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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Sim-Life wrote:
Honestly, if you get the chance to take pictures, why would you NOT take one of the rules?

For the same reason all these photos look like stills from a 'Found Footage' horror film: The people taking them aren't very good at it.

You're telling me the average wargamer can't operate an iPhone camera?

Yeah its a pretty absurd argument that gamers in 2015 can't properly operate a phone camera. The average age of gamers isn't 76

Thanks to Thorin at Warseer there are now better quality photos of the new Khorne Chosen units:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?405465-End-Times-Archaon-Roundup-Discussion&p=7396015&viewfull=1#post7396015

They come with lots of spare bits like Nurgle Blightkings

..... Skullreapers are ... alright I guess.

Do look a bit too much like fat. half-dressed KB though maybe ..?

Still if I couldn't get through most doors due to the impractical banners/skull based deely-boppers I'd be quite angry as well.


Wrathmongers appear to actually be cheerleaders.. which is definately an unexpected route to take for them.

 reds8n wrote:
..... Skullreapers are ... alright I guess.

Do look a bit too much like fat. half-dressed KB though maybe ..?

Still if I couldn't get through most doors due to the impractical banners/skull based deely-boppers I'd be quite angry as well.


Wrathmongers appear to actually be cheerleaders.. which is definately an unexpected route to take for them.

1st male cheerleaders people won't dare make fun of.

Why must Khorne troops always be fugly sculpts?

Really like the Skullreapers looks will probably get some to use as WE of some form or other. Not a massive fan of the Wrathmongers though I think that might be due to the paint job they've got, there just seem to be too much going on.

Loving the wrathmongers, but the skullreapers are just... No. Way too busy, they look like raging Christmas trees.

I think they look silly. They look too bulky at the bottom with the really armoured spread out legs, and the faces are awful.

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Really like the Skullreapers looks will probably get some to use as WE of some form or other. Not a massive fan of the Wrathmongers though I think that might be due to the paint job they've got, there just seem to be too much going on.

While the weapons of both are okay, Im not fond of the heads or chest pieces of any of them. Skull ripped face is interesting

What the hell.. they look aweful. Those poses... that "anatomie" .. these "weapons" oh my god the overloadedness.

Those Skullreapers would fit in well with 40K... good thing fantasy might be switching to round bases.

(Wonder if there will be one main system called Warhammer where tau can fight skaven, and screaming bells get front, side and rear toughness values...)

10 Dakka Dakka internet points to the 1st hobbyist who gets the wrathmongers doing the full on "Y M C A" routine.

15 if the DA skimmer is dropping the beats in the background

"The Wrathmongers, muscle-bound brutes without sense of pride, honour and self-preservation..."

Ah, screw it, I hate nu-GW even more now.

Warhammer wiki wrote:However, though Khorne is the God of bloody slaughter, he is also the God of martial pride and honour, of those who set themselves against the most dangerous foes and earn victory against the odds. A devotee of Khorne is as likely to be an honourable champion in combat as a blood-crazed slaughterer.

Remember that part of your own background? No? Oh, because you drove away everyone who even had the slightest understanding of what the word "nuance" means and replaced them with plastic replicas of skulls. Khorne is now all rage, all the time

I guess...the chests and arms of the Wrathmongers are actually well done musculature wise and the Skullreapers gut plates have some cool designs. And I would like a detailed step-by-step for the red skin, but that's everything nice I have to say about that kit. What a wasted opportunity.

I like the Skull Reapers. not sure on the cheerleader dudes but I really like the Skull Reapers even if it's just something I'm thinking of using for 40k

Who decided to name them wrathmongers? It's such an awful name, to my ears at least

2 Chaos worshippers arrive late to a Khorne disciples speech and so get a rubbish spot at the back of a huge crowd.

"What did he just say?"

"I believe it was 'Blessed are the wrathmongers.'"

From Warseer:

Hammers on chains? Where is the blood in that?

Potentially a lot, if a Gallagher event is anything to go by.

Drat, I was hoping in a certain way that these wouldn't be all that cool and so I wouldn't have to pick them up. But they actually look almost perfect for one of the projects I've got going on, my truescale-ish baroque "Veterans of the Long War" Terminators:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/637061.page

The baroque/daemonic decorative style of this armor looks like precisely what I can use...

Do we know the price yet? $50-ish USD?

-C6

 Nevelon wrote:
Hammers on chains? Where is the blood in that?

You mean pounding someone to bits with a hammer on a chain won't be bloody?

nels1031 wrote:Potentially a lot, if a Gallagher event is anything to go by.

angelofvengeance wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Hammers on chains? Where is the blood in that?

You mean pounding someone to bits with a hammer on a chain won't be bloody?

Sure. yu can get blood if you really work it. But it’s a different splatter pattern then the axes we know and love. Plus the hammer might damage the skulls.

Those are really disappointing after the blight kings. Dumb weapons, goofy faces, ugly detailing... Thumbs down.

 Nevelon wrote:


Sure. yu can get blood if you really work it. But it’s a different splatter pattern then the axes we know and love. Plus the hammer might damage the skulls.

You could convert them to have axes at the end of those chains for some fantasy chain-axes. Or, for the subtle 40K-touch, perhaps even chainaxes on chains.

Wonderwolf wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:


Sure. yu can get blood if you really work it. But it’s a different splatter pattern then the axes we know and love. Plus the hammer might damage the skulls.

You could convert them to have axes at the end of those chains for some fantasy chain-axes. Or, for the subtle 40K-touch, perhaps even chainaxes on chains.

While I agree that the Wrathmongers would look better with axe heads on the end of their chains instead of the hammer heads, I personally couldn't do that conversion because it would make me think the models are just gakked up oversized dwarf doom seekers every time I looked at them.

IMHO I just don't like the jumbled aesthetics that GW uses these days. I don't see why they can't make units/models be thematic without making them cartoonish. Some of the components in these have a nice evil menancing lethality to them but they're mixed in alongside other bits that are downright silly.

I really, really, really like the (not new) Archaon model.

He's heavily armoured, brandishing a threatening looking fantasy weapon that also looks somewhat utilitarian and oozing a malevolent presence... A hulking gothic knight cum viking?

Why not?

On the other hand, these new infantry look a complete mess by comparison, comical anatomy meted to ridiculously overly ornate weapons and armour that are plagued with pointless detail.*

Bah!

I agree completely with those that point out these are perfect for 40k conversion fodder, the wrathmongers (haha!) only need arm swaps to look like great Chosen, Terminator, Obliterator stand ins.

*I know this has been said of other models before, especially in the past year or two but even I see it now!

Those hammer whips need to be on fire.

Okay, what the feth is up with wearing leg armour but not chest armour? Lots of small, vicious dogs in the Wastes?

But honestly, I totally dig these guys. They have this 80s GW type silliness to them, but with state of the art design and molding tech. Total win.

Wrathmongers- What an awful name.

But I can see the daemonic fury in them. Not 100% on all the skuplts, I hope there's some flexibility in them like with Glotkins, cause right now some of those pose's are just comical, although when have Daemons ever not been...

As for the Skull-alogory-manglers they also work okay, but the name, ugh.



As for both, if they're customisable enough and the Khorne isn't plastered everywhere, they would be good for Skaven Diaroma's, Dark Eldar Grotesques, and 40K Chaos Warband Units of various descriptions. From Terminator equivalents, Renegade Ogres, Daemon allies, to cultist army Chosen.

 catharsix wrote:
Drat, I was hoping in a certain way that these wouldn't be all that cool and so I wouldn't have to pick them up. But they actually look almost perfect for one of the projects I've got going on, my truescale-ish baroque "Veterans of the Long War" Terminators:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/637061.page

The baroque/daemonic decorative style of this armor looks like precisely what I can use...

Bingo - my first thought was 'I know some 40k modellers who are going to love these kits'

Looks like ultimately goofy standard builds but loads of potential bits for kitbashing. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, the rules just aren't pimp enough to make dealing with the models as themselves overwhelmingly attractive. (That said, I suppose the Wrathmongers get a leg up with me for more interesting models as well as rules over the Skullwhatevers. Those other guys mostly just have cool weapons.)

- Salvage