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 shinros wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
What?!

ANOTHER GRYPH-HOUND?!

Craaaap. I might need to get this guy to just get a damn Gryph-Hound.

Yeah the Gryph-hound is drawing me to purchase the model as I said sigmar sure likes those bird dogs. Since I am working on a devoted of sigmar force he will fit just right in considering his rules.

Counting the one from Silver Tower, I have 3 of the little buggers...I could always use another ohhhh...17?

Haha, 17 is a bit much, isn't it?

Though I suppose you could make a sled-dog team to pull one of the wizard wagons...that'd be pretty sweet.

Also, do we know if Gryph-hound's grow into demigryphs or are they seperate breeds?

Neronoxx wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Wait wait wait. Are we seriously arguing that "you can't do X but we can because reasons" is not the most realistic possible logic? Look at human history. Hell, look at us now. We do that ALL THE TIME.

I was once told that talking about something you know nothing about is a sure fire way to be dismissed as an authority. It happens a lot now, but I feel this was a good example.

Stormcasts do not cast spells. Having a magical ability= / = casting spells and being a wizard. Stormcasts are magical by nature; this does not make them wizards. Getting an anti-wizard unti is 100% acceptable and expected even.

Well said, I completely agree. And even if it were anti-magic rather than just anti-wizard it would still make perfect sense as per my statement. What doesn't make sense is that Stormcast can't have specialists to counter magic just because they have magic themselves. That's like saying the US military can't have anti-tank weapons because we deploy Abrams.

As for the model, I find it disappointingly bland. It just blends in with the other characters and doesn't stand out on its own.

 tommy3tanks wrote:

Another Stormcast hero to add in my army.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

As for the model, I find it disappointingly bland. It just blends in with the other characters and doesn't stand out on its own.

Once again the "official" colour scheme does not do the model any favours IMO. The all gold looks better in person but it doesn't photo well. Although even if he was painted as a different chamber he really is a mash up of existing Stormcast parts. That said I do like him, and a witch hunter will fit in nicely with my Hallowed knights.

After three and a half months of waiting for a new AOS miniature we get this. It is quite simply the laziest sculpt I have ever seen from Gw.
The cloak is IDENTICAL to the Lord castellant. Seriously? Are you telling me that the designer could not go in and tweak the direction of the ribbons a little?The pose of the legs is identical etc etc.
I like AoS. I like that it freed gw designers to come up with new and exciting ideas. Unfortunately when it comes to the Stormcast it seems they have run out of ideas already. This is literally the most dissapointing gw release I have ever seen.
The new improved gw took a major step back with this one.

Looks like they should come as options in the same kit. They would have the same spruce for the legs, back and gryph hound body (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Stormcast-Eternals-Lord-Castellant); but not the same spruce for gryph hound head, weapon, etc.

Looks like the two models are identical aside from the head and hands. *yawn*

So many more interesting things they could release...

Haha, yeah, 2/10 on the creativity there. At least it's an easy kitbash to make one.

I'm thinking this is really just something to throw at us while they work on the big stuff later down the line. We did have a pretty phenomenal release congaline at the year's beginning.

 DarkBlack wrote:
Looks like they should come as options in the same kit. They would have the same spruce for the legs, back and gryph hound body (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Stormcast-Eternals-Lord-Castellant); but not the same spruce for gryph hound head, weapon, etc.

That's what I'm hoping for as well. Or even just as a upgrade sprue to give some options to the players.

Rules are... Ok. Nothing special. It also doesn't say how many spells he can unbind. So, infinite? Still not that good.

Ok. Just noticed that one of the two sprues is the same as the Lord castellant. So the similar designs are a cost saving thing. Still very disappointing.

Requizen wrote:
As a Stormcast player, we don't need another hero.

How about the way home?

Life beyond Thunderdome?

My favourite model in my Stormcast collection is my Lord Castellant, 2nd is his Gryph-hound. I quite like the model, it's a lazy rehash, yes, but the fact that there is another Gryph-hound for my menagerie of Azyr, that's what makes it for me.

Yeah they should've made this a dual kit priced like the Dominus tech-priest.

Shouldve just made it a different weapon option for the Castellent.

I wonder if its because of the size of the sprues? The Knight Venator and Knight Azyros kits would have had to go in a box anyway due to the size of the wings. But the Castellant and Veritant can be put on blister pack sized sprues.

This digital copy paste job is an embarrassing release for a company GW's size. Would have been great as a dual kit.

Cool Gryph Hound though. Honestly, Gryph Hounds might be the best thing about AOS for me so far. Not sure what that says.

Fingers crossed the rumored Tzeentch Arcanites show up at some point.

Wow, that's not much to show after such a long break. Do we know what's coming for the next faction to get new models?

 RiTides wrote:
Wow, that's not much to show after such a long break. Do we know what's coming for the next faction to get new models?

We're in a dark area. Maybe tzeentch stuff, but not for a while.

I wrote on The Facebook page something along the lines of 'we waited three months for this?!!?' The official reply was there will be new stuff soon. I am still holding out hope that we will see Tzeentch Arcanites this year alongside the new loc.

this guy has a better tabard, better helmet, and a better gryph hound, so i am stoked...
considering all of the amazing 40K minis that we are getting right now, i am happy with a single, improved, Stormcast dude until after the Prospero release...
it's not like there are not enough minis to paint in the last Silver Tower hero bundle

cheers
jah

I am still waiting for gryph hound unit. I may take a whole army of them if they ever release them!

I was more surprised by the lack of rules. He won't make it to my army but the hound will!

I wonder if this is to give the stormcast a boost to beat magic armies before the rumored Tzeentch army appears and makes him very useful?

Also, yes the Gryph-hound unit needs to be a thing.

New dwarfs would be nice, enough stormcasts and definitely no more khorne.
Tzeentech would be good too though as have all the models from silvertower to begin with.

 Hanskrampf wrote:
I still hope the rumoured Silver Tower expansion with undead turns out true.

How strong is that rumor? That could put me over the fence I'm on when it comes to buying Silver Tower, I want it for a few minis (horrors, familiars, gaunt summoneer, tzaangors, cultists) but can't stand few others (dwarf, questor, dwarf, ogroid thaumaturge, dwarf, guy with a swirling bits, also dwarf). It's not that I predict the undead to be particularly awesome, I hate mortarchs of nagash mounts design for example and looking at purely AoS designs like ogroid thaumaturge, it's straight World of Warcraft stuff (enough to put the pink horror from Silver Tower next to him to see the difference in styles) so the undead will probably join the rest of the crap, "modernised" designs that ape (the irony) the inferior, less characterful and significantly more childish rippofs of GW old stuff.

They can't ruin it all though, can they. I love undead to death and will buy almost everything plastic, including fething mortarchs and who knows, maybe a plastic Krell type guy there somewhere for old times sake eh GW? Not to mention, it's still a board game, still warhammer quest and quite fun from what I've heard.

If its true. I would expect it to be a stand alone Warhammer quest game that shares the same rules set, not an expansion to Silver tower.

If really hope it's true. It sounds much more up my street and more like the original Warhammer Quest. Hopefully the dungeon tiles would be of a generic dungeon too.

Well, the rumors kept pointing to something of that type around December with a questionable release list leak that got some of the past releases right but was wrong about the second half of the releases which would've had Tzeentch out by now.

It's possible the leak was outdated and GW stretched the schedule out like CA had to do with their schedule. (which is why so many kept expecting Wood elves this month for TW:W)

So it's possible instead of this December being a focus on Death, we'll get Tzeentch and perhaps Duardin instead with the Death expansion popping up later next year.

I didnt see this posted but his rules are on the app guys... He's very good imo. 1inch/4 attack/3+/3+/-1/Dmg 2 sword
-can unbind as if he was a wizard
-can make enemy mizards within 7 inches take d3 mortal wounds
-gryph hound buffs his unbind roll, and he buffs gryph hound attacks

6 wounds and 3+ save

His rules were posted as a PDF with the model in the online store as soon as it went on preorder (approximately 6 pm Eastern on Friday on the NZ site).