Memnoch

That is a good point. Probably would be less of an issue if it was not possible to increase the range from 24" to 30". But then again, you're probably right that the size limit is the easiest limitation overall.

Aha, I missed that in the FAQ. Sounds good! This is a fair point that admittedly I hadn't considered. Perhaps here it would be possible to boost the Raptors a bit as it seems that the Anvils of the Heldenhammer CA is the main problem. What if you give the Longstrikes a Headshot on 5+ and the Hurricanes -1 Rend for example and put some limit on the Anvils' CA instead? The would give the Raptors more value for their points and makes them more useful in other lists as well. I see where you are coming from here. I was more thinking from a more thematic point as the models themselves are much bulkier than most of the other Stormcast. I'm still in favor of making them more durable somehow. Again, I'm coming from a more thematic point here. I see the problem though, perhaps it would be possible to put some size limits on them if they are battleline units? Perhaps that is just making it unnecessarily complex though. Those sound really good! Maybe this stems from the fact that I put a helmet on my Gavriel and in fairness most of the early Stormcast do have quite a bit of Hammers of Sigmar iconography on them. I would see this as pretty much the same as using Vandus as a generic Lord-Celestant on Dracoth or Astreia as generic Lord-Arcanum on Dracoline which I believe is not uncommon. Agree fully on 1 and 3. Not sure we'd need to sacrifice any abilities from the Stardrakes, I think it's fair to simply up their combat damage to get them on the "new" monster level.

This is very impressive! I really hope you will bring this to GWs attention when you're done. This is definitely a big step up from our current battletome. I especially like how these changes make the rules much more thematic for the various stormhosts and units. Some feedback: For the Hallowed Knights artifact you state "The first HALLOWED KNIGHTS PRIEST". Does that mean that other non-priest heroes could get other artifacts than this one first thereby circumventing the artifact rule of the stormhosts? I don't necessarily think it is needed to reduce the maximum size of Liberators and Raptors, I think having the options of bigger units is fine as is. I would suggest having Paladins with 3+ save, after all they are wearing much heavier armor, or alternatively some MW save option. This might mean their points would need adjusting. As the Extremis Chamber is the only one that is not possible to play legally as a "pure" chamber I would add Dracothian Guards as conditional battleline if the general is a Lord-Celestant on Stardrake. It would be cool to have separate command traits for Lord-Aquilor as well as Lord-Celestant and Lord-Arcanum. I like this approach a lot more than point reductions. For Liberators with shields I would like to see some kind of tanking shieldwall ability in order to hold objectives longer. Something like forgoing attacks gives +2 on saves and a +5 MW save and also counting wounds rather than models if on an objective. This sounds really good as well. I would also be interested in seeing general warscrolls for the current named heros that do not have one like Gavriel for example (maybe he's the only one?). That would then be a Lord-Celestant with a Sigmarite Runeblade and a Sigmarite Thundershield as an example. Really great work!

From looking at the recent poll regarding what age you started wargaming it seems I had a longer journey to get here than most of you. My gaming background is initially role playing games, 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons to be precise and mainly the Forgotten Realms setting. I spent a few years playing that pretty religiously in the early 90s and still have most of the books and boxes that were released back then. I always played computer games on the side, mostly FPS or RTS and went pretty deep in on the competitive side in the early days of Counter-Strike. When I discovered Dark Age of Camelot I was seriously hooked, and since then my computer gaming has been mostly covered by MMORPGs (and probably 90% of that being WoW), although much more casual now for many years than at times in the past. I haven't played WoW for around a year now though, so maybe I've managed to shake that addiction finally! I was always aware of Warhammer, back when I was buying my AD&D books I would see the Warhammer guys with those massive and pretty damn cool armies in my then LGS but I always told myself that the effort to get to a big army like that was crazy and that I couldn't paint anyway so I never really gave that a proper consideration as a hobby to get into. Fast forward a whole lot of years. Just over two years ago (at 44 years of age at that point) I was in Gothenburg with my wife for a weekend when we happened to walk past a Warhammer store. We went inside out of curiosity as I wanted to see what had changed since the early 90s. Turns out it was a lot! We were both amazed by the looks of the AoS miniatures and even if we didn't buy anything that day we talked about getting a box or two and trying out this painting thing. After much thought and many visits to the GW webstore we ended up picking our factions. My wife went for Slaanesh (and has since expanded into Tzeentch) and I, against my own expectations, ended up with Stormcast. I really liked the models but the gold wasn't really doing it for me and I was kinda leaning towards some chaos or death. Eventually I found pics of silver armored Stormcast and that was it, I was sold. So just over two years later we have 6000+ points of various Chaos and 13000+ of Stormcast and no end in sight.

The price increases haven't had any impact on my buying. I still buy what I want / need, or perhaps more accurately what my wife allows me to buy 😄

I will admit that I was hoping for a Tauralon in the SCE boxed set, but this looks pretty good. Depending on price I might even get two of those. Only kinda useless figures would be the two extra Lords Exorcists I'd have then. But definitely better than the last one with all the Gryph-Hounds 😄

Errant Questor also had his points in the box. That's why I was expecting points for this one as well.

I guess you're right

Exactly. Which is why I expected to find her points there as well.

I recently got my hands on the store anniversary model of Larissa Shadowstalker and expected to find her points in the box. However, there is no mention of any point values in the box, so should I use the points of the regular Knight Questor or is she just not match play legal? Or am I missing something?

It's impossible to draw any meaningful conclusions from vague statements like those. For all we know IDK selling below expectations could be outselling Dispossessed selling above expectations by a massive margin. It should be safe to assume the expectations are not the same for those two factions.

My aim is to do some hobby stuff every day that I'm home. My problem is lots of business trips though, cutting down on available hobby days. So far so good though

Some mighty impressive collections here. I'm at 11.000 points of Stormcast but unfortunately only at just over 2.000 points painted so I don't think I'm at the picture taking stage yet.

On the topic of the Evocators sprues. In the description on the Games Workshop page it says that it's possible to assemble a male prime, a female prime and a Knight Incantor out of the Evocators box. Is it possible to build all three out of a single box? If not, what options are there?

My wife and I started with AoS last fall and neither of us had played any wargames before. Although dwarfed by many of the collections shown here things escalated fairly quickly and this is our collection now: Stormcast Eternals: 1x Celestant Prime 1x Lord Aquilor 2x Lord Castellant 1x Lord Celestant 1x Lord Celestant on Dracoth 1x Lord Ordinator 2x Lord Relictor 1x Lord Veritant 1x Errant Questor 1x Knight Azyros 2x Knight Heraldor 1x Knight Questor 1x Knight Venator 2x Knight Vexillor 1x Gavriel Sureheart 1x Neave Blacktalon 18x Aetherwings 2x Concussors 5x Decimators 2x Fulminators 14x Gryph Hounds 15x Hunters 10x Judicators 38x Liberators 6x Palladors 9x Prosecutors 18x Raptors 12x Retributors 2x Tempestors Disciples of Tzeentch 1x Lord of Change 1x Kairos Fateweaver 1x Gaunt Summoner with Chaos Familiars 1x Gaunt Summoner on Disc 1x Herald of Tzeentch 1x The Blue Scribes 1x Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch 1x Magister 3x Screamers of Tzeentch 1x Burning Chariot of Tzeentch 3x Flamers of Tzeentch 30x Pink Horrors 20x Blue Horrors 20x Brimstone Horrors Hosts of Slaanesh 1x Lord of Slaanesh on Demonic Mount 2x Herald of Slaanesh on Exalted Seeker Chariot 1x The Masque of Slaanesh 20x Daemonettes of Slaanesh 10x Seekers of Slaanesh 5x Hellstriders of Slaanesh Blades of Khorne 1x Mighty Lord of Khorne 1x Bloodsecrator 1x Bloodstoker 1x Khorgorath 5x Blood Warriors 20x Bloodreavers Maggotkin of Nurgle 1x Horticus Slimux 3x Plague Drones 3x Nurglings 10x Plaguebearers Other Chaos 1x Chaos Sorcerer Lord 2x Daemon Prince We still need to pick up some of the new Soul Wars boxes and Endless Spells as well!

Is it just me or does the male Knight Incator look a lot more like the Evocators armor wise than the female Knight Incantor? Although he has a lion head motive on both is chest and staff that neither of the others have.

Damn shame. I was hoping for an additional hero. Looks really good.

You are right. That's a duplicate from the Soul Wars list. And according to the podcast the Asteria kit is a pushfit so it will be interesting to see if there will be separate kits for her and Lord Arcanum on Dracoline as well.

There are quite a few kits in this release and I don't think they've shown us all the models yet on warhammer-community. By my count there are 12 boxes; Soul Wars, 3 small pushfit boxes and 8 multikit boxes: Soul Wars - Lord Arcanum on Gryph Charger - Knight Incantor (female) - 5x Castigators - 1x Celestar Ballista - 3x Evocators - 8x Sequitors 3x Castigors (+ Gryph Hound) 3x Sequitors 1x Celestar Ballista 5x Castigators 5x Evocators Lord Arcanum on Dracoline / Asteria Lord Arcanum on Tauralon / Aventis 3x Evocators on Dracolines Lord Exorcist Lord Ordinator 10 x Sequitors And no word if the Lord Arcanum on Gryph Charger and the female Knight Incantor will be available seperately. Then there are the three models they haven't previewed yet: Knight Incantor (male) Lord Arcanum on foot Sequitor Hero with sword and shield Am I missing any?

Rob Halford! \m/

A subscription sounds like the best option to me.

Stormcast Ruination Chamber? That Lord Ordinator needs some war machines to buff

Thanks guys. We'll try the 60mm. Do they sell them at the GW shops?

My wife just bought a Lord of Slaanesh on a Demonic Mount and it comes with a 50mm square base. I checked the list and the round size is missing for that model, and we're not quite sure what to put him on. What round size are people using for that one?

Amazing work!