And some extra goodies for 40K, including a new battlebox full of exclusive models-only.
*Yawn emoticon here* Of course GW were setting up all the Xenos boxes just as preludes to yet more Imperium vs Chaos rubbish. Nobody here in their right mind should care about this. Move along.
Well, let's take a quick look at LVO19:
Unified daemon army? Gutbusters next? yet another SE Battletome? how long for our scaly-endless spells?
Blades of Khorne updated with non-endless spells. And a new Skulltaker on the way too.
I am so annoyed about this. Damned Blades of Khorne don’t need a new Battletome yet - they’ve got one of the newer books already!!!!!
To make matters worse, the cover art isn’t new, it’s reusing the cover art of the first General’s Handbook - shame on you GW! I thought you knew better for Age of Sigmar!
The only relief I feel is from GW saying that every Grand Alliance will get Battletomes. Seeing as they’ve put up the picture of all the Grand Alliances from the 2nd Edition rulebook but with an edited Chaos entry, they may be hinting some releases to us:
Order: Sigmarines have already got a Battletome for 2nd Edition but Fyreslayers are seen in the background - I’m hoping that this’ll mean the sons of Grimnir will be getting an update very soon!
Death: The only thing this image signifies to me is that Legions of Nagash will be updated at some point. Can’t think why because they’re already top-tier apparently, but all the Vampires are part of LoN so I’m guessing it’s LoN. Unless Mannfred tries to break from Nagash following that story about Mannfred’s thoughts of betraying his master, in which case it might be his faction and LoN getting updated tomes to reflect this.
Chaos: I’m guessing that this is signifying Chaos Undivided, i.e. Darkoath/Slaves to Darkness, as all 4 gods are being represented, or maybe it will signify all 4 Chaos Gods getting 2nd Edition tomes this year (won’t that be boring) starting with Blades of Khorne.
Destruction: Gloomspite Gitz have already appeared in January, but it looks very much like Gutbusters will be next - the Ogre in the foreground is an Ogre Kingdoms (i.e. Gutbusters) Ogre rather than a Beastclaw Raiders Ogre wielding frost weapons and wearing furs. It could also mean Beastclaw Raiders get a tome as well to update them, but Gutbusters are front and centre here and all but confirmed.
I don't know what is this, but I'm sure no Sigmarines will be involved in the creation of this product.
This does look cryptic, but I’m convinced it’s going to feature Seraphon/Lizardmen. How do I know? Well, listen to this Lizardmen theme from Warhammer II Total War:
And then watch the trailer again:
Recognise the music? I think it’s a subtle hint that GW might be teasing something Lizardmen related. That symbol looks a bit like a Seraphon artefact and when they said ‘something terrible is awakening’, certainly it hints to me as though a new Lizardmen monster might appear or something. Certainly the talk about storms and heavens means it’s either Sigmarines or Seraphon, and because of the music hint I think it’ll be about the Seraphon coming in to sort out Nagash.
What it seems to be a new Kill Team for AoS.
How’s that going to work seeing that they’ve already revamped Skirmish in White Dwarf?
Ylthari’s Guardians, a brand new warband for Underworlds. Where my Lizards at?
Nah, I’m waiting for the Kharadron as they were also confirmed at some point. Also the second example now of the leader model looking a lot uglier than her illustration suggested (the first being the leader of the Godsworn Hunt looking more like an African voodoo priestess than a northern barbarian leader). The illustration made her look almost like a Bretonnian Damsel who had been resurrected as a spirit, but here she goes back to the less than pleasant Revenant aesthetic. Still, some more material for the Gloomforest Spawn, and this might mean Sylvaneth will be getting a tome which will please the Sylvaneth fans among us. If that’s the case, we can look forward to a Kharadron tome when their warband comes out.
Overall a mixed bunch of releases in my view, but still some things to hope for. Cheers
@Cristhian MLR for taking the time to post all of this up.
don’t you mean Carnosaur?
