File: E7bE7lZWQAUneRl.jpg (48.3 KB)

48.3 KB JPG

>TQ
After recent MtG debcles i am an expert in stupid animl ninjas: Yes, the concept isn't tht deep

TQ, for something like skaven, where several different clans provide specific niches to a cohesive and varied whole it makes sense to keep it as is. It doesn't matter that eshin are one note when you also have moulder and skryre, etc. The problem is factions that consist exclusively of what used to be a niche facet in old armies.
The worst example is probably fireslayers. Slayers were my favourite unit in whfb, but a whole army consisting of mostly slayers doesn't work for me. Standing next to other stoic, armoured dwarfs was part of why the slayer concept worked.
I kind of feel the same about witch elves. We don't have a dark elf faction where the witches are a contrast. DoK were (almost) a faction made exclusively from unclothed witches and monster girls, but I'd argue the whole witch concept works better as a part of a varied army (like in dark elves). Where ironically the new hags don't really work for me since they are neither naked enough to match the witches, nor armored enough to provide a contrast. The witches would look better if they stood next to fully armoured spearmen, along with hags that looked more like the witches.

File: 1747279537935506.jpg (3.8 MB)

3.8 MB JPG

>no Khinerai heroine exists
>anvil of apotheosis just lets you make a Khinerai heroine anyways
This is new.

File: Cities_of_Sigmar_vs_Maggotkin_01.jpg (577.5 KB)

577.5 KB JPG

I'm gonna proxxy some sloven knights.
I was originally going to print chaos knights and just paint them green, but plague toad riders would take much less time to paint I think.
The problem is that plague toad riders are pretty stocky and wide so I'm worried they won't fit on the base without being weirdly out of proportion....

File: IMG_1482.jpg (829.2 KB)

829.2 KB JPG

How’s this guy look? I think I should paint the maggots on the bottom severed head at least before I varnish it. The washes are all very glossy so it looks weird against the matte acrylic paints.

I also tried using the AP rust effect and idk really what I’m doing but it’s just a basic troop so whatevs senpai. Took my like 4-5 hours to do on my day off.

File: IMG_1483.jpg (641.6 KB)

641.6 KB JPG

>>97912327
Idk what this thing is supposed to be coming out of his behind.
I think the character’s name is “Prolapsius” or something

>>97912226
>tq
Eshin is fine as a relatively niche concept because they exist in tandem with all the other skaven clans. They don't need samurai or whatever bevause that's what your clanrats or stormvermin are for.
For daughters of khaine, fyreslayers, etc. you do kind of have to broaden the concept though. DoK kind of did that by adding the monster girl angle, though it is still a very small range. Fyreslayers will go the other route and make them a subfaction again, which is probably for the best. DoK might follow in their footsteps too once umbraneth drop, though I think DoK have more legs to be their own faction if they wanted to.
I think gloomspite are the best outcome of the "subfactions turned into their own thing" factions, because they succesfully integrated the existing night goblin theme (+squigs) with the trolls and spiders. It's got good variation, everything is tied together themstically (or was, until gitmob) and they expanded on each of the constituent subfactions (for example, bounders as "elite" squig hoppers, dankholds as troggoth heroes, that kind of stuff)
Tldr depends on what you wanna do with them I guess. Subfactions can stay narrow, but if you wanna turn them into standalone factions you gotta broaden their scope a bit. Which gw has tried to varying degrees, with varying success.

File: opera_ohRRbfEu4T.png (187.2 KB)

187.2 KB PNG

repostin' the list of stuff i am missing from last thread slightly updated:

Rulebooks:
War at Amberstone Watch
Spearhead Jade & Fire
Spearhead Sand & Bone
General’s Handbook 2022-23 season 2
General’s Handbook 2023-24
General’s Handbook 2024-25
General’s Handbook 2025-26

Short Stories:
This Rough Beast
Vipers of the Marsh
Reclaimed Honour
Conn Crowhand's Last Oath
Slinktalon
A Point of Pride
Shallow Pockets, Deep Waters
Doomwheel
Scales of Victory

Warhammer Quest:
Cursed City Nightwars
Cursed City Nemesis

WD:
White Dwarf 75 (June 4th 2015) – White Dwarf 131 (July 30th 2016)
White Dwarf 520+

Audio:
Guns of the Black Eagle
Hallowed Knights: The Denied
The Imprecations of Daemons

Soulbound:
Ruins of the Past

i am willing to share stuff i have in exchange

>>97912226
subfactions are fine to be part of the larger army as long as there is a reason why certain units aren't exclusive to one subfaction. Like eshin can get hired by other clans, that is fine. But i cant really picture Scâthborn next to Krethusa.

>>97912345
>>97912327
If you get some tonal shifts on the armour so its less flat this'll be a perfectly good tabletop standard piece.

One that you can be proud of and that your opponent will think "god its so nice to play against someone that put effort into his army"

>>97912423
>But i cant really picture Scâthborn next to Krethusa.
That's one of the problems of that faction's fluff, it's way too centralised on morathi to the point the scathborn have less individual agency than a demon of a god, if once created they were allowed to have their own doubts and make their own choices of allegiance then we would have interesting stuff, like scathborn fleeing to khorne or slaanesh or ones that disown morathi in favour of the original khaine, after appropriate crisis of faith.

I hope the shift to the last world and the incorporating of khainites into umbraneth comes with a big loss of influence for morathi so we can have such a schism and scattering of various subgroups of scathborn.

File: nurglechaoswarrior1.png (1.4 MB)

1.4 MB PNG

>>97912439
i can do that. do you have a suggestion? I pretty much used a dark green then a wash then the same dark green and another slightly yellow dark green.

>>97912462
i think krethusa just needs a way to make her own scâthborn or have morathi's control over some of them break.

>>97912476
Given how she's basically carrying the torch of morai-heg, her being able to make the scathborn see through all the mind control bullshit would probably sork best, thematically

Has somebody a pdf of the new DoK codex?

>>97912301
The footprint of the plague toads is roughly circular, so they will be out of proportion on an oval base. On the plus side they should fit on the 75x42 since they used to be squeezed onto 40x40. Maybe orient them "sideways", to empasize their width. Or add some flavourful basing on either flank.

File: Kurnothi.jpg (126.3 KB)

126.3 KB JPG

WHEN?!

>>97912544
>all the kurnothi kurnothi models are from sidegames
Why is that anyway

File: Image2.jpg (35.7 KB)

35.7 KB JPG

>>97912559

>The Last World

File: IMG_3262.png (539.8 KB)

539.8 KB PNG

>>97912559
Same reason why eshin were teased through underworlds

>>97912561
You know what I mean

>>97912301
Make the frogs extra fat and put them sideways on tbe base

>>97912559
Because underworlds has been used to sell a number of test sculpts for new hires as well as prototypes for new waves of models.

>>97912301
I don't think a slightly wider base would break or affect the game

File: images.jpg (47.1 KB)

47.1 KB JPG

>>97912226
>TQ
I think if i clan deserves an expansion is Pestilens, Eshin are fine as ninjas and only ninjas and it's not deep enough to become anything else.

>>97912559
No one cares about Kurnoth enough to make anything else.

>>97912283
Yeah they were part of the sand and bone wave + they got a new SH with their tome release too. Most factions have at least 2 spearheads right now, hell cities have 4. I think only fyreslayers, slaanesh and sons of behemat are stuck at one. I do wonder if they'll do anything new with the latter though.

File: gallagher steed.png (371.8 KB)

371.8 KB PNG

>>97912226
piggybacking off of the TG, are there any subfactions you wish GW explored more? Personally I'd like to see some more ironweld arsenal stuff, currently it's only really the cannon and soon the cogfort. We were talking about CoS' pseudo renaissance/hussite aesthetic they've got going on last thread, I think some more warmachines from that period or pseudo-automata (actual ones not whfb robo-horses) could be swell, as well as maybe an engineer type character maybe even some dwarfs

>>97912327
slap some more washes on it, it isn't glossy and messy enough yet

File: 1736869434545439.jpg (217.9 KB)

217.9 KB JPG

>>97912725
exploring more in what terms? models, novels or just general background? Crematorians for all three of those

Are the eshin rats going to remain locked inside the spearhead box or will they sell them as normal units?

>>97912463
thin your paints holy shit this looks like you melted it

>>97912735
New units never stay locked in spearhead boxes.

File: brute1.png (1.1 MB)

1.1 MB PNG

>>97912740
I printed the body and sword arm. Everything but the head and axe comes from a resin printed scan of a chaos warrior. that's probably why it looks a bit chonky.

>>97912732
models, mostly
>>97912735
the spearhead box is a fomo release, they'll be out on their own eventually
>>97912748
technically isn't this the first time *new* models have been locked to a spearhead box?

>>97912748
>>97912735
yeah it's likely that they'll release each half of the box seperately for the standard msrp minus the terrain and board and cards etc.

File: 20220627_231405.png (1.4 MB)

1.4 MB PNG

>>97912760
only out of a technicality because it's the first time we have spearheads of completely new models, but it's not the first time we have a boxset with new models for two factions, such as starters, warcry and battle boxes.
If the units are designed as standalone sprues, they will get released as individual products as well in due time.

File: 1775912971336625.png (214.3 KB)

214.3 KB PNG

So I wanted to get into the game with my bro I am a bit of a poorfag at the moment (temporarily, hopefully) so the spearhead box seemed perfect with two cool factions, terrain cards etc - could play pretty quickly. But Its sold out everywhere?? I guess its fomo?
Why is this hobby dominated by fat nerds that insta buy anything games slopshop shit out (even though this looked like a good turd). Why cant chad normies poorfags like me have a piece of the turd.
Its shit!

File: 238704234.jpg (520.9 KB)

520.9 KB JPG

>>97912891
try third party sites if GW is already sold out, it might be cheaper in the end as well.

>>97912891
contact your local game stores, they may have some copies reserved for their store or can still backorder some

>>97912869
it's actually a technicality twice over because we had (and have) models locked to spearhead boxes, just not new ones. Savagers are still only available via the darkoath SH iirc.
But yes I can see these spearhead versus boxes effectively replacing the old vs box format. Doesn't 40k do something similar with their kill team starter sets?

>>97912899
go ask Grok how to drown yourself

File: 1598005835626.png (275.5 KB)

275.5 KB PNG

>>97912939
would do, but the deepkin keep putting me back on land because they dont want me :(

>>97912901
Pretty sure savagers were available separately at one point at least.

>>97912891
Check the stores near you, always a chance.
Also when fomo boxes like these instantly sell out there's a good chance they do a second run, happened with the recent chorf launch box for example.

File: IMG_3271.jpg (286.6 KB)

286.6 KB JPG

Nippon soon my niggas.

nippon died millenia ago.

>>97912958
Were they, or were they in the big Warcry box with Spiders?

>flipside gaming had like 400 copies for pre order
Wew boy
>>97912891
I would check on eBay but I would hurry because I think people are starting to get the idea of scalping it.

>>97913037
yes, they were in red harvest with the tarantulas brood. They did become available seperately later own though, but now they are limited to the spearhead darkoath.

>>97913029
You mean Sunblossom Swordvassals?

File: __original_drawn_by_vanishlily__8d68e9cd78d0cb3d631cc33a11d470d3.jpg (1.3 MB)

1.3 MB JPG

>>97913076
that's a sick name ngl

File: 2Hr6CYL.jpg (1.9 MB)

1.9 MB JPG

>>97913076
Aren't they meant to be an undead faction of some kind, according to the leaks?

>>97913115
No, leaks say nothing about them being anything more than a name, a spot on the map and one artwork.

The idea that they would be a death faction comes from a completely separate hearsay coming from a completely different person who's been told that gw was potentially exploring nippon for fantasy by giving them two rulers, a living one and an undead one, with the nation having both living people and plenty of spirits, but that's not this aos faction, it's not even something that might actually be put in a pipeline rather than left as a fancy concept experiment behind the scenes.

>>97913115
Why the fuck did they feel the need to make the Ashigaru art almost completely fuckin' naked?

>>97913076
Hanzor fiefdoms surely

File: Screenshot 2026-04-19 180910.png (205.3 KB)

205.3 KB PNG

He killed millions Skaven.

>>97913248
it'd be nice if you could buy upgrades that made the gargoyles give specific units buffs or something.

>>97913204
because the point was to have a profile for models of rice field peasants

the fact actual ashigaru may have been professional soldiers or that even that fluff text describes them as highly disciplined is completely irrelevant to the above fact, which takes precedent

>>97913248
The slayer of skryre
The pulverizer of pestilens
The massacrer of moulder
The exstinguisher of eshin

File: 7d6b00c7866a3d47de29f6d0a02d450fc910cd4e[1].jpg (75.4 KB)

75.4 KB JPG

What is the best contrast paint to for grey fur(Skaven)?

>>97913281
never painted contrast, but basilicanum grey or gryph-charger grey comes to mind.

>>97913305
Gryph-charger grey seems to have more a blue tone.
Basilicanum grey seems to me a little bit to dark. Maybe I should give Apothecary White a try.

>>97913326
either that or just use mechanicum standard grey, then shade it and drybrush it. its nearly as simple as contrast, but i think in the long term it might be better.

>>97913355
Thanks for the tip. I will try it on larger models like Rat Ogre.

For Clanrats I want to do it fast.

File: AoSTheLastWorld.jpg (114 KB)

114 KB JPG

>>97913248
>>97913270

File: ElNeh0VWkAMGLPN[1].jpg (64.6 KB)

64.6 KB JPG

>>97913464
Based.

Could someone link the 2nd ed Soulblight book?

>>97913076
>attempts to mock AoS naming conventions
>accidentally makes a cool one
Few such cases?

File: PXL_20260418_194840886.jpg (5.7 MB)

5.7 MB JPG

james really cooked with the gloomspite range

>>97912756
huh, I wouldn't have guessed but it does look a little off this close
crazy times we live in

File: 1702247315127596.jpg (873.8 KB)

873.8 KB JPG

>>97913484
/d/CO4BEQ

here is all of the army book from 2nd.

>>97913248
He keyed millions

>>97913520
They seem to be favourites of the underworlds team. They got like 6 warbands.

>>97912901
>>97912958
Savagers were sold on their own as a web exclusive, I think, so not many stores carried them.

>>97913584
i have Gingrak's Looncourt, Zabrak's gitz and Borgits beastgrabbas. I know i'm missing mologs mob but what else?

>>97913641
wolffags are gloomspite gits

>>97913527
I have no ideas what kind of link this is

>>97913655
oh, you are new around here? no problem, the link might go down sooner now though
gofile.io/d/CO4BEQ

>>97913663
Oh thanks. I expected catbox or something

are freeguild gallants on 28.5s?

>>97913641
Rippa's snarlfangs, that's all. I think stormcast have the most warbands for obvious reasons, but some others like sbgl also clock in at 5 iirc.

File: 60010299051_ENGCityofAshSpearheadGame27.jpg (68.7 KB)

68.7 KB JPG

>>97913684
Yeah
Oddly the gutter runner champion seems to be on a larger base, I guess really confirming they're warcry hand-me-downs

File: 1775909966802002.jpg (1.2 MB)

1.2 MB JPG

Anyone got a pdf of the Tzeentch book? The bird people look kinda fun.

File: IMG_20260419_204148.png (94.8 KB)

94.8 KB PNG

>>97913651
>>97913693

File: 2ee0c951-advent-rumor-engine-day-12.jpg (45.3 KB)

45.3 KB JPG

>>97913248
What do they know?

>>97913768
lel

>>97913584
AND YET
NO SPIDERS

Any more rumours or leaks about the CoS battletome?

>>97913764
Here:
https://gofile.io/d/4wvH2C

>model normally 65 bucks on ebay
>auction is 26 bucks+10 shipping
>8 minutes to win it
>some ultra fucking fucker fag snips it with 30 seconds to spare
MOTHER
FUCKER

>>97913693
what bothers me most about sbgl is how the coolest characters are limited edition models

>>97913883
GW is really annoying about that. Half King still doesn't officially exist as far as I'm aware.

>>97913832
you snooze you lose gramps

File: file.png (697.7 KB)

697.7 KB PNG

>>97913883
*screams in limited edition scalped product*

>>97913903
>Half King still doesn't officially exist as far as I'm aware.
He does in Japan, becuse that's the only regional Twitter account GW still runs

>>97913782
>shaman on spider rider sized spider
>two smaller spiders
>two or three revamped scutlings
we could have had it all...

>>97912226
>TQ
no I don't think they needed to be diluted to be expanded. Samurai rats would be a totally different concept, clan eshin is the sneaky clan and that doesn't fit with the general assasin theme. If GW decides to add or make subfactions, I'd rather they stick to the core concept of the subfaction and have more thematically similair units.

Are we still a year out from news of The Last World? I am interested in the rumours I read but I don’t want to get preemptively hyped. Someone here was saying next Adepticon we can expect a reveal?

>>97914118
dont expect anything on it until after 5th edition.

>>97914126
it would happen with 5th edition, not after

>>97914131
You're going to be very disappointed anon.

>>97914131
Oh? Do tell, since apparently you've got the inside track.

>>97914118
Like, official news? Yeah next year's adepticon would be a good bet, that's usually where they show of new editions and stuff.
>>97914135
>>97914138
Nta but all the tlw rumours are in the context of it being 5th edition, just check TGA

Guys I wanna write a short story, where can I upload it among other AOS fanfiction? I don't have a blog.

>>97913974
So glad I still have mine in the closet. One day I'll have the confidence to paint him.

>>97914172
Archive of our own, if it’s particularly lewd go look at the warhammer thread in adult cartoons.

>>97914118
It will release summer 2027, which means the first official previews will be spring 2027. A bit under a year.

But there will likely be firm rumours before that. January 2027 at the latest.

The guy suggesting TLW will come out "after" 5e has mumbly pick me schizophrenia.

>>97912226
>Do you think niche concepts like clan eshin need to be diluted in order to be expanded upon, like for example adding samurai rats to the ninja rats? Or do you want them to get expanded with very similar units instead, like the blood hags are for witch elves? Or are you ok with such factions to exist as smaller things within a larger faction?
they are already a complete subfaction

>>97914205
>mumbly pick me schizophrenia.
>mumbly
How ironic

>>97914172
whats your short story about?

>>97914205
Presumably we'll also get hints leading up to that from the end of edition narrative books

>>97914225
>I am Azyr, you're Ulgu, whatever u say flies away from me and darkens u

Stick to lying about rumours you don't have, direct confrontation is beyond your facility.

File: file.png (2.2 MB)

2.2 MB PNG

>>97914258
I want to write a short story, maybe novel length about a strategically important island (not!gebralter) Humans have ownership and allow Dwarfs and Elves to come and go. The strategic importance means it get invaded frequently by many different factions. and the alliance of order invests heavily to maintain control, almost like Cadia but for maritime vessels.
The story is told through the perspective of a Stormcast who's undercover, acting like an Inquisitor/Detective, trying to untangle a plot to sabotage the defenses of the island before a suspected invasion. Ends with a satisfying battle.

The island features many locations, a forest housing Sylvaneth, grave sites with nighthuant, Vampire Counts embedded in the aristocracy, Skaven in the sewers, an Ork Blockade, Chaos all over. The Stormcast sees everything simmering, but he knows if he calls for a regiment of stormcast to bolster the defense too soon then the enemies will simply hide under the surface and wait them out. So he instigates conflict and tries to shake out whoever has the biggest plot to take over, or scare them off.

It will basically be a witch hunter story in an imperial city but with a Stormcast instead.

>>97914319
Anon, nothing ever happens.

>>97914347
why not have a witch hunter do the investigation and then he talks to a stormcast (who is working as a commander for the city defenses)?

>>97914385
Because Stormcast are allowed to be detectives/inquisitors

>>97914468
a witch hunter would have an easier time to blend in and having interactions between the two can be used to spell stuff out easier through dialog.

>>97914494
that's fair but I enjoyed reading Watchers of the Throne and the disparity between baseline humans and transhumans. I mainly enjoy stories where space marines and Custodes converse with humans and showing that kind of contrast.
So while a human Witch Hunter is neat, Stormcast aren't space marines, they actually live among human settlements and have professions, even acting solo.

What made Valdus in Watchers of the Throne so cool was his independence, he acted on his own when he needed to. Stormcasts should be the same way.

>>97914525
sure, give it a try. and share it once you are done

i wish this game had a druid army.

sylvaneth is like halfway there, but it really doesnt have any shapeshifting or druidic mystics and spellcasters in robes apart from that one extremely terrible looking guy from dankwater

i guess i could do some proxies, but as far as i know none of the plastic model makers do good looking generic animals like wolfs and bears for shapeshifting proxies, and the gloomspite shit has too much bespoke barding, saddles and iconography to scrape off. there's some space wolf wolves but those are crazy expensive, and the soulblight dire wolfs are all rotten

>>97914545
Albion’s just about the only thing that would make me give a damn about tow, but yeah, sylvaneth is the closest thing we have to that sadly. You could probably lean into that with vyrkos…but you know. Different kind of druids altogether there.

>>97914545
>>97914564
I feel like new maggotkin are pretty druidic at times.

>>97914706
they have some vaguely pagan themed stuff, but the aesthetic is still overwhelmingly bloated rotten zombies and knights

>>97914711
>vaguely
I feel like the darkwater stuff especially is pretty explicit with it, but yeah the nurgle disease + fatso stuff you gotta take with it

File: Leonardo-sythed-chariot.jpg (379.5 KB)

379.5 KB JPG

>>97912725
Davinci bullshit might be fun yeah
I don't know if it really counts as "exploring a subfaction" but I'd like to see some more skink/kroxigor stuff. A kroxigor hero, and some skinks ones like a chief or whatever, and a refresh of the og kit would be welcome. It holds up a lot better than most from that period but it's getting up there.
Aside from that gloomspite really doesn't need much stuff but more squigs and trolls would be fun. Bring back sourbreaths.

File: warmahordes orboros.jpg (79.2 KB)

79.2 KB JPG

>>97914738
dont get me wrong i have no problem with nurgle, i have 3.5kpts of them, its just not the vibe im looking for in a druid theme

i want something like dnd/diablo 2 wildshapes, animal companions, tending to nature and speaking with animals, calling storms. sylvaneth already has the dryads, treants, and planting trees aspect i'd like, but its missing the other half

i'd love something like a less anime version of the circle orborous from warmahordes. those guys were a bit overdesigned for my taste but that was more of the type of army i'd like to see. cloaked druids wielding storm magic and animating wicker and stone constructs, werewolfs and animal companion wolfs and hounds, carved celtic runestones

>>97914823
>but its missing the other half
rootkings soon buddeh.

File: 20250610_014644_1000007295.jpg (77 KB)

77 KB JPG

>>97914545
SOON
O
O
N

>>97914823
What'd you think about the darkwater bear-retard?

>>97914855
the right idea with really bad execution. werebears, bearwalkers, skinwalkers, that kind of shit could be cool, but that model was not well designed

>>97914973
I actually really liked the were bear, but the paint job didn’t really do it any justice. The skin tone was painted orange for some reason.

>>97914989
Yeah I agree, saw some of the usual painting guys try them out in other colour schemes and he looked much, much better.

File: werebear.jpg (598 KB)

598 KB JPG

>>97914989
>>97914994
maybe it was just bad webstore photos then, i havent seen it in person, but the promo shots didnt look good, he had tiny arms and a goofy face, and one of the predominant features of a wearbear is that you usually expect these huge long muscular arms and claws and a broad upper torso. the guy in the promos just looked like he was all legs

idk, it just didnt deliver. and the aos sculptors are perfectly capable of delivering, that one just didnt have a good design from what i saw

File: 02-02.jpg (193.9 KB)

193.9 KB JPG

>>97912725
>are there any subfactions you wish GW explored more?

File: 20250610_014647_1000007365.jpg (113.6 KB)

113.6 KB JPG

>>97912725
I think i will be soon appeased with CoS scision but i really liked a lot all the lore bits and looks of that old Order of Azyr

>>97915051
>Ogor Firebellies are supplicants of the Evil Sun. It is said that the Gulping God once tried to consume the fiercest star in Azyr, so reached to pluck it from the firmament and swallow it in one bite. Nary had it landed in his abyssal maw before he violently spat it back as a fiery comet racing across the heavens. The Gulping God roared and retched, he clawed at his searing tongue, he hurled white-hot lava and sweated Everwinter. As the Firebellies tell it, the infernal star's spiciness had been too rich even for the Gulping God. Aspiring to such awesome flavor, they dedicate themselves to ever conquering new heights of scorching hotness that they may one day enter Azyr to find the wicked star, the Evil Sun, and gulp it as their god before them.

>>97915051
If you're expecting GW to give us more of the Fire Fatties, forget it. According to rumors, these fatties went extinct after throwing themselves like idiots into the volcano they worshipped as a god.

>>97915147
Based

>>97915126
God I love this guy. Witch Hunters are just the coolest shit.

>>97915126
what's his opinion on sigmar's dead?

File: image_2026-04-19_213242114.png (71.2 KB)

71.2 KB PNG

>>97915126
If you ever get your hands on this guy, pro tip: cut his head off the rest of the bit with a hobby saw and glue it on after. That color and hat will make it really hard to paint the face.

>>97915256
He's not dead, he's just out partying.

>>97915330
No, he was hurled by chaos into the far future where their evil is law. Now he fights to find a way back home.

File: creepy-smile-creepy.gif (9.1 KB)

9.1 KB GIF

>>97913812
Most based. I curse you with a fat dick as thanks.

I only have 2 things to say about the new Barrow Guard.
1.
I fucking love the kite shields. These are easily the best looking shields that has ever been pushed out with lumineths coming in at second place mayhaps.
2.
Why the fuck are they called housecarls?

File: MV5BMTc5NDA0MDQ5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDAyODI0MjE@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg (74.4 KB)

74.4 KB JPG

>>97915439
I work outta the home

File: 1774692085233903.png (189.3 KB)

189.3 KB PNG

>>97912279
>>97912248
I love DoK so much

>>97915394
There's nothing to worry about, he'll return. Until then, the Celestant Prime, the first Stormcast, will take his place as regent of Azyr. By the way, he is Karl Franz.

File: _Sslyth.jpg (122.1 KB)

122.1 KB JPG

Boyz, I have a question: what units, races, or factions from 40k could we see appear in AoS? For me, a more primitive version of the Sslyth could definitely appear as a Dok unit.

>>97915616
Literally any of them

>>97915616
doombulls could be cool if silent ones ever become a thing. or whatever that insect looking thing from black talon is called. zoats are pretty much in every setting at this point I think.

>>97915323
I painted mine on the sprue and glued it together after. Worked out well.

>>97915126
I hate that there's like 4 or 5 named witch hunters but no generic witchhunter datasheets

>>97915713
yea, its called kurnothi syndrome.

File: Brujaelfa.jpg (347.9 KB)

347.9 KB JPG

>>97915509
Same.
It just "sparks joy" as they say.

>steel rook & chaos sorcercer MTO finally shipped
not as lucky as i used to be with these

>>97916264
Wow it only took them 3 month

>>97915147
I'm aware, it's idle hope.
Though that leak also states maneaters are going away and then coming back next edition, so who knows.

>>97916264
When you buy a MTO do they charge you at the time the order is placed (like they would with a normal 2 week preorder) or do they charge you months later when the item is produced and shipped?

File: 1751058598208476.jpg (369.7 KB)

369.7 KB JPG

hoping for a kind anon to send through the new bonereapers tome scan

thx

>>97916399
https://gofile.io/d/DYKcxi

File: 1744201028527983.jpg (3.2 MB)

3.2 MB JPG

Can someone tell me why some factions have two battletomes in one edition? Does it expand or update the lore? Or are they the same book with different covers?

>>97916220
Truly does

>>97916466
Some factions got multiple releas waves in 1 edition.

>>97916466
Lumineth and hedonites had weird staggered releases in second, same goes for stormcast in first.

>>97916492
>>97916525
Yes, but is the lore presented in the books the same, or are there changes in each book?

>>97916547
Changed. Obviously new units need new lore

File: midg.png (336.1 KB)

336.1 KB PNG

Kharadron untermidges are the worst looking faction by a mile. I really hope they just drop them entirely in the reboot next year.

>>97916556
Cope about it landlubber

>>97916556
They're at least in one more edition; if they don't become popular and sell miniatures, the same thing will happen to them as happened to the Chaos Furries and the African Savage Orks.

File: malformedfreak.png (263.6 KB)

263.6 KB PNG

>>97916572
savage orks had more value than these disgusting midges.

>>97916556
I can't disagree.

>>97916572
>He thinks KO aren't popular
Lol.

File: the_everchosen_by_blazbaros_d9pyqql.png (935.1 KB)

935.1 KB PNG

Who is more powerful: Archaon, the last and greatest of the chosen of Chaos, absolute archenemy of Sigmar, future god of Chaos, or Horus, the greatest loser of Chaos, champion of Chaos with daddy issues?

>>97916593
Horus because of the stupid power scaling.

>>97915616
I would love to see something like Genestealer Cults for Silent People for example.

>>97916590
Power gamer bait =/= popular.
See: Tau.

>>97916597
>He thinks Tau aren't popular
LMAO, you're just retarded

File: 16_6bf78c68-b9e2-4dd9-b5e4-4ac28495a24a_1024x1024.jpg (163.2 KB)

163.2 KB JPG

>>97916556
This may be my most contrarian take (at least on here) but I actually don't mind this model at all. Well, I don't mind that she's a woman, still prefer the skyrigger balloons to these. Anyway, to me it illustrates that if you're going to do female dorfs they should have really long braids, which work as an analogue to the male beards both visually and thematically. The other two female heads in this kit look much, much worse to me because they lack them.

>>97916603
>he thinks tau are popular
Some men have delusions of adequacy it seems.

>>97916612
Tau have been very popular for like 20 years at this point, only a seething retard would think otherwise.

>>97916594
>>97916593
Archaon is the strongest character in Warhammers and its not even close.
His tragedy is that the source of his power is the thing he wants to defeat, leaving him trapped unable to use his might for his own goals

>>97916556
pretty good bait, shit taste coupled with rumorsloppa

>>97916597
Tau haven't been good in 40k since 8th edition, retard.

>>97916619
Diederick gets folded by Mortkin. Solely because Mortkin had something Kastner never had: conviction.
He refused to live as a slave to darkness and died, on his own terms, a free man after getting revenge.
Archie is too bitch-cuck to be his own man.

>>97916631
Archibald thinks he can find a way yo eat the cake, while still having it. He's not weak, he's not even delusional we know big 4 can be defeated through extensively bullshit means, he just doesn't have the right opportunity yet

>>97915616
Idk 40k is surprisingly light on cool random alien races.

>>97916675
Not anymore, they seem to throw a random critter or species in every kill team warband and alongside every hero

>>97916611
KO don't really have beards (these are exceptional as schizo slayers) and artificial braids would be a little awkward.
Realistically, the ancestors masks should feature female faces and men and women should wear them. The prominent deeds that inspire their ancestors shouldn't be restricted to the same gender. Hopefully we eventually get a sprue for female helms like the ones in this kit for the other KO kits, no need to have different bodies

>>97916556
cope, seethe, and dilate TWW troon

>>97916697
>>97916626
>>97916567
midg sloppa lovers. They look fucking terrible and their lore is all kinds of retarded.

File: 1735386098924003.gif (385.6 KB)

385.6 KB GIF

>>97916697
>last world

>>97916710
sure, if you actually read it, you could actually back it up with exhibits from their lore.

File: GodsDwarf.png (199.7 KB)

199.7 KB PNG

>>97916693
The classic depiction of valaya has her with braids like this, a mask like that could work

>>97916722
What like Drekki being a ultra generic gruff captain with a really gay muh wife left me stick? I mean I can see why their wife leaving him makes him relatable to Kharadron players.

>>97916740
>talking about lore
>brings up a black library character
And so the BLslopper reveals himself

>>97912301
This is literally just 40gay

>>97916751
I mean the lore in their codex is such basic tier midg/steampunk bullshit it barely is worth talking about and Aether-goldTM is fucking stupid.

File: Codex.jpg (36.1 KB)

36.1 KB JPG

>>97916758
>

>>97913707
God damn CoS looks like shit.

>>97914545
>furry
>obsessed with D&Dshit
>"dankwater"
Disgusting faggot post, purge yourself

>>97916761
>gatekeeping AoS
HAHAHAHAHA holy fuck that's funny.

>>97916773
seething nomodels lmao

>>97916800
Make sure no one breaks into the sewage treatment plant either, gotta keep that dung safe

>>97916817
no
models

>>97916773
I don't think you know what that word means anon

>>97915051
This is a retarded idea on par with people wanting a "root kings" army, if you want to do an Ogre tribe themed around Firebellies that's what kitbashing and conversions are for.

>>97916832
Why does "wood elves but dwarf" tick people off so much anyway? It's a fun concept.

File: Screenshot 2026-04-20 135359.png (363 KB)

363 KB PNG

lel

>>97916711
hopefully TOW gets a 2nd edition

>>97916845
It's up now.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ii931tqg/chronicles-of-ruin-the-nature-of-light/

>>97916845
Based retards over at gw

>>97916850
I hope not, the game will only lose the customization and fun when the soulless suits want to 40kify it for profit.

>>97916839
You're missing my point completely. It's not that it's not a fun idea for a dwarf army, it's that not every fun idea for a dwarf army needs to be its own unique faction. Someone who kitbashes their fyreslayers or disposessed with Sylvaneth parts is cool and really embraces the spirit of the hobby, someone who wants "Battletome: Root Kings" is not.

>>97916845
Biggest company in UK btw

>>97916884
no different than any other army/tome suggestion innit?

>>97916909
no, it's different

>>97916887
Nah, they're 78th in UK
>https://companiesmarketcap.com/united-kingdom/largest-companies-in-the-uk-by-market-cap/

>>97916909
No because say, Malerion's Elves aren't just a group of Daughters of Khaine who happen to worship Malerion as well, they're their own unique thing. Root Kings are literally just Disposessed who live in Ghyran, and were added to the lore intended to give inspiration for people's own unique armies. Firebellies are even less of an actual army, intended to be a single model, any 'Firebelly tribe' would be no different from any other Mawtribe except in aesthetics, which is what kitbashing (or hell, even just a different paintscheme) is for. AoS does not need any more armies it already has too many if anything.

File: maxresdefault.jpg (63.8 KB)

63.8 KB JPG

>>97916915

>>97916941
>Root Kings are literally just Disposessed who live in Ghyran
No they aren't. Way to show you don't even know what you're seething about

>>97916587
No. And I say this as the rare anon who still has the models and played them. Khadrons are the only kind of dwarves that I managed to like within a warhammer context.

>>97916953
>No they aren't.
Yes, they are.
Post what you think they are meant to be.

>>97916954
Tasteless.

File: HeldenHammer.jpg (941.3 KB)

941.3 KB JPG

>>97916861
>I am no mage, but nor am I obtuse. I have climbed the Teclamentari’s rungs of erudition and know that we were not the first aelves – not in these realms nor before them. Cycles revolve; kalpas bloom. Perhaps we too, in time, shall be but mythic antecedents
they know we know

>>97916962
Yeah I know the standard dwarves are. Even slayers are more narratively interesting.

>>97916955
They specifically separated from dispossessed to join Sylvaneth. They live the wierd forest song way of life the trees do.
They have their own (shallow) holds among the roots they literally aren't dispossessed and nothing realy stops them from being a thing on other realsm that have Sylvaneth, same way Spites aren't Ghyran locked

>>97916986
>They specifically [are dispossessed who found a new home in ghyran]
Oh, you mean like the dispossessed who found a new home in some other realm, alongside some other people?

You're delusional.

Root Kings have one sentence dedicated to them in a Josh Reynolds novel.
They're irrelevant.

>>97917010
And they get featured in the sylvaneth battletome. And there is a rootking character in Prince maesa.

>>97917013
You mean they get irrelevant cameos that don't make them to be anything more than just dispossessed in ghyran.

>>97917018
Lmk when steel helms get featured in a soulblight battletome.

>>97917003
>>97917018
Retard, Didpossesed is a word for dwarfs that live in CoS, not literally every menlet who survived Age of Chaos.
By your own logic Helsmiths might as well be Dispossesed who live with Demons.

>>97917023
>Retard, Didpossesed is a word for dwarfs that live in CoS
No, it's a word for every dwarf that used to live in their own kingdoms and now live as refugees with other people.
The root kings used to be normal dwarfs, until they got dispossessed and then found a home alongside sylvaneth.
They are dispossessed.

Helsmiths don't live with demons.

File: jdicidirirjddjsnd.jpg (3.7 MB)

3.7 MB JPG

>>97917021
would you look at that! right at the start

>>97917048
Probably in this, but they should really include optional tactical rocks for dwarves. Really heightens them up.

>>97916850
I guarantee you nobody will be happy with ToW 2nd ed, or basically 10th ed WHFB
They'll make the rule writers reinvent the wheel again for no other reason, other than to push different stock.

>>97917048
always nice to see someone manage to make fyreslayers look cool

File: image (33).png (761.8 KB)

761.8 KB PNG

>>97917097
yeah, great stuff

>>97916845
>>97916861
Fun read. They made a little oopsie in calling the trees bonsai. They’re called “tohnasai” in the battletomes. I also just noticed while going through the pdf. GW didn’t bother getting a single piece of art featuring the new Lord Regent model.

File: new minis.jpg (1.3 MB)

1.3 MB JPG

Painted of the week, managed to finish another Rat ogor, an ironskull boy and (almost finished because my ass forgot about the green and his backpack) Zikkit that i use as proxy as a Bombadier

>>97913520
Ooooo that's some really good painted gobbo anon, i usually have to give yellow paint like 2 or 3 layers

The skin getting the green highlight and the weapon bandages is fantastic

>>97917195
Good stuff anon, I hope to find some ironskull's boyz one day and paint them up as "allies" for my gitz.

>>97917097
Genuinely amazing what toning down the contrast and saturation of colours can do.

That and the 'eavy metal style just doesn't lend itself well to models without lots of panels and armour of course.

>>97917097
>>97917346
it's not the scheme, it's the fact he's not been using vulkites as base but the underworlds band and some other dwarf sculpts

poses are the problem with fyreslayers

>>97917195
please thin your paints anon

>>97917509
To be fair it's hard to thin emulsion paint.

>>97917525
why aren't you using acrylics

File: 673880083_18083794061616632_2062436360364956366_n.jpg (68.8 KB)

68.8 KB JPG

>>97917506
I think some are vulkites but reposed. Lots of extensive work but yeah desaturation is the least of it

File: 627380575_18169884706384271_610841382905077875_n.jpg (70.9 KB)

70.9 KB JPG

>>97917545
@valnyr_miniatures

>>97917509
not the anon but a newfag on painting but which mini are you talking about? The orruk because it looks like that? and what does thinning do on minis?

>>97917506
Those heads are definitely vulkites (or Hearthguard)

>>97917557
The helms are not the beards are from different models and the face of the front most is from the Dispossessed Runepriest, behind him is the bloodbowl dwarf mostly

File: 99120205015_FyreslayersVulkiteBerzerkers06.jpg (50.5 KB)

50.5 KB JPG

>>97917567
The helms absolutely are (picrel), the beards seem to be a mix. The guy to (our) right of the central guy has the beard of the vulkite champion, I recognize the 4 braids.

>>97914761
i would love for us to get new skinks and some new heroes

>>97915616
it would be seraphon if anything

>>97916593
Archie is second only to a theoretical Dark King Emperor. Dark King > All 4 Chaos Gods > Archaeon > less than 4 Chaos Gods.
Last World might knock him down to third behind Sigmar (Sigmar beat Archeaon pre-history)

>>97917803
I think the seraphon pity hero for this edition is supposed to be a coatl riding skink, so that's nice

>>97916970
you think this is a subtle reference to The Last World ?

>>97916970
>they know we know
Then why are they still lying ?

>bull centaurs still out of stock in the US
FUCKING RESTOCK IT GW
I WILL THROW MONEY AT YOU

File: Cityofash.jpg (560.5 KB)

560.5 KB JPG

>>97918017
Speaking of, looks like they restocked city of ash, at least here in yurop.

I want this edition to be over but the next one will be bad too, someone needs to lose their job for there to be hope again.

>>97918131
One of the tournament grinders at my locals told me a couple months back that Matt Rose hasn’t been at the head of AoS rules for at least half a year now.

Are you guys also refusing to use GWs illiterate spelling for things such as dwarfs, giants, and elves?

>>97918175
I use them when I feel like it.

>>97918175
I'm assuming this is an offshoot of some autistic discussion in /40kg/ or /wfg/?
Anyway, in general I feel like it depends on the term. I would say most people just use elf, dwarf and ogre instead of gw's copyrightisms, orc/orruk is kind of split, seraphon and lizardmen are used interchangeably. There's a couple examples where the new name is used more than the old one, I'm thinking of gargant instead of giant, troggoth instead of troll, and malerion instead of malekith. I feel like in general the names that are actually different in structure tend to be used more than the ones that are just "old world with slightly retarded spelling"
Hope that answers your questions.

>>97918175
I don't care, man
Aelves is the correct term though

Rolled 2 (1d3)

>>97918131
(Once per ten years) Roll a D3, on a 2+ that many employees will leave GW
>Jervis
>Sam

>>97918321
they have been called elves since total war warhammer one so you can fuck off with the made up naming
fuck gw

>>97918340
I choose to believe this is not bait and tww secondaries are really this stupid

>>97918340
>made up naming
>it’s literally just old English spelling
Your helmet’s on a little too tight, pal.

>>97918117
You guys think they printed some more or just staggered the release?

>>97915674
>painted on the sprue
You're a freak I hope you know that

>>97918175
as synonyms, sure, as legally enforced trademarks, no

the only new name I absolutely loathe in its entirety is seraphon
it doesn't work as name the lizardmen would give themselves and it doesn't work as name humans would give them because it has precedent as a name used by elves for dragons
I can kind of see from afar the idea of calling them "angel-toothed", "seraph+don", following the naming conventions of some dinosaurs, including some of theirs, but it just doesn't work as they did it

not to mention the infamous google results at launch

File: wheeze.jpg (33.5 KB)

33.5 KB JPG

>>97918340
Good post

seraphon is a good name, it sounds cool

>>97918599
You make some salient points, but ultimately I must agree with >>97918715 in that it sounds cool. I think they need to lean more into the cold-blooded angels of Azyr angle to really make it make sense but it does SOUND cool.

>>97918725
it also has some sense since the elves used it as a name for dragons, and the seraphon are allied with and worship dracothion

>>97918715
it is, but that's the name of Malerion's dragon friend?

>>97918745
who's dragon friend?

>>97918599
>it doesn't work as name humans would give them because it has precedent as a name used by elves for dragons
Why the fuck would they gave a shit what elves called dragons
Anyway I'm not a 100% happy with the nane either. It's a relic from 1e when they were much more celestial "daemons of order" starborne stuff, but it doesn't really work that way anymore. It's also decidely un-mesoamerican.
What do they call themselves in the tomes? I assume something like children of the old ones or something?

>>97918175
>Aelves
Literally fine as it's said like Aethelrad, because it's just Ye Olde English.

>Duradin, Ogor, ect
Straight into the trash, we already fucking had Dawi, theirs no reason to use these names unless GW has a gun to your head.

>>97918764
>What do they call themselves in the tomes?
Something like children of the gods/old ones, but it's not common either.
Funnily enough, we have an extensive lexicon from Warhammer fantasy, including various terms in their own language about what they call dwarfs, elves, humans, demons and so on, but absolutely fucking nothing on themselves.

>>97918175
throw them in a bunch of alternatives and it only helps in making the setting feel larger and deeper
>elf, aelf, leth, neth, eltharin, eladrith, eldar, aeldari, yldari
plus a dozen other variants, same for others
>orc, ork, urk, uruk, orruk
and so on

>>97918756
Umbranethbros...

>>97918175
Most of the time.
In rare cases, when opponent needs clearance, I will use full names of units

>>97918725
>I think they need to lean more into the cold-blooded angels of Azyr
No, they need to stay as Mesoamerican dino people riding dinosaurs and fat magic frogs. Because there's nothing on earth cooler than that.

>>97918715
Lizardmen rolls off the tongue better imo

>>97918131
Why does AoS not have some kind of community managed rules pack ?
I know ToW has these, but mostly due to main rules being completely unbalanced, especially before reworks.
Also Horus Heresy has some grog trying to write his own rules, after 3rd edition flopped

File: dragoncast-are-dope-v0-5wutsdaq8k2b1.jpg (45.8 KB)

45.8 KB JPG

>>97918725
>cold-blooded angels of Azyr
they should give dragonborn to stormcasts for that, leave the slann be ancient aliens

>>97918148
Doesn't matter who's writing the rules.
GW isn't bringing back complexity the previous editions had.
I'm half convinced they might try to pull the same trick they did with old world, where they released a few books with packs for all factions, segregated by GA (kind of like they did already).
Except this time they'll sell journals for dedicated factions with more rules and units down the line

>>97919022
because the edition isnt bad. Its just solved-aka boring. There isnt any meat to pick off so any kind of nuance introduced would just regulate you to playing path to glory. Or worse, path to glory.

>>97919066
meant to type one page rules at the end there but boobs were in my face.

>>97919042
what did you use for the head? i gotta know

>>97919087
not mine, just googled dragonborn stormcast because I was sure someone would have already tried that, looks 3d printed though

>>97919022
The outer circle guy?
Anyway yeah the problem with the rules isn't really balance, it's not like some factions are actual irredeemable dogshit like skaven or whatever in tow, it's just a lot of boring nothing rules, the dreaded 3+ etc etc. That kind of stuff is harder to really get a widely accepted homebrew going for.
I know that for example underworlds has some community rules for using shitty old warbands + custom warbands, though I don't think they're very widely accepted.

File: FFm-gsPWQAgB2BY.jpg (395.5 KB)

395.5 KB JPG

>>97919087
OrangeBlueHue for the previous ones
artisan guild for these ones

>>97919071
Just how bad is OPR?
Few things I saw and heard was that you can field practically anything fantasy related and have dedicated rules for different types of army sizes.
On the other hand, customization is made as bland as it gets