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The nice thing about these are that I'm low enough on funds to have taken a second to look, and will have at least two months to think, before I make a decision. Right now however, those tiny pics look as bad as the CSM release. Seems I'm probably safe from giving GW any more cash.
=D

I must be seeing completely different models here. The Khorne stuff is metal as hell, the Tzeentch stuff is pretty much exactly what I'd expected and the Nurgle flies are just hilarious enough to make up for the ugly. My only problems with this release are the prices of the Heralds and the fact that they're holding back the Greater Daemons.

Oh dear hahaha, the heralds look cool but literally wtf to all those kits

I mean was is even the khorne throne supposed to be/do? The face on the cannon is hilarious

One more addendum: Tzeentch chariot will probably look cooler after seeing the model itself. It doesn't look too bad by image, but I'm not sure yet. The flaming flamer wagon sucks horribly though. Those flames don't even look like fire-they look like somebody took 5 minutes to greenstuff it and throw it in a mold.

Uh, wow. The Tzeentch Chariot with the Herald is pretty good. The Bloodthrone is OK. Everything else is extremely "meh", except the Drones, which are so freaking awful that I kind of like them ironically, and the Burning Chariot, which is so bad that it's... bad.


The Nurgle Herald is actually quite good, though, IMO.

Overall, yet another swing and a miss.

 RazakelXIII wrote:
I must be seeing completely different models here. The Khorne stuff is metal as hell, the Tzeentch stuff is pretty much exactly what I'd expected and the Nurgle flies are just hilarious enough to make up for the ugly. My only problems with this release are the prices of the Heralds and the fact that they're holding back the Greater Daemons.

Shoulda gone to Specsavers!

These pictures look pretty terrible.

Howeever, it could be a case like with the WoC release, where more pictures, really improved it.

The Heralds are all well done, and I think the Tzeentch Chariot isn't to bad.

The Blight Drones though, dear god....

These are as bad as the Beastmen range.

Nope, I will not be parting with my money this time.

Seriously and thoroughouly disappointed here with these models... The flies look like bloated elephants and the cannon has ABSOLUTELY no place in a 40k verse. Even if it's daemonic...
Alll of the models look so cartoonish it's hard to get past that to take them at face value. I mean GW had so much to work with. Make them daemonic and horrifying, not something you would see out of a children's book.

Looks like I'm going to be doing a lot of converting in the next month or so.
Hope the codex won't match the silliness of these sculpts...

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This, ladies and gents, is the end result of ignoring your customers, refusing previewing or feedback and working in a vacuum.

I give you the Blood Throne of Khorne...

Or khorne mower if you will :p

I asked for pictures, but not like this... NOT LIKE THIS!

 Medium of Death wrote:
I asked for pictures, but not like this... NOT LIKE THIS!

Thanks for dooming all of us! Good job. Thank God I have old Chaos chariots that I can add Juggernauts to to make chariots...

The blight drones are terrible, until you imagine them without the riders. Without the riders they are just bloated elephant flies, and look pretty nurgle. They are going to look absolutely awful fully assembled in the hands of a novice player, but I actually think they will look good with the riders removed in the hands of a skilled painter.

Remember how the stats of Slaneesh chariots rocked but they are very difficult to use because of deep strike rules? With normal deployment that problem's gone, and I have the feeling the Tzeentch/Khorne chariots are going to be just as good. I'm also now even more confident the previously leaked greater deamon stats are a hoax or wildly inaccurate. Giant 400 point MC for $50 doesn't make as much money for GW as a 35 point chariot costing $30.


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On the flamer chariot. If regular flamers get nerfed like everyone says they are going to there will be plenty of unloved orphan flamers around waiting for a new loving home on top of a Tzeentch chariot. Just use the Tzeentch chariot build instead, leave the herald off, and attach 2 or 3 regular flamers on top.

Guys, I have a piece of concept art here, but I wasn't able to show you guys until the trailer was released for reasons best kept secret. You saw it here first.

Ye Gods.....

They have actually left a bad taste in my mouth they are that awful.

A new low...

Im pretty underwhelemed, i *might* buy some minis if the rules make up for the suck.

Skull Cannon of Khorne? I thought Khorne wanted to keep all his skulls?

Best not to imagine what a Slaanesh cannon would fire.

*sigh*

I've spent the past couple of moments trying to think of some pithy or witty comment to denigrate these new Codexaemon models, but as it turns out I can't. Nothing I could say could really encapsulate my sheer disappointment in how they look.

The Khorne Chariot... isn't a Chariot. It's a rickshaw. Why the feth are Bloodletters pulling it?
The Khorne Cannon is tiny and pathetic.
The Flamer Chariot has way too much gak going on.
The Nurgle Herald is awful.
The Slaaneshi Herald is appalling.

And then there are those Nurgle Drones. What... what were they thinking? This is Pumbagore-level bad. Even the Chibi-Hawk and Space-Guppy have redeeming features... but these Drones are just a blight, if you'll excuse the pun, on the 40K range. Who approved these?

The Khornate Herald is pretty lazy, but passable, and I think the Tzeentch Chariot might work... but this is a bad release. A very, very bad release.

I guess I'm a minority, but I really like the flys and the Nurgle herald. A bit goofy, but that's how Nurgle rolls.

 Swara wrote:
I guess I'm a minority, but I really like the flys and the Nurgle herald. A bit goofy, but that's how Nurgle rolls.

I would like to like the new nurgle style, but i just can't seem to get into it.
They seem too jolly to be daemons from the warp that are supposed to invoke fear in the hearts of everyone. Just look at the forgeworld GUO and he is appropriately daemonic. Sure he might be considered "jolly" but it's not at the cost of the scariness and daemonic look... Now the GW nurgle line looks like a bunch of germs from a Mr. Clean Commercial or something of the sort.

 VorpalBunny74 wrote:
Skull Cannon of Khorne? I thought Khorne wanted to keep all his skulls?

Best not to imagine what a Slaanesh cannon would fire.

Hmmmmm... Money shots? At Sisters?!!



Re Tzeentch chariot: I plan to add the front bit of a High Elf chariot to it and move those front spikes/blades to the sides & back. Make it look more chariot-like and less like a floating frizzbe.

The Burning Chariot w/giant Flamer simply has about the worst colour scheme one could ever dream-up. Someone needs to remind the 'Eavy Metal Team that Daemon do not mean etheral VC wanna-be's.

Judging from the large areas of white and the text around it, these are taken from a WD, which shows that the WD team still really don't get photography. Bad lighting and background colours that obscure detail... guys get a day-lamp and a blue/white gradient background so we can see the damn things.

thisisnotpancho wrote:

 Swara wrote:
I guess I'm a minority, but I really like the flys and the Nurgle herald. A bit goofy, but that's how Nurgle rolls.

I would like to like the new nurgle style, but i just can't seem to get into it.
They seem too jolly to be daemons from the warp that are supposed to invoke fear in the hearts of everyone. Just look at the forgeworld GUO and he is appropriately daemonic. Sure he might be considered "jolly" but it's not at the cost of the scariness and daemonic look... Now the GW nurgle line looks like a bunch of germs from a Mr. Clean Commercial or something of the sort.

I think with some head swaps and greenstuff on the head of the flies they will look a lot better as well. I'm sure I'll have fun Nurglizing them further.

Sigh.... i should have sold my mono-khorne army a while ago, while miniatures were stunning... now who want a mono-khorne army with a an awful steampunk throne.. i want BLOOD and SKULL... at least the herald is epic.

Well that was disappointing.

The blight drones... the Marauder Hellstriders...the OK Mournfangs...the Khemri Necropolis Knights...all of these seem to have been sculpted by people who have heard about a man riding a horse, but never actually seen it. All of those kits just look like man-size things standing on big things. No dynamics or sense of motion. What a waste of a great concept.

As for the Khorne chariot...I guess the Blood God is now killing 'em with laughter.

These last releases have just been a dog's breakfast. No unifying look, just tons of ridiculous gimmicks and gewgaws piled on one another while ignoring basic anatomy, proportion and motion.

There is a creeping quality control failure at GW. You cannot charge premium prices when so many of your figures look...well, look like this.

The nurgle herald isn't to bad IMO, the drones, i expected something more akin to the current blight drones, looks like i wont be able to get cheap ones any time soon, ah well...

Herald on chariot for tzeentch is fair as is the khorne herald, everything else as previously stated is just to cheesy for deamons, and whats with all the faux fire and smoke stuff GW is doing these days, it just doesnt look good on most things other than the screaming bell imo again

Young Logan

wow, I know these are small blurry images, but what I have been able to make out looks horrible. It's as though GW are deliberately creating bad sculpts because they know that veteran gamers usually have more of an eye for quality rather than their new demographic, the kids starting out in the hobby.

Must be the 6th month in a row with Dakka not impressed by GW's main release:
October: CSM (Dinobots, Dracobots, Maulers)
November: Warriors of Chaos (Shrine, copypaste riders, red Hulk)
December: Hobbit
January: Dark Angels (Storm Talon deluxe, Speeder deluxe)
February: Warriors of Chaos (bigger red hulk, prancing Dragon Ogres, bland chariot, troll deluxe)

That's what happens when the sales department rules the design department: Designs go down and sales go down.
Can't wait for the next annual business report.

Well I've seen the pics, and although in general I try to stay positive, I just wanted to do the whole 'Really? = lower tone and repeat' thing Miz does on WWE for each pic as I scrolled down. The plague flies are possibly some of the worst GW models ever in my mind, and the flaming chariot looks awful, well it does with that paint job at least.

Personaly i like the Khorne Throne, for once we are far from the outdated "chariot pulled by X creatures" thing, something new that fits Khorne's, a Deamon Engine, a Trike of Doom from Hell!

Also HBMC the Bloodletters arn't pulling it, they are standing on the "bumper".

 Kroothawk wrote:
Must be the 6th month in a row with Dakka not impressed by GW's main release:
October: CSM (Dinobots, Dracobots, Maulers)
November: Warriors of Chaos (Shrine, copypaste riders, red Hulk)
December: Hobbit
January: Dark Angels (Storm Talon deluxe, Speeder deluxe)
February: Warriors of Chaos (bigger red hulk, prancing Dragon Ogres, bland chariot, troll deluxe)

That's what happens when the sales department rules the design department: Designs go down and sales go down.
Can't wait for the next annual business report.

Or maybe thats what happens when players becomes real Divas and are too lazy to use their hands to convert?..., don't like the stuff?, make the stuff yourself, thats my motto, there is waaaaay enough models and bits out there to make your own, the most important is if the rules will be worth the effort, and thats what i'm waiting to see.