Baron Klatz
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Haha, best gif for these. I remember when they first released and people called their lore like Machine Men and now they even have closer frames. 😂
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7 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Kislev and Cathay were originally said to be coming to the game but then weren't but now maybe are again??
It did feel a lot like the “Tomb Kings are classified as Evil race” to “Oh we just meant Core Race, haha!” and that ended up happening anyway.
They were too blunt, had to back pedal with positivity but things still happened as they said(in this case the “not in the foreseeable future” likely meaning 2027 & 2028 releases)
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38 minutes ago, The Lost Sigmarite said:
I think you’re onto something here. That something is about City dwarfs being closer to ironweld than anything else…
I think Cities is going to change its subfactions. It’s no longer gonna be humans, dispossessed, darkling covens - we have to start thinking in terms of freeguild, ironweld, wilder corps as the new fubfactions.
And don’t forget the electrifying personalities of the Devoted of Sigmar/Order of Azyr!
We need that angle for both higher up Azyrite authorities watching over the native settlers and the links to those who push themselves to try and be chosen for Stormcast Eternals.
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18 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Any way they phrase it the news is awful but if they'd shared the news in March it would have given people time to rebase their army, choose a different army or go and play Conquest so by the time the new edition launches there isn't a shadow hanging over it.
Probably the reason right there. They’re waiting until the 1st quarter financials are officially over before they break the news on whatever the change-up to BoC is so not to hurt sales by even 1%.
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23 minutes ago, Dragon-knight77 said:
Confusion well something not right
Probably devil in the details like not all the BoC are going extinct(such as dragon-Ogors), dwarves don’t count as safe if Dispossessed are gone, Bonesplitterz have their own monkey’s paw, etc.
That’s why it’s best to just wait for the indexes than start getting in a panic over what we can only speculate on.
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4 minutes ago, Gaball Slaaneshi said:
So, can we imagine htat GW could release them in one year ? It's a year without big releases so they could do it.
Remember it’s a small team doing that stuff under the specialist studio. They don’t have anywhere near the resources like the main studios.
You’re looking at something like full Kislev in a year but it’ll take up any other TOW release for that year.
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Yeah, they can barely get a handful of old factions out in half a year and even then only provide a few new sculpts for them. Nevermind full new factions of fresh models, that’s gonna be a good number of years away like right on the heels of AoS5.
They needed that article to set expectations but leave it to fandoms to blow everything out of proportion.
55 minutes ago, Dragon-knight77 said:A big Aqshy wyrm would be sweet centerpiece
While Stormcast have dragons those are more Azyr dragons even the Dracolith doesn't really showcase the traditionalist red fire breathing dragon.
There also play with Volcanic glass and make a Magmadroth variant of crystal lizards
For me I think that 4-winged lava wyvern would be ace and look totally different than any other faction’s drakes.
Soulbound also has lava spiders that can be tamed which would be a very unique flavor for Fyreslayers to have at least one arachnid element for their fiery cave systems.
Other things I’d like to see is based on Elden Ring ideas with a ancestor face warmachine(weaponized battle forge on wheels) to even a possible chariot and that whole “Grimnir & Vulcatrix will be reborn combined together” the Lofnir believe which can lead to those magma drake warriors.
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Well since we’re back on this topic for the 50th time I’ll weigh in that I say just double down on the Fyremancer & magmabeast-master aesthetics with lava Spartans in kilts the base design.
Above all else the Order factions symbolize each of the elements of the Mortal Realms opposing Chaos and Fyreslayers are the Realm of Fire made manifest. 🌋
And indeed, as someone once pointed out there’s actually no reason for the Realms to naturally have volcanoes as they have no magmic core & tectonic crusts shifting from that.
The volcanoes of Aqshy, Ghur & Hysh to the ghost Fire mountains of Shyish, the molten mercury mountains of Chamon to the Sap volcanoes of Ghyran are all due to the Fyreslayers origins as their gods Grimnir & Vulcatrix battled, exploded and their sparks scattered across the realms causing volcanoes to grow where they touched.
This is why every volcano is a shrine & home to the Fyreslayers as it’s literally grown from their father.
Thus making them the prime fire faction should be, in my eyes, GW’s #1 priority. 🔥
(and later chaos duardin as the evil corrupt version of that same as Hedonites are a dark mirror of Lumineth with many similar units)
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9 minutes ago, Nezzhil said:
All these is impossible without removing other stuff
Well before Adepticon anyone saying which faction was gonna get new faction terrain would’ve been “impossible” with the GW production issues cited as a reason so while I agree we probably are due “out with the old, in with the new” for the older stuff I still refer back to my earlier comment only GW really knows.
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5 minutes ago, Nezzhil said:
We are gonna have new factions every edition and that implies remové old stuff or unify to have space
I mean we’re looking at possibly 3 removed armies(hopefully not fully) of BoC, Bonesplitterz, Dispossessed and possibly CoS Darklings too. So the unify isn’t exactly necessary here.
Also tone it down on the “reality” stuff. You did this same song & dance back in 2021 about duardin in AoS3 and even had Whitefang behind you and it turned out to be hot air.
End of the day only GW know what they’ll do next so let’s just enjoy some cool art and factions working together as they do in the lore without going overboard, eh?
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8 hours ago, Dragon-knight77 said:
Ok here me out.....what if both Crudades fail; Embergard by the darkoathand Verdigril from Abraxia
But the actual city that raised is actually Hel crown from a random diffrent crusade?
The ultimate subversion
One guy’s theory is it might be what Khul goes after next since that area is in front of a gateway to Khorne’s domain.
a “hell crown” for the top of his pyramid as he ascends to daemon princehood.(probably will do something heavy metal like melt all the skulls down into a giant brass skull for the topper)
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1 hour ago, Snarff said:
It's not an actual rumour afaik, this cover is just why it's come up again. Any Grombrindal rumour is paired with Duardin soup at this point, since you apparently cannot have inter-faction cooperation in lore without immediately putting them in one book and merging their armies.
Remember the good old days when we could see something nice like a Kharadron giving a Fyreslayer a model sky-vessel for Christmas and people just went “aww” instead of “Soup! Soup! It’s a hint!!”?
I miss back when.
Not sure what happened but ever since AoS3 people have been so soup crazy for every faction(remember when it reached a head with a “Big Dads & Little Lads” tweet for SoB + Ogors people said was gonna happen?) even though GW have been doing the opposite(partly so they can sell more tomes & box sets)
And now with AoS4 having a chance to offload a bunch of factions back to TOW it seems even less likely than before.
But yeah, I think the cover is just in the spirit of AoS duardin and Grombrindal trying to lead those that will listen to him. So if not a model probably just special RoR coalition rules that won’t affect what actually happens in AoS4(he’s had no where near the time to unite races across multiple planes of reality)
It does seem a sour note that Dispossessed are left out entirely. Hopefully they’ll get an Ironweld refresh to be closer to CoS aesthetics, would suck otherwise for players to be told the armies they just made are only good on squares(with double the numbers) and nothing else.
At least we’ll know I a few months thanks to how Indexes work so it won’t be 2 whole years of doom-posting and debates about resources(which surprise surprise the “no more terrain” ones went right down the drain)
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9 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:
could you DM me the full sized image of this? expanding it doesnt do much of anything 😔
The maps connected by Hammerhal?
The Warhammer Community site has a better picture of it when they announced the Stormcast Eternals 2017 tome:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/02/17/5-reasons-the-new-battletome-rocks/
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2 minutes ago, GloomkingWortwazi said:
with a spirit floating around them.
I really like that detail because Cado has so many ghost familiars bound to his rings he calls on for assistance.
I’d love that to be the basis of a future Hollow King novel cover or even referenced in some Soulbound Soulblight material.
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1 minute ago, Jagged Red Lines said:
No catastrophe for buyers. Its everywhere, no panic buying, can't be scalped, and is an affordable start to either army.
I'd say that was pretty preferable to a situation where the starter box is only available from retail for 24 hours and thereafter can only be bought from ebay for double the price.
Yeah and they said on the financial reports it was their best-selling fantasy launch to date. With how it doubled forum & Reddit numbers and got so much positivity from players to even today I’d say it was a good thing.(even Amazon keeps selling 100 boxes a month, in the long term that’s stellar for more players)
I’m really hoping we get a repeat because a box everywhere just means more easier entries into the hobby and happier players not having an, ironically, rat race trying to get a box before it’s gone.
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I’m just happy this Soulblight one got the recognition it deserved. It was doing the rounds on Twitter before they entered it and made jaws drop.
35 minutes ago, Chikout said:Long term gw employees fit that niche perfectly. Also the game is just a couple of months old, with the longest pre launch build up of any GW game ever.
Plus didn’t they say after the Adepticon reveals that the new Spearhead mode has been very popular between the play groups as something super quick to play?
Between AoS4 & Spearhead I imagine a lot of attentions will shift over to the new faster games that’ll give the employees a lot of different systems to enjoy and talk about.
(and hopefully influence Warcry love to keep it quick & clean)
29 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:the way they've set up the Realms, they could probably infinitely rotate between them. i know people aren't thrilled we're going back to Aqshy, but the fact that skaven are ripping their sub-realm into part of Aqshy means there could always be this push-pull within them. Nagash could help force Skavenblight back into the subrealm, maybe Tzeentch steals the GHR idea and rips part of its own Realm into Chamon or something.
I appreciate we’re going back to Aqshy with how they’ve set-up AoS4 to be a “AoS1 reforged” situation.
Plus they said the starter play-mat will be both Aqshy & Ghyran giving us a nice scope to use both Realms like AoS1.5 had started in 2017 as both realities became important between Seeds of Hope & Firestorm campaign.
It’s all circling together again. ⚫️
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7 minutes ago, Mcm6495 said:
By the way, it is known if, in addition to the new Crawlord model mounted on a rat wolf, we will also receive a model for the version on foot. I also wonder if we will get Skaven cavalry that can accompany the Crawlord on a rat wolf.
Hopefully so, next Kruleboyz update should drop Gnashtoof cavalry too so it doesn’t feel like they got left out of lord mounts turned cavalry. 😄(unless they plan Vulcha flying cav in which case that’ll be forgiven)
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2 hours ago, Dragon-knight77 said:
So we got a couple option
- Armored Troggoth which was mention in the Short. There also the sulfer breath troggoth
- Updated Shottas and Stabbas like in Grinkrak looncourt
- new Doom diver/Spear chukka or any sort of siege weapon
- A new breed of squigs (personally would like a Squiggoth to make an appearance)
- Updated Spider-riders (make use of the Gallet spider-rumor engine)
- A Nasty skulker legacy unit
Yeah I feel we’ll see more types of Troggs, shamans & “knight” gobbos.
With that lore bit that the Stormcast Ruination are being sent into the Skaven dens because they can resist all the raw chaos warpstone everywhere I imagine the Loonking will be unleashing better equipped(for grots) troops that can swarm in as well with armor & magic protecting them.(and probably ones so mutated on Moon magic they counter the chaos magic, so hopefully spider-grots as well)
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47 minutes ago, Magnusaur said:
Apropos nothing, but has there ever been mention or speculation of Stormcast tanks?
Closest thing would probably be those SCE airships mentioned in the Drekki Flynt novel and general aether-vessel lore bits they travel around in Azyr with.
Probably won’t see anything like that for a few more editions(maybe the Logisticar chamber finding ways to convince the Ordinatiors to weaponize them for war instead of aetheric travel).
I’m imagine an AoS version of the Astartes land speeder but obviously more magical & Asgardiany
Also +1 on liking the Monastery retirement lore idea. That hits better for immortals trying to hold onto their last shreds of humanity but willing to sacrifice it for the greater good as the Realms are imperiled on a grander scale again.(also works for that whole Chambers are always active even if not opened with some going out anyway like Excelsiors before the Chamber called them)
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6 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:
Don't put much attention into Stormcast going bigger. In the 3D models our "slim" Stormcast appear bigger than the first ones, so probably the models surprise us.
They might be, that middle armor is Thunderstrike Liberator which we don’t know the dimensions of yet.
They even point out in the article they’re tougher tanking those warp-bullets & flames so they might make new Libs wider than Vindictors and closer to Annihilators in build to make them stand apart and possibly justify being tankier.
Also it’s not far off anyway. Old Lady Liberator armor was smaller than the males. Thunderstrike is big for both types.
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Popping in to say that Adepticon was Worth the Wait!! 😍
Warcry: Amazing new beastly Ossiarchs and in love with the skeletal-centaur master as well as the new infested Spite Revenants to buff out my blooming Sylvaneth force alongside that gnarly Gnarlwood!(I know people want Kurnothi but I love it being the plant people faction and playing heavily into insects & flora)
UnderWorlds: Big yes to both groups, especially taser zealots fueled by holy lightning! Love they’re building more on the amber god-beast the first book mentions and the Lendu campaign said survived Sigmar’s attack(after it trapped Gorkamorka in the Age of Myth) and seeped into the canyons to hide, that parasite version of it sounds like an amazing Soulbound scenario in the making.
STD: Abraxia looks phenomenal and so does the new faction terrain. Hot damn!
Trailer: what can I say anyone else didn’t? I was floored it was so good. It was perfection.
Way over-the-top with a whole Skaven city rising up to attack the settlement Freeguild finally being shown off and both sides Stormcast Eternals & Skaven being badass in their own way with either new Liberators looking bullet proof & shaking off warp flames or Skaven going crazy on firepower and laughing when their assistants get crushed.
Only downside of all this is my wallet is on suicide watch now because I Need all of it.
Ruination Chamber even gave me back even chonkier Stormcast alongside updated OG classic ones.
This feels like peak Age of Sigmar aesthetics & Mortal Realms content to me. Almost like we’re back at AoS1 again and seeing the cosmic infinite realms and otherworldly battles unfold before us once more. 🥲
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I like his Silence ability, fluffy and an excellent counter to the Tzeentch buffs.
On that, a bunch of QoL updates & Balance Changes hit to day as well:
https://www.aosrealmsofruin.com/update-notes/1-2
Kruleboyz finally got some love on a balance scale, even if it’s not from GW. 😅
Tzeetch birdy able to fire off cheaper nukes is scary too(and probably why the Silence ability was showcased on it 😏)
Wargamer also has a review on the new heroes.
https://www.wargamer.com/warhammer-realms-of-ruin/dlc-heroes-nighthaunt-tzeentch
And in case anyone doesn’t know the game is cheap on a really good humble bundle right now that ends on April 4 while a PlayStation sale has -70% off ends in 8 days.
And shout-out to this guy’s player guide to help people get into games with the multiplayer events the discord has.
And finally congrats to RoR for rising from top 60 British games nominations to top 10 and now top 6 nominees! 🎉-
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1 hour ago, The Lost Sigmarite said:
Also btw is that 1/ black armour for Ruination and 2/ the studio changed their way to paint SCE lightning ?
They’re likely both on purpose to show Ruination is channeling more Death energy(this green NightHaunt-like energy you could even notice a hint of in the trailer lightning bolt)
Since the Black Tower is said to look Relictor in structure like the Temple of Ages they’re probably taking heavy inspiration from the fact Lord/Knight/Questor-Relictors are actually Necromancer-paladins to make Ruination a form of “Deathcast”.
Sigmar already zapped up and reforged necromancers & shyish princes to be Relictors and use their necro knowledge* to keep souls safe and make sure they travel safely back to Azyr so going one extra step for a Chamber of Relictor paladins isn’t crazy.
*among other undead-crossed-with-holy things like one in the Realmgate Wars rising up a leviathan’s skeleton to topple the chaos fortress on it’s back spine they thought was a mountain before making the leviathan lay as a bridge across an Aqshy lava river, the Hallowed Knights had one that conversed with the decapitated head of an Ogor he carried around to locate Mannfred and recently a Knight-Relictor turned recently slain souls into ghost grapeshot to blast apart a horde of orruks before sending the souls on their way to Azyr.
Edit:(also someone remarked on the “vegeta hairline”. Pretty sure that’s the usual death-mask making a twin tailed comet on the forehead. Neat it’s kinda like an oni mask, that matches Aqshy’s oriental flavors and boosts the Stormcast seraphim aesthetics )
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You know what? Say what you will about chaos marines(I certainly rolled my eyes at another one) but I really do appreciate how much design work had to go into them to make even an angry block silhouette so instantly recognizable.
Cheers to the designers on that. 🍻
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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That’ll probably be a revamped Lord-Relictor(as it’s the Relictors job to safeguard Stormcast souls) to replace the original one(based off Ionus) that in the box acts as Ionus’ adjutant in bringing those broken souls to the Black Tower for a mysterious purpose(probably bound lightning gheists)
My gut feeling is he’ll take up those 2 guesses knight slots so he’ll be the last big reveal as a powerhouse necromancer-Paladin priest to go with the Death themes of the Ruination.