New Empire Book Soon?

I have not looked at the warseer rumours on this topic but have just seen the vid on the GW site. Its pretty obvious a new Empire book will come at the end of March. I get the impression that there might be more emphasis on warrior priess and witch hunter types. I certainly hope so at least. What do you recon?

31st March is the date for advance orders, release date should be 7th April according to all sources.

List from Whineseer:
Empire Army book 33 EUR
Karl Franz on Death Claw 1 fig. plastic 43 EUR
Empire Celestial Hurricanium/Luminark of Hish 1 fig. plastic 39 EUR (no clue what it is but I guess something like the new VC thingymagic)
Empire Demigryph Knights 3 fig. plastic 43 EUR
Captain plastic 1 fig. 10,5 EU
Engineer plastic 10,5 EUR
Volkar on war altar plastic 1 fig 39 EUR
witch hunter 1 fig resin 13 EUR
Markus Wolfhart 1 fig resin 13 EUR
Empire amber wizard 1 fig resin splash release 13 EUR
Warrior priest 1 fig resin 13 eur

Empire Celestial Hurricanium/Luminark of Hish

Its a big warmachine, rumoured to be a lens type energy weapon. Typical Empire types playing with magical/scienetific engineering

I like the rumor that there will be different warrior priests for the book. Ones for Ulric and ....the death god who's name I just forgot. I hope there is one for Taal, too, but probably not.

Some special rules for different knightly orders. It would be awesome to see a book come out just for special rules and history of special knightly orders. I can almost see it being like different Space Marine chapters, but you can only change so much for Knights without genetic engineering.

Priests of Morr? I wouldn't have thought Taal will get one he's a bit wood elf-y

Priests of Morr, yes! Imagine the anti-Undead people will soon unleash on VC!

I don't see Taal as hippy. I see him as nature and beasts. Just look at Lore of Beasts to see various non-hippy spells. Maybe they can be beast killers?

Och, I don't care really, They'll die the same under Fanatics and Mangler Squigs!!

Seriously, always liked the Empire look, but, I don't know, something has always put me off doing the army for some reason!

Yeah, on the G.W site today there's a teaser trailer for them.

I didn't mean hippy I ment he's very very similar to the elven god Kurnous, plus the Amber wizards are ment to be the wild wizards that live a hermit type life in the Amber hills and other 'wild' areas in and amongst the empire.

Trust me I know the Lore of Beasts (Bretonnians) its anything but pansy. S5, T4 Peasants make a nasty suprise

Empire have already got good access to anti-undead with lore of light however I can see Demigryph Knights being a nice unit of Monstrous Cavalry (damn Empire stealing all my Bret thunder, their Knights better not outclass the chivalry of mine)

Pics are up on Warseer, from WD. Damn that Griffon is humongous. Barely fits on a chariot base!

Theo

That is one HOOOOOOOOOGE beastie!!

Makes the high Elf one look like a Budgie!!

Still no matter how big it is, it's still ONLY a Griffon, unles there's some uber rules for it in the new book.

I just hope that the cost and amount of artillery they can put on the table is toned down a bit. Right now their warmachines are stupid cheap and a lot of them are special choices. The Empire would be a lot more fun to fight against if they emphasized the infantry blocks, knights, and detachments more than an artillery train.

I almost always beat them when they play a ton of artillery, but it is just not that much fun of a game.

And that is one really big Griffon.

My all-orc army really struggles against a shooty Lvl4 light Waraltar list. Nothing but massacres yet. Rocketbattery kills like 15+ guys every turn, the other shooting whittles down my supportunits and when I get into combat 30 Flaggellants with Timewarp is no fun! xD I hope the Waraltar is just for Volkmar now, but I'm sure it isn't.

Theo

that sure is one big chicken

and looking at the modeli think you can count on it having some special rules.

Just saw a lot of the various pics. Looks like they are getting some crazy big contraptions like the celestial wagon thing and the wagon with the archimedes mirror gun thing. Looks like they are getting monstrous cavalry in the form of demi-griffon riders. The models looked pretty cool.

I have more hope now that the Empire army is moving away from such a gun-line oriented force. I just can't stand gun-lines since one player pretty much plays Yahtzee while the other actually plays Warhammer - just not fun at all.

Is it me or does the griffon head look small?

Regardless, although I don't personally like the models that much (personal taste), I think they do a great job of being thematic for the empire and help really give the empire its own style. They remind me of the old Mordheim drawings.