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**BrotherGecko**

Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?

**Whirlwind**

EnTyme wrote:
Not really a huge fan of steampunk in general, but this stuff looks awesome! Hopefully someone in my meta will pick these guys up so I can see them on the tabletop.

I can't say I'm a massive fan. The models are decent enough, but they appear more akin to being squats (just need to add some bikers).

There's nothing here that really distinguishes the models from 40k and they would fit either game with equal abandon in some ways (though this may be a strategic decision from GW).

Also what is it with the use of yellow metallic paint on everything all of a sudden?

**shinros**

BrotherGecko wrote:
Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?

From grand alliance community if you examine the image link you can see their name.

Skyrigger (Balloon) Hero: Brokk Grungsson

Balloon Dwarves: Skyriggers

10 man infantry unit: Arkanaut Company

5 man heavy unit: Grundstok Thunderers

Single-handed Hammer hero: Arkanaut Admiral

Guy with all the weathervane stuff: Aetheric Navigator

Guy with the chemcail set and hand-held sprayer: Aether Khemyst

Two-handed hammer hero: Endrinmaster

**RoboDragon**

I really like the names, 'Arkanaut' sounds awesome.

**Kanluwen**

RoboDragon wrote:
Grundstok Gunhauler -

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Arkanaut Frigate -

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Arkanaut Ironclad -

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Brokk Grungsson -

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Skyriggers -

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Arkanaut Company -

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Grundstok Thunderers -

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Arkanaut Admiral -

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Aetheric Navigator -

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Aether Khemyst -

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Endrin master -

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Added in the image and spoiler tags to this; click "spoiler" to see what each particular item is.

Or just mouseover them on the Warhammer Community site. Either way, it's nice to have a name to go with the pictures.

**RoboDragon**

Looks much tidier, thanks

**NinthMusketeer**

BrotherGecko wrote:
Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?

It's pretty clear that there is one kit that makes either the big ship or one of each of the small.ones. Look how the hull and sphere pieces 'add up'.

**ProtoClone**

I like them, but I also don't but I can't put my finger on why.

I think maybe it is because they feel too steampunk to me...?

**Verviedi**

Lord Kragan wrote:
If there's not a single captain-ahab/moby dick reference I'll be upset.

...I want a white skywhale now.

ProtoClone wrote:
I like them, but I also don't but I can't put my finger on why.

I think maybe it is because they feel too steampunk to me...?

Too steampunk? Impossible!

**Breotan**

Those would make some wonderful Thunder Hammers for Iron Hands/Fists players.

**lord_blackfang**

NinthMusketeer wrote:
BrotherGecko wrote:
Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?
It's pretty clear that there is one kit that makes either the big ship or one of each of the small.ones. Look how the hull and sphere pieces 'add up'.

If you are incapable of inferring size from pictures and don't bother with the difference in shapes I guess

**NinthMusketeer**

lord_blackfang wrote:
NinthMusketeer wrote:
BrotherGecko wrote:
Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?
It's pretty clear that there is one kit that makes either the big ship or one of each of the small.ones. Look how the hull and sphere pieces 'add up'.

If you are incapable of inferring size from pictures and don't bother with the difference in shapes I guess

I was basing my assumption off different base sizes, if they are all the same then you're right, no chance. I should have worded things differently.

**Ruin**

Those are some odd=-looking Khador units...

**EnTyme**

BoLS has an article with some nice pics of the minis and the Battletome.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Here's a thought regarding the sudden stylistic shift in AoS.

To begin this ramble, we need to right back to the very origin of Warhammer.

Rather than a cohesive world of their own, the designers instead created a generic rules set, which would cater to any and all fantasy model collections. At that time, GW and Citadel were two entirely separate companies.

Of course, over the years, the Old World very much became it's own thing - and an iconic thing at that. It's inhabitants were still broadly generic, but it's story was unique(ish).

Fast forward to it's eventual demise. Stylistically, the mould was long since set. Very limited Steampunk. No 'Good' Gods. And given it's origins, that meant it no longer kept up with emerging trends in Fantasy, such as Steampunk.

AoS of course has a very different setting. Rather than a single world, it has 8 planes of existence. Most of the old armies and their archetypes are still there, albeit with shiny, new, trademarkable names. But as Stormcast and these guys have shown, they can now include very different forces, and cater to pretty much any Fantasy archetype - high, low, middle or insanity.

So in a way, AoS has brought Fantasy back to it's roots - it's now a single system catering to any and all Fantasy tropes (if not manufacturers for the most part)

**Risible**

Do we think they will have a "Start Collecting" box of the space dorfs?

**jreilly89**

*sigh* Goddamn GW, these look great. Well, guess I'm getting into AoS!

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Probably? Who knows! Fyreslayers haven't got one (at least, not yet)

**BrotherGecko**

@Shinros, RoboDragon and NinthMusketeer

I appreciate the replies.

Not too bad on the names, nothing too punny. The ship making one or two models isn't half bad either.

Now I await the start collecting box.

**Mymearan**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Judging by the fleet photo, the heroes look to be quite large in comparison to the line troops.

I'm afraid my thermopriests and thermowarrior dwarfs of Tir-na-bor are going to feel rather... dwarfed.

I've wanted a cool airship model ever since I played the first Final Fantasy game way back in elementary school. Childhood dream soon to be reached?

I also have a feeling airship battles are soon going to be a common sight, if for no other reason than having a bunch of flying ships blasting the battlefield to smithereens is pretty cool.

Inspired by these new pics I went down a rabbit hole of staring at photos of Confrontation minis... man they really caught lightning in a bottle with that combination of designers and sculptors, didn't they?

**silent25**

NinthMusketeer wrote:
BrotherGecko wrote:
Do we have names for these units? Also it appears the 3 airships are different kits, are any able to confirm that or not?
It's pretty clear that there is one kit that makes either the big ship or one of each of the small.ones. Look how the hull and sphere pieces 'add up'.

I see almost no common parts between the three ships. None of the balloon spheres match. They may be three different kits or the small ones may be one kit.

**jtrowell**

Except that AoS does less and less the generic Fantasy Tropes that Warhammer was based upon, normal humans and other mortals have been switched to the background with more and more big creatures and machines (or other over the top models) taking the front line.

Is there even *one* model of a simple mortal human released by GW since AoS was launched ?

I see something like a dwarf with a handheld minigun in the simple basic infantry (Arkanaut Company) to say nothing of the dwarves holding what looks like portable organ gun and canons (the things that used to be war engines with a separate crew), and I wonder what place a normal human with a spear or sword can have in the same game or even the same universe except as fodder.

There is a place for this kind of setting, but it is certainly no longer comparable to the original Warhammer Fantasy world.

It's not unlike if you you took the original Old World and instead of destroying it they set it a few century in its future with something equivalent to modern technology. This world might be something very interesing, but it certainly woudln't fit the same niche as it used to, for the same reason that a modern warfare wargame won't look anything like a wargame set in the antiquity or mediieval France.

Playing a game about the French army defending Verdun during WW1 is certainly not the same as another game about playing french knights at Agincourt, even if one french "poilu" in the trenches happens to be the great-great ... -grandson of a former knight that fought the english.

You see the steampunk as an addition to the generic tropes, what i see is their replacement with *less* generic ones.

There was a way to introduce some steampunk elements before (the gyrocopter as an exemple), but here you don't see any trace of the old dwarf style, even the normal infantry are armed with more ranged firepower than whole Fantasy armies used to carry.

I don't say that it isn't justified by the fluff, just that when you reach a certain point in weapon advances (be they from tech, magic or god infused power), a whole style of fighting simply become obsolete.

I wouldn't except to see a wargame putting spearmen against modern tanks and infantry, and with the prevalence of big monsters, warriors enhanced by their gods (both stormcasts and chaos warriors) and now high dwarven steam-magiteck, I feel that AoS is now reaching the point to being in a comparable situation.

**TheDraconicLord**

I dunno, Ironjawz are just bigger Orks with pointier and heavier choppas and bashas, and I feel they can have a few "words" with those dwarves.

Actually, it begs the question: how the heck can I fight those ships if I play Ironjawz? My 2 ranged units are the Shaman and the Cabbage

**ZebioLizard2**

TheDraconicLord wrote:
I dunno, Ironjawz are just bigger Orks with pointier and heavier choppas and bashas, and I feel they can have a few "words" with said those dwarves.

Actually, it begs the question: how the heck can I fight those ships if I play Ironjawz? My 2 ranged units are the Shaman and the Cabbage

If the Mawkrusha is so belligerent that it can defy gravity then your Ironjawz just need to become even moreso!

**EnTyme**

jreilly89 wrote:*sigh* Goddamn GW, these look great. Well, guess I'm getting into AoS!

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

ZebioLizard2 wrote:
TheDraconicLord wrote:
I dunno, Ironjawz are just bigger Orks with pointier and heavier choppas and bashas, and I feel they can have a few "words" with said those dwarves.

Actually, it begs the question: how the heck can I fight those ships if I play Ironjawz? My 2 ranged units are the Shaman and the Cabbage
If the Mawkrusha is so belligerent that it can defy gravity then your Ironjawz just need to become even moreso!

The Mawkrusha does not fly, it jumps so hard it pushes the ground down

**BobtheInquisitor**

I still love the old Gotrek and Felix dwarves more, but these are awesome sculpts. Whatever I can incorporate into my WHFB head canon I will, but the rest will have to fit into 40k as Squats, Demiurg or some long forgotten veterans of the C'Tan-Old Ones Wars.

The balloons look like they could be the equivalent of Culture Minds that are allowing their pet "overlords" to think they are fighting battles.

Galas wrote:
Yeah, you may think that it is a joke because you are english speakers. (Or not but In your country it is translated, I don't know)

But when you read a Spanish novel with all the names in english when before they were translated (Because then you can trademark them) its quinda annoying (We call it Spanglish)

To make you an example that you can understand, I will do it in the inverse.

"The Mighty Forjados de la Tormenta face the infinite hordes of the Hermandad de Sangre de Khorne. Those Guerreros del Caos are a bloody sect with the only purpose of destroying the Puertas De los Reinos"

Its like watching Dora The Explorer.

Not only is that kind of language melding awesome, but it's a staple of huge swathes of science fiction.

And English continues to subsume all rivals...

**Ghaz**

EnTyme wrote:
ZebioLizard2 wrote:
TheDraconicLord wrote:
I dunno, Ironjawz are just bigger Orks with pointier and heavier choppas and bashas, and I feel they can have a few "words" with said those dwarves.

Actually, it begs the question: how the heck can I fight those ships if I play Ironjawz? My 2 ranged units are the Shaman and the Cabbage
If the Mawkrusha is so belligerent that it can defy gravity then your Ironjawz just need to become even moreso!

The Mawkrusha does not fly, it jumps so hard it pushes the ground down

So you're saying the Mawkrusha is the 'Chuck Norris' of the Mortal Realms

**angelofvengeance**

jreilly89 wrote:
*sigh* Goddamn GW, these look great. Well, guess I'm getting into AoS!

Joiiiiiinnnn ussssss!!!

Look forward to seeing what you do with these if you pick em up

.

**Lord Kragan**

Ghaz wrote:
EnTyme wrote:
ZebioLizard2 wrote:
TheDraconicLord wrote:
I dunno, Ironjawz are just bigger Orks with pointier and heavier choppas and bashas, and I feel they can have a few "words" with said those dwarves.

Actually, it begs the question: how the heck can I fight those ships if I play Ironjawz? My 2 ranged units are the Shaman and the Cabbage
If the Mawkrusha is so belligerent that it can defy gravity then your Ironjawz just need to become even moreso!

The Mawkrusha does not fly, it jumps so hard it pushes the ground down

So you're saying the Mawkrusha is the 'Chuck Norris' of the Mortal Realms

No, Chuck Norris is the Maw-Krusha of Earth.

**unmercifulconker**

Oh damn what a rollercoaster of emotions that was. Saw the artwork and eyes glistened with joy. However first pics I saw were small ones on my phone someone here posted and wasn't the full roster. Not that I didn't like the smaller airships but was disappointed as it looked nothing like the artwork.

The gunners are sweet and my only negative about the balloon guys is I just don't know how they work. Like are they jetpacks or something? Just hard to see them as practical.

Then I went onto the site and saw that absolute B-E-Autiful beast of a gunship. It just oooooozes swag and personality. I mean look at it again.How

badass is it. It's not a case of wanting it, it's case of neeeeeding it. Stunning, all my yes!

So hyped for this army, very unique and hope we see some nice air battles. Please let us see the Skyroads of Chamon.

I also really wanna see someone convert the ships for a Grot Pirate army. Only downside I don't know what you could proxy it as. Destruction don't have any vehicles atm.

Top game GW. Top game.