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**warboss**

GW... pioneering laugh tracks in tabletop gaming since 2015? It does seem odd that they're doubling down on that since they now have theoretically sales data. If it is as bad as folks generally seem to think, you'd hope that they'd maybe take a peek outside of their IP Castle with it's redug moat of Typo Trademark protection to see why.

**RiTides**

Quick question - do you think the Runemaster's face could be painted as if it were a mask / part of his helmet?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Auric-Runemaster

There's a 360 at the link above, but here's a still image:

Seems like this character could fit in well with my chaos dwarfs if the painting trick would work. He has such a stoic expression, it just might?

**Hulksmash**

I could see that working RiTides. Might actually improve it because I'm not a huge fan of the face.

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

RiTides wrote:
Quick question - do you think the Runemaster's face could be painted as if it were a mask / part of his helmet?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Auric-Runemaster

There's a 360 at the link above, but here's a still image:

Spoiler:

Seems like this character could fit in well with my chaos dwarfs if the painting trick would work. He has such a stoic expression, it just might?

Can definitely see that working, especially if it's brass/copper.

**mdauben**

Mymearan wrote:
Actually, it's aimed at older gamers who have a family and don't have time to learn complicated rulesets... I'm not white knighting, just acknowledging.

I have never, ever, in close to 30 years of playing GW games, heard anyone say "I'm not going to play WFB because I don't have time to learn the rules"

Getting back to the Duardin(?) release, I was kind of excited by the hints of "fire dwarfs" in the early AoS books, but this release was kind of disappointing. I was expecting something more exciting and, well, new. Not just a retread of the old Dwarf Slayers. Plus, they appear to suffer from the same flaw (IMO) as the Sigmarines; lack of variety. All the different figures look the same at tabletop distances. A missed opportunity, I think,

MongooseMatt wrote:
I managed to grab some close-up snaps of some of the models - I think these have all been seen before

Thanks for those! The big fire lizard is actually kind of cool. Certainly the best part of this new faction.

**casvalremdeikun**

With the way the beard comes off his face, I could definitely see the face painted as a mask with the beard flowing out from underneath. Especially given the stoic appearance of the face when every other dwarf is running around like a maniac.

**AllSeeingSkink**

Mr Morden wrote:
Melissia wrote:
"We just took all their clothes off and added fire everywhere, aren't we creative?"

No... just... no.

Slayers were never big on clothes ?

Yeah that's what I was about to say... I don't own any of the old Slayer models but I was sure some of them had bare bums? So by comparison these ones are quite modest

**Thunderfrog**

I wonder how that Magmadroth would look painted blue and added to lizardmen.

**highlord tamburlaine**

I was thinking the same thing with that Runemaster- put a faceplate on him.

Not just because Chaos Dwarfs, but because I don't like painting facial features.

A mask on him would make him look like some of those Scibor steam dwarfs.

**RiTides**

Thanks for the feedback on that idea guys

. I'm going to pick him up and see what it looks like in-person (and also the size of it compared to my chaos dwarfs). But seems promising

**Necros**

I was also thinking about maybe using the dwarfosaur for my lizardmen too as a counts as carnosaur, but it's a little too pricey as is... It might be cheaper in a bundle some day, but then I'd have all those extra dwarves I won't need and it might be a pain to sell em. I'm still trying to get rid of the khorne models from my AoS starter...

**Thunderfrog**

Mr. Necros,

Send me a PM if you want to sell them.

**highlord tamburlaine**

I doubt those extra dwarfs in a hypothetical bundle would be all that difficult to sell.

I'm sure there's plenty of people out there, myself included, that wouldn't mind a few.

That's the thing- just a few. Part out (an inevitable) collector box and you'd probably make most your money back.

**Necros**

PM sent

And true dat. Guess I'll wait and see. It's not like I don't have enough to keep me busy in the meantime ... 4 units of Sigmarines, start collecting lizardmen box, horus heresy, and those couple of skitari boxes I couldn't resist...

**Thunderfrog**

I got the Malignant Just Collecting box. I'm pretty happy with it.

**catharsix**

RiTides wrote:
Thanks for the feedback on that idea guys . I'm going to pick him up and see what it looks like in-person (and also the size of it compared to my chaos dwarfs). But seems promising

I kinda had the same idea, though whatever the obscene price for the fig, I almost certainly couldn't actually justify it. Which is a shame, because it takes A LOT for me to like a Dwarf model (I do like the Warhamer Forge CHAOS Dwarves though, and the ones that come s with the Hellcannon and some of the old school Babylonian ones).

C6

**Lithlandis Stormcrow**

RiTides wrote:
Thanks for the feedback on that idea guys . I'm going to pick him up and see what it looks like in-person (and also the size of it compared to my chaos dwarfs). But seems promising

I'd say at the most you'll only need to file/cut a tiny little bit of the beard away on the lower face so it gives the impression of disappearing under the mask.

But that may not even be necessary.

**Fayric**

A kit like that should have extra mustachios, in different styles to personalise your heroes.
Some turned slihtly upward, some walrus style, some braided.
Huge missed opportunity here. The whole "male facial hair" trend in full bloom, and gw to lazy to care.
They could have based whole warrior lodges on the style of their beards.

Or perhaps GW release a mustach upgrade kit in the near future, eh?

**Jehan-reznor**

The imperial knight paladin is cheaper than the salamander wow
Imp 13500 and the slamander 15000 yen. :O

**Ghaz**

Jehan-reznor wrote:
The imperial knight paladin is cheaper than the salamander wow
Imp 13500 and the slamander 15000 yen. :O

Not in the US. According to this the Magmadroth is $110, while the Imperial Knight Paladin is $140.

P.S. The Japanese site has the Paladin listed at JPY13,900, not JPY13,500

**Jehan-reznor**

Last time i went to the shop here it was 13500, probably monthly inflation

**Talys**

Ghaz wrote:
Jehan-reznor wrote:
The imperial knight paladin is cheaper than the salamander wow
Imp 13500 and the slamander 15000 yen. :O

Not in the US. According to this the Magmadroth is $110, while the Imperial Knight Paladin is $140.

P.S. The Japanese site has the Paladin listed at JPY13,900, not JPY13,500

Wow, that's interesting. So when I look online quickly,

Magmadroth JPY15k = $127 USD -- > $110 on US site
Knight JPY13.9k = $118 USD -- > $140 on US site

Maybe it has something to do with GBP to JPY trends?

**Kilkrazy**

Necros wrote:
I was also thinking about maybe using the dwarfosaur for my lizardmen too as a counts as carnosaur, but it's a little too pricey as is... It might be cheaper in a bundle some day, but then I'd have all those extra dwarves I won't need and it might be a pain to sell em. I'm still trying to get rid of the khorne models from my AoS starter...

If you are into Lizard Men, the new Seraphon Starter is only £50 and has a Carnosaur you can assemble three different ways, plus eight cavalry, plus 12 infantry, compared to the Dwarf Salamander which is £10 more and has only one extra foot figure.

**kodos**

Talys wrote:

Maybe it has something to do with GBP to JPY trends?

prices have always been completely random and nothing to do with real trends

**Kilkrazy**

There must be some underlying reasoning. Businesses that just pick prices out of their arse don't tend to do well. Things go wrong if you over- or under-price your goods.

**kodos**

Kilkrazy wrote:
Things go wrong if you over- or under-price your goods.

Maybe the reason why some things are always out of stock or sold well while others are getting dust on the shelf

**DarkBlack**

OgreChubbs wrote:
Zywus wrote:
OgreChubbs wrote:
Why is no one complaining about the over sexual male models?

One female model wears a boob guard 900 topics 5 army releases with naked buff men, not a single comment lol. People wonder why no one cares.

This clip is about videogames but it's a similar premise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9UMgOFeLw&feature=youtu.be&t=1m1s

While the slayers might be considered sexualized due to their nakedness, they aren't objectified. And perhaps more importantly; the clothing of these dwarves are the outlier when it comes to male miniatures, not the norm.

He is an idiot and talking about a mental state not a physical state. Sex, sexual ising and such is mental not physical.
If you see a child or a man dressed in a mini skirt it does not give you a second thought. But if it is someone you find sexy it is sexual.

It reminds me of a case I seen on tv about a child rapist he said the 6 year old girl was intising him and being over sexual. If you see two women in bikini's pushing each other as sexual thats a you thing not a culture thing.

I grew up around all girls and do not find girls in bikinis fighting or skirts as sexual. If you do and see it as making them over sexual that just speaks of your mind seeing women as only things to be lusted after. In short don't make a you mental state a everyone problem.

Don't take people who are joking seriously and/or do not feed trolls.

**Kilkrazy**

kodos wrote:
Kilkrazy wrote:
Things go wrong if you over- or under-price your goods.

Maybe the reason why some things are always out of stock or sold well while others are getting dust on the shelf

Actually now that you mention it, that makes good sense. However in many ways GW is a well run company, or they would not have lasted so long. They have a good grasp on the production costs of their kits, it's the competitive pricing they have lost track of.

**Vermis**

See, that WD cover is what I'm talking about. The forelegs are pushed so far apart by the wide, puffy humanoid pecs that if the thing could move around, it'd have to waddle. The entire creature seem built on the maxim 'if in doubt, stick a bulge on. Then wrap it tightly in rigid armour'.

DarkBlack wrote:Don't take people who are joking seriously and/or do not feed trolls.

Are you calling Zywus a troll and the topic of objectification of female characters in pop culture a joke?

**RiTides**

Let's not go down that rabbit hole - this thread is for discussing Age of Sigmar. Please take broader discussion of culture / etc to an appropriate thread in the OT forum.

Thanks