HorticulusTGA
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48 minutes ago, Overread said:
Cog forts would be huge, far too big for the game unless you make the board a cogfort interior.
Cog Forts are the things that should appear in "AoS the Epic Scale game!" Heck I saw some of the Dreadfleet ships the other day and freaking heck if GW made a seafaring game for AoS they could do some fantastic big monster and ships for the high seas! Cog-ship-forts anyone?!
Well, nowhere is said they are bigger than a tower with mechanical legs ? And there is probably several sizes.
Don't forget we already have things like Steamtanks (or the FW Landships).
GW already makes big kits like the Baneblade, and China-made kits like the Loonshrine are quite large.
Pictures for example :
Different sizes :
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Am I alone in thinking a Cog-fort (appearing in multiple publications about Free People since 2016) would be an excellent faction scenery ?
With a few options like banners (in various aelfic, azyrite, ghyranite, etc. styles) it could fit almost all existing armies (as it's a "Cities Of Sigmar", not Free People as a whole Battletome)...
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Just now, Vomikron said:
Are we expecting any AoS reveals?
There is a Warhammer Preview in 4 hours there. Nothing said it's a 40k only event IIRC...
(There also is a WP at Warhammer World this week-end but it's for the 40k Apocalypse event so I'm less sure for this week end).
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Anybody at Gencon right now ?
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So, the last 3 "known" Warcry Warbands are almost here :
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/07/28/coming-soon-warbands-enforcers-and-more/
Can't wait for the Aqshy and Eightpoints ones to be teased !!!
We should see Orruk Warclans, Cities of Sigmar and Ogor Mawtribes quite soon, then (assuming WHU : Beastgrave is for this Fall)
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I for one am (almost) sure the Tithe of Bones and the Pact-then-Feast of Bones won't have anything in common (apart the use of the term "bone", that is
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- The first one is the next chapter in the Soul Wars narrative, probably a new Death army themed around Skeletons and Bones Constructs (so a reaimagination of a few Deathrattle and Tomb Kings tropes, hence the ziggurat and eastern music from the trailer, and the earlier "TK" rumors from Thomas Lyon). It will be teased by a few videos in the same style as Malign Portents (IMO it's the same graphic artist), Part I : Necropolis being the first one. It will be lead by a huge Skeleton, the Death Entity from Lake Lethis (the one from the Forbidden Power artwork posted here many times, not a character from WFB). It will match a few Rumor Engines we got recently.
- The second one will be a boxed set with two armies like Looncurse, Carrion Empire, etc. with the Ogor Tyrant. It will herald the release of the Destruction Battletome : Ogor Mawtribes (soup between Gutbusters and Beastclaw Raiders). It's very probable we should get another "new" army in this set, or at least a new character / kit for an existing AOS 2nd Ed. army.
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So yeah interesting-yet-intriguing day. When is the next Preview Seminar ?
At least Gencon 2019 is in 10 days, apparently :
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/14/a-summer-of-warhamer-eventsgw-homepage-post-3/
(the article doesn't mention a preview seminar, but then for the ATC neither and yet we got a Warcry war band revealed there.....)
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5 minutes ago, Sete said:
Then is it someone new?
Yes, I mean : nothing from the Old World that I know of either in TK or VC lore looks like this giant Skeleton-with-runes that is so powerful even Sigmar is afraid of seeing escape his prison from the Age of Myth (this fluff comes from Forbidden Power, it's an interesting book really).
EDIT : a larger view of the monster in question. See how big and skeleton-y it is !
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Guys...
"The Tithe Part I : Necropolis" is - as stated in the article - about the big Death Entity (who speaks in the trailer) from Forbidden Power, the one that...
Spoiler...escaped the Stormvault in Lake Lethis at the end of the book.
Its power level makes even Sigmar afraid, so it's not someone like Vlad or Krell.
We even have a picture of it (in the background)
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2 minutes ago, Minis by Night said:
Well here's the second part of the Feast of Bones, AND the follow up to Forbidden Power, AND the new Death army.
Any ideas on who the mysterious leader of this new faction is?What connection do you get between the Feasts of Bone (coming, apparently, after the broken "Pact of Bones"), and the follow up of Forbidden Power, "the Tithe Part I : Necropolis ?"
But the use of the word "bone" I see none... IMO one is a tease of the new Ogors Battletome or a boxed set (which still left the opponent unknown - if it's not Death than it's probably Seraphon), and the other is the next narrative chapter of AOS coupled with a new Death army lead by that big monster :
Also this may be a representation of the Everwinter (with MAWS in it) coming to a city, probably the Ogors Battletome cover
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1 hour ago, Chikout said:
Sure looks like it. This day has really delivered so far. Still 3 private videos on the age of sigmar YouTube playlist. At least one of those is for Warcry. One is definitely mainline AOS.
I fear the Warcry video is the Cypher Lords "How to Paint" video... (as the other two war bands released today got theirs).
But yeah I'd really like to see a reveal for the Spire Tyrants (if only to calm the STD crowds - inc. myself - a bit !)
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If the Ogors also get a tome soon-ish*, we only have four Battletomes left (Seraphon, Tzeentch, Kharadron Overlords and of course Slaves To Darkness) to have an up to date AOS 2nd edition range of armies ! It's kinda great.
Then can Hysh Aelves, Wanderers from Beastgrave, new Death, and hopefully new AOSified Humans come out ! (without forgetting to mention GROTBAG SCUTTLERS).
*Feast of Bones makes me thing of a boxed set like Blightwar or Wrath & Excess, tho... Who could make a good opponent ? New Death ? Seraphon big dinosaur ?
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RE : Cities of Sigmar tome...
They could very well expand common, AOS humans later with, for example, Devoted of Sigmar (if they aren't in the book, that is !) - just like Nighthaunts followed Legions Of Nagash pretty closely !!
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And how about GW release some CITIES OF SIGMAR scenery that aren't ruins ???
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Well the Cities of Sigmar is interesting but kinda not what I wanted for common, Order humans in the Mortal Realms...
At least it's the SoW : Firestorm book updated (by Josh Reynolds yeah
) - I'm really eager to read it for the good fluff and world building, even if I wanted more than the adapted paint schemes (new proper AOS models like the Excelsior Warpriest from WHQ Silver Tower or AT LEAST plastic City-themed upgrade sprues)...
The Orruk book was to be expected (but I would like to have the Greenskinz Boar riders in it...)...
STRANGE DAY
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All are lovely but I'd say :
God-tier (all really close) :
Iron Golem > Unmade > Cypher Lord
Great-tier :
Untamed Beasts > Corvus Cabal > Splintered Fangs
I'll still get 'em all...
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Truly amazing !
Looking forward for the Preorders Preview, and what else the Warcry IP has in store for us..!
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They are wonderful. Remind me of the Persian "Grenades Wizards" from 300 a bit.
Yeah I love all the warbands, the Shysh and Hysh ones probably the most... Bravo GW 😍
Also, it's apparently only the first wave of Warcry warbands...
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18 hours ago, Gwill_of_the_Woods said:
The main Crow dude in the Corvus Cabal looks like it could be a hero style character. Plus it has a larger base than the others!
...btw I'm on Das Hype Train! Corvus Cabal did it for me.
I'm also interested to see how they incorporate the order factions, specifically Deepkin!
Yeah !
Or it could be the equivalent of the other warbands' "Chaos Creatures" (i.e. : the Ogor and Duardin for the IG, the Hound for the UB, the Aelf and the Serpents swarm for the SF).
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I would say the "veins" on the wood part look closer to the ones on the Ogors weapons than the Ironjaw's ... But really could be both.
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6 minutes ago, Chikout said:
Interested to see how the “tomb kings” shake out. I think I’d prefer if we had a completely new army that was loosely inspired by the tomb kings rather than bring back the old kits. A few of them do hold up but it feels like a cop out to back to old kits after dropping them.
Agreed.
They should only keep the Sphinx dual kit, the Tomb Guard and the Sand Snakes dual kit.
The rest was really too old, but properly AOSified I can really see the old concepts of big constructs shines (like the Morghasts or the Moratchs' Mounts).
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Just now, Thomas Lyons said:
I wouldn't make the jump that it is "more skeletons". I don't know exactly what but we'll probably see them lean into the constructs pretty heavily.
The construct theme seems logical indeed. That's not something Death has at the moment, it fits the artwork of the Death Entity of Forbidden power (giant skeleton) and other things like the Morghasts or the Total War ship constructs we've being seeing the last few years,
Maybe if we see a Katophrane aspect like shade glass construct
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3 minutes ago, JPjr said:
@HorticulusTGA It was 'Sacrosanct' by C L Werner.
Thank you ! (So not a studio publication).
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29 minutes ago, Overread said:
It varies and even then things come out wrong. Eg the new horse-headed ghosts were originally described as undead skaven in one novel. Sometimes the writers only get a hint at new releases if they get anything at all. Also sometimes when you get a new model that was hinted at years before its not because the author was inspired by the design team, but the other way around and the design team ran with an authors idea. Or perhaps a concept idea that someone came up with gets used by an author and that pushes it forward.
Patterns are hard to work out, though normally somethign that GW is marketing heavily in a big buildup like Malign Portents "can" be more reliable to guess from rather than, say, a short story in Inferno. But still its all hard to fathom - great to chat and speculate, just don't get your hopes up (or get them up high enough to convert your own inspired by the creatures of the stories)
(Off topic, but can you tell us which novel that was, please ? Because it looks too close to the general misconception people made when Soul Wars came out. even if as JR said here, authors sometimes get told the wrong names.)
And I was only responding to your quote saying : "Anything mentioned in Lore or in artwork is NEVER confirmed models EVER", which is quite an exaggeration
Anyway, what you say about the relation between authors and models designers just prove further that we should talk about the fluff and artworks as it may contains different kind of hints.
Once more, we are guessing and reasoning about rumors in the rumors thread. As you say, everybody should remains cautious about that, and there is no absolute truth in the rumor business until releases. Yet it's interesting and sometimes helpful to discuss about possibilities based on educated guesses, which is quite different as baseless speculations, as the Spirit Torments, Penumbral Engine, Kharadron Overlords, etc.etc. proved already.
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30 minutes ago, Overread said:
Anything mentioned in Lore or in artwork is NEVER confirmed models EVER. Heck there are loads of old world stories which reference the Araby, even the mighty Gotrek and Felix travel to their lands in one short story. Thing is GW can use lore and art to display things that they have ideas for, but which never make it into models. Perhaps they were going to and then cancelled the idea; perhaps it was never an idea; perhaps its the writer inventing ideas and putting them into the world setting etc...
It's neat to talk about but should never EVER be taken as rumour for upcoming releases.
And yet, we had TONS of hints in fluff and artworks about new releases, months, sometimes YEARS in advance (see the first AOS core book and the Kharadron, for example).
Of course, one mention here and there doesn't mean anything. But when we don't have other rumors, it's interesting to screen the current fluff to search for hints
And I really believe you can discover patterns and repetitions, and sometimes explicitly clear announcements in the fluff, like the Malign Portents stories that straight out described the Nighthaunt soul stealers models.
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
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GLORIOUS !!!☠️
Well I love the End Times Nagash, Arkhan and Morghasts aestethic, it seems it's the main inspiration here in terms of existing models (the gems, the armor trims), with a few design taken from illustration in the Malign Portents book and Shadespire / Nightvault, and nice Middle-Far east influences !
I hope the rules will let us use normal Skeletons (at least the basic ones) alongside the new range ... at last my dream of a Death Skeleton Legion (a bit like Necron in Fantasy) will be fulfilled 😈 (...looking forward to using Apocalypse movement trays and Contrasts paints to tackle all those bones....)