Tomb Kings Rumour Roundup

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This is the TK rumour roundup thread.

Last edited: 14/04 2011

We had an Incoming! article here.

An ancient race that has lain dormant for thousands of years, the Tomb Kings now awaken from within their ancient burial pyramids. Cheated from the eternal life that they were promised, the Tomb Kings are instead doomed to an eternal undeath - awakened they thirst for vengeance against those who would disturb their slumber.

At the command of these undying lords march legions of implacable Skeleton Warriors, hosts of chariots crewed by long-dead crewmen and towering statues carved from unyielding stone.

The armies of the Tomb Kings are vast, unstoppable hordes that know neither fear nor remorse - and they shall not rest until all who stand against them are laid low.

This May Warhammer: Tomb Kings is released, containing everything you need to use the legions of Nehekhara in your games of Warhammer.

Alongside the new book we'll also be releases a slew of amazing new miniatures for Tomb Kings players to collect and add to their armies. Details are being kept firmly under wraps for now, but more details will be available over the coming months. To make sure you're the first to see the new models and read the latest news keep your eyes fixed to the pages of White Dwarf, the Games Workshop newsletter and the What's New Today blog.

In the meantime, if you're a Tomb Kings player (or thinking about becoming one) it's time to start building up your Undead hordes in preparation for the new arrivals. So, out with the large drybrush (and the pot of Bleached Bone) and onwards to glory!

Presented below are two exclusive sneak peeks at the upcoming releases. Please keep checking back on the website, and in White Dwarf for more information in the near future.

The release of the army book and the first wave of new models can be expected for the 7th of May.

The author is supposedly Robin Cruddace.

We have a few bits more, for example:

I was going to remain anonymous, but what the heck, take with salt, I don't often get fantasy rumors from these guys.

• First Wave no new core skellies, second or third wave you will get them.
• The Screaming Skull is (as I suspected) going to be turned into a huge plastic kit much the same size as the Skaven Catapult.
• Expect a new core (Mummies)
• Chariots remain core. (Obvious but I put it out there anyway.) This puts two good looking core.
• New Tomb Guard (Obvious) Whats not obvious are the large array of options in this kit - There are bare skeleton heads in here which you can use to put on the Tomb Guard to use as core skellies or you can put some of the heads on the current skellies to spiff them up, or mix and match the two kits. Bows, Halbreds, Great weapons are options in this kit as well as HW/S
• New plastic Scorpion, various builds
• New plastic Bone Giant, various builds
• New Metal Blister Characters/Heroes (LOTS of these)
• New Plastic HQ Chariot (On of the pics on GW article shows a portion of this apparently)
• Apparently there is more of a chariot theme going throughout the book, more versions of chariots in rare, special, HQ.
• Some of these may be Wave 2 or 2.5
• I blew off everything that I heard in this post, so questions are pointless if directed at me, sorry.
• (EDIT) Forgot new cavalry models, apparently a way to make them core as well as special.

I got to recheck the models set for release in May -

There are Knights and Stalkers (each with some tombkingesq name) coming out in the one box set, which i presume are Light and Heavy cav.

There are two types of sphynx as well - I'm guessing, but I think one is magic orientated and one combat orientated. One is a warsphinx or something like that, the other a necro-something (something like necromancer) sphinx.

I don't think these are all of the models to be released either, as there were no characters/blisters listed, so probably some extra stuff as well. No skeles are (so far) in the initial release.

You've got more? Get in contact with me!