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 endtransmission wrote:

 Gamgee wrote:
I think I'll make my Beastclaw Raiders vs these har sky pilots. I know this sounds crazy but doesn't GW usually do opposing force releases? Is there a chance that May will also be an AoS release? If so it might very well be the other rumored AoS force I keep hearing about. What if the rumored AoS DE (forget name) are no longer underground, but sky raiders! That would be cool.

In the fluff section of the last Warhammer Quest box there are fleets of elf raiders that use flying ships; mainly because on Aqshy all the rivers are lava, so boats would burn. One of the heroes, Fleetmaster Vizrin Kyre, is in command of one of these fleets... so hopefully we get some flying elements for them as well, so that we can forgo the usual battlefields and have airship battles

Reply to a few different posts here.
The tophat gave my Columbia vibes from Bioshock Infinite.

Age of Sigmar should have just been sky pirates battles for all the factions. Would have been on board from day one. As for that cool elf fleets that would be an excellent battle.

I'm slowly converting to Age of Sigmar. I think... I might have to cancel all my planned 40k purchases this year for these guys. I want my cool sky overlords.

We have seen their small frigate class of ship. I hope we someday see cutters, corvettes, cruisers, heavy cruisers, and battleship classes. Heck even two versions of a carrier. A small one for boarding with the jet balloon guys and one for carrying the smaller vessels. Forgeworld... we know you like making big airplanes. Get on it lol.

The Tophat dwarf is the single best GW model of all time. It even surpasses all the Tau models. Yes. I just said that. That is how much I love these. Unless those are existing models just shoehorned in there. I am an AoS newbie after all.

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Verveidei. Your a genius for spotting those. So lovecraft sky raiders are all but confirmed next. I don't know what faction to buy! Why are you forcing me to do this GW. :( WHYY!!!! I still think I'll go with top hat guy since it's so British.

I showed my dwarf playing friend from WHFB. He started crying. I told him these were dwarves. He said if they wanted 40k dwarves, they should have put them into 40k.

 Gamgee wrote:


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Verveidei. Your a genius for spotting those. So lovecraft sky raiders are all but confirmed next. I don't know what faction to buy! Why are you forcing me to do this GW. :( WHYY!!!! I still think I'll go with top hat guy since it's so British.

Yeah...no.

It's Tzeentch Arcanite stuff. The foreground is Screamers and the background, blacked/silhouetted stuff are Skyfires(Tzaangors on discs with bows).


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 timetowaste85 wrote:
I showed my dwarf playing friend from WHFB. He started crying. I told him these were dwarves. He said if they wanted 40k dwarves, they should have put them into 40k.

Funny, because my dwarf playing friend is hyped as hell.

Ah that would have been a cool teaser on their part. I got excited for a second. Then again I am happy with this army release. Look how huge it is. Way more options that Beastclaw Raiders.

 Gamgee wrote:
Ah that would have been a cool teaser on their part. I got excited for a second. Then again I am happy with this army release. Look how huge it is. Way more options that Beastclaw Raiders.

It's a whole new army.

Beastclaw Raiders wasn't.

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The forum double posted.

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Or... decides to eat my other post? Okay...

99% of the time, double posts fix themselves. Just leave them alone, don't edit.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. Anyways so hype for this army. I suspect we'll see another AoS big release month in May since June is 8th ed. No point releasing 40k stuff right now. Too close to 8th.

 Gamgee wrote:
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that. Anyways so hype for this army. I suspect we'll see another AoS big release month in May since June is 8th ed. No point releasing 40k stuff right now. Too close to 8th.

Dakka gets glitchy when threads get much over a hundred pages. That's why they usually close them and open a new one. I'm surprised this one hasn't been closed in favor of a new one yet.

TonyL707 wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:

TonyL707 wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
What is the purple? This amazing substance can be made into pants, balloons, weapon housing and a vehicle chassis.

Did the need to troll AoS just hit a new high/low?

Well excuse me, how dare I enjoy this new release.

That was you enjoying it?

Sorry, it did come across as someone finding the smallest thing to moan about, enjoy away

It was only if you're ultra defensive wjhen it comes to AOS, for some weird reasons

So not to take away from the talk about the Skypirate Dwarves, which I think are rad, but whats this I've seen about Lovecraft Elves? Something from a book or just a random rumor?

 streetsamurai wrote:

TonyL707 wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:

TonyL707 wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
What is the purple? This amazing substance can be made into pants, balloons, weapon housing and a vehicle chassis.

Did the need to troll AoS just hit a new high/low?

Well excuse me, how dare I enjoy this new release.

That was you enjoying it?

Sorry, it did come across as someone finding the smallest thing to moan about, enjoy away

It was only if you're ultra defensive wjhen it comes to AOS, for some weird reasons

TBH it kind of came across like a nitpick. *shrugs* Whateves, now c'mon GW entertain us!

I love that the big balloon has a retractable plank. Points for whoever models a grot being made to walk the plank

 Mymearan wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Judging by the fleet photo, the heroes look to be quite large in comparison to the line troops.

I'm afraid my thermopriests and thermowarrior dwarfs of Tir-na-bor are going to feel rather... dwarfed.

I've wanted a cool airship model ever since I played the first Final Fantasy game way back in elementary school. Childhood dream soon to be reached?

I also have a feeling airship battles are soon going to be a common sight, if for no other reason than having a bunch of flying ships blasting the battlefield to smithereens is pretty cool.

Inspired by these new pics I went down a rabbit hole of staring at photos of Confrontation minis... man they really caught lightning in a bottle with that combination of designers and sculptors, didn't they?

They did - and GW is coming 'close' with these - and I love them - all of them!!!

Not sure I want to start AoS, but this is REALLY tempting now.

(But it does make me wish that they'd just bring Squats back in 40K! Or compromise, and get them into 30K!)

BrotherGecko wrote:Squats are back baby!!

jtrowell wrote:Except that AoS does less and less the generic Fantasy Tropes that Warhammer was based upon, normal humans and other mortals have been switched to the background with more and more big creatures and machines (or other over the top models) taking the front line.

Generic fantasy tropes can't be protected by aggressive lawyers. So much of the Old World was derivative and unprotectable from a copyright prospective. As well, GW knows their target audience likes thing over the top.

Is there even *one* model of a simple mortal human released by GW since AoS was launched ?

I don't believe so no.

I see something like a dwarf with a handheld minigun in the simple basic infantry (Arkanaut Company) to say nothing of the dwarves holding what looks like portable organ gun and canons (the things that used to be war engines with a separate crew), and I wonder what place a normal human with a spear or sword can have in the same game or even the same universe except as fodder.

The whole point of GW's rules is to drive up the size of the conflict to justify huge monster and vehicle kits and to sell huge units. While we may have theories about the real reason WHFB failed, I think GW probably sees it as a sign that the time for selling large numbers of basic troops with a stick and a shield is over. That approach failed them. Now they want to sell large numbers of over the top crazy things and giant monsters and robots to loom over them.

I do historica minis and I do them in an odd scale. 54mm. In that scale you can make everything out from across the hall at a convention. People see the tall cavalry models and the cannons and come check it out. GW's large kits accomplish the same sort of wow factor but on an even bigger level. Not only are they bigger, they're usually "extreme" (or is that " Xtreme!!! "? )

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
So not to take away from the talk about the Skypirate Dwarves, which I think are rad, but whats this I've seen about Lovecraft Elves? Something from a book or just a random rumor?

It's a random BoLS/Naftka thing, coupled with Verviedi not being able to recognize existing Tzeentch stuff.

The Skyfires(Tzaangors on Discs of Tzeentch with bows) and Screamers made him think it was "Lovecraftian Elves".

Also, it's people trying to make the Shadowkin into something they want it seems.

 frozenwastes wrote:

Is there even *one* model of a simple mortal human released by GW since AoS was launched ?

I don't believe so no.

Well, there is one 100% human, but the dude is beefy as hell

 Kanluwen wrote:

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
So not to take away from the talk about the Skypirate Dwarves, which I think are rad, but whats this I've seen about Lovecraft Elves? Something from a book or just a random rumor?

It's a random BoLS/Naftka thing, coupled with Verviedi not being able to recognize existing Tzeentch stuff.

The Skyfires(Tzaangors on Discs of Tzeentch with bows) and Screamers made him think it was "Lovecraftian Elves".

Also, it's people trying to make the Shadowkin into something they want it seems.

Unfortunate, cause that sounded like a neat idea (and surefire way for my friend and I to get his wife into the game). I'm not sure how screamers can be so easily misidentified, but it happens. Oh well.


On to the Dwarves, I like how one of the Squad Leaders looks like he has an Anchor that is also an Ax, and the Ax Wrenches are cool too.

There was the warrior priest from Silver Tower.

It's really more like how Mad Grot described it, though. AoS is going for multiple genres rather than just a generic fantasy one. The city of secrets book is a good example of low and high fantasy is mixed together.

Ironically I believe the high elves are gonna be the "low fantasy" faction of AoS with humans filing in for high, low and crazy.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
So not to take away from the talk about the Skypirate Dwarves, which I think are rad, but whats this I've seen about Lovecraft Elves? Something from a book or just a random rumor?

It's a random BoLS/Naftka thing, coupled with Verviedi not being able to recognize existing Tzeentch stuff.

The Skyfires(Tzaangors on Discs of Tzeentch with bows) and Screamers made him think it was "Lovecraftian Elves".

Also, it's people trying to make the Shadowkin into something they want it seems.

I said nothing, not my rumor. I know what a Screamer is

My Lovecraft comment was a response to this post.

Baron Klatz wrote:
Lord Kragon actually spotted those tentacles earlier!

I wonder if this is all a theme with Tzeentch and Shadowkin making the Lovecraft vibes while Steamhead and Vanguard are the classic interlopers with one being Victorian deep-sea themed and the other scouts/trackers?

 Verviedi wrote:
...Lovecraft Elves versus Steampunk Dwarves... I could not resist spending money. Do it, GW.

Image in Question-

Spoiler:

That's your post, Verv.

If you knew what it was--why say "image in question"?

Maybe he just meant how amazing the idea of Victorian Steampunk dwarves against Lovecraft-inspired enemies is?

Though Shadowkin are likely to be fighting for Order (while undermining them at the same time), though that's an awesome image as well.

Wasn't this the pic people were talking about, more specifically the tentacles?

If they make lovecratian elves. :( Then I'll go broke. Just broke. I'll be working on painting all the time. Don't make me choose GW. That pic is super cool an ominous. I bet it's going to happen.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
...Lovecraft Elves versus Steampunk Dwarves... I could not resist spending money. Do it, GW.

Image in Question-

Spoiler:

That's your post, Verv.

If you knew what it was--why say "image in question"?

The top half was a response to the guy above me:

Baron Klatz wrote:
Lord Kragon actually spotted those tentacles earlier!

I wonder if this is all a theme with Tzeentch and Shadowkin making the Lovecraft vibes while Steamhead and Vanguard are the classic interlopers with one being Victorian deep-sea themed and the other scouts/trackers?

The bottom half was me posting an image that someone else mentioned but didn't post themselves. Sorry about the confusion.

 silverstu wrote:
Just seen a small pic on their FB page of a whole force on the tabletop in blue and gold - looks amazing.

Ohhh now that is interesting, those are not Tzeentch tentacles.

Urgh just makes me want to crack on with my Kvaldir Ulgu Chaos right now, from the mists they rise! Lovecraftian Warhammer is gonna be awwweeeeessssooooooooooooome. BANG TIDY!

Aye, I posted one highlighting the tentacles in red circles, sorry if I added to the confusion.

And I said it once, I say it again: My wallet is doomed if they release Lovecraft-based miniatures. GW has been nailing it, release after release, and using their skills to make such a thing...

HNNNG, I shiver in anticipation.

Wow! I don't think I've ever been hyped for fantasy dwarves before. Those guys are really cool. I love that there's no exposed flesh. I might even consider getting some of these guys.

I hear that Shadowkin are supposed to have airships as well? If true, I hope they go for a similar dive suit look for them. Fully sealed, armored environmental suits with Dark Elf aesthetics would be absolutely bad ass!

Cthulu elves (aelves) was a Hastings rumor, not BoLS nonsense.