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The
End Times: Nagash is on pre-order, the White Dwarf is out and I have
pre-ordered the slipcase edition. So what do we know from the various
sources available: the magazine, the webstore and so on. This is all
publicly available advertising so I'm calling no holds barred on
spoilers as you could get most of this out of a £2.40 magazine or
for free on the GW website.
Valten
There
are, absolutely 100% confirmed in the write-up for the Nagash book,
rules for Valten. I've been hoping for Valten to come back into canon
since he rated a mention in Ask Grimbrindal a few issues ago. What's
more, I checked the GW webstore and Valten's models (there were
three) have disappeared. GW is big these days on not putting out
rules for a thing unless they're going to produce the model since
third parties can take advantage of that loophole so we can hope for
a plastic Valten someday very soon.
Vlad
Keeping
with the Vs: some of the background outlined in White Dwarf #30
mentions that one of Nagash undead lieutenants (or Mortarchs) is Vlad
Von Carstein. Vlad! Von! Carstein! He's back, the big daddy of the
Vampire Counts and he's heading for a face-off with Archaon.
Welcome
to the Future
A
box-out on page 30 pegs the resurrection of Nagash as happening in
2524 (Imperial Reckoning). That's two years after the static dateline
Warhammer has maintained since the sixth edition.
Good
Lord(s)
Like
Storm Of Magic and Triumph & Treachery before them The End Times
represents a slightly tweaked core rules set. This time around the
big change is that in an End Times game you can take 50% of your army
as Lord choices which makes sense since all the great lords and
heroes are going to be on the field at a time like this. At 1,000
points that means Nagash can be taken in a bog standard 2,000 points
army.
999
He
likes nines, does Nagash. Of course there are nine Books Of Nagash,
his rules allow him to know nine spells and he has chosen “nine
beings of immense power” to be his Mortarchs. So far, from various
sources, we know four: Vlad Von Carstein, Mannfred Von Carstein,
Neferata (going to love to hear how that happened) and Arkhan the
Black. Five more to go and we have to ask: was Konrad too bat-shit
insane even for Nagash?
Fair
Bretonnia
Call
me desperate at this stage but Bretonnia gets a few mentions in the
solicitations describing the new background and artwork from the Army
Book cover is used in the second teaser video. Since a big civil war
was going on last we checked in with them in the Wood Elves timeline
where the rebel leader either was undead or in league with them I can
hope for positive developments in the near future.
Body
issues
Of
his whole body, apparently, only Nagash's skull and a bit of spine
that makes up his Pharaoh beard are original, the rest comes from
“the noble body he possessed to re-enter the mortal realm”. Since
this Nagash business is spinning out of last year's Sigmar's Blood
campaign book could this be the fate of Volkmar, last seen being
kidnapped by Mannfred as he prepared to enact a great ritual (the
box-out with the new dateline mentions that it was Mannfred and
Arkhan who performed the resurrection ritual).
The
Golden Bastion of Balthasar Gelt
Don't
know what it is but apparently its protecting the Empire from
Archaon's Horde. I am very much looking forward to finding out what
this is about.
The
Big 1
Looking
at the slipcase edition on the webstore the two books have numbers on
the spines but the slipcase itself has a great big “1” on its
spine. So there are more books to come. The End Times: Archaon next?
Karl Franz?
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