Tomb king 8th edition coming in MAY!

[Simon]

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


as far as I know there will be no new plastic for chariot, horsemen or skeleton (no awesome vampire style skeleton sorry)

[Simon]

and I suspect it is going to be a very broken army.

[Vaul]

Better not sell my collection as I was planning to.  This is good news.

[richardbarby]

Better not sell my collection as I was planning to.  This is good news.

buy a bone gaint and some ubshanti and win lots

[Simon]

QUOTE from tomb kings of Khemri forum

Good news is, though, my store(which is a factory store) got their Black box today. Containing 2 different sets.

and let me say, holy $*!t the sculps are beautiful.

one box had the snake guys in it. they come in sets o 3 and can be assembled 2 ways, The Necropolis Knights are effin skellys surfin on snakes. (hello heavy cav im assuming since we dont have a codex yet to base it on) the other ones are Sepulcher Stalkers, which are like giant lahmian creatures with big weapons. (think snake ushabti)
best part, i got to put one of the knights together.


the other one was da sphinx. as we thought it has 2 variants,
the Necrosphinx which is omfg super uber killy mcawesome. the other one is the warsphinx which like a stegadon has a howdah that can have 4 skellys on it or just a tomb king. idk what it does, but it as well looks sweet.

hopes this makes everyones day go by so much better.

Everything i mentioned was on a chariot base. the necrosphinx has ******* GIANT BLADE ARMS. and wings and 4 lion legs, and a scorpion tail. AND GIANT ******* BLADE ARMS.

lol i bugged my friend who worked in the retail part there and helped him do all of his stuff so we could open the box. XD

I would have loved to put a stalker together, but him and another staff member called dibs on the stalkers and they decided there should be a knight put together to show all the options.

ive already got an idea, from the way they ride on the giant asps, using the leftover riders that arent used from making the stalkers, you can take their full body shields and have em surfin on a wave of sand. it would look sweeet.

[Simon]

It is being written by Robin Cruddance, not familiar with GW names so not sure if that is good or bad.
Expect a week sometime in April all dedicated to Tomb Kings on the website, much like the Dark Eldar Week.

On the Models -

New Lich Priest and Tomb King blisters, likely both mounted and on foot. Maybe a new Tomb king on chariot box if horses are re-done.
A host of new special characters, including several new large mounts for Priests and Kings, rumored to be a construct and a huge carrion/flaming mount as an upgrade.
New Icon Bearer hero, on foot and mounted.
Chariots and Horsemen may be new depending on whether horses are re-sculpted, although not likely.
No new core skellies in the first wave, if they are redone, expect a 10 model box with a simple re-sculpt of the Vampire Counts box.
New Core, probably Mummies, 10 per box.
It's fairly safe to say there will be a plastic Tomb Guard box, 10 models including full command.
New special, likely light skirmisher Infantry, named along the lines of "Sand Stalkers".
Plastic Tomb Scorpion box, very customizable, probably include two re-sculpts in a box, similar to Chaos Spawn.
New Ushabti, 3 Plastic in a box, like Kroxigar or Minotaurs.
New plastic Screaming Skull Catapult, maybe a hybrid plastic box, where there are two builds, Catapult and an Alter of some kind.
Shinx is a near definite, maybe a plastic box or blister depending on size. May possibly be customized as either a caster or combat build.
New plastic Bone Giant, likely highly positionable.
Perhaps an entirely new unit in rare taking the form of an alter named along the lines of an Obelisk, mainly a buffer unit, taken as an upgrade for a Lich Priest, which may be the other option in the Screaming Skull kit.

Obviously these will be spread out across multiple waves, however GW needs to put Sphinx and Tomb Guard out first wave to get people excited.

Wave 1 - Army Book. New Ushabti, Bone Giant, Sphinx, Tomb Guard, new Core, one, possibly two special characters. - May
Wave 1.5 - One, possibly two special characters. New Scorpions, I would like to see some other new small unit in here as well - September
Wave 2 - More special characters, Catapult hybrid, new special skirmishers, new mounts for Lich Priests, new horsemen and chariots. - March/April (Hopefully about a year after Wave 1)
Wave 2.5 - Last special character, new core skellies, new Tomb Swarm. - Summer 2012 or early Autumn.

I'm not so much a gamer so I'll leave someone else to sum up the rule changes.
The Chariots themselves and the people who ride the horses aren't too bad, however the horses really need better sculpts. I'm quite excited about an update to Tomb Kings and have been waiting for their renewal. The only unit I have atm. are two boxes of core skellies (anticipating a price rise and a box size reduction) but I assume that horses are on a different sprue in their boxes so it shouldn't take too much to re-sculpt them and change the sprues when they are released. Not sure if it was a mistake or the computer I'm typing this on is slow, but yesterday the current style box art was posted on the unit descriptions. I only really just realized right now what this could mean. Only Core skellies and chariots had new box art, so whether it's a mistake or not, this could mean that neither will receive new models this wave.

[wouster7]

Some cool looking mini's and some not so cool looking mini's.














I'm glad my credit card isn't tempted, but the Sphinx could be a go.

[Vaul]

I should still be able to run a legal list with the models I already have, so i'll give em a jam.

[Simon]

really like the omfg i will chop you up Necrosphinx.

tomb guards are.... o.k.

don't like the rest.

[NeckFace]

those necropolis knights look hilarious

[Big D]

If by hilarious you mean ridiculous, then yes I agree

[richardbarby]

If by hilarious you mean ridiculous, then yes I agree

i have a much stronger word for how rubbish they look

the big thing with the claws should have a the rock head to add to it

[NeckFace]

ridiculous yah.  those stalkers look *ok* though.

that sphinxes look totally badass, coupled with the stuff that has come out for skaven and orcs lately, these monsters are some of the best i've seen from GW yet

[warpmaster]

The snake surfers are the best thing about the range

Anyone notice how you can't order the spell cards from independent online stores

[Sectiplave]

those stalkers look *ok* though.

I saw them and Necron Wraith popped into my head straight away. I guess Necron's are the 40K equivalent of Tomb Kings anyway, undead with heavy ancient egyptian styling.

Wonder if I could get away with using one of those sphinx to count as tomb spyders

[NeckFace]

i'd hang out for the rumoured kit.

though i'm hanging out to see someone incorporate these models with a necron army, that'd be boss

[Sectiplave]

i'd hang out for the rumoured kit.

though i'm hanging out to see someone incorporate these models with a necron army, that'd be boss

Ooooh where are these rumours? Can I has link? The alternative is the Tomb Stalker counts as tomb spyder but that's not a cheap kit!

I'm kinda dissapointed about the Necron rumour mill going dark lately, I'm gonna grab a monolith anyway as I don't think the existing plastic will be getting new release, but I imagine alot of the metal will be ditched.

[NeckFace]

welp peeps are just going over stuff that has already been discussed, but its all on warseer

[Simon]

QUOTE from GW:

potentially 4 Warsphinxes and a Necrosphinx in a 2,000-point army (they're the living statues that will terrify the pants off your opponent and make them run home to their mummy).

. These two colossal creatures are both phenomenally powerful and almost completely indestructible: there aren't many creatures out there that have a toughness of 8 (yes, you read that correctly - .

who needs lore of life slann with stubborn hat with 2 stegadons when you can have 4 X toughness 8 indestructible unbreakable monsters which you can heal their wounds with unstoppable magic in 2000 points??


but what really pisses me off is that Tomb king gets like 6-7 new units and crap loads of new plastic kits, and Orc and goblin only gets 3 new units with their new book.....  


this is what happen when you get a 40k author who probably never played more than 10 games of fantasy (who wrote the imperial gay guard and tyranid) to write a fantasy army book .

[Glenn Patel]

Simon?


"Liche Priests are magic users with access to the Lore of Light and the Lore of Death, but it's the Lore of Nehekhara that binds the spirits of the dead to their mortal remains"


I strongly suspect this means that the old Khemrian "unstoppable!" magic phase will be going away. (as for the Sphinxes... only one Necrosphinx in 2000pts? That means THAT bad boy is over 250pts and a rare choice, while the Warsphinxes must over 200pts each and special choices.

...or, in other words, they cost about the same as (Ancient 290/Baby 235) Stegadons, and probably won't be backed by a Slann-equivalent magic phase.)

So... wait and see, I guess.

[Sectiplave]

welp peeps are just going over stuff that has already been discussed, but its all on warseer

Ahhh yeah just read that massive thread, I'm gonna get back to work on my Salamanders and see what sort of info pops up around August/September, no point stocking up on models potientially just months before new releases, especially if the Destroyer kit gets changed.

[Russ]

In the key features of the warsphinx it says "powerful monsters which cause terror and have a special thundercrush attack"

Is this a thunderstomp or a more powerful version (more attacks or be able to hit other model types other than infantry/swarms/war beast or both?), just wandering.

[Simon]

Is this a thunderstomp or a more powerful version (more attacks or be able to hit other model types other than infantry/swarms/war beast or both?), just wandering.

Thundercrush is:
Small template with a S5 hit in exchange for its normal 5 S5 attacks (but still can thunderstomp)

So basically it can: use the small template and hit 21 models on 20mm bases, + 2 D6 breath attacks + D6 thunderstomp


The necrosphinox has a special attack (like arachnarok spider) which is str 10 and heroic killing blow. And oh forget to mention it can fly and toughness 8.

[SKELATOR]

NO MORE BOWMEN those W-----S AT GW

[Simon]

What do mean no more bowmen?

Bowmen are cheap I think (4 or 5 points?) arrow of the asp special rule is still there.

Lore of Nehekharan is very good, lore attribute heal not 1 but D3+1 wounds

[SKELATOR]

LOOKED AT THE BOXED SETS , NO BOWMEN MENTIONED, JUST SKELLYS WITH SPEAR SH

[SKELATOR]

Tomb Kings Product List, HAVE A LOOK AT THE LIST

[wouster7]

...the small template and hit 21 models on 20mm bases...

and the small template hits about 16 25mm models...

[richardbarby]

...the small template and hit 21 models on 20mm bases...

and the small template hits about 16 25mm models...

depends whos useing it when im counting up my earthshaker hits it can streach to about 30

[wouster7]

I just remember someone telling me that the small template could only ever hit 9 models 25mm base. Oh that's right he doesn't own a rulebook.