When life gives you demons -EditionPreviously, in the Mortal Realms>>96464014>Official AoS website:https://www.ageofsigmar.com>Downloads, Rules Errata and FAQs:https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-downloads/>Toolswarhammer-community.com/2017/09/26/make-your-own-free-city-the-easy-way-sep26gw-homepage-post-4/https://runebrush.pa-sy.com/warscroll/>Anvil of Apotheosis hero creator:https://aosg.github.io/>Booru:https://ageofsigmart.booru.org/index.php>Thread question:Would you have liked the last pity hero your faction got if he was a special character instead of a generic one?>Alternative thread question:Do you think large factions where all units have the same theme, like lumineth, to be better than armies made of multiple branching themes, like skaven?
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Chorf trains>tqIdoneth got both and it was kind of a letdown. In general I prefer generic characters to named ones.>atq...don't lumineth explicitly have a bunch of branching themes? Cow/stone guys, fox/wind guys, tyrion stuff, river stuff,...In general I guess I like a bit of variety with an overarching unifying theme. Gloomspite having moonclan, throggoths, squigs and spiders all unified under being cave weirdos. lets ignore gitmob for now
>>96471501Oh boy, I can't wait to see what 3+ rolls GW will have the Chorfs get!
>>96471569>don't lumineth explicitly have a bunch of branching themes?having a slightly different hat topping hardly makes them differently themed.
>>96471579End of Your TurnRoll a D3. On a 2+, inflict that much mortal damage to this unit. Then add the damage allocated to the control score of this unit until the end of the turn.
>>96471584Big fuckoff walking cow mountain vs flying furry twink seems pretty different to me
>>96471501https://www.darksphere.co.uk/gwrise25.php
>>96471569Considering Cities of Sigmar have trains in Lore and they released no models I doubt we will see Chorf trains as models.
>>96471605They're still wearing the same style of clothing It would be like saying saurus and skinks have different themes
>>96471590You forgot (Army)
>>96471569If you said to me this was a CoS city i'd beleive you
>>96471695Better or worse?
So I'm getting some nurgley stuff, I wanna do a deep sea theme and figured I'd poke around and ask folks what that might entail for some bloated corpses.Anyone got any good reffs or ideas? I wanna build up a little folder for inspiration.
>>96471783It just doesn't look like a ziggurat.
>>96471695>no spires>no towers>no dragons>no domesNow why would you do that
>>96471648I don’t think you know what themes are
>>96471783Worse. The warpstone greenness made it less orderly looking
>>96471501It is pretty funny all the Helsmiths in the beautiful art are all classic Chaos Dwarf coded. No women or black ones there.
why is there so much apathy about this editionpeople dont even hate it, they just dont care
>>96471790isn't there some flooded kingdom thing for undead you could steal ideas from
>>96471790Greenstuff barnacles on things? They seam nurgly
>>96471841It's so inoffensively bad nobody really has the urge to get mad about it
>>96471790If you're after some bits I think you should look into the dredge.It's a range meant for 40k, but once you remove backpacks, guns or the weird space marine boots I think you could end up getting some cool parts out of it.lost kingdom miniatures has sea undead, but less of the fleshy kind, generally.If you're looking for paint tips alone, I can't help, whenever the idea popped up I think people had some very different conclusions, with some thinking the best way is to make extremely pallid corpses with greenish folds, to others saying they should be very blackened or something.The crew of the flying dutchman from pirates of the carribbean is a masterclass, but I think they avoided almost completely the normal traits of something realistically rotten and focused primarily on coral and marine textures, keeping the palette almost monotonous.
>>96471841the army rules and warscrolls really really suck. there is just absolutely nothing to get excited about with the army releases, they're like the perfect storm of boring (most choices stripped out, oversimplified), unfun (most units very bland, subfactions 1 feature and often repeats, most abilities unreliable 3+ and/or once per army), and inflexible (once per army a soft ban on repeat units, restrictive regiment building and increased points makes lists feel unforgiving and claustrophobic, most ally and coalition rules removed)they literally took everything fun about the game and removed it, dumbed it down, or made it very unreliable. combined with tons of copy and paste bad rules, lack of choices, and poor internal balance, the armies just arent fun to build or play.literally the only thing carrying age of sigmar right now is the fact that they keep putting out great models, but even amazing sculpts like the new gitmob are being sabotaged by the dogshit rules writing. the core rules and seasonal rules are fine, the core rules may even be some of the best the game has ever had, but the army rules are so fucking bland and unimaginative, with anything resembling player agency removed, thats its a big "why even bother" vibe
>>96471841There's only so many times I can say "I wish I had more options" and "Wow they sure overuse D3 and 3+ rolls".
>>96471903>poor internal balanceThis is what gets me. What is the point of simplifying everything and dumbing down everything if you are still gonna have wildly overpowered and underpowered armies? If things aren't gonna be balanced either way give us fun/flavorful rules at least.
>>96471790When I was looking for converted blightkings, I found this guy who said he was using plague marines as a base for nautical themed Nurgle
>>96471876I remember ages back I was doing a blood bowl team themed around that and my friend gave me some little beads to green stuff around for that effect... Maybe it's time...>>96471899This shit is gold, and yeah it's a very varied theme. I was thinking maybe some more deep blue bloated bodies with purple or green glowy guts. (maybe toss some seaweed in with the guts) But palid with more green, divers helmets and tentacles though would be fucking perfect. I'm caught between a more naturalistic colorful "We dragged ourselves from the ocean and look like the ocean equivilant of a chicago dog" vs "industrial rusted haunted oil rig">>96471968Right as I'm about to hit send, holy shit that's good too....
>>96471946>wildly overpowered and underpowered armiesthats external balanceinternal balance is about choices within the same army
>>96471940I'm so fucking sick of d3 damage on a 2+, that and anything that's like "REDUCE CONTROL SCORE BY 2 IF YOU'RE X" Control score is fucking meaningless unless you can reduce it to 0, 90% of the units have 1 control score as is so it's pointless unless they update that fucking rule.Also the few nerfs of shit and turning just standard abilities into "Spend a CP, then roll a d6 on a 3+ the ability goes off"
>>96472008Control score is a sum of stuff in the unit, not the number on the warscrol.
>>96471992They both suck. Internal and external. Blades of Khorne being 70% was lmao tier.
>>96472020Wait, so if one guy is touching the point and he's in a unit of 20 with 1 control score each, so long as one guy touches it they're at 20 control?Or is it, one guy touches the point in a unit of 20, he is worth one.
>The root of this perversion is the god Hashut, who revealed himself to beleaguered duardin during the Age of Chaos, claiming to be a long-forgotten ancestor god and offering salvation of a kind. >The Zharrdron now believe Hashut to have been the oldest and proudest of the ancestor gods. So it's entirely possible that the whole backstory we were given yesterday is bullshit (no pun intended) from an unreliable narrator. I think that's better than "all your theories from Fantasy are wrong goodbye".
>>96472087they hinted at that in the other article too>You consult the Final Slates of Morgrabal, fire-binder of the Forge Anathema. Before the stone-flesh claims me entirely, I etch here what I have learned in sacred Zharralid script. Let us speak now of our god, the Father of Darkness. Fools will tell you that he is a daemon or some other primordial being born in fires older than the realms. We know him for what he is: Hashut, the one true ancestor god.
basic test for the scheme ima do
>>96471501>Alt TQBranching themes are better than a complete one note, but only when branching out doesn't mean one unit with little to no synergy whatsoever (e.g. firebelly)
>>96472087My interpretation was that everything in the previous article still happened (obviously not exactly as written since unreliable narrator etc) up until the point where hashut gets btfo by valaya. Then sometime later hashut reappears during the age of chaos, but they're keeping the door open for this not actually being hashut.There's a couple of ways you could interpret things I think. Glad they're keeping it a bit more ambiguous.
>>96472120Is it easy to paint flames
>>96472140I think its one of those things with a low skill floor (contrast) but harder to do really well then most things
Since the only way to play a Beastmen army in AoS these days is to play Disciples of Tzeentch, I'm thinking of making a Beastmen of Tzeentch:x1 Ogroid Thaumaturge (Hero)-x3 Tzaangor Skyfires-x3 Tzaangor Enlightened-x20 Tzaangors-x20 TzaangorsTotal Cost= 1000 Points
I don't mind Krethusa. After reading the truly terrible Dawnbringers shite, she's definitely one of only like three characters introduced with any sort of potential. Admittedly, I don't like the idea of "good guy" Khainites that are only trying to help etc but we'll have to see where her plot goes... assuming it goes anywhere, and this isn't a Ynnari/Yvraine thing were the most interesting plot in the whole setting is forgotten and goes no where.
>>96472239I like her feet
everytime i see an AoS game it looks like a totally flat map with basically zero terrain where you deploy in a straight line and just charge into each other like retards. is that pretty close?
>>96472239>"good guy" Khainites that are only trying to helpOh... that's not promising. Definitely feels like DnD sloppa
>not even trying with bait
>>96472290YesNext question
>>96472302This is what a real gaming map should look like! Come on man, don't you have an elaborately based and fully modelled thing to play on?!
>>96472302i assume you're talking about me >>96472290which is fair to assume, especially with the recent flood of "t-sports" trolling on the board. but i assure you i am asking in good faith. i haven't played AoS yet but i watch batreps while i paint and it always looks something like this
>>96472341If you're playing with the actual GHB layouts and standard rules ye, it's primarily just a few random bits and bobs of terrain and little bits with several circles you stand on.If you're playing for funsies or for narrative I imagine you can be more creative and have more fun than the standard GW stuff.
I think the new art fixes the slightly off looking color scheme they initially showed off. The lime green warpstone color they have on the weapons clashes with the rest of the color scheme but this much more ghostly bluer green looks way better
Truth or fabrication, it's a little amusing to imagine a bunch of duardin hearing a whisper in their head saying "I'm your daddy" as Hashut explains his backstory.
>>96472378I didn't notice before that they were fighting sylvaneth.
>>96472378that looks like a bad photoshopit should be red
>>96472362my friends are all getting into AoS because they're burned out on Battletech and 40k so at least it will be something different...
>>96472378'Eavy metal does good when they do good, but I've come to terms with the fact that they can fuck up paint jobs just like anyone else.For instance, anything with tits.
>>96472413I mean feel free to play however you want, unless you're going to a tournament you can just use the GHB as more of a guidelines.I'm still learning and playing local so all my games have been with the GHB but once I get a grasp on what the fuck I'm doing I'd love to just do some massive fuckoff games, or more goofy objectives/options.
>>96472415That's not the painter's fault
>>96472378I agree, I like the weird cyan(?) glow they have on this art. Certainly an upgrade.
>>96472437You're not gonna convince me on this anon, I've seen people bust their ass off to make models good. 'Eavy Metal just has no clue how to paint women (admitedly this warband was shitty regardless, so I dunno just pretend I posted Malenith or something)
>>96472378The design of the dominator pisses me off so hard and this is coming from a huge daemon engine fanIt's like they sabotaged it to make it deliberately not cool
>>96472341this is about average for my games.
>>96472378That’s because the blue works better with the purple of their fabric. Also looks less skaven-like.
>>96472457Heavy metal has no idea how to paint faces in general
>>96472466sometimes we play with more, but the FLGS hadnt painted it at the time, although this was a couple years ago now i think so maybe they've painted it since then
>>96472477while thats defitely true, i dont see a lot of sculptural detail on those khorne guys to convince me that there's much to work with either.kinda looks like a fail on the part of both the paint job and the sculpts. if you have a better painted version that says otherwise feel free to post it
>>96472457>I've seen people bust their ass off to make models good.have you seen anyone making THAT miniature look good?
>>96472341what is t-sports trolling?competitive or diehard players that play TTS or can get atleast a game a week already left the game if that qualifies for t-sports, many of the major events are down noticeably in attendance.
>>96472466>>96472485Why hide the opponent's models?
>>96472466>>96472485this looks a lot better to me, thanks for sharing
>>96472517he posts his stuff to socials. i dont want to expose him to potential harassment from 4chan creeps, i've seen the level of deranged some of the people on here get up to. less so in the aosg compared to the 40kg, but still i'd rather not risk it.
>>96472509a grognard has been griefing the 40k general (and the board more broadly) with threads and posts slamming competitive players, L-shaped ruins, etc.
>>96472415It's legit a shit model, GW made this dude 10 years ago, they're both Bloodreaver, every single member in his warband looks way better than this 2025 one.
>>96472499That one painter girl that liked savage orcs did a decent mocup for them
>>96472415These models are just shit No saving them
>>96472485You got some closeups of your gitz anon? Loving the scheme and need some inspiration.
>>96472655not really, its mostly just the studio scheme with different colored hoods to tell the squads apart. i do have this wip shot of skragrott, but i havent dug my gits out of storage since like early 3e for a proper pic
>>96472499I remember an anon posting this when they got announced, the idea that they were half skinned with raw muscle showing. Alas not painted though
Yet another TGA leak btw, Whitefang posting "Time to Reject Modernity" to someone mourning the apparent loss of Ogor Blackpowder. More evidence for the cave man direction.
>>96472688>>96472655and this one of the mangler and dankhold
>>96472626Despite him being some random underworlds jobber, that mother fucker is one of the coolest god damn Khorne models. I love him so much
>>96472694Christ. One of my favorite parts about ogres is (or I guess was) how they're the only Destruction guys who use guns and cannons.
>>96472694>check post on tga>15 heart reacts and 1 sad face reactWhy do people celebrate having less shit??? Is it all BCR fags who are happy about it?
>>96472706Not necessarily! We still got blackpowder as modern proof ogres know how to use guns. I'd be so sad if they lost the scrapshot canon.
>>96472706Yeah I agree, I do like the Beastclaw Aesthetic overall but guns were a nice gimmick they had over the rest of Destruction. RIP
>>96472719You got people over there giving Unironic praise to the Bloodpelt Hunter for being a 1000% improvement on Ogor designs because pinhead is a better look apparently. TGA is a strange place.
>>96472719No people are happy because they think it means Ogres for TOW
Is there any way to make Mortek Guard with spears not look like playmobil toys? Something about them in the pics I've seen that looks so goofy. Might have to build mine with swords even though I kinda wanted like an elite phalanx look to my army.
>>96472740I don't mind full unga bunga, but Ogors having random scrappy heavy built weapons was such a cool part of them. The beartrap crossbow/fist, giant hand cannons, catapults and cannons that work as a makeshift blunderbuss. The only way I'd accept more caveman shit is if they went harder on ice theming, inuit styled bulked up fur with massive harpoons and fur lined gear under bulky plates. (Even then I don't wanna lose shit like maneaters or gunlines)
>>96472457>>96472477It's not that they have "no idea" or they "don't know how". I think they're just told to outline every single detail to show off the sculpt so they stick to that even when it doesn't make sense and doesn't look good, like female faces
>>96472301It does, doesn't it? Has me worried they'll get rid of Morathi, Har Kuron etc in an edition or two and pivot towards the Khainites being good guys.
>>96472279*SNIIIIIIFF*As do I, anon.
>>96472768You should be able to angle the spears if I remember correctly.
>>96472706Me when the AoS team keeps insisting on taking great WHFB design motifs and just making them worse for AoS. Like the Flesh Eater Courts range is amazing so its not all of them, but most for sure.
>>96472290>>96472341Meh, if you try your tables can look pretty good and be super fun to play on. I like how the terrain of ours games looks, it's nice and Ghyran-y
>>96472690>Alas not painted thoughMost of the designs for them were just shops after they got announced
>>96472842My favourite bit of terrain I've ever painted is this btw. I love the whole "demon summoning" vibe of it lol
>>96472845I've been gradually building up a bunch of Shyishy terrain to use for my own table, I'm pretty proud of how they're all turning out so far. (I say shyishy, just purple roofed houses, towers, etc etc)
>>96472836nah, i disagree. soublight, gitmob, kruleboyz, ironjawz, seraphon, hedonites, khorne, StD have all been an improvment over their old fantasy counterparts. you could maybe argue about the stylistic divergence of kharadron, lumineth, DoK, sylvaneth, or IDK, but i think they're all pretty much better all around as well
>>96472879What a coincidence the factions that are cool are the ones who stayed the closest to their WHFB equivalents wow
>>96472879>soublightSoulblight are pretty good too, but I disagree on Seraphon, Hedonites, Khorne, StD, Ironjawz, or Gitmob being departures from their old WHFB aesthetics. The only one on that list I would say was was the Kruleboyz and they were quite controversial on launch for that very reason.
>>96472768avoid posing the spears pointing forward, most arms are posed in a resting stance so the spears look weightless when rotated to aim forward avoid oversaturated schemes, they're an army of undeath, if the colors say "lively and clean" it means something is off and that will be noticeable play around the bog standard color coding of the parts, you can paint some bones as different materials or viceversa, even faces as masksyou can also easily cut off the noses and/or fill in some of the mouths in greenstuff or spruegoo, you shouldn't feel constrained
>>96473014Kinda curious about what manifestations they might get.
>>96472694here's the post wf replied to for those curious. Seems to indicate a more caveman aesthetic yeah.I don't think this necessarily means no gunpowder at all though, as I'm pretty sure those were always just stolen anyway, and the ironblaster is supposedly staying.
>>96471968Looks pretty cool but I cannot not see a space marine
>>96473021Imagine like a giant half charging bull made of energy! And then like... Hrmmm what do factories have, maybe like some raven swarms floating around! And maybe a giant warhorn shaped like an animals horn!
>>96473038>mfw
>>96473024>and the ironblaster is supposedly stayingfor now
>>96473021the bull centaurs are pure soul
>As the first-sired, Hashut had every right to ignore these words, not least for their insincerity. Yet these were not subjects but kin. Despite his anger, in his humility and wisdom, he relented. In the mountains of Korrok, he and his servants raised the citadel of Ur-Zorn. He broke the god-bulls and came to respect their tenacity. Across the realms, duardin clanged tankards to honour Hashut, who toiled uncomplainingly in stubborn clay.Please oh please let the "god-bulls" be the goddamn drogrukh. It would be so funny if this entire duardin civilization was unwittingly cosplaying as Kragnos's even more retarded cousins.
>>96473219korrok is a different continent of ghur
>>96473268It's neighboring Donse, just across the sea. It's closer to the ancestral homeland of Kragnos than his mountain prison was.
>>96472546Lmao the only time I have seen 'harassment' (besides shitting on ugly models) is when some faggot marched into the thread and said he was a 'top tournament player on a NA country for Xx faction' as some pathetic flex, and some anon immediately went on BCP and reviewed some article on tourney results and posted his name.I don't know of anything else
>>96473219A clash between the pre-betrayal zharrdron and the ancient drogrukh is a great element, but them unwittingly cosplaying the drogrukhs would be lame.The closest I can support is linking the bull centaurs with the drogrukhs: lets say we make them the result of hashut taming, breaking and harnessing the spiritual power of that race, and gifting it to the chaos dwarfs.It both rationalizes the element, creates an extra significance to it, deepens an already fitting inimicity, and potentially branches the idea, because if hashut could do such a thing once, maybe it can do so again, and we get mutant chaos dwarfs empowered by the essence of something else.We can also run further with the idea and link to that little we're given of hashut's plot so far: maybe harnessing the souls of living beings like this was the breaking point that brought the other dwarfs to accuse hashut of crossing the line, and it also vindicates hashut because in a sense he was keeping his promise and wasn't demon smithing at all (yet), maybe the reason why other such gifts aren't more present it's because hashut was broken during the wars immediately after that betrayal, and a rebuilding of hashut would be a major plot point that can justify why other mutations would suddenly start appearing then.
>>96472768Sounds like a (You) problem.My 40 spear mortek rank up so the ranks of spears go from at arms to at rest in the rear.
>>96473219Isn't that just the bale taurus. My prediction is that they respected it, but still hunted it in extinction because of muh industry, instead choosing to sculpt their machines as their own fucked up way of honouring them.
>>96472466Please pardon my low quality shitpost
>>96472485Are those blue grey terrains FDM ?Looks really good
>>96472394My personal headcannon is that Hashut came into being when dwarfs, who were left behind in chaos wastes, had their faith broken and started bargaining for any deal they could to stop mutating.
>>96472860It's adorable anon. Reminds me of Ultima.
Someone toss me the audiobook for Beastgrave please and thank you <3
>>96472120I don't think this is a test scheme, I think you've chosen this because it requires basically no work.
>>96472546Fucking loser.
>The root of this perversion is the god Hashut, who revealed himself to beleaguered duardin during the Age of Chaos, claiming to be a long-forgotten ancestor god and offering salvation of a kind. He had spent many long years communicating with those trapped in their karak keeps by besieging daemons. There had already been attempts to tame daemonkind – furtive experiments conducted in the dark by desperate Runesmiths – but Hashut offered a more terrible solution to their never-ending war of attrition: the ability to turn such enemies into tools of war.So...the new lore is just Hashut claiming stuff? It finally makes sense with the WHFB lore. Hashut is lying here
>>96473808Why would chaos ever lie?
Wow this looks boring.Fyreslayers desperately need a new Spearhead, hopefully with a Magmadroth in it.
>>96473808>>96473818>1 minute apartPiss off samefag.
>>96473842Not everyone reads as slowly as you.
>>96473842What's even the point in accusing posts like that of it? It's not like there's an argument being made.
>>96473857All samefagers deserve to be shamed and shunned.
>>96473829The throwing axes are fun. Took out the bone shaper in the new OBR spearhead on turn 1 with them. Still lost the game by like 1 or 2 because I forgot FS had a ward save for half the game, though.
What'll be the end of edition narrative for 4th? Broken Realms was fucking amazing, Dawnbringers was fucking shite, so it's hard to say if it'll be well written, but what do you think it'll be about?I think it'll definitely involve the Helsmiths in some regard, similar to Broken Realms involving Lumineth and OBR, and Dawnbringers being all about the updated CoS stuff.
Do wonder why chaos never got ranged considering they had marauder axe throwers and the chaos cannonBut i suppose that's why you have magic, demons and beefy infantry>>96473021The only thing i do miss from the bulls is the giant helmsEverything else is ok aside from poses being a lil bit stiff
>>96473829>4 of the 5 squads are the same infantry unit >Plus 1 boring heroThat might be the shittist Spearhead in all of AoS lmao
>>96473948Big war in gyran, chaos invading. Mainly nurgle
>>96473955>The only thing i do miss from the bulls is the giant helmsThe alternative build option has helmets. I plan to combine the armoured, mace wielding bull bodies with the bull helmets.
>>96473801NTA but elaborate
>>96473948depends on what the 5th edition bad guy will be, with broken realms and dawnbringers setting up kraggy/krules and skaven respectively.My hopium is skaven and chorf shenanigans somehow breaching azyr's defenses and involving them in the narrative.>>96473955giant helms could be a fun sculpting or conversion project if you're into that at least.
>>96473948Something something nagash is mating press the great horned rat
>>96474016>My hopium is skaven and chorf shenanigans somehow breaching azyr's defensesBooo boring, predictable and shit
>>96473808old world hashut might also be future hashut manifesting back in timeor it's a retcon altogether
>>96474019He’s too busy having his lieutenants getting the run around by Chaosfags and the only one worth a damn is floating particles in Hysh or something
>>96473801its just a throwaway test to see how i will like the colors. the "gold" will be different colors, the black will be highlighted and the runes on the armor will be glowing. The demons eyes etc will be yellow i think.thanks for your concern though
>>96474040fuck you buddy i want maps of azyr>>96474071I have a feeling arkhan will show up when we next see some obr
>>96474056The Realm of Chaos in AoS has time shenanigans, too?
>>96471569i think my only problem with the green is that the green flame is so specifically a skaven great horned rat thing, reusing it immediately after the skavendoom event for hashut as well just feels like it makes them less unique.it would be like if they released a big new tzeentch wave but changed the studio scheme to red with gold trim and skulls.
I suppose more landmarks will be added to Korrok in the HoH tome.
>>96473983these guys feel too doughy to me. they for sure know how to sculpt muscles and hands with definition but there just isnt any there, they look like they're made out of marshmallows.
>>96474202They're dorfs, dorfs are fat
>>96474191Wild. Excelcis is RIGHT THERE on the chorfs doorstep. Maybe they can give it a real siege and not get cucked by Poochie.
>>96474212the free cities really are aos' punching bag aren't they
Most of the rumour talk has been (understandably) focused on ogres and fyreslayers, but what do you guys figure the obr pic in the sneak peek means? Genuine release wave or pity hero?
>>96473388I've seen a couple cases of peoples reddits being posted here. Unless you're an idiot that has his irl socials linked to a reddit account this is completely harmless though.
>>96474202based on powerlifter vs bodybuilder logic, the bull centaurs completely strengthmog this preening khornecel
>>96474271Leaker said you're getting something like ushi bowmen. So maybe a small wave, bigger than what khadrons got at least.
>>96473948one thing that both dawnbringers and broken realms have in common, is that the successive story is technically tied to what happens but practically almost completely out of the left field compared to what everything was about in those storiesanother element is that the campaigns are just excuses to showcase the latest releases, especially big special characters, so we should largely discard the releases happening soon and take whatever is left as playing actors of the campaign with one book to close the current narrativea few open plotlines are>gordrakk pushing into eightpoints towards the meteroic gate, with katakros also still in eightpoints and archaon pretty much absent in the last 2 editions>tyrion and malerion must show up, and if malerion shows up then khainites must see further pressure onto them, we now have a rumor of cos getting a dok hating special character>speaking of cos special characters there's still the gal that turned into a treegal and joined the kurnothi at the end of dawnbringers, and on that note kurnoth too must rise at last>vandus and khul must must show up, related to them or their characters we have little, save perhaps rumors of other cities in aqshy going down, but that may be skaven, considering one such city was tempest eye, another city that may see an attack is greywater, by abraxia>while back on the aqshy side, related to slaves to darkness we have gunnar brand and the mountain tribes still with a vendetta against skaven>also on the mountains are fyreslayers and chaos dwarfs, also with something against the skaven, so perhaps it's these three ending the gnaw>in other ongoing stuff we have lizards having preemptively amassed aqua ghyranis in preparation to mend the damages the skaven, so they might appear and do something tangential as usual, their only noteworthy name that might get a model is lord gar
>>96474271Looks like chariots (or a similar war machine), bowmen (the sculpt has been in underworlds for ages) and the mandatory foot hero wizard we don't need
>>96474335There are never enough wizards
>>96474271necropolis stalkers but with bows. mortek chariots. maybe hope is also mortek archers.
>>96474287>>96474335didn't the leaker explicitely rule out ushabti and chariots?
>>96474329the nighthaunt tome pitches attempts of nagash to reform completely, so that might be another story, and we're starting to see gw replacing or removing a number of stuff as old as the end times, so it's possible they're thinking about a new model for nagash and/or the 3 mortarchs, arkhan in particular since he's in a different tome from the other 2 and is currently dedfinally we have kragnos still in his personal hell made of saurus warriors, I doubt they have anything planned for him soon, but eventually he will get a faction of centaurs, so perhaps we might see him do something and find one, a herald of the future armymorghur is also potentially returning, but it might be WAY too soon to talk about himmissing from the factions getting mentioned or already with a tome we have nurgle, tzeentch, slaanesh, ogres and giantsnurgle is getting lots of stuff soon, so he might appear but not that much in the end, ogres are in a similar situation but they have 3 special characters to launch apparently, so we might see one getting to do stuff tangentially to some narrative (maybe hired by gordrakk to push through in his story since he's learnt about the power of friendship?), for slaanesh and tzeentch we have nothing on the horizon, but slaanesh has a relatively large range so he might get just a pity appearance (maybe as nuisance for khul?), while tzeentch most definitely has a bone to pick up with lizards since they destroyed one silver tower, so they might be another sidenote appearance too.
>>96474202They have strongmen bodies. They look fat but can crush the head of any khorne-fag using only 1 hand like nothing.
>>96474377No. He ruled out OBR being the next starter army
>>96474353Everyone one of our foot characters is a fucking wizard. The soul reaper doesn't need to be a wizard (just let him buff and keep him cheap). The Boneshaper doesn't need to be a wizard (make his buff JUST WORK and keep him cheap), same for the 'ossifector aka planned LE Boneshaper that was lazily repurposed.' Let the Soulmason be the daddy caster that's fine, then maybe, MAYBE let the new model be a foot hero wizard.
>>96473792I gotcha poorfaganon :) https://files dot fm/u/qn2xks6xqe
>>96474426I like when they have fun in the painting guides. Shame the 4e ones have been stripped back in quality and quantity so much.
>>96474426The new guides are terrible
>>96474444>>96474471They seem to be allowed to have more fun with it in the Spearhead instruction pamphlets.
>>96474485Oh sure but the guides are legitimately shit. Just slap on contrast bro no one's ever thought of that
>>96474471They are just supposed to be “battle ready”guides that fit on a single page. Though I suppose it wouldn’t hurt if they put more in depth ones into White Dwarf or something.
>Frost Sabres gone despite them having assets for them from the Hrothgorn kit Soulless >>96474593Or just had legitimate guides like every edition prior? These could be an addition, they already cut the page count
>>96474607They absolutely loved slapping 1st and 2nd edition tomes full with painting guides. I guess they didn't have much else to put in there yet, but still.
>>96474607also>leaning more toward unga bunga cavemen BCR stuff>remove the sabertooth tigers???
>>96474471Actually that's based.
>>96474661Plenty of lore and narrative scenarios in the 1st edition books (and some of the 2nd). 3rd and 4th are trash
>>96474733No rumourmonger said that
>>96472120Deep red is such a better color for this thing's fire than the not!balefire they went with for the display
>>96472378>>96472438How would one go about painting fire/glow of this color?
>>96474387It would be nice to get the Mortarchs on foot or at least not on those hideous mounts. I them from my old Start Collecting skeleton box and I never bothered to build one of them because I don't like the look.Nagash I don't think needs a new model though. He was very much designed with AOS in mind and it's a very good looking model. I can't really think of what they'd change on him.
>>96474832Feels like an intuitively obvious decision to have the small on foot version and a monstrous/on mount version be the norm for these sorts of characters.
>>96474889>GW keeping two versions of the same characterThey seem autisitcally against having "too many" models in AOS for some reason. Cado has had 2 models so far and they discontinued the better one when Blades came out.
>>96474763What are you talking aboutWhitefang just said they're "rejecting modernity" in response to someone talking about cavemen ogres
>>96474440>https://files dot fm/u/qn2xks6xqeThank you sexy <3
>>96474410which sucks
I plan to paint my metal-bull-daddy up as if it's being powered by multiple daemons imprisoned within it by the Chorfs.I'm thinking of giving it one gun arm, one melee weapon arm.The melee arm will have red/khorne flames to show the bound Khornate daemon used to grant it strength in combat.Gun arm blue/Tzeentch flames because I'll say it fires magic drawn from the daemon powering said gun.Gut fire will be pink or purple/Slaanesh flames as the daemon is used to grant it haste and a desire to close with the foe.The back/top flames will green/Nurgle themed as they use the corrupting powers of the Nurgle daemon within the metal monster to corrupt the land and air around it and weaken the foe.I hope to god it looks good lmao
>>96474920It wouldn’t be two different kits like Radukar, it’d be two in one box like Morathi or Miao Ying. If they don’t want to refresh the big version they could just repackage them with an extra sprue with the on foot version.
Why are the threads so damn fast? I look away for a bit and there's over a 100 posts.
>>96474989rumours, teasers, new releases, and due releases
>>96474989Why does M elf have a beard
>>96474989I dunno. Would bearded aelves be too "out there" for AoS? Remember we're on a grounding arc. Gotta make the setting feel grimey and gritty. Beards might help.
I like this dude
>>96475001There’s one in “Children of Teclis”. The way he’s described makes me imagine Jason Momoa with elf ears.
>>96475024are there special centaur toilets in the ziggurats or does every chorf city reek of bullshit
>>96475024Aura.
>>96475032Noldorfag will be dancing with glee
This model reminds me of the majestic tauralon and that makes me sad.
>>96475032There’s the passage.>>96475043Is that one of our resident shitposters?
>>96475024CIA?
>>96475049Wait this thing is actually sick
>>96475052>Is that one of our resident shitposters?He's more 40k. Fella who rails against the anime-fication of elves, insists they should be strong and otherworldly, and SEETHES at human/elf romance- almost as much as the weebs seethe if you remind them that 40k's only confirmed half-elf has a human mother
>>96475049>>96475055I can't wait to get my hands on this thing. I'm not sure how I'll paint Urak Tarr himself, but I can't wait to play with his mount. Gonna paint it up like it's made of stone with all the engravings/runes/gems are going to be glowing or flame so the Taurus looks like it's a massive animated statue. Gonna be so fucking fun to do.
Not mine. Just something I saw while browsing through twatter.
>>964752393 command corps?
From the supposed leaks>Festus (Monster, so fxxking huge)Will he now be a monster, or mounted upon one? Possible return of the toad dragon?
>>96475391Im still betting its tamurkhan.
>>96475391One of its main features is carrying around components for his potionsSo he will probably get mounted on a palanquin of nurgle with an in built cauldron, as well as having him be physically way bigger, so practically a kugath light
>>96475416Thats just eppidimius or whatever that fineshart model was
Ghoulanon here. I have played the new book. It is a lot of fun. Dad continues to be cool. Knights continue to be cool. Serfs continue to hold the line. Have a nice day!
>>96475456Epidemius doesn't have a cauldronAnd nobody cares about demons anymore at gw anyway, let alone epidemius
>killing sylvaneth
>>96475521>killing sylvaneth
>>96475534>killing sylvaneth-adjacent furries
>>96475521>>96475534>>96475543Nature vs. Industry is a classic theme. It's only a matter of time before someone paints up their Urak Tarr as Robotnik.
>>96475521>>96475534>>96475543Not the biggest fan of this match up, but it’s slightly better than pitting them against beastmen.
>>96475543centaurs aren't furries
The forges need fuel. Feed the fires!!!
>>96475574>The orgies need fuel. Feed the frens!!!This is what I read initially, I think it's time to sleep for me
>>96475565They should be facing Skaven
>>96475696it wouldn't be a visually fitting matchup
>>96475717Don't care
>>96475759Of course you wouldn't.
>>96475565>>96475696>Evil industrious dwarfs fighting nature spirits/elvesThis is literally the best matchup
>>96475793Too cliché.I like it when similar yet opposed factions fight. Beastmen vs. welves/sylvaneth actually is really good; same with chorfs vs. other dwarfs or skaven.
>>96475793I dunno I just feel like greywater does it better in my head. Would've been cool to see them pitted against fyreslayers...maybe we'll get more art of that later.
>>96475802>Too cliché.You're talking about a faction that barely existed and was never actually pitched significantly against wood elves before.It cannot be cliché if it's new, you're blinded by your own preconceptions.
>>96475809The cliché is "industry vs nature", buffoon.
What would be some good basing bits to sort of depict an army arriving at a recently abandoned village? I have an idea for my CoS army where they're an Ulguan force who were supposed to be aiding another town but have found it devoid of life outside of signs of recent activity. Kinda like the one twilight zone episode where the guy comes across a town with nobody around but it always seems like there was just someone just out of sight
>>96475565I really want to see them fight kruleboys for some reason
>>96475814so cliché you won't find any other artwork with sylvaneth against an industrial factionagain, you're not evaluating the thing for what it is, you're expecting gw to compensate for the tiredness of whatever you consume elsewhere and the buffoon here is you, because your solution to the cliché is having an evil mirror match, how absurd is that?
>>96475822It's a rad idea but I think you'll struggle to convey it just with extra stuff on bases without making it too cluttered.Good idea for stand-alone terrain though.
>>96475822objects of worship maybe?
>>96475822The best way to convey that I think would be to include things that would be rapidly dropped in an emergency. Children's toys, maybe a torch, food, tools. Larger model bases you could get away with more, like an overturned table. But I think >>96475874 is probably right. Hard to convey "recently abandoned" with such small bases. Hell even a full diorama might not fully convey it.
so with a nurgle refresh coming, what's the odds of these guys getting replaced? Does anyone even use them?Also how big will festus be, do you think he'll be on a monster hospital or just full on daemon ascension.
>>96475971I doubt it but that fuckers been out of stock since 4th hit
>>96475997>I doubt it but that fuckers been out of stock since 4th hitI'm not the biggest fan, but I haven't ever seen them in person so maybe they look better than in the pics
>>96475971>so with a nurgle refresh comingThere's a nurgle refresh? Why? Nurgle models are pretty amazing no?
>>96475971Nobody would have assumed blightkings were at risk, so we simply cannot know.It would be retarded for gw to simply remove these without a replacement, and a replacement isn't mentioned, but gw has been retarded in the past and recently too.
>Sons of Behemat>TWO (2) whole kitsHow is this a real faction?
>>96476014Not refresh (except maybe blight kings, but I dunno...) more a second wave I spose.I will say if they redo blight kings I'll be pretty bummed, though I can't say I've ever seen a nurgle model in recent memory that looks bad.
>>96475874>>96475939So far I was thinking maybe some helmets and shields strewn about on the base of the Cavalier Marshal that don't match his own. Maybe some wood planks and cobblestone for the smaller units just to give it a villagey feel, and then get some building terrain and have long shadows on the walls that look like people or something
>>96476031>Nurgle vs Cities>It's all nurgle stuffbtw what website is this
>>96476015That's the problem, GW can range from doing something really cool to the most pants on head retarded shit ever.>>96476043There was cities stuff too, pretty minor. New marshall, priest of sigmar, one other thing im forgetting. And it's the TGA forums.
>>96476028Don't forgot the brodd upgrade sprue!How many do knights have in 40k actually? If I remember right they have 2 big knights and 1 small one. Not counting weird forgeworld shit.>>96476043>>96476066Arch-knights I think is the last one.
>>96476036Yeah that sounds like it'd work. The buildings would do the heavy lifting for the vibe but having the bases match would be the cherry on top.
>>96476015Would blightkings be at risk of going OOP or would Old World keep them around?
>>96476031Didnt the battleforce last year come with blightkings? Seems a shame. Esp cause its still around.
>>96476193It's a hard question because they were explicitly an end times unit, alongside all the other bullshit that I don't recall being in TOW. I more think the kit is perfectly fine and not really in need of anything, like I can't think of what I'd add to make it any different.>>96476210Honestly my best guess is there's just some slightly more elite BK equivalent (or slightly less elite?) Leaks have gotten shit weird before, like them saying the Skaven would get Queek when in reality it was just mounted rat man.
>>96476193It barely even fit in 8th edition, I doubt they can justify it being in warriors of chaos anytime soon.
>>96476193old world hasn't resumed production of savage orcs or the chaos warshrine despite their removals from aos.it's not a given.
>>96475822Chairs and stools knocked over in the streets. Shopping baskets discarded on the ground with the content scattered around. Children's toys sitting in the dirt. Wash basins with clothes still draped over the sides. Lit lanterns knocked over. Beer mugs tipped on their sides eith the ground wet around them. Books left sitting next to stumps still open
>>96476247>>96475822Bonus points if you pose the minis so they're visibly inspecting the scene.
>>96474787I have no idea, but I would personally look at some tzeentch/thousand sons stuff for inspiration.>>96476193I fucking hope not
>>96471501Do they still have regular dwarves in this game or have they gone the way of the Dodo. If not, I'll just wait for Hashut chorfs to come out to start this game--Votann have me eating good, atm.
>>96476475There’s a rumor that somewhat normall dwarves willl be souped with fyreslayers
>>96471841Hating age of sigmar and talking about how TOW would dab all over it was cool in 2022 but tiresome in 2025, no one cares anymore we're just doing our own thing.
>>96473021i can't unsee the maracas
With an Ogre wave release pretty much confirmed, i just wish GW makes something similar to those 2nd ed dice, didnt get them then, and now eat myself over it because im not paying 80+ quid for them on ebay
>>96474787Do some hue matching. The ghostly blue/green as the base, a darker green wash and then purple to accent with the smoke.
>>96477381between etsy and 3d printing, it shouldn't be too hard to find something similair at much better prices.
>>96477609They were from a really nice rubbery material, and really fucking big, havent seen anyone else making them
>>96471524I dunno, they look alright. But my backlog for minis is way too much right now to pickup a new army.
>>96474271While I'd honestly love a second/mini wave of new stuff, If I had to guess we'll get the bulk of any new stuff in 5th edition. 2-4 years wait isn't great, but if they make this "Order/Stormcast vs. Other" cycle an actual trend which I feel like they might, next edition makes the most sense. If I had to guess, if we're lucky it'll be 1-2 units and a hero at most. >>96474365 is my hope with maybe an additional mid-sized monstrous unit, single wizard hero is my fear.
>>96475521>>96475534>>96475534>>96475543Nature vs Industry is an awesome rivalry to have and I think this'll be pretty cool to see develop as the story progresses.
Has anyone actually watched the Blacktalon show? I'm not paying for it (paying for Warhammer+ lmao) but I am curious about the quality or lack-thereof since Blacktalon stories are either fairly good or utterly shit.
>>96477985The stories are paper thin, the soundtrack is unmemorable and the animation looks like it was produced on a budget of shoestrings and saltine crackers. Some of the backgrounds are nice, and the voice acting ranges from decent to quite good. Although sometimes the audio mix will be a bit uneven. It's not a bad way to spend ~20 minutes if you're watching it for free and want to consume something AoS, either just to pass the time or to have something to post about ITT.Special shoutout to Andrew Spooner who voices Hendrick in the show. He's great.
>>96478015>The stories are paper thin, the soundtrack is unmemorable and the animation looks like it was produced on a budget of shoestrings and saltine crackersAh, everything is as I expected then lol
>>96477985I haven't watched every episode. From what I've seen it's watchable at least.
>>96476028Which makes more units that you can fit in a 2000 pount list
>>96475521>>96475534>>96475543
>>96476487that's not a rumor, that's groundless speculation
>>96476007i just converted my own. they're on 100mm rounds, you can fit practically any monster conversion onto that base. i dont hate the default mode, but they are kinda expensive and permanently out of stock
>>96475543>female chaos dwarf lord in a society where chaos dwarfs are low in populationJust as bad as pic related. The fucking wizard of the coast wannabes that are modern GW can't help themselves can they?
>>96478352wait, that's a kinhole?
>>96478352atleast they wrote her correctly. shes an outcast lord because she majorly fucked up and lost a whole army
>>96478352>where chaos dwarfs are low in populationWhere was this ever stated? If anything after 666 years of Age of Chaos Chorfs would be by far the most numerous type of dwarf in the realms
>>96478405>where was that ever statedsince the race was created in WHFB you newfag zoomer.>oh but this is Age of SiYes we know it's a universal retcon. Want to explain how a group known for already a low population count gets reincarnated with magically more chaos dwarves in shitmarland then there were in existence? Careful when trying to rationalize it, because that's just you trying to make sense of what the people who made the setting didn't have the brains to realize or didn't care enough to do in the first place. Careful not to also at the same time not pull something completely out of your ass rhat isn't confirmed anywhere that isn't just headcanon.
>>96478427not that anon, but aos chuardins aren't reincarnated tow chorfsnormal dwarfs spread as civilisation through the realms during the age of myth, then during the age of chaos all of them got sieged by chaos, and the ones that weren't fyreslayers, didn't become kharadrons, didn't flee to azyr, and didn't die, picked up hashut's promise of salvation and became the new chaos dwarfsthey're as unrelated to old chaos dwarfs as chaos warriors are unrelated to chaos marines
>>96478352idk maybe it's just not a game for you anymore? Move on and stop crying
>>96478427>total war secondary go back
