Slaanesh is dead (?); long live Slaanesh

[Vanvlak]

A little bit becaues I'm angry at GW for killing off the Warhammer World, and now apparently also Slaanesh, here's a muted colour scheme (it felt appropriate) very old greater demon - I'd guess he'd now rank as a demon prince.

[Cubs]

Nice.

[Sinewgrab]

I have never been able to go muted with Slaanesh.  I cut my teeth on the pastels pinks, blues and purples, and I wants me the color.  I do like what you did here, though.  Great figure.

[Vermis]

Looks good. The subtle maroon bits especially!

[Elk101]

What's this about GW dropping Slaanesh?

Nice model and paintjob by the way.

[grant]

What's this about GW dropping Slaanesh?

Nice model and paintjob by the way.

It's about the titties and little kiddies. Or something. Blood, gore, and skulls - no problems; TITS BAD!

Great model and paintwork.

[Elk101]

It's about the titties and little kiddies. Or something. Blood, gore, and skulls - no problems; TITS BAD!

Great model and paintwork.

Ah right. The wiff of double standards. I always thought Slaanesh was one of the most interesting.

[Vanvlak]

Looks good. The subtle maroon bits especially!

Thanks guys.
The maroon is actually a simple mix of red and blue which was originally intended to produce purple, but which seemed more interesting when it produced this colour, so I used it.

[noigrim]

GW kills Slaanesh and then releases a Slaanesh battalion, lolwut?

http://www.games-workshop.com/es-ES/Pleasurebound-Warband

[Vermis]

It's about the titties and little kiddies. Or something. Blood, gore, and skulls - no problems; TITS BAD!

Well, no. That's just the conclusion people jumped to.

[Pictors Studio]

The model looks great. 

I don't think they have killed off Slaanesh at all.  They included the symbol of Slaanesh on the box of Archaon.  That doesn't make sense if they are getting rid of that God.  Also Slaanesh has been mentioned all of the AoS books I have.

My guess is that Slaanesh will come flooding back along with the Elves in the next year or so with a few rule books and a new scenario book.

[grant]

Well, no. That's just the conclusion people jumped to.

So what's it about, then?

[Pictors Studio]

"So what's it about, then? "

Not working at GW I don't actually know, of course.  However the Slaanesh in hiding thing makes sense given how things wound down in the Old World.  Also it gives them a good opportunity to keep the elves out of the game for a time while they are figuring out how they want to re-imagine the elven models.  So this set of releases is mostly Khorne vs. Sigmarites.  They have also done some stuff with Nurgle and Treemen types.

Tzeentch has been in the books but obviously not a focus, nor has Tzeentch had any new big models come out like the Slaughterbrutes or whatever they are and the Blightkings. 

We might see Tzeentch and dwarfs or something and then Slaanesh and Elves.

But who knows.  It certainly would be a neat narrative thing and a way to keep interest up.

Of the Chaos gods the two that make the most sense to remove for a time are Nurgle and Slaanesh.  You could probably come up with ways to temporarily take out Khorne or Tzeentch but it would be harder to fit in with the narrative. 

Of Nurgle and Slaanesh Nurgle has a bunch of pretty new models, Glottkin, the Maggoth lords, the Blightkings and the plague drones, plus possibly others, I've only just started doing Nurgle. 

So you can't get rid of Nurgle, but you can get rid of Slaanesh and if you have problems in deciding how you are going to do your Elves Slaanesh has a much better connection with them than Nurgle does.