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thenoobbomb wrote:

 Chaos Emperor wrote:
Those models look awesome! looking fowrd to seeing the whole shebang up close

I dont quite understand why people seem to hate them. its quite a good look for them, it is 'Age of Sigmar' afterall

Maybe because it doesn't go with the entire previously established setting and design?

Have you heard of the End Times stuff? That's over man. Dead. No more. Ended.

Maybe the Sigmarines are literally an Angelic Host and there will be some normal mud-caked downtrodden humans later? The Chaos guys don't seem that out of line with previous stuff.

Technically impressive models, but I don't plan to pick it up until we see where they are going with some other faction(s).

Sidstyler wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
They don't look a thing like standard space marines except that they are wearing armor....

In your opinion. Personally I think all they need are bolters and backpacks and you'd never know the difference.

In your opinion.

No denying that the models look good, but this was never GW's problem.

The rules are what I'm waiting for.

 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.

End Times. Did no one else catch that over the last year or whatever?!

Unique? Elves, dwarves, knights, undead and Orcs?

It's an interesting move, and I have had my interest piqued

I'd rather have a go at painting that lot than 3 lots of 40 Saurus blocks or 80 Night Goblins!

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Regardless of where you stand on liking, or not liking these new models, Fantasy has always been a steampunk meets renaissance look, and quite frankly, this look is miles away.

I can't believe that 30 years of design is going straight out the window.

Funny, I never saw the steampunk/renaissans theme in high elves, wood elves, lizzies, brets, darkelves,
ogres, tomb kings, vampire counts, chaos warriors, daemons, orcs or goblins.
Peeeerhaps Chaos Dwarfs?
Dont really see the renaisans in skaven either.
Or Dwarfs.

And honestly, im not sure steampunk can make a claim to always have been a part of the Empire style either (or GW ought to claim they invented the stuff).

After all, you probably didnt critque the flying elf chariot for not being renaisans/steampunk when it showed up.

ITT - the Portuguese posters are really down on the new look! Is it cultural?!

I'm really hopeful now. Wasn't sure how they were going to merge armies and still let you use old models with new rules. The fact they are reimagining armies is cool. Can hardly wait to see what the Eldar, I mean Elves look like. (WHFB used to be a world in 40K.)

Seriously though, they have my attention for the reason lots of people are turned off--models look like early Rogue Trader minis when it was fantasy in space!!!

I ain't.

 Fayric wrote:


After all, you probably didnt critque the flying elf chariot for not being renaisans/steampunk when it showed up.

Nah it got critiqued for just being plain dumb

Fayric wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
Regardless of where you stand on liking, or not liking these new models, Fantasy has always been a steampunk meets renaissance look, and quite frankly, this look is miles away.

I can't believe that 30 years of design is going straight out the window.

Funny, I never saw the steampunk/renaissans theme in high elves, wood elves, lizzies, brets, darkelves,
ogres, tomb kings, vampire counts, chaos warriors, daemons, orcs or goblins.
Peeeerhaps Chaos Dwarfs?
Dont really see the renaisans in skaven either.
Or Dwarfs.

And honestly, im not sure steampunk can make a claim to always have been a part of the Empire style either (or GW ought to claim they invented the stuff).

After all, you probably didnt critque the flying elf chariot for not being renaisans/steampunk when it showed up.

Well, they had a medieval look, at least I'm not seeing that much in these new models...

monders 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.

End Times. Did no one else catch that over the last year or whatever?!

Unique? Elves, dwarves, knights, undead and Orcs?

It's an interesting move, and I have had my interest piqued

I'd rather have a go at painting that lot than 3 lots of 40 Saurus blocks or 80 Night Goblins!

Let's wait and see the looks on the Elves, Dwarves, Undeads and Orcs... Maybe they will look more alike what most people here like

 monders wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:

 Chaos Emperor wrote:
Those models look awesome! looking fowrd to seeing the whole shebang up close

I dont quite understand why people seem to hate them. its quite a good look for them, it is 'Age of Sigmar' afterall

Maybe because it doesn't go with the entire previously established setting and design?

Have you heard of the End Times stuff? That's over man. Dead. No more. Ended.

Well, that makes it alright then!

My first thought when seeing the Knights




They are cool looking models IMO. It will be interesting to see the rules and how existing models can be used in the game. I think I will hold off until a full set of rules for a comprehensive game gets released.

As others have said if this is purely the look of a new army that can be used alongside existing then it could be pretty cool!

Wow all of that stuff looks god awful, not feeling the even more cartoony look of fantasy.

So is this the 30k Plastic Starter that we heard rumors about...?

 monders wrote:
ITT - the Portuguese posters are really down on the new look! Is it cultural?!

Dunno, but here in Portugal we have a lot of medieval recreations...

Don't forget, that England, Portugal and Spain were the ones colonizing most countries there are now in the world

 monders 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.

End Times. Did no one else catch that over the last year or whatever?!

Unique? Elves, dwarves, knights, undead and Orcs?

Simply listing the races doesn't make a unique AESTHETIC, which is the key word you're missing. Is the inclusion of those races together in a fantasy world unique? Absolutely not. Was the particular visual style/expression of the WHFB evles, dwarves, and orcs unique when they came out? Yes. They looked different from the tolkien and d&d style stuff that was out at that time. The warhammer look has since been imitated alot (Warcraft being the obvious example) but that doesn't make the original style worse for its time. It's never been my favorite fantasy style but it certainly has been one of the most recognizable though over the years.

 SkaerKrow wrote:
So is this the 30k Plastic Starter that we heard rumors about...?

Sounds about right

I want to see the Orcs and Goblins before I get a good huff going.

 Ahtman wrote:
I want to see the Orcs and Goblins before I get a good huff going.

I'm really excited about the prospect of playing Orcs and Goblins again. I just couldn't justify the cost and painting time before, but at a more skirmishy level? I'm in!!

Nvs wrote:
Any chance someone could rehost the chaos picture? It's work blocked and I'm dying here :(

Any word on price?

There seems to be vital info on the bottom right of that Chaos page, but it's too blurry to make out. Anybody got a magnifying glass?

I can make out 47 models, dice and, most importantly, range rulers.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

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.

It's really not worth 75 pounds just for 4 figures that I would use to make conversions of

They all just look like Sainguinary guard to me though.

And so begins the new game system: Warhammer -40k. Taking place in the grim dark(yet surprisingly shiny and polished) world of 40,000 years before Sci Fi became a thing.

Sigmarines abound.

Anyone want literally every piece of GW anything I own? Will let it all go for a very reasonable price!

Four page something rules?

Interesting designs. I want better looks at the Khorne stuff.

But of course, me being me, I'm far more interested in the new terrain in the background.

It's the same old crap. Make things look like marines, only portray Khorne and Nurgle and make damn well sure the models are a bitch to model into other gods service.

xowainx wrote:
I can make out 47 models, dice and, most importantly, range rulers.

See? Can't have a proper starter set without whippy sticks.

Not a fan of the Sigmarines. Muscle armour pretty much always looks dumb, in my opinion.

Also, one thing I keep thinking is: "They killed off Malus Darkblade for this?!"

xowainx wrote:
I can make out 47 models, dice and, most importantly, range rulers.

Yep, I get the same. I believe that's equivalent to what you get in Dark Vengeance, so I'd guess a similar price (£75-ish RRP?). I'm also wondering if any of these gate-like terrain pieces feature; if this new narrative is all about opening these gates then perhaps they actually feature in game as objective Markers ect?