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Well.

Looks like my wallet is getting a huge hit.

I'm not even sure why I need a flying throne pulled by ghosts.. but Its hard to resist

That Mortis Engine is freaking awesome!

I JUST got a TK army! Maybe I should have waited!

Can't wait to see more!

Scottywan82 wrote:Any word on plastic single figures?

The wight king says that it's plastic. And only £8. That's... not bad. At all.

Kirasu wrote:I'm not even sure why I need a flying throne pulled by ghosts.. but Its hard to resist

Yes. My exact same thought.

Will this push me over the edge to start VCs? Maybe. I do have a Terrorgheist that I painted for the heck of it, and am totally in love with...

The things I'm not sold on are the things I wasn't considering using.

The Crypt Horrors are nice, but I'm not a fan of Ghouls. The Mortis Engine and Hexwraiths... I dunno. Not sure why, but there's something about them that does't tickle me. I know the Mortis Engine is 80% the same as the Coven Throne, but the unique part just doesn't interest me.

Now, the Black Knights, Vargeists, Coven Throne, Krell, plastic Wight King and Isabella? Downright jaw dropping.

For me, here's what I'm thinking:

Crypt Horrors are fun. Vargheists? Not so much.
Mortis Engine is fun. Hexwraiths are fun.
Coven Throne is meh.
Black Knights are gorgeous.
Krell is gorgeous.
Wight King is being bought in duplicate, as with a hand swap for his right arm and a head swap--I can finally have a bulked up looking Vampire Count dismounted from a Zombie Dragon!
Isabella looks now BETTER than Vlad, and is in a different scale.

Etharin wrote:

Scottywan82 wrote:Any word on plastic single figures?

The wight king says that it's plastic. And only £8. That's... not bad. At all.

Actually that was sorta my fault for not submitting the images from page 86 at first

If the trend with single plastics continue, we should be getting 3 others for different armies soon.

to quote Freddy Mercury -
'I want it all, I want it all & I want it now!'

Coven throne/mortis engine: wow that's OOT, with so much stuff going on with the base and engine itself, never expect to see a painted one at a tournament *ever*

Vargheist/Crypt Horror: Vargeists are meh, static poses, boring paintjob. Like the minotaurs/stormraven, expect them to look much better in person and blame GW for bad marketing. Crypt Horrors look awesome, but need more dynamic posing.

Wight King: Awesome, and for £8 a steal (though still horribly overprices in AUS)

Black Knight/Hexwraiths: Wow, they've gotten the kind of detail the Bloodknights had and made them plastic, well done GW. All we need now is a decent ruleset for them and they might be useful.

Krell/Isabella: Krell looks cartoonish, Isabella is a well sculpted model. Krell is already a freakin' skeleton, he doesn't need a trophy rack GW! Also, what the is the handle of his axe supposed to be made of? Crystal? Ethereal matter? Rock candy?

Von Carstein Upgrade Pack: Too bad I play Blood Dragons.

Still doesn't inspire me to pick up a new game. I've liked VC for almost two years, and I thought the old models were fantastically vintage and full of charm. New stuff is great, but doesn't feel like the same VC.

Dam it, just as I decided on an army list for my dark elves to get back into fantasy! Stupid pretty toys!

Oh well, I guess its time to practice weathering effects, grave leather and bone again!

Ehsteve wrote:Coven throne/mortis engine: wow that's OOT, with so much stuff going on with the base and engine itself, never expect to see a painted one at a tournament *ever*.

Are we looking at the same model? Painting the ghosts is as easy as painting any other ghost. Prime white, paint metal parts boltgun metal and highlight with chainmail and mithrol silver, wash all of it thraka green, drybrush ghostly parts white a few times.

The only complicated part of the kit are the engine/throne.

Stunning.

That is all...

Wow, that is pretty amazing.

I just saw the new modles. Their beautiful. Have already started planning a army.

Tried to start them when 8th came out, but was to hard to wrap my head around them. So played chaos instead.

Was orginally thinking GW skeleton command squads, but then fill out the ranks with Wargames Factory Skeletons. But after seeing how good/well prices Mantic Zombies are, and the fact thier skeletons aren't half bad either. I may just straight up make my core from Mantic.

XD

I like GW's skeletons but their just so pricy for how many you need.

Wow.

Pretty impressive. Too bad I'm about to buy a new car and can't afford a new army, otherwise I'd be all over this.

Impressive models and it's reassuring to know the VC codex will be written by Phil Kelly. I look forward to reading it when it comes out. Heck, I may even sell off one of my 40k armies and start playing VC.

OMG they look too good d@mn that i got to go to afghanistan. next year boys next year.

GW just made Battlefoam very happy with the Coven Throne/Mortis Engine kit. Because, seriously, how else are you going to transport those suckers without a custom cut-out foam piece?

Holy Kak those are some beautiful models!

Death By Monkeys wrote:GW just made Battlefoam very happy with the Coven Throne/Mortis Engine kit. Because, seriously, how else are you going to transport those suckers without a custom cut-out foam piece?

Magnetized, on the inside of a metal container like all your models

I like this a lot, except for that ridiculous Mortis Engine thingy-majigger....wtf were they thinking?

That every fantasy army needs giant, expensive plastic kits, apparently.

Sidstyler wrote:That every fantasy army needs giant, expensive plastic kits, apparently.

Hey, if its what the people want, I'm fine with it. The terrorgheist/zombie dragon was one of the most impressive large models I have seen in a longass time. This looks like it might be better.

Loving all the Lord/hero models. Black knights are sweet as well.

The Mortis Engine/Coven Throne did actually give me an idea.

The "rising spirits" that it's settled upon could, with some work, feasibly be made into Spirit Hosts.

Mmmm I'm not so sure about that, they seem pretty solid. Besides, what are you going to do? Turn a $60 mortis engine into a spirit host?

ph34r wrote:Mmmm I'm not so sure about that, they seem pretty solid. Besides, what are you going to do? Turn a $60 mortis engine into a spirit host?

Of course, because you sold the female vampire figs in the kits for $20 a pop on ebay