Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Stalagsquiq is amazing.

I never like the tiny legs/huge torso look.

I like the mushroom guys ... is the troll squeezing the life out of a murloc?

 Necros wrote:
I like the mushroom guys ... is the troll squeezing the life out of a murloc?

He's holding a toad, no doubt licking it gives a buff of some sort.

Every time he squeezes it, its tongue shoots out, giving Mollog a range 3 attack?

I am so glad this is a thing that exists.

 Duskweaver wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, those are terrible and uninspired hodgepodges of units. Looks like the Nighthaunt warband is the only one that's not hot garbage.

They couldn't even be bothered to get the rules right. Both Kairic Acolyte models have shields, yet the warscroll states that only Turosh has one.

Yeah, was about to comment that. To make it even better, she has hers in front, ready to use, while the guy has his uselessly on back yet he gets the bonus

Those are just brilliant! Wants some!

Why does the squig not have legs on the model?? =/

Is a flappy Squig!

Possibly a Squigeon.

While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

Cant believe GW would make goblins into some goofy force. how could they go and do such a thing!!

CassianSol wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

Cant believe GW would make goblins into some goofy force. how could they go and do such a thing!!

Har har! Do you agree there are gradations of goofy or is it binary in your view?

I like the Troll, and the bat squig. But I think the mushroom thing and stalactite thing would be better replaced with just plain ol' cave squigs.

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

O&G armies always had that, I dont think its anything new for this force. Besides its a good contrast with all the grim dark moto going on.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/faqs/


FAQ and commentary for Nightshade now up

Lol red, it's Nightvault (most people I know are just saying "Underworlds" now, though).

Thanks for the link

Nana nana nana nana Bat Squig!

The game’s starting to feel too big to me. So dang many cards, still growing, and an ever increasing errata document.

 NAVARRO wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

O&G armies always had that, I dont think its anything new for this force. Besides its a good contrast with all the grim dark moto going on.

This is a common misconception. O&G always had elements of that but the point of, for example, cutsey happy grinning Gobbos was to make them more sinister, because they were being cutsey and happy and grinning as they found joy in torturing captives or hamstringing opponents. Of course Red Era fans always seem to forget that and insist the faction is just happy & dumb, rather than happy & dumb and brutish & spiteful.

Regardless, there's no point in getting upset about it in this instance, Underworlds is AoS and AoS has had this aesthetic direction("Take the most distinctive things, turn those up to 11, discard the rest.") since the beginning so people should expect it by now and whether you like it or not is a matter of individual taste.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

O&G armies always had that, I dont think its anything new for this force. Besides its a good contrast with all the grim dark moto going on.

This is a common misconception. O&G always had elements of that but the point of, for example, cutsey happy grinning Gobbos was to make them more sinister, because they were being cutsey and happy and grinning as they found joy in torturing captives or hamstringing opponents. Of course Red Era fans always seem to forget that and insist the faction is just happy & dumb, rather than happy & dumb and brutish & spiteful.

Regardless, there's no point in getting upset about it in this instance, Underworlds is AoS and AoS has had this aesthetic direction("Take the most distinctive things, turn those up to 11, discard the rest.") since the beginning so people should expect it by now and whether you like it or not is a matter of individual taste.

I don't know how you could look at Zarbag's Gitz and find an appreciable tonal difference to WHFB.

I'll give you with the troll one the paint job makes it seem a bit wackier than normal, but give it a grittier look and I bet you it will give a different feel.

CassianSol wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

O&G armies always had that, I dont think its anything new for this force. Besides its a good contrast with all the grim dark moto going on.

This is a common misconception. O&G always had elements of that but the point of, for example, cutsey happy grinning Gobbos was to make them more sinister, because they were being cutsey and happy and grinning as they found joy in torturing captives or hamstringing opponents. Of course Red Era fans always seem to forget that and insist the faction is just happy & dumb, rather than happy & dumb and brutish & spiteful.

Regardless, there's no point in getting upset about it in this instance, Underworlds is AoS and AoS has had this aesthetic direction("Take the most distinctive things, turn those up to 11, discard the rest.") since the beginning so people should expect it by now and whether you like it or not is a matter of individual taste.

I don't know how you could look at Zarbag's Gitz and find an appreciable tonal difference to WHFB.

I'll give you with the troll one the paint job makes it seem a bit wackier than normal, but give it a grittier look and I bet you it will give a different feel.

It's the troll faction we were talking about. I mentioned the goblins in the context of "red era" Kev sculpts that people always seem to bring up to justify "O&G are all whacky, all the time" type sentiment, Zarbag's Gits are brilliant that's why I bought them for use in Mordheim(frankly I was surprised they were so restrained). The troll stuff though is fully on the ludicrous, up-to-11 side of things with giant mushrooms growing out of it and living stalagmites etc, like that fungus shaman model they brought out a while ago. You could paint those all as brown and dull as you like, it's still a silly concept - which, before anyone gets pissy, is not an attack on it or on you if you like it, I fully grasp that the point of it is to be silly and OTT and that it is not objectively bad etc etc.

I thought about that, but in the end I love the troll warband. I am having mine commission painted and will be asking for a different paint scheme on the mushroom, stalagsquig and the troll's mushrooms and club. I hope it will look much better but we'll see! I don't know why they chose black and white for those creatures...

As for the grot one, I'm subbing out the fanatic and wizard for classic GW models. I love the rest, but the fanatic pose just doesn't work, imo, and there's lots of old models to choose from for both of those roles.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Thargrim wrote:
The yellow is making my eyes bleed, gonna need to spray them real good so none of that is showing in the crevices.

Yeah, I really hate these coloured plastics. Useless and annoying

Dunno. For NooBs (And Underworlds is a game aiming to recruit outside the usual AoS and 40k fan base), it's an easy visual way to spot who's models are who's. No different to Black and White in Chess really. And if you're painting them, makes not a jot of difference.

Me, I'm amused the Nighthaunt dudes are Rotting Flesh!

If you don't literally soak them with primer, yes it does make a difference

 Yodhrin wrote:

CassianSol wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

 NAVARRO wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
While they are fun models, they are full on Saturday morning cartoon cutesy. Not my thing, but I get why GW are pushing this aesthetic.

O&G armies always had that, I dont think its anything new for this force. Besides its a good contrast with all the grim dark moto going on.

This is a common misconception. O&G always had elements of that but the point of, for example, cutsey happy grinning Gobbos was to make them more sinister, because they were being cutsey and happy and grinning as they found joy in torturing captives or hamstringing opponents. Of course Red Era fans always seem to forget that and insist the faction is just happy & dumb, rather than happy & dumb and brutish & spiteful.

Regardless, there's no point in getting upset about it in this instance, Underworlds is AoS and AoS has had this aesthetic direction("Take the most distinctive things, turn those up to 11, discard the rest.") since the beginning so people should expect it by now and whether you like it or not is a matter of individual taste.

I don't know how you could look at Zarbag's Gitz and find an appreciable tonal difference to WHFB.

I'll give you with the troll one the paint job makes it seem a bit wackier than normal, but give it a grittier look and I bet you it will give a different feel.

It's the troll faction we were talking about. I mentioned the goblins in the context of "red era" Kev sculpts that people always seem to bring up to justify "O&G are all whacky, all the time" type sentiment, Zarbag's Gits are brilliant that's why I bought them for use in Mordheim(frankly I was surprised they were so restrained). The troll stuff though is fully on the ludicrous, up-to-11 side of things with giant mushrooms growing out of it and living stalagmites etc, like that fungus shaman model they brought out a while ago. You could paint those all as brown and dull as you like, it's still a silly concept - which, before anyone gets pissy, is not an attack on it or on you if you like it, I fully grasp that the point of it is to be silly and OTT and that it is not objectively bad etc etc.

Fungus and O&G concept go hand to hand since like… ever. Nothing silly there

 AduroT wrote:
The game’s starting to feel too big to me. So dang many cards, still growing, and an ever increasing errata document.

Have to say - I got my first Warband (Zarbags gits) and it did come with an intimidating amount of cards. I'm assuming there's a fair bit of overlap in all the generic cards though?

Schmapdi wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
The game’s starting to feel too big to me. So dang many cards, still growing, and an ever increasing errata document.

Have to say - I got my first Warband (Zarbags gits) and it did come with an intimidating amount of cards. I'm assuming there's a fair bit of overlap in all the generic cards though?

Depends exactly on what you're asking?

In my experience, there isn't a whole lot of overlap--the boxes are setup to provide additional cards from what comes in the Core set.

Some cards do similar things, and there are a few that do identical things with different names (and thus you can have both in a deck), but otherwise you will never get actual doubles of any card by buying every single box.

The exception being the Season 1 starter had two copies of the generic cards (didn't pick up the Season 2 starter, so not sure if it's the same) so each person splitting the box would have a full set.

*Except the core sets which have doubled basic objectives because otherwise only one player can score for actually holding the objective tokens…