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Lady Atia wrote:Perturabos' raven told me today that we will see the former 'Island of Blood' set reprinted for
AoS
, pre-orders are up at December the 17th.

 

Perturabo wrote:Quick lore on the boxset:

 

" The Dawnspire stands at the edge of the Transient Isles. Immense, drifting islands of black stone hanging in the air above an azure sea, they were once the subject of foul sorceries, a powerful Chaos wizard seeking to bring them crashing down. The mages of the Eldritch Council were able to stop this foul ritual, but not before two of the islands were lost to the depths."

 

Name changes in the Elf side:

Prince on Gryphon became High Warden

Archmage still Archmage? ( not really sure on the IoB name)

10 Swordmaster

Lothren seaguard became Spireguard

Elliyrian Reavers became Reavers

 

So this is the info of what I have seen:

- Complete rule to be used in the game ( hopefully there is an update in the warscroll)

-Background narrative as always (again, hopefully we could see the lore of the elves in
AoS
getting more explanation)

- 2 Warscroll battalion and 2 Pitched Battle Profile, one for each force

- Round and square base for each model

- stated in the last paragraph : "Previously only available in Warhammer Island of BLood, this is another chance to own these superbly detailed and dynamic miniatures." It is stated as "Available while stocks last"

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Square bases for the larger models. GW doesn't really have an oval base size that could support the Griffin or the weapons teams of the Skaven (those still come with square bases).

 

As a side note, this is where the large bulk of my Skaven army came from. Bought the set, and traded the elves for more Skaven. :)

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Square bases for the larger models. GW doesn't really have an oval base size that could support the Griffin or the weapons teams of the Skaven (those still come with square bases).

Actually GW has plenty of different sizes of ovals that cover all of the square bases from fantasy.
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It's a stupid good deal if you want to play High Elves or Skaven. As neither of those armies have an army book, they are pretty generic in their warscrolls. Skaven got lumped into the Chaos book, with Clan Pestilence getting an actual army book (and the best units/army fluff, etc. for Skaven ). High Elves are scattered throughout the Order Allegiance books, with some warscrolls in Order, some in a couple other books. There might be a couple Warscroll updates, namely for the High Elf leader and the Skaven Warlord, but everything else? Probably not. 

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