Things have been pretty quiet on the AOS front while GW has been rolling out The Horus Heresy. The Skaven and Sylvaneth battletomes dropped alongside this year's General's Handbook, including new models for Sylvaneth:
The new units expand the tree-revenant* side of the range and their insect motif. Note the Gossamid Archers don't have wings, but rather are being borne aloft by really big bugs, while their cousins ride really big cicadas.
*Tree- and Spite-Revenants are what's become of the Wood Elves. The Wanderers, which incorporate what remains of the Wood Elf range, are not directly linked to the Wood Elves of the World-That-Was.Daughters of Khaine, Fyreslayers, Idoneth Deepkin and Nighthaunt have received new Hero models:
and most recently, GW has announced "Arcane Cataclysm", heralding new Battletomes for Lumineth Realm-lords and Arcanites of Tzeentch. I must concede, that's kind of a gutpunch, as the current Lumineth Battletome is barely more than a year old, and it itself replaced a barely year old Battletome. Gone are the days of Bretonnia waiting two whole editions and the end of the world to get an update, apparently.
I'm typically not terribly impressed by the box art, but this one's actually quite nice. All the new big boxes like this include an art print, and I'd like to get my hands on this one. The box also introduces two new Heroes... well, one, really, the Lumineth Enlightener:
and a resculpt of the Curseling. This used to be a named special character in WHFB before the model was repurposed as a generic Hero:
Although it's a nice enough sculpt- and leaves the Fatemaster as the only dated model in the Arcanite range- I still like the old one better. Just has more weight to it and looks like it's straight out of a Frank Frazetta painting:
