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I just cant stop imagining them painted up as Necrons.. sigh.. OBR just never sounded good to me.. shades of bad D&D from the 1980's

Yeah I was never gonna be interested in getting these. But nice enough models.

A non 4 sized warband which is good.

Idoneth maybe a 5 or 6 too..

We've had four aelves in the Lumineth warband, five in the DoK, four in sylvaneth, and four (plus a pet) in the Khurnoth.

We already have a fish confirmed, and I think it's pretty like the crab claw rumor engine goes with them too. So I'm expecting three elves and two or more pets.

Wasn't expecting the main bony guy to be so tall!
The rest of the gang isn't quite as nifty though.

Too many goofy heads again on the abr. Pass

Kainan looks very cool but the rest of the models I don't like

If the Bonereaper line look like Kainan across the board, I'd buy all of it.

As it is, I'll buy this warband for one model.

They seems ridculous smalls. Are they dwarves obr? Would make sense since weve got so many of them, and obr are supposed to be elite if im. Not mistaken

 streetsamurai wrote:
They seems ridculous smalls. Are they dwarves obr? Would make sense since weve got so many of them, and obr are supposed to be elite if im. Not mistaken

The Mortek Guard are a little bit bigger than the current skeletons, so probably the same size as the new ones. Elite doesn’t necessarily mean bigger. The axe guy in the warband is the same size as the heavy infantry with 4 arms, he has the same legs and body as them.

Morterk are actually quite small for GW modern standard.

The leader is really, really cool, but OSR were forever ruined for me when someone described them as having a Masters of the Universe-villain visual aesthetic.

 streetsamurai wrote:
Too many goofy heads again on the abr. Pass

That's why I don't like OBR. It's the endlessly silly faces they all have.

The leader guy in this box, however, does not have a dumb face. Will need to find a way to acquire him separate of his goofy goons.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
The leader is really, really cool, but OSR were forever ruined for me when someone described them as having a Masters of the Universe-villain visual aesthetic.

"Horrifying bone constructs" sounds like a grimdark Warhammer faction I'd be all in on. But instead of a creepy Dark Souls/Darkest Dungeon vibe we got this He-Man kiddie sh*t. Warhammer has always worked best as a horror setting (with a big helping of dark comedy). I'm not sure GW still realizes that.

 NephMakes wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
The leader is really, really cool, but OSR were forever ruined for me when someone described them as having a Masters of the Universe-villain visual aesthetic.

"Horrifying bone constructs" sounds like a grimdark Warhammer faction I'd be all in on. But instead of a creepy Dark Souls/Darkest Dungeon vibe we got this He-Man kiddie sh*t. Warhammer has always worked best as a horror setting (with a big helping of dark comedy). I'm not sure GW still realizes that.

Yeah, I was pretty pumped when I heard the concept of OBR. It sounds awesome as all get out, but we got super comical heads for most of them that don’t really match with the rest of the aesthetic. Aside from a few of the characters/special minis (like the leader of this group), I think they are just a bit too goofy.

If the OBR had been like a whole army of Relicblade's Bone & Darkness horrors, I'd have gone all in.

On the topic of smaller minis, the Lumineth are also on the smaller side. Between them, the ossiarchs and the range of scales in the warcry sets I'm wondering if GW is actually slowly returning to 28-32 mm range, rather than slowly creep into the 35-40mm range.

It might not so much be a scale shift as GW simply trying to draw a line between their bigger than a human units and human sized units. IT's hard to take your lizardmen as giants or your stormcast as oversized and your skaven as "rat men" if your regular humans aren't much smaller than a stormcast.

Super disappointed in the OBR besides the leader, which is ACE. I was hoping they'd be more like him or the very nice ones hanging around their big leader. Their poses are super flat even with the restrictions of the small sprue in mind.

However I just had the idea to turn them into a Slaanesh warband. The leader would make a nice Slaanesh lord executioner with that skin cloak and elegant weapon if you gave him hooves or stiletto sabatons like the old Lord on boobworm. The regular guys need helmets - and maybe one or two flagellant heads, e.g. the one with mouth stitched shut - and parts of the bone armour smoothed and filled into regular plate, switch OBR runes for Chaos symbols or skulls and you'd have a band of pretty sinister loking Slaanesh cultists with partially organic chaos armour.

I was definitely expecting more character to the Bonereaper warband than just "Executioner and MORE Mortek Guard."

I for one will be bringing Tomb Kings back as stand-ins for Kainan's Reaper; no doubt using an Ushabti for Kainan himself.

I need this warband for my OBR army.

Disappointed in this warband with the exception of the main big dude.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 NephMakes wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
The leader is really, really cool, but OSR were forever ruined for me when someone described them as having a Masters of the Universe-villain visual aesthetic.

"Horrifying bone constructs" sounds like a grimdark Warhammer faction I'd be all in on. But instead of a creepy Dark Souls/Darkest Dungeon vibe we got this He-Man kiddie sh*t. Warhammer has always worked best as a horror setting (with a big helping of dark comedy). I'm not sure GW still realizes that.

Yeah, I was pretty pumped when I heard the concept of OBR. It sounds awesome as all get out, but we got super comical heads for most of them that don’t really match with the rest of the aesthetic. Aside from a few of the characters/special minis (like the leader of this group), I think they are just a bit too goofy.

I think they would look a lot better if they all had those samuraiish helmets (or something similar). Then even the more 'comical' faces would look more menacing. I don't think the 'faces', even those with noses, are the design failure but the bare heads (while wearing heavy bone and metal armour) and the crests.

I'm kind of amazed that OBR drop the ball so damn hard so very much. I think GW's paint schemes don't help but the grinning faces....nope.

The leader is incredible and will make OBR players happy to have something that works as an 'Anvil' character base at least.


As an aside I'm chuckling a little that my first forays into Underworlds (buying the rulebook, core set cards and dice off ebay - friend already has core set for tokens etc) has somehow netted me some hilarious potential.

Decided my main focus is going to be the Lizards - the Chameleon Skink turns out to be hilariously good....

And before that I bought Morgwaeth's (just to use as a Hag Queen in my DoK larmy) - who turns out to come with some ridiculously good Universal cards.

WELP. My body keeps giggling at the thought of a Chameleon Skink with the Shadeglass Band.

I wouldn't expect getting much mileage out of the Blade-Coven itself. Apparently the community largely considers it an unusable warband.

The Starblood Stalkers definitely come with some gems. A really excellent Grymwatch player just rolled me with several of their new universal cards integrated into his deck.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
I wouldn't expect getting much mileage out of the Blade-Coven itself. Apparently the community largely considers it an unusable warband.

The Starblood Stalkers definitely come with some gems. A really excellent Grymwatch player just rolled me with several of their new universal cards integrated into his deck.

To my knowledge it's more the cards that come with the Bladecoven that seem to be useful. I know they themselves just are generally too frail and take too long to come online.

I think what impresses me most is the fact that the different warbands seem like nice little character pieces for Anvil of Apotheosis stuff.

It definitely bummed me out a bit that a game with such tight, excellent rules has such gross power disparity among warbands, made worse by the fact that I have started buying many just to have their cards.

Awesome, fun models to paint though and a treat to splash into my AoS units to give a little more diversity.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
It definitely bummed me out a bit that a game with such tight, excellent rules has such gross power disparity among warbands, made worse by the fact that I have started buying many just to have their cards.

Awesome, fun models to paint though and a treat to splash into my AoS units to give a little more diversity.

That is literally the only reason I am buying warbands. Painting projects and diversity . The Warband Leaders and some of the other models make for fantastic Anvil of Apotheosis characters for AoS - for the Lizards I'm definitely eyeing the Priest and the Javelin/Shield Skink as characters. Oldblood is just...meh. Too generic.

So… did anyone else get a spare Kixi-Taka card?

Somehow my (I assume) batch of English cards got packed in with an Italian(?) Kixi-Taka which is weird but it must have been on the print sheets or something because while they caught it, they evidently didn’t do so before the cards were sealed in their cellophane because they added an individually packed replacement English version to the set, or at least the one that I received.

 Sabotage! wrote:

 NephMakes wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
The leader is really, really cool, but OSR were forever ruined for me when someone described them as having a Masters of the Universe-villain visual aesthetic.

"Horrifying bone constructs" sounds like a grimdark Warhammer faction I'd be all in on. But instead of a creepy Dark Souls/Darkest Dungeon vibe we got this He-Man kiddie sh*t. Warhammer has always worked best as a horror setting (with a big helping of dark comedy). I'm not sure GW still realizes that.

Yeah, I was pretty pumped when I heard the concept of OBR. It sounds awesome as all get out, but we got super comical heads for most of them that don’t really match with the rest of the aesthetic. Aside from a few of the characters/special minis (like the leader of this group), I think they are just a bit too goofy.

paint the faces as kami masks. Done.