.
The Cogforts expanding Hammerhal Aqshy’s borders so fast is what lead to the 2017 WHQ:Shadows over Hammerhal as the slums used to be thriving markets until the city expanded and left them behind in the center.
But also yeah just fun speculation, though I do think AoS is at it’s funnest when it embraces itself as “40k fantasy” going crazy with what it can do.Besides it’s not like super tech is alien to the fantasy universe. Just watch the final battle of the chaos dwarves when it’s copter & bomber air raids with rapid-fire guns & bombs vs mecha, artillery trains and rockets.
(30:00 minute mark)
But that’s the beauty of AoS and the Mortal Realms. You can easily have Freeguild common sword troops marching alongside Ghyran giant beetle riders, Ghur troopers in spidersilk mail with monster bone weapons and chamonites on clockwork creatures with grenade launchers and it all fits like a cosmic glove for the setting. 👌
He k this guy just posted his Freeguild general today and I’d love to see this mechanical monument in melee. 😍-
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59 minutes ago, EonChao said:
And I think stormcast dreadnought golems are much more interesting than flagellants, although I think maybe one soul in each one rather than them being filled with multiple ghiests.
Also makes more sense with the latest stories. (Flagellants honestly sound like they were going off the Christmas rumor engines that looked like zealot flails)
Sigmar & Ionus both want to save those older frayed souls and now that Ionus is bringing in Lethis equipment that could point to a stasis project and Peacewater which is a export from Lethis that can be distilled to make medicine that “soothes the mind and boldens the soul”.
Venerable souls being put in big shells as they await a solution to the reforging flaws and called in dire circumstances(like Hammerhal Aqshy being duplexes by multiple chaos hordes) works better if those hints of Skaven exo-suits happen and we end up with quality duardin-made stormdreads vs quantity explody Skaven mechs.
Then all that’s left is to finally give us Hamilcar vs Ikit to symbolize the move from Ghur to Chamon focus. 🦁 💥 🤖
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1 minute ago, Pizzaprez said:
Oh man this same artist had some other excellent pieces of stomcast in various states of disrepair too:
I'd love love to see Stormcast on Actual Rhinos! What would a Stomcast "Land Raider" look like?
I love all of this artist's work! I hadnt seen the rhinos(!) but I'd seen the rest of these a minute ago and they stuck with me. The third image in particular has been burning in the back of my head for years now: I want to try to build something similar using the penitent engine iron maiden as a base😍
And yeah the concept artists on Artstation for SCE are kind-blowing my good at how creative they get. Really hope GW one day employs some ideas from them(especially the multi-arm Asura Stormcast for a holy version of 4-armed Ossiarchs but 6 arms and in groups of 2 for Sigmar’s holy number of 12, so cool)
4 minutes ago, Grunbag said:Cogfort will be released for kruleboyz big yellerz
I hope so and that’s it’s a Cogtaur in the shape of Kragnos. Would be a fun way to show their worship by reverse engineering a Cogfort to look more like their earthquake god with four powerful legs instead of multiple spidery ones.
On the BoC and 4th index rumors. I’m firmly in camp “I’ll believe it when I see it”.
I mean it’s not impossible they get moved to just a disorganized background threat with Morghur’s god powers waxing wrongly so their powerhouses melt into primordial goop but they just feel too tied to things as it is.(plus all the recent new and great art)
Only thing I can think is they’d do it if they want an overhaul of either the faction or it’s placement like Skaven becoming the furry figureheads of Chaos while we get new Beasts of the Realms in Destruction that finally give all the neutral animal peoples a place instead of just daemon goats.
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4 minutes ago, Gitzdee said:
I would start collecting sigmarines if they get an actual rhino XD.
Haha, literally if possible. 😁
(Artstation fan-art SCE concepts):
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17 minutes ago, Gaball Slaaneshi said:
Honestly, I hope that lightning gheist won't receive a Stormcast Dreadnought,
In the french community, I fight for consider Stormcast like a thing which not just "Sigmarine". If GW do it, all my friends will laugh from me because "ah ah sigmarine !"I get that but on the otherhand I think that’s really dumb to deny a faction a really cool concept like a siege golem because it might be similar to something 40k(which riffed completely of fantasy ideas) has.
That’s like ripping out all Khaine statue mentions from DoK because they’re too Eldar and making sure Orruks never touch dakka or squiggoths to seperate them from Orks.
Nothing will stop haters from calling Stormcast Sigmarines anyway unless the faction stops existing as it is because even now they still get bashed for it like with Ionus.
So I say heck with them and lean into it if GW wants, Stormcast Eternals are epic as hell and most of the time even out-style the marines at their own game so go wild with Sigmarine & Roman Demigod aesthetics and bring out the dreadnoughts, the gheists the Questors and more Annihiltors!
Chadcasts can do it all!! ⚡️🤟⚡️
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3 minutes ago, pitzok said:
Picture these guys but stormcast, would be totally awesome.
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised.
Y’all look up the Adamantine Chain where the Spire is located?
it’s massive volcano chain central that’d be perfect to forge fiery golem bodies for stasis souls while Skaven, Duardin fighting to reclaim their lost homes and Duardin that fell to dark gods battle to claim it’s forge powers.
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1 minute ago, Ejecutor said:
Good detail about the statues. Maybe their dreadnought like mini is something like a statue.
That’s my thought. People thought Stormcast were purely golems at the start(though it does happen with them becoming living storms in armor) so with their new armors magnifying their human warrior elements it’d make sense to bring back the golem warriors.
Would especially fit if Chamon, Gholemkind and Skaven exo-skeletons are next with even Chuardin body mecha to move their stone forms around being things for big mechanized melees. 💪 🤖
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7 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Lets put those cogforts on the offensive of the minis production line 🤑
Likely will next edition or so. They already shown off the smaller Border Walker design variant enough and with steamtanks in TOW they already have an out for that model.(though I hope they drag their feet on that since the last few tournaments were won by steamtank spam, would suck to have your force squatted like that and it can’t be easy to put a big model like that on legs to convert 😆)
on the rest of today’s news.
Very happy my boy Gavriel Sureheart got in today’s story!(loved him when he came out, his backstory of Grub and love his model, favorite in my collection!)
That finally rounds up every older major Stormcast character to get a moment to shine in the campaign but one! Can’t wait to see what Aventis Firestrike will inevitably do about the siege being the magister of Aqshy.
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The blackspire is definitely interesting with its ominous presence. With Ionus’ & Cthorak’s touching conversation about “a Stormcast saves his friends” and it’s Relictor nature which is the Temple of Ages that controls the flow of time I wonder if it’s gonna put souls in stasis until the reforge fix can be found? (That way they can retire the old models due to bloat and bring them out new in the future. Certainly GW’s productions probably wish they could freeze time. 😂)
I think Beast of Chaos will just get revamped. Kinda suspect it’ll happen late in 4th edition with Bonesplitterz too as our links back to the Era of the Beast and Ghur as we move on from it(both were the main antagonists in the Thondian tome afterall)
11 minutes ago, EonChao said:Thanks for the clarification. I guess all that's left is to wait and see what happens now then.
On another note I read the newest Dawnbringers story and with the mention of
the death of Threx Skullbrand and Vekh the Flayer could it be time for Blades of Khorne to get some new hero models to replace them?
Their heroes from the first starter set also fell in The Long Hunt so they’re probably gearing up for some big hero replacements & even revivals into daemons.
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Sketched a doodle for a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to get the game 50% off on Steam and that the Feb 6th is when the Diorama contest ends.
Absolutely love the entries I’ve spied so far. I hope the Brightspear defense one gets recognition especially. 👌 ⚡️Edit: Oh, missed this one. Temporary Alliance is a beaut with that angle of holy angel flying before a daemon.
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11 hours ago, Ejecutor said:
I think we lack details on it. They are described as an aggressive race, so I would think that would move them more into the destro alliance rather than order.
Drogrukh have been more peaceful in some descriptions, only going to war against the dragon-Ogors who they and the Draconith saw as a common threat and then when Kragnos pushed them into war.
However that was during the Age of Myth when things were more ideal compared to now when they’ve had to spend centuries running and hiding from chaos(and likely vengeful dragon-Ogors) making them more ragged & feral and possibly part of Kragnos’ character arc to see his people fall so low because of his hit-headed actions.(mind it won’t change him from being a big brash basher but now he’ll have goals to set to see his race back on top)
As for duardin, I imagine it’ll either be Gholemkind or Freeguild city-duardin that carry that runic torch with a noticeably different AoS spin on things. Especially since Cities of Sigmar are becoming the new “we wall!” faction so their traditional dawi shieldwalls fit better there than making a redundant second race focused on being a moving castle.
That whole “Oh Grungni’s coming back with some kind of great power!” has been kinda debunked in-universe as the new armor for Stormcast Eternals.
The Kharadron book goes into a bit of detail they feel that’s a second betrayal by him to them.
11 hours ago, Pizzaprez said:I wonder how they could work to differentiate "Shadow-daemon aelves" and "snake/bat mutant witch aelves" in a way that they're immediately recognizable as two different evil aelf factions
If Morathi-Khaine is the order equivalent to mutants & cultists then Malerion could bring shadow Aelf “chaos warriors” & daemons to the fold with stuff like animated armors(reflections of Eltharion), shadow Aelf Ronin to match the Lumineth samurai vibes and just twisted shadow daemons everywhere.
11 hours ago, Gutsu17 said:We have 3 elven armies (sylvaneth, lumineth and daughters) i see no problem with having equal amounts of Elven and Dwarven factions
Replace Sylvaneth with Deepkin and you’re right. 😄
(Sylvaneth are more about the plant people and even counting Kurnothi those can be humans too, that even mutate into satyrs, so the aelven aspect is extremely washed out on them)
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12 minutes ago, Pizzaprez said:
Always felt like these guys were perfect for Chamon freeguild, glad to see them in plastic!
Would also work if you wanted to do a Lost Legion theme for the Aglorexi Empire of Aqshy.
Back in the Age of Myth that actually had magic laser rifles made by concentrating their fire magic into beams like their country-frying Prismatikon towers(basically giant magnifying glasses) did.
Would be an awesome thematic Freeguild proxy either way. 👌
Also agreed on the pyregheists. Wish GW would hire the Blasphemous videogame indie guys to give us an AoS platformer with those kinds of enemies.
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Aww, we need more love stories like that.
”Would you love me even if I was a monkey”
”Would you love me if I was a zombie”
Together: “of course!”
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Just now, Ejecutor said:
New Liberators Shield leaked?
Nah, that’s the emblem face of Hammerhal
Love that design though, glad they’re just updating it rather than replacing it with the Hammerhal Aqshy Freeguild emblem
It is the major Hammers of Sigmar installation afterall. Should have their face mask. 👍
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Wild theories about the future of BoC
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
Posted
Going by what lore bits, hints and Realm themes we’ve gotten I’d imagine:
Ghyran Mantismen
Ghur Mammothmen
Ulgu Sharkmen
Shyish lionmen(though I could see jackalmen for an Anubis nod)
Hysh might have more chimera-like ones that’s hard to identify(though could be more felines based on the Sphiranx who once served Teclis)
Aqshy antelopemen that are also on fire
Chamon is already Tzaangor territory and Azyr cleansed.
But yeah, hoping they get some proper Realms magic affected evolutions and that Gnarlwoods story arch has it finally explode to cause a jumpstart to the evolutions across the realms riding on the Ghur winds already spread out everywhere.