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The archers, by themselves, aren't bad.

But once you start mixing them in amongst everything else?

They show their age like Hulk Hogan.

It isn't monopose.
They are highly disciplined archers loosing a deadly volley againt the rodent hoardes.

Good grief
I ought to be in politics!

The models in this set are made of pure awesome

I like neither, I always think it looks dumb that they are pulling nothing. Sure the rope would be pretty thin but not invisible, since GW likes to screw up proportions ("Heroic" FTW) the rope should at least be the size of the bow.

Ok, think about it this way. The bows are breaking even though there super thick! 1 small accident and the tiny super thin peice of plastic bow string breaks. If you don't like the invisble bow string, get some guitar string.

Erm invisible thread or similar?

Bowstrings moulded in would look very silly.
Munchy is right they would break and look sillier.
It just adds unecessary complications and expense to the moulding process.

They are elves loading and shooting arrers so fast the bowstring can't be seen by the human eye, especially given the scale!

Mmm I don't mind the archers I can live with them, the Spearmen, now that is when they need a fix. Their fists are larger than their faces.

P4NC4K3 wrote:
Rat Ogres - Nice body, shame about the head

LOL

Just get some superfine fishing line and add your own bowstrings. Teeny pinprick of superglue on 1 end of the bow, teeny bit on the fingers drawing it back, teeny bit on the other end of the bow. Glue it on, maybe spritz with zip kicker if ya need to. Done.

When I first saw the fantasy line back in the day, I thought it seemed a bit silly to have empty bows, but after time I just really didn't mind the lack of the bowstring.

17 pages in, we're complaining about bow strings, or lack thereof...

(Checks thread expiration date - yup, it is getting close!)

Jin wrote:What's everyone got against the High Elf archers? I rather like them.

For me, most of the problem is the headgear. I don't know whose idea it was to put metal cheek-guards on elf heads but IMHO it ruins them. Firstly because it pads out the face and makes them look like they don't have elvish proportions. It looks like a bunch of chubby halfling heads. Then they couldn't stand to leave them with simple circlets holding up the chubby-cheek guards, so most of them have ridiculous plumage or giant crescent moons tacked on. It doesn't say "high-elven elegance" to me, it says "we'd like to fire in 2 ranks but I can't see over your helmet!"

I could quibble with the hand size (though they don't look as bad as the spearelves, and the spearelves' real problem is the huge hafts on the spears that require enormous hands to hold it. The spears are almost as big around as the spearelves' armoured forearms!) and the puffed-out chests, but really if they just had completely different heads I would be totally happy.

Actually, the plummage/crescent moons are separate bits. I've personally avoided them with my archers. I kind of agree with the assessment of the cheek-guards, but it does looks less ridiculous without the other crap tacked on (ala the musician in the previous picture).

I just converted all my High Elf spearmen to be Spartans. I'm looking forward to some new ones that look decent.

eledamris wrote:I just converted all my High Elf spearmen to be Spartans. I'm looking forward to some new ones that look decent.

Do you have pics?

The 'huge weapon haft" has become a problem in ALL of GW's minature ranges.

I think someone might have been made fun of after gym class, way back in the day...

Alpharius wrote:The 'huge weapon haft" has become a problem in ALL of GW's minature ranges.

I think someone might have been made fun of after gym class, way back in the day...

Yeah, but check out the girth of my weapon!

Back on topic, I REALLY CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS BOX SET TO COME OUT!!

Munch Munch! wrote:

eledamris wrote:I just converted all my High Elf spearmen to be Spartans. I'm looking forward to some new ones that look decent.

Do you have pics?

Ya, this I would very much like to see.

Pics of set now up on GW site in today's blog. 74 minis - confirms what we have seen is it.

Here some pics from the starter from the unpacked article http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=11500028a :

Very nice thanks kroothawk

This looks very impressive. I can't wait for September when this is released.

Munch Munch! wrote:This looks very impressive. I can't wait for September when this is released.

Me neither, the models all look pretty cool. And there's lots of them. The question is do i want another army...? I have loads already after all.

I think i'll see if i can sell the skaven to a skaven player for roughly the cost of the box set? Talking about cost does ayone know how much it'll be? Im guessing in the range of £50 somewhere.

So its AoBR for Warhammer. pretty awesome. I hope they do more sets like this for other races (of both games) instead of 1 per rules update =\

My only dissapointment is the apparent lack of scenery, but otherwise, I'm still very excited for this release.

The Crippler wrote:My only dissapointment is the apparent lack of scenery,

That is because we cried bloody murder when B4M had big scenery which took the space of more models.

this really all does look amazing enough, i bought BfSP two years ago to the day.. and this is torture.. 40k has got me hooked but when i'm back in a FaDa GuoJia i'll definitely consider it.

JohnHwangDD wrote:

The Crippler wrote:My only dissapointment is the apparent lack of scenery,

That is because we cried bloody murder when B4M had big scenery which took the space of more models.

Exactly. Although it was the scenarios in Battle for Maccarage that got me into 40k i wouldn't have been happy with it, or bought it for that matter, if it were in place of AoBR today. IIRC it had about 8 SM and 20 tyranids.

GW "Must refrain from showing decent shots of models despite the fact they are all over the internet already."

Gaming community "Sigh!"

Is there any fluff to this Island of Blood malarkey? AoBR was noticeably devoid of any scenarios (although they did appear in WD). Kind of curious as to where this Island of Blood is and why Skaven and High Elves are fighting over it. It doesn't look like there is a predominance of blood in the surrounding topography.