Age of Sigmar News & Rumours - Stormcast Cavalry, Heraldor + Battletome

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**jah-joshua**

@cas: at least the chest gets hidden by the gun arms, for the most part...
the SE legs just look so skinny compared to Marine style leg armor, that they look like Men in Tights

...
i'm all for people having fun with their conversions, though, especially since it seems to be perceived as a dying art these days, for some odd reason...

it has been a long few months since we got teased with the Fire Slayer pic...
i am so excited to see what kind of elemental relation they have with fire, if the pic was Grimnir, and whether or not we will get a plastic unit box of Slayers...
i've been waiting 30 years for a plastic Slayer box, and i'm excited to see if GW can top Avatars of War's effort...

cheers
jah

**ImAGeek**

JoeRugby wrote:
Oooooh shiney

Would love to see a higher quality pic of that (without buying white dwarf obviously).

Interesting that there's a tide of slanesh(sp) demons coming from the right.

Slaanesh daemons are still around. Slaanesh is still around too just indisposed story wise.

**NAVARRO**

Awesome display! They just need a bigger table

**Yodhrin**

Huh, will you look at that, it seems someone on the AoS promotions team has discovered that big blocks of ranked infantry make for an impressive and, dare I say, cinematic tabletop.

Who'da thunkit

**Accolade**

Yodhrin wrote:
Huh, will you look at that, it seems someone on the AoS promotions team has discovered that big blocks of ranked infantry make for an impressive and, dare I say, cinematic tabletop.

Who'da thunkit

"Boy, moving all these models sure is tedious! If only there were a rank basing tray system to move around large groups of models at a time..."

**warboss**

Talys wrote:
Just for kicks, from this week's White Dwarf. I don't think you can buy this as a web bundle any time soon, though.

Spoiler:

I wonder how many hours to paint!!

But think of how much free time you'll save because of the one click bundle! That will of course be the only thing you save...

**MacMuckles**

warboss wrote:
Talys wrote:
Just for kicks, from this week's White Dwarf. I don't think you can buy this as a web bundle any time soon, though.

Spoiler:

I wonder how many hours to paint!!

But think of how much free time you'll save because of the one click bundle! That will of course be the only thing you save...

Time is money, so it's pretty much the same thing

**Talys**

warboss wrote:

But think of how much free time you'll save because of the one click bundle! That will of course be the only thing you save...

LOL... imagine how long it would take to add all that into your shopping cart

**jonolikespie**

Accolade wrote:
Yodhrin wrote:
Huh, will you look at that, it seems someone on the AoS promotions team has discovered that big blocks of ranked infantry make for an impressive and, dare I say, cinematic tabletop.

Who'da thunkit

"Boy, moving all these models sure is tedious! If only there were a rank basing tray system to move around large groups of models at a time..."

You know I think GW sell something for that.

**Red_Zeke**

The Get Started Bundles are up on the New Zealand store- looks like Warriors, Seraphon, Khorne daemons, Nurgle Daemons, Undead, and Orruks get one. There's a couple book combos too for Bloodbound and Seraphon. They all apparently come with their own Warscroll Battalion, though maybe only in the box?

The bundles appear to have a box equivalent of...

Khorne: Bloodletters, Bloodcrushers, Bloodthrone
Nurgle: Plaguebearers, Nurglings, Herald, Plague drones
Warriors: Knights, Warriors, Chariot, Sorcerer Lord
Undead: Mortis engine, Spirit hosts, hexwraiths
Orruk: Combo BSB/Boar boss, boar boyz, boar chariot, Orruk boyz
Seraphon: Carnosaur, Saurus, Saurus cav

And if you happen to head over and look, please remember you're looking at NZ prices.

**H.B.M.C.**

Am I reading this right?

Get Started Skitarii bundle:

1 Tech-Priesty Guy
10 Skitarii
1 Walker Thingy

AUD$140

Bought individually, $240.

It's literally AUD$100 off. What am I missing?

**Moopy**

It's probably poisoned. Anyone gets a good deal dies. People will inherently steer away from good deals seeing them as dangerous, and enjoy the higher prices because they seem more safe.

**Ghaz**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Am I reading this right?

Get Started Skitarii bundle:

1 Tech-Priesty Guy
10 Skitarii
1 Walker Thingy

AUD$140

Bought individually, $240.

It's literally AUD$100 off. What am I missing?

GW thought you were getting complacent in your criticism of their policies, so they threw this one out there just to confuse you and keep you off balance

**H.B.M.C.**

Well it worked...

**Bi'ios**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Am I reading this right?

Get Started Skitarii bundle:

1 Tech-Priesty Guy
10 Skitarii
1 Walker Thingy

AUD$140

Bought individually, $240.

It's literally AUD$100 off. What am I missing?

It also comes with rules, so you can use it straight out of the box

**Yodhrin**

Ghaz wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
Am I reading this right?

Get Started Skitarii bundle:

1 Tech-Priesty Guy
10 Skitarii
1 Walker Thingy

AUD$140

Bought individually, $240.

It's literally AUD$100 off. What am I missing?

GW thought you were getting complacent in your criticism of their policies, so they threw this one out there just to confuse you and keep you off balance

Perhaps they're hoping their critics will drop dead from sheer surprise

**Kimchi Gamer**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Am I reading this right?

Get Started Skitarii bundle:

1 Tech-Priesty Guy
10 Skitarii
1 Walker Thingy

AUD$140

Bought individually, $240.

It's literally AUD$100 off. What am I missing?

These are legitimately good deals. Since the Tau release I feel that GW has been on the right track (well, as much as they CAN be on the right track). You can get one from a discount retailer and get them for 20% off as well. Killer deals.

**H.B.M.C.**

Kimchi Gamer wrote:
Since the Tau release I feel that GW has been on the right track (well, as much as they CAN be on the right track).

AUD$80 Firewarriors say otherwise I'm afraid.

**RoninXiC**

1 Dreadnought
1 hero
10 space marines

12 minis

165$

So cheap

**Kilkrazy**

It's probably cheap compared to normal GW prices for the individual kits.

However this thread is about Age of Sigmar news, so let's get back on topic.

**Wulfson_40K**

Here come the angry shorties!

From Archibald_TK on Warseer.

New releases:

Fyreslayers Hearthguard (5 miniatures) - 33€ 25£ 40$
Slayers with shorter beards with what looks like shooting weapons, greataxes or some sort of flail halberd.

Fyreslayer Vulkite Berserkers (10 miniatures) - 45€ 35£ 60$
Slayers with dual axes, or a bladed shield coupled with an axe or pickaxe.

Fyreslayer Auric Runemaster (1 model) 23€ 18£ 30$
This is not the one we saw on the sprue, that one carries some sort of brazero staff and he... he... he has no mustache!

SURPRISE! The WD shows the models that have yet to be released everywhere. I find the new giant salamander to be absolutely gorgeous. IMO in term of design they take models like the slaughterbrute, break them in half, throw the parts into an incinerator and bury the ashes 3 feet under.

For those wondering, Fyreslayers use the Ur-Gold to create runes over their own body. I have no time to actually read the WD but I'll come back later if there is anything interesting. I think that army design is a success.

Casualties so far: 1 Slaughterbrute.

**ImAGeek**

Hope we get some photos soon.

**Joyboozer**

I'm not sure I understand the sentence following Suprise.

**NAVARRO**

Thats going to be a load of new shiny kits for the slayers, we are in for a good time!

**Wulfson_40K**

Joyboozer wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the sentence following Suprise.

I'm pretty sure it means that the WD shows a lot of models that will be only released the weeks after, while usually everything stays secret until their own week of release.

**Red_Zeke**

Whoa, cool! For some reason, I was worried it was gonna be just a unit and a character and call it good. This sounds interesting.

**puree**

The start collecting bundles look good. OK they look cheap because they are usually expensive, but still..

Seraphon - for £50 you get the carnosaur which is normally £50 just on itself and then a box of cold one cav and 12 lizard warriors (just over half a box). Saving about £32.

Undead about £23 saving. Shame that the big thing in that is a mortis engine/throne thing, I doubt that is something you'd want many of. I'll probably get one box of that though.

Nurgle about a £33 saving, and something I can see being useful in multiples.

Orcs about £22 saving and again pretty good in multiples.

The undead seems the worst to me, just because it has something that is more single centerpiece and where as the others I can see being useful being purchased multiple times. All come with a battalion warscroll as well for the models in them by the sounds, which is a nice touch.

**RiTides**

Wulfson_40K wrote:
Joyboozer wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the sentence following Suprise.

I'm pretty sure it means that the WD shows a lot of models that will be only released the weeks after, while usually everything stays secret until their own week of release.

That would be most welcome! They really lost momentum not showing anything but marines/chaos... dwarfs and salamanders are the kind of thing that could actually get most fantasy genre folks interested.

**coldgaming**

Looks like there might be 5 kits coming for Fyreslayers then? 2 foot units, 1 cav (unless the lizard is a character), and 2 characters. That's definitely more than I expected. Can't wait to see the models. Wonder if the Steamhead side is going to get a 1-week reboxing in February then and if both are going to get battle tomes.

**Da Boss**

Ouuuch! Those kits are really pricey. I am pretty interested in Fireslayers (I love Dungeons and Dragons Azers) but man, I cannot see myself paying 4.50 per dude for the cheapest set!

Could be wrong if the models are REALLY nice, but I'm more likely to sculpt fire onto my AoW berserkers at this point.

We'll see how cool the Salamander is. If it's really over priced or over-busy, I'll give it a miss. But this is the AoS release I'll be watching the most closely.

Just checked out the getting started bundles, those are mostly a good deal. I might pick the Nurgle one up to use the plague drones as D'n'D Chasme demons.