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Great ! But where is the Orc Shaman and his totally-not-AOS-pot-grot-lad ?? BTW, I'm really happy to see AJs continuning to bring characterful side units additions like "Badland Ogre Bulls" ! EDIT : the classifying between metal, resin and made-to-order metal still makes ZERO sense to me...

IIRC the Leviathan schedule from last year was "Second teaser (not the Adepticon Teaser silhouette) on Monday" BTW happy to see the HH Auxilia & TOW O&G Ranges released ! I hope for a Skirmish Week next sunday with Warcry and Kill Team then

Yep, that's the artwork of a model :

Once again, thank you and please ... :

So going by Whitefang's likes in the Rumors Thread, this is the "Ruination" equivalent to the Sequitor / Liberator / ...-or Prime we got last editions on the Core Book covers A cape, some kind of halo, a quite long weapon (probably a hammer), could it be a blanchized&thunderstrikized Retributor-Prime without helmet ???

True !

Looks like a leak from a printing house. Which means it's an "old-ish" leak as all material, promotional or otherwise, for 4th Edition must be ready by now and already shipped worldwide (as @Gaz Taylor pointed out with the shipping manifesto). The Mortal Realms + Realmstones charts really goes to the Promotional Magazine road, not to Indexes (which does not mean they are also coming, not just in those leaks).

100% existing Hellpit Abomination, so probable for the setting introduction pamphlet to have existing amry i.e. CoS

Or just in-store promotional magazines. The title "The Mortal Realms" looks like a new edition starter freeby for introducing the setting

Most probably ! Also, interesiting to see the lay-out of the non-special books seem to remain similar to the current AOS3 book design (with the red bandage) !

Probably some Thunderstrike / Ruination Lord, but to me it looks like John Blanche initial Stormcast artworks - and this is GOOD !

Well we 100% need to be able to represent Towers and Houses of the Stormcasts and the Cities of Sigmar, so yeah I want Stormkeep or CoS Fortifications or Building. Like we had the WFB Fortress or the Empire Fortified Village (and the Dreadhold range in AOS1). Also, Adepticon Easy Guesses : AOS : Khul, Abraxia, DB6 ; Skaven vs Ruination SCE trailers and models teaser 40k : Chaos Space Marine lord and boxed set Warcry : Ossiarch vs ??? (Maybe alone like Kruleboyz and Fyreslayers, adversary being shown later) WUW : Starer Set XXX vs ZZZ TOW : Dwarfs range KT : some Valrak confirmation (Necromunda and HH : mere teasers)

Okay, great intel : +1 point for Sylvaneth (even Kurnothi variant) being in the last boxed set of the season, then. And of course the Hive rumor engine could be Sylvaneth / Kurnothi (and not Nurgle or 40k alien). -- I'm very hyped by all this talks and teasers, but what I really want from AOS 4th Edition : Map of Azyr Intact Azyrite Buildings of some sort Herald Of Nurgle on Palanquin (and if I'm very greedy : plastic Pestigors and Plague Toads)

Two Warcry VS boxed sets back to back ? Absolutely, yes. (It's not entirely impossible of course, but for Warcry I'm really not seeing it). I would be all in TBH, I love the Dominion Hobgrots too.

But... the Rumor Engines (Ossiarch Feet on Nurgle Bone) ? and the Water Aelves warband in the very last VS box ? (Then Skaven could fit : some sort of poisoners with all the deathly potions RE. I don't see enough RE being Kurnothi TBF, or I'm taking Kurnothi/Sylvaneth RE to be Nurgly). Yet I see a pattern with WHU Starter Set : Wyrdhollow (Spring 2023) : SCE vs Tzeentch Daemons Deathgorge (Fall 2023) : IDK vs Slaanesh Daemons NounNounSmthg (Spring 2024) : ??? vs Nurlge Heralds Daemons Yeah yeah I know "GW and Patterns", but still...

Yeah it's great. Did you know I love Warcry ? Because I do. Speaking of which, we have 2 Underworld warbands and 1 other Warcry team to guess. I'm not sure we'll get Idoneth in either setting : we just got the Octopus IDK team in last WHU Starter Set, and we just got Water Aelves in Warcry (vs Fire Nighthaunts). So the 2-3 Rumor Engines must be for AOS proper if they are indeed related to Idoneth... Then, of course, exquisite perfection : Slaane Daemons Of Nurgle. We have a Rumor Engine that could be Epidemius / Herald on Palanquin (holding a book while seated on something) : so something for AOS/40k (but Chaos Daemons aren't announced there), too big a kit for WHU/Warcry. So could be : Heralds Of Nurlge on foot team for WHU, just like the Tzeentch Pandaemonium / Slaanesh Discords. We had Nurgle Mortals some past season. Because of the Rumor Engine with an Ossiarch Skeletal "feet" resting on a Plaguebearer Skull (and we have confirmation OBR are next for Warcry), a Daemons Nurgle team ? IMO doesn't fit because 1. no real Deamons warbands in Warcry (well, yet) and 2. we had Nurgle Mortals this season. TLDR : As much as I want Epidemius / Herald on Palanquin for AOS, I'll go for Nurgle Heralds in the next WHU starter set.

Yes, it also came from Malign Portents (there are notably SCE Souls stolen by Nagash himself in RGW era novels, it was the main goal of Nighthaunt Spirit Torments during the Souls Wars. And Archaon had Varanite War Altars attracting SCR souls in Wrath of the Everchosen, and of course the Cursed Skies since BR : Be'lakor). BTW Etenus wasn't "reforged" (which is a techno-magical process invented by Sigmar and Grungni requiring the machineries of the Sigmarabulum, mostly the Anvil of Apotheosis). The rituals used by Be'lakor must be one-of-a-kind sort of, or we would have a full army of Eternuses already ... The current statu quo is that Azyr was never breached, there only was Chaos Cultists coming in with the Age of Chaos refugees before the gates of Azyr were closed (those were then destroyed by Sigmar himself and the established Order of Azyr and the newly founded Stormhosts, alongside some corrupted beasts that lived in Azyr since the Age of Myth). We know Eshin have Gnawholes in Azyr still. Regarding Ulgu, it has never been completely conquered (there were still Malerion's dominions and Morathi's temples resisting), but was severely occupied and faced almost complete collapse prevented only by the constant guerrilla warfare by Malerion and Morathi, notably the "Cathtrar Dhule"

SIGMAR LIED He lied about Stormcast being Eternals, about Skaven not existing, about Azyr being Safe ! I'm so hyped. So. So. HYPED. Also love the look of that City, hope we get scenery of intact buildings. And I hope we'll see Azyr being mapped AND invaded by Skaven. BTW maybe the Stormcast Statues with Wings are the new look of Prosecutors ?!

Nurgle Daemon vs Silent People next Underworlds Starter Set (Adepticon Reveal ?) would be quite a disappointment to me, but why not ? Still, that skeletal feet decidedly looks Ossiarch to me. BTW I remember that rumor too (It came alongside the "Allies Contingents" Fake Rumors on Warseer, at the time of the real Hastings and Harry !). The Firebelly was said to have such insect relic on him (that blue head) :

Very interesting, thanks ! Dual box Nurlge Daemons vs Ossiarch incoming, then. The vision Karash and Katakros suffer appears Nurgly : Four Maws, three Eyes - trilobe of Nurgle (4+3 = 7), amorphous laughters, etc. Also, lots of potential Nurgle and Ossiarch Rumor Engines. And this is probably a Morghast Hero feet resting on a PLAGUEBEARER SKULL 100%

Everyone, the article mentions something secret coming from WARHAMMER MACHANDISE STORE, not main GW !!! https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/04/introducing-warhammer-relics-the-official-warhammer-merchandise-festival/ "A certain somebody is coming up to a major milestone, and you can pitch into the celebrations with a stuffed box of exclusive merchandise commemorating his achievement. Quite what’s in it is something we’re keeping close to our chest, but all will be revealed soon over on the Warhammer Merchandise store…"

Yeah ! They were the "Scales of Talaxis" scenery box set. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/09/25/scramble-over-the-scales-of-talaxis-in-this-new-warcry-terrain-set/

Me too. Warcry for me is THE top GW game of the post-AOS era, aesthetic- and rules-wise. Next season, GW should even the kits that are like KT and Chameleons/Gorgers (i.e., kits for a "proper" new AOS/40k unit, including skirmish options), and "bespoke" Warcry kits (its creativity shared with Underworld for crazy new concepts). And I'm sure we'll get a Catacombs 2D game mode again. Speaking of the end of current season, I'm looking forward for the future Chaos warbands hopefully announced at Adepticon 2024 (surely at least one of the last two mystery warbands ).

The only explanation is that GW drastically under produced TOW kits. They currently have limited allowance production capacity (new factory shenanigans), and they under-estimated the demand level of their target audience. They probably thought that between Grognards with established armies (some of them distrusting GW) and new Customers (in part Total War Warhammer enthusiasts, i.e. not an "already hobbyists" demography), TOW would not meet the level of demand* of other "brand new" GW games. Same with Legion Imperialis, apparently, probably considered to be too "niche". * Everyone agrees that TOW is hitting hard the nostalgia button - that effect will die off when TOW is around one year old I guess -, while not offering that many new models, i.e. vexing more than one people expecting more new/redesign kits, Cathay and mostly, Kislev.