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It may well be 'knuckle walking' like the kingdom death dragon or Mierce Chimera

Well, limbs and necks generally have a certain range of motion. I'd guess the drake's torso is pointed slightly downwards, like the orc wyvern or the plastic zombie dragon, or a less exaggerated version of this pose.

Ninjard!

I dunno if it's knuckle walking, though. The art shows a very humanoid hand, indicating the ol' four-legs-two-wings form. (I can see the KD dragon has humanoid hands on it's wings, but nearly all of their designs are the result of smokin' sumpthin')

Vida wrote:
Has anyone been able to figure out why it looks like the drake/dragon model in the background has its wings pointed downward? At least thats what it looks like to me.

I can see its head, and its breast plate, but those appear to be pointed up. I dont see how the wings can be pointed towards the ground if its head it looking straight/a bit upward.

Any speculations?

Guessing the wings are Wyvern like, and it's walking on them, like a bat.

Those kinda wings always looked cool to me.

Them's Tigrex wings, and as an old school Monster Hunter ain't nothin' give me more sass n' hassle than a rampaging Tigrex up in them snowy mountains.

Tigrex wings. Knuckle draggin' no good growlin' meowlin' kitty litter tossin' skittery as all hell Tigrex.

It just doesnt look like the wings are low enough to the ground to have them being used for walking.

I'm sure it will all work itself out when clear pics come out next week.

Whirlwind wrote:

Vida wrote:
Has anyone been able to figure out why it looks like the drake/dragon model in the background has its wings pointed downward? At least thats what it looks like to me.

I can see its head, and its breast plate, but those appear to be pointed up. I dont see how the wings can be pointed towards the ground if its head it looking straight/a bit upward.

Any speculations?

I think a good example might be the Terrorgheist in how it is displayed. My first instinct was that it maybe a reskinned version of this model as this seems to be the order of the day for GW. What makes me more concerned is why they thought painting it's wings to look like a watermelon was a good idea from these images?

What are you talking about re skinned models being the order of the day did i miss something?! GW arnt making a computer game model, models getting re sculpted when this would save almost no time or money for the potential lost of model quality outside of full armour models that are ment to be the same is something id find unlikly, the point of digital sculpting is not so you can reuse assets more so they can go through more prototyping, try more stuff n tweak for taste and molding reasons. Seriously I hope you didnt mean that If you where making a stormcast drake your telling me youd totally start with this model from years ago:
https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99120207016_GhoulKingonTerrorgheistNEW01.jpg
There likely a similarity with the pose as its a creature that has wings for hands?! humanoid models tend to have that similar vibe too, must all be a reskinning conspiracy. Personally think the wing walking dragon pose often looks awesome.
Also the picture is so out of focus you really cant crit the paint just yet...Id wait till we get slightly less blur to pick it apart.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
When did sad panda say Tzeentch stuff was hitting again? I'm expecting a "start collecting" box for them. If it's like Khorne and Nurgle have gotten, I'd expect horrors, screamers and a chariot in it. Which I'm considering picking up today. But if Tzeentch is getting love in the next month or two, I'd hold off.

It begins with the AoS board game, which is more than two months out.

No idea about start collecting boxes and other re-packages.

Sad Panda wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
When did sad panda say Tzeentch stuff was hitting again? I'm expecting a "start collecting" box for them. If it's like Khorne and Nurgle have gotten, I'd expect horrors, screamers and a chariot in it. Which I'm considering picking up today. But if Tzeentch is getting love in the next month or two, I'd hold off.

It begins with the AoS board game, which is more than two months out.

No idea about start collecting boxes and other re-packages.

Thanks for the info!!!

Tzeentch, mortals or daemons? or maybe both?
Maybe the other army are dwarves?

Can you said something about the board game?

Thanks again!!!

wow, an AOS board game?
is GW actually starting a new trend with these board game releases?

id say that the ones they have done for 40k have been successful so far. knowing that I'm looking forward to anything they're going to try with AOS.

Thanks to Sad Panda's hints we can make a few educated guesses. The release list looks like stormcast and Khorne in March. Orruks in April. 30k and possibly cult mechanicus in May and the board game in 2 and a half months time in June.

The sides will be Tzeentch vs (probably) Stormcast. I hope it another army but given prior hints about how long it takea to bring a boatd game to market Gw will not have had time to react to the Stormcast being less popular than predicted. The summer will have a lot Tzeentch stuff as Sad Panda has mentioned.

In the fluff the stormcast first met the armies of Tzeentch while searching for the Duaridin, so it makes sense that they would be next. Sad Panda may come out to say that this is nonsense but I would be willing to bet that this is more or less what is coming.

I expect it'll actually be Duaridin in the box (maybe with a unit of exclusive Stormcast variants); apart from that, sounds accurate based on the passing comments we thankfully get.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:

id say that the ones they have done for 40k have been successful so far.

Thing is, how many bought those for the minis, for use in 40K? Will those kind of sales carry over to AoS?

If they make anything remotely resembling the old Quest games, especially with the ability to incorporate models from outside the boxed game into things, then yeah, I can see a Sigmar board game giving the whole range a nice boost.

So the future calendar of GW can be something like this?:
(isnt a rumor only a compilation)

-Now 2 weeks of sigmarines, and next ¿2weeks of khorne?
-april: 3 weeks of orcs (orrucs)
-End of april and may: new mechanicum codex with new robots and transport? independent boxes of Heresy Horus game?
-End of may: new AoS board game with tzeentch and ¿metal dwarves?
-June/july: factions of the board game with codex and extra units?
-August: second part of curse of the wolf. Focused on tzeentch, specially in thousand sons?

Rest of the year we have other game board of Heresy Horus, codex for cult genestealer, codex for deadwatch, (and in a spanish blog someone said new models for legion of the dammned)


Am I missing something more?

Are the 30K releases just going to be the HH models? Or anything new? I could maybe use 1 more tactical squad but I think I'd rather mix in some old timey assault marines instead.

Definitely interested in the AOS board game, I kinda feel like that's how they should have introduced AOS in the first place.

zamerion wrote:

Am I missing something more?

Where do Bretonnians get squatted in all that?

Has there been any indication from anyone in the know that this Age of Sigmar "board game" is going to be something like Warhammer Quest? Or is that all just some wishful thinking?

 Raxor wrote:

zamerion wrote:

Am I missing something more?

Where do Bretonnians get squatted in all that?

I guess when order great alliance book will come. But nobody said nothing about future repacks of existing products.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
Has there been any indication from anyone in the know that this Age of Sigmar "board game" is going to be something like Warhammer Quest? Or is that all just some wishful thinking?

Wishful thinking, naturally!

It would seem to fit with the Space Hulk style approach taken with B@C and DW:OK, though. They clearly seem to be comfortable with cardboard corridors + warhammer models + boardgame rules as a basic strategy.

 Necros wrote:
Are the 30K releases just going to be the HH models? Or anything new? I could maybe use 1 more tactical squad but I think I'd rather mix in some old timey assault marines instead.

Listen to Atia. She knows things!

Although I agree Stormcast are somewhat likely in the board game release, I'd think that would be a good time to bring back the elves.

Sad Panda wrote:

 Necros wrote:
Are the 30K releases just going to be the HH models? Or anything new? I could maybe use 1 more tactical squad but I think I'd rather mix in some old timey assault marines instead.

Listen to Atia. She knows things!

So what you're saying is Sisters of Silence?

 Charles Rampant wrote:
It would seem to fit with the Space Hulk style approach taken with B@C and DW:OK, though. They clearly seem to be comfortable with cardboard corridors + warhammer models + boardgame rules as a basic strategy.

It has worked very well for them before so why not?

A number of people have mentioned they were brought into 40K or fantasy by playing a game like Space Crusade. No reason it can't work for AoS, if they get the formula and pricing right.

Plus, if the models in the game are any good, lots of existing AoS players will buy it just for them, making it a guaranteed sales success.

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