Khornate Warriors & Daemons To Take Over Age Of Sigmar In August
July 20, 2015 by brennon
Rumours online point to August being the month of Chaos for the new Age of Sigmar Warhammer line-up by Games Workshop. Even though these are 'rumours' it's also pretty common sense when you think about it. With the Stormcast taking over July it's practically written in stone (with blood?) that Chaos would follow...
Blood For The Blood God
The natural progression is for us to see the forces of Khorne bolstered with boxed sets for both the Blood Warriors and Bloodreavers. Naturally the Blood Warriors will come with some more weapon options and no doubt we'll have some additional characters to enjoy.
The terrain itself might also have a Chaos theme although it could well just be general terrain for Age of Sigmar too. Lady Atia on Twitter found images of terrain with pillars and twisting statues alongside an orb-type structure. They are well worth a look.
The Changer Of Ways
In addition to all that Khorne stuff there is speculation that by the end of the month an altogether different daemon will feature. The Changer of Ways, Tzeentch, could be arriving with a new plastic kit similar to that of the Bloodthirster during The End Times campaign.
As it stands this is the model for the Lord of Change. It's still stood up quite well to the test of time I think but the staff is probably a little behind the times now. How would you like to see the Lord of Change reworked?
Let us know below.
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Interesting to see the orruk artwork. They don’t seem too different to orcs, outside of the teeth.
Yeah I think they have been tweaked but not substantially. The skin looks a lot lighter too – not that that matters overly I suppose.
I’m really interested in the Red Slayers though – can’t wait to see how they re-work the Duardin into this full on Slayer army.
BoW Ben
The Duardin in question btw – the Red Slayers
The second image is from The End Times I think but the first is a new version of the Slayers art-wise.
I wonder if Carl Critchlow owns the rights to Thrudd and will he be sending GW a C&D letter?
I have a very bad feeling about what the Dwarves are going to be turned into….
But I’m pretty confident the incredibly poor latest Fantasy release for the Dwarfs (including Failcopter) were designed for AoS and not actually Warhammer. It explains the aesthetics.
I quite like the Gyrocopter – first one I ever bought. I thought the dinky design was quite neat. As for the other big Dwarf releases for the 8th Edition book the characters were great, and the Hammer/Longbeard + Irondrakes/Ironbreakers were cool too.
Different strokes for different folks I guess. The only model I wasn’t sold on was the Slayer but now I want to get him to re-create that drake slaying artwork linked above.
BoW Ben
But they were bigger, out of scale with other 28mm dwarfs, even their own. That sent me to Scibor and AoW. Very happy with those.
I do prefer their hair being that helmet plumage over the old mohawk though. Makes more sense to me.
I wonder if they will continue the trend of being bigger than their old models that the rest of AoS seems to be doing. Seems counter-intuitive though, to have ‘big dwarfs’…
Seeing the artwork it seemed to me they take Orruks more in the direction of Wildorks. Though I hope they keep the old skuul Orks and Gobbos in.
Slaanesh is dead, therefore i don’t care much about it -.- in any case i hope there will be a lot of great models for my chaos brothers.
I have not payed much attention so it feels weird for them to have Slaanesh removed since he was always big part of Gods of Chaos even if he was weakest of big four.
Actually, if you read through the available lore, Slaanesh appears to be imprisoned somewhere, not dead. His/her followers (both mortal and Daemonic) are still running around the Mortal Realms trying to find him/her in the anticipation of great reward should they succeed, and it seems likely that the return of Slaanesh might form part of the ongoing story development for the setting in the future.
Also allows the ascendancy of the Horned Rat and the Skaven as more of a faction within the narrative which is pretty awesome.
What kind of God is Slaanesh!? How the frak was he caught sitting in a room with his pants down !? This makes no sense at all ….
It does to a 12-year-old.
poosh- slaanesh has never been caught with his/her pants up.
You really had to ask it that way. I get a feeling half the time he had his pants down. He’s most likely “imprisoned” in a dark room watching a dirty DVD that just so happens to skip over has favorite part, therefore forever rewinding trying in vain to catch a frame or two. Once he realises this is a scheme by the other gods he’ll go ballistic and break out!
That’ll just be to keep owners of Slaaneshi models happy for now. I will not be surprised if GW don’t produce any AoS Slaaneshi models and let that group wither and die naturally…
Why would you get that clunker Lord of Change, when you get the 6″ tall Ultraforge vrock sculpt for $10 more. Far superior, with a much greater “presence” on the table. Looks a lot like the old AD&D demon, actually. Type II was it?
http://www.thewarstore.com/product45594.html
Looking forward to bolstering my chaos forces with new models.
If the Lord of Change rumours are true, I’ll be doing a rare Throw Money at GW! You betcha!
If the model’s not a load of crap, I perhaps should add 😉
The lord of change is from gws age of ugly monsters, i say make a new one and lose the preists robes atleast :p