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No-shows works as an aesthetic when it is used sparingly. On these guys, with their pseudo-eastern monkish vibe, it works. Especially because it is only a few of them.

I really like the three that are more heavily clothed- the flamberge samurai, the one with the pic, and the priestess.

I also appreciate the more civilised look too- it really suggests that Aqshy is one of the more developed, urbanised realms.


As a side tangent, I now want to look up shoe use through history.

Warcry really is the current gem in GWs crown. Really some fantastic models. I love the old school Sword and Sorcery movie vibe these guys have going. Aside from their footwear, they are generally using believable if slightly impractical weapons and have clothing and helmets that don't require the "b b b but it's magic!" defense.

Updated Errata,

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/3bd97281.pdf

very small change just to correct the 2 leaders without the rune mark.

STORMCAST ETERNALS: SACROSANCT CHAMBER
Castigator-Prime Fighter Card
Add the Leader runemark ( ).

SERAPHON
Saurus Knight Alpha Fighter Card
Add the Leader runemark ( ).

Cool. Basically a formality but still.

 Haighus wrote:
I really like the three that are more heavily clothed- the flamberge samurai, the one with the pic, and the priestess.

I also appreciate the more civilised look too- it really suggests that Aqshy is one of the more developed, urbanised realms.


As a side tangent, I now want to look up shoe use through history.

It’s not a pick, it’s an axe on the backswing with flame trailing it.

 Gallahad wrote:
Warcry really is the current gem in GWs crown. Really some fantastic models. I love the old school Sword and Sorcery movie vibe these guys have going. Aside from their footwear, they are generally using believable if slightly impractical weapons and have clothing and helmets that don't require the "b b b but it's magic!" defense.

Well, except the cypher lords. Flat metal panels on top of entirely enclosed helms...

Voss wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
Warcry really is the current gem in GWs crown. Really some fantastic models. I love the old school Sword and Sorcery movie vibe these guys have going. Aside from their footwear, they are generally using believable if slightly impractical weapons and have clothing and helmets that don't require the "b b b but it's magic!" defense.

Well, except the cypher lords. Flat metal panels on top of entirely enclosed helms...

Yeah, fair point. The Cypher Lord's just got blocked from my mind. They are the worst of the bunch.

only in terms of.thoet heads- the bodies are really cool

I have never, not once, seen the 'magic defense' used for GWs helmets. Rule of cool once in a while.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I have never, not once, seen the 'magic defense' used for GWs helmets. Rule of cool once in a while.

Maybe not magic per se, but I’ve seen the “it’s fantasy” defence invoked multiple times. It usually goes along the lines of, “You can’t complain about the height of helmets because dragons”.

I usually see people agree that the helmets get silly.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
I have never, not once, seen the 'magic defense' used for GWs helmets. Rule of cool once in a while.

Pretty sure there is an example in the AOS thread discussing the new elf croquet team with bull helmets on top of their helmet helmets.

They were using the "magic defense" in regards to the oversized hammers, not the helmets.

And even with magic to justify them they still LOOK silly. Something none of the warbands suffer from to nearly the same degree. If anything my biggest complaint is with the splintered fang whip models; those whips are completely impractical to actually play with, enough to render them non-viable as an option.

Yeah - I love the splintered fang in terms of design except for the whips.

Wrong thread

Dread Master wrote:

 Haighus wrote:
I really like the three that are more heavily clothed- the flamberge samurai, the one with the pic, and the priestess.

I also appreciate the more civilised look too- it really suggests that Aqshy is one of the more developed, urbanised realms.


As a side tangent, I now want to look up shoe use through history.

It’s not a pick, it’s an axe on the backswing with flame trailing it.

Not that guy, the one on the bottom row who is also holding a flamberge dagger.

Any news when the bigger box of Spire Tyrants is supposed to drop? The double sized one that doesn’t have WC cards in it. I know all the earlier sets are in the double sized group, but not them...yet.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Any news when the bigger box of Spire Tyrants is supposed to drop? The double sized one that doesn’t have WC cards in it. I know all the earlier sets are in the double sized group, but not them...yet.

With the GW factory closed there's no news of any releases. Especially as GW has no idea when they will reopen nor what the global scene is going to be like then.

Sorry, should have been more clear; did any news come through that I might have missed before they halted production/sales?

No nothing was said,

I suspect the most likely thing is for them to start rolling as they were planning to do originally,

I cant imagine a huge dump of 3 months+ of releases at once (and anything they preview they can't just ignore and not release so the more they tease the more they're fixing their future releases in place)

Edit: and they're also going to want to see how sales hold up compared to pre-corona numbers, if its ok they can carry on as before, if sales are down because people have debts, lost their jobs, are saving for virus wave 2 etc they'll want to know so they can adjust future developments and the more similar their sales pattern is in the short term the more accurate the comparisons they can make

The other aspect is what they might have to wait on from China or other partners - we've no idea what their stocks of materials or boxes and such are like. Best case is they've several shipments from China just waiting to be unloaded and the blip in factory shutdown gets overrun by the UK shutdown to the china production catches up.

The other aspect is how they choose to roll things out as when the UK comes back online (even if limited) other nations might not be online. The USA could be in full lockdown. So that's going to affect GW's ability to serve that market since its stock goes through warehousing rather than just through national mail.



I'd wager as GW can't work at present chances are they'll pick up where they left off and will just have to push most of their plans along X number of months. Perhaps with a few ships to coincide with Christmas and other key periods.
The other option is that they go mad and produce bump amounts of product to flood the market to catch up with their projected positions

Don't think we heard of the double-sized Warcry sets from GW until just before release anyway, instead being left scratching our heads when the products were on some shipping/order list and nobody knew in what way they were repackaged from the slightly cheaper sets with the same name released not long before.

Something new on the way? ASIA PACIFIC OFFSET LTD. do books and printing

Khainite Shadowstalkers warband - first new non chaos warband. (there's more than the 3 shown)

Noice, but I hope that isn't the entire warband or that's going to hurt at standard warcry box prices

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Noice, but I hope that isn't the entire warband or that's going to hurt at standard warcry box prices

They confirmed there's more than 3

Ohh they are very cool

 DaveC wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Noice, but I hope that isn't the entire warband or that's going to hurt at standard warcry box prices

They confirmed there's more than 3

However it looks like there's alternate builds for the two cloaked ones shown. The gent with the flaming hand and dagger is the same build as the twin crossbows and the living cloak has the twin spear.