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I think the Troll, I mean Fyre Slayers look great, not convinced by the not dragon, not dinosaur overly fussy looking salamanders?

The salamander is the best looking thing. But I think ill wait for one of those start collecting boxes if and IF I bother
. I think the red skin paint scheme would have worked better honestly. As it just looks like a bunch of Viking dawrfs who think clothing is so last season..... my slayer army had more clothing than those guys.

And I guess I just saw a standard bezerker

Hmmm. They look to be suffering from scale creep pretty bad.

They look nicely executed, but they're not what I was hoping for. I was looking for a more firey elemental dwarf, these guys are not that much of a departure from the slayers I already own.

The helmets and all are fine I guess but I do like my old school slayers and all their goofy charm.

The Salamander likewise is a cool enough monster, on par with the carnosaur, but I'm not sure if I would be bothered picking one up for the price.

In a way it's good, because now I'm not tempted to pay over the top prices for these models

 Da Boss wrote:
Hmmm. They look to be suffering from scale creep pretty bad.

They look nicely executed, but they're not what I was hoping for. I was looking for a more firey elemental dwarf, these guys are not that much of a departure from the slayers I already own.

The helmets and all are fine I guess but I do like my old school slayers and all their goofy charm.

The Salamander likewise is a cool enough monster, on par with the carnosaur, but I'm not sure if I would be bothered picking one up for the price.

In a way it's good, because now I'm not tempted to pay over the top prices for these models

Exactly Boss... they should have stuck with the elemental fire theme and well while it's possible I may get some they probably will be just for display/painting rather than playing.

Nice enough but I expected far more because of the artwork.... then again no other race should out bling the Sigmarines.

I Like them. I think that some of the silly poses could be avoided by building them differently.

Now, if only they could release some rules that weren't written in 5 minutes, and retcon the fluff completely and make it more like the old world and less like a Korean MMO

Now now blade and soul is fantastic... And its balanced.

Unlike AoS

The Fyrslyrys and the Sylymyndyrs look pretty cool.

And very naked.

Oh man these look AWESOME!! Exactly the sort of release AoS needs! Now I just need to figure out which set I am going to get to go with my army. The 10 slayers or the giant salamander!?

Yeah I'm with da Boss on this. I was expecting (hoping) for them to be elemental and fiery. Nonetheless these are nice.

Was expecting the Salamanders to be more Cold One-like rather than big beasties. Need to see the Dwarfasaurus in the flesh!

Those are awesome. It's going to be very hard for me not to start an army of them.

 Bottle wrote:
Oh man these look AWESOME!! Exactly the sort of release AoS needs! Now I just need to figure out which set I am going to get to go with my army. The 10 slayers or the giant salamander!?

This sort of thinking will only stress you out, 'did I make the right choice' etc. Just go for a bigger army and add both.

Dwarfs look alright.

But way too overpriced. The Avatars of Wars Slayers are what, a third of the price?

Absolutelyno reason to buy the GW dwarfs.

Imgur album of more pics!

http://imgur.com/a/M2CTa

The Salamander heads look kinda 'bloodletterish' - do they really fight the khornate guys or just say 'hello'?

I'll need to double check the scale against the Avatar of War Slayers for the actual slayers but the monster is getting purchased. That thing is amazing! I'm holding out hope of some kind of standard fyreslayer calvary on smaller but similar beasties.

From the pics so far, I'm seeing flamethrowers, polearms, shields and flails on the great axes that mean the AoW Dwarfs won't do the same job without some hefty work.
Or opponents who don't care about WYSIWYG

Na, you are just not uptodate.

GW does notreally change armies anymore. They add half-sized addons to them.

Dwarfs wont change. They just get asuper small detachment. Like Chaos Warriors and that Khorne stuff.

These guys look awesome. Wish I wasn't broke.

Are these guys monopose?


And what's happened to their beards?!

Even if I can go past the silly scale creep, the helmets ruin it for me :( They just look so out of place.

As for the big lizards, they look a bit too much like the Lizzie Troglodon/Carnosaur to my liking. I was expecting something a bit bulkier.

Quite curious to see the sprue pictures

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:
Imgur album of more pics!

http://imgur.com/a/M2CTa

Well dang, these two are just awesome:





Scale does look massive and some of the other pics show surprisingly little pose variation on other builds... But these are almost the blubderbusses I'd always been wishing for for my chaos dwarfs. If only they were smaller scale!

I'll wait to compare them before I make a call on them. I like the actual look so hopefully they are close or in scale. We'll see.

And yeah, those flamer staffs are awesome.

*sigh* Well, that's that then, scale-creep confirmed. AoS figs will be usable for AoS and Space Marine conversions, everyone else can go whistle. Which is fair enough I suppose, just disappointing - even when I wasn't playing WHFB I bought an unhealthy amount of the kits for 40K/INQ28/Mordheim conversions, but since we seem to be up into 35mm-ish scale now with AoS that won't be happening any more.

I think the flame thrower staffs are just about the coolest thing I've ever seen. In general, I think it all looks pretty good (the ones with black beards quoted above look awful for some reason). Looking forward to the Warhammer TV painting videos, so that Sir Duncan can instruct me as to the proper ways of painting nipples.

yeah, bit of a PITA for people but not too surprising.



.. although if they get much bigger not sure we can keep calling them "dwarfs"

 Yodhrin wrote:
*sigh* Well, that's that then, scale-creep confirmed. AoS figs will be usable for AoS and Space Marine conversions, everyone else can go whistle. Which is fair enough I suppose, just disappointing - even when I wasn't playing WHFB I bought an unhealthy amount of the kits for 40K/INQ28/Mordheim conversions, but since we seem to be up into 35mm-ish scale now with AoS that won't be happening any more.

Honestly, considering how much space my Iron Breakers take up on a 25mm I think they might actually be fairly close or the same as the newer dwarf stuff (longbeards and iron breakers) if these are on 32mm. And the AoW aren't small either. They are bigger already than the current GW slayers.

Will they match up with the 2001 Dwarf Plastics? Probably not but meh.

Yeah, the painting on that shield unit is pretty off-putting as well. The beards look like they were eating curry or something and it was dripping down their chins.

Looks like they're on 32mm bases. I'm glad they're chunky models. I like a little more size to my dwarfs (even if that statement seems to not make sense). The beast looks like a dual kit. Looking forward to more info/pics/rules. Sounds like they have the ward save thing going on.

Wow, these Fyre Slayers look really good.

coldgaming wrote:
Yeah, the painting on that shield unit is pretty off-putting as well. The beards look like they were eating curry or something and it was dripping down their chins.

Looks like they're on 32mm bases. I'm glad they're chunky models. I like a little more size to my dwarfs (even if that statement seems to not make sense). The beast looks like a dual kit. Looking forward to more info/pics/rules. Sounds like they have the ward save thing going on.

The Vulkatrix thing is a combo kit yep ^^

Scale creep was already there with the 8th Edition update. See here Grimm Burloksonn next to 3 BfSP (7th Edition) Dwarves. Grimm is on a 32mm so he will be the same size as the Slayers roughly (maybe a bit bigger than them).