Bloodmaster

Chaos is all about freedom, liberty and passion. Each god originally was mend to represent certain aspects of humanity and humanoids. Over the years the representation evolved, but in general its still all there. It's similar to the way Sith are portrayed, wrongly seen as evil but more about not following strict codes and rules. Skaven on the other hand are, well, rats.

Na, man, skaven will never be chaos, no matter what gw writes. These rats are vermin, unworthy to follow the dark gods and unable to bring glory to the holy pantheon of the glorious four. No matter how hard that uprise of a horned rat tries, it is nothing more than a laughable pawn, granted entrance to the eternal halls of chaos only for the amusement he brings to the older gods. In other words: yes they are part of chaos now, but will never be accepted as true followers outside of the Fluff

And skaven aren't chaos ;-) Nope, only speculated as nothing concrete is known right now.

Nothing tangible, but wait a few more days till Warhammer Fest on the 12th. We probably will get to know more that weekend.

Where ist this coming from? Nevertheless, on May 12th we should know more and the aos open day is soon as well.

Damn now someone has to make an ghost busters animated series into where the original Ghostbusters are replaced by stormcasts.

Those pictures were taken inside, no civilised man would wear his head in closed buildings. Damn grots, not understanding manners and court etiquette - and yet you wonder why you are not invited to the fancy parties in the royal courts.

And we saw a new black coach. Well, at least parts of it

Maybe some humans on foot as well. But on another note, both October AND December-January should be true, when taking the EC into account - When Slaanesh gets a release structured similar to Nurgle

Yeah....NOPE! one mght think so, but alle KO sprues have nothing similar to the picture in it and GW didn't update the Rumour engine entry as they use to do, when the model is reveald. So no, 08/02/17 isn't KO. But I am happy to be proven wrong, thus, to quote Morpheus: "Show me".

Well, we will know in roughly 4 weeks what is to come in the next few months. Till then we are covered by ID, 40k has some codexs and knights promised, as well as bloodbowl and necromunda. After that we are more or less up in the air with hints of orcs, Angron and his boys for 40k and a new season for shadespire, undead and sigmages as well as a rule overhaul in some form for AoS. Interesting possibilities with room for surprises.

The run time of certain phases doesn't seem to be fixed on three years. The duration of phase 1 probably results more in what was done under Kirby, in a more or less underplaned development. The change during the last year and especially the start of this year highlights a clearer direction and plan for AoS - as for example a more solidified explanation of the realms and their geography. Instead of the "grab cash, publish as fast as possible, leave the quality of the fluff and rules aside, thos idiotes will buy what we tell them to" attitiued, we now have a "sell story, expand rules, watch quality, make interesting "risky" models - oh and make us more money through quality".

Right now you are right, but things might change together with the change of "Charges first". And it might as well happen, that we GW is doing a "Make magic great again" kind of thing, where sorcery and prayers have a more offensive role similar to shooting in 40k. Only time - or rather June - will tell.

All in all, from what we have heard, I still don't see a new starter set coming for AoS - a new expanded set of rules, yes. What is rumoured as a AoS Starter might just be the starter for Shadespire Season 2, especially with the reappearing rumours on Stormwizards and Ghosts

Hold the press! Charges being meaningful again is THE BEST thing

Please don't be right - that would be some terrible version of fur. My guess is a squig of some kind - with all the orc infos surfacing it is as possible as a plastic thunderhawk.

Have to agree, the lack of four* elephants carrying a discworld is unforgivable. How dare you, GW. ^^ *once there were five, but one slipped and fell onto the discworld, resulting in the fat mines of Schmalzberg.

A "light" version f a "dark" one. One looking more highelfish, one more darkelfish. One a wierd bit friendlier than the other.

Thanks, interesting stuff, if true. Anything hearsay about Slaanesh, you can offer?

This is exactly why I wouldn't bet on Khorne in November-January, simply because we got a combined Release for both systems. A Release slot that is more fitting for Slaanesh, than Khorne. Atia has a long track record of accurate rumours, which got watered down a bit by the addition of Bob on War-of Sigmar. She got a bit quieter over the years, but nevertheless is quite accurate on the rare occasions she offers information. I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Slaaneshi demons will probably go the same way as the other gods, a new direly needed Greater Demon some new Heralds and may be a new unit, but no re-imagination. Sadly, the Diaz Demonattes were much much better than the current ones, and are till now some of the best models produced by GW despite the age. The Bloodletters would deserve a re-designe as well, btw.

Source?

yeah a much earlier release would be wonderful. But at least for 40k there should be other stuff before Slaanesh, say another loyal Primarch for example. But in the end, we can only lean back, speculate and be surprised what comes next ^^.

See Tzeentch and Nurgle for references: 40k near the end of the year, followed by demons and AoS spilling over to the next year.

"You don't want to do that conversion right now. ^^" - Atia. So Fulgrim's the next, with AoS Slaanesh in January 2019

Slaanesh is more or less a given, due to the Chaos release cycles, we had so far. Khorne is in a wired spot right now. In AoS he is supported quite well both mortals and demons. In 40k only demons have "new" toys, mortals are ancient, one of the oldest sets. Due to this, Khorne will be or better needs a much smaller release, than the other 3 gods have seen, only marines in Power and Terminator armour and a Primarch, may be a cultist unit, but even these are an unneeded extra. So Khorne will fit right at any release slot, the size of DoK and might slip in this year. But Atia said roughly halve a year ago, that we will have both Khorne and Slaanesh/Angron and Fulgrim in a span of two years. Judging by that, both wont come in one year, and khorne will probably take the backseat, as he ist well supported in one system, whereas Slaanesh is "lost" in both. I have to agree that, we won't see any more Elves this year (Eldar maybe). Think of that pervert not as soon but more like soonish, coming at the end of the year, leaving 2019 for Elves and Eldar as a reaction too the resurfacing of the Prince of Pleasures. Would make sense from a narative perspective as well, to use her release at the end of this year as a kick of for the reactions on the new threat by the pointy eared folks. With DoK and probably with DK we have the stage set for the break out of the most favourite hermaphrodite, and the MP Story 1-2 weeks ago has his getaway car ready and motor running.