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13 minutes ago, Clan's Cynic said:
Also consider how high quality the trailer is. It looks like more of the animation budget went into it than every episode of Hammer and Bolter combined. Are they really going to throwaway that much money for a joke?
Insert gloomspite gits/nighthaunt battletome commentary here
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2 hours ago, SirSalabean said:
Skaven are the nids of AOS.
thats not true, nids have less non plastic models
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The incarnate looks like a scrapped skaven model to me tbh
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45 minutes ago, Hawke said:
Skaven being an Eshin hero with buffs to Eshin existing kits or again a new kit (maybe an Eshin triad type unit like those introduced in the total war series)
I can't imagine even gw would shoot out only an eshin hero with gutter runners (metal in 3s for a 5 man unit LOLE) and nightrunners being in their current state. They did make that warcry box though
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26 minutes ago, chosen_of_khaine said:
Raw 5 sentinels will do even less, but lets go ahead and jump to conclusions!
5 sentinels have 250% of the range that these guys do lmao
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1 minute ago, Lucentia said:
Amusingly I had the exact opposite reaction, I was very interested to see what a modern, AoS vampire/classic horror faction might look like, so when it wound up being Vampire Counts but again I was a little disappointed! I love the Vengorian Lord/Lauka Vai sculpt, but that's the only kit in the whole range which really speaks to me, I guess I like at least a smidge more off the wall than zombies and skeletons.
In any case, the new rumour engine kinda looks Dark Elf-y to me? Those pants with the buckles show up occasionally in the old range, I think the Hydra beast wrangler has some? They're not totally dissimilar from DoK shadowstalkers, the Silver Tower assassin guy, or Drukarii Wyches with the cut-outs either, but those all generally have knee-pads. I'd expect blood bowl models to generally have football pads as well, so I suppose I'm putting my guess on the perpetual favourite of Malerion's stuff, it's gotta be right one of these days!
it could be a blood bowl model still, certain teams are much less armored than others (Amazon/Norse)
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57 minutes ago, PrimeElectrid said:
According to todays honest wargamer show, the rumour is that there will be no new battletomes in 2022 after Sylvaneth & Skaven.
thats just because the skaven and sylvaneth releases are just that massive right
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2 hours ago, Arzalyn said:
I mean like DoK as a example, as it was a tome we didn't expected to appear this soon and got announced, not as a prediction of a tome yet to come.
It was expected if you start off with the premise of gw can't help themselves but try and force dok into popularity
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14 minutes ago, Perturbato said:
Well i see absolutely nothing pointing toward a skaven origin here but it looks like i'm the only one.
My idea was the skaven wern't spawned as baby but fully combative slaves out of slave mothers
It's got big teeth and looks like a rat tail on the left side I guess.
Skaven have normal growth periods as far as we know, although I'm not sure if broodmothers are still around in aos
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28 minutes ago, novakai said:
i assume we just like arguing for the sake of arguing regardless of how it doesn't really matter since not one of our word would change the end result.
speak for yourself my dad works at nintendo workshop
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sus link there homie
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3 hours ago, Neverchosen said:
GW's new strategy, pretend to remove nightrunners from store the rerelease them as classic sculpts and eventually sell out of the models and only then will we get a Skaven update. 😩
skaven ain't got a stellar record for returning to the store after being removed
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4 minutes ago, cyrus said:
Apparently Ardboys are sold out/ no longer available on line : I really wish to see new ones . They were repacked 3.0 last summer.
more than likely means out of stock, it's a known bug on their data side. small indie company btw
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41 minutes ago, Public Universal Duardin said:
This is why you should all be Chaos Dwarf fans. Can't be disappointed when you never get an army.
thats where ur wrong, gw will always find a way
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Just now, CarkFish said:
I have t on good authority that lumineth are in fact getting a new army book in June, july and august
no its the new campaign book in july, august is the lumineth book to fit the new units
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12 minutes ago, Vastianos said:
Any rumors as to what the summer order book could be? GW normally likes to hint with their releseases but what springs to mind with "ever-vigilant" is stormbringers. So perhaps Cities of Sigmar?
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depends on your definition of "updated"
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I wonder if there was a pic that would make it clear if the aos reveals would only be for the main game or not
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1 hour ago, Whitefang said:
cute rat
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2 minutes ago, Maogrim said:
I didn't say that Dark Reapers were 'bad' models. I said that I was disappointed with how little they had changed, and I think I made clear that this was a subjective evaluation.
And you on the other hand can't say that you consider their original design superior when they never got a reimagined version in the first place. They could have come up with something that looked different from their last incarnation and we both would have liked. But we can't say that for sure because the designers chose to not take a risk in the first place.
Which pretty much brings us back to AOS, where designers are choosing to not take a chance and just give us underwhelming foot heroes since Kruleboyz and the dragons have released.
I can absolutely say that the original craftworld eldar aesthetic is extremely solid and I'm glad they kept it. What else would there be to say about it? I can't compare it to an old version and say one is better than the other because they kept the same aesthetic and just improved the execution. I hope they do more of that. Iconic designs shouldn't be left to rot so that they can come up with bigger and wackier hats that half the playerbase thinks is awful.
"Which pretty much brings us back to AOS, where designers are choosing to not take a chance and just give us underwhelming foot heroes since Kruleboyz and the dragons have released."
Having a glut of underwhelming foot heroes has nothing to do with sticking to existing aesthetics and everything to do with gw not doing anything more exciting than a token foot hero. There are dozens of existing model designs which would be extremely exciting to see an update for, and no new aesthetic shifts are required to do so either.
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34 minutes ago, Maogrim said:
If we kept on copying the same basic stuff over and over again, a faction like Skaven would have probably never been invented in the first place.
Orks, Chaos and Undead are just good. No need to add rat ninjas and evil rat scientists when none are needed.
How about another example?
Old Dark Eldar Mandrakes:
New, reimagined design:
I know which one I prefer, but to each their own, I guess.
And Alarith Stoneguard are just amazing models. Fight me.
You don't need to change things for the sake of changing things. Look at necron flayed ones- the old metal ones were considered superior aesthetically to the resin ones for example. Just because you can change an aesthetic doesn't make it a good change. It doesn't matter if stoneguard are amazing models or not- you are obviously on one side of the fence- but the point was that not everyone has the same opinion on what a good update is, and such alarith stoneguard are not good or bad as much as the new craftworld are good or bad.
I mean other than them being elves, which are always bad of course
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2 hours ago, Maogrim said:
Hey, but aren't you all excited that 40K is putting their dedicated ressources into rehashing the same old designs they've been putting out for well over a decade now?
Sorry, I saw the 'new' Dark Reapers for (A)Eldar(i) yesterday and was really bored and disappointed. But I see that now they are really stepping it up with the creativity by rumour-engining flipping Imperial beach buggies with all new and thrilling ... tires. So that we all know that the drought in AOS is at least worth it for our dear big brother wargame system.
You ask the 40k crowd they'd probably say the same thing in reverse- "aren't you glad our Good Elf update is refreshingly lacking in dumb giant hats and hammers etc"
Some aesthetic designs are just good, like skaven, and don't need to be radically changed. No need to add longhorns where none are needed
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3 hours ago, Doko said:
Seeing how they have destroyed fyreslayers i would be happy id they dont touch my army.
If they release new skaven book with same designer team of fyreslayers you gonna get clanrats nerfed in points and doing half atk and damage......
I mean there's not too much more they could do to nerf skaven at this point, already just sitting above meme factions on the tier list
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1 hour ago, Indecisive said:
the rumour windmill gulf is just amazing, crickets on the aos front while 40k has had a dripfeed of eldar leaks since december for a codex that hasn't even been announced yet
Hey we have uhhhhh eshin eventually tm
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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anthropomorphic female skaven incoming