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Just got a tracking number from GW...Skaven goodness is on its way

 Fango wrote:
Just got a tracking number from GW...Skaven goodness is on its way

Booo, mine still say "Pending". What shipping option did you go for?

changemod wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

changemod wrote:

 chiefbigredman wrote:
*snipped images*

*side note*

The warlord which is kinda just meh is such a copy of the warlord from the island of blood set. Standing on the same rock just sideways and the armour around the belly it exactly the same. Not impressed with him at all.

Question: Are these rules from last week's White Dwarf? Because the End Times book is out this week and they'd have no reason to duplicate the rules like that, surely?

Sorry, just trying to work out if we know this week's dwarf in advance or not. ...Future release reasons.

These are from next week's WD I believe. This week's features the Thanquol model and book itself.

Bizarre. Why release the fame rules twice in one week?

Oh well, carry on talking about rat peoples, I'll just slink back to the Necron thread and explode with frustrated anticipation. Don't want to mess up the carpet in here.

Remember where the tissues are ;P!

 Platuan4th wrote:

 Fango wrote:
Just got a tracking number from GW...Skaven goodness is on its way

Booo, mine still say "Pending". What shipping option did you go for?

I chose the standard free shipping.

*ducks*

I don't order direct from GW if I can avoid it. Been burned too many times. I'd order a model the day it went live for pre-order and not get it until a week or two after it hit the shelves. This has happened more frequently than I'd care to say but I have learned my lesson and now patiently wait for my FLGS to get it and buy it from them.

Have to admit, after being heavily bored with all things GW for quite some time this year, the end-times, read on a whim, actually proved to be very entertaining.. SO refreshing for the fluff to MOVE after +/- 30 years... Looking forward to book 4... though I must say, next to the FW verminlord, the new plastics look more like goats or something... the FW one is spot on if you ask me. Also not a big fan of the teal color scheme on the rat-ogres... I agree with many others that the brass and leather tattered look was much better, the teal is jarring compared to the palet of literally everything else.

New Grey Seer and Warlord, and Thanquol himself look pretty boss overall though IMHO.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
next to the FW verminlord, the new plastics look more like goats or something.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one feeling this way! The skull version especially gives me a beastman vibe. Maybe it's just the horns?

Doesn't help either that I'm using a lot of colors that I usually use for beastmen with the verminlord...

I think it is very much Beastman like H.T, the main reason is the body being extremely human proportioned for all intents and purposes, and the small head combined with the long tufted fur and horns all combine into a very beastman aesthetic...

The regular Skavens are all hunched over more or less, with large heads and very obviously rat-like features down to fur type, faces, buck teeth, the tails etc. The FW Verminlord is even more like a true rat, and that is why I have always loved it. The plastic verminlords just have this 80's wrestler vibe to them, ultimate warrior'esque physique in some weird way lol... just too cartoonishly human to fit in easily with the rest of the line, jarring like when a completely different artist takes over your favorite comic book with a very different style from the previous guy. The rat ogres too are in that wrestler cartoon vein imho, but at least they are inherently mishappen, even if it isn't rat like at least it isn't human either.

I won't even get started on the nipples and 1.5 inch barrel chest gatling guns lol... overall though, even though I don't love those 2 particular models (the VL and the armored rat ogres whatever they are called) they aren't terrible either, just prefer the other stuff more.

changemod wrote:

 Platuan4th wrote:

changemod wrote:

 chiefbigredman wrote:
*snipped images*

*side note*

The warlord which is kinda just meh is such a copy of the warlord from the island of blood set. Standing on the same rock just sideways and the armour around the belly it exactly the same. Not impressed with him at all.

Question: Are these rules from last week's White Dwarf? Because the End Times book is out this week and they'd have no reason to duplicate the rules like that, surely?

Sorry, just trying to work out if we know this week's dwarf in advance or not. ...Future release reasons.

These are from next week's WD I believe. This week's features the Thanquol model and book itself.

Bizarre. Why release the fame rules twice in one week?

.

They have been doing that for a year. All new models get their rules printed in White Dwarf in addition to their Codex/whatever. The first might have been the Militarum Tempestus.

Isn't the teal colour Clan Skryre?

 trexmeyer wrote:
It looks like with this release WHFB has completely jumped the shark and is headed straight into pseudo fantasy/scifi waters. RIP WHFB. Those Stormfiends are incredibly ugly models. They look like molerats modeled on 90's Bane. Just terrible.

I like it, very much back to the old realms of chaos with champions with bolt guns or lascannons, great fun and great modelling oportunity

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Isn't the teal colour Clan Skryre?

It's Thanquols personal colour apparantly. Skyre is red according to the latest WD.

Welp

I'm actually excited to see Formations.

They're one of my favorite things in 40k currently and a great way to kind of have a "prebuilt list" with some bonuses.

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm actually excited to see Formations.

They're one of my favorite things in 40k currently and a great way to kind of have a "prebuilt list" with some bonuses.

The way they're written makes it seem like they're part of a larger list.

Like, you get stuff from, say, Ogres, if you take that formation. (Look at the Dwarf special rule, for a reference.)

 ImAGeek wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Isn't the teal colour Clan Skryre?

It's Thanquols personal colour apparantly. Skyre is red according to the latest WD.

I thought Clan Mors was red? lol Confused!

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm actually excited to see Formations.

They're one of my favorite things in 40k currently and a great way to kind of have a "prebuilt list" with some bonuses.

The way they're written makes it seem like they're part of a larger list.

Like, you get stuff from, say, Ogres, if you take that formation. (Look at the Dwarf special rule, for a reference.)

It's not too far off from the way 40k's formations phrase things.

Effectively a "formation" is a self-contained entry that can be taken as part of a whole army. A lot of times they have some kind of unique special rules to apply JUST to that formation.

I blame people who pay for Dataslates for this gak.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Isn't the teal colour Clan Skryre?

It's Thanquols personal colour apparantly. Skyre is red according to the latest WD.

I thought Clan Mors was red? lol Confused!

Clan Mors is red.

IIRC, in 5th, Skryre's colors were yellow and red.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
I'm actually excited to see Formations.

They're one of my favorite things in 40k currently and a great way to kind of have a "prebuilt list" with some bonuses.

The way they're written makes it seem like they're part of a larger list.

Like, you get stuff from, say, Ogres, if you take that formation. (Look at the Dwarf special rule, for a reference.)

It's not too far off from the way 40k's formations phrase things.

Effectively a "formation" is a self-contained entry that can be taken as part of a whole army. A lot of times they have some kind of unique special rules to apply JUST to that formation.

Except it's infinitely worse in fantasy.

Without a sensible allies matrix(Something 40k still doesn't have), you can wind up with dwarf gunlines backed up by WoC 3++ characters.

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Except it's infinitely worse in fantasy.

It's really not.

Without a sensible allies matrix(Something 40k still doesn't have), you can wind up with dwarf gunlines backed up by WoC 3++ characters.

Pages 136 through 139 don't exist in your book?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 thedarkavenger wrote:

Except it's infinitely worse in fantasy.

It's really not.

Without a sensible allies matrix(Something 40k still doesn't have), you can wind up with dwarf gunlines backed up by WoC 3++ characters.

Pages 136 through 139 don't exist in your book?

Desperate allies. Except it doesn't matter as they're off marauding anyway.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Isn't the teal colour Clan Skryre?

It's Thanquols personal colour apparantly. Skyre is red according to the latest WD.

I thought Clan Mors was red? lol Confused!

Yeah in White dwarf it says 'clan Mors and Skyre are red, the blue is Thanquols personal colour' or something similar.

Yeah: 'Clan Pestilens tend to wear green, Clan Skryre and Clan Mors wear red, Clan Eshin and Clan Rictus wear black, and so on. Blue is Thanquol's own colour...'

Crazy End Times. Maybe it's time to get out and paint all those Skaven models I bought 3 years ago and then ignored...

 Rygnan wrote:


It says something about 'an ancient evil awakens' in next weeks white dwarf on the back page

The Verminlords just showed up en masse, Archaon is wrecking everything, Nagash just came back, and everything went to pot with the Elves... What the hell else is left?! How could things get any worse?

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Rygnan wrote:


It says something about 'an ancient evil awakens' in next weeks white dwarf on the back page

The Verminlords just showed up en masse, Archaon is wrecking everything, Nagash just came back, and everything went to pot with the Elves... What the hell else is left?! How could things get any worse?

It's for Necrons

Formations!?

You give us 3 complete new armies and now for the 4th all the Dwarfs, Ogres, Empire and Lizardmen get is a couple of FORMATIONS!?

They have 1 book left to right this wrong.

 Ehsteve wrote:
Formations!?

You give us 3 complete new armies and now for the 4th all the Dwarfs, Ogres, Empire and Lizardmen get is a couple of FORMATIONS!?

They have 1 book left to right this wrong.

We haven't seen all the rules yet. This could be part of a scenario like Chaos Ascendant. Or there could be more to it.

 Rygnan wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

 Rygnan wrote:


It says something about 'an ancient evil awakens' in next weeks white dwarf on the back page

The Verminlords just showed up en masse, Archaon is wrecking everything, Nagash just came back, and everything went to pot with the Elves... What the hell else is left?! How could things get any worse?

It's for Necrons

Well THAT'S anticlimactic. Besides, I thought Necrons got retconned into not being evil, just heavily territorial.

 Ehsteve wrote:
Formations!?

You give us 3 complete new armies and now for the 4th all the Dwarfs, Ogres, Empire and Lizardmen get is a couple of FORMATIONS!?

They have 1 book left to right this wrong.

Hey now, the Dwarves also got a character that gets shut down by a 5 point common talisman.