Clan's Cynic

FAQ and Errata update.

Bretonnians or Sisters for this week's Rumour Engine? Terrain? A filthy heretic's base decoration?

Never know where a sneaky-stab might come from.

Somehow I only just noticed the pet rat the leader has on his arm. Different sizes, equally vicious. Edit: And another bunch! There's loads!

If people haven't already, I highly recommend watching Vince Venturella's videos on speedpainting and Skaven.. although given how much he loves Skaven, I'm fairly certain he'll have new ones coming for the new edition anyway.

Behold... RATS!

Just 40k for models I'm afraid, but the novels Dead Kingdom and Children of Teclis are dropping as well.

I've definitely seen stuff going Direct Only appear on those in-store 'Get It Before It's Gone' sections in the past, so it's probably just that.

They usually drop in the days leading up to the Saturday of release, so either next week or the week after.

Another Friday, another Dawnbringer Chronicle. This time ft. Glutos.

Warscroll anatomy/breakdown for 4.0. Like the list building there's a fair bit of meat on the article.

Wyrdhollow, alongside an awesome Tzeentch team. Currently still being sold I believe.

I wonder if Sancrosact will end up one of the Detachments Battle Formations, where your Liberators/etc get their various spell gimmicks instead of specific Sancrosact models?

To be frank, the mood around Fantasy models being squatted has always been mixed here. It's not as bad as it used to be, but there's definitely been times when people were practically giddy at seeing another "Fantasy model rightfully squatted" as a sort of strange revenge against the hatred a lot of Fantasy players had for Sigmar's launch. That's lessened as the years have gone by, but I don't think it's ever entirely gone away.

If I recall correctly, Beastmen are a mix of 6th edition (2003) and 7th edition (2010), except for the Endless Spells and Herdstone (2018), Underworlds warband (2019?) and the new Beastlord (2023). Bonesplitterz I think are entirely from 8th (2011), except for the Underworlds warband.

I'm neutral. I don't mind Stormcast being in every starter set because, as others have already said, they're a very good 'starter' army and were clearly designed from the ground up to be exactly that. Plus the start of the new edition is their only real release wave, unlike 40k where you can expect at least half a dozen variations of Loyalist Power Armour to appear in an edition so the fatigue is real. True, Stormcast do get more in that way than most armies, but it could be a lot worse. On the other hand, having two different armies back in Fantasy was something I actually quite liked. Variety is the spice of life as they say, so having two different armies getting big new releases/updates to older sculpts is certainly nothing to scoff at.

Maybe that one suit at Nottingham who is obsessed with sticking Tzaangors in every box possible just got his wish, with BoC making way for Battletome: Tzaangors and Codex: Tzaangors. "All good things come around again... in blue!"

Ogres aren't a 'Core' TOW army for the foreseeable (at least until they do a 'Eastern' expansion) unlike Beastmen, so I think the odds of them getting an AoSification with new sculpts is pretty good... but I was also confident Beasts of Chaos would be sticking around and I was obviously wrong about that, so I don't know what to believe anymore.

Admittedly part of me feels like people shouldn't be too shocked that a game built on the bones of abruptly squatting peoples Fantasy collections would, perhaps inevitably, see squattings of their own occur when it worked out well for GW before (I realise I said a while back I'd be surprised if BoC was squatted but I was obviously wrong in that assumption). On the other hand, just like back in 2015, I can't begrudge anybody for being extremely upset the army they spent hundreds/thousands of pounds buying, building, painting and playing with is thrown in the proverbial bin.

An ouroboros of squatting (especially now Squats are back).

Interesting that Horns of Hashut are getting squatted, considering they're a Warcry 2.0 launch warband. Optimist in me says it could be tied to AoS Chorfs, the cynic in me says they just sold that poorly.

Early warning of what's going away in 4.0. It's official, Beasts of Chaos and Bonesplitters are off to the great Old World in the sky, at least for competitive play.

I'm late to the discussion, but as somebody who was quite looking forward to Thunderstrike Liberators, I'm not the biggest fan of them. I don't think anymore needs to be said about the Handsome Squidward helmets, but the one-handed hammers feel ridiculously big, even by Warhammer standards - closer to Warcraft than anything. I think it's especially jarring when Thunderstrike has tried to give them more realistic proportions, so it stands out more.