Monstrous Arcana

[Deaf Paradox]

Fine the rumor was first quarter of 2012.
is that specific enough ?

Meant no ills fella, just didn't know if you knew when winter starts in UK. Then lets hope its out sometime in March because a dinosaur model by Forgeworld sounds epic.

Edit... big failed there on my part, March is Spring.

[Urgat]

Fine the rumor was first quarter of 2012.
is that specific enough ?

Do you count in days or months? Because if you count in days, with february being shorter... just pulling your leg

[Deaf Paradox]

Do you count in days or months? Because if you count in days, with february being shorter... just pulling your leg

Actually its a leap year, February is a day longer than usual lol anyway a new monster is out, looks BIG. So tempted to buy but much control myself.

[johnnyrumour]

I've heard they actually have the bull centaurs and hobgoblins done

ghost21 claimed this, in complete defiance to what the Forge World/Warhammer Forge guys were saying and in fact displaying at the time (the complete Chaos Dwarfs range, that is, including things that hadn't been released at the time such as the Bale Taurus variants). They have said that they've not started on Bull Centaurs yet

[N810]

Hey look a Balisk, will it kinda works with Lizardmen, at least it's cold blooded.

[Bun Bun]

So far it appears what we will be getting in this book so far, at least by the looks of the rumours and by what FW have released so far is..........

8 Incarnate Elementals
Cursed Etin
Basilisk
Phoenix
Idol of Gork (or Mork)
Fimir Warriors
Dread Saurian
Hellpit Destroyer
Exalted Vermin Lord

I would imagine the Toad Dragon, Carmine Dragon, Bale Taurus, Bull Centaurs, K'Daii's, K'Daii Destroyer, Plague Riders, Bile Trolls and Plague Ogres will be turning up in the book as well for those people who do not want to buy the Tamurkhan: Throne of Chaos book but still want the models since many of these model are being sold separately from their riders as well.

What would be cool is if they made Chaos Dwarfs a sorcerous pact in addition to Daemons of Chaos, Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings as that would guarantee Chaos Dwarf sales for years to come.

[SunTzu]

What would be cool is if they made Chaos Dwarfs a sorcerous pact in addition to Daemons, Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings, that would guarantee Chaos Dwarf sales for years to come.

Unlikely. The explanation given for Sorcerous Pacts is that you can magically compel a single unit of just about anyone to fight for you with the summoning spell (75/150/300 points worth), but if you want an entire army, you can only do that with creatures that inherently contain an essence of magic - hence Daemons and Undead. Chaos Dwarfs are no more magical than, say, Chaos Warriors or anything else, so will almost certainly never be available as a Sorcerous Pact. (I think their sales are guaranteed for years to come by virtue of the fact that they are awesome models, and their army list, fluff and rules are far more awesome than anything in Storm of Magic; but that might just be me).

Now personally I find the whole Sorcerous Pact quite unconvincing at the best of times (seeing Teclis alongside a Sorcerous Pact of a Bloodthirster and a bunch of Bloodletters, in White Dwarf, was for me the point at which GW officially sacrificed everything that I find compelling about Warhammer) but that is, of course, just how things are.

[N810]

Dread Saurian!!!

I like the sound of that.

[Autumn Leaves]

I'm just glad that GW are going back into monsters in a BIG way, long overdue :-)

[redfury]

@suntzu I'm pretty sure he meant the bale taurus and k'daai stuff, possibly bull centaurs I don't know enough about their fluff to say for sure.

[Stephanavich]

A k'daai coming out wouldnt surprise me but i hear they were told to stop making chaos dwarfs, I've heard they actually have the bull centaurs and hobgoblins done, gw just said no to releasing them yet.

I call bullcrud on that one (get it... bull... anyone?).
Forge World have already publicly said:
1) They are NOT releasing Hobgoblins (it's implied that it's because they would be too expensive)
2) They haven't even started on bull centaurs

[Inquisitor Aaron]

Fancy FW Dino you say?
Oh boy my wallets going to take a hit when this bugger is released

[ciaran222]

im hoping for some undead stuff in this book, i love the terrorgheist and vargulf dont get me wrong, its just vamps seem like an army that would realisticly have alot more proppper monsters then those two ( not including zombie dragons, abbysil terrors and such)

[Damien 1427]

im hoping for some undead stuff in this book, i love the terrorgheist and vargulf dont get me wrong, its just vamps seem like an army that would realisticly have alot more proppper monsters then those two ( not including zombie dragons, abbysil terrors and such)

You'll love the Necrofex Colossus, then.

[theDarkGeneral]

This book is a must and a few nice Chaos units to go with it! Think i'll start with few units of Fimir!!!

[redfury]

Necrofex Colossus? What exactly is that?

[the Witch kings regent]

what do dark elves get in terms of monsters for normal games.

[Ender Shadowkin]

what do dark elves get in terms of monsters for normal games.

all the monsters are just for storm of magic, the charts just limit how many of particular things you can take. Its just a nice fluffy thing and not really relevant unless your playing a 5000 point SoM game. But there is nothing keeping you from adapting those guidelines into house rules for fluffy games

[Mr_Rose]

Necrofex Colossus? What exactly is that?

A giant made of necromantically fused zombie flesh wrapped around 'bones' made from bits of old boats and animated by stitching the heads of living mortals onto the necks of the zombies used to make the thing's muscles.

The one I can't wait for though is the Khemric Titan which would appear to be a giant golden scarab beetle about the size of a Baneblade, or maybe a Stompa….

Both of them have semirandom attacks like a regular giant, only a shade or two meaner. And they also have super-Thunderstomp on top.

[Swope]

the Khemric Titan has three bound spells as well.....