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Why is everyone so certain recently that BoC are getting cut? Various iterations of that rumour have been going around since 1st edition, it's never been true and I don't think it's true this time either. They literally got a new miniature just over a year ago. I think it's far more likely that they're the next big range refresh after Skaven, maybe even as early as Q1 next year.

In order of importance: New Shaggoth New Beastlord New Doombull New Centigors New Jabberslythe Beast-riders (mournfang-sized) to replace chariots, which never made sense for a forest-dwelling race New Cockatrice Don't care about Khorngors or Pestigors, and I'm hoping we don't get Morghur or any other special character. I love the anonymity of beasts, more room for our own lore that way.

I think the leftmost one is a World Eater and the rightmost one is something beastly. Hard to tell from the silhouette what though. Shaggoth? Doombull? I don't know what an "Arkifane" is though. Sounds like a streamer girl nickname or a pokémon to me.

I see what you did there and I approve of it.

It's actually better than that - the opponent only gets to swing back if he has a Strike First unit. If the Mounted Lord + Knights are Striking First, that means they just charged, so it's your turn. If the opponent has no SF unit, you can do four units in a row because you get to start both the SF and regular part (and Strike Last, if applicable of course) of the combat phase.

Yes, but the foot lord doesn't have Strike First himself so he activates in the regular part of the combat phase.

Thank you!

Whoa, it's been a while since I posted here. I hit a painting slump last autumn, and used mostly non-beasts to dig myself out of it. I finished painting the lightly converted dragon ogre shaggoth recently though, and am back to mostly full steam by now! I fiddled with the OSL for days, but I'm reasonably happy with the results. I've got a batch of bestigors on my table these days, so the next update shouldn't be as far away!

I dislike it because in many cases it means that a majority of artifacts and command traits in the battletomes aren't used. Consider the Beasts of Chaos battletome. It's not a monobuild army, but there aren't many options if you want to even pretend to be competitive. Out of the three subfactions (greatfrays), most take Gavespawn which are considered to have the best artifact and a strong buffing CA but a weak trait, a handful take Allherd and even fewer Darkstalkers. Some take no greatfray, but the only real option in that case to have a shaggoth general and the Ancient Beyond Knowing command trait. That means that out of the 21 command traits printed in the book, 4 get used. The artifacts are marginally better off because you can usually get two in an army, but the second pick is almost always Aetherquartz Brooch anyway because the army is so CP starved, so the generic artifacts end up not getting used much. In practice, 90%+ of BoC lists I see have the Gavespawn artifact (Mutating Gnarlblade) and Aetherquartz Brooch. Contrast with the new Slaves to Darkness battletome. There are no generic traits or artifacts, and each subfaction gets to pick from a list of 6. There's going to be a lot more variety in the choices, and much fewer picks that never see play.

Finished my Untamed Beasts for Warcry this weekend, and managed to take some half-decent pictures today. Lighting is not great this time of year and I don't have a good lightbox setup, so these will have to do. The skin is all painted with the new dark skin triad from Citadel (Catachan Flesh, Bloodreaver Flesh, Knight Questor Flesh), with Naggaroth Night mixed into the shadows and a wash of Druchii Violet. I can't decide whether I really want to, or really DON'T want to see the creatures some of those jawbones came off. I usually just use the same colour for bones, teeth and horns on models, but I realised these guys have a LOT of that going on so I needed something to break that up. Ended up painting the horns and teeth from a Zandri Dust base, and the bone from a Rakarth Flesh base. Worked like a charm, I think. Should, in retrospect, maybe have painted the skin of the Rocktusk Prowler some shade of light brown rather than grey, it's a bit monotone like this. Oh, well. I've said it before in other places, but I really, really like the new Gal Vorbak and Wordbearers Reds. Such a lovely shade of orangeish red! Here seen with Barak Nar Burgundy shadows, a wash of Druchii Violet and edge highlighted with Squig Orange. The bases were kind of low effort, two types of texture paint (Armageddon Dust and Astrogranite Debris), painted, washed and drybrushed, and then a tuft or two on each base. I used Thunderhawk Blue to drybrush the rubble to contrast with all the warm tones on the models. And a couple of group shots at the end! That's all I've got for now, until next time...

The head is from Naeve Blacktalon, I believe. Shield from one of the Stormcast Upgrade Kits, which I believe aren't available any more.

How nice of GW to just post my entire Christmas wishlist publicly. Seriously, I want all of those new models. 100% converting that Ogroid Myrmidon to a Doombull, shouldn't be a difficult headswap.

My guess would be Zandri Dust, layered with Ushabti Bone, washed with Seraphim Sepia and then highlighted with Pallid Wych Flesh. Could also be done from a base of Rakarth Flesh instead of Zandri/Ushabti, I'm not completely sure. Striations on the larger horns are probably done with Rhinox Hide.

From the official AoS facebook page:

Looks like a kitbash. The scythe is from the Empire Battlewizards kit, there's a glaivewraith stalker in there, head presumably from some old TK model etc. In other news, this was posted on the AoS Facebook page today: