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Thadin wrote: Speaking of, has GW released models armed with Chakram before? They've put out a host of 'strange' ranged weapons, but I can't recall seeing any of those.
One sculpt from the Warcry Cypher Lords warband is all I can think of
Earth127 wrote: Warcry minis in general are some of the best and most creative GW has put out over the last few years.
Can't argue with this. With a few exceptions, AoS as a range has been pretty amazing.
Even the flops in AoS, it's really been more a matter of taste. The technical quality has been fantastic.
I'm seriously 100% sure the technical of it is to try and combat some of the 3D printing stuff and to elevate above the huge influx of 3D mini's coming out soon.
Earth127 wrote: Warcry minis in general are some of the best and most creative GW has put out over the last few years.
Can't argue with this. With a few exceptions, AoS as a range has been pretty amazing.
Even the flops in AoS, it's really been more a matter of taste. The technical quality has been fantastic.
I'm seriously 100% sure the technical of it is to try and combat some of the 3D printing stuff and to elevate above the huge influx of 3D mini's coming out soon.
Really that's just saying as a market leader they want to stay ahead of the curve. Not 3D printing specifically, just want to make cutting edge quality minis.
Overread wrote: It's actually rather amazing how bland GW is with weapons in general - there's loads of fancy weapons out there (both real and fantasy) yet GW has always stuck mostly to spears, swords and bows with attachments. You really notice it if you compare to something like the Dynasty Warriors or Soulblade games. I suspect AoS will push the envelope more and more on crazy weapons!
Depends if they're based on real world things like chakrams, or if they're typically 'a spiky mutant french curve' fantasy weapons.
What are the weapons in Dynasty Warriors and Soulblade like?
We've backlog of everything - ideally GW will alternate one then the other but it all depends on how they are going to do things and they might not even fully know as the ymight have to balance week to week based on production and shipping
I'm expecting they will prioritize getting the last psychic awakening books out given they need to.be out in order to be quickly rendered obsolete.
Seriously though, that is what I'm afraid they will do. Hope I'm wrong as I really want those elves to fiddle.around with conversions (and the scions of the flame warband while they're at it!)
Carlovonsexron wrote: Yeah, Inwas hoping they would go on preorder, but am.now afraid we'll have to deal with a solid month of 40k backlog.
I don't think so. We have a huge initial release in the Lumineth just sitting and taking up warehouse space. With GW ramping production back up, they are going to need to start clearing some of that space up.
I've read that up to 90% of sales for a model line occur within the first few weeks of a release, so for something as highly anticipated as the Lumineth they are bound to have tons of stock that needs to be shipped out.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Whelp, looks like no Lumineth this week either. I figured that would be one of the pre orders they would want to get out pretty quickly.
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It looks like 9th will be in July. There is a chance the elves will slot in between Spider and Pariah or Pariah and 9th.
Hard to tell, though, since its not entirely clear when they were originally planned. I also figured we would see a preview of more stuff, as what's been shown off so far seems a little light for a new army book.
While Deepkin have a comparable number of units, they have several more characters than we've seen for Cow Elves (3 special characters and 2 generics is a little odd, and the special includes one of the minotaur variants). On the other hand DoK and Fyreslayers are still tiny ranges with few characters, and half of the DoK units were old WFB models...
I agree with some of the stupid HE helmet designs mentioned.
But I would also like to point out 6th edition Phoenix guards were on point compared to earlier or later veriosn.
But...These cow headed stupid loking helmets are just ugly as hell. Certainly not for me. I think they are the worse looking minin GW has produced since ive been hobbying again. I'll even let shrike as you can just put a helmet on him...
I'm glad I have a sizeable OG WHFB HE army all snuggly on sprues waiting to be brough to life.
However, I really did the cavalry and really want the box so I can steal their bits, especially heads for conversions. Cant wait for those! but wont be starting an AOS army. Thought if they did good HE id give it a go but i will be spending my money on OOP stuff on ebay and other models instead.
AngryAngel80 wrote: I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "
Carlovonsexron wrote: For me I like the suggestion that's been floating around to cut down off the helmet and just let the bull heads be the helmet/mask.
Works way better to visually tie them to the mountain spirit as well IMO.
I like the Top Knot approach more, where you replace the long bull part with the top knots from Custodes or other armies. Makes them look pretty good, but with TGA down as of writing I have no way to show it.
Also, I think people could find alternative heads. I was thinking this [url=https://www.shapeways.com/product/JAXHBA3NN/sanctuary-sentinel-helemt?optionId=65717534&li=shops] head if the scale is right for the figures, which helps out with the Old Greek / roman helmet other models have.
I am very excited for the release myself, with only one exception. I was hoping to have a loremaster type swordsman for this army to be my general, but sadly it does not seem that will be so.
Meh. The basic helmets look far better than people make them out to be.
Also, the Alarith Stonemage is literally "a loremaster type swordsman"...just with a stave instead of a sword. It's a mage devoted to the Alarith Elemental Temple.
Webstore has been shipping new stuff for basically 3 weeks now, right?
Engine War and its associated goodies were the end of March releases. We're maybe halfway through April's releases now. End of April/ start of May was, prior to the lockdown, looking to be when the Lumineth box set was coming and we don't know if the other stuff was getting released at the same time.
Yeah, because you can actually buy Tzeentch stuff right now.
For the record, I just did some digging. The May White Dwarf(454) is where we were going to get the WarCry rules for Lumineth. It releases at the end of June for non-subscribers. So end of April/start of May for Lumineth was about right, they're still playing catch up from the start of April/end of March right now.
Uggh. I could easily see how that would mean an end of July date for anything fantasy as they have to spam out PA releases, then the new edition of 40k, and then spam out the supplemental releases for it.
I hope that's not the case and we can catch them for pre-order on the 27th (which would coincide with some time off I'll have - convenient!) but I wont get my hopes up.
I can really only cross my fingers that maybe the scions of the flame will get released soon to give us something fantasy to work on while we wait.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
AngryAngel80 wrote: I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "
I just want to see the faction colors for this army soon. I need to order some Turbodork colorshift paints and I want to know which ones would be best...
AngryAngel80 wrote: I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "
15k+
Emperor's Spears 2500
Beastmen 10k
4000+
6000+ Order. Unity. Obedience.
Thousand Sons 4000+
413th Lucius Exterminaton Legion- 4,000pts 
Eldar- 4436 pts
Skaven - 4500
OBR - 4250
- 6800
- 4250
