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I can't wait for pointlessly choose between axe and board or dual wield not matering at all!

 rybackstun wrote:
Love the Stormcast dudes, very much dislike the humies that accompany them.

I hope that GW isn't going to diversify how SCE run their lists and make pure Stormcast lists untenable.

I'll take the humans off of you.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
I wonder how the little hangers on get around the problems caused by their Stormcast buddies y'know... teleporting in lightning bolts and stuff..?

Remember that scene from Fallout where the donkey-cave BOS Knight has the dude cling to him while he fast-ropes out of the Vertibird?

I like how the face of the shield, for a change, is a skull and not a face. I kinda don't like all shields being the same pattern across all units.

 CMLR wrote:
I can't wait for pointlessly choose between axe and board or dual wield not matering at all!

It wint matter this edition, you just wait until 5th edition though, suddenly it'll matter for a lot.

I really like the look of the new Stormcast, but especially these most recent. I had always hoped they would do some with chain armor underneath, and as I thought, it looks great. I do wish, however, that they hadn't gone back to the crotchflap... Can't have it all I suppose.



Darkoath also look great. Skaven are amazing so far.

 Taarnak wrote:
I do wish, however, that they hadn't gone back to the crotchflap... Can't have it all I suppose.

The "crotchflap" used to have a purpose; the trim colours of the tabard denoted things such as company and squad.

So I think for the first time with AoS I feel like they got a handle on where they actually want the game to go.
Rather than feeling like hand me down factions.
The city stuff is good, the new skaven and stormcast I think are great updates. Even if I am losing some minis, I am actually fairly pleased from a mini front.

Rules are still I feel trying to work out what’s going on, they can’t drop some of there sacred cows.
And I don’t like the now weapon choice for a unit maters.

I wish they would do a spiritual successor to Mordheim, but that ain’t happening so I on positive side this edition.

The new stormcast looks good in them self.

Also lots of potential to pair with alternative helmets now that bretonnia is on sale again, but also looks like a good "count as" spot for those discontinued Sacrosanct.

Silver does make them look quite grimdark, doesn't it? How are you feeling with the shift to Hollowed Knights chamber?

 RaptorusRex wrote:
Damn, some of you are real pessimists.

Welcome to Dakka, the forum where the sky is always falling and GW is always destroying their games

I like the latest Sigmarines. They look nice.

 CMLR wrote:
Silver does make them look quite grimdark, doesn't it? How are you feeling with the shift to Hollowed Knights chamber?

Shiny silver with equally shiny gold bits, and clean white and blue cloth doesn't look particularly grim or dark to me.

Darkoath sprues etc. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/16/kit-focus-these-versatile-darkoath-miniatures-have-sworn-an-oath-to-customisation/

Good looking set of kits.

These kits look great! I love how many extra heads they are providing in them especially. Those will make it easy for bigger units and for conversion bits.

On the Darkoath on foot sprue, the banner looks to be a separate hand and the drum looks to be a separate arm with drum pieces also separated. Unless I'm seeing it wrongly/incompletely, there shouldn't be a reason to repeat the bodies like they have for the drummers/bannerman in the promo shots.

Hoping it is indeed the case that they can be modeled on different bodies to avoid repetition in what is otherwise a very diverse/customizable kit.

The hair for the chieftain is attached to the head, not the body! Excellent! One step easier in making him Horned God Sláine!

Every time I see that Grandpa with the spear, I get a chuckle.

Everything looks great, to me, in this box.

Nice looking miniatures. I like the artistic direction they are going in, though the Mortal Realms still leave me fairly cold.

Got a Stormcast Start Collecting (the one that was half the starter set) sitting primed to be made into an army of elementals, should get around to that one of these days.

Probably the bedt sce models ever, but still a bit too quétaine (kitsch) for me. Really like the humans henchmen though

There is quite a bunch of open space in the Marauder sprues, huh?

Quite hyped.

 Shakalooloo wrote:
The hair for the chieftain is attached to the head, not the body! Excellent! One step easier in making him Horned God Sláine!

Or Marauder Johnny Sins!

Certainly looks like they had room for something like a second banner and just chose to leave the sprue blank.

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
First off and most imminently, we've got the Darkoath box and characters

What set is the mounted archer from?

 legionaires wrote:

 Inquisitor Gideon wrote:
First off and most imminently, we've got the Darkoath box and characters

What set is the mounted archer from?

Another set of Warhammer+ characters.


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Certainly looks like they had room for something like a second banner and just chose to leave the sprue blank.

Definitively there could've been a second standard totem or more heads

Apple fox wrote:
So I think for the first time with AoS I feel like they got a handle on where they actually want the game to go.
Rather than feeling like hand me down factions.

I agree - it feels as though they have finally got the mix right. The more slender appearance is a big improvement. As with the new Darkoath, I'll never buy the models, but I like the look of them. AoS seems to be where most of the real creativity is at the moment.

 Snord wrote:

Apple fox wrote:
So I think for the first time with AoS I feel like they got a handle on where they actually want the game to go.
Rather than feeling like hand me down factions.

I agree - it feels as though they have finally got the mix right. The more slender appearance is a big improvement. As with the new Darkoath, I'll never buy the models, but I like the look of them. AoS seems to be where most of the real creativity is at the moment.

That makes sense. With AoS they have lots of hinted concepts to work with, while 40k is stuck in reproducing nostalgia concepts. Nohing wrong with nostalgia though, and GW have done quite good updated classics lately.

40K at least has stagnation built into its background.

AoS however is more dynamic. Change can happen. New powers can and do rise.

Combat https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/17/the-fires-of-combat-rage-higher-than-ever-in-newaos/

i really like this. having a clear phase for combat abilities to activate will make it a lot easier to keep track of that, and will make the entire experience a lot cleaner

Interesting, like it when it's clean like that.