Which edition is best edition ? Thinking about jumping into high elves

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Argive wrote:

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Orlanth wrote:
Argive wrote:
Very nice treasure! If you ever feel like getting rid of it and selling let me know

I use the following colectors guide wiki:

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Dragons_-_Collectors_Guide

Nice link.

Argive wrote:

It lists all the various dragons in a chronological order. I am going to collect them all hopefully one day. Some you can pick up for cheap on ebay and they can be in very sorry state so its also a salvage element. I absolutely love the various whacky 80s models and designs. The warmasters series has a small range of only 5 models so I'm doing that line first. Hunted down the first already

Unless you have a major headway already may I recommend you don't try that. You wont get a chicken dragon without paying stupid money, and as it was old lead it would fall apart under its own weight anyway. Yes the designers thought of that and have pinning instructions and ways around the problems, it wasn't badly designed, but it did have bad metallurgy. Most GW stuff from the early 80's is now falling apart or very solid to begin with and many of the old models were not solid.

Argive wrote:

Back in the day when I first got into WHFB circa 6th ed you could get the DRAG7 Dragon Masters model on GW bits order. I bought that and a generic dragon prince rider plus imriks lance to kit bash make my own budget dragon lord. Really regret selling it for beer money. Was my first proper kitbash project. Incidentally years later they released the newest dragon lord kit which looks exactly like that dragon and the look I was going for lol.

So many people asked about the Dragon Masters kit that GW knew they could do the HE plastic dragon only one way. I never bought either kit, and now its too late to buy either.

Argive wrote:

I fear I may never find Dogs of War Asarnil the Dragonlord kit though :(

Have you ever seen it? Frankly it was not that impressive. If you have a nostalgia draw to the model so be it, but you could let that one slide.

This is where I am getting my next generation big dragons.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blightmoor/the-catastrophes-of-blightmoor
The campaign was recent so I do not think its too late to late back now. We dont know all the sculpts yet, I could only afford to order one, if the others don't fit my taste better the black dragon already showcased will.

Free beholder is nice too, one of the better beholder sculpts seen.

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Just Tony wrote:
The Asarnil kit is one of my favorites, that old plastic Talisman dragon is my go to dragon for all my armies.
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Ok, thats +1 to Asarnil.

I do agree with the Talisman dragon, it is nice, however that set costs something like £200-£300 when it surfaces.
I reminds me a lot of the dragon from Dark World expansion Dragon's Gate, which I do have, somewhere.

What's the chicken one?

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I haven't seen Asarnil at all unfortunately :(
I have an eBay every now and then.

I have no doubt I am very unlikely to succeed in my quest of finding them all, I can but try! Hunting is part of the fun
As a very very long term collecting, salvage & painting project thought it should be fun. Beside, any excuse to get cool dragon minis right ?
(speaking of which I probably need to get the FW ones by new years before those disappear they will make great collection display pieces!)

This thread has gone completely off track lol.. Perhaps I need to start a thread dedicated to all things Dragons...

This is Mr. Chicken: http://www.solegends.com/citdragon/thedragon/index.htm

As for the main topic, it is difficult to separate the main rules and corresponding army books from any particular edition. 6th and 7th were pretty similar, but some armies in 7th got involved in a ridiculous arms race with increasingly over-the-top special rules to be even more special and skilled than the previous one. 6th to me feels the best overall though (in part likely as that's when I got into it!), with a lot of flavour in the army books too. Vampire Counts and their bloodlines, Wood Elves with the kindreds, and a good few pages of faction-specific magic items to tinker with, rather than the generic shared list we got later. And of course it gave us the lovely redesigned Wood Elf miniature line; one of my favourites to this day. One of the few good things to come out of 8th were the new Skaven sculpts in my opinion, the rules that rewarded unwieldy massive units were certainly not my cup of tea.