Warhammer Forge Incoming! Skin Wolves and Arcane Frogs

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**zedmeister**

Arcane Frogs:

The physical effect of a Storm of Magic on the Warhammer world is most often visible in the great Arcane Fulcrums that rear from the earth, drawn forth by the howling gales of sorcerous power. Controlling and channelling such unimaginable energy is not without its risks however, and if it goes awry dramatic and sudden transformations can occur, leaving once-mighty spell casters no more than bloated amphibians atop their eldritch perches.

Models designed by Mark Bedford and Thais Mariblanca Lopez. The Arcane Frogs set comprises two resin miniatures. These models can be pre-ordered now for despatch from Friday the 30th of March.

Skin Wolves:

Many are the dark and nightmarish horrors that the Ruinous Powers have visited upon the world, yet few are as strange as the Skin Wolves of legend. The witch-curs’d and Chaos-tainted men and women afflicted with this gift from their unholy gods bear a mutation that does not show as a stigmata of the flesh, but instead lurks in the blood, a slumbering beast to be roused by dark sacrifice and unspeakable ritual.

When this horror is unleashed, there is no mere transformation from man into beast; instead a great humanoid wolf-thing bursts fully-formed from the body of the human. Lean and half-insane with Chaos-tainted hunger, the Skin Wolf is so-named for the scraps and tatters of flesh and chunks of gristle that cling to its hulking frame; all that remains of the human form it once bore. Only once battle is spent and their voracious hunger sated will the transformation be reversed, the flesh of the Skin Wolf collapsing into a pallid and terrible mass from which the human must tear itself free.

The Skin Wolves set contains three multi-part resin figures. Models designed by Keith Robertson. This kit is available to pre-order now for despatch from Friday 30th March. A set of experimental rules that allow the Skin Wolves to be used alongside any Warhammer army in Storm of Magic games can be downloaded now, taken from the forthcoming Monstrous Arcanum book.

**MajorTom11**

They made hypno toads???

That is boss! lol

**Kirasu**

So the Skin Wolves point cost is "+5 per model".. Really cheap monstrous infantry!!

Sucks to be that empire citizen who gets killed by every new monster..

**Earthbeard**

I like what I see, I like indeed.

**Necros**

Gonna need those frogs for my lizards

but are they like, your wizard gets turned into one for misscasting, or a unit you can add to your army?

**spyguyyoda**

Necros wrote:Gonna need those frogs for my lizards but are they like, your wizard gets turned into one for misscasting, or a unit you can add to your army?

I believe one of the bretonnian specific Storm of Magic spells turns things into frogs (or maybe it's just a miscast result...I don't remember atm)...reading the description, that's my guess...

**Bloodwin**

The skin wolves are ok and an interesting twist on werewolves, They remind me of the film Company of Wolves. I like how the toad on the grey base is a nod to the plastic chaos sorcerers.

**DPBellathrom**

I want 100 of those frogs.......NOW!

**Kanluwen**

Skin Wolves and Arcane Frogs--I will have you!

**Grarg**

Slap some armor on those Skin Wolves and you got 13th Great Company. Those look very cool indeed.

**TheSovereign**

Grarg wrote:Slap some armor on those Skin Wolves and you got 13th Great Company. Those look very cool indeed.

As soon as I saw these, I immediately started wondering if they would be feasible as Wulfen.

**Cannerus_The_Unbearable**

They'd be killer BB wolves. Those are the Orc-size bases, yes?

**Scottywan82**

LOVE the skin-wolves, but how are they NOT in the VC book, lol?

**Grey Templar**

At last!!!

My plan to turn 40 horrors into a single giant frog is possable!

As is the one to turn the Slann into a different frog!

mwhawhaw

**MasterSlowPoke**

Those skin wolves are actually pretty resonably priced - about $10 (after shipping!) more than the plastic Minotaurs.

**Grey Templar**

Kirasu wrote:So the Skin Wolves point cost is "+5 per model".. Really cheap monstrous infantry!!

Sucks to be that empire citizen who gets killed by every new monster..

They are 45 points each. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/s/skinwolves.pdf

2 attacks base is kinda low though for the expense, although they do have Frenzy.

The marks are really nice. Its the only way I can see them being taken. And dang if the marks arn't all good

**Kirasu**

Ah they corrected the typo.. 3 attacks with ASF is very nice with WS5, I5.. But strength may be the way to go

**Kanluwen**

I have to wonder...

Would anyone object to Skin Wolves as "counts-as" Vargheists? Hate those monstrosities.

**MasterSlowPoke**

Maybe Crypt Ghouls, but these dudes are obviously not flyers.

**Vermillion**

So I get to add werewolves to my chaos army? Awesome, I want some!

**MagickalMemories**

You see Arcane Frogs. I see Sorcerers of Nurgle.
: )

Eric

**Commander Cain**

Hmm, middle wolf looks to be a bit of a copy of a Rackham wolven, still, nice models!

**Andilus Greatsword**

TheSovereign wrote:
Grarg wrote:Slap some armor on those Skin Wolves and you got 13th Great Company. Those look very cool indeed.

As soon as I saw these, I immediately started wondering if they would be feasible as Wulfen.

They're probably too large to represent Wulfen, but I plan on getting at least 1 to represent Bran Redmaw's super-Wulfen form. I have an affinity for werewolves, and these ones are very cool looking!

**spiralingcadaver**

Pretty cool. I really like the frogs; the wolves are fine, but I have no use for them.

**bubber**

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:They'd be killer BB wolves. Those are the Orc-size bases, yes?

They look like 40mm bases to me.

**Agamemnon2**

The wolves are kind of creepy, and would look horrific if done "realistically", with blood spatter and gore on those shreds of skin.

**biccat**

The skin wolves look more like Rat Ogres to me. The ears are small and the front feet look more like a rat than a wolf (or werewolf).

Wolf:

Spoiler:

Rat:

Spoiler:

No idea what the purpose the toads serve, presumably they have some value. I wouldn't pay $6 each for them, but I guess some people think they're worth that much.

**MightyGodzilla**

Those are really good wolves. I'd love to see the sculptor who did them try his hand at making them all armored with weapons like the Confrontation Wolfen/Devourers I think that'd be way waay waaay awesome. Frogs, kinda cute, but not my thing. Nurgle frogs!

**notprop**

Kanluwen wrote:I have to wonder...

Would anyone object to Skin Wolves as "counts-as" Vargheists? Hate those monstrosities.

Damn beat me to it.

These will do the job and move a VC army look back towards the B movie style Undead army that VC used to be.

All I need now is some Frankenstein ghouls!

**Ehsteve**

I like both of the releases. Now I have to take the frogs along every time I take the Hex Scroll.

First actual WH Forge purchase I might make.