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50 minutes ago, Kronos said:
So I’ve noticed today’s preview was rather Human. Yes, there were variances from xenos to spider xenos and an ogor. But generally everything we saw was rather human in aspect. No tanks, vehicles, or weird creatures from any system, big or small -again the warband is just 4 supporting models.
Rather odd no large model kits were previewed, not counting the Khan.
humanoid is the word you're looking for
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2 minutes ago, DOGGED said:
Frankly, even the armies which did not get such resets are likely due to do so sooner or later. Then, the fluff is actually nice; IIRC the idea was that Skavens were able to "gnaw" their way across the Realms, and they are a main character of the biggest feature in the lore of late.
skaven gnawing their way across the realms feels like such a lazy copy-paste of living underground from WHFB.
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that certainly was a stream. finally getting the 3rd tome of 3rd edition 2* months after it was supposed to be out
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10 minutes ago, Lurynsar said:
Yes it’s an unpopular opinion. And Skaven have been “chaos” without being tied to the pantheon forever. With the poor outing of AoS 1 they tried to jam them in to replace Slaanesh. Obviously management and design changed and they were left to languish in a pantheon that is very different than the WFB days.
Skaven are one of the totally unique aspects of WFB, and could be one of the totally unique and interesting parts of AoS if it was just refreshed and got a new skin IMO. The stupid clans of WFB were bad in Fantasy and are stupid more so now.
Both Skaven and Beastmen languish because of GWs design choice I agree however. That said, it feels pretty clear the Gods and the style of Chaos in AoS is going to be much more similar to 40K than to WFB. As such God armies are going to get the attention and the focus in Chaos. So let’s cut the ties of Beasts and Skaven from this (or as I said get rid of them all together because they’re kinda stupid from the get go) and allow them to become something totally new and totally unique and not just shoehorned into AoS Chaos which I don’t think they’ll ever fit with the current design theme and team.
I think you might not just like skaven. Skaven without chaos and clans is just ratmen.
Destruction just doesn't have a real personality, adding factions with personality to it that are just slightly outside of the 40k mold doesn't make it better 🙂-
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24 minutes ago, Copywolf said:
If the next tome is Maggotkin, has there been any rumors on kits coming with it? A toad dragon rider like Tamurkhan would be neat
no rumors for maggotikin, there was only the boc vs gsg boxset one that is already false i think
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1 hour ago, Lurynsar said:
Skaven should be mostly gutted. Lose everything of the stupid Pestilens, Eshin and what not. Stop being chaos.
Then they should be moved to Destruction. Make them their own empire that’s bent on the destruction of everyone else’s and Rat dominance.
Then reimagine them from the ground up as a “weird science”. This will have something similar to the Skyre theme. But even more so. This stupid divided mix is awful and uninspiring.
Beasts of Chaos need to be changed to Beastmen or Wyldbeasts of whatever for a trademark. Then redesigned away from Chaos themes to just pure and utter hatred for civilization and made Destruction (seeing a pattern here?).
That or just remove Grand Orders anyways. They’re stupid. But regardless I want Beasts and Skaven their own unique armies more than they are now and not tied to chaos at all ideally.
Lastly Cities of Sigmar should just die. I’m all for Dawnbringer Crusaders coming to life. Bringing a mixed race force of Elves, Dwarves and Humans who worship (at some level) Sigmar. But give them their own unique look and have units mixed races. Then kill off the last vestiges of WFB from this line. Lumineth replaced the High Elves, use the Corsairs as a unit for Umbraneth Elves or whatever. Kill of the old Empire and Dwarf lines. And then if you want create the Khazilid Empire for more Fantasy like dwarves in a super book with KO and Fyreslayers I am okay with that.
I know a lot of people have a love for WFB. But I don’t. And I want to experience AoS as it’s own thing. Not with a bunch of pieces of WFB holding on. It would make the game better I feel.
that is a contentious opinion.
BoC and Skaven don't have a non WFB identity because games workshop went along and made armies for all of the "main" chaos gods first. Skaven have also been chaos almost 6 times as long as age of sigmar has been a thing, so I don't know where people get the idea that they aren't chaos comes from.-
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2 minutes ago, Noserenda said:
I mean its worth mentioning the specialist and boxed games all have their own teams and plastic budgets, its not a zero sum game with AoS (or 40k) and they can both have development time
While true there's still disappointment that you have a warband or whatever instead of resculpts for units you have wanted for years or decades in some cases and it seems gw is perfectly happy to release a warband for most factions and then consider that a fine state to be in for years to come.
They have their own teams and plastic budgets (maybe) but it certainly seems like they are connected- it's not something like necromunda where it's nearly completely separated from the main game.
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28 minutes ago, Higolx said:
Looks like GW is retiring one of the oldest 40k metal kits. Maybe its a sign they are also going to do that with other kits (Im looking at you skaven). An army refresh would be amazing.
fully expect to just have them dropped.
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5 minutes ago, yukishiro1 said:
I am 300% serious about the Platypus Dragons. My source is impeccable and you should definitely trust me. Also they will get another piece of faction terrain that is a bridge, which you may be interested in...
can your impeccable source predict something cool like a jazzy rat with sunglasses
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5 minutes ago, Fyrenn said:
i don't think that many people are wishlisting poor BoC get themselves souped 😞 maybe resignedlisting or something.
People on this site make no sense sometimes. Like I see a lot of posters saying x y z belong in destruction like giving them an existing personality with a strong identity would fix destructions amorphous identity.
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1 hour ago, Nos said:
Except much of what made up traditional Dark Elves are now DOK. So I think they're going to be something quite different. More demonic.
I will eat an entire pizza if the new elves are anything other than 50+% guys in silly outfits
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17 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:
I truly hope so mate!! My only concern is no model reveals were mentioned in This Week in Warhammer yesterday as they have previous weeks. Fingers crossed it was just forgotten and we see either a new Underworlds or Warcry mini!!
it's a blood bowl model https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/10/11/unleash-the-bloodspawn-and-paint-the-astrogranite-red-with-gore/
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3 minutes ago, Me-dude-sa said:
On the subject of Underworlds has that "Italian Leak" about the war bands and new token that was posted a few months back ever get debunked or is it still plausible?
what was the leak refresh my rat memory
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9 minutes ago, Skreech Verminking said:
Did he mention anything about the skaven??
He alluded to eshin coming soon tm
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11 minutes ago, Neverchosen said:
Is there a reason you don't think that the October book will have a big release of models? I am inclined to agree but it is strange that you pointed this out and it made me realize I really have no justification for feeling this way beyond a lack of rumours/previews.
October slot is packed with 40k stuff from very legitimate rumors.
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It could be a boat, or it is more likely some chaos possessed thing ( since it's part of the giant 40k "rumor")
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1 hour ago, Chikout said:
It's by no means a fullproof method but I checked the number of Instagram hashtags for each of the factions. The bottom three were Kruleboyz, Sons of Behamat and Beasts of Chaos. Stormcast were comfortably number one, well ahead of Skaven in second and that's probably because of the old world connection. Idoneth Deepkin had more than Lumineth or Daughters of Khaine.
Obviously the newer factions are going to have fewer posts but it does suggest that not many people are painting beasts of Chaos. Even a sub faction like Bonesplitterz had twice as many posts as BoC.
Generally factions with new models or a book are going to have more people painting them even if just a one off to try it out or something. I'd say that skaven being second place surprises me but I suspect if you look at the posts you'd find much less models than uh.... Character art to be generous.
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3 minutes ago, Benkei said:
How many pages ago did this thread change from "rumour thread" to "unbelievable hopium thread"?
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Just now, PJetski said:
Mods must see all the deleted posts - the rest of us plebs are only at 2986.
that's a lot of deletion, who's been causing trouble? My money's on elves.
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2 hours ago, KingBrodd said:
Oh damn. I agree though they wouldnt do back to back Previews.
I really hope it's something for Spiderfang and not something for Chaos. I wouldnt be too dissapointed at a Chaotic Spider if it's a single monster like a Fomoroid Crusher but I dont want Factions to have their identity swapped between Armies. It would be weird for example if Destruction started having a bunch of Dinosaurs in their armies and Seraphon didnt get updated.
or if destruction had a beast of chaos, just a random example
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10 minutes ago, HollowHills said:
I'm jealous of 40k having a massive rumour that's been proven correct. Meanwhile we worship whitefangs reacts like starved dogs.
people just don't publish aos leaks/ rumors... Gargants were known for six months and the youtubers didn't mention it because they didn't care.
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24 minutes ago, Gwill_of_the_Woods said:
Is there anything in the name "Red Harvest" that could be an indication of things to come?
obviously, this is spider communists vs children of the corn.
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1 minute ago, Nos said:
I don't think Chaos was intended as a riff on Lovecraft by its original authors.
Absolutely was- at minimum to an extent, the enemy within (a large, highly rated, WHFRP adventure made extremely early on in its lifespan) started out as a "bloodless cthulu adventure" (blood was returned to the adventure.)
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27 minutes ago, HollowHills said:
Getting excited thinking of all the options, ready for GW to squash my excitement previewing warcry warbands of thunderstrike stormcast and gutrippa Orruks.
Hey don't lose hope yet, warcry has generally stayed away from boring warbands. We could get the cthulu cultist elves vs ninja rats still.
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Unpopular opinion thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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Why would I forget whfb? Well over half of the named characters in the game are from there