While I was up the Mountain GW quietly slit WHFB's throat

Is GW about to let Fantasy bleed out?

While I was climbing Mt Kahikatea on the South Island with a hundred 11 and 12 year olds last week, GW did something unspeakable to it's fluff and rules.

30 years of fluff about to bleed out into the dust?  (Click to Pete's blog article on this)

Speculation is now hotter than ever with the leaks and hints, and the direction that GW seems to be taking. Rage quitters and fanboys alike now wait with abated breath for 9th Ed.

Interesting (End) times indeed. The last End Times book, Archaon. Wrath of Khorne (yay!)
But:
Rip out the restrictions on army builds (with exception of having only one Army standard) Ouch... what about  tournaments and gentlemanly play. This is not cricket. Let all hell break loose!
Free-for-all is now the new black! May be something akin to a bar fight:

Khorne release: 

Some nice new models BUT with my growing insecurity about WHFB's direction, I am staying that hand that is straying to my wallet.
Looking to Saga on Gripping Beast and Wayland games websites instead for my monthly fix of plastic crack (Thanks for that term, Tim).

Really great new Khorne models, but I think no purchases from GW until 9th Ed comes and shows its true colours. I do love the Skarr and wrathmonger/skullreaper kits and the Skarr model, none the less.

Skarr Bloodwrath:
M4 WS8 BS3 S5 T5 W3 I7 A5 Ld8
Bloodstorm Blades: Magic weapons, +2S first round of combat, and grants Impact Hits(d3)
His Bloodborn rule is great.

Stat lines:

 

Formations in the last book brings us Boom-boom-shake-the-room-multishot dwarf canons 

(Last hurrah for the stunties before they join the Lizards, Orcs and Ogres on a trip into oblivion ?)

Bit of nerf in this one for Elves. Would rather dust off them dwarfs. Boom boom!

So, for me...I'll just sit and wait.

Paint some Turks or ANZACs to while the time away while we wait for 9th Ed and the things to come. 

Maybe some Saga when the books arrive. Maybe some FoW... 

Been watching the 3rd season of Vikings on Lightbox (The 1st 4 episodes) 

I would recommend it if you are a dark ages fan!

...Adding some impetus to my leaning to Saga.

Full image of Caravaggio's "Abraham sacrificing Isaac" (Uffizzi, Italy) 1603

Devine intervention stopping Abraham from sacrificing his son. I'm hoping something similar will occur to prevent the demise of WHFB as we know it.

Some viewers may have found the cropped image unsettling. Apologies if any sensitivities were disturbed, that was not the intention

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.