Nuriel

Straight to Legends, huh? Well, just another argument for normalizing Legends warscrolls in competitive, matched play.

It's no use. I think that the only way to "save" BoC is to normalize playing Legends and homebrew Legacy battletomes.

No faction is safe. If GW will be making money of selling new stormcats then they will se that culling part of their range every five or six years is profitable. If they can sell you miniatures, don't let you use them in competitive scene and you or other people will be still buying your product ....then why not repeat the process? Releasing new Lumineth temple? Discontinue one of the old ones. Releasing new Duardins? Make Fyreslayers a legacy army. Making Vampire Counts new core TOW faction? Abandon using those minis in AoS. If they make a profit from doing so, they will totally do it.

Exactly. This is the way. Legends like battletomes and codices for a, well "legacy" ie no longer on sale faction. Updated once in a edition. With warlord traits, artefacts, special rules, subfactions, battle formations and whatever will be relevant in the current edition.

Spire of Dawn booklet

From Games Workshop's point of view releases such as Kruleboyz, Cities in AoS and Dark Eldar, Sisters of Battle etc in 40k ARE the new armies. They are mostly miniatures selling company.

From the point of view of someone that have bought Horus Heresy starter box for 40k "because GW would never squat Space Marines, don't be ridiculous" it isn't exactly true, you know.

I'm absolutely done with GW if they go with it. If GW could they would probably squat Chaos Daemons too and make four separate lines for 40k, AoS, TOW and HH 🤬

Heh, I'm still bitter and grudging about "squatting" Greenskiz from AoS. Maybe I do should start that Duradin army after all...

You should read Brightspear City Guide from Soulbound RPG. This is a good picture of what everyday life looks like in Great Perch in Aqshy.

Exactly. I don't trust GW after what they did with Spire of Dawn, Start Collecting Greenskinz and Legion of the First Prince. What's the point of buying "old" duradins if they dissapear in the few months?

I have Stormcast Eternals models from first, second and third edition army boxes. And a lonely Luminark of Hysh / Celestial Hurricanum. Can I build at least a semi competitive list from that motley collection? If the answer is yes: which role each unite perform? If the answer is no: well, what is the budget way to expand from this point?

Well, it's historical moment, no doubt. The first "full" Old World faction that make into Age of Sigmar proper will be getting new full release of miniatures. (I'm not counting Soulblight Gravelords here because they were rolled into Legions of Nagash at first). EDIT: Of course, I forgot about SLaves to Darkness. Well, it's the first non Chaos release at least.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/01/26/beasts-of-chaos-flatten-foes-with-full-forces-of-cygors-ghorgons-and-primeval-spawn/ Not sure if this was posted but... Isn't it the new color scheme for Beasts of Chaos?

Hate is such a strong word. I'm mostly disappointed. Legends armies doesn't have that level of support (i.e. faction and subfaction abilities) and rules for them were written in former edition(s).

Then perhaps I am naive. They were honest about Bretonnia and Tomb Kings: you may play them, but they will never ever become real faction and get any new models. It was harsh, but fair. It wasn't like that with the other aforementioned factions ie: High Elves, Greenskinz and now (probably or possibly) Wanderers, Dwarves, Dark Elves and other leftovers. They were properly introducted into setting, they were part of the ongoing narrative. It isn't cheap hobby. And you invest not only financially but also temporarily (not native speaker, so I'm not sure if I use that word correctly: I mean your time as you assembling and painting) and more importantly: emotionally. I know that GW exist to bring money to their shareholders. And they do that by selling us books and small plastic figurines. But is it really so impossible standard to demand that you can still play with the minis you have bought in a good faith?

I'm afraid the chances are pretty high. They've already effectively removed High Elves, generic Orruks and Grots from the game. Yes, they are still in the Legends section, but you don't have any faction or subfaction rules (not even vanilla Alliance ones!). High Elves were part of Spire of Dawn starter set, Greenskinz has a start collecting box... In my opinion it doesn't matter that you have Greywater Fastness and Anvilguard boxes. They have squated those Old World factions from the game, they could do this again. I'm STILL really bitter about it all. And these new annoucment of new Cities of Sigmar doesn't seem to bring any dawn ....

I swear to Nagash, Gorkamorka and Malerion - if they squat even one more WHFB faction, I'm done with this game.

Yep. Pure Age of Sigmar 😉

Don't forget about Silent People

There is a big chance that next edition of 40k hit the shelves in 2023 so GW will probably publish new Psychic Awekening / Broken Realms style campaign before that. Monthy battletomes for AoS are almost given in that scenario.

By the way, is there any reliable aggregator site for GW rumors or something?

What? Not even christmas battleforces?

Yeah, it kind look like a small wingless bat ...

I think it's plausible. This way GW can have a new edition of major system every each year.