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Phew - my wallet was slightly worried that GW might drag me back in with a decent Fantasy relaunch.

It can sleep soundly now.

As polarizing as this release is clearly going to be...

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Man. It looks like they've chosen to completely abandon the 30-year old aesthetic that made Warhammer such a unique universe.

Warhammer is now Flash Gordon shoved through a He-Man filter.

Barf.

So, I dunno. I guess those models could make decent D'n'D paladins for an over the top god of lawful Bling?

But I'm sad to see that it's going to be beefcake on beefcake in a battle for Castle Skullface from here on out. I loved some of the old art with ragged, grizzled empire troops dueling the brutal, massive orcs. Much more unique in terms of what is on the market than OTT Knights of the Power Rangers.

The execution is competent, I just don't like the style. Ah well - at least I know it's over now. Might pick up an Island of Blood before they're all gone, or something.

I find it amusing they swapped what the armies are known for. Now the empire replacement cygmar soldiers are the superstrong elite few, and the chaos soldiers are the many weak individuals struggling to take down a guy 3 to 1. Remember when it used to be a block of 20 empire spearmen fighting 5 chaos warriors?

Ages ago, about 40 pages

I speculated that perhaps AOS really was Age of Sigmar. What do I mean by that?

Setting the game in Sigmar's time, barbarian tribes battling for control of the Empire, ancient Dwarves, feral looking Skaven, Chaos invasions led by Krell etc etc

A raw, savage look like that, could have won me, and I suspect others, over.

That would have been a design aesthetic to be proud off. That's what I would have done.

Sooooo sweet plastic! Going to have to get this now. I'm really loving the new wf direction.

 judgedoug wrote:
Man. It looks like they've chosen to completely abandon the 30-year old aesthetic that made Warhammer such a unique universe.

Warhammer is now Flash Gordon shoved through a He-Man filter.

Barf.

Those winged guys and skullface will make cool conversion materials for iq28

migooo wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Man. It looks like they've chosen to completely abandon the 30-year old aesthetic that made Warhammer such a unique universe.

Warhammer is now Flash Gordon shoved through a He-Man filter.

Barf.

Those winged guys and skullface will make cool conversion materials for iq28

I believe that's basically the point of Warhammer Fantasy now - kits you can use in 40K.

Also, not liking the new bases. Pointlessly increasing footprint size is not good.

Wow! The new minis are looking pretty badass! Especially the Chaos!

Yup as said above i think they just created "age of sigmar" so people can kitbash everything into 40k.. If i had multiple armies for WHFB i would be pretty pissed that not only would i have to rebase everything but also that out of my collection maybe only 25% to 30% if even that will ever be used in the game again... and that's ONLY if my army made it through the comet that hit WHFB didn't kill off my race/army.

One of the many reasons i thought WHFB lost some of it's business was that the start up cost for some armies was more expensive than 40k due to the increased game size and the amount of models needed if you didn't tailor a list around "smallest army possible".

For people that never got into fantasy they might like this direction and finally start. I knew that these kits look even more compatible with the 40k kits for the people that love converting and that at least is a good sign. But for those who have had an army for fantasy let alone multiple armies i feel this is a slap to the face. That and we know now that GW has no qualms whatsoever of just wiping a line when sales are bad (it was soylent squats all this time..).

God you guys are all doom and gloom. Its as if there are ZERO other armies to play... "omg Space marines" Games ruined cuss I clearly have to only play space marines...

Chopxsticks wrote:
God you guys are all doom and gloom. Its as if there are ZERO other armies to play... "omg Space marines" Games ruined cuss I clearly have to only play space marines...

It shows the new direction of WHFB.

You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Might have been pointed out before but the text under the Chaos half seems to me to indicate that the warriors of light aren't the New Empire... they're like Sigmar's personal guard in some realm of the gods. The new terrain bits behind them must be the "Realmgates" that they have to open. Perhaps Age of Sigmar is a campaign style book where these guys open the realmgates and allow the old races to interact again? Possibly? It also says "Age of Sigmar tells the first chapter in this war against Chaos..." So more box sets to come maybe?

The models look amazing but very 40k....

cerealkiller195 wrote:
Yup as said above i think they just created "age of sigmar" so people can kitbash everything into 40k.. If i had multiple armies for WHFB i would be pretty pissed that not only would i have to rebase everything but also that out of my collection maybe only 25% to 30% if even that will ever be used in the game again... and that's ONLY if my army made it through the comet that hit WHFB didn't kill off my race/army.

One of the many reasons i thought WHFB lost some of it's business was that the start up cost for some armies was more expensive than 40k due to the increased game size and the amount of models needed if you didn't tailor a list around "smallest army possible".

For people that never got into fantasy they might like this direction and finally start. I knew that these kits look even more compatible with the 40k kits for the people that love converting and that at least is a good sign. But for those who have had an army for fantasy let alone multiple armies i feel this is a slap to the face. That and we know now that GW has no qualms whatsoever of just wiping a line when sales are bad (it was soylent squats all this time..).

I'm trying to give these new models the benefit of the doubt, but I agree with you on the kit bash thing. GW are looking to make these models as 40k as possible, in the hope that the two games can cross-over, so they won't lose a lot of money on fantasy, as they have been doing these past years.

My 40k knowledge ain't that great these days, but if I didn't know about AOS and I seen these armies on a table at a FLGS, I would quite happily believe I was watching a 40k game.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

Chopxsticks wrote:
God you guys are all doom and gloom. Its as if there are ZERO other armies to play... "omg Space marines" Games ruined cuss I clearly have to only play space marines...

It shows the new direction of WHFB.

No, it shows the aesthetic style of a new faction. Please stop pretending that Sigmarite knights existing will somehow invalidate an army of vampire counts or skaven.

So let me get this right, some of you saw that two units of one faction, in the entire upcoming game, resemble a unit from 40K and decided the whole game has now been transformed into Space Marines?

I can't say what I think about that kind of logic out loud but you probably guessed it already, joking aside.

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Good point about the musicians and standard bearers. I never noticed that.

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Bro, did you miss the chaos dude blowing the horn right next to his standard bearer??

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

You mean apart from the giant fething standard the Maraudery types are carrying??

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Good point about the musicians and standard bearers. I never noticed that.

One of the marauding bare-chested Khornate viking people (do we know what any of these models are called yet? ) is carrying an icon.

 Runic wrote:
So let me get this right, some of you saw that two units of one faction, in the entire upcoming game, resemble a unit from 40K and decided the whole game has now been transformed into Space Marines?

I can't say what I think but you probably guessed it already, joking aside.

Round bases, a character that looks like a chaplain in Terminator armour and some 'new' Sanguinary Guard models, and people are saying the game doesn't look like 40k?

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Good point about the musicians and standard bearers. I never noticed that.

Except for the marauders at the front - one is carrying a standard, another is blowing a horn.

There's also a BSB off to the right for Chaos, and a Sigmar BSB at the back of the picture for the other guys.

Okay fair enough guys I didn't notice them initially. The sigmar dudes don't seem to have command units though...

 -Shrike- wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Good point about the musicians and standard bearers. I never noticed that.

One of the marauding bare-chested Khornate viking people (do we know what any of these models are called yet? ) is carrying an icon.

Icon? It's 40k! You said it!

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 Runic wrote:
So let me get this right, some of you saw that two units of one faction, in the entire upcoming game, resemble a unit from 40K and decided the whole game has now been transformed into Space Marines?

I can't say what I think but you probably guessed it already, joking aside.

Round bases, a character that looks like a chaplain in Terminator armour and some 'new' Sanguinary Guard models, and people are saying the game doesn't look like 40k?

Haven't round bases been coming for a while? IDK, I don't follow Fantasy normally.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 -Shrike- wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

Pepticsalve wrote:
You notice how there aren't any musicians or standard bearers in these models... Its looking like everything we knew about warhammer fantasy has been thrown out the window... I was hoping for something cool with age of sigmar - I think the only people who will be happy with this lot are 40k players who are going to get some fun minis for converting into their space marine or chaos armies... I'll reserve final judgement until I see the rule book but its looking pretty bleak for fantasy as we knew it before :-(

Good point about the musicians and standard bearers. I never noticed that.

One of the marauding bare-chested Khornate viking people (do we know what any of these models are called yet? ) is carrying an icon.

Icon? It's 40k! You said it!

Pfft. I play 40k, I see icons and dead bodies rather than standards and musicians.

Wondering how much this is going to cost me? And kinda don't care.

I really like them.