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I think it looks great. The lower ends of the back legs are a bit weird and the posing on the front left claw throws me off a little, but overall looks solid. Certainly better than the Dracoth cav in my eyes.

While not so interested in a Stormcast release, I am glad we are seeing some newer model stuff.

Also while I'm not interested at all I would like to see Death finally expanded out with some new battletomes! Come on I wanna see some big Necromancer/Zombie/Skeleton book with some cool new models!

Dragon forelimbs, hooves rear legs, two tails and a bird's head.

Is that an actual fantasy creature or a special one-of-a-kind GW Trademarkable creature.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dragon forelimbs, hooves rear legs, two tails and a bird's head.

Is that an actual fantasy creature or a special one-of-a-kind GW Trademarkable creature.

It's a spin on a Hippogryph (horse back half, eagle front half).

I do like these new stormcast models, i'm glad to see them become more fleshed out. They might not be oozing with character but they look pretty epic regardless.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dragon forelimbs, hooves rear legs, two tails and a bird's head.

Is that an actual fantasy creature or a special one-of-a-kind GW Trademarkable creature.

It's called a chimera. Of the medieval variety: any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.

Still, anything wrong they make things new-cloth?

that mount is awesome!!!
way freakier than i expected...
after seeing the Gryph-Hounds, i figured this would just be an up-sized version...
instead, we get a really fresh take on a Fantasy creature...

this new "Ranger" Chamber is looking really cool, and is definitely making me want to start collecting Stormcast...
i can't wait to see what else is coming down the line...

the Tzeentch releases are the coolest things since the Realms of Chaos days, for me...
the new Lord of Chance/Kairos is the best Greater Demon i've ever seen from GW, and i say that as a lifelong Khorne fan

these last few years, the sculptors have really stepped up their game with plastics!!!

can't wait to get the White Dwarf on Saturday

cheers
jah

Lord Kragan wrote:
It's called a chimera. Of the medieval variety: any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.

I thought a chimera was beast that was a lion, with an extra head (a goat head) and a tail snake.

Lord Kragan wrote:
Still, anything wrong they make things new-cloth?

That was almost a sentence.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
It's called a chimera. Of the medieval variety: any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.

I thought a chimera was beast that was a lion, with an extra head (a goat head) and a tail snake.

Lord Kragan wrote:
Still, anything wrong they make things new-cloth?

That was almost a sentence.

Yup, almost. The original conception was indeed that one but if you go look you'll see that even the original combination (goat+lion+snake) has different forms and the like (for example goats with lion geads and wings plus the snake). Then you'll find out that a bunch of medieval monks did an obsceneamount of pictures consisting of disparate bits and slapped the name chimera. So often that it became synonimous.

Which this "gryphchargers" are. Just look at the beast's hindlegs and hips. Those don't belong to a horse but to a giraffe (plus a few other things they've mixed in). Just look at them and compare them to a giraffe.

 Thargrim wrote:
I do like these new stormcast models, i'm glad to see them become more fleshed out. They might not be oozing with character but they look pretty epic regardless.

aren't the stormcast not already the biggest faction in AoS, I mean they get a lot of releases, even if its only a single character

terry wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:
I do like these new stormcast models, i'm glad to see them become more fleshed out. They might not be oozing with character but they look pretty epic regardless.

aren't the stormcast not already the biggest faction in AoS, I mean they get a lot of releases, even if its only a single character

9 less scrolls than Seraphon if we're just counting Stormcast Eternals, including Extremis they're 2 less than Seraphon, that said the lizards are possibly the only faction that didn't get split down.

Lord Kragan wrote:Which this "gryphchargers" are. Just look at the beast's hindlegs and hips. Those don't belong to a horse but to a giraffe (plus a few other things they've mixed in). Just look at them and compare them to a giraffe.

It seems more 'generic ungulate with stylised exaggerations'. I get where you're coming from, but...

I think this will push Stormcast over the edge. There are at least 4 now waracrolls being added, not including any we event seen yet.
They will be the biggest subfaction within Order.

I would assume 6 new warscrolls (not counting gryph-hounds):

Stormcast on birds
Stormcast on birds alternate build
Stormcast champion on bird
Stormcast with huge crossbows
Stormcast with huge crossbows alternate build
Big birds

Pictures of the new Stormcast stuff, via Tales of Sigmar/War of Sigmar and a poster on Twitter named Gutrot Spume.

oooooooh I need those unit cards! give em to me for Tzeentch! yesssss

Wish there was a better view of the gryph chargers than top-down.

Did anyone post rules for the stormhosts?

Not that I've seen. Go for it if you want to.

Warscroll cards is a great idea! Why couldn't they have done that for Tzeentch? I hope every faction eventually gets them. Though, $25 seems a bit pricey for some cards, and it seems like they could have put some of the abilities on back of the card and made them much smaller and easier to handle.

I always hoped they would do the warscroll cards. It would be nice if they would include them with the models rather than adding them into instructions. If you sell it like a separate deck, then it's obsolete as soon as they release a new model.

Albino Squirrel wrote:
Warscroll cards is a great idea! Why couldn't they have done that for Tzeentch? I hope every faction eventually gets them. Though, $25 seems a bit pricey for some cards, and it seems like they could have put some of the abilities on back of the card and made them much smaller and easier to handle.

I think the point is to ensure that you don't need to flip them over or the like.


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 Necros wrote:
I always hoped they would do the warscroll cards. It would be nice if they would include them with the models rather than adding them into instructions. If you sell it like a separate deck, then it's obsolete as soon as they release a new model.

I actually like the cards being separate. They can release/update when the books get updated, and they don't have to repack boxes.

If they did cards in the box, they'd have to recall stuff anytime stuff got updated.

Cool

Like a number of other people I been suggesting that they have army card packs in store since they Warscrolls came out!

They work well in games like Malifaux.

 Kanluwen wrote:

I actually like the cards being separate. They can release/update when the books get updated, and they don't have to repack boxes.

If they did cards in the box, they'd have to recall stuff anytime stuff got updated.

I like the cards too, but that's likely not the reason. Privateer Press packs cards in boxes and there are still plenty of old edition box/cards put there. They but release new kits and updated decks, as well as have an app that has the cards in it (for a price).

These seem now like convienence, and will be sold as thus.

Reboxing from my WD

For some arcane reason I double-posted.

 Mymearan wrote:


Reboxing from my WD

Can you do the price listings for stuff, Mymearan? I would like to know.

Didnt Privateer Press just do away with unit cards? I thought it was a colossal headache keeping those updated with errata's and new releases.

Yoooo those eagles, load of them along with some Aelfen Skycutters.

Edit: Woops, I meant Swifthawk Agents.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Yoooo those eagles, load of them along with some Aelfen Skycutters.

I'm thinking about a "foxhunt" right now, thanks to the hubbub surrounding PETA and GW today.


Two units of Gryph-Charger units, the lord on battle-chicken, and a few units of Gryph-Hounds.