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It would be boarderline insanety. Combine that with monthly 40k releases as well as a BB, a Necromunda, and a LotR relase every quater. We will drown in stuff.... Guess it will be more like in the old days, alternating AoS and 40K relases every two months

Thats not a shield-Captian, but the Captain-General. 12 Is the cloak from the shield-Captain that can be build from the Warden box. And 7 doesn't fit one of the Khinerai, at least from what we have seen so far.

Ok, I went back to the Khinerai pictures we have. The sickles are much smoother with them, your right. But I am still not that convinced of the "nautical theme" of the barbs. They look kind of evilish, even a bit fetish - more like something for Dark Elves/Eldar in general not necessary marine. 5 somehow doesn't fit the elven aesthetics, at all. Its much more techy-dwarven, maybe freebooter-style. It isn't something that I see for Elves, but maybe you are right and GW has the Balls to shake stuff up beyond giving the pointy ears some monsters. and as you say 12 and 13, are very generic, to generic to be attached to anything. !/ is well in line with the way undead are dressed. 16 fits the crazy way GW portrays Fire, smoke and magic, but again is way to generic to attach it to a certain race or setting. For all we know it could be a ****** of a Keeper of secrets - now spiked for his pleasur....

Took the liberty and added some things, to much expectations for images being AoS or even Idroneth related.

Thanks, Greyshadow. A completely new GA wouldn't be preferable, as you said. Thus the sub-GAs. This might allow further levels of mixed armies and amry abilities, depending on the grade of compliance between the different factions.

What this (upcoming) release exposes, is the clear limitation that GW created with the divide of all armies in 4 GA. While Chaos and Death show relatively clear outlines, Destruction has blurred "values" and Order being a patchwork simply held together by the filaments that civilisation provides. Personally, I couldn't care less about the GA composition, but I understand why some are irritated, conflicted and annoyed, maybe even swamped by this simplistic divide. What GW could, probably should and maybe will do in a more or less distant future, is flush the GA out a bit more, create sub-GA's, that are defined a bit more by motivation and world views - or simply put create a Grid similar to the D&D rooster of "moral" positions. Chaos doesn't have to be all about worshipping the big 4 (no, rat boy you aren't part of the pantheon, you are just here for the amusement of the Dark Gods), but could be about living outside of societies rules, or doesn't necessarily mean the destruction of civilised nations for the sack of utter Chaos, but could also mean building totalitarian nations. Same goes for the ofter GA - they offer so much more and deeper concepts than GW was and is willing to explore right now. The concept of smaller Army releases allows for a more diverse Composition of the game, than WHFB did.

I've the feeling that information only will dribble the next few days, but the dam probably will brake on the AoS open day and we will be flooded with information.

Hm, that's strange - and a new one. Why would the show us a part of an already released model as something forthcoming? "Tracked" it down, you guys mean this one? damn good spot. And intrestingly that clock isn't the exact same as the one today - see the clock arms? nevertheless that probably answers the question what it will be, at least it narrwos it down extremly

It doesn't scream AdMech to me, While the cogs could be Mechanicum, they might be something else, but primarily the clock hands and dials make it less 40k for me. This - maybe. Somehow it appears more dwarfen or Stormcast, can't put a finger to it - somehow I have the feeling, that we have seen the symbol somewhere before.

If by imminent you mean end of this year/beginning of 2019, you are probably correct. From all we know, the little pervert gets her turn in this years chaos reiteration. And in a similar way as Tzeentch and Nurgle did. Only the angry dude on the Brassthrone will miss out on the double release structure due to obvious reasons.

na, wouldn't say disliking - he is a nice charakter, but as a Slayer, let'S say he isn't able to fulfil his set target - survival skills isn't what you are looking for in that field of work.

Ah, Gotrek the worst slayer you have heard of.

Which than would put the pre-order date at the same day as the AoS open day with the possibility to buy them on that day. Similar as we saw it with the Orlock gang at the FW open day. Quite possible that this might happen....

or a well disguised thunderhawk. But seriously, something in the line with the knight of shrouds.

Which might actually fit the timescale we saw last year with the overlords. A release roughly 4-6 Weeks after the reveal. And if they want to show something new both at AoS Open day and Adepticon it realy helps getting the DoK out of the way from a hype train perspective.

Do you have a link to the post?

Actually I would agree for 40k. With AoS there is a hugh gap after the Skydwarfs, which points to a reassessing and change in the development and direction of the game, especially the background. But still, I would say that AoS is seen as an open playing field, where old concepts are developed in new directions and genuinely new ideas are developed. GW, even the new management, knows that to sell kits they can't simply revamp and repeat old lines over and over again, we see this with the change from dwarfmarines to primaris. Concerning the development cycles, GW upped the production capacities significantly as well as the manpower of the design- and rules teams. As long as there are no powershortages, the could potential pumpe out new releases and fractions as they deem fit.

Judging by the recent releases, I wouldn't count on that. GW has shown tendencies not to refresh old models but rather phase them out or leaf them as they are, just with a new box. And new races tend to loss all old models - especially if those are still in finecast.

don't you mean Mist-erious?! Or that we might have mist a few hints bevorhand, but there are big releases casting their Shadows?! ... I see myself out

Todays hand actually has similarities to two rumour engine pics: Not saying that they are from the same line, but they might be.

Fits the hand with the winged Dragonsnakebabything....

1k Sons will be a single week release. With custdes taking probably up this week and the following, 1k sons might be out for pre-order first week of february, followd by Underworld and than MP.- Book and heros, which again probably will be a single Week. Follwoed by Necromunda expansion and a week later the death-book, or vice versa

Durkhari und Harlequin probably will just be codices. With the AoS-Elves it might be possible, that they share models and units, at least as duel-build boxes, allowing to either build a light or a dark version, thus making it more one released army with two accompanying books rather than the usual one, but counting as one army release wise.