Clan's Cynic

GHB FAQ's up.

Honestly it's not that far removed from the old Empire Engineer on Mechanical Steed.

Beast-Smasher Gargant

Beast-Smasha Gargant

The codex launched with no new models. That's pretty much unprecedented. The Possessed and Accursed Cultists didn't arrive for about two months. Pre-Covid (and most of the time during it) they've been pretty aggressive at pushing stuff out with the Codex.

Judging by the CSM release, some things have gone wrong behind the scenes. Could be Somali pirates love the Lumineth as much as they do X-Wing.

Just Tzeentch next week. No Lumineth, however... Tzeentch Vanguard.

Stop PUD! It's not Chorfs! Remember Hashut!

Which is funny because a lot of people bemoaned the Empire and Bretonnian models still existing in AoS as 'generic' but these are shaping up to be an even more generic fantasy DnD mashup of the average Human Fantasy Guard. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

New Lizardmen(man?) but it's Blood Bowl.

Speaking of Warcry, Wayland Games have Heart of Ghur in a 30% off sale for those holding off on picking it up, as well as the Broken Realms books.

With World Eaters and CoS being announced at the same time, both ranges are probably already finished. We're just seeing a lot more World Eaters stuff because they're the thing that leaked and GW is scrambling to cover it's bases. Hell, we probably wouldn't have seen any of the new Guard stuff yet if it wasn't for the leaks. If we don't see them in 2023 I'd be very surprised.

They are. The contents page was the first we saw of Horns of Hashut and the Legionnaires. I also missed off the Soul Grinder.

Marauders, Marauder Horsemen, Chariots, Warshrine, Spawn, Mutalith Vortex Beast and Lord on Manticore are all the Fantasy leftovers that aren't getting replacements I think.

Multi-part Warriors and Knights. New Chaos Lord on foot and mounted.

One criticism I have of the Soulbound stuff is how obviously they have to tie any new classes in directly with the models, unless it's something 200% original like the Pioneer. You can't just have a Normie Human Noble, it has to be a Lost Scion(tm) because there's a model of that. The Freeguild Guard obviously got stripped out because GW probably told them "we're updating the models, you can't do that."

Sorry folks, it's just an Eternus 'reveal' as at least one person here predicted. At least the trailer's cool.

Cities/Dawnbringers seems a good bet, since World Eaters have had Angry Ron and the full Berserker unit now and the rest of the year seems pretty filled up with Battletome releases.

The LRL/DoT Battletomes have had pretty much zero buildup to them from WarCom, so it seems unlikely to me, but if the Votann Army Set is a two-week pre-order they might be and Necromunda/Khorne as the filler week. If the Votann is just a one-week pre-order I think it'll be Necromunda and the Khorne warband this week, LRL/DoT the week after, then the Votann set.

I think the fate of Dispossessed will come down to how Dawnbringers/CoS turn out. If everything Duardin has been ripped out that might be a good sign in a... weird kind of way that we'd see some kind of Khazalid Empire standalone 'tome. I don't feel like GW would bring back Grombrindal just for some BL stories (hell, even Gotrek got a model), especially since he can act where Grungni might not be able to but still be an extremely powerful model on the tabletop - but then again how long have people been waiting for Malerion? There's also the mystery of the Gholems. They're very tied to Grungni and Soulbound mentions them living in Order cities, but we've never actually seen them. Whilst they could just be another Silent People or Grotbag Scuttlers, it's odd they threw out such specific circumstances in background lore without showing us anything about them, almost like they don't want to let slip of future model designs or something.

I agree when it comes to everything but the basic Ogres. Leadbelchers and Ironguts look fine due to the weapons they're carrying, but it's painfully obvious the Ogor Gluttons were designed to be ranked up on square bases. That they're such big models in a game where most modern AoS sculpts are designed with semi-dynamic poses just makes the "arms tucked in, weapons side by side" posing extra glaring.

First we'd probably see of anything Dispossessed is with the Dawnbringer Crusade/Cities of Sigmar revamp, but from what they said on the announcement stream it'll be largely dominated, if not entirely, humans.

Part of me wonders if this was originally meant to release last year before things went wrong with Cursed City's production. Bit weird that after a year and a half this is it, no new minatures. I know there was a lot of discussion/speculation surrounding Kritza and Lady Annika having been Cursed City characters who were thrown into the Soulblight Battletome and this will probably add to that. Not actually packaging any models with it is a bit cheeky.

10th - 30k Predators and Proteus. 17th - Leagues of Votann two-week pre-order. 24th - Necromunda splatbook and the Goliath/Esher bikes. Underworlds warband. They've been unusually quiet about the LRL/DoT Battletomes and on stream they were a bit throwaway about the confirmation of their 'tomes. Plus the Mawtribe/Sons Battletomes don't even have art yet. I think there's still going to be a bit of a wait for all four.

Being reboxed with the King Brodd sprue most likely. They'll be back, with a price hike of course.