Games Workshop Reveals From AdeptiCon – Idoneth Deepkin, Sisters Of Battle & More
March 22, 2018 by brennon
Games Workshop revealed a lot of awesome stuff at AdeptiCon last night. You can check out Dawn & John's reactions to it all over on the AdeptiCon Live Blog but we've also collected together the trailers and more below.
The first reveal was the expansion of units and more for the Knight Households of the Warhammer 40,000 world. We saw some additional models for this faction as part of Forgebane but there's plenty more where that came from apparently.
As well as that, we also got to hear some neat news about what they have planned in the far future (where there is only war of course). We are getting Plastic Sisters Of Battle in 2019!
This is great news and certainly will make a lot of people happy. I've always liked the idea of doing a Sisters Of Battle force and been held off by the extraordinary cost of it all, so this could well be the push I need to actually get into Warhammer 40,000. Well, once I've painted that Daemon army I promised I'd do last year.
You will also be able to make armies a lot easier than before thanks to work going into the Warhammer 40,000 Combat Roster.
This will be a fancy app which will help you build your armies before a battle and make sure everything is ship shape!
The Next Codexes
As well as the news about all these new bits and bobs there was also the reveal of the next three Codexes for Warhammer 40,000.
Sam will no doubt be happy to see that the Harlequins will be getting themselves a proper Codex, which might also mean some additional models for the range perhaps. The Imperial forces also get their oar in with Imperial Knights, as discussed above, and the Deathwatch too.
Age Of Sigmar - Idoneth Deepkin!
We also got a proper look at the newest army to arrive for Age Of Sigmar. This is the reveal of the new models for the Idoneth Deepkin!
They are looking rather awesome indeed, a race of Aelfs who saw the unmaking of the world and are now emerging from their oceanic realm to do battle in the Mortal Realms.
The models really have captured a lot of people's imagination and show off a race of very dangerous looking Aelfs. The range as a whole has a wonderful aesthetic which not only adds to the new-look Aelfs but also throws in some dangerous looking creatures too.
Now, whilst I do like the look of these creatures, it is strange seeing them above the water, floating in the air as they are. I would imagine some magic is giving them this ability, but it does seem very strange for a water-based faction.
The big model that caught my attention though was the main character who appears to be the one leading these forces in their new campaigns.
Now that is impressive. Considering what they've done recently with Morathi it's nice to see the other Aelfs getting the same treatment. Again, it really does draw on the idea that this army has come up from the depths of the ocean. There is a distinct level of Ancient Greek running through the force as well, harking back to the idea of Poseidon and such.
Elsewhere in the Mortal Realms things are going dangerously wrong with the threat of rampant magics...
...and something else growing and forming in the Realm Of Death.
Things are certainly starting to develop within the narrative of Age Of Sigmar with plenty of stories to tell and many different ways to get involved too.
Warhammer Legends & Event Miniatures
As well as all of this news, there was the announcement of Warhammer Legends miniatures. These are Old World miniatures, not designed for Matched Play, which can be dropped into Age Of Sigmar.
The first set of Made To Order miniatures will focus on the Dark Elves, to help you expand on that force of Idoneth Deepkin you've just decided to buy. They will then be providing rules and more for additional characters in the future so watch out to see what they do.
Finally, we also had news about their expansion towards Event Exclusive miniatures and they previewed this one at AdeptiCon.
They are planning to make it a special occasion to go to your favourite events and if Games Workshop is there, the chances are that you can pick up something special when you come along.
Right, digest all that and tell us what you think in the comments...
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Ooooo. New Harlequins. And this new faction may be the one to finally sell me on Age of Sigmar! That is a very cool idea.
Big thanks Ben for quick update will watch videos in lunch but your quick rundown of contents greatly appreciated, more knights droool!
More big stompy mechs!
(think how your react to new Dwarves)
The Idoneth Deepkin are amazing
Daughters of khaine and now deepkin…this may get me into AOS…is there a way to get my pay deposited directly into GW account? I mean it looks like its going to end up there anyway….
Very very very juicy news. The Imperial Knights Codex me want. I will convert one of my Knights ‘cos I don’t like the new variant mini that much, but the idea is neat. A shame I belive Renegade Knight woudl be in that codex…
The Sea Elves Mages are absolutely astonishing! The one with the ocean cape is gorgeous.
New bands for Shadespire is nice, maybe they will make some great, the last four are meh for me.
And Adeptus Sororitas in plastic, great news. I can imagine myself buying one box, at least xD
Wonder if the event exclusive will be at games expo??
Hoooeee that surfing sea elf is awesome! If I didn’t have a hundred army backlog those watery pointyears would sorely tempt me into aos 😀
Not sure about the flying turtle, but Im really looking forward to seeing someone do an awesome discworld version!
Great idea!
Considering the number of flippers it has I expect it’d be a creation of Bloody Stupid Johnson rather than the actual Disc. ;p
Giant stompy robot is awesome.
There is no such thing as too many guns.
Sisters is interesting for 2 reasons. Firstly after 20 years, what will they look like design wise, GW has moved on a long way since those metal models.
Secondly, they are going to follow the production process, or at least as much as they want to reveal, which is interesting in an overall way not just from sisters. Its also a major shift in their marketing approach. As a marketing team, they are now today the polar opposite of what they were 3 years ago. Its an extraordinary change really.
The sisters are going to look like the Saint Celestine and bodyguard models. They where the prototpyes for the new look of the army.
That’s is great paint work on those sea elf figures.
Don’t know what to make of these Idoneth yet. There are so many things and styles mixed into them.
There’s the “under the sea” theme (but almost Arielle-like, even a bit goofy here and there) at places a hefty pinch of SM vibe (somewhat “Dark Eldar in fantasy”), then the Romano / Greco influences but seen through a Renaissance / Baroque lense.
Also, a lot reminds me of style and elements of Confrontation: very much the weird octopus with the scribe (mage?), the wind chime parasol like thing, typical elongated pointy shoulder pieces, the distinct look of the wave of water behind the character.
They definitely hit the floating feeling. But I’m not convinced of re-placing things and looks and behaviour from under water onto land and into air while keeping an under water theme.
I am most easily hyped about getting plastic SoB next year than any of those other upcoming releases. Maybe then I can finally build myself that SoB army that I have wanted for over decade.
Sons of Bitches?
Plastic Sisters…Oooooh.
Big magic skull sea urchin…uh, okay.
Big freakin robots? W00t, but that new big boy is clearly gonna step on the Adeptus Tititanicus’ roles, no?
Sea Elves? Yep, nice, interesting ideas. But I’m definitely on the same boat as many that just handwaving giant flying turtles and stuff is just a handwave a bit too far. They coulda been sea themed without being covered in the contents of a John West trawlers net. Definitely Dark Eldar in fantasy, but cool, since the Dark Elfs had their bad-elf image shattered. I wanna know about the baldy guys with no eyes though…
I really hate elves as a rule, but the Sea elves do look pretty. And isn’t it great that plastic sisters have been announced, yet already in response I’ve seen someone online demanding to know where the plastic thunderhawk is, and it didn’t appear to be in jest either.
Elves that smell of fish…nice. I always keep an eye on the AoS releases to see if I can use anything for the Old World but their won’t be anything in this Aelf release for me (unlike the lovely skeles and skaven models released for Shadespire).
I find it interesting that one of the stated reasons for destroying the Old World were the ‘geographical limitations’ imposed upon factions from that world actually meeting or going to war yet we now have elves riding sea turtles and sharks that should be flapping about on the ground in any dry land battles? I guess as it’s stated they’re using Floaty in the Air Water Magic™?
Anyway, good to see the old models being available. I’d love to see GW make the whole back catalogue available again.
Oh and plastic SoB, great news!
More Knights??? WOW
Might be the context, or maybe clutter, but it’s hard to see what’s going on with some of the sculpts. Floaty fish elves doesn’t appeal to me, nor are they useful in any other gaming context. Something amphibian would have grabbed my attention more.
Loving the high-fantasy look of the elves. At the very least it’s a notable improvement over the conehead helmets that plagued GW elves since the start.
I hope the Deepkin get crabs.
If they do they better see a doctor straight away.
Yes, some nasty crustacean mounts! Lobsters, crabs… or a Galapagos type turtle, or some great snail and a conch howdah, with a ballista shooting hum-bolts. 🙂
If you’re going to do something whimsical and floaty, I would have gone with jellyfish critters. Really a missed opportunity, since the sculpts themselves are well done.
Good to see the older models are coming back. Hopefully they’re old enough to be good!
Floaty fish things just don’t work for me, there’s even a shole of small floaty fish?? Think it would of worked better if they weren’t floaty but had water around a base, as if they drag the sea around with them.
Yes. I agree. Flying fish and turtles don’t float my boat. 🙂
And Mantic already does the aquatic elf range.
I saw Ice elves somewhere they looked cool. Don’t remember where anymore.
To be fair flying fish are actually real
So 2020 we get the plastic thunderhawk right.. right?
It’s hard not to applaud GW for being willing to try something crazy and throw out a lot of their Tolkein heritage. Not everyone will like it, but you have to admit the new designs for the Daughters of Khaine and no the Deepkin are striking. It’ll be interesting to see how the lore pans out / explains what we’re seeing in these pictures, I’m wanting to avoid snap judgements before we get more than a teaser.
But they had me at plastic sisters. These could be fantastic.
Oh dear..flying fish and turtles?!
Plastic SoB are a good ten years too late to get me excited tbh..but good to hear they finally do them. Well, next year..
A new Knight is a bit of a temptation but I haven’t even one of the previous models as I’m still looking for an excuse to justify the price tag 😉
Not a fan of the Deepkin, the flying fish thing just looks silly to me. The problem with an aquatic themed army in a land based game is that it’s an uphill battle to make it work; infantry raiding parties translate well, but the underwater beasties and ships not so much. Sure you can have them sculpted to look like they’re swimming, leaping out the water, etc but it looks odd (and not in the same manner as snow based on a sand board for example which is just something which is unavoidable). This means those things would be restricted to bodies of water on the tabletop which is a bad limitation to place on players.
I could see the fish riders working in an underwater game which uses rules skin to those you’d have in a space or air combat game, but in a land based game, they just don’t do it for me.
I think it’s also disappoint that these guys are Elves. It would have been so much more interesting if they’d been fish/cephalopod/Cthulhuesque/etc-men And would have been something fresh and new, and would probably open things up to explore new lore/fiction, especially if they were multiple factions (eg one faction of fishmen, another of squidmen, etc) instead of one, with the various factions being opposed to one another instead of being unified. Combined with the aforementioned underwater combat idea, this could then lead to sub factions of the existing land/air factions that have an underwater theme (eg Khadron Overlords in submersibles and old-fashioned/steampunk diving gear, Lizardmen with aquatic dinosaur steeds, Chaos-corrupted marine life and aquatic-styled daemons, etc)
Deep Wars for example. They have some brilliant models
Love the look of the Deepkin, I’m a sucker for giant turtles.
The elf hero looks great! Its nice to see newly flavoured race here. But the flying turtles and fish won’t really fit for land battles for my taste. I am a sucker for more traditionally factions, tbh.
Is it any worse than flying ships?
Yes.
That’s a phenomenonal set of announcements and releases. I wonder if they will upstage this at Adepticon
I absolutely love the Idoneth Deepkin. I also kind of like the idea of the weird flying sea creatures. I can imagine them tangling with the Kharadron Overlords on the sky ships from time to time.
Those Idoneth Deepkin….
Embarrassing.
Is there anything about A.O.S that you like at all?
He is still caught on the, tiny, aos hate train.
Nothing in this that really grabbed me, and not the things I would have like to have seen – orks, adeptus titanicus etc. Will save my interest for them. Nothing wrong but for the biggest reveal ever ….
Sea elves I had heard a few rumours, and chap with the sea cloak aside (painter will go nuts) they didn’t live up to the descriptions I had heard. Still a mostly nice looking faction, probably 4th in aesthetics. Shame a new rules engine for Sigmar wasn’t an announcement.
The diseased testie, just why? Undead stuff may have some nice bits
Knight, might be me but isn’t that the same kit with more guns?
Sister, cool for those that want them but as I sold my metals on not too bothered.
Other bits all well and good, but nothing thrilling
some great think coming.
things.
i like the giant flying turtle :). It reminds me of those giant flying creatures in the first avengers movie.
That Death teaser looks like it could be a new Black Coach.
I love the Purple Sun model – if that’s what it is… Nice and weird, but in a good way.
GIANT FREAKING ROBOTS!
Although every Imperial Knight is a walker piloted by some posh lad I appreciate the sentiment.
I really like that primarus? Primaris? Primus? Fuck it! From now on they shall be known as Primus marines and that shall have a big brown beaver as a mascot!
So, yeah, I really like that Primus marine dude! I feel mildly inspired to dig out the dark millennium starter set and crack on with the new fellas (since Primus release I just can’t look at the ‘old/normal’ space marines without thinking they just look so wrong)
Mud beavers chapter
I now have to do an entire squad of primus marines now. Thanks.
Brother Sgt Mud, assist Brother Krinkle in setting up Adept Nutbutters’ cannon of cheese!
GW just killed it. So many amazing things.
all of this is great news. but the biggest problem i have is should i call the deepkin, Wet Elves or Moist Elves?
Deep moist elves should cover it. 🙂
Im ready for some new orks n codex.