silverstu

Wow cool!! Really hope so for combined dwarfs [as long as we get some new dwarf sculpts - I love the current Ironbreakers and hammerer sets but we could do with some AoS dwarfs] Summer of Duardin! I'm all in! Hoping for Squats to return in 40k as well and then the circle will be complete.... Yeah I could see Fyreslayers getting a model or two in a box and then appear in a combined tome. Whitefang suggested new things for Slayers but he also heavily suggested a combined dwarf book. The two aren't mutually exclusive and I'm fairly sure I remember him saying just because factions share a book doesn't mean they can't get a new model or two.

I like your reasoning and I’d especially love dwarfs to be up soon but I’m not so sure. There are dwarf looking things in the rumour engines but I think they are more like Squats, unless the Grungni faction have a more futuristic feel. I think Sylvaneth could be higher as one if the themes of 3rd is Spring has come and life is unleashed. Plus the Kurnothi have been sitting there as a perfect expansion for them. Dawnbringers, Sylvaneth and Dwarfs would be my first 3 Order picks as fluff wise they are set up. i think Chorfs will come but not as a full faction until later in the edition, maybe appearing as a war band or underworlds set. But generally- no idea what’s coming ! I don’t expect any surprises before Christmas the way things are going. But open to being surprised!

Maybe connected to the images of the undead character sitting on a throne [the leaning on a sword/holding a skull hand] Maybe FEC?

Yeah I thought that too as nothing in the trailer pointed to grots. I mean who is the narrator? Could be a spider themed war band like the Corvus one or could be spider mutants..I'd find the spider mutants more interesting. Will there be other war bands though and will it still centre on chaos? I like that it explores a the wider setting I just hope there might be other factions represented in some way.

The only thing that says to me it might not be spiderfang was the female voice over - sounded a lot more elfy- spider rather than gobbos or chorfs.. , more Morathi agents/drow ? I do like the idea of a spiderfang infestation in the 8 points though .. and Duardin rangers …

Not vampire spiders? (The blood and fang mentions too obvious?) But spider fang would fit onto the destruction theme of AoS 3. I’m guessing the rumour engine pic of a net is for them then.. Hope we get a road map of the new warbands soon..

Yeah I hope the Warcry warbands aren't just chaos- its a great opportunity to add extra depth to the factions. But those Khornegor certainly bring back memories .. be great to see them as full units in AoS/TOW.

One thing I also noticed from the Cathay trailer- there where a few chaos forces I didn't recognise - the winged beastial creatures [furies?] and the beastial creatures with glowing claws [didn't look like daemonettes]. The "credible rumour drop" mentioned new Deamons coming- could these be a sneak peek at new undivided deamons? I'm not up on Chaos forces so just wondering..

Yeah it looks like TOW will be amazing! Especially if they apply this design approach to the older armies and factions..

Wow Grand Cathay looks awesome! Love the bat winged air cav and the balloons [always thinking of those KO crossovers!!].

Could be .. it did strike me as aelf but the arguments for Warcry are possible too, I think there was an icon on the last Warcry map that had blood drop in it so possible.. Edit: so there are a number of symbols on the Catacombs map- Crossed pole arms with a blood drop [Soulblight?], Anvil and Hammer with iron halo [Chaos dwarfs], Skaven Symbol, Skull and blades [looks very Kruelboyz], a Chain, A scorpion, possibly on a web, A Statue with a crown in a chaos star, a Spiral in a star/halo and a great axe on a shield. Hopefully we'll get a sense of what they are doing with Warcry soon -possibly a new series of war bands?

Yeah Thats exactly what I thought - plus the vent from the backpack. Looks like the middle one is Black Templar. Not sure on the left one- maybe another Sister from the Killteam set [rumoured to be a new squad type..]. Those leaks are looking pretty strong. Interested to see what comes for Warcry- wasn't there a map for the last release? I remember it having an icon of an Anvil and Chain - I hoped for Dwarfs - it could be Chaos Dwarfs ? Wonder what else we will see- hope there are some good hints if not full reveals of what is coming. No offence to their fans but I'd love to see something else than Stormcast and Kruelboyz.. [order dwarfs/Kurnothi/Nids/Squats would be perfect, if unlikely].

I'm really keen to see how GW redesign them-they've done some cracking new dwarf sculpts recently - the KO range, love the Fyreslayer Underworlds set, Gotrek, Bugmansson and Dagnai are all fantastic. So the prospect of new AOS duardin and squats is pretty exciting. I'm even intrigued as to how cool they could make the Chaos Dwarfs as well ..

Ah mate come on- yes this is the rumour thread but there is a hell of a lot of speculation and wish listing going on [all part of the fun -I do it myself]. What you heard sounds interesting. I was looking at the unsolved rumour engines and there is the scarred horse leg and was wondering in StD might get an update- multi pose kits to go with the start collecting that was released [last year?]. So your dragon fits with that and I think Warcom hinted at more dragons appearing in the realms as well. Cheers for sharing [if you hear anything Dwarf related I'd be thrilled ... 😉]

rumour or speculation/wishlist?

Yeah its pretty amazing looking forward as a dwarf fan- particularly looking forward to Squats [the moment I saw KO I knew that GW could make awesome Squat models] as well as new Grungni Duardin NO!! Don't you dare take them away from me! Plus there is room for all!! [But seriously rumours wise squats seem to be coming and not massively in the distance]. At last! The true order has been returned!

That was Bob from War of Sigmar btw..

YES!! They are coming!!! [plus KO crossovers... the joy!!!!]

The Shaman is a very nice model so a variant would be good. I wonder if it might have something to do with beasts though as that grot has a trap?

Looks good- hope they reveal hints of the expected war bands soon.. fingers crossed for some new Grungni dwarfs... Probably get some sort of CoS/Dawnbringer set? The new style stormcast will be a safe bet- what else do you guys think? Ogres? Sylvaneth/Kurnothi maybe with the wood elf vibe? Some sort of Skaven clan - a moulder one with rat ogre,wolf rats and giant rats would be cool and I could see Eshin up to no good too. what do you guys think might be coming?

Someone on Dakka pointed out that there were changes for the Necrons between Indomitus and their Codex so it could be a rule change.

Yeah after seeing the Kharadron [and buying them!] the idea of Squats is way more appealing- hoping they will do a similar job with them. I'd be happy with a Killteam, delighted with more.. and think of the kit bashing potential ...between both squats and KO!

Yeah I agree those rumours look like they've taken a few things already circulated and fleshed them out a bit. As much as Nids and Guard would fit a Christmas release the more reliable rumour guy has Custodes and GSC as the Christmas release plus the inclusion of Nid rules in Octarius book1 makes it look likely that the Nid book is a good bit out [these rules to get by in the meantime -GW are hardly going to invalidate a book 2 months later]. I also don't buy the Cursed City loss thing and Fyreslayers and Kharadron combined release would be more believable if they had mentioned a 3rd faction of dwarfs tying them together. I believe Whitefang on the combined dwarf book and that is significant because of the new faction of duardin, not just that KO and Slayers share a book. I don't feel that the combined book is soon though . I do expect Squats next year, even just as a Killteam/gang. Hopefully a new preview/reveal will shed some light on what os coming and confirm/deny the various collections of rumours. The Christmas codexes will be the first test ,

Yeah could be a Squat killteam coming which might tie in with those 40k rumours [which were taken down pretty quickly -the source had the DeathKorps vs Orks a year before release]. So it's possible along with the other 2 dwarf type rumour engines. I'd love something dwarf-y, squats would do fine if it wasn't new Grungni faction dwarfs..

I think they like to try things out every so often - I think this might have been a case of we have some cool StD models and we want to try a new format for start collecting lets give it a go. As a start collecting I think its great, but yes they need to release similar multipart kits- then actually the start collecting adds extra variety to the range. I'm sure they'll arrive when they revisit StD [I wonder with a tie in to Warhammer Old World? Although that might be too far off].