Obviously all this is speculation until the book is out. However, going on rumors.
The staff of sorcery looks like it will be very good in the new edition, so that is a good choice. I'm not sure about ring of fury, depends on the rules for bound spells. I'm actually not sure the level 4 upgrade is worth the 35 points. It will only give +1 to cast and an extra spell (possibly, don't think there are many rumors on spell generation yet). It won't be giving you extra power dice anymore. The noble seems good, none of the rumors affect him much as far as I can tell, except his eagle will have crushing attacks or something...
I guess you are going on 25% core. If so, that is a bit much. LSG seem to be the best choice for us next edition. I would consider taking around 30-40 LSG in a block, making for a very powerful, and stubborn, centre for your line. That is only around 400-500 points, so take another smaller unit of LSG, or archers, to make up to 25%. It is immpossible to tell if command is useful or not, musicians seem mandatory though.
24 swordmaster, 3x8? or something else? if you are going 8 wide you might as well make it 10 and get stubborn. We'd just better hope that they can still strike first most of the time, or we could be in trouble. Standard of balance and gem of courage seem like decent choices, though I'm not sure that the fear and terror immunity are as useful now that autobreaking is gone.
I would drop a bolt thrower for another couple of great eagles, you could have 15 GEs if you where completely eagle crazy, but I don't think that is a good idea

. 4 RBT is a lot though, and 2 eagles may be needed to slow the enemy down more, unless marchblocking is changed completely, in which case eagles may become useless...
We shall see
Edit: great minds think alike bolt thrower

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