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Great concept, thank you for sharing the intel ! I love how they try to implement new mechanisms with each new army. Hoping Nurgle do not prevent any preview or releases to reach us in time !

Thats obviously NOT Greywater Fastness. Going from its artwork (with its heraldry) in CoS, its clear the city is bigger/larger than the one showed above, and the various descriptions of it never mention that it should "float". We even have stories about the quagmire and the sewer directly around it. Great artwork tho, just from a "generic" Free city.

(I don't know why but some of your strips make me think of Dilbert by Scott Adams.....) And as I said, frankly, you nailed it. Please keep it up !

Man. Those are GREAT. (IMO waaay better than the other one they stopped BTW, at least I prefer your humor...) You really nailed it ! Especially the faces. And the fact you get very well some fluffy bits (like the Warcry guy)

In Soul Wars : Forbidden Power, in the Orruk Warclans and Cities Of Sigmar Battletomes, and from here : https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/06/forbidden-power-the-hammer-god/

Interesting article ! Alas, one thing to debunk is the face in the artwork ; it's the face of the Celenar (look at the ears and jewels) !

Apparently.... A recent GW podcast said the Bonefortress was 3D printed (as in, a project of the hobby team, not a thing to be sold.... at least for now).

This is a Chaos book in terms of wide range of rules and fluff. This is a Death book in terms of fluff and campaign rules. This is a Narrative players book in terms of story and flavorful rules : I mean, you play Daemons, Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, Slaves To Darkness ? This book is for you. You want a campaign for the latter, or Ossiarch Bonereapers and Nighthaunt ? This book is for you. The Realm rules for the Eightpoints, or the Siege rules for every factions, with the wandering Spells / Monsters rules - those are just sugar on the cake. The most important for me : world building about the Eightpoints, hints about Slaanesh and Lumineth Realm-lords, the next step of the Soul Wars narrative arc for Slaves To Darkness and Ossiarch Bonereapers. I mean I liked Forbidden Power for just that, even if played neither of the factions featured in it.

The Ossiarch Bonereapers Battletome itself said Archaon is the equal of Katakros AND Nagash BOTH. Seeing how that whole "Age of Myth devolves into the Age of Chaos" business went out, we know Archaon is far superior to them all (his humble debuts as Priest of Sigmar and Be'lakor's pawn being now totally irrelevant seeing what he did accomplish in the following millennia).

Do you want updated Siege Warfare rules ? Do you want roaming Monsters, or wandering Endless spells rules for your games ? Do you want new rules to play battles in the Eightpoints ? Do you like the fluff of the current "Soul Wars" narrative arc ? Or want to learn about the Warcry setting aka the Eightpoints ? Do you play Chaos Daemons, Slaves To Darkness, Maggotkin Of Nurgle, Blades Of Khorne, Disciples Of Tzeentch or Hedonites of Slaanesh ?

"A NEW COMBINED DAEMONS ALLEGIANCE" ? Well, I thought they would do that when they first teased the book, but man I'm happy with this as it was my main army in WFB and in 40k I have to say I'm really looking forward for the rules (the Daemons allegiance and the Siege stuff) but mostly the fluff ! Time to paint some Daemons and that Dreadhold

From the Slaanesh battletomes and the Forbidden Power books, we know there should be some kind of spirit coming with the Lumineth. We've already seen Celennar. With Whitefang's enlightening / ed riddles, we then know there should be other "spirits" (in forms of animal and not "Djinn" as I first thought). It would be AWESOME it that'd be Tyrion, Lord Of Lumination, on a eight legged multi horned kind of deer.............................

Well no : this tweet refers to the mostly human kingdoms of the Age Of Myth (as stated in the Core Book). The "for now" implies the Lumineth are the return of civilisation in Hysh coming soon... So the Elves save the day once again BTW I absolutely LOVE those "Twitter Phill Kelly AOS Facts" ❤️ !!

What are those Hyshian riddles ?!?!

So between recent announcements, the Chinese shipment informations and the LVO reveals, we know at least 4 forthcoming AOS books (and linked releases*) and we can safely speculate on the fifth. So, in (probable) order of releases : - Soul Wars : Wrath Of The Everchosen - Battletome : Seraphon - Battletome : Lumineth Realmlords - Battletome : Sons Of Behemat - Soul Wars : "Falls Of Excelsis" or something. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 😍 * I wish so hard for a Lizardmen redesign in the magitek / total war style it's not even funny. At least a plastic Slann for AOS, Blood Bowl or Blackstone fortress !!!

I have. Great time. Why, may I ask, my friend ?

Well about the "full reveal", the Teclis and the LVO articles on WarCom seems to imply the reveal will be "Pointy AelveS", so there is hope ! ... And about Lileath and the Haven : as pointed-out here by @3nondatur, GW said recently (in January 2019), when asked about it on Facebook, that "all was not revealed yet", pic related :

... And I am more with @Whitefang for the Seraphon "debate" : Between Malign Portents (Dying Star) and Warcry (Tome Of Champion 2019) - and the general tone or "feel" of AOS since Malign Portents, more detailed and grounded - it seems to me that the Seraphon will be what they always should have been : Creatures of flesh and (cold) blood, infused with Azyr might, and wielding the magical technology of the Old Ones (like Space Ships, seen since the End Times and their first Battletome). Recently Phil Kelly also said on Twitch that there are battles between Seraphon Space Ships and Tzeentch Silver Towers in the Aetheric Void. Also, as much as I like Josh Reynolds' writings about the new Cities, and his world-building of mid-early AOS, I think he takes some freedom with two aspects of his takes on AOS' lore, his "cosmic" views of the early Mortal Realms and the nature of the (non-Chaos) gods. Those have a bit evolved since AOS2 ("cosmic horror" or godbeasts or big monsters, cf. Forbidden Power or the Beasts Of Chaos Battletome, etc.). For example in a recent WD article, Kelly makes the difference between Elemental and Ascended gods, an important distinction IMO, which is kinda absent from Reynold's work, but work fine for almost all GW settings. So I don't think it's safe to base ones view of the cosmic part of AOS world-building only on him. TLDR in those matter - and Seraphon - I'm inclined to follow Kelly (from the Studio) over Reynolds (from BL)

There is no Nurgle, Slaanesh, etc. cards either. But Seraphon ARE in the Tome Of Champions 2019, so they'll have cards, but in the next wave.

Sorry, Tzeentch called. WE and only WE rule the Magic phase !

The first three paragraphs, yeah, but I am talking about the last one - which refer to the current Storyline of Gordrakk going to Excelsis with siege engines (with a Godbeast skull mounted on one).

Between Forbidden Power, that Hammergrod short story, the Cities of Sigmar and Orruk Warclans books, and now this, the "Fall Of Excelsis*" supplement is 100% confirmed. *I hope the city itself survives though !

Yes ! And It's a lady

Well, TOW was described as the Antiquity of AOS the same way HH is the Antiquity of 40k (also, it's general look is more like our greco-roman Antiquity while grimdark 40k is more like our Middle-Ages). And there is no doubt the World-that-was (past tense) / or World-before-time is in the past of the same Timeline as AOS - but as you say, I think there is a lot more time than 10000 years between the End Times and the start of the Age of Myth ! 😜 100% with you with the dated looking kits. But there are plenty of 7th- or 8th Edition WFB kits that are good enough for TOW, even some older ones (that are also fine for AOS too, like the Dryads). We could also say that every kits with dynamic / "over the top" poses from 8th Ed WFB and the End Times are to stay in AOS (even if their archetypes totally fits in WFB), while more static ones can go back to TOW. The lack of communication between the Sales direction, the AOS studio and the Specialist department is hugely problematic though. I get that Sales dictates most of GW's choices, but for example the High Elves squatting during the CoS release (yet now more comprehensible given the coming of the redesigned Light Aelves) - where even whole subfactions absent from the rules where present in the fluff - was hugely problematic. GW have enormous plastic, good looking ressources for TOW in terms of models in the form of the better looking modern WFB kits, it would be a shame if they don't use them (even if, as I said, I also want new Old World models too !!).

I totally agree with AOS and TOW's respective places in GW's games. But I was talking about TOW getting back models that were designed for its own setting. At no point at all I would imagine some models from AOS going to TOW. But WFB-designed models - currently used in AOS while not having proper replacements - going back to their original setting via TOW would be right IMO, because : 1. by doing this GW would (re)use resources they already have if they don't change scale (saying that while hoping for lots of new TOW sculpts !) and 2. it would force GW to distinguish further AOS and WFB/TOW in terms of looks and general aesthetic. My main concern is that what would be the point of, say, a Clanrats kit designed for rank & files square bases (the current one), and a new Clanrat kit designed specifically for AOS (how could they be different ? Different poses like the Underworld band ? Broken stormcast masks on the base ?) You see my point / problem... As said above by @Ggom, if you look at the general feel of the settings, the details, the lore, 40k (moreso post Great Rift) and Horus Heresy have quite distinct aesthetic and feels and themes, while playing on the same archetypes. I love GW for that and hope they will did it for AOS / TWO too.