AthlorianStoners

So got some boxes to start off, will begin building and converting tonight. The spite heads actually fit quite well on the Mantic knights.

Lowering Brettonia probably isn’t conducive to helping new players

Awesome thanks for the feedback! Im thinking of getting another dragon when I expand to 2000 and using mannfred as the rider, so hopefully will have that on hand soon. Thats a good point they do look a little small, I’ll keep everyone posted.

This is amazing please keep updating!

So I’m planning a new army and I’m gonna run Soulblight (or legion of blood). Plan is to work up 1000 points first. This is what I’m looking at: - Prince Vhordrai - 3 Vargheists - 5 Blood Knights (using Mantic Soul Reaver Cavalry with Spite Revenant heads. Let me know how these models go if anyone’s used them.) - 10 Direwolves What do people think and if anyone’s got those Mantic units let me know how they go

I think this Death release may end up being quite large. All signs point to it being a skeleton based release. I think there have been two characters tease now. You have the released entity, which will presumably end up as the Mortarch of this faction. You then have this smaller, secondary hero who will maybe be the hero included in the box against the Ogurs.

Unsubstantiated rumors indicated some or all of the Ogres finecast will be removed. By no means a confirmation but if you had your eye on any of those models could be worth securing them early.

Dude you need to stop bringing this up randomly, especially in the rumor thread.

I find it a little suspicious that all of those apparent “leaks” can actually be found posted in this thread as speculation by a number of different people, well before the alleged leak came out.

That would be awesome. I can only hope they do this, I’d be so stoked.

Honestly I’d agree with that, Soulblight as they are wont survive. They have two plastic units, so if they are continued I’d imagine they will lose a lot of their units and get a rework.

I agree that in terms of rules they add a lot of uniqueness to the faction, and I’ll be disappointed if their gone. However, I’m running counts as and custom version of all three of those units and it seems fairly common to other people as well. I don’t imagine they’re selling very many of them and the finecast nature would have always put them at risk.

This is awesome

Haha the models don’t excite me but the rules variation they provide id prefer to keep.

I hope that The BCR finecast stay around. Losing the Hunter, Sabre’s, Yhetees (and the gorgers) gets rid of a lot of character and variation.

I’m now so intrigued as to how this happened.

Has anyone got or seen a Sphinx painted in the style of the Morghasts/Dread Abyssals?

On the topic of predicting cuts/replacements I’d imagine we could see some cuts from the Mawtribes book. They have a substantial amount of Resin that could easily be replaced. It’d be safe to say the old Tyrant kits gone. Maneaters and the Firebelly are probably at risk, being the units they’ve shown the least support/commitment to. The Butcher could easily be replaced by a plastic kit, but that all depends on the toe of release the Mawtribes will get. Yhetees and the Gorger are most likely not going anywhere but again, could easily be replaced. Icebrow Hunter and Sabre’s are probably safe, though there has been that rumor about them being in an Underworlds team.

That’s weird they survived as well. Probably because they’re dual kit with the Wanderers unit.

The book could be boiled down to: Duardin (Dispossessed + Ironweld) Free Peoples (Freeguild + Devoted + Collegiate Arcanum) Dark Aelves (All the Dark Aelf stuff survived basically) Wanderers - Primed for an expansion, Kurnothi being likely Phoenix Temples - Being the only survivors of the High Aelf Nuking of 2019 bodes well for them.

Based on this, I think we can attempt to make some conclusions: Wanderers and Dispossessed are now in prime spots for expansion in the future. All their older models are going, leaving a core of solid plastic kits. Phoenix Temple remaining is a possible sign they’re in for an expansion or will form the basis of one of the high aelf factions High Aelves getting nuked probably means they’re in for a total range rework.

I definitely agree with this, there’s been indicators Wanderers were different from the other Aelven factions from the start

While it sucks so many units/factions are going, I don’t find it too surprising. Swifthawk going made sense with SoD getting axed. Order Draconis and Edlritch council while cool, weren’t really super intriguing in terms of getting expanded. I can see Wanderers and Phoenix Tenple getting spun off and that is supported by this I think.

There is a section in the Sylvaneth Battletome that implies some aspect of Kurnoth survived. That, plus the fact that it highlights they caught Kurnoth in his winter aspect makes me think he’ll make a return.

Yeah some of the other heroes would fit visually as well. I figure Orion is Kurnoth in age of Sigmar, a lot of there lore seems interchangeable.