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 LunaHound wrote:
K, for anyone that has seeing Tomb King War Sphinx, Lizardmen Stegadon, FW Squiggoth, does the chaos war shrine NOT look like its supposed to be a howdah piece mounted on something, say a large mammoth , or blocky type creature.

It looks so unatural with those 2 carrying it, along with the lack of details on the 2 carriers, Im assuming that was not the original plan for this kit.

actually, those bearers are the only thing I like about that whole damn kit.
my god, they could have done a chaos war mammoth, some huge daemon creature, anything, but not this random assortment of **(^*^%*&.

maybe the howdah itself would work nicely for a terrain piece. *maybe*.

edit: not to say I don't like anything in this release. the slaanesh cav is horrid, and so is that wannabe-warpwolf-only-much-uglier, but the khorne cav is awesome and so are many of the characters.
not dynamic enough? those plates on the khorne cav make the model lend itself excellently to reposing, and the characters are finecast, so go at it with a heatgun and repose, repose,repose

The shrine has a Tzeentch vibe all over, but then there is a Khorne symbol on the top

I do like the Jugger Knights, but all in all not impressed by this release.

Ugh, another mini update? This is bollocks. I like Scyla, he's big and mental and old school looks like Trish has done him again (I'm sure she did the original) He looks a lot better than the other crappy chaos spawns. I don't like his collar thing though. Valkia looks horrible and weird because they've made her left handed. She's supposed to look beautiful but looking at the rest of the offerings it seems that 'Eavy Metal have done their usual terrible paint job for the boxes. Why is it when we see what they've been working on they produce perfectly acceptable paint jobs but for these box art pics they paint some god awful clean paint job that ruins the look of the models. It's now standard for people to say "I'll wait until I see it in the flesh" which means that GWs photographers and painters aren't doing their job right. I want to be excited by well painted models not have to figure out if they are worth buying for me to fix up.

So for the end of the year and the last chance before the Hobbit takes over we have one and a half chaos armies that don't excite me at all. There was a time when I wanted everything GW made but this has all been crap. I'm going to take another rain-check on GW this month and buy Angron from FW.

Bloodwin wrote:
Valkia looks horrible and weird because they've made her left handed.

I think I speak for all the Dakka south paws when I say...

 Flashman wrote:

Bloodwin wrote:
Valkia looks horrible and weird because they've made her left handed.

I think I speak for all the sinistra people on Dakka when I say...

Heh, yes I expected that. It's just that it looks rather odd. I guess a part of it is that she has so much 'odd' stuff already. Female and not Slaneesh, Demon shield (which looks boring), spear, wings it's a lot of things that you kind of accept with this curve ball added. I do however need to see the model because looking at the pic she looks butt ugly.

We probably shouldn't judge these models much (yet) due to the fact that we can't gather a whole ton from the pictures, but it's hard not to judge at all after getting a glimpse of them... Thus far, I'm rather unimpressed. Valkia will likely be my first Finecast model (have they gotten better with the air bubbles? Just curious), otherwise, I'm not liking too much of what I'm seeing. The Skullcrushers look kind of cool, but Valkia is pretty much my exception to not having anything Khorne in my army, and I'm not liking anything else yet.

Rather bummed, I had set a hundred dollars aside six months ago in anticipation of this release.
..

Looks pretty meh. I was hoping some of that would be good conversion material for CSM, but nope, just boring fantasy crap with delicate poses and silliness.

The WD photos of the new CSM models were very off putting. I really don't like the new style they are using.

I'm not sold on any of these.

Add me to the 'disappointed at lack of mammoth' pile, too.

The static poses of the riders kinda kill these otherwise cool minis. I'll have to see how to change that.

Edit: That picture came from Kurl's photobucket (url somewhere above). There are a couple more of the scs and the shrine.

Whats the purpose of Slanesh Marauder riders?
I liked their light cavalry...

Well since they are mixing mortals and demons,
will anyone object to using bloodcrushers as khorn crushers?

For those who didn't see them. I also updated my page 3 post with them:









In response to the Slaanesh Knight things:

I LOVE that big red Fella !


The Rest.... Meh. Don't even do a WFB army, but i like Hellboy over there


Also, i like the Cultists in there, as that can only mean good things !

Upon seeing clearer pictures, Valkia is amazing. Definitely don't care for the Slaanesh riders (seriously, the steeds look like the exact same steeds from the Seekers box), the Warshrine looks better but I still don't think I'll buy it, and Syclla, he's okay, I guess?

The extra weapons look nice too. I won't be buying them, however, as it'll probably be twenty dollars just for the five.

Edit: Someone said that the Warshrine looks quite Tzeentch, but bears a Khorne symbol at the top. I agree, that's so weird.

 The Fragile Breath wrote:


Edit: Someone said that the Warshrine looks quite Tzeentch, but bears a Khorne symbol at the top. I agree, that's so weird.

I have a feeling that if the carriers were painted with red flesh and the litter itself weren't silver, we wouldn't be saying that. Nothing but the paint job screams Tzeentch to me.

So what's with the 40k cultists?

Sorry, I just linked all the pics of the upcoming releases. Hence cultists and Dwarfy McAbrams.

 Aerethan wrote:
Sorry, I just linked all the pics of the upcoming releases. Hence cultists and Dwarfy McAbrams.

I get that. I am asking if anyone knows why there is a picture of the cultists in White Dwarf.....

 SickSix wrote:

 Aerethan wrote:
Sorry, I just linked all the pics of the upcoming releases. Hence cultists and Dwarfy McAbrams.

I get that. I am asking if anyone knows why there is a picture of the cultists in White Dwarf.....

Because they're releasing a snap fit box of 3 Autogun cultists and 2 pistol/CCW cultists.

Worst idea ever, so if I want a 35 man unit of CC cultists i have to buy 18 of these boxes... guardsmen and whatever close combat weapons i can get hold of it is then...

Beefy humans on Slaaneshi steeds seems wrong, and not in a good way.

 kronk wrote:
I take it back.

I don't want any of that for my Chaos Space Marine army.

Not even the Cultist set of 5?

I honestly have to say that the hellflayers are one of the few slaaneshi models I do like apart from Sigvald. Sure they're a little static but it really looks like classic WoC to me, which is better than the overly elaborate/busy-looking monstrocity that is the warshrine (also how are you supposed to hide that now against cannons? Most monsters in WHFB aren't that tall!) honestly if I got a warshrine i'd break it down and use it for parts (unit fillers, terrain, characters are what the components would be perfect for).

Too bad we haven't gotten a look at the rules yet.

 Mantle wrote:
Worst idea ever, so if I want a 35 man unit of CC cultists i have to buy 18 of these boxes...

Or you could just go on ebay like everyone else who stops for a split second to think.

 Ehsteve wrote:
I honestly have to say that the hellflayers are one of the few slaaneshi models I do like apart from Sigvald. Sure they're a little static but it really looks like classic WoC to me, which is better than the overly elaborate/busy-looking monstrocity that is the warshrine (also how are you supposed to hide that now against cannons? Most monsters in WHFB aren't that tall!) honestly if I got a warshrine i'd break it down and use it for parts (unit fillers, terrain, characters are what the components would be perfect for).

Too bad we haven't gotten a look at the rules yet.

They're on Warseer. Crushers are pretty much exactly Knights on Juggers. The Slaanesh guys are Marauders on Steeds, can buy ASF, and gain benefits for killing units.

The Marauders just look like they’re going to break the Steeds. Far too big and comically beefy, and they look like they were designed independently of the Steeds as they don’t appear to be riding them.

And that Altar does look like it was meant to go on top of something grand, not on two weird Chaos giants.

I really like the war shrine. There has to be quite few options in that kit. The cool part is, its not what everyone expected.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Aerethan wrote:
2012: The year that WFB got a whopping 2 army books, both in the first 4 months.

GW might simply be aware of 8th not being quite as good as they thought it was...WHFB became a lot less popular in our area, same applies for other parts of Germany I know people from. Most stores barely have WHF events anymore and if they do, those usually are 1500 or less points (which really is so little compared to the tourney size of 3k points). A lot of people I know (including myself) sold their WHFB armies in order to buy 40k stuff or gave up on tabletop altogether.

...and with 8th in mind: rightfully so.

Don't even get this debate started. It won't end well.

_Tim?

 Platuan4th wrote:

 SickSix wrote:

 Aerethan wrote:
Sorry, I just linked all the pics of the upcoming releases. Hence cultists and Dwarfy McAbrams.

I get that. I am asking if anyone knows why there is a picture of the cultists in White Dwarf.....

Because they're releasing a snap fit box of 3 Autogun cultists and 2 pistol/CCW cultists.

Awesome. looks like GW will actually get my money this month. I passes on the winged Helldrake and the Maulerfiend because they were just too goofy, and GW hasn't updated any of the other CSM sculpts. Chaos Spawn look passable but their rules aren't that great, Posessed would need a big expensive conversion and rule-wise they're still not as good as CSM Terminators, and you need a Land Raider for any elites choice you take and I don't feel like dropping that much money on that kit given the economy.

The cultists look good, but I suspect buying doubles of the DV cultist squads on ebay is the better value.

As for the Chaos releases, they all look average. Everyone else has pointed out the problems with the Slaaneshs stuff, Festus looks awful, Scylla looks bad, the Female Khornate girl may look passable, depending on what she looks like in the flesh.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

Wow, these minis are all over the place. The war alter looks like its was assembled randomly from a bitz-box. The Hell Knights are solid though. The characters range from all right to WTF? The Hellstriders are lazier that the Seeker and Chariots were: whips from the Slaanesh Chariot, mounts from the Seekers box, legs from Dark Elves, and shields lifted from Sigvald and the Champion on Boobworm. Their pose so relaxed you'd think they were riding in a parade, rather than charging across a battlefield. Oh well, there are still plenty of bits to salvage for my Slaaneshi Daemons and Emperor Children. Would have be nice if they were mounted of plastic Boobworms or Fiends though.

I've never been a big fan of chaos stuff, but these last two releases (for 40k and fantasy) have just really left me cold.

I did like most of the Chaos stuff in Dark Vengenance, but the rest is starting to feel really ... goofy?