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 Tamereth wrote:


On the pulse side goblin skypirates must surely be a thing we'll get as a counter force to these.

I'm waiting for Blizzard(or whatever conglomerate owns them now) to do a miniature game so they can show gw how a real ramshackle steam technology should be made

Concerning the new release: Errr... don't feel it. I get the 19th century industrial naval theme (20k leagues under water etc.), but it is not to my liking at all. I definitely saw a double pauldron on one of these minies (pauldron over pauldron) - can these be limited to atleast stormcasts please? Also - backpack. I know that the dwarves are supposed to be sealed in some kind of pressurized underwater (or air-aetheric ?!?) suit so they'd need gas bottles on their backs, but still.... it's another miniature with backpack on it. Lastly, why gw insists on making sharp angles on presumably cloth details? I got it already, they can cast sharp detail. Don't put it where it is not needed just to show off. It is like the swirly things they've been putting on minies lately...

This. This is a good thing to wake up to.

They look like they'd fit so well in 40k too I'm guessing a LOT of people will be making Squat armies out of these bad boys.

Me? I just found some stand ins for my tanks and flyers. I for shizzle have to have some Squats in my Stormcast Legion

Damn these look ridiculous, it might finally be time for me to get involved with Aos.

They look much better than I imagined they would !!

 Tamereth wrote:
So we got squats back before a plastic thunderhawk gunship. That's a 19 year old bet I just lost.
Seriously one of them has a chainfist!

I will be hunting bitz sites for a mechanical parrot.

I really get the feeling somebody at the studio had been playing a lot of Skyrim when they were given this project to work on. But everything other than the basic infantry is so ridiculously over the top. Can't make up my mind if that is a good thing or not. Nothing appeals to be for my dwarf army for WHFB, but then these models were never meant to.

On the pulse side goblin skypirates must surely be a thing we'll get as a counter force to these.

May have misread, but there already is a Mechanical Parrot :p

Though I'd be tempted to get the Parrot Gnoblar off the Pirate Ogre Maneater....

WELP

Not only he has a FREAKIN' METAL TOP-HAT, but a Monocle too.

This is absolutely GLORIOUS!!!!

Warhammer Underworlds

OK hypothesis time.

GW stated this is a game for the competitive crowd, recently the rumour engine showed a something that looked like a tile from warhammer quest with a death theme.
On their community page they mentioned that we will see new miniatures for it soon. Shadow war made it clear that it is open for the majority of 40k plastics.

So.... I assume that Warhammer underworlds will be an boardgame/tabletop hybrid like Dust, geared towards balanced competitive games.

Now we have to wait for the results.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
WELP

Not only he has a FREAKIN' METAL TOP-HAT, but a Monocle too.

This is absolutely GLORIOUS!!!!

Welp is used when you've got nothing left to say....but people always say something after it.

Really spins my nipple nuts that does! (it's not you, it's me. One of my many irritating idiosyncracies. Carry on as normal!)

They have melted my mind.. I think I'd have a lot more time accepting them if they were simply Squats [and they do raise the question why GW hasn't does squats as design wise these are pretty much spot on]. I love the big airship .. I think I'd like them a whole lot more if they weren't painted purple, I hate purple..
I might buy them as squats..

So the other new game an AoS version of Mordheim???

But squats.. they made squats....

What tha….

I did not see this one coming, Im generaly more low fantasy inclined for warhammer verse but these are VERY original. Not a faction I would do but they bring in a lot of fresh ideas into AoS. Love it.

Invul wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:

Invul wrote:
As the creator of the Dwemer, I heartily approve.

Care to elaborate?

Sure! I was the world designer for Bethesda's Elder Scrolls adventure game, Redguard, where the Dwemer first debuted, er, physically. (Previously, the Dwarves had only been mentioned as having disappeared.) The first Steam Centurions, Centurion Spheres, Airships, Dwemeri brass visages, etc., all appeared in that game. After that, I became the art director/world designer for Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, where even more of the Dwemer culture was revealed, primarily in the expanded versions of their ruins. Good times.

Anyhoo, I love these new models, and collecting them will have a small feeling of meeting old friends.

Holy crap. Morrowind is one of the best games of all time. You sir have my eternal thanks. It completely spoiled me so I hated both Oblivion and Skyrim.

I really hope there's a way to field these guys without the ground troops, if only because a fleet of airships supported only by the jetpack dwarves would look fething balls-to-the-wall awesome.

Now I'm kind of regretting starting a Tzeentch Arcanite army, because I just need to get my hands on those airships.

@Mymearan,

^Thank you! I wondered why no one was acknowledging we have a legend in our midst!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:
WELP

Not only he has a FREAKIN' METAL TOP-HAT, but a Monocle too.

This is absolutely GLORIOUS!!!!

So true! I absolutely love everything about him. Pure power and dapper nobility that tells you he's in charge.

Definite buy.

I'm waiting for Blizzard(or whatever conglomerate owns them now) to do a miniature game so they can show gw how a real ramshackle steam technology should be made  

I'm not 100% sure but I believe the Grots use flying leviathans as their ships. It's the Ironjaws who slapped things together.

Just fyi.

Side note really, but in the Reveal video for the Kharadron Overlords, the first few seconds with the AoS Logo has them battling GIANT TENTACLES coming from the mist below and wrapping themselves around ships.

Maybe we'll see C'thulu elves soon too?

Could shadowspire be a sort of competitive play AoS take on Mordhiem?

Heh, and I like the infantry squad, love the bird but not the guns on the Devastators, don't onow if I like the servo armour and ballons and HATE the chainsword (and in the vid it looks like some haw a bolt pistol that doesn't even pretend to be a crossbow like the Sigmarines do).

I dunno, the diver stuff looks great, unsure about the ballons, but outside of those weird weapons that could have all been in the steampowered iron navy of Old World dwarves. Still no reason to blow the freaking world up for this release, either.

Shadowspire has a great ring to it, I guess there's no info at all about it?

 Carnikang wrote:
Side note really, but in the Reveal video for the Kharardron Overlords, the first few seconds with the AoS Logo has them battling GIANT TENTACLES coming from the mist below and wrapping themselves around ships.

Maybe we'll see C'thulu elves soon too?

Oh man, you are absolutely right



MAKE IT HAPPEN, GW! Cthulhu Elves would officially be the death of my wallet!

 notprop wrote:
These are like what Mantics Forge Fathers dreamed they would look like while setting in the Chinese floppy plastic mould factory.

I like these allot, the infantry as a minor weapon swap from being 40k ready, intentional?

Sadly I have to agree.

M.

Sadly because I have a bunch of forgefathes on the way and they don't look as cool.

Lord Kragon actually spotted those tentacles earlier!

I wonder if this is all a theme with Tzeentch and Shadowkin making the Lovecraft vibes while Steamhead and Vanguard are the classic interlopers with one being Victorian deep-sea themed and the other scouts/trackers?

Just seen a small pic on their FB page of a whole force on the tabletop in blue and gold - looks amazing.

...Lovecraft Elves versus Steampunk Dwarves... I could not resist spending money. Do it, GW.

Image in Question-

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I do hope it's not like the Gyrocopter, where you can either build the bomber, or waste 2/3rds of the kit and make the 'copter.

My guess was it's a 3-way kit, but the hulls are so different either they're 3 kits or there's a ton of waste. Or maybe, just maybe, you can make more than one from a kit.

Nah.

That would be heresy.

I'm not seeing any shared parts besides minor things like propellers and bombs.
My guess is 3 different kits, at $35-450 for the little one, $55-70 for the medium one, and $74-110 for the big one.

The medium one looks to be slightly larger than the Dark Eldar Raider, with big balloons, while the Ironclad could give hope for a cool Vect and Dais of Destruction when DE are remembered.

If I started Sigmar, it would be with these guys.

...ok now when (not if, when) I start making an army of these guys I need to make their bases look like clouds. That is too awesome.

 insaniak wrote:
These Dwarves make me sad for what might have been... They're glorious, and I would have bought them in a heartbeat for WHFB, but I'm not interested in a fantasy skirmish game, and if I were, AoS wouldn't be it.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened if GW had chosen to put the same amount of effort they've been putting towards AoS into fixing WHFB instead...

Then why are you here?

Also, I hate how some people define something as a "skirmish game" based on it's unit geometry. That's really not what anyone interested in a skirmish game is looking for.
Off topic though, so here's a thread for that: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/720770.page#9254133

From the group shot, it looks like the regular infantry might have an option for rifles. Check the ones on the far left corner of the picture.

Even not playing skydwarfs as an army the toys have so much conversion potential. Also a drastic breakaway from the underground theme seemingly so immersed in fantasy dwarfs

This is AoS news and rumours. No one cares you have been in the hobby long enough to know what squats are, and certainly don't care what you are using them in 40k for. You have your own forum

 endtransmission wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
I think I'll make my Beastclaw Raiders vs these har sky pilots. I know this sounds crazy but doesn't GW usually do opposing force releases? Is there a chance that May will also be an AoS release? If so it might very well be the other rumored AoS force I keep hearing about. What if the rumored AoS DE (forget name) are no longer underground, but sky raiders! That would be cool.

In the fluff section of the last Warhammer Quest box there are fleets of elf raiders that use flying ships; mainly because on Aqshy all the rivers are lava, so boats would burn. One of the heroes, Fleetmaster Vizrin Kyre, is in command of one of these fleets... so hopefully we get some flying elements for them as well, so that we can forgo the usual battlefields and have airship battles

Flying elf ships you say...

Invul wrote:
As the creator of the Dwemer, I heartily approve.

What does that refer to?

Pretty cool sculpts!

 Verviedi wrote:
...Lovecraft Elves versus Steampunk Dwarves... I could not resist spending money. Do it, GW.

Image in Question-

Cheers! I think they look like a cracking set of models- the fleet of airships is fantastic and its quite a fun departure for dwarfs making them airborne as opposed to underground. The high tech element in a fantasy setting is unsettling, but I haven't gotten in to AoS just yet and i suppose set against the Stormcast they fit in, plus I reckon a grimier paint sheme would work a treat. I think now I'm over my initial shock I'm totally sold!

 DarkBlack wrote:

 insaniak wrote:
These Dwarves make me sad for what might have been... They're glorious, and I would have bought them in a heartbeat for WHFB, but I'm not interested in a fantasy skirmish game, and if I were, AoS wouldn't be it.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened if GW had chosen to put the same amount of effort they've been putting towards AoS into fixing WHFB instead...

Then why are you here?

Because I like looking at pretty models?

Whatever I may think of the game itself, the model releases so far for AoS have been largely outstanding.