Jagged Red Lines

Also interestingly knights only have option for lance. Which basically invalidates the old non-pushfit models if you built them that way.

My money is on these guys getting a full unit. I think the rumour engine with a hand and a sword, even looks pretty similar. Maybe Halloween 2023?

Ever since late second edition, what happens normally is that GW releases a model wave for an army, and then follows that up not too much later with a second wave and a book. For instance Lumineth wave 1 and wave 2, then Slaanesh, Sylvaneth etc. Which is why I think we're due a second wave for soulblight and bonereapers. As much as I'd love a FEC release, I think they will likely stay in the fyreslayer doldrums for a while longer.

I think we'll probably still get a soulblight second wave at some point. With new grave guard and perhaps also a vampire unit similar to the vykros blood born. So there's a chance the rumour engines could be those.

Any gossip about the book you've heard yet? Weighing up whether to sell off my stonehorn army I'm just finishing up, while they're perhaps still worth something. (And no, I didn't bother to magnetise the heads)

Hopefully this means ogor preview finally on Sunday

Broken Realms Grombrindal. Followed by Broken Realms Tyrion

I find it hard to get excited about dawnbringers when I'm worried it will mean that most of my current army will get squatted.

I start a new army every week, have a wardrobe full of half-finished projects, haven't had a game of warhammer in nine years. Don't tell me I'm not having fun!

Where do you draw the line? Is any reliable information you get before you have the book in your hand classed as a leak? What about youtubers going through the book on preorder day? Are they leaking? If not, then what's the difference between that and getting some photos of warscrolls earlier in the week? Personally, I'd rather know earlier.

Personally, I'd also rather not see any rumours in the (checks notes)... rumour thread

They said they'd be tweaking them in the latest meta watch, (which sounded like nerfs). But I assumed that was going to be a warscroll update. They're not on the release road map, so would be surprised if they get a new book soon

That's such an epic mental image. I hope once they do FEC they lean into the old world Strigoi design aesthetic.

The thing about not having decent yhetees and frostsabres is that the book becomes limited in building a viable army. I'm convinced part of the reason we saw stonehorn spam in the last book was because very few people wanted to build an army with yhetees and cats. Irongutzman did really well in tournaments with a yhetee-based winterbite army. I was thinking of doing the same, but I couldn't face having to buy and paint loads of those old minis. Or else converting the army using rockgut troggoths and then having it invalidated a year later when they finally do update the yhetee miniatures. Keeping those kits in their current weird limbo really limits choices

Yes apologies for my many errors yesterday. Mondays always feel like a lobotomy.

Never seen them in a game, or thought to write a list with them. I don't actually think they're in the official app anymore. I can honestly see them going to legends along with other characters like firebellies and slaughtermasters. I mean, it happened to Greasus Goldtooth, and he was one of the coolest minis in the range. Meanwhile, both yhetees and frostsabres are conditional battleline. Butchers too are widely used. I mean the range is ancient. GW needs to move beyond doing quick rules 'patches' for struggling armies, and work on updating these minis. How they can continue to sell stuff like gorgers is beyond me.

Ah quite right, I hate Mondays

Controversial point - but maneaters by virtue of being plastic, should not be the priority. As a bloated scion of the everwinter though, I would eat brocoli for new yhetees and frost sabres. How does this kit still exist?

Wasn't Hastings a leaker from back in the day?

No doubt there will be a herdstone nerf for beasts, perhaps a wholly within bubble rather than a global effect. They also mentioned 'one or two warscrolls' being bent, which is worrying really because nothing really jumps to mind.

Sweepstakes for 2023 then, what are we expecting/hoping for? Dawnbringers? Grungni? Chaos Dwarves? Malerion? Silent people? Kurnothi? Another lumineth book?! I'll go first: - soulblight update with grave guard and maybe a few other updated kits - beasts of chaos with a new shaggoth - OBR with archers - khorne with valkia - cities/dawnbringers - unlikely as it is to happen, I'd love a seraphon/skaven range refresh. I don't play either army, but some of those kits are ancient. - also in the realms of the highly unlikely, and highly controversial, I'd absolutely love to see Tyrion and his angel aelves. That would obviously mean another book though, and you know how the community is.

Gotrek has trousers! He at least wouldn't be caught dead in a thong. I'll relisten to the audiobook, but I don't remember his trousers falling off when he powered up with grimnir's rune. And yeah. Their heros are all decent, by virtue of their luxurious beards, as you've proven by the pictures above. But it's when you start painting the rank and file, the vulkites etc, when you realise how surreal it all is. Anyway, I'll stop before grudges start being written.

Absolutely. Just primaris the whole range. People have been whaling on OBR, and while I agree with them, fyreslayers are a million times worse. I actually started painting a fyreslayers army as a sort of retinue for Gotrek when he was released. But I gave up after a couple of units. I just couldn't make them look cool. No matter what unique skin tones you use, you're effectively just painting a chubby little baby in a medieval nappy with a ridiculous haircut. At this stage, might as well just redo the whole range. At the very least give them trousers, for pity's sake.

New Black Knight kit then. Better sell the 30 I just bought from ebay. Charge of the wight brigade will have to wait. But can you stop the cavalry?

Oh man, I love the darkoath so much. Would love for them to expand on their range, darkoath horsemen and warmammoth.