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Schmapdi wrote:

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I like the High Priest and Tetto'Eko, that's about it. Sort of disappointed.

I can't say I'm blown away by anything either- but really - it's a bit early to judge them until we get some decent pics.

I think this is going to play out for me exactly like every release since about the Necrons:

"Hrm, some interesting things, might consider picking up an X or a Y or two, if JESUS MOTHER OF GOD IT COSTS WHAT!!??!?!?"

In this case, the Carnasaur looks cool, but it's probably gonna cost $80, or MORE. Why don't we start the betting pool now on the prices. Whoever wins might actually be able to afford some of this stuff then...

-C6

For me this is also like every other release.

'Neat. Shame I have an entire army I'm perfectly happy with and don't need to expand.'

Seriously.

Carnosaur? Whoop de do. Have 2 already.
Skink Priest? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Skink chief? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Terradons? Whoop de do. Have enough already.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
For me this is also like every other release.

'Neat. Shame I have an entire army I'm perfectly happy with and don't need to expand.'

Seriously.

Carnosaur? Whoop de do. Have 2 already.
Skink Priest? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Skink chief? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Terradons? Whoop de do. Have enough already.

New stuff for you:
-Troglodon with Skink Oracle
-Ripperdactyls
-Bastiladon carrying Solar Engine or an Ark of Sotek

Notice how every plastic unit has an alternate build for something that wasn't around before.

3 new units is par for the course. It's actually shocking that terradons were redone - the blueprint for recent releases for the most part is not to redo units everyone things should be redone in plastic.

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
For me this is also like every other release.

'Neat. Shame I have an entire army I'm perfectly happy with and don't need to expand.'

Seriously.

Carnosaur? Whoop de do. Have 2 already.
Skink Priest? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Skink chief? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Terradons? Whoop de do. Have enough already.

Where's the new skink chief? I will say the new Skink priest is a surprise - given the two existing ones, plus the one from the Stegadon kit. Especially with them adding the palanquin'd skink too. You can make a pretty nice all skink army with quite a lot of variation now too.

When i look at that Troglydon i get the feeling someone has been playing a lot of Fallout 3....

Dammit, why did they have to make them cool.

But still havent redone those terrible fething sculpts of cold ones from the looks of that battalion pic.

Yeah, those Cold Ones are really tragic, compared to the DE ones...

Love what I see of the new monsters. I feel fear within my static-resolution heart as to what they will do to my army...

Who cares about new models, pictures or sth., give us dem rules!

"Ripperdactyl" though. Sigh.

Who's the author? Kelly?

Looks like a pretty nice release to me.

decker_cky wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
For me this is also like every other release.

'Neat. Shame I have an entire army I'm perfectly happy with and don't need to expand.'

Seriously.

Carnosaur? Whoop de do. Have 2 already.
Skink Priest? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Skink chief? Whoop de do. Have enough already.
Terradons? Whoop de do. Have enough already.

New stuff for you:
-Troglodon with Skink Oracle
-Ripperdactyls
-Bastiladon carrying Solar Engine or an Ark of Sotek

Notice how every plastic unit has an alternate build for something that wasn't around before.

3 new units is par for the course. It's actually shocking that terradons were redone - the blueprint for recent releases for the most part is not to redo units everyone things should be redone in plastic.

High elves got Shadow warriors redone in plastic. Weren't both these units in metal before?

i've been thinking to start a LM army before, looking at these new mini's, it might actually happen

Carnosaur/trogolodon - looks fine, but the older one is better.
Bastiladon - rubbish and continues a daft trend of strapping things to the backs of giant creatures. Also the giant crystal just reminds me of the talking Raptor in Atomic Robo who thinks crystals powered time travel.
Terradons/Rippers - look good, although the Rippers appear to have slightly derpy faces.
Finecast characters - not even worth thinking about.

Pretty underwhelming for one of my favourite Fantasy armies.

Well, I don't even play WHFB but I really want some of those Dinossaurs... they look freakin' cool!

I wonder what I can "count-as" in the grim-world of 40k

Simply outstanding for fantasy as usual, really need to see the WD for myself though, cant make out the little details properly from the pics.

Little dissapointed with the look of the Bastiladon. Maybe better pics will do it justice but at the moment it could look a bit more aggressive really.

Apart from that I'm pretty impressed, some really nice stuff.

Ill hold off judgement until i can see better pics.
Guess it means i can expand my skink army a bit though.

Just a shame i got bored of waiting for a teto'eko model and made my own.

Now what we need is a plastic box of sallies and razors.
Because GW can piss off with the price tag at the moment.

Did any one hear if there is any shrinkage to the troop kits, im currently building up a core force that id like done before said decrease in model count yet increased in price.

Dinosaurs, what's not to love, can't wait for clearer shots. But I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Hahaha didnt notice at all the SC gorok is a blatant reference to turok, he even has the mace.

In standard GW form, we see poor resolution pictures from somebody else because they are afraid to show us. Thankfully, most of us want to wait to see real pictures before passing judgement. I've successfully avoided collecting lizardmen all these years (although it's been a struggle), this may be the year that gets me. We'll see...

Is it me or need one the releases look like a bulbasaur? The thing with the solar engine is it?

All these new dinos make me want to start an Exodite army.

Lizardmen Book $ 49.50 (= 39 €)
Limited Edition Book $ 90
Battle Magic card set $ 6
Skink Priest $ 20
Bastiladon $ 60 (= 46 €)
Carnosaur $ 85 (= 65 €)
Terradon Riders $ 60 (= 46 €)
Gor-rok $ 25
Tetto eko $ 50

allegedly.

It kind of looks like there are new saurus cavalry in the battalion.

I really expected a flying Coatyl. The most iconic of Aztec mythological creatures and its a no show. Or has FW already beat them to it?

I wonder where stegadons are being relegated?
No word on Chakax, grrrr. Can anyone even see a slaan in those pics?

No slann, but a cool skink priest...

Could someone re-host the pics I posted at the top of page 4? (Not on Dakka, though). My bandwidth limit on the photobucket account was reached overnight, so I think they may not show up for much longer.

Pics are a little too low-res but it seems like the new dinos don't look too bad. It's a better effort than the stegadon kit was I think.

...err...I don't think the carnosaur is worth $85, though...

I love these threads where someone has some info and everyone jumps all over them for being a troll, then the info is revealed as true and like one person apologizes for being a dink.

I love these threads


Unless this book has something spectacular it's just going to be purple sun bait like the last one. Too bad, I really like the concept and lizard man models.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Pics are a little too low-res but it seems like the new dinos don't look too bad. It's a better effort than the stegadon kit was I think.

...err...I don't think the carnosaur is worth $85, though...

I'm thinking the Carnosaur is going to be a $60ish kit.

Nice stuff. I'm interested to see how they changed the Slann up and if anything else is now worth taking instead? The Lizardman armies of the past were so similar, I hope there will be more options open to them.