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The Eshin sculpts are great, the elves are nice enough but not not my thing. Interesting to see them reinforce that part of the faction- the aelves do look like extra/alternative sculpts from war cry but thats nothing new. Many of the warbands give you alternative sculpts for models like the KO one giving an alt Khemist. Although its nice to see something different its pretty useful to get some variety of models for their characters as a lot the AOS ranges are quite light.

 GaroRobe wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
Oh, neat. They updated the 20+ year old Gutter Runner sculpts into plastic, finally. Only downside is it's groups of 5 in a £60+ box.

The Shadowstalkers do nothing - I mean, alternative sculpts are nice for a unit with monopose sculpts, but not in blocks of 4 like that.

But hey, updated plastic Gutter Runners though. Neat.

I mean, they'll be released separately (eventually). And even later, they'll debut in grey plastic for a slightly cheaper price, sans cards

Then it'll be £40 for your minimum unit size of 10 instead of £60+! BARGAIN!

That was quick all Underworlds stuff next week I guess they needed the release before the DoK Battletome

Nethermaze
The Exiled Dead
Rivals of Harrowdeep set (Xandire’s Truthseekers and Da Kunnin’ Krew)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/17/sunday-preview-dive-into-a-new-chapter-of-warhammer-underworlds/

Probably looking at £65 for Nethermaze £26 for the Exiled Dead and around £45 to £50 for Rivals of Harrowdeep unless they sneak another price rise in.

Very quick!

Wondering if the rather poor reception of the Exiled Dead set reveal has caused them to speed things up, but that seems unlikely.

 aku-chan wrote:
Very quick!

Eh. It more or less tracks with the roadmap they gave.

Wondering if the rather poor reception of the Exiled Dead set reveal has caused them to speed things up, but that seems unlikely.

Then why bring it up at all?

 aku-chan wrote:
Very quick!

Wondering if the rather poor reception of the Exiled Dead set reveal has caused them to speed things up, but that seems unlikely.

I suspect Nethermaze has been pushed forward and Ash Wastes pushed back. Seems like the hype machine was rolling for Ash Wastes, but it hasn't happened. Nethermaze is being released with just a weeks notice.

You guys do realise that GW can't just push things back and forward by a few weeks or even a month right? Everything they release relies on shipments from China/overseas for printed material. So even if GW can change what is on the printers for a given week or day; they can't just push something forward by weeks/months unless they've already got the cardstock in hand.

And even then you've got to consider that a release has to get out globally as well so it already needs things in production well before now. Pre-orders next week means stuff is already on or heading toward ships today for world distribution




GW can't just react to one niche of their market giving a less than 100% positive impression by rushing things forward. Their system just doesn't allow for such vastly short term changes to take effect.

I'm pretty excited about the new underworlds set, but yeah, pretty wild they announced it so close to preorders.

Really excited to pick up the new Starter.

My guess on why we are getting everything all at once is that The Exiled Dead components were delayed for one reason or another (logistics, manufacturing, one of the multiple shortages, etc.) and they didn't get the components for them until they got the components for the starter (likely in the same shipment).

 Sabotage! wrote:
Really excited to pick up the new Starter.

My guess on why we are getting everything all at once is that The Exiled Dead components were delayed for one reason or another (logistics, manufacturing, one of the multiple shortages, etc.) and they didn't get the components for them until they got the components for the starter (likely in the same shipment).

That's more likely. It might also just be that they have to bunch up a few things like this because there will be things in the schedual that rely on others and also things that are put into specific time slots that cannot be moved. So whilst GW can move some things around here and there; that's accepting that some things will not move. Eg the big new edition releases of the last few years were not something GW could move the date on by much without having a vast knock on effect.


That said I'm not going to quibble about GW bringing out shiny new stuff sooner

Urrrrrggghhhhh....GW is hell bent on us having to purchase Kruleboyz with our Stormcasts. Wasn't bundling them together in Harrowdeep not enough?

Finally!



Now I can make a whole army of Frankensteins!

How are these guys not an Adeptus Mech unit? Electro priests maybe?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 aku-chan wrote:
Very quick!

Eh. It more or less tracks with the roadmap they gave.

Wondering if the rather poor reception of the Exiled Dead set reveal has caused them to speed things up, but that seems unlikely.

Then why bring it up at all?

I knew that we were expecting a new starter set, but Nethermaze seems to have popped up out of nowhere and gone almost straight to pre-order, which feels a little at odds with how GW usually does things, so I was engaging in some idle speculation.

Certainly doesn't seem like something to get oddly huffy over.

I finally realized what it was that was bothering me the most about the Exiled Dead; Games Workshop previously released a perfect version of Frankenstein's monster in the Necromantic Horror BB team and yet somehow we got Genericus the zombie bodyguard instead

The rest of the zombies are definitely too bland, but I could at least forgive those against the sin of making a Frankenstein themed warband and then not even including the monster...

 Jack Flask wrote:
I finally realized what it was that was bothering me the most about the Exiled Dead; Games Workshop previously released a perfect version of Frankenstein's monster in the Necromantic Horror BB team and yet somehow we got Genericus the zombie bodyguard instead

The rest of the zombies are definitely too bland, but I could at least forgive those against the sin of making a Frankenstein themed warband and then not even including the monster...

Yeah, it's hard to look at how cool the Necromantic Horror Flesh Golem is and then look at the Exiled Dead.....they are just so boring by comparison. Some of them are literally just generic (And rather bad generic at that) zombies with Tesla Coils on the back. Then you have the one armored one that doesn't look like it belongs at all in the band. Really the only models that are decent in that band are the leader and the one model with the big arm they previewed early.

They really did reveal the best one first.

Can't wait for these guys to show up on Bits sites. I can pick up Freaky Zombie Leader Guy and the two cool Assassins from the Shadow Elf kits without worrying about the rest.

Charger zombie dude do deserve to be a bigger model in exchange for the boring zombies.

The Zombie warband feels underwhelming but I'm not into zombies in the first place. That said, they'd be a nice choice for Frostgrave, using them as creature encounters and taking the necromancer as a wizard.

I’m not into zombies myself, but I am hoping they have some fun or interesting rule added to them for AoS. They won’t be good, but a fun unit to proxy with my own models is what I’m hoping for. But I can see them leaving it a boring zombie + necro thing

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/18/stalk-kill-weak-aelf-things-through-the-nethermaze-with-skittershanks-clawpack/

Rat ninjas warband focus.

Chopstick wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/18/stalk-kill-weak-aelf-things-through-the-nethermaze-with-skittershanks-clawpack/

Rat ninjas warband focus.

Interesting that the Way of the Hidden Paw has a Khorne Bloodreaver in the art as the rumoured 8th Warband is Khorne (the 7th being Witchhunters) and the rumour has been more or less correct (allowing for Malerion Aelves being mistaken for Shadowstalkers)

No price list today probably due to the bank holiday.

Ehhh that's Garrek Gorebeard, from Shadespire.

No change price wise

Nethermaze £65, €80, $95
Exiled Dead £26, €34, $42
Rivals of Harrowdeep £47.50, €62.50, $80

80$ for no board or dice, a whooping 4$ discount

So, umm, is there any good reason for selling those two starter warbands together? Shared sprues? Shared cards? That seems like such an odd thing to do compared to how GW usually does things for Underworlds.

Probably because they don't want the 2 super duper amazing Harrowdeep warbands to leave their "starter box exclusivity" status yet since new starter come out sooner than expected, also more profit without the board, money.

So just the usual GW reasons? Good to know, thanks.

Chopstick wrote:
80$ for no board or dice, a whooping 4$ discount

£4.50! The FOMO is strong with this one!

Games Workshop, you've done it again!

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/04/20/the-shadeborn-literally-teleport-between-the-shadows-of-the-nethermaze-to-defeat-their-foes/


Shadow Elves warband focus, boring models but very powerful rules, might be one of the better team for rival format.