Gargantuans Thoughts

On unreleased stuff:

Trolls

Grim2 - I like him. He has a solid deck of utility spells and mortality which is incredible (but might require bonegrinders, I like them with trolls anyway because we really need certain animuses). Feat again is utility. Mirage is an under appreciated spell.

Night Troll - At MAT 5 P+S 12 he's not going to be tearing stuff up but his animus is interesting and paralysis is awesome against hordes. I am distinctly meh. He's another utility beast, in the right situation he will be amazing but not for every list.

Fennblade Kithkar - Is pretty good for two points. He's competeing with a lot of awesome troll solos for that slot though. To support fennblades I'd take the chronicler ahead of him but as a two point beatstick with vengeance (freindly faction) he will make quite a few lists.

Trollkin Sorceror - Immediatly made a bunch of lists just becasue he costs one point. It's a unit attachment that doesn't use up a unit attachment slot and it brings a decent gun and the ability to remove enemy upkeeps so it's definetely worth taking. Trolls do have a problem with cryx and tend to have to make lists specifically against cryx, this guy helps you do that. 

Warders - OK they are not as good as champions but they are two points cheaper. They also have reach. Battle driven is also fairly useful. They are straight into my Madrak2 list. 

Circle
Morvhana2 - She's flat out amazing. Purification is incredible Scales of Fate and her feat pair really well with Carnivore and Imperishable Conviction. Fog of War is fantastic in Circle and her feat is stupid. She will see a lot of top level play. 

Razorwing Griffon - not much to say here. Remains to be seen how much an amuck trample will hurt a unit of infantry. Doesn't cost much and it flies and slams so you can't complain. 

Riphorn Satyr - 3 initials with a chain attack (for the fists) is not bad, bulldoze is a great animus (like circle needed more movement shenanigans), aggressive makes him essentially fury 5. Got to have a way to buff his P+S but otherwise he looks solid. 

Tharn Blood Pack - The Bloodtrackers never became a true combined arms unit, these guys may but I'm not convinced. 

Legion

Lylyth3 - http://guildwarmachine.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/santa-spoiled.html

Nephilim Bloodseer - Interesting animus and telemetry and primal magic are really good. He's already in my Bethayne and Lylyth1 lists.

Beast Mistress - She has energizer and field marshall - Aggressive. She's amazing. Just got to figure out who to take her with. Lylyth1? Rhyas? She will see play.

Skorne

Makada3 - Her feat is bonkers amazing, her spell list is meh. She really wants to play forward, really far forwards. With two shield guards in her unit and battle driven and her spell list she will obliterate anything she touches but I'm not sure how well she'll be kept alive. I think she has a lot of promise with her feat and standing back casting animuses and then having a very strong end game (or at least middle to end game as you need some beasts alive). 

Despoiler - Is great, especially with Mordikaar

Reptile Hounds - Lessers with take down aren't bad, they really need that flank though and they have to spend a fury to get take down. They are SPD 7 though.

Incendiarii - best medium based shooting unit in the game. 

Minions

Midas - Curse [bone grinders] is surely a troll. Battle lust, calamity and hex blast (and bad blood) is a pretty damn good spell list for making stuff dead. His feat is interesting, as is butchery. In the end though he's not Rask.

Razor Boars are the only new minion beasts? Seriously?

Gobber Tinker - 1 point and can repair hordes battle engines. Can also repair warjacks and battle engines of the warmachine factions. Plus he has a cool little wagon and hat. I like him.

Bog Trog Shamblers - It's Alexia for minions. And Rask removes 1 (just one) whenever he dies and keeps on living because Rask wasn't good enough. 

So who won the book? Rask. He's my new faction. Holy crap is he amazing. Skorne and circle also got some really good stuff (though Skornes is better). Trolls actually should be pretty happy but you probably want to stay away from the troll forums if you want to keep your sanity intact. I like that minions got a solo that they cannot use.