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Baron Klatz wrote:
Knew you were going to react to that, Shinros!

Of course I love undead fluff and mannfred is my favorite undead character. I might have a second favorite if my theory is true.

That Start Collecting! Stormcast Eternals isn't bad, but not great either. £95 worth of models for £50. Wouldn't have minded a bit more bang for my buck though.

Liking the Bloodbound one. Blood Warriors and Skullcrushers are solid unit choice. I can use more Blood Warriors and I've been planning on getting Skullcrushers. The hero choice looks like one I don't have and isn't part of the Gorechosen board which also contains a lot of heroes I don't own.

Is it just me ? I think those GW bases are Terrible.

 durecellrabbit wrote:
Liking the Bloodbound one. Blood Warriors and Skullcrushers are solid unit choice. I can use more Blood Warriors and I've been planning on getting Skullcrushers. The hero choice looks like one I don't have and isn't part of the Gorechosen board which also contains a lot of heroes I don't own.

The only thing holding me back on the Start Collecting for Bloodbound was the Slaughter Priest being redundant with Gorechosen. But now, I see that they are different.

Feck.

 shinros wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:
Knew you were going to react to that, Shinros!

Of course I love undead fluff and mannfred is my favorite undead character. I might have a second favorite if my theory is true.

Who's your second?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
That Start Collecting! Stormcast Eternals isn't bad, but not great either. £95 worth of models for £50. Wouldn't have minded a bit more bang for my buck though.

What! This is the steepest discount on a start collecting box yet! Only the tau set comes close (£93 individually.)

Chikout wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
That Start Collecting! Stormcast Eternals isn't bad, but not great either. £95 worth of models for £50. Wouldn't have minded a bit more bang for my buck though.

What! This is the steepest discount on a start collecting box yet! Only the tau set comes close (£93 individually.)

The seraphon box says hi

 Sammoth wrote:
Is it just me ? I think those GW bases are Terrible.

I agree with you, compared to the 40k ones these feel a bit odd like less thought was put into them besides riding along because they did with 40k.

 Swampmist wrote:

Chikout wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
That Start Collecting! Stormcast Eternals isn't bad, but not great either. £95 worth of models for £50. Wouldn't have minded a bit more bang for my buck though.

What! This is the steepest discount on a start collecting box yet! Only the tau set comes close (£93 individually.)

The seraphon box says hi

Forgot Seraphon, also £93 individually. Edit only 12 warriors £84 individually.

wait, are the warriors and cavalry that cheap?

 n0t_u wrote:

 Sammoth wrote:
Is it just me ? I think those GW bases are Terrible.

I agree with you, compared to the 40k ones these feel a bit odd like less thought was put into them besides riding along because they did with 40k.

I kinda think they're neat but would have used them for my Warhammer Quest models' bases.
Wish they'd come out with the Silver Tower release. No way in the world I'm rebasing all those painted models.

 Swampmist wrote:
wait, are the warriors and cavalry that cheap?

Yes £23 for 20 warriors and £20 for 8 cavalry. I don't like either set of models very much but they are a good deal by Gw standards.
Gw have done 32 discounted bundles so far this year. This is a very good trend I hope to see continue.

I like the basing kit, but only for certain models. They seem to work well with Seraphon, and would also work well with Tzeentch and a few others. They would work VERY well with Silver Tower so I might do that when I pick up the set.

Actually I think if the whole base was drybrushed grey stone, with a balck rim and snow on top, it would look AMAZING. Might do that for a future army...

So the Stormcast set is:

Lord Celestant Clam pack
Liberator multi part box set
Prosecutors mutli part box set
The "Easy To Build" Retributors sprue.

That makes sense, the Retributors round out the unit from the AOS boxed set and you can arm your Liberators/Prosecutors differently as well. Ideally I would have liked a unit of Judicators in there, but it is a pretty fair set. It also brings the price of the miniatures down to a far better £/$ per model. At a FLGS price of £40 odd I will certainly be investing in one.

Am interested to see the warscrolls for the Fell Chasm and Arcanabulumsections of the new realm of battle board.

Yeah, my Stormcast could do with being more shooty but the Prosecutors don't do a bad job to be fair. I'll paint what I've got first though. I will

The Judicators are probably the only Stormcast kit that sells pretty well, I imagine they wouldn't want to put them in this box.

I always wanted Dryads to build a BB team out of them. And Bloodcrushers are nice, as is the Slaughterpriest. And a zombie dragon...hmh.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Yeah, my Stormcast could do with being more shooty but the Prosecutors don't do a bad job to be fair. I'll paint what I've got first though. I will

prosecutors with javelins can be pretty pew-pew AND still very fast AND fly.

Judicators are better, but javelin pros are quite ok.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Decisions, decisions... Tree folk one is mighty tempting.

Having a distinct lack of GW undead and being a fan of the bigger monsters, I may get that set too.

Just a note:

That set is $180.

The Start Collecting Flesh-Eaters and that would basically be a good starting point for an army.

I was wanting to do the same thing with SC Slaves to Darkness and Lord Heldrath's Chaos Deathtide, but the Deathtide seems to be completely out of production now. Can't even seem to find one on Amazon or eBay these days.

I have been in three GW stores recently that still have the Deathtide box, a lot of times the high retail price items tend to stick around in stores. Whether that is the case in the US, or more pertinently if you have a GW store near to you, is another matter. Maybe phone around and see if you can pick one up locally?

The bases look a little odd to me, but like the 40k equivalents they are a very fair retail price when compared to vanilla GW bases or more boutique options.

 EnTyme wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Decisions, decisions... Tree folk one is mighty tempting.

Having a distinct lack of GW undead and being a fan of the bigger monsters, I may get that set too.

Just a note:

That set is $180.

The Start Collecting Flesh-Eaters and that would basically be a good starting point for an army.

I was wanting to do the same thing with SC Slaves to Darkness and Lord Heldrath's Chaos Deathtide, but the Deathtide seems to be completely out of production now. Can't even seem to find one on Amazon or eBay these days.

That is correct; it's No Longer Available.

It couldn't hurt, if you have one near you, to check a GW shop. Sometimes the managers will offer to call around to the other shops and try to get one for you that way.

Chikout wrote:

 Swampmist wrote:
wait, are the warriors and cavalry that cheap?

Yes £23 for 20 warriors and £20 for 8 cavalry. I don't like either set of models very much but they are a good deal by Gw standards.
Gw have done 32 discounted bundles so far this year. This is a very good trend I hope to see continue.

They're quite old models (July 2005 for the cavalry, May 2003 for the warriors).

The sets with all recent models are nice because they are all generally nicer models but they contain less regardless of technical savings (as kit prices have inflated).

Man I might just pick up that Bloodbound box...damn and I had planned on a Tzeentch force, oh well.

From Lady Atia, it looks like Beastclaw Raiders are next week:

Wow, that came about fast. I don't think there was anything extra in the GHB besides the Beastclaw and Bonesplitterz and they will both be released before the GHB.

I wonder how the points values will come for the next update after that. Be it in the battletome, in the app or elsewhere.

 Bottle wrote:
Wow, that came about fast. I don't think there was anything extra in the GHB besides the Beastclaw and Bonesplitterz and they will both be released before the GHB.

Actually that would be this week's preorders, so they won't come out until next week (July 30th) a week after the General's Handbook.

I'm going to assume that the Beastclaw Raiders are just going to be repacks.

Hopefully they'll be repacks where we get more figures for a little bit of a cost increase.

Only getting a handful of Ogres always stung when everyone else gets piles and piles of figures for the same price.

Of course, I can actually get an Ogre army painted since I can count them all on my fingers, but still...

I wonder what a start collecting box of Ogres would look like? Since they all use the same body, it could be interesting what parts end up in there.

The only kit that can be repacked with more models are the plastic Mournfang Cavalry. Everything else is either metal/resin (Hunter, Sabertusks and Yhetees) or Behemoths (Thundertusk and Stonehorn, which are currently sold out on the US web store).

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'm going to assume that the Beastclaw Raiders are just going to be repacks.

Hopefully they'll be repacks where we get more figures for a little bit of a cost increase.

Only getting a handful of Ogres always stung when everyone else gets piles and piles of figures for the same price.

Of course, I can actually get an Ogre army painted since I can count them all on my fingers, but still...

I wonder what a start collecting box of Ogres would look like? Since they all use the same body, it could be interesting what parts end up in there.

If I had to guess... A Tyrant, six Warriors, and a Stonetusk/Thundertusk. Its the only way to keep in line with the other boxes structures/pricing, without having a box with literally five models in it. :-p