AthlorianStoners

In my experience most GW actively encourage people to paint and will enforce painting requirements for tournaments. Casual play would be different, but even then a large group of the player base prefer to play against painted models. If tournaments and consistent competitive games are something you enjoy you’d either have to locate a group that has no problems with unpainted minis or end up just having time paint them.

Those look awesome!

Those dark aelves look awesome in high Aelf colors.

I’d still argue Scourge Privateers and freeguild are more well represented than swifthawk. On top of that, swifthawk already lost half their models before the big cuts, I’d say they were clearly at risk beforehand.

Compare Swifthawks representation to any other faction and it’s still considerably underrepresented. Scourge Privateers or freeguild, both minor factions in a roughly equivalent position, saw much more lore representation.

I have a feeling all the models on the diorama will have equivalent units. That samurai is to good to not have its own kit.

I disagree that nothing is safe. Maybe transitioning from WHF to AoS that was the case, but now we have clear indicators. No high elf army received any form of support, no Battletome, no new models, barely any lore representation outside of Phoenix temple. Id also suggest that there was a lot of model conflict between high and dark elves in terms of units fillings the same role. This isn’t really the case with any other army’s within a grand alliance, and especially to the degree that those two elven factions had. From my experience, it was always theorized that the most unique of the High elves MAY get supported with their own faction, that being the Phoenix temple. The rest have always seemed fairly generic and not as targeted as the more modern AoS factions. As someone who came into the game with no WHF history, high elves have never seemed remotely like they were going to be a major force and their squatting doesn’t seem an indicator that anything can go.

I think the og Mortarchs are safe as any character can be. They’d have to be some of the most represented characters in the lore and the black library novels. Soulblight will almost definitely get an expansion, I’d guess the only units besides the Mortarchs that would stay would be the Vargheists and the VLOZD as they’re with FEC.

Yeah I expect Slaves to more or less trim the fat. Assuming Gutbusters and BCR are combined (which seems all but given at this point) there probably could be cuts but overall see the faction get adds.

This is awesome, I’d love to see some artwork of this!

I don’t think all old factions will get removed or are even in danger. The at risk factions I think have been clear from the beginning. Not all old world stuff is gonna go, but some will. Flesh Eater Courts are definitely staying, they’ve turned a small part of WHF into an awesome original faction. Sylvaneth, DoK, Nighthaunt, GG and others are all WHF factions that are going to stay as well, they’ve taken some themes and expanded them. I think LoN and CoS may not receive much future model support but I can’t imagine them getting wiped now that they have a Battletome. Slaves to Darkness will probably see some cuts and that’s all I’d really be concerned about. Even if they stop producing some of the soup Battletome models (CoS and LoN) they won’t eliminate those rules.

Nice list, don’t forget the Mawtribes book got confirmed at Nova. And it’s Cities of Sigmar, not Free Cities (that’s nitpicky so feel free to ignore me haha.)

Oh I didn’t know that. Either way I don’t really mind, a lot of people seem to be put out by others disagreeing and are hoping the models are/aren’t successful based on their own interests. I like them and think they’re dope, that’s enough for me.

I don’t know that the divide is even all that big, Facebook and Instagram responses seem super positive.

I’m very keen for CoS to drop, im contemplating doing a Cthulhu style Scourge Privateers army, hopefully that proved viable.

Warhammer legends getting points isn’t pretty cool.

I’d say it’s a sure thing Morghasts are included in this book as well?

That Mortarch is amazing, I can’t wait to get it.

Oh I totally forgot that with the wolves, thank you haha! yeah, I might pick up the Skeleton Horde box, I do love the Arkhan model.

Work on the army has a whole has been going good, nearly finished my first 1000 points. Just have the Zombe dragon to do. Still just a whole lot of unpainted models but we’re getting there. The wargs are great and I’m very happy with them. I’m looking to get the Mannfred model, just the rider though not the dread abyssal, if anyone has an idea if where I can source one that would be awesome.

More work done on my Bloodknights, I think they’re coming along nicely. Mantics stuff is quite difficult to work with though

Thank you! Hopefully they come together cleanly, as they’re even cheaper than the old Aelf alternative.

I found it interesting in Soul Wars that Arkhan seemed to avoid Nagash’s scrutiny by continually stating that since he is Nagash, anything he does is Nagash’s will, whether Nagash knows it or not.

I think we’re looking at a pretty substantial release. I’m going to guess, based on the videos alone: 4-5 heroes (including the Mortarch) 2 Infantry 1 Mounted (potentially dual kit) Catapault Behemoth plus more. Throw in the Morghasts and the Warsphinx and that’s a big release. Potential Hero Units 1 2 3 4

Yeah haha that was my thinking, thank you kindly!