Thanks for that, somehow the thought of checking 3rd parties never occured to me. Sister secured!
Cool new trailer about the Silent King! My metal body is ready!
"Return May 23rd"
I'd really like to see new Warriors, Destroyers, Flayed Ones and Monolith (hopefully a rules rethink for the Monolith too, it's a shame such an iconic unit is so ineffective in the game). Oh, and Pariahs!
I wonder if that's a reference to his own troops that will be returning with him, so a pile of new model kits, bigger, more threatening infantry etc. This seems like something that could lead into 9th edition.
Giant pile of new models for the new edition seems pretty plausible to me.
Yeah, good stuff. It's all much more interesting than anything they've done in Psychic Awakening's anaemic lore and 8 books built around the odd new kit across every single faction. It's like, I get that PA is them in holding pattern, but I didn't think a unified, themed event over a year, following the rift opening and called 'psychic awakening' could be so boring.I interpreted the muscle-bound depictions as representing the result of biotransference, as here to me it seems to show taking the weak and dying and turning them into strong and powerful beings:
The image of the ship sailing on an ocean probably represents the Silent King travelling outside of the Milky Way galaxy, as it talks about him sailing into the lightless void.
The Arks were based on Jes Goodwin's 2001 Necron concept art though so they'd been part of his creative vision for Necrons for a long time:
I really disagree... I like them a lot more like this. They have more personality, which is good. You can still have the old Terminator 'Crons - just say it's a dynasty that woke up like that, their past is irrelevant, they exist only to execute on their inscrutable purpose now. But if you don't want that, you can do Trazyn, or that one dude who's completely deluded and thinks that he's still fleshy, or Imotekh's arrogant badass self. Lots more variety, which is a good thing.
No, like, they're actually coming back. They're doing new Old World sourcebooks. They might rename them, a la Aeldari, Astra Militarum, etc., but Tomb Kings are almost certainly coming back.
Oh, no, all that was about Warhammer Fantasy. Don't have the first clue on what's happening with the Necrons in terms of new models - I'd expect a bunch, especially if the rumor that they're part of a 9th edition starter set is true, but idk what form or flavor they'll take.
Thing is, "inscrutable alien horrors" only gets you so far, especially when, like you said, the Tyranids already fit pretty well into that slot. Though tbh they're pretty straightforward, they just wanna eat the galaxy.
The rumour is more NO egyptian pure faction so more like Saurons that are totally not Mayan.
TBH I'd already consider the Tomb Kings to be about as Egyptian as the Lizardmen are Mayan, so I'm not sure what'd change there.
No human mummies...
Wait, so they're totally tossing out the faction's whole aesthetic, is the rumor?
Yeah, they see them as generic minis that anyone can make, too broad appeal.
Ugh, that's too bad.
they could retake the original sigmarines lore and make reanimated suits, totally not sarcophagus.
