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Nurgle getting the next 3rd Edition tome after the boxed game factions makes sense, given they are one of two armies that still has a 1st Edition time (which was released in January 2018 before Legions of Nagash, Malign Portents and Second Edition arrived).
Pestigors and Khorngors would be awesome and would make sense given we’ve got Tzaangors and Slaangors, plus Beastmen getting god-marked armies will be great
Lumineth getting nothing makes sense because their second tome was probably designed with Third Edition in mind, as were the Soulblight and second Slaanesh tomes.
A Kragnos-style Centaur army would be great, and is what we really should have got in the boxed game. The name needs changing though, why would they be ‘Alarielleborn’? They aren’t related to the Sylvaneth in any way.
Kharadron getting a second wave would be great, but merging Fyreslayers with Dispossessed would be awful and unfair - avoiding giving Fyreslayers new units will not fix their biggest problem (lack of model variety), indeed it will make it worse as the other factions all get more and more new models. Investing some time and money in designing new models is the only way their situation can really be improved, because GW have very little to lose here with Fyreslayers having a very small player base as it is, if that popularity survey is to be believed, and those existing players that are still using them are hardcore die-hard Fyreslayer fans, they’re not going to be put off if any new models are released. On the contrary they’re going to be elated, and even if they only got a couple of new units, if they are particularly different, new and exciting that will fix their variety problem and could easily be enough to inspire a load of new players into collecting them (including me). If weird shit like a lot of those new Slaanesh models and silly stuff like Elf kangaroo riders can sell, new Fyreslayers should most definitely sell. I’ve got some great ideas for new Fyreslayer units, and I’m sure that the big-shot lorewriters at GW could develop some ideas too if they stopped obsessing over Elves for a minute.
However, Khazalid Empires is an awesome name, and if they could give regular Dwarfs a book of their own that separates them from Cities of Sigmar and gives them a wave of new models, that would be wonderful and should provide a third Dwarf faction that retains a lot of the Fantasy Dwarf playstyle and mechanics (being slow but decent at both shooting and combat, with artillery aplenty and a unique relic system - I’d love to see a reintroduction of the Fantasy Runic Magic Item system for them, or at least an AoS version of it).
Now I’m taking all of this with significant salt as there’s no evidence as to whether any of this is official knowledge, but a lot of it I’d like to see implemented (though all this crap about not giving Fyreslayers any models must stop).
