BrownDog

I hope the grand alliances stay. Morathi's betrayal is interesting because of them. And all the interesting interplay of these factions that have their own interests but are trying to work together is a great narrative/game devise. Removing that so they're just different groups fighting seems kinda boring.

Hey all, let's temper expectations a little. For all we know the preview will be further Gravelord models and another Broken Realms book. I've seen angry disappointment too many times on the forum during previews.

Been looking forward to this Out next month.

Hey some new Free-Guild art 😋

Yesterday's reveal was very exciting but I think we missed something very important. UNDEAD JOHANN!!!!!

With the obvious Vampire Hunter model, I'm now convinced the thing at the end of Broken Realms: Morathi was in fact a Vampire. Maybe even one of

It's a great narrative devise, love all the characters they've been developing alongside Gotrek such as Maleneth and Trachos the Stormcast. I'm really excited to see more of Skragrott, he's been missing narratively after his amazing trailer reveal with the Gloomspite Gits.

Sad there wasn't a new Hamilcar novel release

I'm sorry but this is a very ugly and off-putting mindset to have for AOS

come on, 'the real sexist are the ones asking for more female characters' is dumb and you should know that

That was just the one example, there are plenty others through the battletome and the short amount of fiction their in for AOS. And thats a bit of a problem, it's either not adressed or they revert to standard as male. The mere possibility of female Seraphon either unclear or not possible. You can come up with reason why they shouldn't but these are excuses really, and with such a creative driven hobby it seems so limiting. Like I'm homebrewing a Seraphon Oldblood, she's a baddass matriarch looking out over her clan of coalesced after their slann left. Her being a her isn't important its fun, and being told that can't be because it's not lore appropriate but it can be a guy instead then that sucks.

There dosn't even need to be a stark visual differnce in models for Seraphon between male and female, just maybe and acknowledgment and stories identifying that some characters male and female. Dosn't need to go beyond that. Transformers are a great example (nowadays) of female reprasentation in not human but humanoid fictional creatures.

Yeah, if they were portrayed as the asexual the point would be moot but here we are. Though I understand your reservation you can have gendered characters without focusing on supposed sexual organs, take Orks and Orruks for example. This all comes from the RPG that came out were when one of the players worked with the dm to homebrew a seraphone (hopefully they come out offically soon) and the question came up. They did end up referring the lizard character as a she.

From the most recent Seraphon Battletome on one of the few named characters, Lord Kroak "No Relic Priest is more powerful, or more mysterious, than Lord Kroak. Waves of Azyrite energy issue forth from this withered husk, and his mere presence is enough to slay the weakest amongst the damned. It is believed he is the oldest of the slann, perhaps one of the few who arrived from beyond the stars with the Old Ones at the dawn of history, and that despite having sacrificed himself in battle against the Eternal Enemy time and again Kroak always returns to continue the great war of the Seraphon. Kroak appears at those moments of greatest need, when fate must be tipped one way or the other. With but a thought Kroak can pluck a comet from the vaults of Azyr and hurl it across realms, unleash blasts of coruscating lightning, or materialise a host of Starborne warriors. With the battle won he will disappear in a shimmering aurora of starlight, only to re-emerge when fate necessitates it. Some skinks believe Lord Kroak has ascended to sit at the right hand of the divine Old Ones in death, unwilling to rest until the final defeat of Chaos has come to pass." Generally they are refered in stories as male. Another example, though not AOS but close, is Total War Warhammer 2 where all the lizardmen voice acters are all very obviously male. And thats fine for when they were lizardmen, but there Seraphon now, things can change.

Yes definatly. Fyreslayers need a revamp model wise anyway, they have good models but as units they blend way to easiliy into a bland mush. For me a faction that would be cool to have female characters is Seraphone, i've had this character of an old granny skink starpriest in my head for a while. But every seraphone character in the fiction (the few there are) seems to be male presenting and i'm hoping GW can change this.

Yes it's up to the designers. And we can ask the designers to add some more female reprasentation to the factions.

What IS your point? I can want more female stormcast models and not like the DoK for there bikini look, these arn't mutually exlusive. And trying to lazily side-step the issue by saying GW should focus 'interesting factions' means creating factions that are neither male of female presenting, which is cool but the huminod factions of both 40K and AOS are popular for a reason. It's especially laughable given your example of Geanstealer Cult, as the lack of female representation is adressed slighlty with their recent update adding female chracters and androgynes foot soldier to the roster.

Darkoath Warqueen approved

Yes thank you. Warhammer is a piece of media for us to have fun with. If you want historical or more historcaly inclined media there are plenty out there, AOS dosn't need to be one of them. Enough of the pendatic arguments about historical ratios.

Games workshop definatly needs to up its game in that department

Yeah Angharad Brightshield

Forge World actually has a good collection of female stormcast heads, prblem is it's forge world and the kits rather small.

The real question is when are we gonna get a Brightheart model, still waiting GW.

Gordrakk might be getting his own Broken Realms Book.