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26 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

They know people will use whatever models, but still need different product lines on offer for AoS and TOW because Citadel and Specialist Games are separate studios that need some kind of data to point to in order to internally justify the success of their projects.

Yeah, I know... but what's the explanation for the squigs and fanatics? 

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1 minute ago, Big Kim Woof-Woof said:

Yeah, I know... but what's the explanation for the squigs and fanatics? 

You can come up with a number of plausible possible explanations for it, but ultimately that's just speculation.

I think the reasoning for the overall idea of having separate model lines is strong enough that I personally just treat weird edge cases like squigs as what they are: Outliers that don't conform to the general trend for some reason that is hard to determine from the outside.

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1 hour ago, selnik said:

Any chance it could be a replacement Chaos Sorcerer Lord, since the old model has disappeared from (some of) the webstore pages?

I believe it will be the 4th edition STD foot hero.

The old one will be repacked for ToW. You can see it on the top right next to old daemon prince.

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Regarding miniatures moving from AoS to ToW , we will probably see in the future

- STD : Chaos manticore , chaos lord 

- Cities : All dwarfs + steam tank + flagellants (hopefully replaced with CoS wave 2)

- Sylvaneth : Dryads (hopefully replaced with new ones)

 

On US webstore all Dwarfs are basically gone (for ToW repacking)

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7 minutes ago, cyrus said:

I believe it will be the 4th edition STD foot hero.

The old one will be repacked for ToW. You can see it on the top right next to old daemon prince.

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hxFE2rg.jpg

 

Regarding miniatures moving from AoS to ToW , we will probably see in the future

- STD : Chaos manticore , chaos lord 

- Cities : All dwarfs + steam tank + flagellants (hopefully replaced with CoS wave 2)

- Sylvaneth : Dryads (hopefully replaced with new ones)

 

On US webstore all Dwarfs are basically gone (for ToW repacking)

vvebf7P.jpg

 

The problem is thinking that all the ToW will have an update for AoS. I really doubt that dispossesed, resin models (daemons, ogors, etc...) and Chaos heroes will receive an update instead something different or simply removed.

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25 minutes ago, cyrus said:

I believe it will be the 4th edition STD foot hero.

The old one will be repacked for ToW. You can see it on the top right next to old daemon prince.

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hxFE2rg.jpg

 

Regarding miniatures moving from AoS to ToW , we will probably see in the future

- STD : Chaos manticore , chaos lord 

- Cities : All dwarfs + steam tank + flagellants (hopefully replaced with CoS wave 2)

- Sylvaneth : Dryads (hopefully replaced with new ones)

 

On US webstore all Dwarfs are basically gone (for ToW repacking)

vvebf7P.jpg

 

I am not expecting a 1:1 replacement of the ToW minis, especially the Manticore as it is kind of taken by CoS now, but as the new Khul daemonic form mentions a scorpion... maybe that's their spiritual replacement.

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14 minutes ago, Nezzhil said:

The problem is thinking that all the ToW will have an update for AoS. I really doubt that dispossesed, resin models (daemons, ogors, etc...) and Chaos heroes will receive an update instead something different or simply removed.

You don't think it is at least somewhat likely that the current Dispossessed models will be replaced by new Cities dwarves in the next update?

It seems to me that replacing the Steam Tank, Dispossessed and Flagellants in the next update is not impossibly ambitious. Although two large release waves in two editions would be unusual, it's not unheard of and Cities is a bit of a special case, too.

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5 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:

I am not expecting a 1:1 replacement of the ToW minis, especially the Manticore as it is kind of taken by CoS now, but as the new Khul daemonic form mentions a scorpion... maybe that's their spiritual replacement.

Scorpions have been associated with Khorne for a while. First instance that comes to mind is that mutant Skullreaper with the scorpion tail. 

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6 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:

You don't think it is at least somewhat likely that the current Dispossessed models will be replaced by new Cities dwarves in the next update?

It seems to me that replacing the Steam Tank, Dispossessed and Flagellants in the next update is not impossibly ambitious. Although two large release waves in two editions would be unusual, it's not unheard of and Cities is a bit of a special case, too.

I think that people is overreacting with Cities. I don't see anything special or different that we had seen before.

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1 minute ago, Nezzhil said:

I think that people is overreacting with Cities. I don't see anything special or different that we had seen before.

What would be an equivalent to CoS for you? Even if it is not from AoS. IMO it is something that we didn't see before in its way of turning from scratch into a proper faction eating the leftovers of a bunch of factions.

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13 minutes ago, Ejecutor said:

What would be an equivalent to CoS for you? Even if it is not from AoS. IMO it is something that we didn't see before in its way of turning from scratch into a proper faction eating the leftovers of a bunch of factions.

Slaanesh was almost removed from the Lore at the point that Archaon doesn't have any reference to that God in his model. If we check Slaanesh, it was a more extreme case of how to recover an old faction than Cities.

The only difference is that first CoS book was more a whim of the designers than a proper AoS book. That book was a bless to the owner of these models because almost all the "forgotten kits" without a proper book were removed at the end of 2ed.

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1 hour ago, Nezzhil said:

The problem is thinking that all the ToW will have an update for AoS. I really doubt that dispossesed, resin models (daemons, ogors, etc...) and Chaos heroes will receive an update instead something different or simply removed.

I am hyped for the potential new High Elf units (Eltharion? Alith Anar? Something else?)

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2 hours ago, Ejecutor said:

I am not expecting a 1:1 replacement of the ToW minis, especially the Manticore as it is kind of taken by CoS now, but as the new Khul daemonic form mentions a scorpion... maybe that's their spiritual replacement.

I am not expecting 1:1 replacement either.

I can see a new chaos sorcerer for sure but maybe manticore will just leave the STD range for Tow WoC .

I can see a Cogfort instead of steam tank and zealots instead of flagellants , but not new dispossed infantry.

Dryads can be actually 1:1 replacement 

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2 hours ago, cyrus said:

I believe it will be the 4th edition STD foot hero.

The old one will be repacked for ToW. You can see it on the top right next to old daemon prince.

  Hide contents

hxFE2rg.jpg

 

Regarding miniatures moving from AoS to ToW , we will probably see in the future

- STD : Chaos manticore , chaos lord 

- Cities : All dwarfs + steam tank + flagellants (hopefully replaced with CoS wave 2)

- Sylvaneth : Dryads (hopefully replaced with new ones)

 

On US webstore all Dwarfs are basically gone (for ToW repacking)

vvebf7P.jpg

 

Chaos Spawn & Chariot are also being transfer to TOW 

Im sure Slave to Darkness would update the Chaos lord & Sorcerer with their own version with a new name change™ as their 4E tome cycle

Free City feel like they just expand on what they have as roll the city dwarf into the current "subfaction" so stuff like a freeguild dwarf shieldwall or Dawii engineer on the Cogfort. That kind of what they implying from the Core Rulebook

 

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2 hours ago, Nezzhil said:

Slaanesh was almost removed from the Lore at the point that Archaon doesn't have any reference to that God in his model. If we check Slaanesh, it was a more extreme case of how to recover an old faction than Cities.

The only difference is that first CoS book was more a whim of the designers than a proper AoS book. That book was a bless to the owner of these models because almost all the "forgotten kits" without a proper book were removed at the end of 2ed.

I agree it is a good example of how to recover an old faction, as you said, but IMO the example is not comparable because of how CoS got different ranges rather than just one. That's what makes this a special and tricky case if I would have to pick something.

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