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Because I sure am.



Honestly, I'm very glad to see those. The big monster is particularly cool, it's exactly the type of High Fantasy monster suited for AoS, IMHO.

I'm surprised of the paint scheme showed; they look like old slayers, while I was expecting them to be more "fiery". I think I will paint them black with flame hair and burning eyes, like they were forged from volcanic stone - the reason they're naked would make much more sense that way.

So, what do you think, people? Anyone starting a new army soon? How would you paint those? Do you think of cool conversions with such models?

I must say I'm damn tempted. I don't even care about their stats.

I'm most excited about them as the first glimpse of fleshing out the realms from a non-Sigmar standpoint.

According to the rumors thread, the general commentary is:

- The salamanders look pretty sweet.
- These guys are pretty sweet.
- AoS finally has an army I'm interested in. Sweet.
- I'm waiting in case there is a Start Collecting box...
- Some of them hold their weapons oddly and look weird from certain angles.
- They are too expensive. LOL GW.
- These guys are scaled too large for me to use in a different game. Mediocre!
- I hate everything Age of Sigmar, and always will. FU GW.

Personally, I think they look pretty neat, but nothing shown (so far) pushes me over into Gotta-Have-It. If they had a good deal, like one of the Star Collecting boxes, I would probably go for it - but as full price, premium models, I'm not convinced yet. Hoping for some Duardin terrain though. Wouldn't be able to say no to that...

Yes, this is the thread we need!

I am so fething hyped! O lawd!

I'm not going to collect a whole army of them, but that's the awesome thing about AoS. Just a box or two to add into my existing Order army.

It's just a matter of narrowing down which set to get. I'm leaning towards the 5 Hearthguard at the moment, as they look badass with the glaive type weapons.

Also seriously contemplating the Lava Dragon thing. ;-)

I'm gonna buy all the White Dwarf issues on them and BASK in the fluff, haha.

The only sour grape in all this is that terrible picture of the Slayers with black beards - people love just talking about that and nothing else don't they?

If you look at the wide army shots you can see the shields can be posed in much better positions.

I think they look great and are an ideal army to add a unit or two to pretty much any other army as an allied war band.

It's hard for me to think outside the box with paint jobs for newly released armies. I'll probably grab a box of one of the units and see how much I enjoy painting them, and that will determine how far I go. They can sub in as allies for any of my armies, which I really like.

yeah I am loving these, finally a little creativity from AoS. though a little sad in seeing the complete dissolution of the Old world style. I will be finally spending some money on AoS specifics with these kits.

In this picture we can see some sort of Lord (with the obsidian axe), and the BSB that was leaked as a sprue.

I'd love to play a Fyreslayer vs Steamhead game. I think that would look cool on the table. I like the idea that these guys are the kind of battle hardened nuts you'd have to be to survive the Age of Chaos outside of Azyr.

I'm going to get one of the salamanders for my chaos dwarfs

 Sarouan wrote:
I think I will paint them black with flame hair and burning eyes, like they were forged from volcanic stone

You know... that is a very good idea! I think dark skin and bright orange hair will be the way to go!

 Bottle wrote:

The only sour grape in all this is that terrible picture of the Slayers with black beards - people love just talking about that and nothing else don't they?

But it is a VERY terrible picture though. A bad paint job (no eyes, curry stained beards), a weird upward angle (how many minis do you look at from that direction?), lack of shading or armpit hair makes the raised arms look like legs, limited posing (on the upraised arms, the seam is at the wrist), and apparently, some sort of stone connecting the loin cloths to the legs - they don't even seem like the same models as the rest of the pictures. They probably look fine, even great, on the tabletop. But up close... Yuck. I guess it goes to show you how important a decent paint job is for close ups.

Yes, i'm fond of Fire Dwarves. They look too cool with beards and hair on flame. I will just need to paint their "clothes" in metal, so that they don't get burned as well!

I suspect the "infamous" picture with black beards is something like "coming from White Dwarf team". To be honest, I don't see them that bad - it's just one way to see Fyreslayers.

About other paint schemes, I really like the "Azer" way from Dungeons and Dragons.

Like this;



Or even this (closer to old slayer scheme, I believe - just with "Flame Beard On!")



I also see the salamanders like Magma Dragons, with a cool scheme like this one;




It looks like a "small new army", a bit akind to Mechanicum in 40k - a few units with variants, and that's good enough.

About the fluff, I'm pretty sure GW will make an army book; Fyreslayers. With all the fluff we need and pretty pictures everywhere!

About the monoposes, I don't bother to have them. That's why I learned to like the Liberators from the starter set instead of the boxed set with options - they're so easy to build!

Bottle, you know you will take both the berserkers and the salamander in the end, don't you?

The only thing I'm not too fond of in the Salamander is the strange long tongue. I call this "the Bloodletter Syndrome" - such a long tongue you can only guess how many times they bite their tongue before they simply cut it off with their teeth. But I believe it can be "toned down" easily, with a good cutter and some green stuff.

Fyre Dwarves... sure! Why not? It's a radical departure from the old school Tolkeen Dwarves that GW loved so much in Fantasy. They seem to almost be an extension off the Chaos Dawrfs... err... Infernal Guard from Forge World.

Looks like they are on 32mm bases- guess that's gonna be the new standard, eh? Or it could just be what GW is going for on the smaller, "elite" style armies (like the Stormcast Eternals).

The models look pretty good, but I'll wait for some clearer, less blurry shots before passign any judgement. Not too keen on the idea that they are naked. Except for maybe a flaming loin cloth?

The guys with the halberds and flames on the heads... I hope those are flame throwers. If they are... oh boy. GW may have sold me on another army.

If these guys are naked, what kind of save are they going to have? I'm sure they will have a crappy move, and I haven't seen anyone with ranged weapons yet. They may look fantastic and be beasts in close combat, but if they can be shot off the board before they get into close combat, whats the point?

Then there is magic... if your opponent has a wizard and you don't... you are at a pretty large disadvantage. My Stormcast Eternals are a great army, but I wish they had Wizards. I mean they make up for it with character Warscrolls that have a lot of magic-like abilities, but they take place in the command phase, and your opponent has has the same options, but he also gets a Magic phase, while you... get skipped. If anything, having a Wizard in your army at least gives you a chance to block enemy spells.

It's an interesting army so far that has piqued my interest.

They are much nuder than I expected. Not sure how much nudeness i was expecting, but this is more.

As for the army, eh, it's not for me, but I wasn't expecting it to be. I'm not a big fan of the old dwarfs or the slayers.

But hey, mortals! Not all about sigmar! I'm for these things.

naked angry bearded men, sounds legit. but these kits are nice.

Meh, they'd of looked better on square bases but they dragon thing is cool enough.

thekingofkings wrote:
naked angry bearded men, sounds legit. but these kits are nice.

Man, now I think I could go for some dwarf fortress themed dwarfs. All naked except for one sock. All carrying a barrel of booze in one hand and a baby in the other.

could be a wild force

Seems like some people don't remember some of the first troll slayers miniatures. One was technically naked.

Honestly, the Berserkers aren't that much different from the Old World. That's even more obvious with this showed paint scheme. Sure, they have shiny helms, but why not?

I can see the reason of being naked. First, they're berserkers and second, the fluff hints they are able to litterally "get on fire" with their Ur-Gold rune magic. Sure, the loincloth is a very bad idea for that, but we can always say it's magical and thus fire proofed or something.

I like to picture myself as fire beings with eyes and the inside of their mouth glowing with a golden/orange light, like there was an inside flame at the core of their body. I think I would make them from the Fire Realm (Duh!), and then having black or very tanned skin color. That's why I find the official color scheme a bit too classic - I hope to find more daring/exotic ones in the next White Dwarf/the army book that will certainly be coming later.

I was pretty excited when I first saw them. After looking at them properly though not very hyped at all.

I was hoping for some sweet Azer minis I could use for Dungeons and Dragons. I've loved Azers since I saw the art posted above from the 3.0 monster manual - they have a BEARD OF FIRE!

So these are a bit disappointing, though I don't hate them or anything.

I think they've inspired me to try and build some of my AoW berserkers as Azers and paint them up with the metallic skin and flamey beards though. I'd have to sculpt the flame on though which I would probably suck at...

 jonolikespie wrote:
I was pretty excited when I first saw them. After looking at them properly though not very hyped at all.

A lot of models just don't photograph all that well. Or the photographer just doesn't do a very good job. That's probably the reason why they don't look all that great in this White Dwarf. They always try to crowd the picture with as many models as possible, they use colored lights to cast shadows that end up tinting the colors on the models themselves, and they use a fog machine for some reason...

Anyways, once they go up on the GW sales sight and you can look at the sprues and the 360 view, you might change your mind. I feel the same way you do, but I think they will look better in person.

Something hot... ...

http://imgur.com/a/as5gv

If they come with bare heads I'll buy. If not I won't.

So did GW purpously make them larger than the old dwarf minis in the hopes we would look at our manlets compared to New glorious GW plastics and throw them in the trash to start over with these? Because it has the opposite effect for me. Instantly see dwarves as tall as old world humans and abandon any idea of adding them to my collection.

 Orock wrote:
So did GW purpously make them larger than the old dwarf minis in the hopes we would look at our manlets compared to New glorious GW plastics and throw them in the trash to start over with these? Because it has the opposite effect for me. Instantly see dwarves as tall as old world humans and abandon any idea of adding them to my collection.

They are the same size as some of the 8th Edition Dwarves. Take your salt elsewhere.

This pic sells me on the army. They look great as unit.

I don't recognize the pillars used in that image. The same goes for the dais in the WD cover picture. Are they from an existing terrain set?

Arcane ruins I believe.

Change the red hair to multiple colours like a parrots plumage, darken the skin tone and you'll have a very muscular - if short, Brazilian carnival troupe

EDIT: Sweet! Some of them are riding Diablo and Deathwing!