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Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

If you're so mad at them still you shouldn't even be putting yourself through the ringer looking at their new product much less still voicing your disgust for the changes the company made that were for the betterment of their company. either get over it and get back in and enjoy the hobby or stop garbage posting please.

there is a difference in saying you dislike the aesthetic of the models or wishing the models included something like a giant crab (weird they wouldnt include something like that) and saying you like them but screw GW for what they did.

It may be time for you to move on to another thing.

dogfender wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

If you're so mad at them still you shouldn't even be putting yourself through the ringer looking at their new product much less still voicing your disgust for the changes the company made that were for the betterment of their company. either get over it and get back in and enjoy the hobby or stop garbage posting please.

there is a difference in saying you dislike the aesthetic of the models or wishing the models included something like a giant crab (weird they wouldnt include something like that) and saying you like them but screw GW for what they did.

It may be time for you to move on to another thing.

He just expressed his opinion, bit of an overreaction I think. This isn't Yohdrin after all.

Also, last night during the Facebook Live event it was confirmed that this is 1/2 builds for an "Avatar of Mathlann"(Aelf God of Storms and the Sea in the Old World).

Khaine, Mathlann... so they are gonna bring back all the Old World Elven Gods?

Wheres my NECOHO?!

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

dogfender wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

If you're so mad at them still you shouldn't even be putting yourself through the ringer looking at their new product much less still voicing your disgust for the changes the company made that were for the betterment of their company. either get over it and get back in and enjoy the hobby or stop garbage posting please.

there is a difference in saying you dislike the aesthetic of the models or wishing the models included something like a giant crab (weird they wouldnt include something like that) and saying you like them but screw GW for what they did.

It may be time for you to move on to another thing.

He just expressed his opinion, bit of an overreaction I think. This isn't Yohdrin after all.

If you're going to throw shade, at least spell my name right

Besides, the irony on this one is kinda delicious given I like these guys despite how ridiculous the concept is, just as I liked Overlords.

Im curious what the aelves from ulgu will end up looking like now..
They have shadow daemons dont they? Then again morathii used them too but arent in their book..


also curious why some sort of crustacean wasn't used for a large land mount?

 Galas wrote:
Khaine, Mathlann... so they are gonna bring back all the Old World Elven Gods?

Wheres my NECOHO?!

Khaine is not back - Morathi sees to that As long as she has his heart he aint coming back.

Interested to see what Mathlann is - wan;t much about him in the old lore

These Deepkin look excellent! I'm really happy at how GW has spun AoS into something very different from a LotR/D&D style fantasy game, to something very much it's own new(ish) take on fantasy.

It's almost as though they looked at what things they'd made for the previous WaFaBa armies which sort of broke those stereotypes, and expanded them into their own armies.

 skullking wrote:
These Deepkin look excellent! I'm really happy at how GW has spun AoS into something very different from a LotR/D&D style fantasy game, to something very much it's own new(ish) take on fantasy.

It's almost as though they looked at what things they'd made for the previous WaFaBa armies which sort of broke those stereotypes, and expanded them into their own armies.

AoS has certainly widened the possibilities. In the Old World, a mish-mash of fantasy tropes and historical aesthetics, things were arguably too defined.

My gut feeling is that if they are in the "dark elf" alliance block then they won't be the fast glass cannon army; that's the Daughters of Khaine.

I'd wager they've got good solid speed and would likely be middle of the row. That is not a hard tanky force that moves slowly with rank and file and heavy ranged support; but once that's swift and hits firmly but not super fast. The turtle suggests that they've got some much more "tanky" units and their shark cavalry could be very tough to beat (sharks being rather well known for a touch sandpaper skin)

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 skullking wrote:
These Deepkin look excellent! I'm really happy at how GW has spun AoS into something very different from a LotR/D&D style fantasy game, to something very much it's own new(ish) take on fantasy.

It's almost as though they looked at what things they'd made for the previous WaFaBa armies which sort of broke those stereotypes, and expanded them into their own armies.

AoS has certainly widened the possibilities. In the Old World, a mish-mash of fantasy tropes and historical aesthetics, things were arguably too defined.

That is one of my problems with Fantasy as well. I really dig the way that Age of Sigmar Grand Alliances works with what can be in it or not. It establishes frame but allows new ideas for factions to show up. The Deepkin is a good example of this.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Also, last night during the Facebook Live event it was confirmed that this is 1/2 builds for an "Avatar of Mathlann"(Aelf God of Storms and the Sea in the Old World).

Everytime i look at this, i can't help but think who's going to be the clever sod who does something magnificent with water effects.

Oh yeah, someone being a little cheeky by going realm of fire and making that all lava with fire fish for one insanely awesome idea.

 Galas wrote:
Khaine, Mathlann... so they are gonna bring back all the Old World Elven Gods?

Wheres my NECOHO?!

Necoho did get mentioned in a short story already.

But he's a lesser chaos god so I wouldn't expect to see his followers for a long time. Even then they're probably gonna be a little confused on how to serve a god when gods don't exist.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


AoS has certainly widened the possibilities. In the Old World, a mish-mash of fantasy tropes and historical aesthetics, things were arguably too defined.

I really love all of this over the top crazy stuff they've come up with recently for AOS, but I still wish to see more focus on just some plain ordinary humans. It is just if everyone is some bizarre fantasy creature it kinds loses some of its impact. There needs to be some regular people for contrast.

dogfender wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

If you're so mad at them still you shouldn't even be putting yourself through the ringer looking at their new product much less still voicing your disgust for the changes the company made that were for the betterment of their company. either get over it and get back in and enjoy the hobby or stop garbage posting please.

there is a difference in saying you dislike the aesthetic of the models or wishing the models included something like a giant crab (weird they wouldnt include something like that) and saying you like them but screw GW for what they did.

It may be time for you to move on to another thing.

I invested my time and money in a game with ranked formations in a setting that's a fantastical version of our world, with the emphasis being on normal humans fighting horrible things.
GW, through the incompetence of their previous management, ended up killing their own and first franchise, and replaced it with a skirmish game system that's like 40k, in a world that's more or less a take on norse mythology, with an emphasis on gold supermen fighting horrible things.
That is not what I invested in.

So yeah, I'm still a little miffed, and I will not simply "join or stop posting".
I will give them where credit is due on good work though.


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 Crimson wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


AoS has certainly widened the possibilities. In the Old World, a mish-mash of fantasy tropes and historical aesthetics, things were arguably too defined.

I really love all of this over the top crazy stuff they've come up with recently for AOS, but I still wish to see more focus on just some plain ordinary humans. It is just if everyone is some bizarre fantasy creature it kinds loses some of its impact. There needs to be some regular people for contrast.

Yeah, where are those free guild guys? You'd think they would be one of the first factions to be released, considering how in the old world they were the Empire, a major faction.

I couldn't care less about AoS, but I might grab the wave cape guy and the Octopus guy, Squid Scribe?

 Galas wrote:
Khaine, Mathlann... so they are gonna bring back all the Old World Elven Gods?

Wheres my NECOHO?!

Ahem:

http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Necoho

"The Revelations of Necoho, also known as the Light of Doubt, is a fundamental text for an obscure sect of antitheists in the Mortal Realms."

The first mention in six editions.

The best thing about AoS is that GW and it s designers clearly adore the creativity and felxibility they have in producing things for it, in a models and rules setting. There is a clear freshness to them that simply isn't there in 40k. I'm a bit on the fence with Deepkin (and KO), but I love how they are being so weird and different. if they went back and just did what they did in the Old World then it defeats the whole point.

CassianSol wrote:

The best thing about AoS is that GW and it s designers clearly adore the creativity and felxibility they have in producing things for it, in a models and rules setting. There is a clear freshness to them that simply isn't there in 40k. I'm a bit on the fence with Deepkin (and KO), but I love how they are being so weird and different. if they went back and just did what they did in the Old World then it defeats the whole point.

Yeah, I can see that. The nature of the Mortal Realms does allow for some weird stuff, which does grant a degree of creative freedom
I just wished the Old World could have existed along side it, so those who want a more grounded setting can have something to toy with.

At the moment we have 40k and AoS, two ott, highly fantastical settings. Whfb was a slightly less ott, not quite fantastical setting, that was mainly about ordinary humans. And that had a narrative appeal.

Its not as if there wasn't room for expansion in the Old World. You still had Arabia, Albion and Cathay.

dogfender wrote:
Im curious what the aelves from ulgu will end up looking like now..
They have shadow daemons dont they? Then again morathii used them too but arent in their book..


also curious why some sort of crustacean wasn't used for a large land mount?

The sculptor was too crabby.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

dogfender wrote:
Im curious what the aelves from ulgu will end up looking like now..
They have shadow daemons dont they? Then again morathii used them too but arent in their book..


also curious why some sort of crustacean wasn't used for a large land mount?

The sculptor was too crabby.

No! Bad poster!

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

dogfender wrote:
Im curious what the aelves from ulgu will end up looking like now..
They have shadow daemons dont they? Then again morathii used them too but arent in their book..


also curious why some sort of crustacean wasn't used for a large land mount?

The sculptor was too crabby.

No! Bad poster!

That pun was ripe for the telling, to clam up then would have been cray.

The turtle reminds me of the Chitaurii Leviathans from Avengers, and no one has a problem with those flying.

 Galas wrote:
Khaine, Mathlann... so they are gonna bring back all the Old World Elven Gods?

Wheres my NECOHO?!

In greywater fastness, or at least he's left his autograph book (AKA: the light of doubt) there.

I want Solkan. Or better yet, lers Hellenize the name into “Solkanos” and make a human race using Duncan's Solakian spearmen aesthetic.

(That's my wish list faction)

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Those are some nice models. If I weren't still annoyed at them for killing off the old world, I probably would have gotten them.

Ditto.

Now.. bringing back Bretonnia has ghostly Grail guardians with forest themes... that might be just enough. The quality of the new AOS sculpts is amazing, first Daughters of Khaine now Idoneth.. they are outdoing themselves each release.

Shadow Elves next will be something to see. Hoping Malekith (never will call him Malerion) is a giant freaking Shadow Dragon.

The Green Knight: The Army

Army of the Green Knight: The Knights of Shrubbery

fresus wrote:
Looks like Eldar Exodites got many new conversion opportunities.

My first thoughts as well.