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[Zambula]

Vampire coast are cool... but the army of the cairs is sexier! And I think it was kinda confirmed, right? as an army of infamy, since the River of Bones will tell how Settra invaded Athel Loren.

Maybe I'm mixing lore but I'm talking about the "Army of the Lichemaster" that mix Tomb Kings units with Vampire Counts necromancers.

 

[Oppenheimer]

Since article only said the word "barrow", it could be just about anything. But yes, I am curious and will be keeping an eye out when it is released. I do prefer VC to TK. But it has been nice to have an excuse to get into more TK than VC stuff since Old World started. All my VC are still on rounds.

 

[Zambula]

Since article only said the word "barrow", it could be just about anything. But yes, I am curious and will be keeping an eye out when it is released. I do prefer VC to TK. But it has been nice to have an excuse to get into more TK than VC stuff since Old World started. All my VC are still on rounds.

Hmm yes and no, I chose to have faith because of the literal quote:

River of Bones follows one of the forces of Settra the Imperishable as they head into the primordial forest of Athel Loren after they’ve ravaged the Border Princes.*** It features new rules for the Tomb Kings of Khemri, including the Barrow Kingdoms Army of Infamy

The original Army of the Cairns was undead vs wood elves.

But hope is a dangerous thing

 

[Sception]

New Skeleton Horsemen thunder into the Old World

Tomb Kings of Khemri reinforcements rise from the sands.

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new skeleton horsemen & horse archers. These are a dual kit box, unlike what seems to be the case for the infantry warriors & archers, though im still not sure there.

otherwise these look fantastic, just like the chariots & infantry. overall this release wave is doing a fantastic job updating the models that most needed it in the range.

 

[Oppenheimer]

They look good but they're terrible on the tabletop and it looked like they're increasing the base size along with the chariot. They are technically heavy cav but have no save to speak of. So I don't really know why anyone would run them even if they get a new model.

 

[Sception]

the bases look the same to me. Regardless, the same box makes horse archers, which are fantastic.

the horsemen being heavy is dumb, and only exists to prevent cavalry heroes from joining the horse archers, which I understand as a balance consideration but could have been implemented in other ways.

but it doesn't really matter since horsemen would still be bad even if they were correctly classed as light cavalry.

And, again, horse archers are great regardless. if you haven't tried them i guarantee you won't regret picking up one box of these new models to put together two units of 5 mounted archers as mobile harrasment units that also fill core points.

 

[Unas the slayer]

They look good but they're terrible on the tabletop and it looked like they're increasing the base size along with the chariot. They are technically heavy cav but have no save to speak of. So I don't really know why anyone would run them even if they get a new model.

horse archers are not bad.
Anyway, TK cavalry is often used as chaff / redirectors...

 

[Sception]

Designers’ notes: The River of Bones lore

The Warhammer: The Old World team tells us about the background for the latest supplement.

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lore article for the upcoming arcane journal