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 -Shrike- wrote:

 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.

EXACTLY!!! If you don't like the faction, play something else. If your a 40k player ya this might ease you into Fantasy. Its not the first heavily armored fantasy guys ive ever seen, be it other games or anime, so I guess im not as shocked.

Interested to see more of what these turn out like, hopefully some better shots at some point soon.

Certainly a big leap in terms of concept from what has come before. It obviously ties in with the fact that stuff within the WHFB was very difficult to make distinctive in terms of IP, this looks to be as far away from peasant in jerkin with halberd as it's possible to get.

It seems clear that AOS will be a skirmish game from the pictures though. Certainly it can't be a "blocks of troops" game with those numbers.

You say standard, I say teleport homing device

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.

Correct...

If this is the future, then we will be seeings other armies with this design...


Let's see what they will do with Undead... No zombies and a lot of skeletons all full of armors and fire weapons?

And where is the full command? Musicians? Standards?

Who didn't entered into this game cause of the medieval look? This has a more futuristic look

There is so much nerd rage right now, it's hilarious. All we've had is a few leaked pics and already the doom and gloom crowd are acting as though the sky is falling.

I get that WFB needs (lots of) new plays. I understand 40k is more successful than WFB. But it doesn't follow that to attract more WFB players the design aesthetic of WFB should be changed to match 40k.

40K started as WFB in space (or fantasy tropes in space, at least). Now it seems it's come full circle and WFB will be 40k without guns.

Nah, sky's not falling, just not feeling the release so far. Looks competently executed but not a style I enjoy.

Oh well! More historicals for me.

 WargamingWarrior wrote:
There is so much nerd rage right now, it's hilarious. All we've had is a few leaked pics and already the doom and gloom crowd are acting as though the sky is falling.

Isn't it? If I want blood angels, I'll buy blood angels.

I don't know. If they turn out to be a Grey Knight-esq faction where you don't have to get many models to field an army I may pick it up.

NunoTaborda wrote:

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.

Correct...

If this is the future, then we will be seeings other armies with this design...


Let's see what they will do with Undead... No zombies and a lot of skeletons all full of armors and fire weapons?

FFS, read the captions below the pictures. Until such time as whatever deity the undead worship takes a corporeal form and descends to the battlefield with its magical guard, then your undead will still be not dead.

 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?

If you have information that confirms the the game being compromised of these 2 units, then I guess you could bridge it like that. I guess Hordes is 40K, having round bases and all.

"The rules are all different!" - and so are the rules in this game most likely?

If GW pushes all other armies into power armor then I will eat my words. However I dont think they are going to and I feel this new army is a transition army for other people to get into the game. And ya I agree they look like they are designed to get 40k players interested in Fantasy. However the winged dudes look like Diablo 3 Angels and look pretty sweet.

It only looks like 40k in as much as Space Marines are basically Knights in plate armour, which are what these are. The gold doesn't help making them look like Sanguinary Guard, but that's because they have the sculpted armour too.

NunoTaborda wrote:

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.

And where is the full command? Musicians? Standards?

Right at the front of that marauder unit...

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
It's like Empire meets Sanguinary Guard!

I sure hope this esthetic is carried over into future sets!

Yup, that is roughly what my first impression was (or alternately custodes in fantasy). They're apparently the rumored fantasy space marines from about a year ago. I'm not really a fan of them though. I preferred my empire figs more firmly rooted in more medieval/renaissance historical designs.

 Da Boss wrote:
Nah, sky's not falling, just not feeling the release so far. Looks competently executed but not a style I enjoy.

Oh well! More historicals for me.

That's fair enough, the style isn't for everyone.

The models are great but essentially gw have went what sells, space marines. Right so lets make space marines for fantasy and hope it sells

Ugh, the model proportions are horrible even by GW's standards.

 -Shrike- wrote:

NunoTaborda wrote:

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.

Correct...

If this is the future, then we will be seeings other armies with this design...


Let's see what they will do with Undead... No zombies and a lot of skeletons all full of armors and fire weapons?

FFS, read the captions below the pictures. Until such time as whatever deity the undead worship takes a corporeal form and descends to the battlefield with its magical guard, then your undead will still be not dead.

Can't read in the cell phone :S

 Da Boss wrote:
It seems clear that AOS will be a skirmish game from the pictures though. Certainly it can't be a "blocks of troops" game with those numbers.

No idea how the horde armies (skaven, gobbos, undead) are going to work under this new system... Elite armies like high elves and chaos fair enough, you can see it working, but for the big blocks of troops armies they are probably going to need some serious reworking...

The Khorne stuff looks better than the Khorne infantry that came out with Archaon anyway.

I keep reading "don't buy them if you don't like them", which kinda misses the point - specifically, if these are indicative of the future direction for WFB, it's a problem for some WFB fans because a lot of the old charm is missing in favour of some very 40k-looking stuff.

Whether they are indicative or not, only time will tell, but it can't be written off as easily as "don't buy the models if you don't like them". And by the way? No gak. As if people need to be told not to buy things they don't like.

Pepticsalve wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
It seems clear that AOS will be a skirmish game from the pictures though. Certainly it can't be a "blocks of troops" game with those numbers.

No idea how the horde armies (skaven, gobbos, undead) are going to work under this new system... Elite armies like high elves and chaos fair enough, you can see it working, but for the big blocks of troops armies they are probably going to need some serious reworking...

Probably on a similar scale to 40k. 5-10 model units for more elite troops like WoC, Elves, Sigmarines, then 20-30 for the more hordey units. So they can still throw down a lot of bodies compared to the elite armies, but still a smaller count than before.

Which IMO sounds much much better than painting 100-200 clanrats for a skaven army...

So, I should paint my Sigmar models all blue, and call them the Ultrasigmarines?

Hmmmm I am tempted by the starter set now. May have to order a load of square bases for them though.

 ImAGeek wrote:
The Khorne stuff looks better than the Khorne infantry that came out with Archaon anyway.

That infantry may actually dwarf the old Archaon on foot model that I have, lol.



What is that knight riding? Is that guy riding Battle Cat in gold plate? It looks more cat like than the whatever-griffs they came out with last time for the empire that were the stunted flightless gryphons or somesuch.

 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.

Quite frankly im not seeing the Space marines in all of that.

They are guys in heavy armor. the gold might be a tad much but im not seeing genetic super soldiers (Also hate the head which is the only thing that reminds me of BA)

 Paradigm wrote:

Pepticsalve wrote:

 Da Boss wrote:
It seems clear that AOS will be a skirmish game from the pictures though. Certainly it can't be a "blocks of troops" game with those numbers.

No idea how the horde armies (skaven, gobbos, undead) are going to work under this new system... Elite armies like high elves and chaos fair enough, you can see it working, but for the big blocks of troops armies they are probably going to need some serious reworking...

Probably on a similar scale to 40k. 5-10 model units for more elite troops like WoC, Elves, Sigmarines, then 20-30 for the more hordey units. So they can still throw down a lot of bodies compared to the elite armies, but still a smaller count than before.

Love how they are already referred to as 'Sigmarines'