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Hi all,

Plastic Dwarven Berserkers preview


The Dwarven Berserkers set will contain 60 different pieces to pose and personalize the miniatures. Also, all pieces are interchangeable, in order to offer a lot of possibilities when putting together your regiment.

We will put together a number of videos (with images it is impossible to reflect well all options for the set) to illustrate the different possibilities when putting together the miniatures.

Here is the first vid (excuse the quality, but it is the first video we have recorded ):


Plastic Dwarven Berserkers preview (video)





I really hope you like it!

Smylo
Avatars of War

When will those be released?
How many in the Box?
How much?
Wow, tis one is absolutely great! A must have for me, damn!
What will be the next plastic sets?

Plastic dwarf zerkers? Woot! Hopefully getting a big mob of them would be feasibly now!

AoW plastics... what a wonderful concept.

I hope there are more of these.

Grobrotz wrote:When will those be released?
How many in the Box?
How much?
Wow, tis one is absolutely great! A must have for me, damn!
What will be the next plastic sets?

According to them

As I already commented the plastic sets will be available in two formats:
Regiment boxed set (20 to 24 minis, depending on the troop type) at 25EUR
Horde boxed set (32 to 26 minis, depending on the troop type) at 35EUR

25 euros... Dang that's cheap!

And damn what a quality of sculpts.
So sad Berserkerarmylist from storm of chaos is no more, it was a fun one to play.

Unless you're a die hard tourney player or a GW commando raided your house and burnt all SoC copies you had I see no reason not to do a Slayer army with apparently very nice sculpts.

Oh man this is not even fair for my wallet.

What a bizarrely specific choice for a first foray into plastics.

Really nice looking! I love the look of that axe in his left hand.

btw...Why does google Chrome tell me to spell "axe" as 'ax' ??

His ax? That sounds dumb as hell

So Dwarfs are the first of AoW's plastics. Not astonishing. I expect Orcs to be the second race, have the most heroes next to Dwarfs.
Nice one. But how can I fit 24 Slayers into an army

I wouldn't say "the most heroes" is why Dwarves/Dwarfs are first.

I'd say it's more because of the disappointment expressed by Fantasy players in the 'official' Dwarf models available.

Why not get in on the action when there's no real competition?

But on that note, I am so buying these when they come out. Berserker Dwarves/Dwarfs are always the most fun things to paint.

Samus_aran115 wrote:btw...Why does google Chrome tell me to spell "axe" as 'ax' ??

Because 'ax' is the American spelling, and 'axe' is the real spelling, and Google Chrome is an American program.

Very nice indeed.

Now... perhaps 'Imperial Human Troops of the State' next eh...

make em make em!!!

I think plastic chaos dwarfs would be awesome. Maybe not next, but somewhere down the line...

I'm going to get 3 boxes I think, 2 for slayers and 1 to use as skaven slaves.

Ooh yes evil dwarves would be nice!

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Now... perhaps 'Imperial Human Troops of the State' next eh...

make em make em!!!

It can't be far off. So much of AoW stuff looks like GW stuff because of Gibbons' influence, so other 'alternate' regiments can't be far off. And that's a good thing. The more of Gibbons' work that comes to life in miniature form, the better.

Grimstonefire wrote:I think plastic chaos dwarfs would be awesome. Maybe not next, but somewhere down the line...

One can still dream, right?

........just.....

As an aside, what's the deal with them doing plastic regiments in the first place?

As I understand it, Avatars of War is a gladatorial game (hence "Arena Deathmatch"). Are they expanding into a full-blown war game/skirmish game, or is this to spice up the arena fighting?

It may just be so you can have a variety of choices for specific "archetypes".

They just end up with a potential usage in GW games as a "happy coincidence"!

Say, it appears that the 'hawk is a separate piece you glue to the head. Haven't seen that before.

But, these look VERY good for plastic kits.

Very cool looking. Shame I don't play fantasy. Although some Marauder-type set from AoW might do it for me. Or maybe just be a good base for Chaos Cultists for sci-fi games. Also daemons, especially nurglish ones would be great as well to fill the holes in GWs model line for Chaos stuff.

H.B.M.C. wrote:As an aside, what's the deal with them doing plastic regiments in the first place?

As I understand it, Avatars of War is a gladatorial game (hence "Arena Deathmatch"). Are they expanding into a full-blown war game/skirmish game, or is this to spice up the arena fighting?

Peope were demanding troops for those awesome AoW heroes, and Mantic proved that there is a market for plastic alternative troops. Guess some rules will follow.
He could always ask Rick, Alessio or Andy to do it, right?

This is going to cost me money I hope there is options for musicians and standard bearers the metal ones are very top heavy I had to magnetize mine it fell over on hills.

plastictrees wrote:What a bizarrely specific choice for a first foray into plastics.

I thought so as well then I remembered that the first AoW fig was a Slayer as well, guess it's a pattern.

Nice, will be interesting to see the quality of the plastics. I love the metals they produce.

Ironically enough, IIRC Felix sculpted the current Slayers for Games Workshop back in the day. "I think"

Kanluwen wrote:I wouldn't say "the most heroes" is why Dwarves/Dwarfs are first.

I'd say it's more because of the disappointment expressed by Fantasy players in the 'official' Dwarf models available.

Why not get in on the action when there's no real competition?

But on that note, I am so buying these when they come out. Berserker Dwarves/Dwarfs are always the most fun things to paint.

Oh my, these are some sexy slayers! Great sculpting and the prices seem right on target to... all seems to be another AoW hit.

I think doing team gladatorial combat is the way forwards for AoW.

Good from a business sense, but also good from a gaming sense.