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Monster on the top looks like a bantha, I quite like it other that the enormous nose cavity.

Cat cav seem odd, why not just rhinox cav?

Scrap launcher and cannon thing are good enough.

That mammoth thing is blindingly terrible in the face. The tusks are shoulders are tusks, it has a pin head and then other little tusks which don't have any semblance to the big tusks...

Wtf is it and why didn't it occur to them to just make a big savage looking mammoth head that would have looked great.


Again, there's a very very strong WoW graphics look to the whole lot. Which is a shame as GW had a great aesthetic to it before this 'jagged extreme' look started having a major influence.

Why is the Stonehorn making me think, finally a model that gets the scale Of Scylla Anfingrim into proportion, and wouldn't require that much green stuffing and conversion work to look right.

Some nice ideas overall though, much better beasts, (by a blinkin mile) than the Storm of Chaos monsters.

A furry war mumak would have been a hit!

Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:Again, there's a very very strong WoW graphics look to the whole lot. Which is a shame as GW had a great aesthetic to it before this 'jagged extreme' look started having a major influence.

Reap what you sow eh?

Some nice hunks of plastic there

Anyone else notice that Ogres are now pink. I guess the old skin tone was too complicated for people.

EDIT - Oh and GW, how is that leak control working out for you

NAVARRO wrote:
Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Aye, tis the reason I left the game, not the rules, or the magic, but I could see where we where headed after Orcs and Tomb Kings. I dread to think what they'll cook up for the High Elves and Empire on the next update, hell, even what the Druchii might gain. Hopefully just a manticore, but why do I sense a Sea Serpent dragged ashore by Beastmasters.


On a side note - did they drop the grey skin thing for Ogres, I thought that was one of the big things they mentioned when they first came out, to make their Ogres 'GW Unique' over other settings.


edit - just realised I got ninja'd by Flashman on that skin query, although his post wasn't there when I asked it, I swear guv.

Flashman wrote:Anyone else notice that Ogres are now pink. I guess the old skin tone was too complicated for people.

Well traditionally I think Classic Ogres were painted like humans


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Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:even what the Druchii might gain. Hopefully just a manticore

Well, theres already a ridable one!

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Second that, VERY silly.
But with the zombie dragon, and the detail they are obviousely putting into these kits they are beginning to sway me some.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:
Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Aye, tis the reason I left the game, not the rules, or the magic, but I could see where we where headed after Orcs and Tomb Kings. I dread to think what they'll cook up for the High Elves

That's easy. A bigger dragon.

and Empire on the next update,

Already seen it. Landship says "Sup"

hell, even what the Druchii might gain. Hopefully just a manticore, but why do I sense a Sea Serpent dragged ashore by Beastmasters.

Because you're only thinking silly. Sea Serpents can't be "dragged ashore". But there was mention in Age of Reckoning of much bigger Hydras.

Aye, actually Kan, I reckon you'll have called it with a Hydra. Makes sense, drop the metal for a plastic, make it bigger in the process.

Well perhaps this "Giant Monster/Kaiju Madness" is GW trying to compensate for something

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:I dread to think what they'll cook up for the High Elves and Empire on the next update, hell, even what the Druchii might gain.

For Empire, my money's on an updated War Wagon.

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

To play Dwarves

Monsters are for sissy elves and bad guys!

kenshin620 wrote:

jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

To play Dwarves

Monsters are for sissy elves and bad guys!

Just for that, I hope you get a Giant Dwarf.

You read that right. A Giant Dwarf as a monster.

jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

Indeed. I'm glad that Warhammer Fantasy Battles is finally starting to look the part. If you want to play Warhammer Ancients, just go play Warhammer Ancients.

Ogres are pretty much the only fantasy army I play now after selling my WOC and shelfing the Skaven. I'm glad to see my decision to keep them has been rewarded! I like!

Kanluwen wrote:
Just for that, I hope you get a Giant Dwarf.

You read that right. A Giant Dwarf as a monster.

The amount of beer we're gonna need

For me, fantasy is all about big monsters. Without that, you're just playing a lord of the rings ripoff (the fluff not the game).

The big models are always more fun to build and paint, vs painting the same goblin 100 times. Same thing with 40K, I always use lots of tanks and as few men as possible. Maybe that's why I lose so much, but then I play like 2 times a year, yet I'm painting stuff like every other night...

kenshin620 wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
Just for that, I hope you get a Giant Dwarf.

You read that right. A Giant Dwarf as a monster.

The amount of beer we're gonna need

Oh no. He's a recovering alcoholic. He only drinks cola.

Take that fluff!

jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

Sarcasm?

If not, well lets see... because warhammer was built inside the concept of armies of lil men beating a army of lil chaotic men and not a godzilla spam deathmatch?
Yeah yeah its all Fantasy but each new update giving 2 versions of a big ass monster for each army is not only very unoriginal and boring but it gets to the point of silly all this huge monster parade... its like turning something special into something predictable and boring... thats what happening in WFB.

Kanluwen wrote:
Oh no. He's a recovering alcoholic. He only drinks cola.

Take that fluff!

Oh god no. For some reason, my mind conjured up a Stay Puff hybrid abomination. Argh

1.) I like how the new rumour blackout is working out
2.) Generally this is a good release, although in detail I only really love the Stonehorn model (the mammox is missing its head somehow, the rhinocats look weird, prefer the FW Rhinox Riders and the scrap laucher is good but not my cup of tea).
3.) People might also have a look at the September WarhammerForge book on Tamurkhan, as it features a lot of Chaos Ogres including one riding a Toad Dragon. The background might be interesting as well.

Kanluwen wrote:
Oh no. He's a recovering alcoholic. He only drinks cola.

Take that fluff!

Santa is a dwarf?

NAVARRO wrote:

jojo_monkey_boy wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:Some nice bitz there but monstherhammer is getting silly.

Why else would you play Warhammer Fantasy Battles?

Sarcasm?

If not, well lets see... because warhammer was built inside the concept of armies of lil men beating a army of lil chaotic men and not a godzilla spam deathmatch?
Yeah yeah its all Fantasy but each new update giving 2 versions of a big ass monster for each army is not only very unoriginal and boring but it gets to the point of silly all this huge monster parade... its like turning something special into something predictable and boring... thats what happening in WFB.

To be fair, you can say it's a "Godzilla spam deathmatch" when you can honestly field armies consisting only of these Godzilla critters.

NAVARRO wrote:
Sarcasm?

If not, well lets see... because warhammer was built inside the concept of armies of lil men beating a army of lil chaotic men and not a godzilla spam deathmatch?
Yeah yeah its all Fantasy but each new update giving 2 versions of a big ass monster for each army is not only very unoriginal and boring but it gets to the point of silly all this huge monster parade... its like turning something special into something predictable and boring... thats what happening in WFB.

Aye, once upon a time.. Druchii where special for their many monsters.

NAVARRO wrote: its like turning something special into something predictable and boring... thats what happening in WFB.

Perhaps, although I wonder how these monsters will hold up to cannonballs and steadfast

kenshin620 wrote:Santa is a dwarf?

Yes but he is suffering from gigantism.

With the new ogres they are obviously going for a post Jurassic flintstones theme.

Looks good, mind.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:
Sarcasm?

If not, well lets see... because warhammer was built inside the concept of armies of lil men beating a army of lil chaotic men and not a godzilla spam deathmatch?
Yeah yeah its all Fantasy but each new update giving 2 versions of a big ass monster for each army is not only very unoriginal and boring but it gets to the point of silly all this huge monster parade... its like turning something special into something predictable and boring... thats what happening in WFB.

Aye, once upon a time.. Druchii were special for their many monsters.

Druchii, Skaven, and Beastmen have pretty traditionally had monsters. The only difference was that the Druchii were the only ones "herding" their monsters into battle, rather than just creating the monstrosities(Skaven) or having them come along for the ride(Beastmen).

What I'd like to see for Druchii is more synergy between the monsters and infantry. Hydras being used as scaly shields for Corsairs, etc.