Jagged Red Lines

The headwear of lumineth may be impressive, but it'll never be bugs hatching from an ivory rainbow impressive.

Aos 3.0 is going to be the 'silly hat edition'

I just find it weird they've launched an entire streaming platform for what will probably be initially no more than a couple of hours of content. Why not allow it to be hosted on prime or netflix? That would be a far better way imo in bringing new people to the hobby. This w+ platform seems to be something that would appeal to those who are already fans, and even then only a minority.

Yeah was just going to say that. Looks a lot like kraggy's shield

I love the more realistic, grizzled look they've been giving female warriors recently When you think about it, war is incredibly violent. I always would have thought male warriors would look like rugby players with more scars. There's no reason to believe female warriors would look any different. Totally side note, but I was really interested in a viking-themed game a while ago, but it was being developed by a Korean studio. While all the men looked like hard-bitten viking veterans, all the female (supposedly shield maiden) characters looked like glamour models. I found it utterly jarring. Female warriors should look tough enough to be able to kill a man a lot bigger than them, and hard enough to not give a ****** about it.

Anyone thinking we might get a 3.0 animated trailer (aka 40k 9th edition) this weekend? These rumour engines seem to be building up to an imminent reveal.

As we go into 3.0, one of my biggest question marks is over the future of Cities of Sigmar. As someone who bought into a heavy phoenix/phoenix guard army soon after the book came out, I'm quite worried the book will get a bit of a shakeup, with half the kits (especially high elf stuff) going to legends. Its honestly quite stressful worrying your army might get squatted at any moment

They're not wolf riders, they're warg riders!

New faction is going to be called something silly like Morruk Swamplords

Its not just power level though. Bin books have poor internal balance. Would consider original idoneth a bin book purely because it shoehorns you into a single build. A sin book is good not only because it does well in the meta, but also because every unit is viable and encourages a range of diverse lists. For example, cities or daughters of khaine, versus mawtribes or fyreslayers.

Honest Wargamer has suggested there are two rules writers, one is called the 'sin guy' (i.e. lumineth, seraphon, tzeentch) and the other is called 'bin guy' (slaanesh, sons of behemet, sylvaneth). I like that a lot better than naming the rules writers directly. I remember back in 5th edition 40k where Matt Ward was getting absolutely torn apart by the community. Wasn't pretty. From what I've seen so far, gravelords looks like a 'bin' writer book

He'll have some gigantic metal rainbow thing on his hat like his protege. Prepare for epic disappointment.

Urgh. She sucks. Reminds me of one of those Instagram poachers in Kenya. I'm rooting for the beasts. Overthrow the oppressors. Four legs good, two legs bad.

Considering we still have rumour engines that are unsolved from a year ago, very much doubt this has anything to do with the 3.0 box.

I definitely feel bad for stormcast players. Even if their armies aren't invalidated, they definitely suffer by comparison to the new models. That said, I'm 100% going to start a new stormcast army because these miniatures correct the biggest design flaws with stormcast, their chonkiness.

€50 is £43. Guessing they'll be £39.50 like lumineth cavalry.

Can see this happening tbh, especially the release of some freeguild-type humans for cities. Especially with the trailer for 3.0 featuring humans with the old empire aesthetic. This does make me concerned about my phoenix guard cities army though, and whether they will go to legends.

Totally agree on this point, with how swingy book design is these days, you don't know what sort of battletome you're going to get. If you invest early in an army and end up with a badly-written book, you're stuck in the 'feels bad' corner for the next two or three years.* That's part of the reason I didn't buy cursed city when it came out. * BTW should clarify that badly written doesn't necessarily mean in terms of relative power level, but rather one that has poor internal balance and encourages mono list design, or else offers few synergies.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but these really look like new marauders

Agreed. Have seen people complain about 'negativity' in the hobby and how it brings them down. Nobody should quash anyone else's opinion. Everyone should be entitled to say how they genuinely feel about something, provided they don't belittle anyone else for feeling good about it. Tolerance should extend both ways, for those who are happy about something, or those who have complaints over other stuff.

What does it mean when I get a whitefang laugh react emoji? Ridiculous/miles away? Or on the money?

Where is this pic from? This pointy-backed humanoid looks a bit like these

Hoping for new angelic-looking prosecutors with feathery wings, like the new celestant. Maybe the dragon-riding SCE rumoured by Honest Wargamer is a reimagining of the fulminators

GW replaced the old space marine outside their Nottingham HQ when primaris came out. If they replace the current statue of a liberator with something else now we have the vindictors, I guess that indicates that old stormcast will be gradually phased out.

I noticed even a lot of people who love the new stormcast aren't 100% sure on the heads. They seem out of place to me too. But I reckon with some third party spartan helmets they'd look incredible