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[dragdeler]

Now you will know why you fear masterful craftmanship. They do ouwie real good, plus if Malagor is up in the air, the gunners got free sight. It took me way too long to get a feeling when the gunners will shoot and when they lack a clear line of fire, they can definitly shred single monster units. Only hope is to cheese them into fleeing. Range units are such cowards, there could be a broken unit at two seconds from loosing morale passing the line, and 6 fulls squads of range unit would still rather flee in a disorganised manner than take a new position, even if they'll beat the unit in two and half pokes if you melee rightclick the pests.

[nenjin]

Against non missile units you can just fly tight circles over them. With ranged units, unit type appears to matter. I forget what ork units they were, but they basically wouldn’t start shooting until Malagor came to a stop. But dwarf gunners, dealing with the same tight circle pattern, would turn and fire even while Malagor was moving, dealing significantly more damage.

When I’m back in town I’ll try the fight again. I imagine flying back and forth in front of their army, rather than circling over it, will cause way more of their shots to miss.

[Mech#4]

New announcements on Warhammer 3; Though the game has been pushed back to release in 2022 we've got a new trailer showcasing Grand Cathay and the forces of Tzeentch.
It's interesting because Cathay was a faction that never had any real development back in Warhammer TT. No models and very little lore to work off of so all this is new stuff coming from Games Workshop and Creative Assembly.

The Dawn of Grand Cathay trailer

FAQ about Grand Cathay

Apparently they're going to focus on disciplined troops, ranged and magic, though with a lack of cavalry and being rather slow. Also Dragon Legendary Lords.

[Persus13]

Your links and titles are backwards btw.

The main new thing I got from the Tzeentch armies were guys on flying disks. So I'm curious if someone with better eyes saw anything else. (Also a Lord of Change obviously, but Total War's had those since 1).

[Jopax]

Eh, looks fine, also didn't they say Cathay will get cav of some sort, but it'll something like peasants for Bretonnia and generally shit in combat.

Also the delay was pretty much inevitable, the game was due in less than a month and we've barely seen 2 factions so far, they would've been hyping shit up way more if they were planning to release it anytime soon.

Either way, cool stuff, not too bothered with the wait since there's a shitton of other stuff in my backlog, plus WH2 is still fun to fire up from time to time and I still haven't touched a number of factions/lords.

[Mech#4]

Your links and titles are backwards btw.

The main new thing I got from the Tzeentch armies were guys on flying disks. So I'm curious if someone with better eyes saw anything else. (Also a Lord of Change obviously, but Total War's had those since 1).

Thank you. Shows how long it's been since I've done links.

I think from various screenshots shown around, as well as the trailer, Tzeentch forces show the disks, Pink and Blue Horrors, Flamers, Screamers, Tzeentch Soul Grinder, as well as some tzeentch themed chaos spawn and forsaken.
The Lord of Change in the trailer I believe is Kairos Fateweaver, the two-headed Lord of Change.

Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2
Screenshot 3

[nenjin]

Generally in fiction the Lord of Change is always two-headed now. Back in the day the model had one head but now I think it pretty much always features two.

[scriver]

I mean I kinda expected the Cathay to at least feature some terracotta soldiers I'm not alone in this right?

[USEC_OFFICER]

The giant statues in the trailer and screenshots are terracotta soldiers, though I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we'd get smaller versions as DLC.

[scriver]

The giant statues in the trailer and screenshots are terracotta soldiers, though I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we'd get smaller versions as DLC.

Haha I was going to say "but maybe the giant guys are terracotta golems" so hey I guess I wasn't entirely wrong

A Cathay-version of a Vampire Count or probably more likely Mummy Lord (I can't remember the name right now) with Terracotta soldiers would be cool too.

[Persus13]

Yeah the giant statues are being called Teracotta Sentinels in the marketing.

[LordPorkins]

Generally in fiction the Lord of Change is always two-headed now. Back in the day the model had one head but now I think it pretty much always features two.

Pretty sure Kairos is the only two-headed one. At least for Warhammer Fantasy. I dunno what age of Sigmar is doing

[nenjin]

Ah. I've seen the name in 40k before, and 40k is mostly my bag so that's what I was (silently) referencing. I'm pretty outta touch with WFH and AoS lore. But in 40k, it's a widely used image for Lords of Change.

[LordPorkins]

Ah. I've seen the name in 40k before, and 40k is mostly my bag so that's what I was (silently) referencing. I'm pretty outta touch with WFH and AoS lore. But in 40k, it's a widely used image for Lords of Change.

Same.

[scriver]

Generally in fiction the Lord of Change is always two-headed now. Back in the day the model had one head but now I think it pretty much always features two.

Pretty sure Kairos is the only two-headed one. At least for Warhammer Fantasy. I dunno what age of Sigmar is doing

Think of it. Two heads. Four oversized pauldrons.

Maybe more

Imagine