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 Mort wrote:

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Considering the Brets got aggressively squated during End Times. I don't think you'll be seeing them.

I am going to guess that they will get the basic 'Warscroll' that the existing line is supposed to get, but other than that - I agree with you. But I suppose that's always an option they can look at down the road if this game takes off and captures the imagination of the world.

In the era of Trademarkhammer I don't see it happening. Brets are too plain for GW now. The idea of "Grailinators" or whatever other sad name they would come up to do it, makes me glad my army is dead.

I actually think this game is gonna be pretty fun. Just remember that it's tailor-made for elite models. You won't want to take spearmen or goblins. Eight edition was block hammer. this is elite hammer.

I like elite small model count better any day.

 streamdragon wrote:

insaniak wrote:I don't get the problem with this. Clearly, as the gloaming of the moon stole betwixt the blengent parralax, Sigmar smote asunder the revenant asturmine with a pungent manner, and amongst the reforged beans of the manifold Destinomotron the pools of novistation took hold.

laughed so loud I woke my dog up.

And now I laugh at the mental picture of the just waken dog. Laughed at the quoted quote as well ofc.

This thread makes the world a better place.

I am eager to see whats coming following this release.

Think of all the models they have back stocked ready to go for the next 4 months? While some of the things are odd, like the big Khorne monster, with skulls sunk in its muscle and its small head (i cant find its eyes), I could go on...
But the models are still nice, and regardless of how the game plays, they will still be fun to paint and convert.
The alternate 'sigmarine' paint schemes are odd though, at least their 'chapter' stories are bonkers...

 Crimson Devil wrote:

 Mort wrote:

 Crimson Devil wrote:
Considering the Brets got aggressively squated during End Times. I don't think you'll be seeing them.

I am going to guess that they will get the basic 'Warscroll' that the existing line is supposed to get, but other than that - I agree with you. But I suppose that's always an option they can look at down the road if this game takes off and captures the imagination of the world.

In the era of Trademarkhammer I don't see it happening. Brets are too plain for GW now. The idea of "Grailinators" or whatever other sad name they would come up to do it, makes me glad my army is dead.

Excellent points. :(

I guess by providing 'warscrolls' for current models, it not only 'appeases the masses' of people who own metric tons of minis, but it also means they have a much better chance of selling-through their stocks of the current line - including any they might discontinue down the road.

Sorry to hear your army is dead. :( I am pretty nervous to see what they'll do with mine, too.

That big monster is triggering for trypophobes.

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
And this thing:

...it's got...skulls. Poking out of its skin.

That is one of the stupidest models I think I've ever seen.

It does look pretty ridiculous. Maybe Chaos players love it?

I dunno. Maybe it needs MORE skulls.

And MORE cowbell.

I thought they would at least try to make the Sigmarites juuust a little distinct from SMs. I thought wrong.

I guess it's really King of WAr for me. You may not like a lot of Mantic's models, but the rules are fine. Finer than this, at the very least.

I am pretty excited by all of this, went into the store today and had a chat to the manager. He said he had been to the GW training (3 days apparently), most of the stuff he mentioned has already been leaked online but one thing that stood out is that he said everything is effectively starting from scratch and that they are going to expand it over time through campaigns. How they work and stuff he wouldnt say except come back Saturday (most questions he said come back Saturday). Mostly he said the aim of the core rules (4 page book) is you can play whatever you want and use those rules. the impression i got was that campaigns and scenarios would contain ways of playing including missions and ways to build armies.

Also, didnt see this here:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/07/breaking-wfb-rumors-age-of-sigmar-is-the-future.html

"You will be able, once the ravening hordes-style rules are out, to play your old models and units and play mass battles"

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Apologies if this picture has already been posted but here is the Khorne Lord and his pet "Snuggles" im all of their glory:



And this thing:

i think i found the concept art for that thing







Tempted to convert the chaos lord into Saddam. ..

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Apologies if this picture has already been posted but here is the Khorne Lord and his pet "Snuggles" im all of their glory:

Spoiler:

The Chaos Lord with "pet" actually looks pretty good. The big monster looks like rubbish though, what's the deal with the skulls oozing out of its skin?

The base measurement rule I just read about guarantees I won't be playing AOS outside of one or two test games. No way I'd go to a gaming store and risk my models getting damaged like that. Bases scraping up on top of each other would almost certainly mess up flock and maybe even scrape the models.

BoLS comments being mostly negative on this release is also really telling. From what I've experienced so far they're usually positive with any GW release.

In any case, the selfish part of me wants AoS to kill Fantasy so that people will sell their stuff on eBay and I can buy them cheaply.

 Sidstyler wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
And this thing:

...it's got...skulls. Poking out of its skin.

That is one of the stupidest models I think I've ever seen.

Yes it looks comical, like a khorne version of that Winnie the Pooh monster, the Waxen (or Waxon or sth, dont remember the name).

 Mysterious Pants wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Apologies if this picture has already been posted but here is the Khorne Lord and his pet "Snuggles" im all of their glory:

Spoiler:

The Chaos Lord with "pet" actually looks pretty good. The big monster looks like rubbish though, what's the deal with the skulls oozing out of its skin?

Good god. I hate it. So much. Mouth hands, stumpy goat legs, skull acne, ridiculously buff yet obese at the same time, daemonic bone twigs and I can't even begin to discern what the head looks like. That is a truly awful sculpt.

 Mort wrote:
It does look pretty ridiculous. Maybe Chaos players love it?

I dunno. Maybe it needs MORE skulls.

And MORE cowbell.

No, never mind, I forgot what we can't pass judgment on the model until we see the back of it. Have to see the whole thing, remember? The back of the model could completely redeem it and make the whole sculpt aesthetically pleasing all of a sudden, and all these design elements might actually make some god-damned sense.

 heartserenade wrote:
BoLS comments being mostly negative on this release is also really telling. From what I've experienced so far they're usually positive with any GW release.

I'm surprised, I figured normally they just deleted negative comments.

MacMuckles wrote:
Good god. I hate it. So much. Mouth hands, stumpy goat legs, skull acne, ridiculously buff yet obese at the same time, daemonic bone twigs and I can't even begin to discern what the head looks like. That is a truly awful sculpt.

I don't think it's really that it's fat, it just looks too wide for some reason.

It's just big-boned. Considering it's filled with skulls.

 Fezza213 wrote:
I am pretty excited by all of this, went into the store today and had a chat to the manager. He said he had been to the GW training (3 days apparently), most of the stuff he mentioned has already been leaked online but one thing that stood out is that he said everything is effectively starting from scratch and that they are going to expand it over time through campaigns. How they work and stuff he wouldnt say except come back Saturday (most questions he said come back Saturday). Mostly he said the aim of the core rules (4 page book) is you can play whatever you want and use those rules. the impression i got was that campaigns and scenarios would contain ways of playing including missions and ways to build armies.

Also, didnt see this here:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2015/07/breaking-wfb-rumors-age-of-sigmar-is-the-future.html

"You will be able, once the ravening hordes-style rules are out, to play your old models and units and play mass battles"

This was exactly what I was guessing was going to happen. The would put out campaigns that had various missions (Like pitched battle, and the tower) that would have warscroll limits. However I'm still unsure about the model counts. I don't think sudden death is enough of a limitation to prevent people from bringing 6x the model count of someone else and making it a very unfun game.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:

Spoiler:

Well, that thing just gave me a good laugh. It's horrible, and not in a good way :/

Skulls in its flesh? Is GW capable of not mocking itself at every turn? Could have been a good model..

 Breotan wrote:

 Laughing Man wrote:
So GW will really do anything to keep from having to update Brettonians, huh?

You think I haven't noticed that?

They are there


The souls of the Bretonians are clearly went into the Hallowed knights

Akragth wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:

Spoiler:

Well, that thing just gave me a good laugh. It's horrible, and not in a good way :/

I don't know, I'm not exactly in love with that miniature but I don't loathe it either. It looks like something not entirely... material, for lack of a better world. I also sends vage "sad" and "pathetic" vibes as well, as in some slave creature mutated against its will.

It's the shoulders, antlers and silly "claws" sprouting from its left arm which I consider questionable design choices as they break the visual balance of the miniature. The rest, rubbery looks and embedded skulls included, is fine in my books.

Anyone thinking the "red slayers" are going to be troll slayers and not human mercenaries?

 Mort wrote:

It does look pretty ridiculous. Maybe Chaos players love it?

At least I don't like skull-thing as chaos player.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:


And this thing:

At least now we know what a "heavy bone structure" can mean ...

I was actually looking forward to this release (as one of the seemingly few who like light rules). But the fluff and the models really don't do anything for me. Marines, skeletonspokingoutoftheflesh chaos lords ... and the names. Jeez.

 Fezza213 wrote:
I am pretty excited by all of this, went into the store today and had a chat to the manager. He said he had been to the GW training (3 days apparently), most of the stuff he mentioned has already been leaked online but one thing that stood out is that he said everything is effectively starting from scratch and that they are going to expand it over time through campaigns. How they work and stuff he wouldnt say except come back Saturday (most questions he said come back Saturday). Mostly he said the aim of the core rules (4 page book) is you can play whatever you want and use those rules. the impression i got was that campaigns and scenarios would contain ways of playing including missions and ways to build armies.

I speculated about the scenario/campaign approach some pages ago. Will be interesting to see how (if) it plays [sic!] out. I still think it is a good idea ...

 Mort wrote:
And MORE cowbell.

lol; you just made my day!

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:


And this thing:

Its has a skull for a right hand. And skulls poking out of its skin. And what appears to be a skull on top of its head. And skulls on its base. Ands skulls as skulls. Skulls skulls skulls. Skulls skulls. Skulls. Skuls skulls.

Skulls.

And its left hand is a...graboid?
(spoilered for size)

I'd like it if it was sculpted to imply that it's made of skulls. Like a daemon possessing a pile of skulls and using them as a frame to its body. ...Time to fire up ZBrush I think.

Damn, the chaos models are quite nice. Even with those skulls poking out of the skin it still looks pretty good.

The Thunderwarriors 0k on the other hand just look derpy to me.

That's just a terrible model. I'm going to say worse than that awful boar thing they pushed out.

I actually really quite like that chaos beast. Can't really work out the head but apart from that. The weird claw on its shoulder, looks like there's one on the other shoulder, kind of folded up.

Skulls for the skull beast!