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Me too, about Death and about more models untill end of March. And it is still a possibility. I don't want to be disappointed, so I try to be cautious (and between the "productions problem" GW seems to have recently experienced, and the fact we still have Bloodbowl, Necromunda and mainly 40k taking places in the general GW release schedule, I'm not very optimistic )

Well we are discussing the last Malign Portents video. Between the video, and the text describing it in the last GW newsletter, Neferata is out, and Morathi si more than probable. But man I would love SO MUCH to see Be'lakor again (especially a new model) ! Just... not now - yeah maybe after Slaanesh. So end of the year, the next one. Just to say, he still has a whole page of fluff in the last Chaos Daemons codex. But alas no implication of him being active in the current 40k narrative...

No hint about Be'lakor whatsoever since AOS launch (but his entry in GA : Chaos), nothing to do with "his children", and since when has Be'lakor a female voice ?

Yeah, I'm not basing this part on the "leaked schedule", but on the direct statement by GW that they would start doing campaigns books after much of the codexes are out mid 2018, and from the Ork rumors for this summer (like the Truk-like wheel Rumor engine). Yeah, well, Fate of Konor was about Death Guard vs Ultramarine.... And Death Guard didn't showed up until the end of the campaign But they still get an awesome release just after, so there is still hope. Also, I guess the Legions Of Nagash Battletome will make Death pretty competitive, add that the campaign rules and the GHb2017 Allegiance Abilities for many factions and I think we'll have a way more diverse "meta" than in summer 2016.

So with the e-mail text about the last MP video, it's pretty obvious (at least IMO) that it's going to be Shadow Aelves, with Morathi / Malerion on the move. That's great. And it means that we'll get some more factions before the AOS global campaign. - What is (almost) certain we'll get : Maggotkin of Nurgle (new models), Legions of Nagash (no new models - mayyyybe Soulblights), Shadow Aelves (new models). - What will come too : the 4 Harbingers, the new (reboxed) scenery, the Malign portents campaign book. There will probably be more, but with the "MP painting muster" event being January-February-March, I don't think we'll get more until that point. - April-May-June is Aelves and 40k ; 40k being the end of the codex rush rereleases (and as GW stated), the start of new narrative campaigns for 40k (NB : after the codexes, 40k will probably get new campaign supplements like Gathering Storm, Wrath of Magnus, etc, and NOT a 40k global campaign like Season of War / Fate of Konor : this year is for an AOS global campaign). - In June-July (because summer holidays) we should see the launch of the global campaign, website-based (like Season of War / Fate of Konor), so no new campaign book (we'll already have the MP one), with results destined to change the ongoing AOS narrative. - In June we'll also so get "Souls War", byJosh Reynolds, surely dealing with the narrative part of the global campaign. That should include (IMO) the Great work of Nagash being completed, with himself leading the invasion of the Mortal Realms. - If we get a new Death faction at some point this year (which I really hope), then this summer campaign is probably the ideal moment to release it (this new death army could probably be a part of the Great work too - and I think it could be more of a Skeleton / Reanimant army than Soulblight army).

Yes, and by change, I hope we mean new models With this strange inclusion in the LoN book, there is another two hints this could happen : 1. On the WHTV about Malign Portents, Phil Kelly said to look at the Shyish Innerland Marshes map for new release hints. The only location with a faction described is the Necros Island, where a vampire army has defeated the Khorne invaders. 2. In the last Malign portents video, the female voice could belong to Neferata, and the "my children" part could refer to the vampire from her bloodline (she is the first vampire of the realms with Mannfred). Also, Vampire are sometimes called "children of the night". But then, with the new rumor about Aelves, and the probability the voice in the video belong to Morathi, we really can't say....

I really don't know, I'd say (given the last MP video and other clues already discussed above), we'll have : - February : MP book, 4 Harbingers, some new (old) sceneries, Legions Of Nagash (if it's Neferata in the video, then we could see Soulblight too). -March : following of MP. - April-may : Aleves. I find it REALLY strange to have two different factions but why not (that would be two Shadow aelf factions, so we would still need something else for Light Aelves, Tyrion and Teclis). - June to November : unknown. - November - December- January (2019) : Slaanesh 40k and AOS. Around that, mayyyybe Darkoath and Moonclan, and more probably new Stormcasts (I hope with proper Sceneries like Stormkeep).

The two schedules only goes to June, so... Also, per the existing fluff, at least Clans Eshin are involved in the Fate of Slaanesh (which could see releases, like a Slaanesh Battletome at the end of 2018-2019). Also Eshin alreadyhave an official AOS miniature now (from WHQ)

This leak seems to come from various rumors, and to be mainly 40k-oriented. It seems to come from this poster who was quite right back in November about Daemons and Adeptus Custodes, so you could say it's reliable.

YEAH ! I saw (on DakkaDakka ?) that PK said on WHTV that there would be new typical-AOS factions (like Kharadron Overlords I guess...) soon. So a Death Release may be ... Not so typical, unlike Cthullu Shadow Aleves ? I don't know and I want both EDIT : I just saw on the MP thread that PK said "no comment" about Aelves, and the the Realms of Light and Shadows will not play a big part in MP, unlike Vandus.

Yeah I think everything listed is "codex only" (no new miniatures). We'll see soon, if T'au and Necron are right. This poster didn't talk about LoN and TS, but then said he didn't know much about February, so it may fit. He doesn't speak of the Malign portents book and Harbingers, but I see this rumor as 40k oriented so that's probably why. I'm REALLY looking forward to Aelfs in April-May, if it's true.

I agree. But it seems that with their production issues, GW have a very ... disturbed release schedule (like why was MP and Death Guard teased sooo long in advances, to then takes ages to get released like the Myphitic Blight-Haulers for DG ? Anyway, GW now wants to releases more infos, but is stretching the thing a little bit ; Seven days of Nurgle, then MP, the WHW Open days, the preview seminar at the LV open end January, then a new MP countdown reveal in February (with some Shadespire), then the AOS open day in March.... Yet it seems that the majority of the big releases is scheduled for this summer and not before....

My hope is that LoN is like the Traitor Legions supplement ; we got it and some months later we got Death Guard, Chaos Space Marines, Chaos Daemons, and now Thousands Sons (yeah that's 40k Chaos but Death could see a little something like this with Shadespire and Malign Portents).

I think you are right about "as likely to come out as before". The GHB 2017 allegiance for Nighthaunt / not for Deathrattle is still IMO an hint of what is to come... (at last it worked for Maggotkin). As I said, I think LoN is really a "Traitor Legions" style book, before we got true factions releases (and NEW MODELS).

Well I'm not sure about that at all... We have a rumor of TWO new Aelves armies for this Spring... But what I could see is : - A Legion of Archaon battletome, with Everchosen, Slaves to Darkness, and possibly new Barbarians Darkoath with characters. - A Children of the Great Horned Rat battletome with all the Skavens clans (maybe Pestilens too as Flesh-eater Courts seems to be in LoN also). - Something like that for Free People, or Duardin or (existing) Aelves-only.

I'm pretty excited. I'm just afraid there won't be new models (bar the Knight of Shrouds) with this Battletome. I can't wait for January 26th-28th and the "very special preview seminar" we'll got there......

Did you people see that ? Apparently : someone predicted rightly (in November) the Deamons release both 40k and AOS in January, and the Adeptus Custodes release in February. That's what he say for the following months : two new Aelves armies in April-May !

Because of the Warqueen' speech : " ... she seen the rise of shadows bearing rusted blades. Of dead men that walk and hunger for heart's blood Rally the tribes! Gather the hosts! The dark waists of Shyish will echo with the war howls of a thousands clans! Follow me into battle my brothers and sisters! Follow me into the Realm of Death!! " (thx @Skarlocin the MP thread). Also, today's RE use the word "cryptic" ! You know, like a Deathrattle in a crypt ! Well okay It's not much. But the Age of hope is not dead yet !

Yeah ! Also the Warqueen speech in the last MP video really makes me think of an expended Deathrattle (and Darkoath) factions .....

Yeah ! (well not tomorrow but Thursday ...) But which Open day ? I hope if we get more news in two days, there will be more reveals this Saturday For Warhammer live, here is the program ; there is an "inside the studio" show at 4pm..... https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/01/02/week-warhammer-live-7/

So thx @RuneBrush we know the AOS Open Day is the 3rd of March. Do you think we'll see anything for AOS / Malign portents (1 day and half left !!) in the New Year Open day this Saturday ? I'm not familiar with this kind of thing so it may only be a small event, with a look at 2017 and nothing else (which is still nice).

That would be the Errant-Questor (WHW exclusive), the Shadespire Liberator-Prime, and Gavriel Sureheart. Perhaps the Lord-Ordinator too.

So if this video is "Episode 1", will it be one episode each day until Thursday when the MP countdown ends ?

Not only Atia ! Pestigors (with a capital "P") are in the Blightwar and Plague Garden fluff, and in the 40k Rulebook "Plague war" stories too. Remember, today's Warhammer Community article said that for 6 more days there will be tease of Nurgle stuff, so what I expect : - A closer look on the models teased. - A look at the Battletome (and perhaps 40k Daemons codex), perhaps some artworks or rules (we'll get wallpapers like today) - Other mini not teased in the video ; mainly Pestigors and a Robtringer sorcerer or Pestigors Shaman / something like this... Any way, so great to be a children of Nurgle those days !

@Dez Thats today Konrad Curze BL story... BTW another "proof" that MP is about Death and Skeleton ; the pic its website use :