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The new Beast of Nurgle kit is absolutely packed with extras, meaning if you want to field a pack of them you’ll be able to ensure that each looks different. From a variety of exposed innards to flailing tentacles, they’ll be great for converting the rest of your Nurgle Daemons too!

the artwork deceives you to believe they have elbows and can articulate grasping an object ¬¬

 aracersss wrote:
the artwork deceives you to believe they have elbows and can articulate grasping an object ¬¬

How else are they going to hug their best, soon to be melty friends?

That thing is totally Baymax.

I'm gonna need at least seven of them. All the hugs...

The guo has to come with lots of spare parts. Just like the maggots lords who come with loads of extras. Alll those spare parts, a little green stuff..bam more beasts. I refuse to spend $40 for a 60 point model that usually will be in in units of 3-4. There is no way. I mean other than the intricate heads...it's simply a blob of flesh with stubby arms.. you could sculpt a beast with green stuff pretty easy I feel.

You could craft a Beast of Nurgle out of a golf ball and some glue.

I scanned some pages of the new WD (January), including parts of the batrep (Fyreslayers vs Maggotkin) and what catched my eyes regarding Malign Portens


My album

https://imgur.com/a/8v2Of


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Battle report with some rules teasers





Malign Portents





Overview





Next issue

I never would have guessed that the grossest part of a Nurgle release would be the prices.

Thanks for the comparison pic.

So I will pass on GUO and convert my glootkin into one. I will also pass on the beasts of nurgle and sculpt mine instead and finally sculpt different bugs for the blightlords. That leaves me with some small characters purchases to add to my nurgle collection.

So do we have confirmation on the GUO base size? 130mm oval?

Haven't seen anything that confirms it, but I don't know why they would put him on a different base size than the others, unless he's on a 160mm round.

 EnTyme wrote:
Haven't seen anything that confirms it, but I don't know why they would put him on a different base size than the others, unless he's on a 160mm round.

The others are already on different bases (LoC is 100mm round and the BT is 120x92mm oval).

Hmm. I thought LoC was on the 120 oval

New video

https://malignportents.com/#2

New zombie models confirmed?

You know, with the whole build up we're seeing I'd be disappointed if the announced four heroes are all we're going to get. Same old undead player's lament, but I really hope they're giving Death a large release as a consequence of all this.

 Geifer wrote:
New zombie models confirmed?

It certainly would be time to get some updated models...

 Geifer wrote:
New zombie models confirmed?

You know, with the whole build up we're seeing I'd be disappointed if the announced four heroes are all we're going to get. Same old undead player's lament, but I really hope they're giving Death a large release as a consequence of all this.

Well I mean, we're also seeing the Maggotkin...

SKR.HH wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
New zombie models confirmed?

It certainly would be time to get some updated models...

Nah, I'm sure zombies can rot for all GW cares.

We'll just be getting more humongous centerpiece models to use in our armies that aren't armies but collections of random humongous centerpiece models...


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 Kanluwen wrote:

 Geifer wrote:
New zombie models confirmed?

You know, with the whole build up we're seeing I'd be disappointed if the announced four heroes are all we're going to get. Same old undead player's lament, but I really hope they're giving Death a large release as a consequence of all this.

Well I mean, we're also seeing the Maggotkin...

That's what I'm afraid of. More Chaos and Sigmarines, and only more Chaos and Sigmarines. The former because they are part of the campaign or event or whatever Malign Portents turns out to be, and the latter because Sigmarines.

Actually, I'm being silly. We'll stop seeing new Chaos releases shortly before it's Slaanesh's turn.

Just saying.

The last two army releases have plenty of troops so no need to get bent out of shape. Now will you get skeleton troops? I don't know.

The skeleton hand rising from the grave mirrors a story's ending a lot that I skimmed. It was heavily building up to the lead up to this event and some skeletons (I guess) end up bursting out of the ground en mass and killing a village of folks but they can't touch some guy because he has some spores or something protecting him.

So there might be a chance to get skeletons. A faint hope. However I am not an aos lore person and even less so death lore so I who knows.

You mean Zombies not Skeletons yeah, GW's Skeletons are actually excellent. Regardless, recent releases may have had some amount of non-centerpieces, but other than the not-Marauders for Khorne I don't think many have been refreshes of old kits that really needed it. Maybe that'll change and this year we'll get nu-Marauders via Darkoath and nu-Zombies with a very silly name, but I won't hold my breath.

Does Death actually need new troop models? The skeletons and ghouls are still fine kits, and the zombies aren't too bad either. GW has a lot worse troop kits still in production. I am pretty convinced we won't see any old kits updated, especially not for Death, only releases of new units.

I think the zombies are horrific, but not in a good way. Very old and outdated kit.

 Yodhrin wrote:
You mean Zombies not Skeletons yeah, GW's Skeletons are actually excellent. Regardless, recent releases may have had some amount of non-centerpieces, but other than the not-Marauders for Khorne I don't think many have been refreshes of old kits that really needed it. Maybe that'll change and this year we'll get nu-Marauders via Darkoath and nu-Zombies with a very silly name, but I won't hold my breath.

I keep seeing people mention Darkoath as if it's a new faction, but y'all do realize the Darkoath Cheiftain is a Slaves to Darkness hero, right? I honestly prefer it that way. I think it would be better to expand and update the legacy armies where possible rather than just let them fall by the wayside. Seemed to work well enough for Sylvaneth.


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 Mymearan wrote:
I think the zombies are horrific, but not in a good way. Very old and outdated kit.

The zombies are one of the rare cases where I think Mantic's option completely surpasses the GW models.

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Does Death actually need new troop models? The skeletons and ghouls are still fine kits, and the zombies aren't too bad either. GW has a lot worse troop kits still in production. I am pretty convinced we won't see any old kits updated, especially not for Death, only releases of new units.

The zombie kit is actually terrible and the skeletons might as well be made out of salt for how fragile they are, but I STILL don't want them to put out new kits for those if they could do something cooler (and less spindly) instead.

I kinda love the idea of an all centerpiece army with new awesome models to go along with terrogeists/mortarchs/mournguls/Nagash

 EnTyme wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
You mean Zombies not Skeletons yeah, GW's Skeletons are actually excellent. Regardless, recent releases may have had some amount of non-centerpieces, but other than the not-Marauders for Khorne I don't think many have been refreshes of old kits that really needed it. Maybe that'll change and this year we'll get nu-Marauders via Darkoath and nu-Zombies with a very silly name, but I won't hold my breath.

I keep seeing people mention Darkoath as if it's a new faction, but y'all do realize the Darkoath Cheiftain is a Slaves to Darkness hero, right? I honestly prefer it that way. I think it would be better to expand and update the legacy armies where possible rather than just let them fall by the wayside. Seemed to work well enough for Sylvaneth.


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 Mymearan wrote:
I think the zombies are horrific, but not in a good way. Very old and outdated kit.

The zombies are one of the rare cases where I think Mantic's option completely surpasses the GW models.

I once got a whole box of Mantic zombies and other undead because they were so cheap, but I never managed to paint a single miniature of it. They are too bland for my liking. They all look the same, like clones. GW zombies have some character to them. And I find they look a lot less outdated than kits such as the Empire State Troops or the Chaos Marauders, or virtually the entire Eldar, IG and CSM ranges in 40k. Not that the zombies couldn't use a new kit, but they are very far from being the most outdated looking basic infantry GW sells. I'd much rather have some cool new stuff rather than new zombies.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/12/31/the-seventh-day-of-nurgle-the-feculent-gnarlmawgw-homepage-post-3/
This... thing.

Going by the WD battle report it seems to link in with the allegiance ability, which isn't cycle of corruption...?

If you look at the battle report it looks to be well forward of the Nurgle front lines so maybe summoned, or placed before battle?!

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Does Death actually need new troop models? The skeletons and ghouls are still fine kits, and the zombies aren't too bad either. GW has a lot worse troop kits still in production. I am pretty convinced we won't see any old kits updated, especially not for Death, only releases of new units.

For me it's really not a one for one replacement of the existing kits (although zombies could really, really use it). I'd like for GW to finally add new, genuinely Age of Sigmar troops in addition to the old kits to have models that shed the Warhammer Fantasy look and look like they belong in Age of Sigmar. I think the best thing to ever come out for the game (so far) are Kharadron Overlords. Their style may be divisive (I like them, my traditional dwarf playing friend doesn't - he does like Fyreslayers, though) but they have their own identity.

I want something like that for my undead. Right now I see too much of the old world in it, and the constant reminder of it doesn't do Age of Sigmar any favors.

Additionally it doesn't help that GW squatted Tomb Kings. Death was apparently not small enough, they had to thrwo out those models, too.

Finally I'm sitting on a fair collection of unassembled undead models but with no indication where GW wants undead to go stylistically or narratively, I've had no incentive for the past two and a half years (aka the entire existence of Age of Sigmar) to do anything with them.

So much of this could be solved by releasing a handful of new undead units to form the core of a real, new Death army.

 EnTyme wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
You mean Zombies not Skeletons yeah, GW's Skeletons are actually excellent. Regardless, recent releases may have had some amount of non-centerpieces, but other than the not-Marauders for Khorne I don't think many have been refreshes of old kits that really needed it. Maybe that'll change and this year we'll get nu-Marauders via Darkoath and nu-Zombies with a very silly name, but I won't hold my breath.

I keep seeing people mention Darkoath as if it's a new faction, but y'all do realize the Darkoath Cheiftain is a Slaves to Darkness hero, right? I honestly prefer it that way. I think it would be better to expand and update the legacy armies where possible rather than just let them fall by the wayside. Seemed to work well enough for Sylvaneth.

That may just be hope speaking. The Warriors of Chaos Marauders weren't particularly pretty when they were released and simply don't compare anymore today. Referring to new Marauders as Darkoath doesn't mean they can't be Slaves to Darkness, but you can immediately envision which style they're supposed to take.