GW News: SKAVEN VICTORY! #NewAoS

They released a video that explains the Forbidden Power a bit more, they mentioned Teclis and at the end they mention powerful beings within the Stormvaults.

 

A new faction that breaks its way out perhaps?

Possibly Teclis light elves that managed to succeed where the Idoneth failed?

 

slightly disappointing...

 

I agree the bridge and boat are borderline useless for transport with the 9" distance from enemies and they only transport you 12". Charging after using em will be a pain. And unless you're horrifically slow they won't even give that much extra movement. Just run and you'l probably get something near 12" anyway on most units. They basically need to be used in shyish for them to be worth anything. (and yeah I realise you can smuggle a bit cuz you get to place within 6" of the bridge, so a bit more than 12" but it's still not brilliant unless you're at the absolute edge of the effective range)

Minor sidenote, the bridge reduces bravery as well, which is neat.

Scary skull face seems a bit weird. It's just a moving bravery debuff. But with how common battleshock immunity is thanks to command abilities it seems underwhelming to say the least. The ones who you want to target with the spells are also the obvious targets for these command abilities. So it seems somewhat pointless. Plus you know, you're going to be hitting your own stuff as well most likely with its relatively big area of effect.

Shards are quite cool. But I feel they should also have an effect for crossing the line before the movement phase. The wording is a bit strange in how it is supposed to function imho.

What I am happy to see though is that they have vastly more interesting effects than "does D3 damage to everything near it". That is quite promising for the direction they're taking.

 

Forbidden Power is out this week, and looks like Hobbitses will be coming to Blood Bowl next week (GW put up the Next Week preview a couple of days early as this apparently appeared yesterday):
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/05/17/forge-world-previews-halflings-and-heroes/

 

That's actually interesting then. Though that does make the 9" minimum distance a tad weird. It's not like you're going to stop anyone from charging with it as even the slowest units should be able to get within 5" with their follow up movement. But it does leave a large enough gap that manouvering can get awkward.

 

I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but this looks really promising

 

yes it does

Gr, Imrahil

 

Clearly a SCE mount or another undead faction

 

I want to believe...

 

Seems to thick a tail for the dragons though. All of the aelves' dragons tend to be relativly lithe and thin.

 

Also the scales don't match with the previous aelven dragons. I could see it being a dragon ogre though, those have nice thick limbs as well.

 

As much as I would wish it was a new Seraphon kit, it looks like it will be an Elven dragon of some kind since the following text mentions that it is tied to Hysh, which is where the Light Elves live.