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You can just cut them out of cardboard or transparent report-cover material for free, too. The original Rogue Trader book did just that I still have my blue thick-paper templates from RT. Or use the Fantasy/40k measuring tools and templates that came free with those games.
Personally, I think all wargame-themed measuring stuff is overpriced I do still buy some, occasionally.
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Motograter wrote: Any chance this thread can stay about rumours and new info on AoS releases instead of the rubbish that followed in the old thread seemingly some of which is happening here again.
As for actual on topic stuff. That map suggests evil wood elves, colour me interested if more comes from that
Wood Elves were always a half way point between Dark Elves and High Elves to be honest. Not quite good guys but also kind of evil too.
AlexHolker wrote: I hate the map. It just drives home the point that this is not a world. It's just a bunch of "fantasy" thrown at a wall.
Disagree. I thnk this sort of pre-modern conception of the world is appropriate to a fantasy setting and has always been more or less of an factor. For example, where would you have located the Warp on a map of the previous World of Warhammer ("Mallus")? WHFB evoked modern conceptions of geography because it aped the Enlightment; but it was no more a "world" than the Nine Realms for doing so.
AlexHolker wrote:
Spoiler:
Manchu wrote: WHFB evoked modern conceptions of geography...
This is a copy of a map first drawn around 150 AD.
GW's map is not a map created by someone who understands geography, or even one that doesn't understand geography and poorly imitates his betters. It is a map drawn by someone who doesn't even realise that the Realm of Life is not the place to put your stupid skull mountains.
The map just looks like another version of the Realm of Chaos style maps as depicted in WHFB. Still waiting to see if they somehow do a logical geographic world map like WHFB or whether all locations in AoS are just more of the like in that map. The map looks interesting if you just look at the game in a one dimensional sense with a bunch of factions set side by side with the sole purpose in fighting! (Think Daemons of the different Gods constantly warring) Hard to envisage different civilisations or races/peoples settling down near to each other on that map. It will be interesting to see how they manage to develop kingdoms and characters from that type of map...
A grudge never too old to settle with metal and ire on the funeral pyre of vanquished foe
Knight wrote: Has there been any preview of the concept art of the new elves or dwarfs?
Yeah I've seen some . As well as figures for the "dwarfs" all I can say is some people are gonna be very mad with the new theme.
It's honestly as if they have thrown allot of the previous aesthetic away.
I'm going to guess by your emphasis on the word 'dwarfs', and the apparent scale creep in model size, that the new dwarves are now the same height as old Empire foot troopers
In fairness I'm not sure how much angrier some people would get about the new theme! Possibly the guy who burned his Dark Elves will go burn them some more!
Anyway, I received a good pay packet today so I'm off to buy myself 3 Warlord Titans for a new 40K project I'm looking at
A grudge never too old to settle with metal and ire on the funeral pyre of vanquished foe
Knight wrote: Has there been any preview of the concept art of the new elves or dwarfs?
Yeah I've seen some . As well as figures for the "dwarfs" all I can say is some people are gonna be very mad with the new theme.
It's honestly as if they have thrown allot of the previous aesthetic away.
Please be more descriptive. If you really have seen the concept art and models, you should be able to say what it is, and not only what it is not.
Well fine there's a piece of artwork that features a dwarf that looks like he's made from fire. This should be enough. In the previous thread, I tried to provide clues. it seems that dwarfs will replace the hammers noticed that sigmar guys have with axes if this helps. Think elemental.
Knight wrote: Has there been any preview of the concept art of the new elves or dwarfs?
Yeah I've seen some . As well as figures for the "dwarfs" all I can say is some people are gonna be very mad with the new theme.
It's honestly as if they have thrown allot of the previous aesthetic away.
I'm going to guess by your emphasis on the word 'dwarfs', and the apparent scale creep in model size, that the new dwarves are now the same height as old Empire foot troopers
In fairness I'm not sure how much angrier some people would get about the new theme! Possibly the guy who burned his Dark Elves will go burn them some more!
Anyway, I received a good pay packet today so I'm off to buy myself 3 Warlord Titans for a new 40K project I'm looking at
They do look bigger but there wasn't any other figures to compare to the one I saw
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Warhams-77 wrote:Somewhere from Twitter - via Tabletopwelt.de - Orruks are still green but they look more like Savage Orks
Spoiler:
Shieldwolf must be high-fiving their arms off.
Mysterious Pants wrote:So there's something called a 'combat gauge' for Age Of Sigmar that sells for thirty bucks.
It fulfills the same function that a tape measure or ruler does, except it only measures up to three inches.
Those mock-credit-cards you get in new wallets are almost 3" x 2". Bit of a trim, and you'll be about to carry them around much more easily than hanging them around your neck like granny glasses.
Mort wrote:
I think that's pretty much why. The models I prefer are from this company. For all the people saying 'Try KOW!', I have no problem trying out their rules, but their mini line is severely lacking. Thankfully I can use my GW figs in their game no problemo.
A lot of the reasons GW still sells is the aesthetic, not to mention there are a lot of loyal GW fans out there who will buy -anything- they put out, no matter how awesome/not awesome it is.
Nngh. Grrr. I have to agree. Other companies can make nicer single minis in their sleep. Other companies can make much cheaper plastic fantasy minis for building big armies. GW came in at a nice spot between the two, but for one thing. Can you guess what?
prowla wrote:If you think of it as a functional pendant for nerds
It might be uncharitable, but I can't help but think one of the primary functions is to indicate 'punch here'.
Chopxsticks wrote:Do they come with plain human heads?
Nope. They're Sigmar's Thousand Sons.
ImAGeek wrote:I imagine the price of an army was more the reason Fantasy didn't sell well, not the big rulebook.
Uh-huh. That's the thing that prevented GW coming in at that nice spot.
Motograter wrote:As for actual on topic stuff. That map suggests evil wood elves, colour me interested if more comes from that
You're not posting rumours or new info. Stop it.
Binabik15 wrote:Those Lizardm...Seraphons look really, really happy. Like the brightly coloured dinosaurs out of a few of my childhood books. D'aaaw.
Heh! They remind me a bit of ooold dino books that I read in the 80s and early 90s, the ones that went along with cold-blooded plodosaurs before Jurassic Park turned up and helped people realise there'd been a dinosaur renaissance going on for over two decades. (Y'know, like the way that the JP franchise is the one ignoring and handwaving new discoveries and insights now... or the way that GW still makes it's 'raptors' cold ones, and so scaly they're practically armour plated.)
I'm still unclear of where the "bigger" idea comes from. Yes, Sigmarines are larger than normal humans. But these are reincarnated heroes and are the same size as terminators. What's the big deal? We have WH models this size already. The chaos Blood Warriors are the EXACT same size as current metal WoC Chosen. I'm ready to growl at GW when they make bad choices, but this is absurd! It's like an imaginary witch hunt.*
*and I'm pretty sure everyone here knows I'm a Mantic fanboi and I sided with the old guard. But I'm not gonna attack a company for imagined scale-creep.
Reality is a nice place to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
Manchu wrote:I'm a Catholic. We eat our God.
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The Marauder type guys being taller than a marine gave the idea credence to me.
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
Chopxsticks wrote:Do they come with plain human heads?
Nope. They're Sigmar's Thousand Sons.
Mm, nah. In the key artwork for the stormcast eternals you can clearly see there's a face in there under the helmet. You can see the eyes through the eyeholes. You can see it plain as day on the main pic right on GW's site.
Well fine there's a piece of artwork that features a dwarf that looks like he's made from fire. This should be enough. In the previous thread, I tried to provide clues. it seems that dwarfs will replace the hammers noticed that sigmar guys have with axes if this helps. Think elemental.
Well fine there's a piece of artwork that features a dwarf that looks like he's made from fire. This should be enough. In the previous thread, I tried to provide clues. it seems that dwarfs will replace the hammers noticed that sigmar guys have with axes if this helps. Think elemental.
Well fine there's a piece of artwork that features a dwarf that looks like he's made from fire. This should be enough. In the previous thread, I tried to provide clues. it seems that dwarfs will replace the hammers noticed that sigmar guys have with axes if this helps. Think elemental.
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
But Azreal, none of those devices are GOLD, and I do not see a single comet or skull anywhere on them!
So obviously they are only worth $9.99!
Equally, they don't come with a handy magnetic thong, so you can wear it around your neck and usefully forewarn other people to walk purposefully in the other direction..
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Migooo, thanks for providing what info you can. The only thing i care about is if they are good, interesting sculpts. Can you comment? I am actually surprised the dryads made it through intact.
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I really hope that when someone is measuring melee with the new tool, they don't drop their overpriced hunk of gold potmetal into the middle of my nicely painted unit...
"By this point I'm convinced 100% that every single race in the 40k universe have somehow tapped into the ork ability to just have their tech work because they think it should."
Flaming double axe fire dwarf lord from that trailer will at least make up for the soreness of not seeing any new figures when the winds of magic were powering everyone up during the end times, if what we get is close to that artwork.
Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!
Will that be the new racial aesthetic or only for certain units/characters?
BlaxicanX wrote: A young business man named Tom Kirby, who was a pupil of mine until he turned greedy, helped the capitalists hunt down and destroy the wargamers. He betrayed and murdered Games Workshop.
I still have my blue thick-paper templates from 
I do still buy some, occasionally.
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