It’s Gobbapalooza! Destruction fans don’t miss all these amazing teasers for not one, but two weeks of Gloomspite Gitz that are going on pre-order in 2019!
This army will include Moonclan Grots, Spiderfang Grots, and more! Games Workshop says the Gloomspite Gitz tome is as jam-packed with juicy lore as usual with a deep set of rules.
The Gitz will go on pre-order Saturday the 5th of January, plus they even teased week twos miniature lineup of Troggoths and more. Along with a new Battletome of regular and collectors version, there will be the normal warscroll card offering as well.
You can expect a preview of this battletome shortly we are sure. Plus along with all those rules, there are lots of new boxes coming your way:
In the new Fanatics kit, you’ll find everything you need to build five Fanatics, with your weapon of choice. Loonsmasha Fanatics wield balls and chains, and can be concealed inside your units during deployment before being unleashed as a deadly surprise for your foes, while Sporesplatta Fanatics shield your grots from shooting with choking clouds of spores.
Squig Hoppers, meanwhile, have been remade in an incredibly customisable plastic kit that offers interchangeable riders, customisable squigs and more. This kit also builds a brand-new Moonclan Grots unit – the Boingrot Bounderz.
If you’re looking to field hordes of Squigs, you’ll be well served by the new Squig Herd kit, which features everything you need to build and customise 10 of them, plus a pair of herders. With your choice of 20 unique faces, interchangeable with various legs, you’ll be able to ensure no two Squigs look alike.
If your army needs a leader, you can’t go wrong with Skragrott the Loonking. As self-proclaimed overlord of the Gloomspite Gitz, he’s a supremely cunning commander and powerful Wizard.
On the tabletop, you’ll find Skragrott invaluable, capable of manipulating the passage of the Bad Moon and even stealing enemy Heroes’ artefacts of power! He’s a magnificent project for a painter, too, packed with gorgeous and characterful detail.
Meanwhile, the Bad Moon Loonshrine is a must-have for anyone starting a Gloomspite Gitz army. Available at no matched play points cost to your army, this icon of the Bad Moon has a chance to return destroyed units of Stabbas and Shootas to the battlefield, representing the unending hordes summoned to battle by the Bad Moon:
On the topic of unending, the new endless spells are another indispensable addition for Gloomspite Gitz players, offering you a new set of summoned sorceries unique to your army. Each endless spell has a host of strange and powerful effects, like Scrapskuttle’s Arachnacauldron, which offers your Wizards greater arcane power while damaging nearby foes. We’re not sure what’s in that cauldron, but our advice is: don’t drink the soup!
One of the items that has caused the most delight on our Warhammer Age of Sigmar Facebook page, isn’t even a model. The design team have been hard at work in the squig pens for months, attempting an unholy fusion once thought beyond the reach of science, magic and stranger arts besides. Now, the fruit of their labours can be revealed – meet the rare and elusive Dice Squig:
Games Workshop also showed an unprecedented second week’s worth of release teasers as well for the new Grots as Gobbapalooza starts picking up steam.
Available for pre-order on the 12th of January are such delights as will fire the hearts of even the oldest and most wizened Grot generals!
Consider, if you will the glorious Gobbapalooza – a selection of wise-grots whose fungal-experimentations have left each blessed with curious powers and appearance.
A group of five Grots, the Gobbapalooza includes a Shroomancer, Spiker, Boggleye, Scaremonger and Brewgit. This set of five, fungus-mad models is a firm favourite in the office (Boggleye is even taking a turn at being the Warhammer Community mascot). Oh, and you can use them individually in your army or as a five-Grot warscroll. Your choice.
Also coming in week two for the Gloomspite Gitz is the Loonboss!
This moon-headed hero is the leader your Grot Stabbas need to keep them, er, stabbing at maximum efficiency. He’s not bad at fighting, with his moon-slicer either! Aaand, he looks just like the Grot on the cover of the Battletome.
For fans of alliteration, the Sneaky Snufflers are the Grots for you. Each of the six plastic Sneaky Snufflers is a shroom-hunting maniac with a rack of ill-gotten fungi on his back and a Snufflesquig straining at the leash.
These curious Squigs are the first to scent the growing looncap mushrooms that herald the Bad Moon’s arrival, and on the battlefield, the looncaps they harvest can intoxicate even the lowliest Moonclan warriors into fearsome fighters… though it might cost them their lives. Not only are they handy in a fight, but they’re also glorious sucker-snouted beauties, adding even more flavour to the Squig family.
Straight outta Fantasy, the Mangler Squig is making a comeback as well. Presumably arriving as a new plastic kit, this big squiggly was a fan favorite for many years.
Mangler Squigs were a common enough sight on the battlefields of the world-that-was, and the all-new plastic kit up for pre-order on the 12th will ensure that they’ll be rampaging across the Mortal Realms for many years yet to come.
This glorious kit not only makes the infamous multi-Grot-Squig-rodeo-insanity that is the classic Mangler Squig (for those new to this lunacy, it’s two massive Squigs chained together and ridden into battle by a clutch of surely-doomed Grots), but it also makes a Loonboss on Mangler Squigs. Perfect for when your Squig-riding minions need some true leadership*.
Hot on the heels of sneakily appearing in the background of the first round of Grot previews, more Troggoths are finally here. Previously know as Stone Trolls before they transcended to the towers of protective IP, these models are the first updates of their pewter selves from the ’90s.
Does that out of focus shape look familiar? Check out the top right Troggoth below.
Moonclan are certainly at the front of the line when it comes to the new releases for the Gloomspite Gitz, but the biggest and beefiest new models due for release are the much-anticipated Troggoths.
Rockgut Troggoths are here!
These towering creatures of muscle and stone are said to have crawled from the bowels of the earth, and looking at them it’s easy to believe. A three-model kit, these pot-bellied, rock-skinned brutes are a gorgeous re-imagining of a Warhammer classic as a plastic kit loaded with spares for you to customise your Troggherd!
Last but certainly not least, the new Dankhold Troggoth character has been unveiled as well.
Antisocial and reclusive, these behemoths dwell in the darkest… well, dankholds, where they slumber away the decades, awakening only to feast on the magical fungi that grow upon the realmstone deposits in the roots of the Mortal Realms. Such raw magic doesn’t kill the Dankhold Troggoths as it would lesser creatures, but instead mutates them into the vast, lumbering monsters you see here. This gigantic plastic kit comes loaded with spare bits, enabling you to make a boulder club-wielding Dankhold Troggoth with a variety of alternatives. We’ll be showing you each in detail in the near furture.
A very cool lineup looks to be on the way for the new year, that will round out the current destruction offerenings for Age of Sigmar nicely. Remember that if you have current Troggoths that they have been changed to 60mm round bases from their previous 40mm ones in the DEC 2018 FAQ update.
Which of these new Gitz are you looking forward to the most? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
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