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 Thargrim wrote:

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

Yeah true they have got a ton of stuff since AoS launched, I personally wouldn't mind 1-2 more character/army leader models and then that's it for the range for a little while. I really want to see undead or duardin or something different for the next couple AoS releases after this one.

If they follow the pattern of last year, we will have 6 non-stormcast big releases.

On top of those supposed releases, there's still one more Chamber for Sigmar to open I believe. Correct me if mistaken please.

So, probably one more big Stormcast release at some point in the future.

 Carnikang wrote:
On top of those supposed releases, there's still one more Chamber for Sigmar to open I believe. Correct me if mistaken please.

So, probably one more big Stormcast release at some point in the future.

Two I think. The Extremis chamber was covered by the Star drakes and Dracothian guard. This latest batch are from the Auxiliary chamber(a shame as I was hoping it would consist of mortal human warriors). That leaves the Sacrosanct and Ruination chambers.

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:
On top of those supposed releases, there's still one more Chamber for Sigmar to open I believe. Correct me if mistaken please.

So, probably one more big Stormcast release at some point in the future.

Two I think. The Extremis chamber was covered by the Star drakes and Dracothian guard. This latest batch are from the Auxiliary chamber(a shame as I was hoping it would consist of mortal human warriors). That leaves the Sacrosanct and Ruination chambers.

Ruination chamber you say?

According to the Stormhost organization diagram in there battletome(pg25).
http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Stormhost_Command_Hierarchy.png

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:
On top of those supposed releases, there's still one more Chamber for Sigmar to open I believe. Correct me if mistaken please.

So, probably one more big Stormcast release at some point in the future.

Two I think. The Extremis chamber was covered by the Star drakes and Dracothian guard. This latest batch are from the Auxiliary chamber(a shame as I was hoping it would consist of mortal human warriors). That leaves the Sacrosanct and Ruination chambers.

Wasn't the Lord Veritant from the Chamber Sacrosanct?

For those who want unit cards for their own army, Attilla has made them for a number of factions. Updates & discussion can be found in the Dakka thread.

Whoa double post

 Ghaz wrote:

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:
On top of those supposed releases, there's still one more Chamber for Sigmar to open I believe. Correct me if mistaken please.

So, probably one more big Stormcast release at some point in the future.

Two I think. The Extremis chamber was covered by the Star drakes and Dracothian guard. This latest batch are from the Auxiliary chamber(a shame as I was hoping it would consist of mortal human warriors). That leaves the Sacrosanct and Ruination chambers.

Wasn't the Lord Veritant from the Chamber Sacrosanct?

Likewise I could also swear seeing the Lord Veritant is from the Chamber Sacrosanct.

So apparently from the blurry screenshots, the Hallowed Knights mega-battalion can ignore enemy spells on a 3+. So basically, feth you Tzeentch.

And here I thought GW had changed and we would not have rampant power creep.

Wayniac wrote:
So apparently from the blurry screenshots, the Hallowed Knights mega-battalion can ignore enemy spells on a 3+. So basically, feth you Tzeentch.

And here I thought GW had changed and we would not have rampant power creep.

Ignore? At least the casters can still buff their own guys right?

Right?

 Carnikang wrote:

Wayniac wrote:
So apparently from the blurry screenshots, the Hallowed Knights mega-battalion can ignore enemy spells on a 3+. So basically, feth you Tzeentch.

And here I thought GW had changed and we would not have rampant power creep.

Ignore? At least the casters can still buff their own guys right?

Right?

I guess. It reads "When a friendly hallowed knight unit would be affected by an enemy spell, roll a die. On a roll of 3 or more, ignore the effects of the spell on this unit" or similar wording (picture was blurry so that's what I could make out)

Meh, my tzeentch spells tend to be support with one or offensive ones thrown in. But that is pretty crazy.

*Looks over at mostly painted Hallowed Knights Stormcast*

Woohoo.

It's only affecting spells which target them, so hardly OP since anything which buffs/summons will be untouched. What will make it OP is when the battalion contains the whole army and costs 60 points.

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

thanks for posting these today, Kan
i am really digging all of the beasts in this release...

is this all coming next month???

cheers
jah

 Ghaz wrote:
Wasn't the Lord Veritant from the Chamber Sacrosanct?

Possibly, although I don't remember any background for them beyond being witch hunters. If the Sacrosanct chamber is magic themed he would fit. Hopefully the new tome should have a bit more fluff. However as the Veritant is essentially an alternate build of the Castellant I'd always assumed he was designed and intended to be releases at the same time, but got held up for some reason.

 Vermis wrote:

CMLR wrote:I like the Stormcasts, I liked the Lord-Achilor quite a lot, but I didn't liked this mount quite a lot, it needs far more feathers Imo, and those horns? lol nope, but I can see they have hooves instead paws on the back limbs.

Are the hooves a good or a bad thing?

While I (somehow) forgot to put "so this are not demigryphs, but something more akin to hippogryphs", try to quote the whole idea.

The paints job make it look weird, like a plucked chick-ffon? with irritated skin on the forehead. Just weird.

But now that I have seen that turquise colours, it has grown on me.

Still, the regular mounts look better imo.

Now, I'm glad with the basic troop reboxes, tbh the main drawback for me to buy some extra troops is because the price for so few models.

£30 or so for 5 Liberators or Judicators? but a Chaos Warriors Regiment has 16 models with basically the same stat profiles as them, just for £5 more.

I sincerely hope the reboxing fix the price issue.

If those birds are a reasonable price, I could see getting a set to build/paint and then figuring out what to use them as in 40K. And a lot of gryph charger elements would be easily repurposed for say Kroot mercs.

Holding off on a Tzeentch army for this, until I know their prices.

I absolutely love the idea of a complete huntsman army. But I really like the new Tzeentch stuff a lot to. So it will mostly depend on price I guess.

edit: Hnnnf, and it's gonna be Tzeentch. 20 euros for 5 Gryph Hounds and 50 for 5 Sigmarines... The riders having a worse price probably...

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:
Holding off on a Tzeentch army for this, until I know their prices.

I absolutely love the idea of a complete huntsman army. But I really like the new Tzeentch stuff a lot to. So it will mostly depend on price I guess.

edit: Hnnnf, and it's gonna be Tzeentch. 20 euros for 5 Gryph Hounds and 50 for 5 Sigmarines... The riders having a worse price probably...

It's actually 50 euros for 10 hunters and 20 for six hounds. But yeah, it ain't gonna be cheap.

Lord Kragan wrote:


It's actually 50 euros for 10 hunters and 20 for six hounds. But yeah, it ain't gonna be cheap.

10 for 50 is better (Seems to have multiple options in them). I can't seem to drop 20 for just 6 of those teeny tiny hounds.

 The Grumpy Eldar wrote:

I can't seem to drop 20 for just 6 of those teeny tiny hounds.

Teeny tiny hounds? You know, they're not the size of the Silver Tower's priest gryph hound. More like the size of the Stormcast Castellant and the witch-hunter one's own gryph hounds - which means they're the size of a warg/fenrissian wolf.

Pretty much reasonable price, to me. For a GW plastic box, of course.

Those hounds are on 40mm bases, so I'd say they are the same size as the original sculpt, not the small silver tower one.
And at that price, I'm interested.

To be honest, I'm only buying some of this stuff to convert, but they aren't bad models to be fair.

Either way, I won't be needing the golden boy riders from the gryphs.
Those eagles do however look good.

None of the models look quite as regal as the one oming with the Castellant, but 20€ discounted for six exotic beasts/bodies for not-ugy Chaos puppies/even stranger quadrupeds? Yeah, I'll treat myself to a box. The gryph-chargers I really need to see a 360 of, they probably look good, but the poses look a bit extreme-y.

And the birds, how could I say no to even more of those (and wings to cut off) for my carrion bird/swamp Nurgle horde.

So far the animals are the only great thing to come out of AoS, hoping for more of those.

^

50€ for ten almost-clone warriors? Ouch. Maybe if GW puts them in a SC with the chargers one day, not before.

Here's a random question: in Japanese GW stores, are the rulebooks in Japanese or English?

I'm gonna be on vacation in Tokyo when the Stormcast book comes out and I was wondering if I could just pick it up there and have it to flip through.

Requizen wrote:
Here's a random question: in Japanese GW stores, are the rulebooks in Japanese or English?

I'm gonna be on vacation in Tokyo when the Stormcast book comes out and I was wondering if I could just pick it up there and have it to flip through.

They are usually in English. Don't buy anything here though. It is very expensive.

Requizen wrote:
Here's a random question: in Japanese GW stores, are the rulebooks in Japanese or English?

I'm gonna be on vacation in Tokyo when the Stormcast book comes out and I was wondering if I could just pick it up there and have it to flip through.

Given that GW do Japanese translations of all their material, I'd wager Japanese since it's much easier to sell a game to people if it's in their own language.

Those hawk miniatures look really good!! The Stormcast mounts are cool, too, I hope the riders are completely separate. Any word on that, or whether the legs are integrated into the mount sculpt?

The picture in the new White Dwarf painting article has the lower torsos built onto the mount.

I didn't see any sprue pics though.