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 RiTides wrote:
Over the top is right... sheesh. Technically well done but I just can't get into it... seems like it's different for the sake of it. Would've preferred a dragon, or something less common, but this just looks like a mismash to me.

Agreed. I'd say GW was jumping the shark with the design but I think it might be more accurate to say they're riding the three headed shark with that design. I'm a big fan of the mounted Archaon on horseback and have the gamesday foot fig but this design basically exemplifies what I don't like about alot of warhammer designs. The recent designs take a good thing (monsters, horns, skulls) and crank it up to 11 where it instead becomes a charicature of itself. There doesn't seem to be any room for subtlety at all in Fantasy (and to a lesser extent in 40k) anymore with the design team especially after the sigmarines and skull acne of AOS. It's all ZOMG! eXtreme!!!, all the time. This model is the fantasy equivalent of the joke picture of Dante riding a flying landraider while playing an electric guitar; it's virtual parody made phsyical.

 Mymearan wrote:
Damn it I missed those gross protruding skulls... ok now I hate him, that ruins the model for me.

Yeah lol, has to have skulls embedded. Apparently, it's not evil unless it's oozing the damn things.

I hated the thigh skulls on the Khorne whatzit that released with the starter box as well as the ones on this .. thing.

Not a fan really.

Did anyone post his price yet?

If not, well,

ARCHAON EVERCHOSEN US $165

Wow... that's high

I don't know what their market is, because the problem is with prices like that, sweet resin monsters become a viable alternative (looking at you, Mierce... and every other fine fantasy model creator ).

About what I expected. I'll be picking one up.

Absolutely beautiful miniature, extremely impressive. Would be good to see one in the flesh (or brass, as it were)

Obviously intended for a different earnings/pricing demographic to my own, I actually just spent less than that on a banger for the work run !!

 Pacific wrote:
I actually just spent less than that on a banger for the work run !!

I had to look that one up as my BBC/Doctor Who British slang failed me (other than "bangers and mash").

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=banger

You either hired a thug and/or prostitute, got breast implants, threw a party, or picked up a load of fireworks... or any combination of the above. Some of those sound more Aussie though but I'm not sure.

 warboss wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
I actually just spent less than that on a banger for the work run !!

I had to look that one up as my BBC/Doctor Who British slang failed me (other than "bangers and mash").

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=banger

You either hired a thug and/or prostitute, got breast implants, threw a party, or picked up a load of fireworks... or any combination of the above. Some of those sound more Aussie though but I'm not sure.

It's a car. Like a cheap old one generally

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 ImAGeek wrote:

 warboss wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
I actually just spent less than that on a banger for the work run !!

I had to look that one up as my BBC/Doctor Who British slang failed me (other than "bangers and mash").

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=banger

You either hired a thug and/or prostitute, got breast implants, threw a party, or picked up a load of fireworks... or any combination of the above. Some of those sound more Aussie though but I'm not sure.

It's a car. Like a cheap old one generally

Thanks. The only ones I could rule out was the sausages and breast implants. No sausage would cost you more than Archaon unless it was smoked Northern White Rhino... and there is no point in getting one (singular) banger/breast job done even if you could at that price!

 RiTides wrote:
Wow... that's high

I don't know what their market is, because the problem is with prices like that, sweet resin monsters become a viable alternative (looking at you, Mierce... and every other fine fantasy model creator ).

I think it will be aimed at every chaos collector who thinks he already has everything he could possibly need.

It's an epic model. I like it a lot. I do wonder about all these massive models though because they are so strong in a game that typically only has 50-ish models. I doubt people play Nagash on a regular basis because of how powerful he is.

The skulls poking out everywhere looks stupid. But at least now we know where all these extra skulls come from.

$165!!!

I figured it'd be at least $150. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at earlier posters who suggested it'd be around the Nagash price point.

Price points are never stable in the new GW. They're just used to get you used to the next price increase. The next equivalent big kit will be $185 (or more!), mark my words.

-C6

Looks good, will probably get one to run as a Chaos Lord in 8th.

 judgedoug wrote:
Did anyone post his price yet?

If not, well,

ARCHAON EVERCHOSEN US $165

€130... Not that much less than buying one of the army boxsets...looking forward to seeing the new Chaos Knights but really really hope they don't come up with some new monster concept in favour of sticking to traditionally heavily armoured horses in barding

Isn't betrayal at calth cheaper than that? I realize it's 40k apples to AOS oranges but... daaaaaaamn!

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
I don't pay much attention to Fantasy but when did this kit come out? Is it new or is it made using that Ogre Kingdoms beast thing?

That is the Warriors of Chaos - Chaos Warshrine. I want to say it came out in 2013.

Those are a couple of "cursed Ettins" lugging it around, not ogres. But they're basically ogres.

 warboss wrote:
Isn't betrayal at calth cheaper than that? I realize it's 40k apples to AOS oranges but... daaaaaaamn!

Yea BAC is 15 dollars cheaper and comes with all the free game aids.... ROFL!

To be fair, the Imperial Knights are this price.

 Warptide wrote:

 MadCowCrazy wrote:
I don't pay much attention to Fantasy but when did this kit come out? Is it new or is it made using that Ogre Kingdoms beast thing?

That is the Warriors of Chaos - Chaos Warshrine. I want to say it came out in 2013.

Those are a couple of "cursed Ettins" lugging it around, not ogres. But they're basically ogres.

Cursed Ettin was basically a giant. They're just mutated ogres I think.


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 Red Corsair wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Isn't betrayal at calth cheaper than that? I realize it's 40k apples to AOS oranges but... daaaaaaamn!

Yea BAC is 15 dollars cheaper and comes with all the free game aids.... ROFL!

It's also a starter box which are always much better value than anything else. As stated, Imperial Knights are what, £95? And this looks like it is a fair bit bigger. It's not cheap by any means, but it's nothing crazy compared to GW anyway. It's expected at this point.

I'm pretty tempted to pick up that Stormcast expansion. It's a great deal and pretty much the perfect set of units.

Nope, still an utterly terrible model. GW have just become a parody of themselves here.

Nvs wrote:
To be fair, the Imperial Knights are this price.

Knight Warden(builds every Knight variant and carapace weapon option) is $157 and Knight Paladin/Errant(building "just" those two with no carapace options) is $140.

Archaon is more than a Knight. He better be HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Nvs wrote:
To be fair, the Imperial Knights are this price.

Knight Warden(builds every Knight variant and carapace weapon option) is $157 and Knight Paladin/Errant(building "just" those two with no carapace options) is $140.

Archaon is more than a Knight. He better be HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.

He does look massive. Like seriously big. He dwarfs Mannfred who's on a cliff in one of the photos and the first one shows the chaos blood warriors at his feet.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Nvs wrote:
To be fair, the Imperial Knights are this price.

Knight Warden(builds every Knight variant and carapace weapon option) is $157 and Knight Paladin/Errant(building "just" those two with no carapace options) is $140.

Archaon is more than a Knight. He better be HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.

It's difficult to tell the size from the way the models are positioned (can't see if they are on the same level), but Archaon appears to be at least three to four Prosecutors tall - from base to tip of wings, he looks to be about the same size as the three floor Overlord Bastion. MongooseMatt posted a picture of an Imperial Knight standing next to the Bastion (the only size reference I have) and it was only half as tall. The Imperial Knight was also roughly as tall as one of the Dreadhold walls, which only come up to halfway on Archaon in the cover picture (but perspective makes it difficult to say for sure). I'd say Archaon is about a foot tall.

Definitely on the same level as the blood warriors and the forward buildings here.

I think he looks great, but not for that kinda money.

Most of the Sigmarine releases I find more creepy than the Chaos releases.........

Well, it's definitely out of my price range but even if it wasn't I don't think I would buy it. I think the monster is pretty cool but it really detracts from Archaon in my opinion. The monster is the focal point and Archaon looks like a generic Chaos Lord riding it. It dwarfs Archaon and makes him look small and unimpressive which is a shame because I think the old model of him riding Dorghar makes him look intimidating and powerful.