Age of Sigmar news & rumours : Malign Portents

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**Baron Klatz**

Well not desperate but highly intrigued.

That thing's really creepy and reminds me of the gargantuan skull filled tree from the 8th edition BRB that came to life and wrecked half the battlefield in the battle report.

**Fafnir**

I'm excited. Nurgle mortals are really straightforward and lacking any real gimmicks, instead focusing on raw power and durability. I appreciate the honest playstyles that they champion, but I wouldn't mind seeing some more tactical depth and flexibility thrown into the mix to make them a more fun army to play overall.

**Kendo**

On the 6th day of nurglemas, GW gave to me, a 300$ charge. What a bunch of twits.

**Baron Klatz**

If you plan to buy everything at once, yeah.

I personally would get the Tome first, see what looks good for a starting force and go from there and shave off $100-150 from that charge.

**EnTyme**

I plan to do what I did when Disciples of Tzeentch came out: buy the battletome, and wait a year hoping a battleforce comes out later (it did!)

**flaherty**

I mocked up a comparison between the Glottkin and GUO, assuming both are on 130mm bases. The GUO is quite a bit shorter, but stockier all around.

NAVARRO wrote:
GUO is smaller than the glootkin and thats ok but smaller than a maggoth lord? Maybe its just the pictures but looks rather smallish.

Blightkings look awesome but not on those bugs. I would love to see smaller critter demons since all seems a collection of unique sculpts rather than a army.

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There was a mention of Skaven Pestilens being included in this Battletome. A unit of Plague Monks screening Blightkings would make for a nice aesthetic distinction. The artillery pieces are some of the most beautiful in the game, if somewhat lacking in-game. The Verminlord Corruptor makes for another cool centerpiece. We'll see if it's a full-on integration or an alliance thing, but Skaven would add another 10 or so models to the force.

Binabik15 wrote:
Thargrim wrote:
Eh its an okay looking release...I feel like mortals needed one more kit. But the pricing will likely kill this release for me.

No, you CAN'T have new marauders or beastmen, you need to be THIS elite to get a new model. And at least 8 foot and 250 pounds. Who wants mere humans* to establish a baseline for other stuff to look imposing in comoarison. Pffft.

The release and the Seven Days of Nurgle announcement was a great surprise. They pricing was a stark reminder that GW is gonna GW no matter what. I can get a BB team or a Necro gang or a single BoN with totally crappy rules and going by the ones shown so far a decent selection of bits, but basically no posing options. Mhm. But 50% more than a Blighthauler.

*unless of course they can morph into warform or gain rudiculous size and mass through cannibalism a la Acolytes and Reavers.

**Galas**

I understand theres bing chunk of pieces left over like four arms and two head... but that GUO has no place costing 20€ more than a bloodthirster (that has 3 weapon configurations and heads) or 20€ than a LOC, and I'm even more convinced about that after that comparasion with the Glottkin.

But bleh. Complaining about this here won't change anything. I'll stop, I apologize.

**flaherty**

Or $31 more than a Glottkin! Surprising since the GUO is usable in both systems and the three model options means the potential for 2-3X the unit sales. Typically GW prices their kits that will sell in multiples cheaper than the one-off heroes. Maybe it's just a massive amount of sprues to cover all that surface area...

Galas wrote:
I understand theres bing chunk of pieces left over like four arms and two head... but that GUO has no place costing 20€ more than a bloodthirster (that has 3 weapon configurations and heads) or 20€ than a LOC, and I'm even more convinced about that after that comparasion with the Glottkin.

But bleh. Complaining about this here won't change anything. I'll stop, I apologize.

**Iron_Captain**

The GUO kit has a lot of variability across large parts. I think that is an important part of the relatively high price. The kit requires a lot more sprues relative to the Glottkin or Bloodthirster which have no or only minor different parts.

**Galas**

The only real variability I saw are the:
-6 hands
-3 heads
-Two different belly options: the guts and the mouth.

Thats aren't many more options than the basic Bloodthirster or LOC kit. The reality is... GW could have priced it like other greather daemons. They chose not to do it. I disagree, but they are free to do it.

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**Pariah-Miniatures**

Maybe if people didn’t have such hard ons for nurgle..

**Nostromodamus**

Pariah-Miniatures wrote:
Maybe if people didn’t have such hard ons for nurgle..

Yes, fans of a particular faction are definitely to blame for GW’s pricing strategy.

**Alpharius**

Well, in a way, he's kind of right - insomuch as GW thinks that they have a popular faction/set of releases and that they can charge silly prices for them...I guess?

**Crazyterran**

Worshipping Nurgle makes you happy, cant put a price on that

**Chikout**

Are we sure these prices are accurate? If they are €22.50 is a really good price for the tree. Swapping the beast and tree price would make a lot more sense.

**Warhams-77**

Good point. Also no price for Horticulous yet?

According to a poster who says he has the WD at hand (Frederick Durnez on Disqus) the tree will come with rules for 40k...

https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/2662 (at the end of the comments, about an hour ago)

**Hanskrampf**

Chikout wrote:
Are we sure these prices are accurate? If they are €22.50 is a really good price for the tree. Swapping the beast and tree price would make a lot more sense.

Yes, prices are correct. Just got the WD in the mail.

Hotriculus isn't listed as a release but shown in the pictures and the so splash page for Nurgle.

**Yodhrin**

Has it been mentioned anywhere whether they've increased the prices on any of the existing kits? I'm hoping I don't regret waiting to buy that Maggoth kit I was after.

**nels1031**

Yodhrin wrote:
Has it been mentioned anywhere whether they've increased the prices on any of the existing kits? I'm hoping I don't regret waiting to buy that Maggoth kit I was after.

I’m going to assume no price increase, as the Maggoth Lords were reboxed early in AoS’s (relative) infancy.

Crazier things have happened, though.

**Kanluwen**

Hanskrampf wrote:
Chikout wrote:
Are we sure these prices are accurate? If they are €22.50 is a really good price for the tree. Swapping the beast and tree price would make a lot more sense.

Yes, prices are correct. Just got the WD in the mail.

Hotriculus isn't listed as a release but shown in the pictures and the so splash page for Nurgle.

Can you please post the USD prices when you get a chance?

**Hanskrampf**

US prices:
Battletome 40
GUO 140
Tree 30
Bilepiper 25
Scrivener 25
Beast 40
Lord of Blights 25
Warscroll cards 25
Blightlords 65

**Kanluwen**

Thank you kindly.

**nels1031**

Read a typo: disregard!

**Kanluwen**

nels1031 wrote:
9 dollar increase on Blightkings, if accurate...

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Hanskrampf wrote:
US prices:
Battletome 40
GUO 140
Tree 30
Bilepiper 25
Scrivener 25
Beast 40
Lord of Blights 25
Warscroll cards 25
Blightkings 65

He's referring to the ones on the Plague Drones. Price matches with Dracothian Guard, models which are similarly 2 to a box.

The highs:
Beast is a bit steep for 1 model.
Flykings are a bit much.
GUO at $140 is kind of surprising. That's more expensive than Skarbrand.

The lows:
The trees are really $30? That's surprising.
Characters and everything else are normal price so that's a "yay".

**Hanskrampf**

Sorry, not Blightkings, it's meant to be Blightlords.

**Warhams-77**

US$ 65 are the Pusgoyle Blightlords, Can$ 80, Aus 110, NZ 130

**nels1031**

Hanskrampf wrote:
Sorry, not Blightkings, it's meant to be Blightlords.

Thanks for clearing it up, my dude. I was worried!

**Warhams-77**

The GUO box is thicker than the Glottkin box if the overview pic in WD is to be believed. I guess it comes with one more sprue (character model included) but who knows at this point.

**zamerion**

The end of WD said next month is Malignan portents. Also name BB..

**EnTyme**

The Beast is about on par with pricing on two-sprue special characters like Ahriman. That seems pretty steep for a model I'd assume people would want to take multiples of. Interested to see what its AoS warscroll will look like.