GW: GW: Warhammer Fest 2023 – AoS und The Old World

Im britischen Manchester findet das Warhammer Fest 2023 statt, nachdem wir bereits einen Ausblick auf die ferne Zukunft bekommen haben, geht es in den Reichen der Sterblichen weiter, mit Warhammer Age of Sigmar und einem Ausblick auf The Old World.

Pious Heroes and Deluded Cannibals Come to Blows Over Mismatching Chivalric Codes in Warcry

The verdant nightmare realm of the Gnarlwood is a locus of carnage and chaos, where warbands battle to the death over the spoils of a crashed Seraphon temple-ship. But not everyone who enters this deadly forest does so for treasure. Some fight instead for honour and destiny – whether driven by divine prophecy or supernatural mania.

Two warbands with very different opinions on virtue and hygiene set foot into the Gnarlwood in Warcry: Nightmare Quest, the next expansion for Warcry. This box contains everything you need to embark on expeditions with the Questor Soulsworn or the Royal Beastflayers.

The Questor Soulsworn are unique among the Stormcast Eternals. Existing outside the traditional chamber structure, each Soulsworn is selected by Sigmar himself to join the ranks of the Questors, giving them a chance to flex their muscles and express their heroic virtues to the fullest in the most dangerous missions.

These puissant paladins are usually solo agents, wandering the realms to carry out the God-King’s will according to visions and omens. On occasion, however, they will gather as a warband to undertake a particularly perilous task – such as cutting to the heart of the Ravening Ruin to keep the secrets of Talaxis from falling into the wrong hands.

These gallant warriors must contend with the Royal Beastflayers. These coteries of cannibal courtiers act as gameskeepers for their vampiric kings, stalking terrible beasts – or innocent bystanders, but who’s counting – that threaten their noble kingdom. Employing grotesque Offal Hounds to track their supposed quarry, they return in glory with bloody pelts and trophies.

This particular warband are out to wreck the Realmshaper Engines of the Gnarlwood, believing them to be nests of horrid draconic magic – and will unleash a geomantic catastrophe if they succeed.

This new box includes a stack of Ghurish terrain, including an overgrown and mysterious Realmshaper Engine from the Eye of Chotec, which can sunder the ground at the command of anyone who controls it.

Nightmare Hunt also contains Might and Madness, a packed warband tome that details all the background information and rules for both warbands and includes quests that your single-minded zealots – both golden and grizzly – can undertake.

Both factions will find themselves in games of Warhammer Age of Sigmar before long, with warscrolls of their own. More carnage meanwhile awaits in Warcry – valiant cartographers have risked life and limb to provide us with a roadmap of what you can expect in the future.

Heads Will Roll As the Cursed Executioners of Nagash Enter the Wyrdhollow

The sorcerous energy emanating from the Wyrdhollow has attracted numerous warbands, the promise of power too tempting to resist. This congregation of champions has stirred something terrifying, a phantasmal procession that wields the dread blade Terminus.

Terminus is a sentient executioner’s blade, created by Nagash and imbued with powerful necromantic energy. This merciless sword is surrounded by damned souls, bound and fated to facilitate its only purpose – punishing those who transgress against the Supreme Necromancer.

No matter where the blade travels, it is always accompanied by four spirits, their identities subsumed into nameless roles – one who bears the chopping block, one who sharpens the blade’s edge, one who sentences the condemned, and one lucky ghost who gets to wield that big old sword.

All members of the warband must work in concert, aiding the Wielder of the Blade in their pursuit of the numerous noggins on Nagash’s naughty list. The Headsmen’s Curse comes with a Plot card for generating Condemnedcounters, and collecting three allows the warband to achieve their Inspire condition.

Lopping off heads is the name of the game with this aggressive warband, who come with a Rivals deck that rewards careful planning and taking as many heads as your ghosts can carry with their clammy hands.

The deck includes plenty of ploys and upgrades to make your grim labours feel more like a pleasant day of cheerfully plucking flowers from the fertile ground of Ghyran.

Chilling Grasp locks foes in place so Terminus doesn’t taste thin air when it swings, Swift Judgement lets your swiftest spirits hand out a Condemned counter if they pass through an enemy, and Enduring Executioner ensures the Wielder of the Blade isn’t toppled so easily.

Should the Scriptor of Sentences, the Bearer of the Block, or the Sharpener of the Blade be taken out of action, You Must Serve enables the necromantic power of the blade Terminus to bring them back to life – for a cost, naturally.

The Headsmen’s Curse aren’t the only new warband infiltrating the Wyrdhollow. This Warhammer Underworlds roadmap gives us a little peek into the future.

The Headsmen’s Curse will soon have warbands grasping at their necks in panic.

Move Over Gore-Gruntas – The Maw-Grunta is a Humongous Hog Who’s Here to Slay

The Era of the Beast has been good to the Orruk Warclans. Kragnos has led a mighty Waaagh! across all of Ghur, the thundering beat of his hooves a rallying call for the forces of Destruction. Between stampeding monsters and maddened mortals, the Great Stomp is offering unlimited opportunities for a good scrap.

The primal resonance of the Realm of Beasts is even delivering new ways for the Ironjawz to trample their foes flat. Did anyone order ribs?

The mighty Maw-grunta is a big pig like no other. Dwarfing the Gore-gruntas that the Ironjawz love for their orruk-bearing strength and blind porcine fury, these hulking beasts are a true force of nature. A single Maw-grunta can smash through massed infantry like a like a boar in a china shop, paving the way for a brutal Ardboys charge.*

Covered in the trademark fist-forged armour plates of the Ironjawz, topped with a saddle made of bones, tusks tipped with choppas – these giant hogs are living battering rams with tempers as foul as the nastiest orruk.

Adding insult to (massive) injury, the Maw-grunta is big enough to have two orruks riding side-saddle, equipped with massive hooked blades for lopping the ’eads off anyone who thinks dodging to the side of this avalanche of fur and iron will keep them safe.**

These colossal war-boars will make their trotter-shaped mark on the new Warhammer Age of Sigmar campaign series Dawnbringers, which follows the Twin-Tailed Crusade as it sets out from Hammerhal to claim lands back in Aqshy and Ghyran.

* If orruks wrote poetry, they’d write volumes on their love of creatures that trample.

** Unusually kunnin’ for an Ironjaw.

Four Warriors of Grim Portent Usher In Dawnbringers – The Next Chapter of the Age of Sigmar

The aetheric howl of Ghur has flooded the Mortal Realms with savage war-lust and barbarous slaughter. The echoing beat of Great Stomp pulses in the souls of all things, turning ordinary mortals into feral savages, awakening spirits of bestial magic, and goading creatures great and small to wanton acts of rampage.

Faced with this primal whirlwind, the Dawnbringer Crusades sally out to reconquer lands lost to Chaos, and stake their claim in Sigmar’s name. In Hammerhal, a Dawnbringer Crusade of staggering vision prepares to leave the two great gates of the Twin-Tailed City, kicking off a new campaign series for Warhammer Age of Sigmar – Dawnbringers.

Dawnbringers Book I: Harbingers kicks off the series, which will offer support for all four Grand Alliances. It introduces the colossal Twin-Tailed Crusade, a multi-pronged expedition that’s preparing to depart across Aqshy and Ghyran at once. This campaign series will follow both crusades – and their respective fates – alongside new background information and rules for your Warhammer Age of Sigmar games.

Harbingers takes its name from the four heralds of provenance who rise to prominence in the early days of the Twin-Tailed Crusade, each leading a warband of devoted followers.

Phlugoth the Miser – Harbinger of Decay

From a pus-coloured haze ride the Harbingers of Decay, envoys of entropy mounted on cadaverous steeds, hooves tapping out a terminal tattoo.

These pestilent prophets divine Nurgle’s will from the spread of disease through bodies and societies alike. Dour and humourless – in contrast to the Grandfather’s usual joyful entourage – they lead Rotbringer cohorts known as Shudderhoods, joylessly committed to undertaking unholy labours in the Plague Lord’s name.

Sir Jerrion – Marrowscroll Herald

The Marrowscroll Heralds are inspiring warrior-envoys, draped in fine robes and bearing elegantly-worded missives. At least, that’s how they appear to the deluded eyes of the gristle-chewing ghoul peasants that make up the Flesh-eater Courts.

To everyone else, the Heralds are hunched, sinewy creatures robed in flayed flesh. These scabrous delegates somehow act as vectors for the madness of the carrion kingdoms, spreading and magnifying the delusions that drive them. Rumours abound that the morbid messengers may even serve an ominous, higher power…

Fjori – Grimhold Exile

A Grimhold Exile is a rare sight even among the bloody-minded and death-defiant Fyreslayers – the sole survivor of a fallen magmahold, carrying with them the traditions and vengeful spirit of their lost home.

These avatars of retribution wield weapons imbued with their magmahold’s portion of the Zharrkhul – the legendary Master Flame ignited at the moment of Grimnir’s death. Some seek to establish a new magmahold around their holy flame, while others undertake quests whispered to them by the Zharrkhul. Regardless of their purpose, these grim and superlative warriors will meet any foe in battle.

Braggit Big-Talka – Rabble-Rowza

Most grots are known for being garrulous gitz – especially when there’s trouble to talk their way out of – but the Rabble-Rowzas are especially effusive, and go to war armed with the gift of the gab.

Attended by a swarm of bat squigs and clad in suitably intimidating squig-skull headgear, these loquacious loonies bellow commands at surprising volumes, provoking even the laziest troggoth to shake off its torpor. A ranting Rabble-Rowza can gather great hordes of agitated cave-critters that flood from the tunnels, kickstarting a deluge of destruction that spells doom for all in its path.

Dawnbringers Book I: Harbingers tracks the stories of four particular heralds as they clash in the wilds of Aqshy and Ghyran. Alongside all that lore, you’ll get rules for these four new heroes, each of which can also be taken as part of a unique Regiment of Renown led by the herald from the narrative. Plus, there’s a new Path to Glory battlepack with new quests, territory rules, veteran abilities, and six battleplans.

Harbingers is the first book of a series. We’ve checked with the auguries, who have provided a roadmap of what the future holds for the Age of Sigmar.

The Courageous Cities of Sigmar Cavaliers Charge Forth To Reclaim the Realms

From Aqshy to Ghyran, the Dawnbringer Crusades are striking out. Leaving the relative safety of the Cities of Sigmar they come to reclaim territory lost to the perfidious forces of Chaos in ages past. We’ve already clapped eyes on the foot-slogging men-at-arms willing to put the sword to these barbaric usurpers, but there must be more than these warriors in the crusade?

What the Cities of Sigmar need are swift armoured cohorts to ride in the vanguard, smiting any who oppose the will of the Heldenhammer… Luckily, they have just that!

The Freeguild Cavaliers lead the charge against the enemies of Order. Decked out in ostentatious gear befitting their many victories and riding horses clad in detailed barding, they are a further glimpse at the wider aesthetic that defines the Cities of Sigmar. These are incredibly characterful and detailed miniatures – each a glimpse into the peoples and cultures under Sigmar’s banner.

With the Era of the Beast bringing its own challenges, these hard-hitting horsemen are equipped with an armoury of weapons to shatter the shield-walls of the swamp-dwelling Kruleboyz or pierce the armour of the hulking Chaos Warriors.

Their heavy armour and robust shields weather retaliation and provide ample real estate for each city’s heraldry and Sigmarite iconography. In essence, these are the classic knights of old, with a dash of God-King flair.

Compared to their predecessors from the World-that-Was, these Cavaliers are more baroque – resplendent with banners, crested helmets, and unusual details such as decorative high-rise cantles.*

The Cities of Sigmar are the gathering storm on the horizon, readying to drive back the murk of Chaos from the Mortal Realms. They will be leading the Dawnbringer Crusades as part of the next major narrative for Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Stay tuned to Warhammer Community for more news and reveals later this year.

* Even the most devoted of Sigmar’s riders need some back support after a hard day of running down Marauders.

Warhammer: The Old World – A Noble Bretonnian Paladin Stands Up to a Tomb King

We already know that the undead legions of the Tomb Kings of Khemri and the noble knights of Bretonnia are major players at the time of Warhammer: The Old World. We’ve seen some of the existing models given a new lease of life in time for the game, but what of the new models?

The good news is this: they’re coming – and they look amazing.

Our first two new models from Warhammer: The Old World are a Tomb King from Nehekhara and a Bretonnian Paladin. They’re both resin models, and they’re the first of many we’ll see before the game is out. New models for the game will be released in Citadel plastic and Forge World resin, and they’ll join a whole range of resurrected and revitalised miniatures from prior editions of Warhammer Fantasy Battles – in plastic, resin, and metal – to make satisfyingly varied armies.

We took a moment to talk to the team behind these fantastic new miniatures.

“I was really happy to find out that I was going to be working on a Tomb King,” explains Agata, who sculpted the Tomb King. “Their story is so tragic and I found it fascinating to learn all about it. They spent all that time preparing for a glorious afterlife but, thanks to a cruel twist of fate, they are forced to suffer their eternal life trapped within shrivelled, mummified bodies. I wanted to capture that tragedy and the anger they must feel about their fate in the miniature, which is why he is posed in such an aggressive stance with such a furious expression on his face.”

“Getting to work on a Bretonnian was so exciting!” adds Alastair, who created the Paladin. “I collected a small Bretonnian force previously for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, so being able to add to a range that I used to play with all those years ago was awesome. I really enjoyed being able to search through older source material for inspiration, there is so much rich design language in the old army books that really inspired the design of this miniature. In my mind, Bretonnian Knights are stoic warriors, and perhaps just a little pompous, so I wanted to make sure that those attitudes came across in the miniature by having him stand heroically over his beheaded opponent – an Orc who I am sure he bested in single combat with little trouble!”

This is only the start of a flood of new models for Warhammer: The Old World.

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Quelle: Warhammer Community