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Finally - now nothing shall stand in the way of the glorious Soulblights arising!


Also pretty sure Gitz players are going to have one fantastic week!

I think i need to get me two more chariots, two boss chariots and a doom diver. And then the bone boys box whenever that makes an appearance.

I'd assumed there would be a spearhead box for Gitmob but it looks like it's just individual kits for now. Got the release box so just need a boss chariot and Doom Diver for now, I'd pick up a spearhead box if it comes later.

I thought they deliberately held those back so you have to pay indvidual kits prices or wait for the discount box.

Are the details of a faction's Spearhead in the Battletome, like Combat Patrols feature in a Codex?

Yeah. There's a picture of it back on pg 72

It's a shame there's not a consistent design for the goblins in the new models for the range. You've got a set of three goblins on wolves that are clearly Warhammer fantasy goblins and then the rest of them are a newer design for AoS. I wonder how long they've had the WHFB goblins sculpted and waiting for release.

US and EU Prices posted on TGA - GBP based on GWs current rates.

Doom Diver $110, €85, £65
Snarlboss warwheela $100, €80, £61.50
Snarlboss and Retinue $42, €34, £26
Snarlpack $60, €47.50, £37
Sun Steelas $92, €72.50, £57

Droggz isn’t on the price list so it looks like it’s direct only.

Snarlboss warwheela is pricey the rest about what I expected. Contents of the spearhead is €201.50 better to wait for the €115 boxset

Hm, yeah. Just the diver and one boss for now. The spearhead is worth waiting for.

Haha, €80 for one chariot??? Fat chance I'm going to pay over €150 for 2 normal chariots and one boss chariot.

I thought they'd be nice for my Old World O&G army. Was quite excited. Not anymore though.

On another note, and i might be in the minority here though as a crusty curmudgeon, but that doomdiver, while a solid sculpt, feels unnecessarily cluttered to me compared to the old doom diver. Normally I'm all for an increase in details, but somehow that model bugs me with the sheer amount of added nicknacks that don't do much for the model as a whole.

That would not be a problem in itself if it didn't also mean that the old doom diver is in white metal and costs €41, while this new one is €85! I could buy two old ones for one new one and still have some money left. That monumental increase in cost doesn't make the model any more effective in game though.

I'm normally not one to complain about GW's prices, but some of these prices feel (unecessarily) steep.

Might just be me though!

Haha indeed, those prices are ridiculous even compared to contemporary releases, the giant ass boar with 3 Ironjaws orcs on it is 65€, a chariot with 2 goblins is 80€. Never mind something old like the Scraplauncher (34€!) that's comparable in size, style and function to the 85€ Doom Diver

The Black Adder wrote:
I wonder how long they've had the WHFB goblins sculpted and waiting for release.

They were a Warhammer:Underworlds warband. Rippas Snarlfangs, released in 2019 for the Beastgrave edition of WHU.

 nels1031 wrote:

The Black Adder wrote:
I wonder how long they've had the WHFB goblins sculpted and waiting for release.

They were a Warhammer:Underworlds warband. Rippas Snarlfangs, released in 2019 for the Beastgrave edition of WHU.

Thanks for that, I thought I recognised them. So at least 4 years after the end of WHFB. It seems odd to re-release them alongside the new gobbos. Now that fantasy is back, I'm surprised they didn't return there instead.

Is there a meaningful difference between the wolf with 2 gobbos on and the wolf with a single gobbo on in the AoS rules?

If (as rumoured) chaos dwarfs make an appearance in AoS, do you think they'll be able to take some of these goblin units?

Why would they go there? They were designed for a totally different game in Underworlds.

We know the chaos dwarves are coming, but who knows what they can take. Current rumours say they will get twelve plastic kits. Possibly they will get the Horns of Hashut and the Hobgrots. Maybe.

Dark thoughts - if Fyreslayers don't get a book and Chaos dwarves do - does this mean AoS Chaos Dwarves could be....


I mean I'm not saying its so but... well...

I disregard all Fyreslayers rumours due to this guy existing. If it's not proof, i don't know what is.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I disregard all Fyreslayers rumours due to this guy existing. If it's not proof, i don't know what is.

yeah, with how far in advance these choices need to be made to fit a production schedule, it's pretty safe to say that slayers are here to stay

 DaveC wrote:

Droggz isn’t on the price list so it looks like it’s direct only.

Well thats one way to increase the army set worth compared to the spearhead since you won't get FLGS discounts on Droggz this way

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Why would they go there? They were designed for a totally different game in Underworlds.

Because they don't fit the other gobbos in this release and take their design cues from WHFB. They're great models and may have been designed either for underworlds originally, or have been planned for Fantasy before it got the chop. Either way they don't look like they belong where they ended up in a main range. However I think it's great news that they're getting released (again) so that people who want them can buy them and they can be used by whoever wants them, wherever they want them.

If nobody has heard anything different then I'll keep my fingers crossed for some greenskins in the CD line.

 Matrindur wrote:

 DaveC wrote:

Droggz isn’t on the price list so it looks like it’s direct only.

Well thats one way to increase the army set worth compared to the spearhead since you won't get FLGS discounts on Droggz this way

That seems to be the habit with these boxes now. The hero's all stay direct at direct prices.

The Black Adder wrote:
Now that fantasy is back, I'm surprised they didn't return there instead.

The Snarlfang warband have round(oval in this case) bases built into their sprue. I never purchased this particular warband, but in my experience with most of the Underworlds warbands that I did purchase, parts of their model are probably integrated into the base. It would've required retooling/sculpting most likely, and even then it would only be 3 mini's.

I think they are visually different from the newest Gitmob because they were the test run to see if there was an appetite for wolf riding goblins to return in AoS, and their direction evolved a bit from there.

I believe they are no longer supported in Underworlds, so bringing them back as a boss/retinue in AoS was a solid move, and hopefully becomes a recurring theme with some of the warbands where it makes sense.

New short story:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/undcgjno/chronicles-of-ruin-in-the-bad-moons-light/

Kind of disturbing actually.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
New short story:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/undcgjno/chronicles-of-ruin-in-the-bad-moons-light/

Kind of disturbing actually.

Yeah, Gloomspite in action are pretty horrific.

Great little short story.

For those missing the sprues, I have high-res sprue images for the Doom Diver Catapult and Snarlboss on War-wheela (plus the other Gitmob models) here in my unboxing & review of the new kits: https://taleofpainters.com/2025/03/review-gloomspite-gitz-snarlboss-on-war-wheela-doom-diver-catapult/

Thanks for that Stahly. The sculpts themselves are great!

However, I dislike the doom diver. I find it too convoluted compared to the classic. I just put together and painted the new Bretonnia battle standard on warhorse and i have to say that it was refreshing to paint a new sculpt that isn't insanely cluttered with details.

The boss on chariot is very nice, but the price is of such insanity, that it is apparently sufficiently excessive enough for me to withhold me from impulse-buying.

I was thinking of getting a couple of normal chariots and maybe a couple of the character chariots for old world use and the insane price stopped me too. Absolutely crazy stuff.

Vorian wrote:
I was thinking of getting a couple of normal chariots and maybe a couple of the character chariots for old world use and the insane price stopped me too. Absolutely crazy stuff.

I had the exact same idea; a unit of 3 chariots, one with a character. The price for the chariots from smaller retailers aren't that bad; i might buy those eventually. The boss chariots is, even with a discount, still so insanely priced that i won't buy it for the forseeable future.

They very much dont want you doing that, and are setting prices accordingly to make you not want to do that.

One would have thought the size over the price was the bigger thing. They're huge compared to the old stuff.

JWh85 wrote:

Vorian wrote:
I was thinking of getting a couple of normal chariots and maybe a couple of the character chariots for old world use and the insane price stopped me too. Absolutely crazy stuff.

I had the exact same idea; a unit of 3 chariots, one with a character. The price for the chariots from smaller retailers aren't that bad; i might buy those eventually. The boss chariots is, even with a discount, still so insanely priced that i won't buy it for the forseeable future.

How much are they? I am thinking about scracht-building the chariots.