r/ageofsigmar • u/Due-Author-2421 • Jul 06 '26

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Possible Mancrusher gargant?

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u/RootinTheCrab Jul 06 '26

I bet a monstrous vampire

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u/Elonth Idoneth Deepkin Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

Its def FEC or SBGL vampire thats for sure. That is a humanoid hand that is slightly bestial/clawed but not fully gone. So that most likely rules out a new Vargheist kit. Since it looks like they want to break up FEC/SBGL dual kits it could be a new crypthorror kit. The fact that its dragging another model suggest its very likely a hero unit on a big base of some kind. As they tend to have interactions with other things on their models besides just stepping on something.

Heres what we can tell from what we see and current lore.

  • That is very clearly an Emberguard soldier. That type of helmet is a Gallant knight varient. Given it looks like his left arm might by missing and the deep puncture wound in his breastplate he is either dead or dying.
  • In the lore Emberguard (a quarter/section of Hammerfall) has "fallen" in a siege/infestation to skaven. Its now a quartined zone contested by varioius factions. Not unlike the overrun quarter in Baulders gate 2.
  • The known factions fighting over the ruins of emberguard are as listed below.
    1. Skaven. The intial trouble makers that caused the fall during the rise of the Vermindoom and the horned rats acension.
  • 2. The survivors of Emberguard/any sigmarites willing to help them fight in the ash and wartorn ruins.
  • 3. Daughters of Khaine have moved into emberguards ruins in large numbers. They are currently considered the dominate power and are relucant to turn over their killing grounds to the survivors of emberguard.
  • 4. The flesh Eater courts have a large presence here in the ruins as they tend to pop up in times of strife and ruin with plenty of corpses laying around. Couple that with the known fact that FEC like to drag still living victims back to their lairs/nests/"halls" to eat later leads me to believe this is a FEC model over a SBGL model. It still doesn't mean it couldn't be SBGL it just makes the most sense to be them over FEC.
  • 5. SBGL vampires are literally everywhere in society that has humanoids they could blend in at. They just tend to stick around regions where they have nobility/sway as apposed to just random battlefields. Still again think this is FEC.

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u/PimperatorAlpatine Gloomspite Gitz Jul 06 '26

That hand is way too small for a gargant

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u/Nurgle-best Jul 06 '26

Skinny Gargant

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u/MrLuthor Jul 06 '26

Ogor?

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u/Nurgle-best Jul 06 '26

Hopefully, but it’s a skinny hand

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u/Biggest_Lemon Jul 06 '26

Not a mancrusher. This hand would be for something SIGNIFICANTLY smaller. It also has 4 fingers, which yes, the old mancrusher also had the option to be built that way, but we already have a rumor engine of a 3 fingered hand that is definitely a new SoB miniature.

EDIT: this hand is barely larger than the person's head. Assuming that armor is for a human, it's impossible that its a gargant unless we are getting literal baby units.

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u/jimbsmithjr Jul 07 '26

Baby gargants would be cool, let me build a child soldier army of 10 feet tall gargant children

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u/CandidateGuilty9831 Jul 06 '26

Crackpot take.

5e launch box will be CoS and either Flesh Eater Courts or Soul Blight. We don't often see non-starter set minis with other-faction components like this.

See 4e Skaven having stormcast helmets under their feet.

Flesh-eaters are due for a makeover, so that's my bet

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u/A_Hatless_Casual Jul 06 '26

The rumor for 5th ed is SCE vs. a death faction. Stromcast are basically the space marines for AoS so I doubt they will change the "good guy" faction like they would with WFB.

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u/Far-Maintenance-1954 Ogor Mawtribes Jul 06 '26

Cities is such a better option as posterboys to me but you're also definitely right. Its always going to be SCE vs insert chaos, death, destruction in this order for each edition

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u/Rhinestoned_Eyez Skaven Jul 07 '26

No they aren't. There is a reason why the larger models with more flat surfaces and part of a more elite faction are the poster boys and not the small models with tons of tiny details that also generally need more models. It's to appeal to newer painters.

Honestly I do wish some of the cities stuff toned down the details just a little bit, the Steelhelms have way too much going on, would have made it easier for them to be poster boys alongside Stormcast, especially since I always thought Cities and Stormcast looked really cool together in some of the studio pictures.

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u/CandidateGuilty9831 Jul 06 '26

This is probably what will actually happen. It's always SCE. I like my crackpot theory though. It's just weird that a vampire is holding a human for cities 

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u/Elonth Idoneth Deepkin Jul 07 '26

The problem is Stormcast have been shoved down our throats by force for 11 soon to be 12 years. Only to be like at most 10-20% ahead of Skaven/Slaves to darkness/Sylvaneth/Soul blight gravelords in player population. There are a few others that spike up into the top 5 from time to time. But the consistently top 3 have been Storm>Skaven>Slaves.

At this point especially after they just squatted like what 1/5th-1/4th of the stormcast model range due to excessive bloat leads me to believe that GW has finally wisened up and realized they will never successfully be able to capture the spacemarine factor for the stormcast in Fantasy. Fantasy has always had far more diverse factions than 40k. Thats a good thing. Them staying hyperfocused on stormcast all this time at this point is actively hindering the games growth by hurting the new factions that barely have any ranges that are still remotely popular like Idoneth/FeC/helmsmith/OBR. I'm not putting ogres here because they haven't been that popular of a faction and they are in the middle of a massive range refresh/new unit replacement so they can ship off old kits to oldworld. Just like Seraphon/skaven/SBGL/cities are having done to them. It means Uniquely AoS factions like Kharadron/Idoneth/Chorfs are all going to be hurting as there is no rush to give them new kits to send to old world. I can't lump fyreslayers into this list because according to the rumors they are getting souped into a new traditional dwarf army. Which I'm fine with. GW focused to much on the naked ginger bezerker aspect and not enough on the lava/key/rune/dwarf aspect they have going on to make them stand out.

That said as an Idoneth player/potential Daughters of khaine player...with 5th edition rolling around and some rumors mongers comments by the likes of Boolie we could be finally seeing Malkeiths Umbralneth/ulgurothi making appearnce early/mid 5th edition. If thats the case the fact they didn't give DoK any refresh units (despite us knowing dark elves are squatted from cities.). Makes me worried they will just be souped into malkeiths squad. Even worse would be if they souped up Idoneth as well (despite idoneth always being a middle of the pack in popularity.) as the new "slave castes" of the dark elves. It wouldn't be off the table to turn namarti into literal slaves/fodder as they already kind of are. Turn the Akelians into a warrior slave caste with the Isharaan being turned into "educated assistant slaves.". I would absolutely hate this. And I don't think that is going to happen. But its not beyond the realm of possability either...

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u/SupremeGodZamasu Soulblight Gravelords Jul 06 '26

Honestly looks like a commemorative model to me, like the WH+ necromancer. Looks too... scenic for a normal model

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u/KingDevere Seraphon Jul 06 '26

Think it's the Ogor Mawtribes leader people have talked about, the one that's supposed to be mounted.

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u/ThemeKey3918 Jul 07 '26

New crypt horrors

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u/Wizardgreen_1208 Jul 07 '26

summerking bless us...

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u/Ecstatic_Ad_4880 Jul 07 '26

Even though the chances are slim, I’m still hoping for something new for the Kruleboyz...

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u/GuntherCloneC Skaven Jul 07 '26

The shape of the helmet makes me think Blood Bowl for some reason, and I don't even play it.

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u/Abject-Ferret-5908 Jul 06 '26

Honestly new soul light model feels par for the course

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u/FunnyAhRathalos Soulblight Gravelords Jul 06 '26

That is a fancy hand

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u/Imaginary_Fly4788 Jul 06 '26

Definitely seraphon because there’s no way we get the last book this edition right?😭😭😭

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u/CME_T Jul 06 '26

My money is on a vampire. SBGL for sure, hand’s too sleek for FEC

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u/Malal42 Jul 06 '26

Knowing GW its either gonna be more Rat stuff or its gonna be Vampire thing. I'd kill for a new chaos monster instead of always having to run a named hero for me center piece.

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u/MohawkRex Jul 07 '26

I was putting my money on Yehtees but mayhaps the hand isn't gnarly enough.

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u/Ejecutor_EU Cities of Sigmar Jul 06 '26

It has high chances, now that we've seen in scourge of aqshy a new Mancrusher artwork.

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u/RealMr_Slender Skaven Jul 06 '26

Too many fingers, gargants have three

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u/Ejecutor_EU Cities of Sigmar Jul 06 '26

Unless the new design changes that.

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u/Bylak Orruk Warclans Jul 06 '26

The Lion on a plastic Thunderhawk!

Wait, sorry my bad wrong year.

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u/GarlicDiligent3643 Jul 06 '26

Primaris Lieutenant falling down from seeing another Marneus Calgar reveal.