Avalanche from the net: Warscrolls, Life in the Realm Bubbles, Force organisation and

The floodgates have opened with tons of new pictures, all indicating the future direction of Warhammer. The (Warhammer) world as we know it has changed irrevocably. 8th Ed is dead, WHFB is dead. Unlike in the case of Beethoven, there will be no 9th.

As many pictures and changes there are, as many opinions. GW has obviously moved from the classic mediaeval setting of Warhammer Fantasy Battles to another realm where it can better protect its IP.

It has simplified the game to an almost dumbed down version of 40K. Timmy or Tommy or Jimmy can bring anything he likes and we'll compensate for the imbalance somehow. You do not need skill to choose your army, and points do not matter...

Its all about the base, the base, its all about the base. No trouble?

And Size, does it matter? 

Army Comp: Premade simple organisational charts ?

And a first look at the war Scrolls:

A good review on Jossy's site (clicky)

 And the Price, dear reader, you may ask?

So $250 NZ, $200 AUS 75 UK pounds, 100 Euro and $100US. 

NZ and Aus get shafted again. Exchange rates mean squat.

The Only model I vaguely like (head swop or lightning trim likely)  :

And the rest of the Sigmarines:

How Space marine can you get?

And yes, you do play in bubbles....

and the ones to come...

 

 

And yes, you can use your Dark Aelfs

 

 and UnDaed...

Age of Sigmar Leaks, Mantic lodges intellectual property suit

First Leaked Age of Sigmar (AoS) Pics: Pandora Opens the Box to see Inside....

Ok, so the first pics of Aos are setting the Interweb thingy alight. Someone snuck a few snaps from the next White Dwarf:

My impressions and thoughts:

1. Round and oval bases as rumoured...
2. Space Marines !
3. In fact, rehashed Blood Angels !
4. Warhammer Age of Reckoning  level 40 KOTBS (Knight of the Blazing Sun)
5. Mantic Eloim...hmm intellectual property stoush coming?
6. Warmachine
7. Retro-looking logo

Tying in model aesthetic with the fluff and rumours? The coming of Sigmar after the End Times? Clearly not predating the (now defunct) Warhammer World as we knew it.

Mounted hero on monstrous mount/warbeast (tic) 

Probable combined statline (tic?) No musicians and standard bearers (tic) 

Heavy armoured Roman looking  foot soldiers x 10 (tic) Roman looking shields (tic) Female champion (no tic) 

Looks like we still have BSB. Probably combined w magic caster/sigmar blessings 

3 x Heavy hitters/Elites and 3 Fast Cav/Flyer types. 40 K here we come...

The rumour of more ancient looking and primitive force - dispelled with irresistable force. (MEGA un-tic here ) but a special award for the person who penned that particular rumour !

Of the lot I really only realy like the cat on the Cat. Ties in with demigrifs and griffons (Are those models likely to survive then? ) At this point, anyhow, with pretty poor quality pics I still reserve my judgement. The SM aesthetic does not work for me. Sorry. 40 K never was my game.

Then to Chaos: So Chaos seems to remain Chaos. Maybe not as be know it. 

(Ho-hum?) CSM look. Aesthetic pretty much unchanged. 

1. Bigger, meaner WoC and Marauders - Rumour accurate there. (tic) 
2. No Bloodthirster, (un-tic) but a similar looking Temple Dog/Maulerfiend thing on a LOTR sized Monster base
3. Abaddon and his mean puppy (?) on large base, 
4. 2 x 10 Units of Marauder types (tic rumour) with Muscians and Standard bearers
5. again a BSB/Caster/Psyker rolled into one (?) 
6. 5 Elites (Chosen types? - tic  ) and
7.  another ? Character on foot, or could it be a handler for the monster ?  

Mantic must be pleased about all of this

 

Shouldn't have sold those Blood Angels!

Khorne and the Incarnates

End Times V: The conclusion?

First sneak peeks...

So the first leaks have sprung: Khorne is unleashed on the Warhammer world, and we see some unusual alliances (by Old WH) world standards

Blight King equivalent monstrous infantry (possibly two builds) and the attempts of the remaining denizens to counter the unleashing of Khorne:

So it appears the broad factions prepared by the first 3-4 books, now come to fruition, atackers and defenders both alike, you could say:

 The Blood Hunt: 

• 3 Named Greater Daemons- Blood Thirsters
• The Huntsguards
• The Hounds
• The Barbadax (Skull cannon)

The Council of Incarnates

Malekith, Alariele, Balthasar, KFC, Nagash, Caradryan and Tyrion (Back from the dead)
PLUS the incarnate of beasts, GRIMGOR

The Berserker Onslaught: 

• Archaon
• Character I Cant make out
• Valkia the Bloody
• The Skullrage (Skullcrushers)
• The Goremongers (Blight Kings/Wrathmongers- more likely)

The Legion of Flame

• Vilitch the Curseling
• The Azure Princes
• The Fireborne
• The Crowfane Horde
• Sons of StormDark
• Crusher

Defenders of the Dead and Buried

• Vlad Von Carstein
• Mannfred Von Carstein
• Luthor Harkon
• Captain Drekla
• The Drakenhof Templars
• The Nosantra, Mannfreds Lieutenant

Fiends and Betrayers

• Be'Lakor
• Hellebron
• Drycha and Coeddil
• The Carnival of Silence
• The Cult of the Blood Queen
• The Wildkin

The Stolen and the Rotten

• Isabella the Accursed
• The Nameless
• Festerheart
• The Legion of Soulblight
• Pusregnant the Glorious
• The Dominated Dead

 The Host of Life
Alarielle incarnate of life
Durthu
The Everguard
The Ashenhawks
The Sisters of the Eternal Grove
Neastra and Arahan



The Incarnate Characters

 Sigvald seems to feature too:

 New Greater Daemons of Khorne: 2 or 3 Different Builds? "~ Unfettered Fury"

"~ Headsmen of Khorne"

 Exciting times ahead. So. No mention of Lizards, No Ogres, No Dwarfs.