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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the small paragraph in this months US-WD#354 with its obvious Skaven hint? I looked back many pages in this insane thread and didn't see any mention, but I may have missed it. I will quote : Page 15, right column, second paragraph down in the In Brief section -

"The normally (very) affable Jeremy Vetock seems to have had a drastic change of character of late. He's been seen skulking around the Studio keeping to the shadows, constantly nibbling a packet of green sweets and cursing anyone who gets in his way as 'man-thing'. We think he's been working a bit too hard."

Now if that doesn't smell like a dirty stinkin rat to me, not sure what does? Does that mean Skaven are close? maybe or maybe not. never sure with GW but I haven't seen anything else in WD that was so blatant a hint.

Don't worry about it Lion, it looks like time well spent to me excellent job, I was going to make Harry one with a pie on its belly, well maybe later. I did make myself a Plague-BEAR-er

Back to Skaven rumours anyway, Nov release, old piece of engineering returns as well as a new plastic kit that makes one existing model plus a new machine also 99% sure no Verminlord speculate away!

Skarsnik96 kirjoitti:Hmmm...
Aika syvältä jos puoletkaan noista on totta. En usko tohon tunnelig teamaavaan Us5 rottaan, se on joko us4 tai sitten se ei tunnelaa, oma pielipide. Ja jos se tunnelaa niin sais ainakin olla joku mahdollisuus kuolla siellä kaivuupuuhissa, olis sellainen rottamainen "itsemurhameininki". Jezzaileille olis melkein hyvä se non-skirmish, mutta hinta varmaan laskee. Rat ogreista en osaa sanoa.

jupu_mies kirjoitti:kuolee.... onhan se kiva kun pelaa rotilla niin kummatkin gutterit kuolee ja grey seerilä kaikki muut loitsut paitsi rutto ja salama...

Morhgoz kirjoitti:Joku lippu antaa käsittääkseni stubbornin niin kauan kuin yksiköllä on isompi US kuin vastustajilla...

doomwheels, the new model will have to be pretty awesome to justify not using my 2 old ones.

The new one is superb, my friend has one. All the new clan rats are very good as well. You know the corpse cart rider with the plastic tattered cloak, they have that sort of clothing. Looks alot better. There's a spec char that's leaping through the air, attacking with daggers, i like him as well. I think he's grand master snitch?..... but i don't know anything about skaven, so might have his name wrong

Except it did happen. Thats the new Snikch ... very dynamic.

Sorry that was just me messing with the typo error, there are new clanrats. However I see mention of a cauldron above, afaik there is no cauldron in the new book.

Also the doomwheel and bell are not from the same kit. Afaik the doomwheel is significantly smaller than the old one and could be metal (although this is only a guess) the bell is plastic and makes a new warmachine as well as the bell.

Erm...
CalaforniaGamer....Jezzails? Warpligtning? Warplightning cannon?
They're all rather good a crippling a greater daemon.
Bands of power, the Fellblade, Weeping Blades....all quite good at crippling things like greater daemons as well.

Strength in Numbers
Possibly changing from it's current rule to "units numbering 20+ gain the Swarm Special rule (page 53 of the rulebook for those wondering what that is).
Sounds like a pretty interesting change if it turns out to be true.

I've heard of the Swarm change on Under Empire and amongst friends too so it's definately a reccurent idea, as is the OP's Rat Ogre weapons...

20+ gaining Swarm wouldn't retain Swarm for very long, 25 models average, 6 die - swarm lost, unit breaks, dies.

30-40 blocks of Clanrats however, suddenly become HORDE and viable.

I hope it turns out to be true!

OMG.

People are seriously not seeing how broken an army Skaven are aiming to become.

A WHOLE army with 3pt models (Slaves) that have the Swarm rule (Unbreakable, lose extra models when losing combat, etc...) and the ability to field war machines and OTT magic coupled with UNbreakable troops for fodder???

Oh My Gods.


Here we go GW, here we go.

OMG.

People are seriously not seeing how broken an army Skaven are aiming to become.

A WHOLE army with 3pt models (Slaves) that have the Swarm rule (Unbreakable, lose extra models when losing combat, etc...) and the ability to field war machines and OTT magic coupled with UNbreakable troops for fodder???

Oh My Gods.


Here we go GW, here we go.

Half-breed kirjoitti: What are they thinking?!