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Pretty recent Warhammer Fantasy Night Goblins, actually. Look at TOW for super old ones.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Pretty recent Warhammer Fantasy Night Goblins, actually. Look at TOW for super old ones.

They’re only ‘pretty recent’ relatively. They came out in like 2006 or something.

Yeah they are not new by any standards. I honestly try to avoid all armies in AoS, where you have to play WHFB models.

Whoever is doing the design on the new Gobbos is doing a bloody cracking job. These in particular look fantastic.

 Astmeister wrote:
Yeah they are not new by any standards. I honestly try to avoid all armies in AoS, where you have to play WHFB models.

I dunno. Daughters of khaine use a lot of WHFB models that look great

FEC too, more or less

Though I get not wanting to waste money on models that may get an update in the near future

 GaroRobe wrote:

 Astmeister wrote:
Yeah they are not new by any standards. I honestly try to avoid all armies in AoS, where you have to play WHFB models.

I dunno. Daughters of khaine use a lot of WHFB models that look great

FEC too, more or less

Though I get not wanting to waste money on models that may get an update in the near future

The DoK models from Fantasy were from 8th edition, so not all that much older than AoS is anyway. But I don’t think the FEC pre-AoS models, particularly the base ghouls, have held up very well.

Imho the only okay minis from WHFB are the ones released during end times. Blight Kings, Wrathmongers etc.

Still not a fan of those but anyway.

The old night goblins they sell for TOW fit better with the size of Gloomspite characters than the AoS tiny night goblins.
And ToW characters size up better with AoS nightgoblins.

Im very tempted to make a swap.

Whilst GW marketing and management don't want you too - I'm 100% convinced that LOADS of people WILL swap models between the ranges. Heck the new Slaves ot Darkness character for Old World is 100% going in my STD slowbuild AoS army

 Overread wrote:
Whilst GW marketing and management don't want you too - I'm 100% convinced that LOADS of people WILL swap models between the ranges. Heck the new Slaves ot Darkness character for Old World is 100% going in my STD slowbuild AoS army

Indeed; going the other way that recent limited edition chaos sorcerer fits very well on a 30mm square base...

 Overread wrote:
Whilst GW marketing and management don't want you too - I'm 100% convinced that LOADS of people WILL swap models between the ranges. Heck the new Slaves ot Darkness character for Old World is 100% going in my STD slowbuild AoS army

She's going straight onto a round to be overall leader for the Darkoath. First old world model that's come out that i've actually liked.

 Astmeister wrote:
Pretty awesome stuff!
The main thing stopping me from starting Gitz are the core troops, which are super old Warhammer Fantasy Night Goblins.

Are you married to using only GW models? Because there's alot of goblins been made over the years by alot of companies. Surely there's some out there you'd like.

You know any that lean into the mushroom theme like the gitz do?

 Overread wrote:
Whilst GW marketing and management don't want you too - I'm 100% convinced that LOADS of people WILL swap models between the ranges. Heck the new Slaves ot Darkness character for Old World is 100% going in my STD slowbuild AoS army

Same - I'm going to paint her up like Ambessa from Arcane!

 Overread wrote:
Whilst GW marketing and management don't want you too - I'm 100% convinced that LOADS of people WILL swap models between the ranges. Heck the new Slaves ot Darkness character for Old World is 100% going in my STD slowbuild AoS army

They fully know that people do that and welcome it. But if you can sell ancient sprues with not much effort, too - why not? I mean, in the last WD the guy with the Orks&Goblins army used Fenrisian wolves for the goblins and replaced the boars of the chariot with those from the boarboys. He used excuses why he did it of course - but hey.

Points are up for Ironjawz and Kruleboyz, for those interested.

Please, don't tell me Hexwraiths are getting axed...


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 CMLR wrote:
Please, don't tell me Hexwraiths are getting axed...


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HOLY SMOKES NEW ZOMBIE DRAGON PERIOD? Okay so "Zombie Draconith" what about Terrorgheists?

Maybe they are going to keep the current kit alongside the new character dragon?

Did someone say rattle me bones? Along with new zombie dragon (and terrorgheist in the future?) can't believe all the rumours came out right and then some.

The zombie dragon is just phenomenal.

Just noticed they're releasing a brand new skeleton kit in the spearhead box too. I wonder why?

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Just noticed they're releasing a brand new skeleton kit in the spearhead box too. I wonder why?

Yeah it’s very random. The current one is what, 3 years old? It mentions the new one is easier to build, I’ve not built the current one, is there a specific build issue they’ve maybe fixed?

Looking at the old skeletons they seem to be more complicated to paint for a big unit. The new ones seem to have more armour, which makes it easier.

 Astmeister wrote:
Looking at the old skeletons they seem to be more complicated to paint for a big unit. The new ones seem to have more armour, which makes it easier.

The new ones shown properly in the article are the Grave Guard replacement, the new skeleton kit is only mentioned in reference to the spearhead including it, and from the little picture they look the same as the current ones.

The 3 year old skeleton kit is absolute nightmare to assemble and paint due to their flowing robes being separated from their lega. I also heard that said legs are prone to breaking. Very happy that they are remaking the sprue, I hope the new ones still have the option to pick spear of sword.

Vargheist wrote:
The 3 year old skeleton kit is absolute nightmare to assemble and paint due to their flowing robes being separated from their lega. I also heard that said legs are prone to breaking. Very happy that they are remaking the sprue, I hope the new ones still have the option to pick spear of sword.

It looks like it from the Spearhead photo they posted.

While I also think about it, Maleneth. And the roadmap. Please let Idoneth get the rattler treatment of about five kits and not just a pity hero this time.

Very whelmed by the Malaneth model.

It's a nice model, but I feel the paint job has screwed her face. She's too dark.

I think it is interesting how much they have toned down the "Uber mega high fantasy" style of AoS when it first released. They redesigned the Stormcast to be more traditional fantasy with armor that might actually fit a person, faces, etc. The soul blight, gitz, and flesh eater courts all sport designs that would have been right at home in WFB 8th edition.

It is pretty weird that they now basically have two skeleton armies in the game. But I don't think Ossiarch sold particularly well (for obvious reasons).

Either way, I'm glad to see them releasing things that are useful in other settings or games.