[kingofmonkeys]

Today I noticed this little gem
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2010/...ced-by-gw.html
to sum it up the games workshop site had a post that said that the new starter box will be called "island of blood" and to keep an eye out in september



Edited your title to make it clearer what this referred to. MT.

[Zen]

Looks like they're gonna follow what they did for 40K e.g. Assault on Black Reach.

[Will of Kaos]

Yeah, it is the name for the new starter set.

It is supposed to include High Elves and Skaven.

- Will

[Apollo]

Straight from the Incoming! email:

The Warhammer world; it is a place riven by battle, where mighty armies clash for glory, honour or the entertainment of Dark Gods. Darkened skies, tortured by cataclysmic magics tear open and rain blood upon the ceaseless combatants and the landscape is wracked by the carnage around it. Trees writhe in mutated agony, lashing out with limb and branch and rivers flow thick with the corpses of the slain. All upon the land are consumed by the unending battle, an age of war in which victory and defeat hang in the balance.
Cast against this macabre tableau fight mighty armies -warriors by their million raise banners of defiance or icons of dismay, taking up arms in the clash for survival. Beleaguered and surrounded, the forces of Order fight desperately to stem the tide of the armies of Destruction. Delighting in the carnage and ruination, the Dark Gods look on.
The Island of Blood is but one battleground upon the face of the Warhammer world, a mystical and dangerous place that has been twisted and mutated by the warping power of Chaos. In ages past the Island of Blood was a battleground upon which armies have bled and died in the ageless battle for supremacy... and they will do so again. Soon.
The Island of Blood is the new boxed game for Warhammer and is released this September. Packed full of stunning plastic Citadel miniatures and containing all the rules, dice and templates you'll need to play, it's the essential purchase for fans of the Warhammer hobby.
Meanwhile, if you like the Battle for Skull Pass boxed game (and who wouldn't with all those Goblins and Dwarfs) then it only seems fair to point out that once the last few remaining copies are gone they're gone, and they're never coming back! Pick one up while stocks last.
In August we'll feature more information about The Island of Blood on games-workshop.com and the full details will be released in September's White Dwarf.



Well, looks interesting. Makes it about time to get into Fantasy, in my opinion

EDIT: Is it my imagination, or is Fantasy getting more grimdark?y

[cammerz]

Alright everyone, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take a look at this picture and any other pictures released recently with one of these two armies and try to spot something that looks different.
They may show up in other army books for example I found an Assault on Black Reach Ork Boy on the back cover of codex: Chaos Space Marines.

Now, I don't have any of the new plague censer bearers but I don't know whether the ones pictured are the current ones.
I'm also trying to decide whether the High Elf spearmen on the left look snap-fit or what?
Then we get the silver helms behind the dragon princes, they look a bit different as well.

Anyone else see anything?

[kingofmonkeys]

I think those are the current censer bearers looks like all the current stuff for me on the skaven side in fact

[warriorchris]

Interesting... I mentioned to my local Black shirt yesterday about the possibility of a starter box, he said that there would be none! Because fantasy was to be seen as a 'Real mans Game'

This just goes to show how much they are now being told... Its just evidence of the crack down on leaks eh!

[Will of Kaos]

I think they were having you on Chris :P

It sounds good, although I wish they had stuck with Dwarves, giving me a reason to buy it. I could do with the rulebook.

I look forward to them showing us what they have in it.

- Will