Rumours as to the next two Death battletomes

[StepwisePilot]

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Ok, so those two links show pictures of some Soulblight Gravelords models and some Ossiarch Bonereapers models, in 3rd edition boxing. I'm told the source of these pictures is a forum called TGA.

According to the most recent roadmap from GW (Which I'll link at the bottom), we are due two Death battletomes in spring. AS far as I can tell, each time a third edition battletome comes out, GW has repackaged the models for that faction into a new box with third edition colours and such. Seeing the two above links seems to indicate the next two Death Tomes. Nighthaunt was already done. If this does come to pass, this would leave Flesh Eater Courts as the last Death faction to be updated.

Now, please keep in mind that these could easily be fan made as a hoax or something. That being said, assuming this is true, there is also rumours that this means Flesh Eater Courts is getting a bigger range expansion, since they really need it. The new years model is a bit of evidence that they may get some love. Then again, there is also some rumours that they will simply be folded into Soulblight.

I have a bunch of Ossiarch Bonereapers stuff (Which I need to put together), so would look forward to that book. I'm also in the middle of assembling and painting some Flesh Eaters.

My thought on these rumours are neutral, except for the Soulblight/Flesh Eater combo rumour, I'm mixed on that. On the one hand, it would be like the Vampire Counts of old. On the other, I can't help but feel that it would remove some options that Flesh Eaters have. Oh well, only time will tell.


I know this has been mostly speculation, but hey, this part of the forum is for news & RUMOURS after all, hahaha. So, feel free to share your thoughts on this. And here is the roadmap link:

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[dave]

This edition had rumours flying about how fyreslayers and kharadron would be merged into one book, and that beasts of chaos would get folded into slaves to darkness. I'm not buying FEC + SBGL any more than I did those rumours. AoS players are still very prone to panic when it comes to losing armies.

Soulblight has actually done really well at giving their units unique identities within the book. Throwing the flesh eaters's units into the mix would just create redundancy for no real benefit. Besides that, the all ghoul army actually has a decent theme and backstory that should allow them to continue to stand on their own as a unique army. If fyreslayers can do it, surely they can too.

If FEC (the death book most in need of an update) isn't one of the summer tomes, then I definitely hope it's because they're holding out for a line refresh. At the very least those ghouls need a resculpt.

[StepwisePilot]

I actually think the ghouls are fine (and they are easy enough to assemble as well). I wouldn't say no to a new sculpt, but would much rather have new kits over new ghouls, if it came down to it. Well, as long as the follow the theme that is. Let's see, there is currently, off the top of my head, 4 different plastic kits (dragon/gheist + ghoul king, ghouls, horrors/flayers, as well as some courtiers that can be made from those kits, archregent), 1 finecast model, and 1 underworlds warband (which I have, and plan to put on bigger bases to use as courtiers).

But yeah, I also doubt they will get folded into Soulblight. I mostly put my thoughts there to give a "what if" impression. Also, it can be fun to speculate on rumours at times. They usually don't pan out in my experience, but the ideas can be interesting.

[dave]

That's fair. My goats are all pretty old sculpts at this point, but I think they still hold up. If I got new ungor models I would probably just look at the new price tag and say nope.

Still bitter that the 80-100 point warcry cultists for slaves to darkness got reboxed to $70 per unit. Of course this happened rght after they made them the go-to chaff pick by making marauders useless. But that's a digression.

The beauty of FEC is how much mileage you get out of each kit. You can build an entire army out of that start collecting box. Might be interesting to see what totally new units they could add to the army.

[Hi I'm Derek]

At this point they probably could have just squatted marauders lol

If there was a window for souping it seems to have passed, ogors and warclans got the merge about half way through 2.0 but since then there hasn't been any moves to push armies back together that were split out in 1.0. I expect it will be a long time before we see that again if we ever do.