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Holiday gift silliness. No different really from the £20 Harley Davidson mugs. It is a shame that the screws are quite so prominent in the design, though, as they kind of undermine it a touch.

I'm looking forward to seeing Archaon in the flesh. Despite my bighuge collection of Tomb Kings, I was never that impressed with the Nagash model, so curious to see whether the Evernob himself is more inspiring. Even more interested for the rumoured new Dwarves; I have been considering getting a round-base Sigmarhammer force, and Dwarves were always critically boring in 8th so I never went for them, despite my affection for fantasy dwarves in general. New models and a new focus for the concept over corner-castles might pull me in.

I agree on "Grand Marshal" of the Apocalypse...sounds silly. Might as well call him the:

Duke of Unnatural Disaster
President of Pain
Fuhrer of Unfettered Fury
Emperor of Boundless Evil
Sultan of Slaughter

Anyway, model's big, stupid, and hilariously expensive, par for the course at this point. Disappointing to see GW continuing with the "skulls pushing through the skin" look, I don't get it at all but someone in the studio apparently thinks this is the coolest fething idea they've ever had and that it makes for good models (it doesn't).

 Sidstyler wrote:
I agree on "Grand Marshal" of the Apocalypse...sounds silly. Might as well call him the:

Duke of Unnatural Disaster
President of Pain
Fuhrer of Unfettered Fury
Emperor of Boundless Evil
Sultan of Slaughter

Ayatolla of rock 'n rolla?

 Sidstyler wrote:
I agree on "Grand Marshal" of the Apocalypse...sounds silly. Might as well call him the:

Duke of Unnatural Disaster
President of Pain
Fuhrer of Unfettered Fury
Emperor of Boundless Evil
Sultan of Slaughter

Anyway, model's big, stupid, and hilariously expensive, par for the course at this point. Disappointing to see GW continuing with the "skulls pushing through the skin" look, I don't get it at all but someone in the studio apparently thinks this is the coolest fething idea they've ever had and that it makes for good models (it doesn't).

"Grand Marshall" seems a bit too organized for a faction called "Chaos."

 Sidstyler wrote:
I agree on "Grand Marshal" of the Apocalypse...sounds silly. Might as well call him the:

President of Pain
Sultan of Slaughter

Those two sound like good wrestler intros.

Archaon, Eternal Lord of Chaos Undivided?

 Zywus wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:
I agree on "Grand Marshal" of the Apocalypse...sounds silly. Might as well call him the:

Duke of Unnatural Disaster
President of Pain
Fuhrer of Unfettered Fury
Emperor of Boundless Evil
Sultan of Slaughter

Ayatolla of rock 'n rolla?

You are channelling WWE.

Whatcha gonna do Sigmar, when Achao-mania runs wild...on you!

 Zywus wrote:
Whatcha gonna do Sigmar, when Achao-mania runs wild...on you!

"Why I will be cast as an even BIGGER and MORE EXPENSIVE model (I'm looking at you AU and NZ people, be ready to cash in 500 for me!!!)"

Varanguard Knights - 3 for 100 US$ / 80 EUR / 60 £



Via Gamestrust.de

These are... surprisingly atrocious. I was pleased with Archaon for the most part, but these embody the worst in contemporary Chaos, on top of being bland. Do not want.

Interesting.......how much?!?!

80€ for 3 models? O_o


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 notprop wrote:
Interesting.......how much?!?!

60£/80€/100$ It's on the images.

I like the helmeted Varanguard

Will post about 15 more pics in my last post under the spoiler. It just takes a few minutes. Everchosen Battletome preorder this week, a flying (probably Tzeentch) sorcerer next week.

Warhams-77 wrote:
I like the helmeted Varanguard

Will post about 15 more pics in my last post under the spoiler. It just takes a few minutes. Everchosen Battletome preorder this week, a flying (probably Tzeentch) sorcerer next week.

Thanks!

I personally find the horse snouts... abominable. And not in a good way

The Everchosen Battletome



You are welcome, LS, the steeds are more daemon than horse I guess. Not sure yet if I like these.

Both posts updated with more AoS pics. The limited edition book looks quite nice.

The gallery on Gamestrust also has one HH BL and FW page each http://www.gamestrust.de/bilder,list1275,1,white-dwarf-97.html

The models are okay-ish, the price is ridiculous.
Awesome rules, though!

Warhams-77 wrote:
The Everchosen Battletome

Spoiler:

You are welcome, LS, the steeds are more daemon than horse I guess. Not sure if I like them yet.

Yeah I understand that, but it just looks silly to me anyway.

3 for $100...wow.

On a more positive note, it is good to see someone other than Sigmar or Chaos getting new stuff.

 Alpharius wrote:
it is good to see someone other than Sigmar or Chaos getting new stuff.

Archaon and his knights surely is Chaos isn't they. Or did I miss the sarcasm?

I'm actually a massive fan of those Knights from looking at the photos on my phone.

 Zywus wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
it is good to see someone other than Sigmar or Chaos getting new stuff.

Archaon and his knights surely is Chaos isn't they. Or did I miss the sarcasm?

I think you missed it, yes.

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:

 Zywus wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
it is good to see someone other than Sigmar or Chaos getting new stuff.

Archaon and his knights surely is Chaos isn't they. Or did I miss the sarcasm?

I think you missed it, yes.

Yes, sorry - that was the 'joke', as funny (or not) as it may be!

IF AoS isn't 'doing well', you won't have to look much past the prices, lack of faction variety and...well...

Those knights are crazy expensive, but aren't they pretty huge? Also, no skull acne.

 Mymearan wrote:
Those knights are crazy expensive, but aren't they pretty huge? Also, no skull acne.

They seem about Centurion size from the pictures, or is the angle throwing me off?

They look cool. I would only prefer normal horses rather than mutants, but still cool none-the-less.

£60 is hella expensive. Surely these are the same size as Demigryph Knights?

Nooooooope!

Ugly, stupidly expensive even by GW standards, and what the hell is that battletome about, did chaos warriors get two army books while all three flavours of elves, dwarves, empire and bretonnia don't even know if they all still exist yet?

 Bottle wrote:
They look cool. I would only prefer normal horses rather than mutants, but still cool none-the-less.

£60 is hella expensive. Surely these are the same size as Demigryph Knights?

Had a shade of Blood Knights when I first saw the price but, looking at the photos, they seem to be comparable in size to the Dracoth...

 Mymearan wrote:
Those knights are crazy expensive, but aren't they pretty huge? Also, no skull acne.

In one of the pics, they are standing directly next to a Lord Cellestant on Dracoth and a only slightly smaller. Frankly, with AoS prices, I'd expect the Dracoth to be at least $30, so these guys are within the price standards set by the other new AoS kits.

 jonolikespie wrote:
Nooooooope!

Ugly, stupidly expensive even by GW standards, and what the hell is that battletome about, did chaos warriors get two army books while all three flavours of elves, dwarves, empire and bretonnia don't even know if they all still exist yet?

Each faction looks to be set to get a Battletome.

This Battletome is about Archaon and his followers.
So Wanderers(Wood Elves) will get a book, Sylvaneth will get a book(they're not in the Wood Elf army list anymore, they're their own thing), Duardin will get their own book, etc.