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 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

Seriously - she looks like a senior citizen. People are posting arguments talking about what a great look it is, and how appropriate it is. But she looks more aged than pretty much any figure (short of the undead; I do have some Tomb Kings on my shelf that look more decrepit) I can think of off the top of my head that GW has released with an exposed face.

I get that GW wants a "not pretty" look. I've only heard it over and over and over and over and over and over again ever since the current batch of daemonettes was released. But this is "I'm upset because I'm over 60 and don't look pretty anymore". This is the face Crone Hellebron has when her latest bath starts to wear off (hmm... that suggests possibilities for a DoK headswap...). It's the sort of thing that I expect to see associated with a parody, not official artwork.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

Seriously - she looks like a senior citizen. People are posting arguments talking about what a great look it is, and how appropriate it is. But she looks more aged than pretty much any figure (short of the undead; I do have some Tomb Kings on my shelf that look more decrepit) I can think of off the top of my head that GW has released with an exposed face.

I get that GW wants a "not pretty" look. I've only heard it over and over and over and over and over and over again ever since the current batch of daemonettes was released. But this is "I'm upset because I'm over 60 and don't look pretty anymore". This is the face Crone Hellebron has when her latest bath starts to wear off (hmm... that suggests possibilities for a DoK headswap...). It's the sort of thing that I expect to see associated with a parody, not official artwork.

It's ok that you dont want to have sex with an illustration, you can let it go at any time now.

You are being a little to insistent. When you make radical facial expresions is normal for your face to shrivel up that way, emphasizing the marks of expresion you already had.

Haha. I am reminded of that scene in “Kull the Conqueror” where Akivasha remarks to Sorbo’s character, Kull, that he found her beautiful once (having transformed into a giant demon) and he mentions “Yea but you got a lot uglier” before kissing her and destroying her with the breath of the north or winter or whatever it was.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

Seriously - she looks like a senior citizen. People are posting arguments talking about what a great look it is, and how appropriate it is. But she looks more aged than pretty much any figure (short of the undead; I do have some Tomb Kings on my shelf that look more decrepit) I can think of off the top of my head that GW has released with an exposed face.

I get that GW wants a "not pretty" look. I've only heard it over and over and over and over and over and over again ever since the current batch of daemonettes was released. But this is "I'm upset because I'm over 60 and don't look pretty anymore". This is the face Crone Hellebron has when her latest bath starts to wear off (hmm... that suggests possibilities for a DoK headswap...). It's the sort of thing that I expect to see associated with a parody, not official artwork.

Okay hissing then if you prefer. Same difference.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

Seriously - she looks like a senior citizen. People are posting arguments talking about what a great look it is, and how appropriate it is. But she looks more aged than pretty much any figure (short of the undead; I do have some Tomb Kings on my shelf that look more decrepit) I can think of off the top of my head that GW has released with an exposed face.

I get that GW wants a "not pretty" look. I've only heard it over and over and over and over and over and over again ever since the current batch of daemonettes was released. But this is "I'm upset because I'm over 60 and don't look pretty anymore". This is the face Crone Hellebron has when her latest bath starts to wear off (hmm... that suggests possibilities for a DoK headswap...). It's the sort of thing that I expect to see associated with a parody, not official artwork.

Three further thoughts
1) Whilst I don't snarl with my tongue sticking out, I also do not have claws on the end of my arms either - inhuman and thus capable of muscular control that we can't perform

2) The god of excess doesn't mind if you're 0 or 100 or 10000 years old. Each soul corrupted and brought unto the fold is yet another step in the right direction. The aged can be tempted as much as the youthful, so why not a mature and aged deamonette?

3) You'd be amazed at the super odd and adjusted appearance of one's face as you perform common actions. Pause a high definition video and you'll see peoples faces in all kinds of really odd positions and shapes even as they just speak. Lines form, wrinkles appear where you don't see them; heck pause at the right moment and they can appear as if asleep or bored. A split-second of facial motion is something we don't really latch onto visually always, but a picture can. This snarl is showing lines that a mature, but not aged, creature could have. It's only there for a splitsecond in the snarling.

4) The artistic style of brushstrokes likely made more lines and colour than is supposed to be visually. Ergo the lines might well reflect more colour variation due to light rather than deep wrinkles.

Is this really a conversation that we're having?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Is this really a conversation that we're having?

Yes yes we are. We are geeky fans chatting about lore and stuff on a geeky chatting forum


It's no different to how football fans might argue for hours about which player could out-tackle another or something something football related.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?
...).

Gene Simmons (of KISS). Immediately comes to mind.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

That's a staple of the maori haka war dance.

You may want to curb down your disappointment regarding on how dateable a 2d version of a demon looks.

1) It's the first time she's seen the new Keeper look and that's her disgusted face. You know how when in Rivendell Bilbo's face took on a shade of Gollum? That's what she's doing.

2) Speaking of Gollum, she needs some large eye prosthetics but otherwise she'll make a great Gollum impersonator at parties.

3) Let's just acknowledge that modern Daemonettes only look good from behind and move on.

Lord Kragan wrote:
https://www.focus-home.com/en/news/1938-focus-home-interactive

These videogames may be interesting, specially the age of sigmar one.

This is just an announcement that something is coming, yes? No specifics? If it wasn't for the tiny Sigmarine picture I wouldn't have thought they were doing an Age of Sigmar game.

AoS might make for a fun ARPG, though it would be neat to get a strategy game as well.

Eumerin wrote:

 Sersi wrote:

Nah... She's just snarling at something off screen. It's a Buffy monster face thing, their just putting their game faces on. When you look at the minis the are both snarling and placid looking faces. Plus Daemonettes can morph body parts at will, like changing claws to human hands, etc.

Do you snarl with your tongue sticking out? Do you know anyone who does?

Seriously - she looks like a senior citizen. People are posting arguments talking about what a great look it is, and how appropriate it is. But she looks more aged than pretty much any figure (short of the undead; I do have some Tomb Kings on my shelf that look more decrepit) I can think of off the top of my head that GW has released with an exposed face.

I get that GW wants a "not pretty" look. I've only heard it over and over and over and over and over and over again ever since the current batch of daemonettes was released. But this is "I'm upset because I'm over 60 and don't look pretty anymore". This is the face Crone Hellebron has when her latest bath starts to wear off (hmm... that suggests possibilities for a DoK headswap...). It's the sort of thing that I expect to see associated with a parody, not official artwork.

Are you.... age shaming a drawing? Of a demon?

Have we seen any rumor engines that could be the Elves from Hysh?

I've sworn off all mini purchases this year with them being the lone exception if GW nails it.


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Also has any of the new Black Library stories taken a good look at Hysh. (Haven't read much since City of Secrets)

 Eldarain wrote:
Have we seen any rumor engines that could be the Elves from Hysh?

I've sworn off all mini purchases this year with them being the lone exception if GW nails it.


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Also has any of the new Black Library stories taken a good look at Hysh. (Haven't read much since City of Secrets)

I don't recall anything mentioned of the Hysh aelves. We've heard and seen more of Malarion's Aelves from the lands of shadow. Both with the shadow walker special character model and in Inferno where at least one tale goes on to discuss the shadowy aelves that inhabit those lands and another that mentions a shadow aelf fighting in a Khorne fighting pit. But as for the Angelic ones we've not heard much at all that I'm aware of in lore nor in rumours. Both armies are still a strong mystery as to the angle GW will take with them.

GaroRobe wrote:
What's weird is that Dispossessed still have Slayers. They're just called Unforged and they're just unstable duardin.

And Fyreslayers also have Slayers, a la that rereleased Silver Tower model. Whose fluff is basically just Old World Slayers]

KO don't have slayer variants, since they're all just a bunch of oathbreakers

Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but, the Unforged is just one hero model for the Dispossessed, and they aren't units? Then there are the Fyreslayers, then 'regular-Old school/world' slayers can only be used in a 'dwarfs' army in units, correct? They all have the keyword 'Duardin', so (according to the AoS app), the only way you can use them all together, is as a generic 'order' army? That seems so silly to me... The regular slayers should just be 'young/training Fyreslayers, or Dispossessed who don't like heat..

yes, I get that GW is trying to phase out those non plastic 'regular' slayer models, but... It's dumb...

It's not that strange. If anything I like how they are aolitnbecause it adds a certain realness to them and how the dwarf cultures are related, but deeply split.

after all you dont auddenly see Marines from the US and the equivelnt from China suddenly working together, and modern humans are no more different than the different branches of dwarves.

 skullking wrote:


Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but, the Unforged is just one hero model for the Dispossessed, and they aren't units? Then there are the Fyreslayers, then 'regular-Old school/world' slayers can only be used in a 'dwarfs' army in units, correct? They all have the keyword 'Duardin', so (according to the AoS app), the only way you can use them all together, is as a generic 'order' army? That seems so silly to me... The regular slayers should just be 'young/training Fyreslayers, or Dispossessed who don't like heat..

yes, I get that GW is trying to phase out those non plastic 'regular' slayer models, but... It's dumb...

'Slayers' in the Old World don't exist in the AoS background, and the models haven't been sold for a few years now. They have legacy rules, but they're not part of the Dispossessed army (and don't have the keywords for it). There's only the Unforged, which has similar background, and the same look (because it's the plastic Dragon Slayer model released in late 8th Edition) but no full units.

So the reason there's no connection between Slayers and Fyreslayers is because only one of them exists now. Maybe they could have done it differently, but since it's a new setting and they were never going to update the old Slayers - or rather, Fyreslayers are the updated Slayers - there's no compelling reason to make them compatible. If you have the models, either use the legacy rules and make-do with a permissive opponent or use them as Fyreslayers.

In "The Rise and Fall of Anvalor" game that just came out, the Dispossessed Army has a Slayer unit.

I figure slayers would still exist if they had a plastic release. But since only the trollslayer had a plastic model, the other slayer models were discontinued.

The question would be whether they'd stay as dispossessed, or if the Fyreslayers would have revolved more are their aesthetics more and the slayers would form the core of their army, sort of like how witch elves inspired the daughters of khaine. Since the older slayers wouldn't have had the runes, or fire weapons, their look would probably be fairly different.

Thommy H wrote:

 skullking wrote:


Ok, so correct me if I'm wrong, but, the Unforged is just one hero model for the Dispossessed, and they aren't units? Then there are the Fyreslayers, then 'regular-Old school/world' slayers can only be used in a 'dwarfs' army in units, correct? They all have the keyword 'Duardin', so (according to the AoS app), the only way you can use them all together, is as a generic 'order' army? That seems so silly to me... The regular slayers should just be 'young/training Fyreslayers, or Dispossessed who don't like heat..

yes, I get that GW is trying to phase out those non plastic 'regular' slayer models, but... It's dumb...

'Slayers' in the Old World don't exist in the AoS background, and the models haven't been sold for a few years now. They have legacy rules, but they're not part of the Dispossessed army (and don't have the keywords for it). There's only the Unforged, which has similar background, and the same look (because it's the plastic Dragon Slayer model released in late 8th Edition) but no full units.

So the reason there's no connection between Slayers and Fyreslayers is because only one of them exists now. Maybe they could have done it differently, but since it's a new setting and they were never going to update the old Slayers - or rather, Fyreslayers are the updated Slayers - there's no compelling reason to make them compatible. If you have the models, either use the legacy rules and make-do with a permissive opponent or use them as Fyreslayers.

That makes sense. I suppose I can just use them as fyreslayers, and up them to a 32mm base. Perhaps I can greenstuff some helms on them, just to really sell it. I will miss the categorizing with troll-giant-dragon & demon slayer though.

So when do you guys think the Looncurse box that was previewed at Adepticon is coming out?

 RedFox wrote:
So when do you guys think the Looncurse box that was previewed at Adepticon is coming out?

Hard to say really. Considering how little they previewd of it and how much they have of Slaanesh and that Slaanesh is also a duel 40K and AoS release I'd wager we'll see Slaanesh as well this month. Looncurse perhaps next month or the month after, but not much further on. It also depends on if they are going to tie it into a new Battletome for Sylvanath and when they plan to launch it (eg Flesh Eater Courts and Skaven got theirs on the same day the box came out).

Just an fyi the fyreslayer scrolls have been updated on the app today there's a few changes and in my opinoin mostly good.

Yeah the berzerkers were just made to be about 18% or so undercost compared to other units of similar output and durability and also have the ability to be battle line so have become the defacto spam button.

Yay internal balance!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/04/14/your-new-store-opening-miniature-berek-the-indomitable/

I dig it!

I’ll have to hunt down him and his lady-friend.

Okay, that's a badass Stormcast!

bah, is this a super limited New store on a remote island launch promo?

Looks cool.

I gotta get that Stormcast.