Votann at the Big Summer Preview

[AvePicante]

Hello Kin! The Leagues have been on the tracker for a while now, coming shortly after the Black Templars and Grey Knights. I've seen plenty of people flag the cowboy hat as a sign we'll get the announcement this Friday. What's on your wish lists?
 

Personally, I want a mining suit dreadnaught equivalent, kind of like the Necromunda Squats exo driller. A big, savage drill arm and a laser would just be awesome. Give me pickaxes for the berserkers or something. A new named character on a bike for the pioneers would be great too.

 

Seems like most releases for 10th haven't been huge so I'm not going to hold my breath for a massive release, but I'll keep my fingers crossed!

[Indy Techwisp]

I feel like Leagues of Votann either won't be at this preview or if it is you guys are getting a Single Character release.

 

There's already expected to be a very heavy Dwarf presence from AoS in the form of Chaos Dwarves, but its not impossible for GW to have multiple Dwarven factions shown off in the same stream.

[AvePicante]

I mean they announced the Kharadon Overlords battletome in AoS today too, it could just be a big week for short angry dudes. We're definitely getting shown something at this preview show. A character release wouldn't be the end of the world, I think. Votann players are foaming at the mouth for literally anything tbh

[phandaal]

According to Valrak, he has been hearing that Votann may get some kind of character and an infantry heavy weapon team. Something like that would not really move the needle for me.

 

100% with you on the big mining suit. Either that or give me a giant Ironkin golem. That would be awesome!

[AvePicante]

16 hours ago, phandaal said:

Either that or give me a giant Ironkin golem. That would be awesome!

100%, maybe the big mining suit is an Ironkin. I don't think anything in lore restricts the size of ironkin. I need to go back and read what I have, but there's nothing currently stopping an ironkin consciousness from being in a vehicle right?

Just watched the Valrak video today, I'm honestly interested in the earth shaker or however he phrased it. Sure, it might be a mortar team or something, but it could also be like, a giant pile driver that has a radius that reduces movement speed or shakes the ground so much that it damages vehicles. Something like that could be cool.

[phandaal]

1 hour ago, AvePicante said:

I need to go back and read what I have, but there's nothing currently stopping an ironkin consciousness from being in a vehicle right?

 

An Ironkin's consciousness is in their control unit, and Votann will go out of their way to recover those units if the body is lost or destroyed. The unit can be put into a new body, so it could in theory be placed into something besides the usual dwarf-sized artificial body.

 

A big mining rig would be awesome too though. Something like a Thunderkyn rig dialed to 11 crossed with a dreadnought... Heck yeah!

Edited Tuesday at 03:45 PM by phandaal

[TheVoidDragon]

On 7/15/2025 at 4:44 PM, phandaal said:

 

An Ironkin's consciousness is in their control unit, and Votann will go out of their way to recover those units if the body is lost or destroyed. The unit can be put into a new body, so it could in theory be placed into something besides the usual dwarf-sized artificial body.

 

A big mining rig would be awesome too though. Something like a Thunderkyn rig dialed to 11 crossed with a dreadnought... Heck yeah!

 

It hasn't actually been said anywhere that they get put into a new body, though. The lore says that their body is theirs just as much as an organic Kin's is, not some component to be replaced. I don't think a mech or giant ironkin would really work with the Votann theming, but a kastellan-sized COG robot could fit.

[phandaal]

28 minutes ago, TheVoidDragon said:

a kastellan-sized COG robot could fit.

 

Agree! I couldn't wait for GW to give us those so I did it myself. 

 

 

Just had to scrape away the cogwheels and upgrade their guns to superior Dwarven plasma!

[AvePicante]

32 minutes ago, phandaal said:

Agree! I couldn't wait for GW to give us those so I did it myself. 

 

Just had to scrape away the cogwheels and upgrade their guns to superior Dwarven plasma!

I literally dream of doing this, if only I could justify buying a set just to display right now. The Kastelan robots fit perfectly with our aesthetics

[Chaplain Lucifer]

So, what is the opinion on the releases?

I was hoping for jump unit and mech but got none..

 

Characters seems pretty cool and mortar looks awesome.

 

Seems judgement tokens are going extinct though...

[phandaal]

7 hours ago, Chaplain Lucifer said:

So, what is the opinion on the releases?

I was hoping for jump unit and mech but got none..

 

Characters seems pretty cool and mortar looks awesome.

 

Seems judgement tokens are going extinct though...

 

The Ironkin pondering his orbs is neat, and so is the mad scientist guy. The other stuff is not bad. Big fan of the Capricorn skimmer. That will make a great attack vehicle for my army and I want three of them! Wonder if we will get more Zodiac-themed vehicles... Karkinos walker next??

 

As for the rules, that legit did not even register with me until the third read through the article. The benefit of using the minis but not the rules. 

[INKS]

I honestly expected one new character. not dooming or anything like that but it is what I thought we would see.

So I am very happy to be wrong and to see that we got a ton more. 

I don't know if there is a model that I am super excited about, I think I like them all equally for now.

 

If we did get more I would like to see or I think we need to see:

Jump troops. kind of surprised they didn't make these. 

 

A Dread of some sort. We have something like this necromunda. The new robot guys we got are cool but they are the size of marines, which for LOV is large, but I was thinking larger. These are more like wraith guard, which is awesome but LARGER.

 

A Tank: A real tank, with a large gun and lots of smaller guns. I don't care if it's on wheels or it hovers. Yes they have other tank like vehicles. But not a real tank. This being said there is a trend now, and  that trend is for all of them to be transports of some sort. Maybe in the future we'll see a transport / tank - 2 different data sheets, Or maybe the land fortress will get an upgrade kit with a different data sheet, either are ok with me. 

 

Rules wise, I don't know. I think you'll see a detachment that still uses judgment tokens, but it won't be an army wide thing I guess? Really I am just hoping we have a few viable ways to play and good detachments. because that has been lacking. I don't need them to be top tier, or broken or anything like that. just fun to play and viable in a competitive sense.