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I always thought Brettonians were a bit boring and anachronistic within the tech level available to the Old World humans.

Having said that, the infantry were interesting. It was the knights that were a boring fairy tale stereotype.

 Vankraken wrote:
Bretonnia needs to return (with whatever copyrightable name they want to throw at them). I always love the common man standing up against the monsters and horrors that exist in the Warhammer universe which is something that is lost when everything related to humanity are super humans. Brets also have the wonderful medieval imagery which is something that the empire doesn't quite have (they seem more renaissance in nature to the brets more dark age tech).

Calling Bretonnia the common man is kind of ironic given half of their army is literally nobles and knights and other supernatural things as well.

I'd be interested to hear what you guys have as your current human armies if you have any and their fluff, or if you have any ideas for what you want to do.

I have Krailos, who was once a king of a vast kingdom but was turned to Khorne by the desire of a strength he yearned for (being a sickly cripple). He was struck down by Ghal Maraz eventually and found himself reforged as a Celestant of the Celestial Vindicators, to seek his vengeance on the chaos who poisoned his mind and broke his people. He returned to his shattered kingdom to rally them and rebuild what was now lost to chaos where he found a man who had already risen up and taken the title of Emperor, Markus Albrecht. Going off the legends of the mighty Karl Franz, Markus is now rebuilding the kingdom as an empire, with Krailos at his side as his Magister, bringing with him his host of rage filled Demi-gods to inspire the people. Markus, with his growing army, hopes to bring a new age to the realm, and to recreate what Karl Franz had done in the world-that-was.

From the new Stormcast book...the guys with very little armor are supposed to be from 'Devoted of Sigmar'. There's also "Stormcherubs"( )

Noice!

The devoted of Sigmar could become a sort of AoS answer to the sisters of battle, with acts of faith as their alligence ability. Flagellants as battleline sure, but also armoured warrior monks too. And witch hunters. Flesh them out into a full unit armed. The excelsior warpriest is a good start too.

What about a literally fleshed out army of Khemri? Egyptian-styled humanity who imbue statues with movement and control would probably sell well, even if they aren't skeletal.

Those dudes look awesome as, I'd be keen, though the flagellants as troops would suck. But new religious looking human dudes would be pretty sweet, especially with those cool masks and hammers and stuff

The humans in that picture do look pretty cool.

However gw spend 5+ years trying to come up with copyrightable humans and we end up with fanatical warrior's fighting for there God with gold sigils embedded in the foreheads.

Gee"we are never influenced by other media"Dubs never changes.

I'd be interested to see where they said "we are never influenced by other media".

As distinct from not copying, that is - there's a fairly important distinction.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Noice!

The devoted of Sigmar could become a sort of AoS answer to the sisters of battle, with acts of faith as their alligence ability. Flagellants as battleline sure, but also armoured warrior monks too. And witch hunters. Flesh them out into a full unit armed. The excelsior warpriest is a good start too.

You might want to have a read of the little booklet that comes with the fluff for Soul Wars.

There's a mention of one of the mortal heroes leading "three lances of mounted Warrior Priests" to go after a Vampire's lieutenant and impaling it on a spear.

 Charistoph wrote:
What about a literally fleshed out army of Khemri? Egyptian-styled humanity who imbue statues with movement and control would probably sell well, even if they aren't skeletal.

There is this out of the 'Godbeasts' book. Not human, but it does show that Tomb Kings could make a comeback at some point in the future...

Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

Tomb Guard, the Sphinxes, and the Knights & Stalkers were all plastic. The new Heros were resin (aside from the King/Prince in the Sphinx kit).

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

Tomb Guard, the Sphinxes, and the Knights & Stalkers were all plastic. The new Heros were resin (aside from the King/Prince in the Sphinx kit).

What about those big statue archer guys?

Damn, the more I look at this, the more I’m regretting what they did. But would they be able to bring them back in a new form surely?

 Future War Cultist wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

Tomb Guard, the Sphinxes, and the Knights & Stalkers were all plastic. The new Heros were resin (aside from the King/Prince in the Sphinx kit).

What about those big statue archer guys?

Damn, the more I look at this, the more I’m regretting what they did. But would they be able to bring them back in a new form surely?

Ushabti were originally metal I believe.

 Future War Cultist wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

Tomb Guard, the Sphinxes, and the Knights & Stalkers were all plastic. The new Heros were resin (aside from the King/Prince in the Sphinx kit).

What about those big statue archer guys?

Damn, the more I look at this, the more I’m regretting what they did. But would they be able to bring them back in a new form surely?

The Ushabti Archers were resin, same as the original melee ones(although those started life as metals).


Basically, the range broke down like this:
The Chariots and Tomb King specific parts were new-ish. The steeds pulling the chariots and the skeletons that the parts were used on were old.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
I'd be interested to see where they said "we are never influenced by other media".

As distinct from not copying, that is - there's a fairly important distinction.

Chapter house court case was while they were describing there creative process cannot remember which staff member though. At the time it was said it was pointed out that it was horse gak but they stuck to it anyway.

Well given GW literally cannot separate influenced/copying/compatible When dealing with outside companies I figure that would be the same internally.

All though to be fair given that is the only real picture/info it could be just the artist being given a rough outline rather than any specifics and had just watched SG.

Yeah we really can't judge anything until it's there in solid plastic.

A new Devoted range will likely be that picture plus a mix of the eccentric Sigmar worshipping dress we saw in Hammerhal's art. (Which will likely be a 50% split between "those models are gorgeous, look at all those detailed talismans!" & "meh, they look too.....busy" ala the Grot Shaman model. )

 Future War Cultist wrote:

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:

 Future War Cultist wrote:
Remind me, the ‘newer’ Tomb King models, were they resin or plastic? I know that the older ones (the chariots, troops etc.) were old plastics from the early 2000s.

Tomb Guard, the Sphinxes, and the Knights & Stalkers were all plastic. The new Heros were resin (aside from the King/Prince in the Sphinx kit).

What about those big statue archer guys?

Damn, the more I look at this, the more I’m regretting what they did. But would they be able to bring them back in a new form surely?

Of course, the Death realm alone is filled with deserts and ancient civilizations that have either living or the dead ruling over them. We also have examples of such lost kingdoms in the other realms that have usually ended up a necromancer's/Nagash's recruitment source but with the recent NecroQuake causing the dead to stir in every realm and rise then they have tons of opportunities to build a new undead race upon.

On the note of statue archers, you can always go with Stonecast judicators conversions or if more ambitious a tomb king force made of Sylvaneth undeadified for your giants and skeletons in Seraphon parts (their hides optional) for a Jungle Kings force that you can place as a undead kingdom in the realm of life.