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tneva82 wrote:

 Matrindur wrote:
Also that makes me think the Stormcast/FEC box might not be Nightmare Quest after all but the first set of the next cycle since why would you advertise the fourth set in your cycle instead of the first of the next for new players?

Well for one these are not official previews but leaks...Unless GW themselves leaked these then these were unintended leaks. GW might not have been wanting to preview these.

Also do you think GW would skip hyping next box set entirely? Has GW ever NOT advertised their release? Especially box set.

I was talking about the advertisment inside the Crypt of blood booklet. That one seems to be a starter for new players so it would make sense to me to advertise the first set of the next cycle which should include the full rulebook instead of the fourth set of this cycle which doesn't have the full rules and is building on the other three sets you can't get anymore whenever Crypt of Blood will release

The guy that leaked this, posted some more pictures and the ghouls are looking really cool.
Some have swords and skulls as helmets. I can count at least 8 including one smaller, one King or whatever and a weird hairy beast that is part of an older rumor engine with a skeleton tangled in some hair.
I really like them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCry/comments/11ylgjo/more_pictures_of_crypt_of_blood_showing/

Link for pics

Wait isn't that Stormcast group the Harrowdeep Warband from Underworlds?

I know people are usually down on Sigmarines, but honestly i love the look of these guys and might offload the FEC part to someone else.

 rybackstun wrote:
Wait isn't that Stormcast group the Harrowdeep Warband from Underworlds?

I know people are usually down on Sigmarines, but honestly i love the look of these guys and might offload the FEC part to someone else.

So there's 2 things being shown.

A set that is the Stormcast Underworld band vs the Soulblight underworld band set in a crypt with a statue of Neferata.

A set that is new Stormcast vs new Ghouls/FEC set around a Seraphon temple.

All of the images of both are being jumbled together and tons of people are getting confused as to what they're looking at.

 Rihgu wrote:

 rybackstun wrote:
Wait isn't that Stormcast group the Harrowdeep Warband from Underworlds?

I know people are usually down on Sigmarines, but honestly i love the look of these guys and might offload the FEC part to someone else.

So there's 2 things being shown.

A set that is the Stormcast Underworld band vs the Soulblight underworld band set in a crypt with a statue of Neferata.

A set that is new Stormcast vs new Ghouls/FEC set around a Seraphon temple.

All of the images of both are being jumbled together and tons of people are getting confused as to what they're looking at.

It me! Am confused!

Regardless tho both sets of Stormcast look great, IMO, and I'm down to grab whatever when it shows up. I've always wanted to play Warcry so why not start now?

The ghouls look very good. Better than the previous UW band.

They look like a more cartoonish version of the previous Ghouls, like everything else they do now.

 Souleater wrote:
The ghouls look very good. Better than the previous UW band.

Yeah, they look nice! I don't know if I'll keep that band, but I'm definitely getting this box (again the terrain being a big factor for me).

Goose LeChance wrote:
They look like a more cartoonish version of the previous Ghouls, like everything else they do now.

Do you have an off switch, per chance?

If the FEC and the new Stormcast are what's in the fourth Gnarlwood box then GW missed an opportunity imo. Coming from Underworlds I'm heartily sick of Stormcast anyway and I'd much rather have seen a continuation of the exciting and different stuff we've been getting this season: thinking out loud here we could have had tree-worshipping slaaneshi cultists who sacrifice their prisoners to the trees in twisted rituals and a new bunch of crazed seraphon defending their ship. The Stormcast don't spark joy in me at all. :(

Someone's managed to clean up the ghoul shots a fair bit. And that looks like a rumour engine in the bottom middle.

angryboy2k wrote:
If the FEC and the new Stormcast are what's in the fourth Gnarlwood box then GW missed an opportunity imo. Coming from Underworlds I'm heartily sick of Stormcast anyway and I'd much rather have seen a continuation of the exciting and different stuff we've been getting this season: thinking out loud here we could have had tree-worshipping slaaneshi cultists who sacrifice their prisoners to the trees in twisted rituals and a new bunch of crazed seraphon defending their ship. The Stormcast don't spark joy in me at all. :(

We got Seraphon earlier. Hunters of Huanchi.

You can be as sick of Stormcast as you want, it won't change the fact that this is their first actual WarCry warband.

 Kanluwen wrote:

angryboy2k wrote:
If the FEC and the new Stormcast are what's in the fourth Gnarlwood box then GW missed an opportunity imo. Coming from Underworlds I'm heartily sick of Stormcast anyway and I'd much rather have seen a continuation of the exciting and different stuff we've been getting this season: thinking out loud here we could have had tree-worshipping slaaneshi cultists who sacrifice their prisoners to the trees in twisted rituals and a new bunch of crazed seraphon defending their ship. The Stormcast don't spark joy in me at all. :(

We got Seraphon earlier. Hunters of Huanchi.

You can be as sick of Stormcast as you want, it won't change the fact that this is their first actual WarCry warband.

I am aware of the earlier release of Seraphon and fwiw I think it was a mistake to bring them out before the finale.

The stormcast are a total misplay - they don't fit the feeling of the season to date at all. Opinion of course.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

Goose LeChance wrote:
They look like a more cartoonish version of the previous Ghouls, like everything else they do now.

Do you have an off switch, per chance?

He's right tho, they look considerably worse - more cartoony and with softer detail - than the 20 year old ghoul sprue I have on my desk.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:

Goose LeChance wrote:
They look like a more cartoonish version of the previous Ghouls, like everything else they do now.

Do you have an off switch, per chance?

He's right tho, they look considerably worse - more cartoony and with softer detail - than the 20 year old ghoul sprue I have on my desk.

i'll wait until i have them in hand to judge. And if you mean those god awful old metal ones, well, there's no accounting for taste.

angryboy2k wrote:

I am aware of the earlier release of Seraphon and fwiw I think it was a mistake to bring them out before the finale.

I mean, I think it was a mistake to have the opening box for Ghur as Chaos v Chaos. Every box should have had a Seraphon warband.

The stormcast are a total misplay - they don't fit the feeling of the season to date at all. Opinion of course.

The "feeling of the season" is that it's groups poking around in a crashed spaceship made by lizard people to fly their frog wizards around in.

Anything is possible!

Weird that nobody complained about samurai vampires, but Stormcast in a warband that apparently talks about them being pseudo-questing knights being involved is a bridge too far?

 Kanluwen wrote:

angryboy2k wrote:

I am aware of the earlier release of Seraphon and fwiw I think it was a mistake to bring them out before the finale.

I mean, I think it was a mistake to have the opening box for Ghur as Chaos v Chaos. Every box should have had a Seraphon warband.

Y'know, I would have been on-board with that.

 Kanluwen wrote:

angryboy2k wrote:

The stormcast are a total misplay - they don't fit the feeling of the season to date at all. Opinion of course.

The "feeling of the season" is that it's groups poking around in a crashed spaceship made by lizard people to fly their frog wizards around in.

Anything is possible.

And anything might have been better than the golden boys. Oh well!

Hard disagree. Chaos, at this point, is wildly overrepresented in WarCry. It was one thing when we were in the Eightpoints, but once we left that? Way overrepresented.

The first season gave us all those cool, initial warbands that all were realm specific. They could easily be reused without needing to throw in god specific ones.

I'll grant you that the Stormcast are overrepped elsewhere, but that's the way it's gonna happen when you're developing a new army from the ground up and halfway through that development starting over(which is what Thunderstrike stuff is).

 Kanluwen wrote:
Hard disagree. Chaos, at this point, is wildly overrepresented in WarCry.

The first season gave us all those cool, initial warbands that all were realm specific. They could easily be reused without needing to throw in god specific ones.

I meant that I'd have been on-board with every box having a (different) seraphon warband.

I think I'm going to end up selling both warbands from the final box and making my own Seraphon defenders.

I got that. I just think it's daft to say that Stormcast are overrepresented here in WarCry, where this is their first bespoked warband.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I got that. I just think it's daft to say that Stormcast are overrepresented here in WarCry, where this is their first bespoked warband.

While I don't disagree with your point that this is their first bespoke warband, I never said they were over-represented in Warcry. I said I'm sick of them because I'm an Underworlds player (I have all 48 warbands and six of them are Stormcast). I also don't feel they are a good thematic match for the season, though this is pure opinion.

If you’re going to do SE’s in a game like Warcry, at least put some effort in. These are boring minimum effort kits with lame poses and weirdly incongruous weapon designs. The halberds or two handed axes have a rough hewn look that jars agains the clean symmetry of the new SE design. They’re just trashbags.

Ghouls look pretty cool to me.

Nice if FEC got some real support though, rather than being a whole faction based around some leftover 8th Edition kits.

I know it’s off-topic but I must have invited some god’s wrath with my comment above because GW just announced a seventh stormcast warband for underworlds.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ghouls look pretty cool to me.

Nice if FEC got some real support though, rather than being a whole faction based around some leftover 8th Edition kits.

I absolutely agree with this sentiment. While I LOVE that they allowed us to do so many character builds from unit boxes with FEC, almost the entire army comes from 3 unit boxes! (ghouls, monstrous ghouls, ZD/Terry)


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 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
Someone's managed to clean up the ghoul shots a fair bit. And that looks like a rumour engine in the bottom middle.

Now THESE guys are looking real nice!

I really hope the next season of Warcry shifts the focus to Dawnbringer Crusades. The potential to bring out kits that showcase The peoples and races involved and preferably a movement away from almost all chaos almost all the time would do it some good.

Yeah I'm getting real board of reading about how super-instant-death-deadly the Gnarlwood is, so deadly that there's innumerable warbands running around in it >.>

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Yeah I'm getting real board of reading about how super-instant-death-deadly the Gnarlwood is, so deadly that there's innumerable warbands running around in it >.>

What if those warbands are half the reason it is so deadly?

Wouldn't be nearly as bad were that the case.