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Euro and GBP price list

I beg your pardon, £27.50 for the Astrolith Bearer? WTAF?!

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
I beg your pardon, £27.50 for the Astrolith Bearer? WTAF?!

The Euro price works out to just above 30 pounds, so that seems to be correct. Insane. £35 for the skink Starseer is bonkers as well, as you'll probably want more than one of these...

Tsagualsa wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
I beg your pardon, £27.50 for the Astrolith Bearer? WTAF?!

The Euro price works out to just above 30 pounds, so that seems to be correct. Insane. £35 for the skink Starseer is bonkers as well, as you'll probably want more than one of these...

It's bonkers. The Lumineth Vanari Bannerblade - who is carrying a very large, comparable standard with options, is £22.50. Is there suddenly a £5 Saurus Tax that they added? Would explain some of the pricing XD.

Seems like a price increase to me. That's a big banner and probably needs two small sprues like the Sisters of Battle Canoness or a larger one like Astrid. Both are 32.50€. The lizzie is 35€.

I guess it's that time of the year again. Of course at GW every time of the year is that time of the year.

Gw keeps upping prices steadily up. Bannerbearer is older release.

Had release order been reverse price would be reverse.

Sun is hot, water is wet, gw up's prices steadily.

I suddenly see any unsold stock of the launch boxes disappearing very fast.

Removed - please think of the children.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
I suddenly see any unsold stock of the launch boxes disappearing very fast.

Would show people have poor grasp of prices if they didn't realize before that it's good deal

As is saving pretty typical for that kind of boxes. Which is part of reason why those prices didn't surprise me. They were about what i expected(slann was toughest. Riders and saurus spot on).

New model preview for Cities of Sigmar:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/22/dawnbringer-previews-the-freeguild-marshal-leads-from-the-front/

 Geifer wrote:
New model preview for Cities of Sigmar:

Spoiler:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/22/dawnbringer-previews-the-freeguild-marshal-leads-from-the-front/

I like the overall look and the staff'o'dadjokes is a nice touch, but their weird insistence to over-emphasize straight horizontal amd vertical lines in their CoS sculpts (that by now has to be a deliberate stylistic choice) puts me off - somehow it kills suspension of disbelief for me.It's especially apparent in the dude with the shield, because he has both straight verticals and horizontals, as well as a lot of right angles, and the paintjob emphasizes them as well.

The seraphon prices don't surprise me in the very least. I've mentioned it dozens of times that GW just constantly trickles in price increases and then once a year they will up the price of their entire plastic crack range by 2-4%.

The cycle will break when everyone looks at their pile of plastic and instead of adding to it they finish their models for once. I'm fairly certain i'm not in the minority of having plastic to last me for a year or two of hobbying.

Seems nowadays the hobby has become about buying the next FOMO release instead of the little plastic toys we get to assemble and paint :(

The pistol version of the Marshal looks a bit awkward, but the other two builds look decent enough. Wonder if there are some other staff-top options of the lad, though.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/05/22/dawnbringer-previews-the-freeguild-marshal-leads-from-the-front/

'Anime hair' is my unshakeable first impression
But I like them better than cav that was shown off before.

 Dysartes wrote:
The pistol version of the Marshal looks a bit awkward, but the other two builds look decent enough. Wonder if there are some other staff-top options of the lad, though.

Yeah, those pistols really highlight the limitations of the kit and the pose. But the sword/shield and hammer builds are pretty good.

I’m not sure I like the aesthetic. I know I’m used to Empire State troop humans, and it makes sense AOS humans look different, but there’s just something about the models I don’t like

 GaroRobe wrote:
I’m not sure I like the aesthetic. I know I’m used to Empire State troop humans, and it makes sense AOS humans look different, but there’s just something about the models I don’t like

I'm with you. This is the first of the redesign I've even remotely thought looked good.

 Dysartes wrote:
The pistol version of the Marshal looks a bit awkward, but the other two builds look decent enough. Wonder if there are some other staff-top options of the lad, though.

Pose aside, I love the pistols themselves. Like teeny tiny cannons.

 GaroRobe wrote:
I’m not sure I like the aesthetic. I know I’m used to Empire State troop humans, and it makes sense AOS humans look different, but there’s just something about the models I don’t like

Part of me thinks its because it looks like just a step to the left of the old range, just enough that it looks different. (and they've turned the death/skull obsession up a notch)

They're also a little bland, while being warhammer enough that they don't work as generic models. A little too much compromise went into the design, and the product is just... ok. ish.

I'd argue they're doing some forward-thinking with TOW in mind. The older Empire stuff has loads of Karl Franz iconography that specifically dates it but this stuff is just the Comet and other noble house symbol-looking stuff.
Of course that would require any thinking about TOW to be done so what do I know.

 Platuan4th wrote:

 GaroRobe wrote:
I’m not sure I like the aesthetic. I know I’m used to Empire State troop humans, and it makes sense AOS humans look different, but there’s just something about the models I don’t like

I'm with you. This is the first of the redesign I've even remotely thought looked good.

Agreed. So far neither foot troops nor cavalry got me excited. Those two at least look okeish.

God COS models all looks great. Makes me miss warhammer so much

The new guys are great fodder for Mordheim conversions. So were the witchhunter pair, but the price really, really put me off.

The new Saurus models are great, too...but the onepagerule ones are ready to print on my laptop already.

I don't dislike the models, but they remind me a great deal of characters from the game Dishonored.

I like them. Sure I won't love the price, but the overal design is fine to me.

Not into the "let's keep severed heads as relics and bring them to the battlefield" backstory, but at least it's not a skull.

Sarouan wrote:
I like them. Sure I won't love the price, but the overal design is fine to me.

Not into the "let's keep severed heads as relics and bring them to the battlefield" backstory, but at least it's not a skull.

You just know that there'll be a novel with a likeable, but slightly creepy severed head as a quipping side-character.

Black dude is the best head, the others look weird. The hammer pose is fine, but the pistols don't work.

Sarouan wrote:
I like them. Sure I won't love the price, but the overal design is fine to me.

Not into the "let's keep severed heads as relics and bring them to the battlefield" backstory, but at least it's not a skull.

I don't think it's as bad as the Cult of the Wheel. "“For example, the Cult of the Wheel sees the wheel as a divine symbol of Sigmar’s eternal power. To the most extreme adherents, even using a wheel to carry something is sacrilegious – so rolling wheels through the mud and filth is truly an abomination!* Their symbol is the twin-tailed wheel, rendered in different styles using a variety of materials.” What even is a twin tailed wheel? Wouldn't that just look like the comet?

As for the skull, I think it could work for Shyishians, but a talking head does seem very necromancer-y. Hopefully there are other options (like maybe this broken sword reliquary is included, although its for the wrong hand)

Sword and board is my favorite pose of the ones shown.

I hope they have a helmeted head variant, rather then the one who just holds it.

Really like the look of these two and if the Cadian Castellan is anything to go by, chances are there'll be more options in there not shown off yet.

Those are some Empire Fire Wizard haircuts.

Which actually makes the standard bearer a nice conversion base.