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  1. 2 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:

    team is trying to solidify/clarify the lore

    I was of the impression it was also the goal of 3rd edition.

    I.e. The Realms are very much in thralls of Chaos (a post-Apoc setting), Thunderstrike is a Stormcast reboot (design-wise), we got basic humans archetypes in drove (Warcry, CoS, Darkoath), and the Dawnbringers are in a way a re-installement of Season Of War : Seeds of Hope and Firestorm (Order crusades founding new Cities) from 1st edition. 

    The only difference was the Ghurish & Desctrucions focus which wasn't that strong compared to Death in 2nd ed.

  2. 12 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:

    Idon't know why, but the functional sun is Hysh rather than Azyr.

    Well the Light realm having cycles with the Shadow realm makes sense for the nights-and-days rythm. 

    Azyr is the stary night sky realms (see evey artwork and video of it). HvERIwXdzT0lVwB9.jpeg.3e32dba969b4d8f8bff057a4ae8c293f.jpeg

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  3. 4 minutes ago, Gaz Taylor said:

    Still think it’s cool they’ve done a quick primer for everybody

    Yes it's great they are doing it again, as each edition it should reach more people !

    Also it baffles me GW wasn't spreading their videos of the setting more, as it is often asked on social media even in the Age of Internet ...

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  4. 1 hour ago, Gaz Taylor said:

    something they should have done years ago

    Some of us of course weren't there in 2015-2018 but come on ! GW has done it many times, and the first iteration was the best IMO, during Malign Portents (on its website with the excellent short stories), 6 years ago before AOS2 ! 

    Azyr is just spatialy above and the "axis" of the other realms rotation. Shyish isn't under the rest of the realms.

    Alas this video now is unreferenced, as it was then replaced in AOS2 with this one, less clear but still : 

    All of it was also posted on Warhammer Community. BTW we are one click away from a Wiki answering how the Realms work. And the various iterations of the AOS website also have a map of the Realms and a timeline :

    https://ageofsigmar.com/explore-the-realms/

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  5. Great to see Underworld so soon - a fine addition to my collection!

    For Warcry there is a Kill Team* battle report this week so maybe both boxes will go on pre-order announcement next sunday ?

    *Both boxes were announced at the same time at LVO 2024.

  6. 15 minutes ago, The Red King said:

    People kept saying "beastmen" in the trailer so I finally had to watch it and there aren't beastmen. There are tzaangor

    1. Why wouldn't you watch the trailer ? It's awesome.

    2. Tzaangors are 💯 beastmen. Just the Tzeentch basic variant. 

    https://ageofsigmar.fandom.com/wiki/Tzaangors 

    https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tzaangor

    https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Tzaangor

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    On another note, I hope oh-so-dearly we'll get new plastic objectives with 4th Edition, the set with Soul Wars and Dominion were great !

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  7. 2 hours ago, Chikout said:

    Here's the original comment. It looks like they're trying something new with this set. It's interesting that it's still being called a launch box in the video. This sounds like a product that should be a permanent range item.

    Leviathan still follow the Launch Box + 3 starter sets format though, and we already had terrain in the Extremis Starter Set variant for Dominion, so maybe not (I'd also still like intact Azyrite building...)

    BTW I'm late but what a preview ! :)

    Favorite was the Bolt Brethren and the AOS trailer (so much better than the Dominion one), showing both AOS larger-than-life aspects (literal GOD OF DEATH and continent-sized explosion) and the down-to-earth reality of the Realms : simple, human barbarian fighting against Beastmen, and the soldiery of the Cities of Sigmar, with the Stormcast Eternals tribulations in between. 

    Speaking of which, the first death of that brave Liberator is a nod to the Swarming from AOS 1 (Realmgate Wars : Quest for Ghal Maraz, pp. 67 & 72), which is IMO pretty nice. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, Ejecutor said:

    If one realm has been developed, that's Aqshy. It has been the main realm almost every time.

    I was almost dying of sunburn in my hotel room in Italy reading the first AOS Core Book in Summer 2015 with the whole Brimstone Peninsula first strike opening chapter. Aqshy will always hold a very special please in my heart. 

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Baron Klatz said:

    I’m thinking the new city of Embergard.

    The teasers are clearly in Aqshy (sad, I wanted it to by Azyr), but isn't the whole "one city will be destroyed" plotline the conclusion of the Dawnbringers saga ? I.e. coming alone with the Lady of Ruin probably destroying Verdigris in Ghyran in book VI ? 

    When 4th hit, we'll already know what DB city was destroyed. 

    And I think, like the Nighthaunts in second edition, that the Skaven invasion will happen EVERYWHERE IN THE MORTAL REALMS ! NO CITY IS SAFE ! RUUUUNNN

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  10. 1 hour ago, Clan's Cynic said:

    Orcs & Goblins pre-orders next week.

    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... :/ 

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  11. 36 minutes ago, Danaork said:

    New teasing for AoS in few time.

    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 :) 

  12. 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 ???

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  13. 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).

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  14. 5 minutes ago, Clan's Cynic said:

    Those almost look like pages pulled from the rulebook, like 'test prints' or something,

    Or just in-store promotional magazines. 

    The title "The Mortal Realms" looks like a new edition starter freeby for introducing the setting 

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  15. 1 minute ago, GrimDork said:

    Assuming the white cover core book is the boxed set exclusive cover?

    Similar to the Yndrasta exclusive we got inside dominion?

    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) !

  16. 7 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:

    You are all forgetting the important guy!

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    Who is this? To me is a representation of a new Ruination unit.

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

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