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Togusa wrote: So will these end up in Soulblight? Or are they their own thing?
Underworlds warbands get AoS rules as well but if you mean arcwalkers who knows but UW is a way to do stuff they wouldn’t normally do in AoS so it’s probably unlikely
This set has been rumoured for months. It is definitely a Dr Frankenstein style necromancer and his zombies.
The second starter will features Malerion's Aelves. There is also a skaven warband and a witch hunter warband on the way.
OK mini but dumb concept - having just one giant arm he's going to just tip over easily and have a lot of back pain. Less threatening than a normal zombie IMO.
Schmapdi wrote: OK mini but dumb concept - having just one giant arm he's going to just tip over easily and have a lot of back pain. Less threatening than a normal zombie IMO.
Something tells me that zombies, even electro-zombies, aren't all that bothered about back pain...
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Schmapdi wrote: OK mini but dumb concept - having just one giant arm he's going to just tip over easily and have a lot of back pain. Less threatening than a normal zombie IMO.
Something tells me that zombies, even electro-zombies, aren't all that bothered about back pain...
Just saw a cover for GW Warhammer Fantasy RPG:Stefan and Steel. On the cover it looked like KO vs Vampire Counts, but as with most GW art it should be based off of models. The Vampire faction looked like a zombie riding on a giant bat (not the fellbat) and winged zombies/vampire. I wonder if those are new models yet to be released, either as part of this warband or as an expansion to the Flesh Eater courts. The winged zombies could be more “mad scientist” works.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
Theophony wrote: Just saw a cover for GW Warhammer Fantasy RPG:Stefan and Steel. On the cover it looked like KO vs Vampire Counts, but as with most GW art it should be based off of models. The Vampire faction looked like a zombie riding on a giant bat (not the fellbat) and winged zombies/vampire. I wonder if those are new models yet to be released, either as part of this warband or as an expansion to the Flesh Eater courts. The winged zombies could be more “mad scientist” works.
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It's just Flesh Eater Courts; ghoul king on a terrorgheist and crypt flayers. Only "new" thing are the six limbed flying who still have arms, but we know from Underworlds that there are vampires like that.
I also don’t know if artwork made for the role play systems counts in the only make art for models thing anyway.
Not that I think we’d see much new on them, but they churn out art in those, and unless just meaning the covers, there’s plenty of individual art pieces in the books that we aren’t seeing miniatures for.
Very meh I was expecting more but it's just a Delaque wannabe with some zombies with some electronics stuck in them, it could have gone further add a big guy and maybe some non-humans or lots of different bodies stitched together. I'll still buy it but they showed the best mini in the Miniature Monday reveal. Harrowdeep hasn't lived up to Direchasm yet.
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Yup, a big missed opportunity. I had my hopes high given how good the BloodBowl Flesh Golem looks like. The more I look at these the more I feel that they would look better with tombstones on their backs and tree roots sprouting from them. I didn't see that coming.
That place is the harsh dark future far left with only war left.
I dont think theyre bad. Im not seeing anything that makes me want to buy them, and that armored zombie is especially a turn off since it lacks the aesthetic the rest of the shambling horde has. That model kinda kills any interest i might have forced myself to have.
I know this is an underwolrds warband, made for that game, but usually the warbands are so nifty that players of other games jealously look upon them, wishing to use them in their games. This is the first time ive been actively nonplussed by their sculpts.
But im ok if i never see these transplanted in warcry. This one seems a bit lazy, like the sculptor phoned it in.
The armored zombie is weird. He's got the armor of the skeletons, which is a cool callback. Maybe he was meant to be a villain in cursed city and got repurposed.
I shall thus also copy myself from Adepticon and say; I feel like the Exiled Dead is another warband like the Pirate Ogre one that missed the mark by only having the one mini that's actually on brand for the team.
Stitched together Frankenstein-style flesh constructs sounds really cool, but there's only one of them, and the rest are just regular zombies, but with tesla coils, except for one of them who doesn't even have that, and then theres a budget bin version of the Cursed City skeletons thrown in too.
"Tabletop games are the only setting when a body is made more horrifying for NOT being chopped into smaller pieces."
- Jiado
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: Stitched together Frankenstein-style flesh constructs sounds really cool, but there's only one of them, and the rest are just regular zombies, but with tesla coils, except for one of them who doesn't even have that, and then theres a budget bin version of the Cursed City skeletons thrown in too.
Isn't the crouching guy without electro-bits meant to be... checks notes... Marcov, the mortal assistant to Deintalos?
And as only four of the zombies are referred to as "arcwalkers", I think the City Guard zombie is actually meant to be Marcov's "personal zombie" Regulus, which would explain why he doesn't share the aesthetic of the other four.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
Wha-Mu-077 wrote: Stitched together Frankenstein-style flesh constructs sounds really cool, but there's only one of them, and the rest are just regular zombies, but with tesla coils, except for one of them who doesn't even have that, and then theres a budget bin version of the Cursed City skeletons thrown in too.
Isn't the crouching guy without electro-bits meant to be... checks notes... Marcov, the mortal assistant to Deintalos?
And as only four of the zombies are referred to as "arcwalkers", I think the City Guard zombie is actually meant to be Marcov's "personal zombie" Regulus, which would explain why he doesn't share the aesthetic of the other four.
Yeah, yeah i get it, however, GW also described him as, to quote;
Deintalos the Exiled, a necromancer whose grisly experiments went too far for even those in Shyish. Can you imagine experimenting so much with necromancy that even Nagash asks you to knock it off?
Which kind of was hyping his warband up as something more than just a bunch of regular zombies and one chronic masturbator. I mean he grafted a big arm to a dude once, and that's pretty where his grisly experiments end.
I just expected more, y'know?
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"Tabletop games are the only setting when a body is made more horrifying for NOT being chopped into smaller pieces."
- Jiado
First warband I've been disappointed with in ages, had high hopes when they were first teased but that guy turns out to be the only decent mini in the bunch.
Hopefully the next one is better, that's going to be another starter set isn't it?
They're not bad, per se, but they are a terribly wasted opportunity (and as we well know: GW never wastes an opportunity to waste an opportunity! ).
When they previewed Mr. Big Arm, I think a lot of us got it into our heads that the other zombies would be weird amalgamations of various creatures stitched together - a real freak show - but as Wha-Mu said, most of them are just zombies with Tesla coils (or Zombies that fell into an AdMech player's bits box, as I put it). I mean one of them's just a guy in armour. Wow...
The leader is nice though.
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Quoting myself from the other thread (which I thought was this thread.)
Yeah big miss there for the exiled dead.
The potential was there for a fantastic Frankenstein-esque warband. But the sculpts are all just not quite there. Aside from a funky gem and a mini-sort of tesla coil, there's nothing that screams mad scientist about the mad scientist. Not to mention there's only one stitched together minion. Like.... where's the flavour?
Still, nice enough models over all. The leader will make for a nice necromancer with a few alterations. And more zombie fodder is always good.
As others have said, wasted opportunity with this warband.
Maybe the issue is that the dead are brought back from electricity and not through typical necromancy? That seems like something Nagash would take a lot of offense at.
Still, huge missed opportunity not to have crazy stitched together monstrosities. Imagine if it was just a weak necromancer, a giant flesh golem, and some weak zombies that you could sacrifice to heal your big guy during the game
Necrons - 3500 pts.
Tau - 4500 pts.
Ultramarines - 2500 pts.
WoC - 2000 pts. 
