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 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I would love to hear feedback on if people find combined mortal/daemon armies to be too strong, it is definitely something I will consider house ruling into future campaigns.

In narrative play, which units you can place in a warband are based on the runemarks associated with the campaign you undertake - all the campaigns for Nurgle, Khorne, and Tzeentch have runemarks for both their mortal and demon factions. This seems to indicate that they are intended to be played together, though for fated quests and matched play, you are limited to a single faction runemark.

Posting this since they can be used in Warcry. Few models + scenery/objective( wonder why nobody posted something about Seraphon vs Daemon band with Bastiladon as a custom objective?).

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/03/01/sunday-preview-star-lizards-and-start-collecting-boxes/

I did not show the Gloomspites because 1. They have their own warband, and 2. The trolls aren't even considered monsters.

Trolls have rampaging beasts rules in the Tome of Champions, as do Squigs as I recall. For 'npc' opposition that SC isn't a bad buy.

DoK box was meh for warcry. You can only use 1 allies, and have to use the other, along side the spear witch as "witch elves" There're no use for the shrine, the avatar, or the medusa.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Trolls have rampaging beasts rules in the Tome of Champions, as do Squigs as I recall. For 'npc' opposition that SC isn't a bad buy.

That is actually quite a good idea.

I don't have ToC(yet), plus they never included them in the monsters section of the site. My apologies about that.

Scions of Flame preview

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SBWIxouhq/

Damnit, that‘s another warband I need, lovely sculpts.

Very different from what I imagined (flame priests) but great sculpts, lots of variety and loads of conversion potential for all sorts of uses.

Kudos to them for creating another warband that had a unifying aesthetic, yet a bunch of visually distinct models.

Warcry in general is one of the jewels in the modern GW crown from a model design standpoint

Well I guess that's another warband for me. Top two guys are my favorite. Have a vague samurai like style to them. Maybe it's just me.

Happy to see the note about how although this is the final warband of the initial release it won't be the last.

I feel like these smaller scale games are the perfect place to throw unique looking sculpts in that don't have to be tied to anything other than the fact that they look cool.

They are smashing it out of the park with the Warcry warbands!

Amazing, just amazing. I had high hopes for these guys, and I am surprised in the best of ways.

They look amazing.,

The leader guy is an absolutely fantastic model.

Looking at all the weapons I think whoever made these is a huge fan of the show Forged in Fire

Did GW hire Stephane Simon (the guy who did the Mierce War-Drunes and lots of similiar buff dudes with ginormous lats and a ton of veins)? Totally getting those vibes from the two-handed flame poleaxe. The blond cultist is great, too, GW's plastic females are getting better, be it elves, Eldar, goody two- shoes humans, blood thirsty humans, everything. Even so-buff-they're-abhumans (Goliath Forgeborn) look ace.


And they have a guy so angry that he punches things while ON FIRE! Heck yeah And samurai-knight leader dude rocks a Flamberge. Insta-buy.

About dam time! But dam was it worth the wait.

 sockwithaticket wrote:
Kudos to them for creating another warband that had a unifying aesthetic, yet a bunch of visually distinct models.

Warcry in general is one of the jewels in the modern GW crown from a model design standpoint

I agree whole-heartedly.

I really like them too. I was a bit afraid with the previous previews, that they would be too "demonic faces", but I'm glad with what they have done. Surprisingly enough, they look even a bit civilized - their weapons are quite stylized, making me remember the Fyreslayer weapons.

About rules, from what Ben said in the video, looks like they'll have a few range attacks - throwing fireballs and even fire breath. And they seem to be dealing quite a lot of damage.

They have better pose than Spire Tyrant. Female fighters though, are meh.

Chopstick wrote:
They have better pose than Spire Tyrant. Female fighters though, are meh.

Female fighters are awesome.

These are pretty cool looking. I like the top left and bottom right two the most. The pose on the priesty type woman (top right) looks a bit awkward, but it could just be the angle.

The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

 Snrub wrote:
These are pretty cool looking. I like the top left and bottom right two the most. The pose on the priesty type woman (top right) looks a bit awkward, but it could just be the angle.

The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

They have to prove they can walk across burning coals barefoot to prove their mettle before they are allowed to wear shoes.

 Snrub wrote:
The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

A good portion of the Warcy Cults are barefoot. I think it is supposed to sell the idea of just how far humanity, or mortals for that matter, have regressed since the beginning of the Age of Chaos. For the average person in the Mortal Realms they are living in a pre-Iron Age or even pre-Bronze Age level of technology and in fear of what whim the dark gods cast their way. The lore tends to speak more of tribes over even villages much less towns. Life is dark and savage. Even with the return of Sigmar's forces, it really isn't the Age of Sigmar and is still the Age of Chaos setting-wise. I know the AoS factions are super-powered compared to WHFB, but that isn't the average joe schmoe who is living is much worse conditions than even the lowest of rat catcher of the Old World.

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

For the average person in the Mortal Realms they are living in a pre-Iron Age or even pre-Bronze Age level of technology

Pre-Shoe age technology for many of them!

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

A good portion of the Warcy Cults are barefoot. I think it is supposed to sell the idea of just how far humanity, or mortals for that matter, have regressed since the beginning of the Age of Chaos. For the average person in the Mortal Realms they are living in a pre-Iron Age or even pre-Bronze Age level of technology

Pre-Iron Age with... cannons? I don't think that assertion works out. Even for the chaos tribes, sandals and basic shoes aren't hard or high-tech. Most neolithic age tribes managed something to protect feet, even if it was just a rough oval of boiled hide and straps.

It is a thing with almost all the Warcry bands, but its still just as baffling.

I assume is because they are gladiators and many gladiators fought barefooted on the arenas.

Of course with the introduction of everybody else that is thematically less coherent as a whole.

But I mean, only two miniatures don't have shoes and they look like the low rank cultists ones.

Voss wrote:

 Saturmorn Carvilli wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
The thing that lets this warband down for me though is the bare feet. I really wish GW wouldn't do this.

A good portion of the Warcy Cults are barefoot. I think it is supposed to sell the idea of just how far humanity, or mortals for that matter, have regressed since the beginning of the Age of Chaos. For the average person in the Mortal Realms they are living in a pre-Iron Age or even pre-Bronze Age level of technology

Pre-Iron Age with... cannons? I don't think that assertion works out. Even for the chaos tribes, sandals and basic shoes aren't hard or high-tech. Most neolithic age tribes managed something to protect feet, even if it was just a rough oval of boiled hide and straps.

It is a thing with almost all the Warcry bands, but its still just as baffling.

Actual Age of Sigmar factions run the gamut of technology levels all the way up to late 19th century and beyond with retro-sci-fi stuff (Read: Kharadron Overlords and some Cities of Sigmar stuff), the vast teaming masses of humanity don't have much more access to basic things. Made more difficult by the ever corrupting Chaos Realm, the dark gods and their servants and monsters. Even the favored Slaves of Darkness don't have cannons for their armies. And my army could really use them.

True as that might be that pre-Bronze Age people still had footwear, that doesn't mean the average GW hobbyist is going know that. Even sandals are likely going to read as more advanced and a higher quality of life than the setting is trying to suggest mortals have. I don't think it is coincidence that one of the more sophisticated cults, the Cypher Lords, actually wear sandals on of their models. Like I said, have barefoot cultists is a kind of visual shorthand to how little typical mortals have, how far they have fallen and how tough they have to be to survive in the Age of Chaos. Especially when you think even Warcry cults are a step above the huddled masses. I mean these cults haven't even started on the Path to Glory yet and may or may not know the Chaos gods by their more common names.

Ultimately, it is fantasy and it only has to make enough sense maintain suspension of disbelief in a person. I don't find barefoot tribes coming anywhere close to pushing that in this brutal, heavy metal album art sort of setting. I find it a breath of fresh air that AoS is actually taking new-ish paths in the Fantasy genre rather than walking the same tired, deep rutted roads that fantasy largely has stuck to for some 40 years. Lots of vocal people on the internet don't like it. And that's fine. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of generic fantasy (what an oxymoron) worlds out there for them to visit if they are so inclined. I wish them all the best, but I actually like the direction Age of Sigmar has been going so far hope it continues.

Looking at the warband, they're amazing. I don't see any overtly Chaotic imagery either, except perhaps the bottom right gys mask, which could be passed off as a Sun Mask, or the top lefts brazers on his back.

They feel very civilizard compared to some of the ones we have seen. I will admit I haven't really read up on them though, so i'm not aware of their lore.

These guys are fantastic and just dripping with flavor. I love fanatical cult vibe these guys give.

The Warcry warbands GW has put out have all been excellent, and in my opinion is probably the most consistently great range they have across all of their games. Each warband has a very distinct feel, personality, and aesthetic.

Definitely looking forward to adding these guys to my collection (along with the other two warbands I don't own to get up to the even eight).