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Regarding the 8-9 existing factions. If GW indeed support the game like Kill Team, we can hope as mentioned to get boxsets of existing units with at least a new plastic character. I'm still not convinced the symbol top right is Stormcast. The other symbols are all already associated with an existing race, but this one, while clearly Azyrite, never was shown to represent the Stromcast faction : not on the SCE kits boxes, not in the Battletome, not on dice, even not on the Firestorm campaign rosters. SO to me that means this symbol refers to the Devoted Of Sigmar : they would fit the skirmish scales better than Stormcast, and the lone lightning bolt makes me think of the Excelsior Warpriest robes design.

Thanks for linking the interview ! I like the fact WFRP's role in worldbulding WFB is recognized here ; and the idea that it made the World-that-was "smaller". That should be useful for the Mortal Realms too, knowing that in contrast with what was said in the interview, they are not and never were infinite (as shown below).

So after a few hours of sleep and a good day of work, what can I say... I love the Keeper Of Secret. The two heads are good. First I thought it was a bit too stiff (...) and symmetric, but the video and the alternative head shows its qualities. Syll'Esske (Xerxes&Herald) is very good too ; that eastern theme is excellent, always thought it would suit Slaanesh well. The Masque is nice, nothing breathtaking but nice anyway. The scenery, the endless spells and the two ... things with the mirror are really bad. Goofy and weird, not in a good, daemonic way, just (young child) toy-like. The Judgments of Khorne are fine, but those... Brrr. Do you think we'll get Mortals too ? Khorne didn't got the Skull Altar and the Bloodmaster teased before the night of pre preorder..... Let's hope !

MORE SLAANESH VIEWS

First (from the right) : - Gutbusters or Bonesplitterz ? - Daughters of Khaine - Soulblight - Gloomspite - Idoneth - Ironwajz (or common Greenskinz) - Fire Nighthaunt ??? - DEVOTED OF SIGMAR ???

O M G Warcry looks AMAZING. - So the Warbands are modular (compare the pictures, the second and the first trailers) !!! - They are non-Chaos Warband at launch ; I though they might be "rules-only" warbands, but then the Order symbol isn't entirely Stormcast, and there isn't enough Soulblight models already to create a warband with the current model line, so that must mean NEW MODELS TOO. - Fyreslayers Battletome at last ! The invocations are really cool, the scenery is PERFECT. - The Looncurse box with Sylvaneth vs Gloomspite tells us already what the next Batteltome is : it's tree time ! - The WHU Kharadron Overlord Warband is nice. The baloon guy is probably the inspiration for the RPG cover art. - Forbidden Power looks nice too. Less goofy Endless spells are always a good thing IMO, and next fluff chapter : perfect. - SLAANESH ! Love the theme. Not convinced on the Endless spells and the little girls with the mirror thingy, but the rest, especially the Keeper and NOT!-Xerxes are awesome. Love the eastern theme (again). GOOD NIGHT FRIENDS

And Alarielle

Wait for WARCRY

On the French side of things, I've heard : Fyreslayers 2.0, Slaanesh and Slyvaneth for the next 3-4 months... - The Fyreslayers were apparently due November last year (I think it "just" means new battletome, terrain, endless spells, and why not (COMPLETE GUESS, based on the Realmslayer cover artwork), a new Gotrek ??) - Slaanesh is obviously coming this year (according to WarCom, different clues, etc.), but as we discussed with @NurglesFirstChosen I think it's STD/Everchosen/Darkoath first. Then I'd love to see Slaanesh before them - so I can complete my quartet of plastic Greater Daemons We had rumors already for Slyvaneth (alongside Ironjawz), and we have the underworld warband coming soon, so why not...

Well the crown itself has clearly industrial "feet", and is full of plasma glowing cables. It would be easy to convert it to AOS (corrupted Realmgate ?) removing the too "technological" parts, though.

The GW studio preview seminar at Adepticon will be around 2-3 hours in the morning next Thursday (not tomorrow). http://www.cvent.com/events/adepticon-2019/agenda-7822dab492fa4ed0bde10d960366d97c.aspx The AOS website has a new WARCRY section ; I think it's a safe bet we'll get more news on this game at Adepticon. https://ageofsigmar.com/warcry/

Even if she's described as a Liberator-Prime, she looks like the female Knight-Questor on the cover of the new AOS RPG. Nice one anyway !

I have both WD (FRE and ENG) in front of me, Phil Kelly obviously talk about the WFB Ogre Kingdom Armybook of old. We also learned that PK wrote much of the Malign Portent short stories ; that remained me of the Ogre Kingdom short stories in the WD of that time (about an Imperial marchant traveling the Ivory / Silk Road toward the Mountains of Mourn) ; they were brilliant and totally in the mood of some of the AOS short stories we got with MP (i.e. more epic / exotic / high fantasy but still with the Warhammer grimdark, realistic tone). -- Waiting for Adepticon, as @VascoPinto noted on the other thread, the AOS website has been updated with a proper WARCRY section https://ageofsigmar.com/warcry/

Ohoho yeah ! https://ageofsigmar.com/warcry/ Nice spot. Can't wait for more info at Adepticon next week ! I think Warcry will be all Chaos first but with possible new races add-on later.

Yeah, and don't get me wrong, I would love a Slaanesh release as much as an Undivided one. The "army box trend" is quite confuse IMO : the Blightwar set / Maggotkin timing was a strange occurence (wasn't there technical problems involved ?), different from Carrion Empire with FEC and Skavens quasi simultaneous, and now the Khorne side of W&R which is already out. On the contrary, the "MP Herald+WHU warband + Full army trend" is yet to be proven false and much more stable, and with the flow of Chaos Undivided releases plus Forbiden Power coming soon I think GW is still going with that narrative & release arc, and won't change it now. Zarbag's git was out in October 2018, and Gloomspite Gitz in January 2019, so 3 months in-between. (Nightvault was release in September 2018, while Soul Wars was release in June 2018, so also 3 months, but the other way around : first Full army, then WHU warbands ). We have rumors for STD this summer, so around Warcry, and that would be more or less 3 months after the Godsworn Hunt warband release....

I mostly agree with you here, but that's precisely why I think Slaanesh is end 2019 or early 2020, after STD. 2019 looks like the "Year Of Chaos Undivided" with Black Legion, Warcry, Traitor Guard in BSF ; so Slaves To Darkness seems logical, and thats without counting the MP Herald-Underworld Warband-Full army release trend... Also, there was no full army release for any AOS army that didn't get a MP Herald : between Sacrosant, Nighthaunt and Gloomspite Gitz, there was only "filler weeks" / Battletomes with Faction Scenery / Endless spells and maybe 1-2 characters (Khorne Daemons being an exception, because 40k compatible I guess). I think it's obvious Slaanesh will get a full army release, with Mortals, Greater Daemon, etc. ; so they should come after STD, the end of the Soul Wars narrative arch with Forbidden Power, and the Aelves of Ulgu - Hysh releases, i.e. at least end 2019... Then (and thats appropriate here), GW release pattern is quite ... chaotic, so we'll have to wait for 27th March & Adepticon for the next sets of predictions

Well in terms of trends it is : we had the 3 others armies from Malign Portents having their Heralds + Underworlds bands + army release ; Darkoath currently have Herald +Uunderworld warband, they just miss the army release. Between Warcry, Scourage of Fate, the multiplication of "soup" battletomes, the importance of Archaon in the narrative, a Slave To Darkness (new Darkoath models, current STD range, Everchosen) tome is guaranteed sooner than later. Slaanesh (40k/AOS) should come later, because : - For AOS, Slaanesh is a very determinant event in the fluff (not saying Slaanesh army elease means Slaanesh escape, but a Slaanesh tome would mean having to explain many things on Hysh and Ulgu and the other Aelf factions, which are not coming so soon regarding what GW said of army releases this year). - For 40k, why not, but having Emperor's Children and Fulgrim (lots of teases in the fluff indeed) right after Black Legion seems problematic.

I wish (sorry, unbelievers) But we know we'll get Black Legion, Warcry, Darkoath and Slaanesh this year (from GW's own mouth) ; I don't see them release ALL that between now and the summer..... (Knowing specialist games and Primaris wave 2 must be coming soonTM too...).

I'll admit, it's going to be HARD to wait. Hope Adepticon around 27th March will have more news on Warcry (but I guess that will be more about Forbidden Power). Anyway I hope by "summer" GW mean end of May-June and not August-September 😛

Okay, QFT, this whole post is excellent 😍 (EDIT : I didn't "just" liked it because the website won't let me spend more "likes" this morning, Warcry was too good )

Well, with the cover of the book / box that @cofaxest revealed a few pages back, which is an existing artwork of a female sequitor with another SCE and Lady Olynder, I do not see a specific TK death theme to that expansion, more a general / magic / endless spells / next chapter of the souls war thing... Also, I swear IF GW WOULD KINDLY STOP TEASING US WITH ARTWORKS OF ORDER CITIES / "STORMKEEPS" SINCE SEEDS OF HOPE SUMMER 2016 WITHOUT RELEASING ORDER SCENERY, that would be really nice thank you 😡😜

You are right ! there is another red guy with a shield.

When / if you do Chaos guys too, later in a future expansion, I hope you'll take a look at the Scourge Of Fate novel and that new Warcry game because it look narratively amazing and RPG-esque

The Beast skull warband are marauders probably from Ghur : --- I count 7 of them : the boss, the lady with a whip, the crouched guy with two axes, the guy with two spears, the guy with a two-handed weapon (horns up), the guy with a two-handed axe (horns down), the Chaos Hound. The Spikes warband are warriors in almost "full plates" ; their armor and weapon looks very "modern" which makes me think they are from Chamon. --- 5 guys it seems : the boss, the (other) lady with a whip, the guy with two hammers, the guy with a shield, the BIG GUY (4you). The mini dragons birds (4 ?) and the Chaos Furies (6 ?) are probably NPC ennemies.

Well Those Grots did have rules for AOSv1... And in terms of design, they were the exact prefiguration of the Gloomspite Gitz ! And they still live in the design of the Gobbalooza. But yeah ; like for Warhammer Quest BSF, the models for one of their Skirmish level games should come with rules for the "main" wargame too.