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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Jul 14, 2015 9:47:45 GMT -5
Slaanesh is currently absent from his throne...
The horned rat, although not seen as an equal by the other dark gods, rises:
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Post by nsc on Jul 14, 2015 9:58:16 GMT -5
Fortunately the horned rat isn't a replacement for slaanesh, as noted in the sigmar book the symbol for the fourth direction of chaos isn't the horned rat iconography. It matches art depicting slaanesh with a great mantle about him from I think it was 2e? In any case the new icon could easily represent the great horned rat after it ascends to slaanesh's throne, driving back the aelves who hold it and claiming the fourth ruinous power. Or they could be bringing back lesser gods which once enriched the pantheon of chaos and shift some focus onto the supporting cast and not just the four leading roles. Or they could just have the horned rat be a fifth/fourth player with not much happening but cementing Skaven as a chaotic force, which I have no qualms with  |
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Post by usscott on Jul 14, 2015 21:50:32 GMT -5
I like it max it up I have played ever what very little change
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Post by Khalai on Jul 14, 2015 22:15:38 GMT -5
In the Fantasy pantheon, hasn't Slaanesh always been around? I guess Chaos was due for a new god there. In 40k Slaanesh is just a baby.
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Jul 15, 2015 5:42:00 GMT -5
yep, Slaanesh has always been present, however he/she is currently missing ....almost like some new models are coming |
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Post by Admiral Agrippa on Jul 15, 2015 7:48:56 GMT -5
yep, Slaanesh has always been present, however he/she is currently missing ....almost like some new models are coming Are there intentions to possibly alter the Slaanesh models to make them more...um..."kid friendly" I guess is what I'm thinking. I have nothing personally against the current and past models, but as they're trying to move the game into a new audience, I can see how multiple breasts and cross-gendered figures may not be what they want to peddle to kids. |
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Post by nsc on Jul 15, 2015 7:56:46 GMT -5
Yeah that's what everyone is guessing, good old american standards, it's fine to promote senseless violence and blood shed, but nudity is absolutely positively not ok what-so-ever nuh-uh! I wish that instead of targeting this generation, or my generation, they targeted children from the '30s I want looney tunes fantasy battles |
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Post by Jack Shrapnel on Jul 15, 2015 8:08:30 GMT -5
I haven't heard anything about the plastic kits being redone.
However there's a longstanding rumour about 4 greater daemon kits being actually finished... we've seen the bloodthirster but the others are coming.
Slaanesh being "absent" from his/her throne seems like a good segueway into a reintroduction through campaign story, like they're apparently doing with all of the factions (hence forest spirits this week) so a good time to introduce a new GD of slaanesh model... (just guessing at this part)
I'm guessing the GD of Tzeentch will be in the rumoured release of Tzeentch Daemonkin rumoured to be in the fall after Tau.
Far as I know there's nothing saying that any of the plastic kits will be made "kid friendly". They already did that when they went from the fantastic diaz daemonette scuplts to the current ho hum plastics.
However Slaanesh does need plastic fiends and plastic greater daemon still to finally transition out of finecrap
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Post by Khalai on Jul 15, 2015 16:13:50 GMT -5
If things shake out as expected, Tzeentch is next up followed by Nurgle and then Slaanesh. I honestly think that Slaanesh missing from the throne is more of a story point than anything. Everything I've read so far related to chaos building to and including AOS seems to imply they are changing all of the chaos gods into something more definable than just their titles, and actually fleshing out the "character", making them an active force in the world, rather than just the big bads whose champions do everything in their name.
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Post by nsc on Jul 15, 2015 17:16:20 GMT -5
From what I've been reading of the novel (I'm not far into it) Khorne is pretty much about champions in his name, like he gifts his champions mutations and axes and what not.
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Post by thesanityassassin on Jul 15, 2015 19:38:37 GMT -5
It sets up a pretty solid "Intro Box" with Elves and Slaaneshi Chaos stuff if that's the direction they want to go in pushing more forces in to AoS style models.
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Post by nsc on Jul 15, 2015 20:04:24 GMT -5
I'd buy that if it's $3 a model like this box was, if it's priced the same it might be even more models since they probably won't be terminator sized aelves.
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