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 Sarouan wrote:

 Boss Salvage wrote:
Rat preview for Uncharted Empires is up:

Looks like he was in a rush, given the quality of the sound and that green screen behind the guy.

I can't speak for the sound, but on the facebook group post, Kyle explains that he ended up leaving the green screen because he just couldn't get the art to sit still behind Steve. It was flickering apparently.

 Sarouan wrote:
Looks like he was in a rush, given the quality of the sound and that green screen behind the guy.

I guess that's the guy who does the KOW community roundup videos? Never watched them, so I couldn't speak to their quality, but I assume they must use the green screen as a green screen Bit jarring when Kyle brings in new peeps, but I suppose it suits the quick turnaround on these two-a-week sneaks, plus one assumes the guests have more experience with their armies than Kyle does per se.

Varangur and Herd tomorrow! Varangur have a couple neat new things but are largely the same, if a smidge toned down (which checks out, as they were top tier in 2E), but I think Herd is going to make some people sad, especially if you relied on a certain super hammer (although the army is way more intriguing to me now than as a Beastmen getyouby list)

EDIT: Ninja'd re: Screengate 2019!

A few updates from the blog

https://www.manticgames.com/news/christmas-blogs-vanguard-in-2020/

https://www.manticgames.com/news/christmas-blogs-kings-of-war-in-2020/

Abyssal Dwarfs due February

Abyssal Dwarf HIPS sprues





Charnox and Infernox





Hellfane



Ratkin Slave Reinforcement Pack



Vanguard Ogre update due in June will include new miniatures, like the Boomer Sergeant and Ogre Siege Breakers

Northern Alliance Dwarf Clansmen Reinforcement Pack



HIPS Goblin WIP

i like those ratkin - much better, imho, than the cartoony look GW went for.

Those Abyssal Dwarfs look excellent.

Hmmm I think that is the best option for evil dwarves at the moment. Definite improvement on their hybrid kits...

Those are a nice option for dwarfs in general if you use some different heads/helmets

I don't know if I can resist that army set. I also don't know if I'll be able to resist carving down all those plastic beards to sculpt on Babylonian coil-braids.

LOVING all the new Abyssal dwarf stuff, I cannot WAIT!

The ratkin slaves look great too, although, they look a bit healthy and, ‘in shape’ for tortured servants. Hopefully they’ll release a set with only the newer Abyssal dwarf models, as I have plenty of the originals already.

Oh man I'm liking everything! Nice!

 Da Boss wrote:
Hmmm I think that is the best option for evil dwarves at the moment. Definite improvement on their hybrid kits...

But its no fun playing Abyssal Dwarfs if assembling basic infantry doesn't make you hate life!

Those are sweet sprues indeed.

Well, color me impressed. I swore off Mantic after the Basileans, but this may drag me in for some good options for my Chaos Dwarves.

The new Blacksouls/Decimators look great. Sadly, if I add them to my current AD army, they will outshine the Immortal Guard. Suppose the new ones can be Immortal Guard and the originals Blacksouls. I wonder how much the Charnox, Infernox, Hexcaster, and Hellfane will cost? Mind, I don't think those paint jobs survive close shots; across the table it blends but for advertising the sploches that make up the scheme are Ugly.

Liking everything I see on display here. Even better considering a good chunk will be in plastic while characters will probably be resin.

Plus with Vanguard being its own thing I can sample all these new models and still have a use for them!

Those Abyssal Dwarves infantry sprues look nice, indeed. The giant golem-like is fine, an improvement from the golem infantry for sure but not stunning as well. Not sure about the character-like half lava half tech. The engine on big four legged lava/rock thing, I'm not fond of, I'll be honest.

The "not-skaven" slaves are really nice, now that's what I would love to see as a true Mantic vermin army !

The Northern Alliance dwarves sure fit better in their lore/design, but I don't know, I find them weird on that picture. Maybe it's because of the pelted shoulders of two of them, that makes them look a bit too "heavy" ?

Last but not least, their renders of the goblins look quite promising, but I'll wait for the actual sprues before making a victory dance.

But I'll admit, this is really a good step in the right direction for 2020 here !

Skaven slaves look nice but not as slaves, they look far to healthy for that. Other stuff looks good.

Have not looked at KOW in an age, but those new Abyssal Dwarf sprues are very tempting. I had a sizeable Abyssal KOW army back in the day and as others have said these are an improvement on the old hybrid miniatures, and I was not that sour on those either.

I just wish the range was a bit more consistent in terms of sculpting and material. The Greater Obsidian Golem looks like a comedy miniature , the Ironcaster looks like he is from a different race altogether and the Halfb***** (sorry, just not a fan of that word at all) have ridiculously sized weapons and odd posing. The pricing on the artillery pieces seems overly optimistic as well.

Those Abyssal Dwarfs look pretty nice. I don't need another KOW-size army, but I'd be happy to put these alongside my Oldhammer Chaos Dwarfs in a Vanguard warband.

They did mention the plastic sprues would be in the new Vanguard AD box so that'll be nice.

I wonder if we'll see similar with the goblins as well then? Only reason I never got the goblin starter was because I'd experienced those old plastics enough.

If they go back and update it though... maybe Twilight Kin or future armies might see Vanguard as a springboard to getting updated plastic sprues as well?

More Vanguard Abyssal Dwarfs from today's mail

Those look pretty good.

The best part of this blog update is that they've made all the Vanguard profiles free.

Abyssal Dwarfs go on preorder tomorrow.

Another unit previewed

those are amazing!

The new Abyssal Dwarfs look pretty good, really nice to see considering that the old AD was (imo) one of Mantics weakest lines.

Those are very nicely painted but simply miss the mark for me. Hard to put my finger on it, too bland/generic maybe?

Not gonna lie, would have preferred the classic Babylonean Centaurs to random body horror guys.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Not gonna lie, would have preferred the classic Babylonean Centaurs to random body horror guys.

Same here!

I can see why (maybe) Mantic wants to 'make them their own', but really, the main appeal of Evil Dwarves is something closer to the past version vs. this stuff.

For me, at least!

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Not gonna lie, would have preferred the classic Babylonean Centaurs to random body horror guys.

These aren't the replacement for those miniatures, they still have the Bull Centaur guys. The new models above are the Grotesques from the army list.