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Very good point - I'll go back and edit the language out...

Rumour about the Cities of Sigmar book from yesterday's 4chan thread - grain of salt and all that:

Loving the designs in this release. Wishful thinking from the Loonboss on Mangler Squigs: the faceplates for the beasties look very very Ironjawz-y in design, with the bashed-in metal and bolted-on teeth. I'm wary of reading too much into it - we'll see if there's any lore connections between the Gloomspite Gitz and Gordrakk & Co. once the tome is out - but it's an interesting detail. All I want is an expanded Ironjawz release, and seeing the continuation of their design language here is the closest thing to a hint in a while.

Hot take courtesy /r/warhammerunderworlds: Two things: this pretty much confirms that this detail from the image of organised play gear is the Tzeentch sorcerer hero, if anyone wants an idea of how he/she/it will look. Maybe more interesting, the blue horror must split into brimstone horrors, and the grots - with 9 models! - will probably summon their squigs after deployment. I guess through the armoured guy with the brand, as an action or as a spell? Definitely opens up a lot of possibilities, not only in how these guys might play (differentiating them from skaven or Sepulchral Guard, for example) but also for how warbands can be deployed - i.e. not all at once. This could be interesting in future seasons - summoning Seraphon onto the battlefield midgame? Beastmen being deployed off-board? But now I'm just theorycrafting... Pretty psyched by all these anyways. Loving the Conan the Barbarian Darkoath, those guys look like they should be airbrushed on the side of a van.

Is this a policy? Makes it so much harder to discuss these things without images...! All in all potentially two of the most characterful warbands yet. That Tzeentch hero looks killer - right up the weird alley that they've been pushing for the Tzeentch aesthetic. Really digging how they're making the warband a mixed unit as well: it looks like it'll be an Acolyte, the Tzaangor we've seen, and a Horror of some sort? (Or at least something with a few arms) The Gitz are looking great as well, looks like a cave shaman-type wizard, a fanatic, a netter, a couple squigs and the armoured squigherder we've seen. Important omission: the flying squigeon and mushroom Troggoth are nowhere to be seen... All in all, much more hyped about these sets than I expected to be

We don't really have any idea, yet. The closest hint we have so far is the Mistweaver Saih and Tenebrael Shard models - which were produced before there was a clear idea on which direction they wanted to take aelves. Design docs have changed since, allegedly (I can't recall who said as much - a designer at a con maybe? cit. needed) and I'd be surprised if whatever we end up with looks anything like those.

Someone on the AoS thread on /tg/ mention that we'd see a 'grot soup' battletome, followed by a Moonclan standalone tome - in the same vein as Legions of Nagash followed by Nighthaunt books. No source but conceivable - it'd give Gitmob and Spriderfang some extra utility while still allowing for a centipede heavy Moonclan. To the same point, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those micro-factions were folded into one Free Peoples tome. GW seems unwilling to incorporate models that overly impede on the off-the-wall aesthetics of the new factions, and if the light/shadow aelfs end up being as bonkers as we expect I can't imagine any space left for a lot of factions otherwise. A combined 'Free Cities' tome, or something, bringing aelfs, free guild, dispossessed, collegiate arcane, ironweld, etc. would be a good shout.

I had the same thought with the Gundabad trolls, but didn't want to take risk of them looking out of scale - though the plan is to essentially throw on a similar style armour for the Gargant's chest and arms. Plan is to have him look like his Brute pals have beaten on some slabs of metal, roughly following the brutes' getup but (obviously) larger. Maybe a big old hakka along the left arm in the vein of the Megaboss' ripper fist. Haven't done much work on it yet, mostly just been messing around with mock-ups, but the plan is to use some heated-up plasticard to mold some pieces onto the dude's torso and back. Shoulders, codpiece, and any other metal on the arm will be some spare brutes bits and some green stuff. So far I've only properly done a facemask type of think, which came out pretty Mad Max-y - which I'm fine with! Anxious for some spare time so that I can get on with it - and start a proper blog on the modelling board. The Rogue Idol project sounds killer, would love to see it once it's finished (if you manage to survive the highlights...)

Fantastic work on the spearchukkas + crew @Chris Tomlin! I've been thinking about how to make ally units look suitably Ironjawz-y, and this is a really novel solution. Working on given the treatment to a gargant right now, but please take it as a whole-hearted compliment if I end up partially ripping you off for my own chukka teams...