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Yesterday's rumor engine is... quite something.

A dead guardsman skull on a miniature? Do they have ANY idea how little this narrows it down?! This could be part of some Imperial Guard character's tactical rock for all we know. The natural habitat of "dead guardsmen" is the entire darn setting after all...

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are we thinking beautiful mutant or kindful alien

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I'm going to say this some kind of new Kroot model. The digits look zygodactylous (two forward and two back, like chameleons and some birds). The Kroot have a similar arrangement. Also the heavy stitching on the underside of the gauntlet is a common Kroot aesthetic. The amount of detail on the painting implies that it's really big though. And the nails are more rounded than the normal Kroot. Maybe a new Krootox, or some other kind of big boy Kroot model.

The Farstalker Kinband box can be used to assemble Carnivores (I think) and it comes with a few Hounds. So a new Krootox would nearly finish refreshing the existing Kroot range in plastic. Maybe they'll be a small-sized squad of 3 models instead of a solo or unit upgrade.

The previous Tau Codex made a point of including rules for fielding an all-Kroot force. The optimist in me hopes that they're going to add a few more units to the Kroot subfaction to round it out. Be a good use of Detachment rules in the new list-building for 10e. New Tau Codex is slated for Spring 2024. I'm gonna start huffing that copium for a Kroot Mercenaries Detachment. I mean, they already did Squats, anything is possible.

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Double barrel Kroot gun. My best guess is a new Krootox!

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This is the most obvious Emperor's Children coded rumor engine I have seen in my life. The only question is how disgusting the lore for the "living flesh sword" is going to be.

Least disturbing case: demon sword.

More likely case: it's the arm of the Heretic Astartes that mutated and fused with his weapon.

Worst case: it's a cultist who is still alive.

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A toolbox carried by what seems to be a mechanical hand? That looks pretty Leagues of Votann to me. They are like the only faction who carries their tools around like this. AdMech put their stuff on weird robo-tentacles, the T'au have drones for every job, and the rest of the factions does not bring their stuff to the field like this.

Not unexpected given that we will see some LoV releases this edition - my guess is on a dedicated Ironkin unit. You know, like the guys following this little guy here: