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Those have to be some of the worst preview-painted models I have ever seen from games workshop, and that includes minotaurs.
Simple horrendous, have them taken back to the studio and redone, and choose a better paint scheme for crying out loud. It look like a simple wash and 3 highlights, no depth or real blending apart from the standard flesh to charcoal on the claw-man.
Like others, I like a lot of the bits but not the fleshy bits. Need to get some of the axes.
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NAVARRO wrote: I loved the blightkings and was expecting something very different. I must say that these minis are some of the worst I have seen from the industry this year. Horrible.
Agreed. The poses alone are ridiculous, completely unnatural and extremely forced (perhaps because they had to be made to fit in the big bases).
Also the design clearly doesn't appeal to my taste at all, but that's a different matter.
As much of a fanboy i can be for GW, and while i feel the blightkings are better, 'some of the worst from the industry' is a little much. I think some of the details are cool, bloodletter mask, scorpion tail mutation, daemonic feet, and as many have said great potential for conversions.
Wow. I used to really love the "Frazetta" look of the Warriors of Chaos, but all of this oversized, over-ornamented, utterly impractical stuff has just killed my interest in Warhammer Fantasy Chaos stuff.
The warriors and knights had armor. Armor on the vulnerable bits of their bodies. These guys armor their legs, but not their heads or arms?
They make a weapon with a big heavy lump of metal on a chain. It's called a flail (or a morningstar). These are utterly stupid. Unless you stand there whirling around in a circle, how are you wielding two of these?
I just hate the fact that Chaos Warriors and Chaos Knights are now, effectively, the 'little guys' in a Chaos army. Not the hulking, terrifying brutes that brought the Empire to destruction, but the basic foot troops.
The more they escalate this setting, the less I care about it at all.
Not for their intended use, of course, that'd be silly, but, depending on how they go together, I really can see these working as the basis of some decent Marine conversions.
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The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!” Professor Brian Cox
scuzz_bucket wrote: Sheesh, you people are blind. I feel bad for the designers who dare glance at these threads.
When they do good work, people are just as quick to say so. The Bloodthirster has received a stack of praise. So did Nagash, and (amongst those who don't mind the skull motif) his minions. Harlequins were liked by whole swathes of people. The Imperial Knight had people wetting themselves with excitement.
This, however, isn't good work.
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I liked the Bloodthirster, my own criticism was perhaps the overuse of the Khornate runes. Otherwise, the model itself is stellar and I hope to see it in some Daemon armies in the future.
By comparison, these Skullwrathers are pretty bad looking. I'm not sure wha happened (although I do like Mr. I'm-missing-the-front-of-my-face).
I'm surprised how negative people are about these. Especially about the "fleshy" parts. I think that's one of their best features because they are berserkers and makes them stand out from core chaos warriors. The poses are also a strong point like the guy swinging his sword horizontal.
Yeah I don't like them. The bare faces look badly sculpted, the "armour pants" look weirdly unbalanced and the poses all just look like they're dancing instead of fighting, the dude who is not dancing has his legs spread absurdly far apart (admittedly a problem with a lot of GW models, but still not excusable, it doesn't look like he could take a step forward without falling over).
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There's nothing about these guys I like. Too much iconography, awkward lack of armor (I thought you couldn't take Chaos Armor off...?), silly weapons and even sillier poses.
Kinda makes me glad we didn't get a new Tzeentch unit...
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Have the prices been revealed yet? I'm really wondering what they are going to put these at as far as a price-point. Same as Blightkings would make sense, but who knows, they might have to charge extra to pay for the folks that came up with the names...
Also, seems like these two will be in the same kit, dual-purpose.
Interested to see what the cost of the book will be as well. Looks like it is similar in size to Thanquol, so should be comparable.
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I only feel the one unit with the arms straight up like he has pompoms is the only bad model. I dont get how people are so mad. They may not be blightking awesome but they are still pretty cool. Some heads do look goofy, but we have not seen the sprue so there could be other head options.
I also think more models need to go to 40mm bases. I hate 25mm infantry. If all your gonna do is glue them down and primer them then I guess its cool. (Its an Oregon thing, Ive only seen like 2 painted armys at my lfg) I like the idea of each model being a center piece though, and if this is the changes coming for 9th im in!
I like the new khorne infantry, can't wait to get my hands on them!
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I like how Nurgle was sent in the second book and exhausted itself. And I also like how Tzeentch gets sacrifice to get a good Khorne boost. But even wih a Khorne boost, the grand finale had still all gods. So that's nice. Finally Archaon got a good showdown, on he deserves, not like the alternate.
Pretty cool skullreapers will go well as my third chosen unit.
Hive Garuda - 1000 PL Tyranids Hive Fleet Garuda - BFG 15.000 pts Tyranids Iron Warriors - 1700 PL Chaos Space Marines Bad Moon gobbos - 10.000 pts Nightgoblins Skarsnik
Rusty Shards Tribe - 10.000 pts. Goblins
Blue skin tribe - 10.000 Orcs pts Fantasy Xor - Nemesis of Cathay - 30.000 pts Warriors of Chaos
scuzz_bucket wrote: Sheesh, you people are blind. I feel bad for the designers who dare glance at these threads.
Indeed we are blind... its the obfuscating light on our eyes from things like blood rage, conan and barbarian hordes from tre... Just to name a few this year in the same fantasy setting.
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