Thread 96902319

Inara I'm Scrying The Quest Why You Try Not To Laugh Bruh Edition

>Previously, in the Mortal Realms
>>96895697

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>Thread question:
Who will be your Quest main?

>>96902319 (OP)
>TQ
Unless the druid is an (a)elf, none. I'm not interested in kurnothi centaurpussy and the rest of them are meh.

>TQ
Still waiting to see if there any mysterious niggas, but of what’s revealed so far either the knight or the dwarf. Knights background seems volatile, and dwarf might the more stable of the lot. Maybe.

>>96902319 (OP)
Do I paint her as a GW self, black hair and pale skin or as a Jap self with dark skin and white hair?

>>96902383
Paint her blond and blue eyed and post her on reddit.

>>96902387
As funny as that would be, I prefer my life to be as free from Reddit as possible

>>96902542
Understandable; it was worth a shot.

>>96902580
Might post here when I do get it, so feel free to shop it. But it will probably be the classic Delf look which is still enough to piss off reddit

>>96902319 (OP)
Is it just me or does she have hobbit feet?

>>96902319 (OP)
Inara is easily the best of what they've shown off so far, but god help me I'm a sucker for a big ass and pointy ears

>>96902319 (OP)
Soon

>>96902319 (OP)
>TQ
Manticore Knight, Cleansing Blade (water lady) and Ogor.

>>96902882
She does look like she’s got aelf ears from the video, and they talk about her like she’s been alive for a long time. This being the first new city aelf model ever would be kind of sick

>>96903066
>they talk about her like she’s been alive for a long time
eh...people in the mortal realms have ways of extending their life span, especially the folks in the ghyran.

>>96902882
I see no evidence of a big ass

>>96902319 (OP)
disgusting ugly hobbit foot vomit

>>96903130
Why didn't I think of painting my DoK as Pirotess?

>>96903114
I guess that’s true, but it has limits. Part of zenestra’s big thing is that the eldest inhabitants of hammerhal remember she was old enough to be a grandmother when the realmgate wars started, which is considered impossible given she’s still alive ~130 years later. It’s even noted that that’s well beyond what access to a load of aqua Ghyranis could do for a person

This nigga just does not stop shutting up.

screen shot fucked up so here's just the green text
> Gooood Evening, the storyteller has returned.
In the distant realm of Shyish, legions beyond counting are being committed to the production lines — nay, verily, in numbers most prodigious!
They say the decapitation strike remains the most efficacious stratagem in all Warhammer lore, and Katakros has gained newfound insight into this art — perchance you have witnessed the Ossiarch Ruststalker?
Do you recall the tale of Katakros' own demise?

Were you to possess a formidable Ossiarchstrike Chariot, every difficulty would find its solution! Indeed — let that golden Chariot be rendered grander and more magnificent!
Why, pray tell, do so many in the Mortal Realms resort to the use of firearms? 'Tis most vexing! Had our warriors but the gift of a third eye, these wretched gunslingers would pose no threat!
The Blacktoof shall return — yet how distant lies that future? That, my friends, remains a secret veiled in shadow!

>>96902319 (OP)
I suppose Inara is Arondir's long-lost sister who traveled to another universe, isn't that right?

>>96903227
Zenestra's like... a demigod or some shit though.

>>96902319 (OP)
They finally started catering to saars...

>>96903492
I thought she was like, a lich or some shit. Just like a really powerful immortal...

Yeah I guess that's basically a demigod huh?

>>96903578
They've had Nurgle around for years anon

>>96903492
She's just a litch with vampiric characteristcs

>>96903746
She's got connections to Sigmar, she's got an Order god in her the way barefoot blindgirl has Morai-heg and Gotrek has whatshisface

shaved my beard, probably gonna keep some of it for basing bits for basing onto the nurgle stuff for darkwater.

>>96902621
That's how GW rolls sometimes

>>96903831
How very Nurgle of you

>>96903317
>>96903328
I hate how rumoursloppers start getting more and more poetic the more attention they get, just put the leaks in the bag bro.
Anyway, golden chariot seems pretty clear cut, really going for tomb kangs 2.0 here. The three eye thing is weird, is that supposed to be some sort of ushabti shit?
Oh and the 'blacktoof' is Arkhan right? Are they finally retiring those awful end times dogs?

>>96904150
>fantasy doesn't exist
>aos does its own thing
>fantasy comes back
>aos tries to ape it
??

>>96904156
I liked it way more when they were adding 4chan memes like Ogroid squads or dragonfly sylvaneth. Too bad nobody comes to /tg/ anymore after mods intentionally ruined it

>>96903492
I mean probably, with that thing being evidence for it, but the point is that living like 200 years is considered impossible for a withered old human woman, let alone a water wizard who looks youthful.

>>96903746
>>96903579
From what happened in dawnbringers it seems like she’s either the last fragment of the Cinder God, a god of death worshipped by the ancient version of the wheel cult in Aqysh and who nagash ate, or their last follower who’s been divinely empowered by whatever is left of them. Probably the former given the cinder god keeps coming up in battletomes and they consistently tip-toe around using any pronouns for them, to not give it away.

She is a genuinely worshipper of sigmar, though, and is calling upon his power when she conjures miracles, she’s just got this piece of divine deathly magic she’s using alongside it. She basically just took her old religious philosophy on life/death and retooled it to prop up Sigmar as the patron of it, to keep it alive. Weirdly seemingly not even in a cynical way, “Sigmar is what keeps the wheel turning, and the generations marching on, so we praise him for that” is just genuinely something she believes and has integrated into the belief system. A god of death worshipping Sigmar because his empire is the only thing that’s kept the cycle of life and death going.

>>96904156
To be fair obr's thing of ancient warfare and skeleton constructs does lead one to chariots and big fuckers pretty quickly, even without tomb kings. I mean in a way the big triarch dudes already are ushabti, as long as they're visually different enough it's not the biggest problem in the world. That being said I want an obr bone-construct war elephant.

whfb=western european historislop tolkienwank
aos=eastern euraisian pantheon mythkino

>>96903317
hey that's my ossiarch dog edit

is the fag from here? or is someone sharing our stuff there?

>>96904244
Our stuff is defiently getting reposted to other places, I saw it happen multiple times, but he might also just be here

>>96904180
I'm going to guess she's the last follower getting divinely empowered by absorbing the last shard of the cinder god or whatever the fuck. It seems like that's an overarching theme of AoS (and dawnbringers specifically too). We see a similar thing happen with krethusa for example.
>>96904244
Wouldn't surprise me if he was

>>96903317
>>96903328
so
>ossiarch ruststalkers assassins
>ossiarch big chariot unit(/hero?)
>ossiarch big archers with 3 eyes
>arkhan the black rebuilt

Wait we're getting Arkhan back already? I thought they're gonna wait a bit longer

>>96904306
he disappeared over 4 years ago, and this release might happen a year from now

>>96904289
>>96904306
Didnt arkhan have a cool chariot back in the day? Maybe it's a dual build generic hero/arkhan

>>96904381
yeah, but I dunno, he's talking about the two without implying any connection

How do people make musicians cool? I want to convert my chaos chosen but I hate the drum and normal horn seems lame

>>96904389
Give em a trangle

>>96904389
in squads smaller than 10 guys i usually skip the musicians, especially in the post 4e world where the bonuses for banners and musicians are almost completely negligible

>>96904389
Big troompets

>>96904389
this >>96904485 if the unit is small, don't bother wasting a model on the musician

nobody will have a problem if you count the unit as still technically having the musician, otherwise if you still want a visual representation of the rule, get one or two familiars with tooting horns on their separate bases to slap as tokens next to the unit

in other cases, ways to freshen a musician is to have it have a small story, for example by attaching a severed head at the edge of the drumskin you are essentially insulting that race, and you can do that with almost anything
you can also double down on the drumstick by making the head a skull or another head sewn shut
you can also tell a story about why this guy in particular is the musician, say for example he's missing an arm or it's scarred, suddenly there's the impression he's been given this role both as a honor for whatever he achieved and because he's not really fit for normal combat

Now that the dust has settled, what's your ultimate take on this bad boy? Is it a worthy investment?

Now that the dust has settled, why did the dust settle?

>>96904501
>for example by attaching a severed head at the edge of the drumskin you are essentially insulting that race,
part of the post disappeared, I meant to say attaching a head AND painting the drumskin as the skin of that dead guy

it works particularly well with less conventional races like orcs and lizardmen, where the drumskin ends up in a flashier color

>>96903317
>Blacktoof
Grom the Paunch kino incoming

>>96904525
It's probably arkhan

>>96904525
that'll be 100$ plus tip anon

>>96904525
it's a post about ossiarchs, it's arkhan

>>96904538
A fucking dual kit even, GW wants you to pay $100 ($105 now, btw) twice for small goblin on chariot. Whoever decided the pricing on this kit unironically should have been shot as a warning to others.

>>96904508
Great game, strongly thematically tied to hopecore aos, easy to learn/pick up and play, maybe the most fun rpg cubicle7 has put together. Shame the Benjamin button looking tin-tin who runs the company seems to hate it for some reason, it gets 0 advertising and champions of chaos got shafted a million different ways. Still confident that book will get fixed eventually, though, soulbound sells well for a branded TTRPG and they’re contractually obligated to keep making it, so all these bad reviews are something they have to adress.

Hopeful for more to come

>>96904529
>>96904545
Damn... I remember WF hinting at Greenskinz returning....

I want to make bad moon worshipping kruleboyz but I don't know if I should go with big yellers for the yellow shield so they fit more visually with my moonclan or skulbugz for a more thematical cohesion.

>>96904596
Go with your own fluff and scheme retard

>>96904596
use yellow colors and bug themes and choose the rules that better fit your army afterwards regardless

>>96904577
Thanks anon, I might give it a try. Which books do you own? I think Champions of Chaos is done, they put a black woman in the cover

>>96904605
>Go with your own fluff and scheme retard
My paint schemes always look worse than the official ones

>>96904596
They look super good w/ yellow skareshields

>>96904628
in that case just steal an official scheme from another faction for your dudes
>>96904670
always a pleasure seeing these anon

>>96904609
I've bought most of them out of principle, and i have a copy of the rest. None are hard to find on here, but the tg copies of some books are missing some errata that makes them less complete. I recommend giving it a shot, or at least leafing through some of the books because they do insane amounts of ground level worldbuilding that GW often builds off of later.

When i say champions of chaos will get fixed i mean it's fairly clear they had a like 2/3rds of the way finished book created during 3e and then tin-tin whipped the dnd homebrewers they employ into finishing it without those people ever having played soulbound before. At its core its a good book that introduces a bunch of cool ideas and nails some parts of what chaos meta progression should be, but the blanks were filled in by people who've been mind broken by wizards of the coast so you end up with stuff like skaven's racial trait being "once a day you can force an ally to take damage for you" in a game that has no other once per day abilities, or chaos familiars and steeds (with the harbinger of decay class built around the latter) having a dozen ways to get them, but no statblocks for them or indication what they're supposed to do or be.

>>96904670
Orruks have flat pig noses... Why would they wear those?

>>96904688
Got it, thanks

>>96904696
to stab a nigga when headbutting them

>>96904696
apply yourself, I'm sure you can think of a reason to have a beaky helmet or mask that isn't fitting a huge nose

any hope we will get something really cool, like a proper new wave for a faction?

>>96904705
it's not that it houses a nose but mimicks the face of grots, which is the whole point of those helms. I'm curious what anon's motivation was

>>96904706
We're getting pretty big waves for nurgle and cities of sigmar, and with the latter there should be the cogfort, which by the sound of it is something monumental both in size and use, since apparently all factions can grab one, maybe with some regiments of renown rules like with the megagargants

>>96904706
Maggotkin, CoS, and Duardin are getting waves

>>96904711
The cogfort seems to be an end of edition release

>>96904711
>>96904719
>factions that already have more than other factions receive even more
I hate GW

>>96904736
>factions that sell get more things to sell

And people wonder why cathay are getting another wave and votann got their second wave so fast

>>96904738
you cant sell anything if you have nothing to sell, on the other hand.

>Maggotkin
>CoS
>LRL
>Sylvaneth with Kurnothi maybe
>Ogor refresh
>Duardin refresh
>OBR wave
that it?

>>96904742
that's the way GW works unfortunately, that's why stuff like dark eldar have been limping along for years

>>96904738
are votann popular? this board is always bitching about them but idk much about 40k faction popularity (besides the obvious)

>>96904744
In terms of active rumours? There's also eshin skaven. Didn't know loomies had rumours either.
Of course I only expect nurgle and maybe cos to be shown off at the reveal. Ogre sneak peek if we're really lucky

>>96904787
2nd wave sold alot, and yaegirs and steeljacks go out of stock within a day of being restocked, at least in Europe

>>96904670
>>96904681
Maybe I go with a mix of yellow and purple, yellow for the bad moon and purple for the poisonous insects and mushrooms

>like any piece of warhammer fanart on X
>algorithm begins recomending me things other warhammer fans liked
>it's all gay furrshit
Wtf is wrong with you people?!

>>96904577
>soulbound sells well for a branded TTRPG
Does it?
I think compared to C7 other GW TTRPG, it sells the least

>>96904814
>it's your fault my feed tailored specifically to my viewing habits shows me gay furry porn
anon...

>>96904814
all fanarts lead to either furry porn slop or ntr hentai slop
there's no escape, never trust the (((algorithm)))

>>96904847
>go to Africa
>get Malaria
I'm sure there's no connection between the area and the diseas. It must be my diet that had me spontaniously materialuze the virus

>>96904874
I'm not served furry shit despite following AoS art and painters, you are

>>96904904
that's 40k shit, not ours

>>96904814
now that you mention it there's been a suspicious uptick of beastmen players on this board lately

>>96904918
>>96904904
It's probably Necromunda

>>96904814
>>like any piece of warhammer fanart on X
I get the impression you liked >>96895873 who IS a furfag

>coastal undead rumours on some youtuber's patroon discord
Bros it's happening

Can anyone sum up what skaven, seraphon, and sylvaneth do?
Skaven - teleportation via gnawholes, luck, hordes
Sylvaneth-elite, teleportation via trees, centerpieces
Seraphon - ???

>>96904904
Very funny GW, thats from a WHQ miniature that you will reveal this saturday. So useless rumour this week.

>>96905048
Magic and monsters

>>96905048
Relatively straightforward and "honest", study infantry to sit on objectives, cav to pin and deal heavy damage, big monsters bricks, good slann magic to back them up. They've got a pretty deep roster so you can go hard in one aspect if you want to. That being said they're pretty underpowered now, one of the bottom armies in tourneys iirc. Not unplayable by any means, especially in casual games, but something to be aware of.

>>96903328
>>96903317
Fuck this faggot and I say this as an OBR player

>>96903328
> Arkhan Blacktoof
Deep cut to his heavy drug use as a mortal? Impressive. You read the Nagash series.

unexpected
they were probably forced at gunpoint to include aos

>>96905210
Huh. Weird but cool.

>>96905210
Is this straight up by the vampire survivors guys???

>>96905210
They were excited to include WHF Slayers but GW mandates they include their iconic black male and strong female characters I'm guessing

>>96905275
Yep. Or rather a partnership between the the guys who made Boltgun and the guys who made Vampire Survivors.

You know what the art looks decent. Might pick this up if it's reasonably priced

Is 40k as forceful with their named characters? Callis and Toll went from Nick Horth's scrapped setting direction to a rebooted POV for the setting and similarly Neave went from generic Stormcast hero #23 to the single AoS cartoon and action figure.
It feels so inorganic and forced as opposed to a 40k character clamoured for since the 80s or something.
I guess it's here nor there but like one book for the C&T reboot but I'm supposed to be giddy they're in some game? Bruh I care more about Galen and Doralia FFS

>>96905210
The first good AoS game?

>>96905333
>Is 40k as forceful with their named characters?
No, it's 50x as forceful. AoS has nothing on 40K when it comes to named characters.

>>96905334
Stormground was fun, just buggy and a little clunky
Underworlds was great
The Quest mobige was fair for what it was (end times mobige but fast paced)

>>96905333
https://vampire-survivors.fandom.com/wiki/Characters

Vampire Survivors has 165 playable characters if you include DLC. Don't get too hung up about just the ones on the cover art.

>>96905333
It is pretty funny how neave just became nr 1 stormcast pretty quickly. But no this shit has nothing on 40k and their 150 book soap opera prequel.

>>96905416
And now that the horus heresy is over, they're going forward in time!
TO THE DAYS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE HERESY

>>96905367
a spin off like this wouldn't end up with the success of the original

>>96905025
You misread it. That's "coastal under". Borrowing crabs for Underworlds

>>96905334
your Vermintide? Bro???

>>96905490
I fucking kneel

>>96905473
It will still have dozens of characters at minimum, and there's not that many AoS characters to begin with. Not worth sweating over.

>>96905531
>here's not that many AoS characters to begin with
Every Underowrlds rando is named :)

>>96905285
what does that mean?
is auroch digital publishing it, and poncle(Vampire survivor Devs) did the development or at least the sprite work

>>96905549
can't wait to beat the fuck outta skaven with hedkrakka rip

>>96905549
aren't a good number of them trapped in unending respawn hells?

Alright so some guy on reddit posted a (supposedly) higher resolution of darkwater, although I honestly still can't see shit. He claims he's got it in a brochure and he's taking the pic with his shitty phone, whatever.
The interesting thing is he claims the kurnothi is not actually a kurnothi, it's an idoneth, and the little fox sprite is actual a little fish. I'm not convinced honestly, it looks pretty clearly kurnothi, it's on an oval base, unless we're getting some idoneth kelpie centaurs (admittedly based as fuck) I think he's wrong about that.
anyway thought it might be interesting to share, guess we'll find out in a few days.

>>96905860
No dude they're all in Spitewood.

>>96905867
Maybe he's talking about the druid not the very obvious centaur on the cavalry base.

Ogror looks like a boring brawler though, RiP Firebelly

>>96905867
The orange mohawk and the backfeet with hooves? Theres no fucking way thats not a Kurnothi

>>96905867
Pestigors look even more like a direct remake of the old kit (was it metal?). Which i guess isn't terrible because that was a realy good design (way fucking better than the Bloodbowl one), even if i wanted something more out there

>>96905867
It is higher res as you tell what in the book this time

>>96905896
>>96905901
he specifically mentioned the oval base being the idoneth. The 'mohawk' actually seems to be not directly connected to the head which made me think of the morsarr crests, maybe he's onto something. That being said it could also be arrow feathers from a quiver or something

>>96905867
It's higher res, yeah. but still blurry
You can make out the legs of the Ogor but can't tell they the red is

>>96905867
That is 100% a Kurnothi, and I am 100% going to fuck it

>>96905933
I could see ther being a Nararti with a bow, but then what the fuck is entire rest of the model? One of the heroes is randomly a whole diorama?

>>96905951
>>96905979
>>96905933
OP is clueless is all, he doesn't even know Kurnothi exist
If it's a fish and not a fox then that could mean the Druid is actually IDK

>>96905979
to be clear I think it's like 99% going to be a kurnothi, but if it's idoneth you can sort of twist it into a kelpie centaur, the back legs are actually tentacle fin thingies like on the deepmare of the kings.
Now I'm said that it's not going to be this because that would be cool as fuck as a unit honestly.

>>96904247
https://files.catbox.moe/64g2xl.mp3

I gotta get back to remembering how to get Audacity working. I fucking reinstalled windows and now all my settings are fucked.

>>96905867
> Another controlled leak
It's 2025 you literally can't take a picture this bad on your phone unless you are trying

>>96905867
It's pretty clearly a kurnoth centaur with a bow, we have rumor engines for Sylvaneth arrows and Sylvaneth ain't getting a book anytime soon.

>>96905860
Nah that got changed in recent lore, necroquakes over so now there's just no canonical reason for endless fighting and if you die you die. (unless you're stormcast or sometimes undead)

Thanks GW, very cool.

>>96905867
The lack of flames tears down the Firebelly assumption (sad day, very sad day), but now it looks like a female ogor (the 3 balls share the same cholor, different than the rest of the body)

>>96906142
Surely they wouldn't have her with huge tits spiling out from a tight corset?

>>96906173
Ogors don't wear corsets, you'll have huge tits spilling onto her round belly and like it.

>>96906092
>controlled leak that's 0.0001% clearer than the previous picture of a box that will be shown off in 3 days anyway
come on anon

>>96903328
Oh by the way, it seems the "ruststalkers" will be a 5 man assassin type unit, similar to actual admech ruststalkers, as per a whitefang like

>>96906142
What i find curious/weird is the lack of weapons in hand. Will he/she beat the shit out of Nurgle boys with his/her bare hands? Thats so cool.

>>96906142
looks like their left arm is holding a weapon behind their back and they're wiping their face or eating something?

>>96906310
Fuck me, I just converted my ogroid into a daemon prince with the same thing...

>>96905867
I don't see the trolls/big plaguebearers? Everyone thought the gooner Blightking was one

>>96906325
Looks like these would be it, based on the guy on the left having the kinda rocky back. Might just be bigger plaguebearers? (Or smaller trolls but that feels silly)

>>96906299
I think she's reaching for a sword with her left hand

>>96905867
>Darkoath looking guys
>Thin plaguebearers
>Pestigors
>Three unique Blightkings (gooner, dual wield, banner on his back)
>Two big plaguebearers
>Snake boss
>Daemon prince
>Minions

>>96906325
dude with the massive axe in the top right does kinda look like he has a cairn in his back, but yeah they're not very plague trollish, more just bulky plaguebearers.

>>96906363
>>Snake boss
maggot witch

The moment gw learns people think the bad guys are better to focus on than the good guys, the better. The new survivors game should have had a character that was either a skaven or the new death bringer instead of the black talons.

>>96906411
>I like bad guys, they should have heroic good guy roles!
uh huh I'm sure they'll come around to your genius idea soon

>>96906411
the new survivor game should have just been a 3 dollar expansion to vampire survivors and they would have made bank.

>>96906411
Those survivor games have tons of secret characters so I wouldn't be surprised if Skaven or Death Bringer were playable

>>96906411
good guys don't have good rosters of hordes and monsters to kill

>>96906480
Steel helms? Idoneth? Stormcast? I’d argue there’s more there than for the bad guys.

>>96906502
your argument would be retarded considering the enemy factions have demons, undead, goblins and rats

>>96906512
Look, gw is just missing out on its potential, all I can say. Maybe im just salty that there arent any lumis on the cover.

>>96906512
Demons undead and goblins kill eachother too

>>96906480
I mean, a chaos warrior can fight undead or orcs...?

>>96905867
So the board is more like an arena than a dungeon?

>>96905867
If that's another kurnothi centaur I will crash out

>>96906568
Looks like you open a book on a page and it has a relevant battlefield

>>96906568
I figure it's gonna be kinda like a choose your own adventure thing. You have a little booklet with quests and fluffy things that you read as you go through the adventure and then just turn to various pages.
>>96906585
It will be. We already had Sylvaneth arrows in a rumor engine.

How racist and sexist are ossiarchs? You would think they would have very strong preferences regarding their bone crops

>>96906601
I don't think they particularly care. They basically just turn the bones into cement anyways so it's not like it's particularly a big difference on who or what it's coming from.

They're a monoculture tasked with getting bones for Nagash with only the higher ups having more of a semblence of "free will" or personality. MAN IT'D BE NEAT IF THEY GOT A FUCKING BOOK.

>>96906601
I don't think there's a racial element to denisity of bones, would be a male over female thing if you were to minmax things. I guess they'd prefare tall people?

>>96906601
well they are selective in their bones and soul harvesting.

>>96906596
if it's a booklet with maps on it, maybe it will be like Gloomhaven?

1-4 player game with models/tokens and a different hex based map on each page of the booklet relating to the maps of the overall campaign. the "ai"/NPC following simple logic(attack the closest player) with a couple random dice rolls thrown in for excitement.

>>96906631
>1-4 player game with models/tokens and a different hex based map on each page of the booklet relating to the maps of the overall campaign. the "ai"/NPC following simple logic(attack the closest player) with a couple random dice rolls thrown in for excitement.

That's pretty much what quest has been, they just used tiles instead. I'm honestly fine with the booklet, it sounds like it'll save me loads of fucking time shuffling around cardboard and setting all this bullshit up. I've got limited time to convince people to give a shit on a game and if I can speed up the process I might be able to backtrack to getting my group to play the older quests too...

>>96906585
Trust in the idoneth kelptaur plan brother >>96906015

>>96906015
what's the lore of fishtaur

>>96906697
>times of great need require the idoneth to use more and more animal souls, instead of souls raided from sentient races, the results can be unpredictable and cause mutations

>the era of the beast shook the subtle balance of souls born normally within the idoneth communities, now even some fully soulled elves are born with one flaw or another, usually manifesting as animal features during their life

>shards of mathalnn escaped from slaanesh's gullet and found safe harbours in the idoneth's corrileum, where they occasionally stir to bestow their blessings on champions chosen for some inscrutable quest they're drawn fo fulfill

>>96906697
Desperate attemept to make Thralls survive without a supply of souls by hybridizing them with sea life?

>>96906015
>>96906751
Unfathomably based
James I know you're lurking here get your sculptors working on this shit IMMEDIATELY

>>96906763
lmao can't take all my soul away cuz half of it isn't even elf

>>96906751
It would be pretty interesting if one way to prevent a soul from withering was to accept Mathalnn's "blessing", but many idoneth are either too prideful or too paranoid about the act of muddling your soul with the souls of the deep to take it

>>96905334
it will be if there's going to be a playable lizardman
or kroak

>>96903643
Don't forget skaven, they're pretty much a 1to1 match.

>>96904814
You like gay furry porn now. Shrimple as that.

>>96906923
Can't wait to mulch through sk*ven with a saurus

>>96907047
why are Saurus are so fucking cool bros

>>96904814
Well I can’t be part of that. I only like pin ups of anime girls and howling mutant posts. Actually I might be contributing to the gay shit with the latter.

>>96906910
oh shit that would own.

And it would work so well with DoK and Kurnothi/Sylvaneth also being less humanoid

>>96905867
Interesting that they moved away from the dungeon crawling tiles in lieu of a more traditional board
>>96904696
>>96904709

The fluff I have for them is that a small group of KB are infiltrating my gitz ale brewing operation in order to steal their high value mushrooms. They've killed and replaced multiple important positions within the company and have convinced the grots that they have just gone through a growth spurt and never take off their helmets
>>96904681
Thanks anon
>>96904811
I like it, keep us posted

I miss ghoul anons chainmail dragon.

>>96907221
Ya know I don't know what ever happened to that because I remember those posts...

>>96907221
Ghoulposters truly are the backbone of /aosg/

>>96907259
I'm still holding out hope we get a couple more releases but since the books already out I don't see it happening :(

>>96904904
Malerion confirmed, that's from his scenic base filled with broken wheels, because he breaks wheels to troll Sigmar's followers.

>>96904926
Necromunda bases don't usually have dirt and tufts aside from ash waste nomads, squat prospectors and the vehicles on bases which i think they gave up on. It's likely a pity character or commemorative model for the end of edition thing 40k is getting

>>96906621
Would they not then prefer fit people as they have stronger, denser bones?

>>96907574
They do. That's why healthy 20-30 year old bones are considered the best and often traded like currency in paet of Shyish

>>96907574
You expect any of the designers to be fatphobic enough to point that out let alone risk going to bongistan jail for saying it in punlic or god forbid tweeting it?

>>96907574
I feel like I read somewhere that they don't like skaven bones because despite being numerous especially with the skaven nuke, they're so fucking shit that they're nearly worthless to boners

>>96907574
dude they are feasting on skaven rn even if its backfiring on them. The most premium of their warriors are usually chaos warriors.

>>96907574
Bones a bone, most I can imagine is them doing it in pounds for bulk. Probably just have to hit quota at times, but I reckon it would be different based on who the leaders are or what the goal is. Some bones are worth more than others, trophies also get taken as well.

>>96907608
Chaos Warriros don't eat. Won't that make their bones demineralied?

https://discord.gg/4bHqw4f7

I'm trying to get a painting discord going for /tg/ as a whole. Here's my best piece to prove I'm not a paintlet.

>>96907633
You should wash your hair more, you got dandruff all over your model

>>96907644
It's a snow effect, I think that it looks good.

>>96907633
I won't join for the same reason I don't go to WIP anymore, I'm not anywhere near good enough for comparison to some of you fuckers.

>>96907674
Dude we want to help newfag painters git gud.

We're not just a bunch of high skill painters jerking each other off.

>>96907633
>shredding parmigian cheese over your knights
Listen I like carbonara as much as the next guy but you gotta keep it in check

>>96907687
I'll believe it when I see it, if any anons saw my models they'd scoff, SCOFF I TELL YOU.

>>96907697
It's GW snow technical paint.

>GW releases wolves for gig
>newest gitz warband for underworld is all about killing beasts
>leader and troggoth wear wolf pelts
>leader is called wolf killa
The guy who made them wasn't a fan of the release I assume

>>96907670
>>96907717
You're not fooling anyone buddy
nice paintjob though

>>96907727
Yes, the art department lead hates his own work it's very deep

>>96907633
I don't use discord but could you show more of that base?

>>96907969
I made it from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7nZ2EubABI
Except I used ardcoat to gloss the ice and Valhallan Blizzard to add ice.

>>96908017
To add SNOW

Are the horror books good?

>>96908211
Decent, but it looks like GW abandoned the series

>>96908220
Man just bring back Drachenfels as a rogue death faction not under Nagash.

>>96907633
> Not a paintlet
> Horrible base
> Overused snow effect
> Basic bitch base shade high light on his metals
You are a paintlet and also buy an ad

>>96907633
This is not the thread for this. Go to 40K, not here

>>96908211
>Are the books good?
no
stick to models, artworks and rulebooks

>>96902319 (OP)
>Character is Indian
>Her story revolves around the sacred water being filled with shit

What did GW mean by this

>>96908499
>stick to models, artworks and rulebooks

Ew

>>96908520
ewdiobooks aren't that good either

>>96908527
I've been hoping some kind anon would have a collection to dump one of these days. Even if they're not good it's something nice to listen to. Soul wars was all around kinda eh but had its points!

>>96907633
What's the deal with the green? I'm guessing you were going for some kind of translucent effect but it reads to me like there's not enough layers of paint to cover up what's under it.

>>96907713
If you come in looking for advice and to improve no one is just going to tell you it's shit. Except one guy, but he's an asshole. Most will give you feedback and encouragement. And it's better than Reddit feedback because anons aren't afraid to acknowledge how bad your work is while giving advice

wonder how I managed to like lumineth but could never really fall in for high elves.

>>96908211
I've only read Castle of Blood and it was awful. Completely predictable, almost no suspense except for the very beginning. Terrible revenge story.

>>96908639
question one: do you have yellow fever?
question two: do you like the anthros?

>>96908614
I mean, I just do my shit and roll. I'll post models here though.

Also post models anons.

>>96908639
They're post 8e models tbf. How do you feel about the TOW stuff?

>>96908758
ellyrian reavers are practically 8th ed models still

>>96908777
They're different from the 8e starter set models actually
TOW stole the in development Swifthawk Agents refresh I tell you

>>96908791
They're literally the same assets just slightly reposed to make an actual full unit, don't be retarded.

>>96908666
I mean yes to both counts. Although I'll have to say im never owning the cow stuff, not out of dislike, I like how they are a thing, in fact im in love with the concepts, but they're a good backdrop and that's it. Idk if that makes sense.
>>96908758
>How do you feel about the TOW stuff?
I like how they're focusing on the navy of high elves? I cant remember but thats all i've read up on them, oh and that cathay plans on fucking them up, though idk if thats just a schizo post i've read somewhere.
as for models vess is fucking ugly. which is a shame because I love tridents.

>>96908726
Last finished model, I hope I will do some bulk painting this weekend

>>96908868
>actual unit
Yeah, they're a different kit

does aos have any concept art of the order of the furrow? Or a general description of what they look like? All I know is that they ride griffons.

>>96909104
AOS doesn't have fleshed out backgrounds or fluff units. It doesn't have deep lore for fluff characters. It has art and descriptions of stuff that has current models, and that's about it.

>>96909167
Go back.

>>96909104
The original novella used WHF demigriff knight art but that's it

>>96908926
Insane that they took blademasters and sea guard from Island of blood, but after looking at the base elf infantry they said "Yeah, we need to remake exactly ONE of the IoB kits, instead of basic infatry"

>>96909167
This was never true btw 1e is full of the weirdest shit like Ardboys riding Wyverns and Tomb Kings siege machines

>>96909262
They can't just sell IoB again until Clanrats are refreshed... Oh

>>96908872
>I mean yes to both counts
Then that explains perfectly why high elves didn't do much for you: they had way less oriental flair and it was a faction of elves and their pets, not a faction of elves and their spiritual allies.
Chances are that the only part of high elves you might have liked were the concept of a friendship with dragons, and that you probably would have likewise favoured wood elves over high elves for their treemen.

>>96909262
The reavers were the one unit without a full command group and the one where duplicates would be most noticeable, adding more bits and poses was a sound choice, it's not like there's a real difference in costs between making a mould for the already existing assets or for new assets.

What's fucked up is that they didn't go the full mile and free the griffon as well.

>>96909332
>What's fucked up is that they didn't go the full mile and free the griffon as well.
yeah that’s the one high elf model I would want. Well, the phoniex too, but I’ll wait for someone to sell it at something cheaper than $30 for it.

>>96909104
They’re demigryph riders who wear leather and ironwood armor due to their oath to alarielle to never wear metal in war. There’s descriptions of those outfits in a bit more detail in the story they’re in, but I don’t have that on hand

>>96909471
The protagonist had a limb regrown by a blessing of Alarielle or something too

>>96908211
I did quite enjoy Dark Harvest. I really, really loved the setting, this ultra miserable wet swamp that people lived in, and I liked trying to figure out who the big bad enemy of the story was.

It really did feel like something that could have fit in Warhammer Fantasy with some of the details scraped off.

>>96906601
not. at all. have you seen what they do to the bones to actually make their constructs? they practically break them down into bone dust and then reconstitute them back together, almost like a magical cement, you can see as much on the boneshaper minis.

and i gotta tell ya, if you're one of those edgy teens who just loves to see racism/sexism/rape etc in your fantasy game, age of sigmar really isnt the game for you. you'd find a better home in warhammer the old world

>>96909839
I wouldn't say "not at all". They do differentiate bone types, but not with the motivations that anon wants to assume they do. For example, I remember in the Bonereapers novella, I think it was, Ork bones are said to be very porous and poor for sentient construct use. Stuff like that. Their "discrimination" is purely utilitarian.

>>96909839
>you'd find a better home in warhammer the old world
yeah the setting with demons in it and slaanesh itself would attract those types huh.

>>96909839
>you'd find a better home in warhammer the old world
Anti-white racism doesn''t count as online racism though. And ToW is just a chink power fantasy setting now

>>96909912
saved lmao

>>96908573
It's a marbling effect. Contrast over leadbelcher.

Funny enough a tranny told me the same thing in the past.

>>96908726
This is very solid, anon. Nobody in /wip/ would give you shit for that, just saying.
>post models
Here's some lizards on dinosaurs

>>96908726
Have this dude I’ve been messing around with. Probably gonna restart em tho.

>>96910103
Nah I know I'm just fuckin' around, I do decent work. Nothing super spectacular but I'm generally pretty happy with stuff. I'm sure anons have seen my living room dining table with the pictures and fancy clock dozens of times at this point.

>>96907633
Tbh if there was a buy or trade with anons discord i'd be more interested. I've got too many fucking models and would rather have less and provide anons with more.

Could someone explain to me the extreme disdain elven women feel towards footwear?

>>96908726
Postan

>>96910341
They're sluts by nature, but GW can't make nude models anymore, so they have to be bare somewhere that's not PG-13.

>>96910341
Im still not calling the quest lady an elf until I read it being said explicitly, but elves are supposed to be connected with the eart-well. the realms I guess. Makes them more attuned with magic or something. Also because it makes me erect.

>>96910341
Something about not being able to feel the earth or some gay shit

>>96910372
Other than your pic, I don't recall any nude girls, and it's still very much on sale

>>96910372
Smooch the snake lady

>>96910341
Bare feet = hippies = elves

>>96910512
Please anon, don't do this to me. You'll make me post something.

>>96910341
Is it the GW paintjob making them look like hobbits or are their feet really just that big?

>>96909281
>you probably would have likewise favoured wood elves over high elves for their treemen.
Shit you got me there.

Idoneth

>>96911217
this shit legit looks like a lego box

>>96911217
I've never seen a single Conquest model that interests me beyond a base level of shrugging indifferently.

>>96911345
I've seen parts of conquest models that look cool, but never a whole model

>>96911439
some of the dinos are decent. could not give two shits about the guys on them. also going with feathers on the t-rex was a massive L

>>96911217
Those must be one of the ugliest jellyfish or squid miniatures ever.

>>96911217
This whole picture of a box feels AI generated

>>96910634
They are quite big because you need a solid contact point to make the mini a bit sturdier. You'll notice krethusa's feet are more normal sized cause she's got a bunch of other shit to attach to.
Oh and also on the blade lady one of the folds of her skirt is actually obscuring her left (our right) leg a bit, making her foot look even more oversized lmao

>>96911709
I don’t even think they’re notably large compared to any other model’s feed, heroic scale emphasizes head/hands/feet in size, i guess wearing shoes just covers it normally?

Are monument hobbies brushes worth the investment or should I stick with my cheap dollar store brushes?
Also does anyone have any lamp recommendations for painting?

>>96911777
Can't comment on monument hobbies but I switched from dollar store to Opus and it's been a life changer.

>>96911783
>$100 for 4 brushes
M-maybe when im painting something like lumineth, and not something chaos related...

>>96911777
100pack aliexpress synthetics my beloved

>>96906621
>with getting bones for Nagash
where does this come from?
as far as I remember from reading battle tomes, they use all of their bones for themselves. to construct bigger armies and to build their fortresses. this, of course, serves nagash vision of creating a necrotopia.

>>96909912
>And ToW is just a chink power fantasy setting now
which is based

>>96911894
it could have been, but the form it was executed makes it unappealing, to say the least.

>>96911904
Aren't they getting more shit friday? Maybe that'll help them out. Wfg will be a shithole for the next two weeks again though.

>>96911910
eh I mean philosophically, its a powerwank thats just very...very still. Think of something like a shounen anime, like dragon ball or something. Cathay is a spiritual goku or somehting along that line. I dont know how to really communicate this, lore wise they're just going to be stagnant tsunamis, partially because of the whole culture sensitive team, the entire ground work for it, and the direction tow is in. Also they dont have the balls to attempt to truly understand xianxia/wuxia kino.
It is simply not in its way.
>Aren't they getting more shit friday? Maybe that'll help them out.
well yeah, board might be shit for a day or two because of it as well. wonder what will get memed on beyond the balloon spam.

>>96911925
Can you give me a more concrete example of chinese powerwank?

>>96911939
...The literal powerscaling wetdreams that are the dragon primarchs?
nehekharans being taught how to use a stirup by cathay? Dwarves having inferior gunpowder to cathay? The entire attitude cathay had for the empire before the meeting with sigmar? There's some elf shit too but I it left too bad of a taste on my mind to even bother embedding it to my synapses.

oh, and some shit with old ones also being inferior to them too, I guess theres that. Nagash somehow scaring them is funny though, ill give gw that much.

>>96911965
The chinese fear his kemetic sorcery

>>96911960
>There's some elf shit too
that is the most based part though.
shitting on elves is always welcome

>>96911939
Aen't their dragons dudes now the strongest magic users in the setting, compleatly out of nowhere?

>>96912034
no, neither ingame nor in lore

>>96912034
Surely the toads still have them beat on that?
Speaking of, have there been any indications as to what the future holds for seraphon? They got a big wave in 3rd so probably nothing major, but they're missing their spells right?

>>96912058
yeah probably a kroxigor or some bruiser type character and then spells. Something on par with a idk release.

>>96912059
I'd like that, a kroxigor character could be fun. Is that an actual rumour or just fun speculation?

>>96912072
Just speculation. Can’t really think of a hero type that wouldn’t be redundant beyond that.

>>96911777
I bought one of those cheap Ikea desk lamps that attach to your desk thinking itd be a crappy one that I can use until I find something better but honestly I really love it and Im not looking to replace it. It folds down nice and low and can sit up very high and you can pull it straight off the attachment point if you need it out of the way quickly without having to unscrew the whole thing.

>>96912088
I guess they could redo some of the older heroes, the oldblood on foot noticeably comes with a fancy sculpted square base, it's also stylistically much more like the old saurus instead of the new. The skink starpriest too is quite old but that one holds up without any issues in the current range.

>>96912091
Before I forget though they have their bullshit proprietary lightbulbs so do t forget to buy a pack of them with it if you go to try it out. Still about a quarter of the price of the alternatives I was looking at if not more.

>>96908791
I kind of feel like swifthawk are the most likely aelf to come back to cities, just like ironweld seem like the most likely place for disposessed

>>96910341
the warhammer quest one is not an elf

direct contact of the feet on the ground is a sign of oneness with the world and nature, for the lumineth model it was so explicit in the design interview that they also made her direct opposite: someone who wears tall shoes specifically to distance himself from the ground

it's like electrical grounding/isolation, but for life/geomantic magic

>>96912208
Do we know she’s not an aelf for sure? Her ears look kind of pointy and they emphasize she’s old as hell

>>96912236
Her ears only "look pointy" if you're dumb enough to not understand that hair is covering them, and she only needs to be a century or two old, which aqua ghyranis perfectly allows, especially for a water mage

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/hcnpn7ys/helsmiths-of-hashut-burst-into-warcry-alongside-a-new-matched-play-update/
huh. they're even letting the mech in for warcry.

>>96912279
Well would you look at that
Also damn the mech is like 3 times the size of other units lol and I thought the aggradon were a tad large for this game

>>96912279
him being 300 points makes him quite the investment. A dominator engine would need to kill at least 1 guy each turn so it isnt useless.

>>96912251
It's speculation either way. She's older than the Duardin and we can't see the ears.

>>96911939
Cathay is lead by actualised gods.
The protagonists of the setting don't even have an emperor.

>>96912010
>shitting on elves is always welcome
Jokes on you, all that shitting is actually seethe because the chinks are assmad elves buckbroke their dragons.

>>96908726
This is solid!
Bruh the hugbox shit here is reddit-tier, you have nothing to worry about man

>>96912529
You're in denial

>>96912538
>elven dragons come from cathay
seriously? whf fags can never complain enough stormcast again

>>96912550
>seriously?
that's not what he said

eastern and western dragons are different breeds of dragons, it's just that the eastern dragons are resentful and repulsed by the fact the high elves enslaved dragons on the other side of the world
as well as dwarfs murdering a lot of them on their territories

>>96911217
>>96911345
I do like their take on elves and I wish sylvies were more like this instead of all of them being half-tree. Don't get me wrong, tree exoskeletons are very cool, but they're insanely impractical to use outside of battle, and, as far as I can judge, they can't actually take them off. The worldbuilding kind of goes down the toilet when your dudes obviously can't function in peacetime.

Flower Knight still remains the best elf mini ever made. God he's so fucking cool.

>>96912626
are you new to the idea that dryads shapeshift?

>>96912630
>elf mini
>full set of armour
Bit cheating innit

>>96912630
Those ears are part of the helmet

>>96912636
all best elf minis have 0% elf

>>96912635
Show me proof that they shapeshift.

>>96912636
With helmet on or off, elves still look identical to humans, to the point where many people insist that the new water bitch is a human. What makes an elf elven is his equipment, pose and surroundings.

>>96912670
how new are you?

>>96912653
Got my ass there desu

>>96912681
>>96912689
>grogshit
lol
AoS dryads are something completely different. They recycled the models, but they're really a semi-sentient and almost animalistic servant caste now.

>>96912734
>AoS dryads are something completely different
No, they aren't.

>>96912734
>almost animalistic
they were always that, they were fey

>>96912760
Yes they are. Please read the lore.

>>96912774
OG dryads were what spite revs are now.

>>96912816
You're not even REMOTELY correct.

>>96912208
>her
Seriously nigga.
SERIOUSLY.

>>96912828
Are you going to argue the model in the middle is not a woman?>>96910341

>>96912547
Take another look at >>96910341
For the first two models, the ears are equally obscured. I sincerely hope you won't argue that they aren't elves, though I'm not sure at this point. The key point that no one has brought up is that the new roster lacks elves entirely otherwise, and this just can't be.

>>96912836
...how does that model come into question at all? Gas all argumentative faggots.

Never mind, I'm retarded and misread.

>>96912845
>the new roster lacks elves entirely otherwise
there's the kurnothi/idoneth archer
>one is not enough!
cursed city had one and was enough

this is not an elf, it doesn't have elven features, it doesn't have elven designs, it doesn't have elven fluff

I just think Nighthaunt look cool.

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>96906015
I'm not opposed to the idea of ichthyocentaurs at all (Jesus, what fucked up spelling), but I hate your shop. This >>96906774 looks much better. It should have a horse's front and a fish tail, making it a fully imaginary monster makes it less appealing.

>>96912863
>it doesn't have elven features
"Elven features" do not exist.
>it doesn't have elven designs
It does.
>it doesn't have elven fluff
Being a priestess of Alarielle is not elven? Okay

>>96912854
?? Anon

>>96912888
I already apologised...

>>96912878
Hippocampi do exist canonically, hammerhal ghyra has one on its fancy coat of arms. I guess it could be the base of an ichthyocentaur, although it has fins instead of hooves. Still obviously equine though.
>>96912884
>Being a priestess of Alarielle is not elven
Nta but in aos no not necessarily. She's the godess of life, of an entire realm, it's not exactly niche

>>96912626
They are literally Sylvaneth with worse models. Just look at this:
>seekers
>gossamids x2
>kurnoths
>gossamid hero (looks like a regular dude)
I remember when Conquest offered something fresh that was not seen in Warhammer. Guess proxies sell better.

>>96912538
those are lesser dragons.

>>96911478
At least it's not the pig disgusting morbidly obese nu-Rex.

>>96912929
>Treemen
>Elves with bows
Wow, GW should sue they're definitely ripping off their 100% original ideas

>>96912986
We both know that if something looks like GW's models, in this business it means that it's going to be used primarily as proxies for GW models.

>>96912681
>>96912689
Dryads are often presented as an interface between human and Sylvaneth, because Tree Revs don't speak, and it's never been as anything but their given tree form.
WHF fluff doesn't carry over by default, especially if it's only ever contradicted in the fluff. i.e. you can't just expect Orc spores to carry over as a concept if they're never referenced. There's nothing like spore trackers or infestations after a battle with Orruks or Grots.

>>96912903
I know, just couldn't resist taking a shot atcha

>>96912997
Conquest is like 40mm scale you retard

Here's my Freeguild cavaliers proxy

>>96913017
>Tree Revs don't speak
wut

>>96913042
Tree Revenants do not do not speak. They show up as silent warriors in our, like the RGW novels. Dryads and Treelords speak
Saurus don't either

>>96913057
Admittedly this is not GW's own codex, but they very much do speak in Soulbound and GW supervisors wouldn't such let an egregious lore mistake pass through.

>>96913036
It looks like it's 4 times the size of freeguild cavaliers

>>96913067
>GW supervisors
The ones incorporating fanmade wiki shit into canon?

>>96913074
We both know that if something looks like GW's models, in this business it means that it's going to be used primarily as proxies for GW models.

>>96913067
I have 0 stake in this discussion but that sounds like exactly the sort of fuckup gw would be guilty of

>>96913079
Like what?

>>96913025
I found this out the hard way buying some of their dwarfs to run as Fyreslayers/Dispossessed lmao

>>96913109
We already know AoS' setting bible relies on lexicanum too, that former employee who has a youtube channel said as much

>>96913017
>it's never been as anything but their given tree form.
fantasy dryads didn't get different models either
>WHF fluff doesn't carry over by default
it does
>especially if it's only ever contradicted in the fluff
it isn't contradicted here
>i.e. you can't just expect Orc spores to carry over as a concept if they're never referenced.
orc spores did carry over as a concept and did get referenced as well
specifically because the concept carries over

>>96912929
Conquest mostly follows the stale FB trend of turning real cultures into fantasy counterparts, only the cultures it plays with tend to be more interesting. Also, it has more than one brand of elves, its take on Lumineth is much more interesting.

>>96913126
Dryads in LITERATURE never appear as anything but their given form

>>96913118
Is this supposed to be a bad thing? Lexicanum is basically a collection of direct quotes from GW's own books. The fans merely preliminarily did the job the GW's writers would have to do either way, with mostly likely the same results.

>>96913118
To be honest, this Remas guy sounds like an idiot. He drew attention to this issue and now the fan-made content may get removed or downplayed because of him, or, at the very least, never used again. It would've been 100% safe if only he had enough brain cells functioning to keep it hush-hush.

>>96913161
The problem isn't GW being made aware but that they had to be

>>96913181
Oh I'm sure they were well aware, but now that the cat is out of the bag they'll have to stop.

>>96913126
Orc spores didn't carry over, but it's true dead Orruks spawn yoofs so it's similar. Orc Spores were different, with spore trackers and a general infestation from Orcs dead or living. There's nothing like that in AoS, but tbf fecal graffiti only appeared in Stormvault so it's not impossible they'd bring it back - but they haven't yet.

>>96913191
You're delusional. GW were clueless

>>96912670
>A Sylvaneth’s bark acts as armoured skin, beneath which is a heartwood core. The bark can vary wildly in colour and pattern, and may be further adjusted by the immediacy of its needs, becoming thicker when fighting or lighter when on the run. Sylvaneth often
encourage plants to grow on their bodies,
adorning themselves in crowns of living
flowers or mantles of lush vines. Many grow
manes of twigs on their heads that resemble hair, or jagged branches that act as horns or antlers. The visage of a Sylvaneth is shaped by
the knots and hollows in their heads, with fey
lights glowing from the pits of their eyes. A
Sylvaneth’s face does not typically change with
age, but instead remains locked in whichever expression the Sylvaneth consciously adopts.

>>96913128
>its take on Lumineth
They're more like their take on fall-time-eldar gone fantasy
since they're literally an interstellar civilisation fleeing a catastrophe with covens of flesh weavers and combat artists in the pursuit of sensations

>>96913288
I was about to say they feel quite scifi to me. Might just be conquest's weird style though

>>96913067
I don't recall the source but I've read stories with Stormcast fighting alongside Revenants as silent warriors and The Resolute and From the Deep, which have Tree Rev protagonists, they only communicate with thoughts as a stort of hivemind.
I've never read anything of them speaking.

>>96913277
Which part of that suggests they shapeshift? There's no instance of them appearing as women in AoS and even the lady of vines was presented as more feminine in form than the average dryad but unmistakably made of rough bark with an inhuman face?

>>96913328
theres no instance of them saying they cannot shapeshift so any human female could be a dryad in disguise just unstated
read between the lines

>>96913288
>>96913320
They are very, very clearly copied from the Alchemists of Dirz from an ancient French game called Confrontation. For fuck's sake, they didn't just steal the design, they even copied the very nomenclature. Them being elves is neither here nor there.

>>96913349
Curious
It also doesn't say I never fucked your mum

>orders from LGS usually take 2-4 days to get shippes
>9 days with no word
I wouldn't care if I didn't have an event coming up. They haven't let me down yet but when is it good to start bugging them about the order?

Wish I could take blood knights and bladegheists and morbheg knights in the same army

>>96913365
confrontation invented body horror, it's true

>>96913328
>can vary wildly
>and may be further adjusted by the immediacy of its needs, becoming thicker when fighting or lighter when on the run
>remains in whichever [form] the Sylvaneth consciously adopts
you were worried about the treesuits being impractical, they can arbitrarily make them plastic enough to be practical

>>96913381
Play GA Death?

>>96913365
I don't see the similarity, especially when those are taking from dark eldar as well

>>96913385
now post any source for them appearing any differently from the default

>>96913381
blood knights as blood knights
morbheg knights as vargheists
bladegheists as guards or askurgans

>>96912956
Nuh-uh, the eastern ones are wingless half-dragon noodles whose mom is probably a tzeenchian shapeshifter, western ones are the only real dragons.

Why are armies like Fyreslayers, Sylvaneth, and Gloomspite Gitz being expanded on to more closely resemble their WHFB counterparts? What was the point of dumping wolf riders if they were just gonna be replaced by even more wolf riders? Why make a whole army of slayers and put the old dwarfs in a separate army, then kill off the dwarfs in that separate army and reboot the slayer army as a unified dwarf army?

>>96913469
Rippa Snarlfag was added half a decade ago and Sylvaneth are getting Centigors and Ungors

>>96913469
I won't pretend to know, but fuck me if ten years of thunderous bitching from grogtards didn't play any role.

>>96913469
GW usually squats things before a replacement comes. Greenskinz -> Kruleboyz, City Helves -> Lumineth, Wanderers -> Kurnothi
It's always been a fantasy wankerst though OMG TECLIS IS BACK! I HOPE ORION RETURNS NEXT!

>>96912626
They're not exoskeletons. The trees are naked.

>>96913404
>Savage Maiden is a God-Sylvaneth. She died in the arms of Hamilcar Bear-Eater during the Age of Sigmar.
>Despite her death her followers, like Barrach, use her power to shapeshift into something that looks like a mix of a Sylvaneth and a Bonesplitter Orruk. Their transformation grants them iron hard plates of bark, claw-like fingernails, barky protrusions from their chests and are capable of emitting a woody growl.
>Hamilcar suspects their power comes from within their followers, rather than from the deceased divinity.


>Bramble-Maiden is an ancient Sylvaneth, a branchwraith handmaiden to Alarielle.
>Appearance
>She is beautiful in her own way, but definitely not human with her form partially hidden beneath layers of creepers and cobwebs. Her face is a twist of bramble and bark whose features shift constantly, for a moment resembling an attractive woman’s and the next moment something much more frightening.

>>96913057
>novels
Will you stop being stupid if I find an instance of a tree-revenant speaking in a novel?

>>96913495
wanderers got removed far ahead of any kurnothi and greenskins are likewise not related to kruleboys any more than they're related to ironjaws

>>96913486
>Sylvaneth are getting Centigors and Ungors
They should steal Conquest's bugfolk instead.

>>96913495
>Wanderers -> Kurnothi
Living City was unalived for this.

>>96913469
>AoS is different to WHF, Aelves, Humans and Duardin all fight together
>10 years later: Actually stroke that, it's WHF

>>96913530
They already ride bugs as horses, bugfolk would make things weird

>>96913511
Novels don't count but Soulbound does? Any example of them talking outside of Soulbound works

>>96913543
it's not any weirder than having both trees and treemen

>>96913551
Okay cool here's one speaking in The Resolute published all the way back in 2016

>>96913552
Last time i checked they don't ride on trees.
It's like a group of friends where only 1 can speak foreign language

>>96913562
Fair fair my bad

>>96913543
Stormcast have their sapient dragonpals and have no problem riding those around.

>>96913543
Spites are sentient and independent of Sylvaneth, helping out for shared goals

>>96913543
It's already a fact that the bugs have some manner of culture of their own since they have a king who can command them to do stuff per his alliance with Alarielle.

>>96913577
But dragons aren't riding dragons

>shitmob get 6 kits
we could've gotten so many Moonclan units...

>>96913606
having both moon goblins and sun goblins is good, the growing pains won't be, but the final result will be worth it

>>96912626
FUCK NO.

>>96913596
nobody is talking about bugs riding bugs
just bugs who are friends as mounts and bugs who are friends as humanoid allies

>>96913615
I don't think the wolves were worth it.

>>96913606
>Moonclan units
Like what

>>96913469
Short answer is that GW is retarded, and a company only kept afloat by its strong IPs that were made by people that were massively more talented than the current people working there.
More detailed answer is
>fyreslayers
They suffered hard from early cartoon AOS syndrome similar to stormcast and early khorne minis ,peoplealso disliked the no pants thing, everyone loves the fluff of the army and some of the art is cool as hell.
gw also doesn't know how to expand them either and so they were stuck in a downward spiral of having all this cool fluff bit minis people didn't like
>sylvaneth
James probably expanded the wood site of the army to a level they are satisfied with and now are looking to capture more people with something new
>gitz
They have no place to put wolves anywhere else because gw made the retarded decision to separated orcs and goblins instead of making gork/mork books so you can to thematically amd visually fitting armies.

>>96913469
Only one of those is going back to its "whfb roots" and it's notoriously aos' worst selling army

>>96913638
mad loon divers/squig fling
squig gobba/spewer squig
squigglycrawlies riders
smegmapede bugger

>>96913638
Smegmapede cavalry
New Stabbas/Shootas
Squig Gobba
Bat Squigs
Fungal critters
Armoured Stabbas
Troggoth Hag
Skraggrot's Troggoth Bodyguards
New spider riders
Snazzgar's Spore ghost
Nasty Skulkers
Age of Reckoning style hunters with squigs

>>96913638
for me it's the Stinkhorn

>>96913707
>squig gobba/spewer squig
disregard the gobba and make one kit for a gigantic squig with various options

>normal gigantic cave squig (optional rider within its mouth)
>mutant multifaced cave squig (explodes into normal squigs on death)
>bloated spore farting squig (option for small wings to fly as well)
>giant spiky squig (option for porcupine or rhino build)

>>96913835
god willing TOW will get such

>>96913606
It still hurts and all knot takes need to die
>>96913615
Not really, it bloated a faction that already had to good cavalry option in squigs and spiders and added another cavalry army on top.
They also stole valuable release slots and quite possibly killed spiderfang.
>>96913638
>like what
While not everything is moon moonclan
>heavy armor grots
>new moonclan themed nasty skulkers
>artillery (squig gobba, puffshroom catapult etc)
>Troggoth hag so a pure troggoth army with magic is possible
>new spider units

>>96913835
>disregard the gobba
no

>>96913863
>it getting anything other than human shit

Saturday can't come soon enough

>>96913981
Oh I thought it would be on Friday.
Im guessing the christmas boxes are this sunday?

>>96913647
>early cartoon AOS syndrome
We need to go back.

>>96913989
Saturday for the third world

>>96913647
>They suffered hard from early cartoon AOS syndrome similar to stormcast and early khorne minis

I'll be honest, I used to dislike some of the crazier designs but they've grown on me. The stormcast could have probably used less keychains covering them but some of the khorne stuff is actually pretty sick.

Fyreslayers I think needed more time in the oven and kilts.

>>96914016
Will this be worth fucking up my sleep schedule for?

>>96914056
This is like the only good thing about khorne from 1e. ignroing demons, blood warriors and mortal crushers are workable. I fucking HATE the fleshhound necks the reavers have, and they were so clearly designed for squares. I like the concept of the skullreapers but the poses and mutations aren't all that either.
oh and I never really liked their art until maybe say 3e.

>>96914064
Nah, watching it live is an exercise in suffering and half the time the hosts spout misinformation for AoS anyway

>>96914081
skullreapers and wrathmongers were both End Times tbf, Wrathmongers are 200% better than Skullreapers though I'll agree with you there. And yeah the reavers are pretty goofy, the push fit ones look leaps and bounds better than the other box of em.

>>96914064
It's gonna be the last big preview of the year and by all accounts show a lot of stuff. That said, unless you really value the experience of shared hype you can always just wake up and watch it after the fact. (Personally I got work at that time, so I'm stuck)

>>96914098
tbf last year they showed off shitmob

Seeing what people want from a gws tabletop games are always fucking mind boggling. when people suggest x system I always see something thats lacking that has a hole in it. I have to wonder if games are made to be flawed intentionally.
NO DESIGNING A GAME AROUND DICE IS NOT INTENTIONAL THWARTED GAME DESIGN

>>96914127
I just want more flavor stuff and fun effects that don't require a roll off. They added some cool stuff with the soggy units and some neat stuff is showing up in the new army books (presumably to help make up for the older army books sucking fat cock)

I'm sick of all the fucking stipulations and bullshit to have something as simple as "deal d3 damage", like holy fuck give me anything else to do or work towards.

>>96914127
that's so vague it reads like you've been arguing all along with your schizophrenic other self

>>96914098
We'll see I guess. Last time was pretty fun.

>>96914064
I'm gonna be watching it, I'm just excited to see what quest and nurgle stuff get shown off. I really wanna see that giant festus model since I feel like that's gonna be the time they show it off.

>>96914123
Most people were hype for Gitmob until the insane model prices and shit rules got rolled out.

>>96905334
Realms of Ruin was pretty good. Just don't expect a Warcraft style RTS, it's closer to Total War in terms of fighting.
Also wins the price for most digusting unit-sound effect I've ever heard.

>>96905867
Wasn't Cursed City kind of bad, gameplay wise? Why are you all excited?

>>96914426
it's not cursed city?

>>96914426
Cursed city was alright. But regardless, people are more interested in the models. In the same way cursed city was basically a soulblight start collecting, this will be mostly a source of maggotkin.

>>96914426
I only played Silvar tower and Shadwos over hammerhall, but i only heard good things about Cursed city (tho, i do hate the custom dice), Cursed city had issues with availability

>>96914426
Cursed City was bad in ways mostly related to the specific gimmick rules it added, whatever Darkwater does it's not going to be a carbon copy of Cursed City. Most GW Quest games are at least decently playable, and absolutely stuffed with cool models.

>>96914426
Darkwater uses D6s and one unique success/fail D6

Did we ever find out why GW was selling boxes of Saurus Warriors but labelled the box as Saurus Guard? Do you think GW is renaming Saurus Warriors to Saurus Guard and Saurus Guard to like Spawn of Quetzl?

>>96914643
who cares why a box in vietnam got mistranslated

>>96914643
It was odd because iirc that guy posted the back of the model and it just said saurus warriors like normal. Feels like a real weird issue to slip through either way though.

>>96914643
It was a mistake on some batch of cardboard sent to Asia, nobody cares anymore

>>96914672
It wasn't just in Vietnam, it was in other countries too. They're also made in the UK. While it is likely a mistake in the packaging.

>>96914696
Yeah it's an odd mistake to make, especially when it's not like the box changed. If you believe the rumours, GW is trying to change the models from legacy factions into something different. Which is why Seraphon have metal shields, while Lizardmen have scale shields (and obviously look better in general, though I prefer scale shields) and have become more 'astral' compared to Lizardmen. It's why Ogres are going to become grugs. It's why there are Mork orcs and why skaven have become more mad scientist and vampires have become less wolves in sheep clothing and more outwardly bestial.

So I was wondering if GW was going to call Saurus Warriors 'Saurus Guard' because in WHFB there is no unit called Saurus Guard, this will allow GW to allow Lizardmen back into TOW and sell the old Saurus Warriors as Saurus Warriors and the current Saurus Guard as Temple Guard. Then a new unit can come out to replace the old (and bad) Saurus Guard and they can call it something like Spawn of Quetzl. This will allow a visual separation and, as the rumours claim, allow GW to bring legacy factions into TOW without stepping too much visually on the AoS versions.

But who knows. It's really odd that kit wasn't updated it looks so fucking out of place. It's like GW releasing Crowe for GK and now he looks fucking retarded with GK because GK are really small compared to him.

>>96914706
Apparently it was in the Netherlands too. Seems an odd mistake to make.

>>96914733
Some guy writing the FAQ swaped names of two Nighthaunt units (which made some absurdly broken lists legal for a few hours), so another dude in charge of graphic desing writing the wrong saurus unit name and realising too late isn't that strange

>>96914733
meh. who cares about a box fuck up.

>>96914733
Yeah that's the assumed reasoning yeah, tow gets saurus warriors and temple guard, aos gets saurus guard (=warriors) and 'wardens of quetzl' (=guard). Fits the nu-seraphon naming scheme too, hunters of huanchi, spawn of chotec, etc

>>96914733
Stop talking about this. No one cares. Continue to buy Saurus Guard, GW aren't going to squat them. Trust me. Now let's put this to rest

>Blightkings still OOP
The new Blightkings totally just meant the Darkwater guys... Right?

>>96914787
What are you talking about? They’re still on the store. They keep getting restocked.

>>96914787
they're 'temporarily out of stock' instead of 'sold out online' so hopefully they'll stay, anyway
>>96914790
>>96914790
new thread

>>96914643
The Knight Armiger Set box I bought lists the types of Armigers backwards on the back of the box

>>96912431
It should be able to clear 100 point chaff reasonably well without any buffs. Without looking at other rules, once you add onslaught, 5 S8 3/6 attacks should be doing about 12-15 damage per attack.