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I wonder if this new faction will have a more then five units, including the duel kits.

 Nova_Impero wrote:
I wonder if this new faction will have a more then five units, including the duel kits.

It seems likely we will have dryads, spike revenants, half elf guys, new treekin (possibly dual kit), tree lord, tree Lord ancient, Alarielle and a couple of clam packs. That would make it the third biggest AOS faction after the bloodbound and the Stormcast.

 Mymearan wrote:
used Stormcast have been going up in price lately up here, and even the starter set models are getting harder to get cheaply - the "General's handbook" effect?

I regularly see the starterset sell for about 700 SEK (including shipping) on Tradera (roughly 25% off). Those boxes have sold for a similar price ever since fall last year.
You have a box ending in a few hours now actually: http://www.tradera.com/item/341005/258901235/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-startset

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Eh, GW can and does come up with AoS art that is both high quality and within their trademark style

http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Warhammer-Quest-Silver-Tower.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGzZ0iLH_EY/VhP0_dLj7hI/AAAAAAAAIFc/BUmDyWZ3aX4/s1600/storm3.png

But that's Paul Dainton, an in-house artist that's been with GW for, what, fifteen years now? What's been posted in this thread is freelance work, something that GW orders by the bucket at below average rates.

Wonder if it's a leftover from Kirby days, or something they'll keep on doing as they move forward.

What you posted is the better kind of AoS art yes and there was actualy more in "The mighty battles..." book. The books that followed came with the worst offenders.

Even the best are far cry from even 8th edition stuff when it comes to grimdark/ madness/ horror though:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/66/9f/63/669f636fa0c939eccbe87c6ac087ba7f.jpg

Plumbumbarum wrote:
AoS would be infinitely better if it was grimdark and twisted, the realms just beg for it. Not to mention the-lighting-in-the-dark, sigmarines ex machina would hold more weight.

I would like to see it depend on the realm. Realm of light should be bright and vibrant and happy, but there should be grimdark in at least one of the realm (preferably several realms, but to varying degrees). Artwork that lets you know, intuitively, which realm it's from would be amazing.

 Zywus wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:
used Stormcast have been going up in price lately up here, and even the starter set models are getting harder to get cheaply - the "General's handbook" effect?

I regularly see the starterset sell for about 700 SEK (including shipping) on Tradera (roughly 25% off). Those boxes have sold for a similar price ever since fall last year.
You have a box ending in a few hours now actually: http://www.tradera.com/item/341005/258901235/warhammer-age-of-sigmar-startset

That's fine but I don't want the whole box good tip though.

Plumbumbarum wrote:

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Eh, GW can and does come up with AoS art that is both high quality and within their trademark style

http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Warhammer-Quest-Silver-Tower.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGzZ0iLH_EY/VhP0_dLj7hI/AAAAAAAAIFc/BUmDyWZ3aX4/s1600/storm3.png

But that's Paul Dainton, an in-house artist that's been with GW for, what, fifteen years now? What's been posted in this thread is freelance work, something that GW orders by the bucket at below average rates.

Wonder if it's a leftover from Kirby days, or something they'll keep on doing as they move forward.

What you posted is the better kind of AoS art yes and there was actualy more in "The mighty battles..." book. The books that followed came with the worst offenders.

Even the best are far cry from even 8th edition stuff when it comes to grimdark/ madness/ horror though:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/66/9f/63/669f636fa0c939eccbe87c6ac087ba7f.jpg

Fantasy kind of passed me by until I heard it was being destroyed, but now I wish it hadn't. That artwork is great. It's a about as perfect a rendition of a Chaos spawn as I've ever seen, captures the essence of what such a creature would be like.

Chikout wrote:

 Nova_Impero wrote:
I wonder if this new faction will have a more then five units, including the duel kits.

It seems likely we will have dryads, spike revenants, half elf guys, new treekin (possibly dual kit), tree lord, tree Lord ancient, Alarielle and a couple of clam packs. That would make it the third biggest AOS faction after the bloodbound and the Stormcast.

Dryads
Spite Revenants
Tree Revenants
Treelord
Treelord Ancient
Alarielle
Clamshell of a Dryad Branchwraith and another for some male equivalent to match the Tree Revenants. Alternatively, they make heroes out of the unit champions ala the Ghoul Court book that just came out.

That's my guess.

Guys can we please drop the general discussion on art direction? It really isn't news or rumors.

Plumbumbarum wrote:AoS would be infinitely better if it was grimdark and twisted, the realms just beg for it. Not to mention the-lighting-in-the-dark, sigmarines ex machina would hold more weight.

GW had a trademark style, why drop it for 999th bright and vibrant but sigmarines. It's only fresh against old GW fantasy and even if GW grimdark was "getting old" (It wasn't), AoS is old already against the rest of the market. And they don't even try to be best at it, the art is half hearted just like everything else about AoS.

I disagree. We don't need more 40K. But what Age of Sigmar can do is be like Lord of the Rings. By that I mean have everything. You can have nice bright settings (like the Shire) or gridmark like you said (Mordor) or inbetween. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Why can't be it be both or everything? After all different realms, forget that, LANDS are vaired, it can be what ever we want.

His Master's Voice wrote:Eh, GW can and does come up with AoS art that is both high quality and within their trademark style

http://www.beastsofwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Warhammer-Quest-Silver-Tower.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kGzZ0iLH_EY/VhP0_dLj7hI/AAAAAAAAIFc/BUmDyWZ3aX4/s1600/storm3.png

But that's Paul Dainton, an in-house artist that's been with GW for, what, fifteen years now? What's been posted in this thread is freelance work, something that GW orders by the bucket at below average rates.

Wonder if it's a leftover from Kirby days, or something they'll keep on doing as they move forward.

Those are good, not great. Sadly we have what 1 good pic out of every 10 (being generous) to 20 pieces of garbage or lack luster art? (Not really garbage but as I said before someone jumps down my throat, charging $100 for a book with lack luster art makes it garbage in my eyes).

Oh well, no Games-Workshop can't say they make a premium product anymore. Not with this kind of art work and writing that is going on lately.

Davor wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:AoS would be infinitely better if it was grimdark and twisted, the realms just beg for it. Not to mention the-lighting-in-the-dark, sigmarines ex machina would hold more weight.

GW had a trademark style, why drop it for 999th bright and vibrant but sigmarines. It's only fresh against old GW fantasy and even if GW grimdark was "getting old" (It wasn't), AoS is old already against the rest of the market. And they don't even try to be best at it, the art is half hearted just like everything else about AoS.

I disagree. We don't need more 40K. But what Age of Sigmar can do is be like Lord of the Rings. By that I mean have everything. You can have nice bright settings (like the Shire) or gridmark like you said (Mordor) or inbetween. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Why can't be it be both or everything? After all different realms, forget that, LANDS are vaired, it can be what ever we want.

Ok but that's just like the tone of 20 other fantasy board, card and video games I played this year. Bright land of knighty men, brighter elven land, burning daemon pit and grimdark land of the necromancer. Contrast because you have to have contrast within the universe they say but that's bs. The contrast for Lovecraft World is a real one and all the other, more hopeful and nicer books.

Also I'm not saying that I want everything to be Lovecraftian nightmare. The Old World had bright (though not nice) lands of HE and Bretonians but there was always some down to earth grit and appropriate mute to it. There are other ways to grimdark, you could have varied lands but grimdark tone or sth.




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 DarkBlack wrote:

Plumbumbarum wrote:
AoS would be infinitely better if it was grimdark and twisted, the realms just beg for it. Not to mention the-lighting-in-the-dark, sigmarines ex machina would hold more weight.

I would like to see it depend on the realm. Realm of light should be bright and vibrant and happy, but there should be grimdark in at least one of the realm (preferably several realms, but to varying degrees). Artwork that lets you know, intuitively, which realm it's from would be amazing.

I would like to see a realm of light showed as bright but desolate or sth like that. You look at the artwork and it's bright and shining but still a little unnerving, cold, something is wrong. Not a drop of grimdark painted on, still grimdark though. It's something they actualy tried to slightly do with sigmarine mask I think but not sure.

But yes I didn't mean going early Blanche on every realm. Just something darker, more serious, less comfortable. IDK


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Ofc the realms that don't need to be subtle about grimdark should make girlfriends run, parents pray and black metal frontmen shiver.

Found another illustration of Alarielle. Assuming the 'paint only miniatures as they are' policy holds true, there might be some Dryad archers coming. That, and the beetle looks pretty cool.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1B6NG

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Found another illustration of Alarielle. Assuming the 'paint only miniatures as they are' policy holds true, there might be some Dryad archers coming. That, and the beetle looks pretty cool.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1B6NG

Now THAT is some high quality art, especially compared to the other one.

 Mymearan wrote:

 His Master's Voice wrote:
Found another illustration of Alarielle. Assuming the 'paint only miniatures as they are' policy holds true, there might be some Dryad archers coming. That, and the beetle looks pretty cool.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1B6NG

Now THAT is some high quality art, especially compared to the other one.

No kidding. The best AoS piece by far, imo.

Omg yes, this piece is amazing!

Reminds me of queen Khalida. Must be the hat

By the looks of it, it could be a really awesome model. I normally don't like insects, but that giant stag beetle looks more mechanical/golem than a real bug. The only thing that's a bit off for me is the cowl she's wearing. Personally, I prefer to see a long mane of hair rather than a cowl, on an elven female, but, eh, can try and convert it with some green stuff.

Fantastic image

If the models are like the art this may just drag me back in again

That picture confirms that we will have two new box sets alongside Alarielle. The spike revenant/ elf hybrid set and a set that looks like a new version of the treekin armed with bows. Really starting to get excited about this release.

Yes please. Loving both the art itself and the concept - previous couple of pieces have been good concept, but slightly poor art

Yep. Ok. Im in.

I just hope the giant beetle is up to snuff. Can always use more giant bugs.

I always said that the reason wood elves weren't more popular was because they didn't have enough beetles.

Must...not...buy...another...army....

AAARGHH!!!!!!!

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Anyone with a back-up?

Isn't it just the pic in the thread?

That piece of art is spectacular.

Binabik15 wrote:
404 error here.

Anyone with a back-up?

Same for me ughhhhh

Here you go for people who missed it I think this is it. Poor skeletons D:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=228232&d=1465205413