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 Desubot wrote:
Ya know im reallllly digging the less armored one on the bottom right. now THAT looks skaveneee

the chest cannon is meh. and the mega armored rat is boring too.

the bottom right one is juuuuust right.

agreed, but even then, i think it's weapons are a bit too hightech

I held judgment and must say I am disappointed. I would have preferred armored Rat Ogres with weapons such as massive plague sensors and carrying 2 handed or single weapons, or heck, cestus spiked gloves. It would have been cool to have a skaven mounted on the Ogre with a ratling gun on his back. They could have been so much more. I do like the Rat ogre with the Warpfire weapons, but based on the limited armor he could pass as a normal Rat Ogre.

I was really excited when I hear about these guys and thought they were really going to damage my wallet. Now.....No.

If these were 40k models, I'd be pretty enthused. As it is, I feel so confused.

I see great potential for conversions, and I look forward to seeing the sprues, but yeah, I'm with Ernester on this one.

Ernster wrote:
I would have preferred armored Rat Ogres with weapons such as massive plague sensors and carrying 2 handed or single weapons, or heck, cestus spiked gloves.

These seem like they would fit right in with Warmahordes. They just have that feel to them.

Why isn't this a dual kit? Normal rat ogres, pack masters, weapon teams... Nothing

I do not think it fits anything. The proportions are outrageous. The Ogre with the Gatling guns seems as if rushed at the end. The guns are out of scale and stubby. The chest gun....really??? They could have just armored up some Ogres and all would have been well. Bone Ripper looks fine.

Keep it simple and it goes a long way! These look like something from the Teenage mutant Ninja turtles. I hope it includes normal hands or claws in the kit as that would improve them and the Gun chest can be covered with a shield or green stuff.

 Breotan wrote:
To hell with the haters.

Yup. 'Cause disliking something makes you a 'hater'.

I thought we knew better than that?

Ernster wrote:
The chest gun....really???

See the chest gun? Good. Now, see the round copper spikeball on the top model? Yeah.. More crotch guns!

Ok, so these Skaven models have the exact CSM 'Dinobot' vibe. Am I right?

Okay the lower right rat ogre weapon appears to be a poison wind globeadier mechanism. The right arm barrel is facing up and it looks like a ball is about to drop into it. you can see the other rounds in the tube one of which has a skaven insignia..

 prowla wrote:

Ernster wrote:
The chest gun....really???

See the chest gun? Good. Now, see the round copper spikeball on the top model? Yeah.. More crotch guns!

Ok, so these Skaven models have the exact CSM 'Dinobot' vibe. Am I right?

Maybe Chaos was having a clearance sale.

I quite like these Rat Ogres to be honest. Even if they do have warpstone nipples and chest ratling guns.As with all Skaven heavy weapons, there's the 50/50 chance that they might blow themselves up lol

As far as I am concerned, they look fine now.

The warpfire thrower looks great. Warpstone Pasties man requires two quick flicks of a hobby knife to have him look great. Chester McChesterson, The Chest-gun wielding skaven probably will require his chest being completely cut and filed down. THankfully that's a stupid easy cover up. Cut the gun down, file all the way down, even if there's a hollow behind the gun nozzle, that's a little bit of green stuff and a round shield bit, bit off the empire steam tank, bit off the old chapel terrain kit, or other suitable sized piece like that away from being back to awesome.


Thanks @ TheDarkAvenger ... where'd you manage to dig up that one of the round based bells was photochopped ? Do we know the source of that pic btw ?

Kinda makes me wonder if more of these rumors aren't aggrandized bs, too. Well... wonder or hope.

 Haight wrote:
The warpfire thrower looks great. Warpstone Pasties man requires two quick flicks of a hobby knife to have him look great. Chester McChesterson, The Chest-gun wielding skaven probably will require his chest being completely cut and filed down. THankfully that's a stupid easy cover up. Cut the gun down, file all the way down, even if there's a hollow behind the gun nozzle, that's a little bit of green stuff and a round shield bit, bit off the empire steam tank, bit off the old chapel terrain kit, or other suitable sized piece like that away from being back to awesome.


Thanks @ TheDarkAvenger ... where'd you manage to dig up that one of the round based bells was photochopped ? Do we know the source of that pic btw ?

Kinda makes me wonder if more of these rumors aren't aggrandized bs, too. Well... wonder or hope.

Even if the photo is photoshopped, it's definitely in the new White Dwarf; I've just read it on my iPad. So it is 'official', photoshopped or not.

Is that... a chest gatling-gun? ... Besides dual wielding gatling guns? ...

GLORIOUS DAKKA!! There's truly not enough Dakka!! Gods, I love that Rat-Ogre. But he should have two chest gatling guns

The front two rat ogres (storm fiends?) look great to me!

Regarding basing:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
What's with the round bases on the Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace?

It's photoshopped. One of the furnace wheels isn't attached to the base...

I almost want to sticky this lol. People are taking the round bases as gospel when it's clearly a hoax, imo.

A hoax that was published in WD, yeah.

In case people didn't know, GW photoshops pictures, too. Finding evidence of 'shopping doesn't mean it's not an official GW pic.

Didn't the pics of the bell/ furnace on round bases do the round back around when they were first released and it turned out to be a simple explanation?

 RiTides wrote:
The front two rat ogres (storm fiends?) look great to me!

Regarding basing:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
What's with the round bases on the Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace?

It's photoshopped. One of the furnace wheels isn't attached to the base...

I almost want to sticky this lol. People are taking the round bases as gospel when it's clearly a hoax, imo.

Except it was in the White Dwarf. It might be photoshopped but it's not a hoax. Screenshot from my iPad:

So any idea yet whether the stormfiends can be built as normal rat ogres?

Zachectomy wrote:
So any idea yet whether the stormfiends can be built as normal rat ogres?

It's not a dual kit, no.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
What's with the round bases on the Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace?

It's photoshopped. One of the furnace wheels isn't attached to the base...

No. It's in the eBook released by GW. So its either real, GW is purposely is releasing a photo that is fake, or hackers got in altered the eBook without GW knowing...

 Haight wrote:
Maybe they are Skaven Centurions. Rats in armor, inside of armored rat ogres.

Close,there's actually a baby carrier on the back with some kind of skaven Zoanthrope-ish creature,that's also the reason they don't have packmasters (source: WD coming next saturday)

One more thing i haven't seen mentioned here is the new blisters,there'll be 2 coming out,one is the Grey Seer on foot several pages back and the other one will be a Skaven Warlord (source: once more next week's WD)

Oh yeah there was a rumour of a plastic warlord. Hope he looks cool!

I do wonder if each model will have the option for all 3 guns or are they fixed with just what we see in the pic, which would probably necessitate them being 3 separate 1-model units.

 ImAGeek wrote:

Zachectomy wrote:
So any idea yet whether the stormfiends can be built as normal rat ogres?

It's not a dual kit, no.

Missed opportunity there

Vargheist wrote:

Spoiler:

omg that chest-mounted ratling gun looks sooo bad

Edit:
Also the one in the middle looks like some kind of champion , he is slightly more armored and warpstone "powered"

I still don't understand why you wouldn't let me graft a laser cannon on your chest, to crush those who disobey you! But I guess we're just two different people.

 RiTides wrote:
The front two rat ogres (storm fiends?) look great to me!

Regarding basing:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:
What's with the round bases on the Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace?

It's photoshopped. One of the furnace wheels isn't attached to the base...

I almost want to sticky this lol. People are taking the round bases as gospel when it's clearly a hoax, imo.

Although it's in the WD preview. :/

It's a definite PS job, I just dunno why.

Well, GW wanted to show Skaven warmachines on oval bases in WD for some reason. They had 3 options:

1) Glue and paint them up from scratch
2) Break existing showcase models off their square bases and reattach to ovals
3) Photoshop

Guess which is easiest.

 Desubot wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
To hell with the haters. I got my Verminlord today, I'll be getting Thanquol/Boneripper next weekend, and I'm getting at least two boxes of these guys when they come out.

Eh i think its fine to disagree with the way they are going with the aesthetics.

and i really do think its the paint job that is ruining it.

Gonna wait to see the rules before i splurg on models.

Swap the heads, and they look like they could pass for Grotesques or Ogryn

These guys look like they come out of 40k though. Just need to call them Skavyn Centurions, and call it a day.

The Verminlord I liked, but I don't own any skaven except out of the box set and my old, old Advanced Heroquest, guys so I'm passing.